New Hires For Mueller

Robert Mueller, head of the Department of Justice investigation into Russian interference in last year’s election, has submitted a budget and hired 15 lawyers. According to a spokesman, he will be bringing on more legal talent. Among the hires: James Quarles, former partner at WilmerHale and former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force; Jeannie Rhee, former partner at WilmerHale, who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia; Zainab Ahmad, a national security prosecutor on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York; Lisa Page, from the FBI’s Office of the General Counsel and a former trial attorney with the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section. An attack ad paid for by Trump supporters calls the investigation a “rigged game” and blasts Mueller for hiring lawyers who have donated to Democrats, but Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he didn’t think political donations amounted to a conflict of interest.