OPINION: An Open Letter to Robert Mueller on the Need to Close His Investigation
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, special counsel on the Russian investigation, leaves following a meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Washington on June 21, 2017. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
On May 17, 2017, you were appointed special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice by Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Your job was supposedly to investigate “any links and/or coordination” between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election cycle.