Dick Durbin said "I do not see the connection. If the Attorney General and the President said: We are not going to investigate this matter, Senator McCain, I would be standing right next to the Senator on the floor calling for a special counsel. But they have said just the opposite. They have initiated an investigation and brought in two career criminal prosecutors whom we have trusted to take public corruption cases in the District of Columbia and leaks of classified information in other cases. And he said: Now you have the authority. Conduct the investigation. They are not ignoring this. Mr. McCAIN. Those two counsels report to whom? The Attorney General of the United States." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordAugust 1, 2012

I do not see the connection. If the Attorney General and the President said: We are not going to investigate this matter, Senator McCain, I would be standing right next to the Senator on the floor calling for a special counsel. But they have said just the opposite. They have initiated an investigation and brought in two career criminal prosecutors whom we have trusted to take public corruption cases in the District of Columbia and leaks of classified information in other cases. And he said: Now you have the authority. Conduct the investigation. They are not ignoring this. Mr. McCAIN. Those two counsels report to whom? The Attorney General of the United States.

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Dick Durbin

Democratic · Illinois

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