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Rod Rosenstein Talks Special Counsels

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Is There Any Oversight in the Special Counsel?

I thought it was really important to have that kind of oversight. We were never in position when we had to overrule him, but it was a theoretical possibility. There was a lot of criticism of my appointment from certain people on the right who thought it was like an independent counsel. And there was appropriate oversight. It was actually analogous to those many special attorneys appointed over the last century and a half without much controversy.

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