Former special counsel Robert Mueller did a "grave disservice" to the United States through how he handled the investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential campaign, Ken Starr, the special prosecutor for President Bill Clinton's impeachment investigation, said Wednesday.
"The entire process has been so unfortunate, to be honest," Starr told Fox News after Mueller's morning-long testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. "I love Bob Mueller as a human being, as a patriot, but I think he has done a grave disservice to our country in the way he conducted this investigation."
Mueller said during his testimony that he didn't question the politics of his staff, but also, Starr said, one is not blind to what staff members are as "human beings."
"You don't ask them about it, but you don't have to ask to know that your Andrew Weissmann types are very, very partisan in their outlook on life," said Starr. "Partisan people can put aside their partisanship, but it's a test...and what steps did Bob Mueller take to assure the American people that he had, shall I say, a fair and balanced staff? That was one thing I thought was very revealing and missing."
Starr added that Mueller's report should not have had two volumes, as the second part of the report, on obstruction, "is very unfortunate."
"It's not just the focus on exoneration or not exoneration," said Starr. "It's the very idea they were going to lay out all this evidence with an opportunity to respond on the part of the president. It's fundamentally not only unfair, and the fact that it's fundamentally unfair is why this report was read dramatically today over and over again, it's simply not appropriate."
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