The investigation was in regards to Russia's interference in the election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign.
And any crimes discovered in the course of the investigation. The Special counsel is authorized to pursue any suspected crimes that arise out of the investigation into Russia and Trump.
Which he is doing.
Which is within the authority of the special council’s “original mandate”. Likewise we didn’t see President Clinton’s Investigation going beyond the women he was accused of having an improper relationship with during the course of his time as a politician in political office. Progressives just don’t have any standards when it comes to conducting an investigation, especially one that involves a President that must be colluding with the Russians as his only means to win an election..
LOL- you do realize that the "President Clinton" investigation was not about women- it was about Whitewater- a failed land deal in Arkansas that happened before he was President.
It morphed later into allegations of Clinton's sexual affairs- sound familiar?
And he was not impeached for getting a blowjob- but for lying about getting a blowjob.
Absolutely this investigation was to see if there was any collusion between Russia and Trump- and I sincerely hope that no intentional collusion will be found- but I think that yes- any other crimes found during the investigation should be investigated- and prosecuted. Just like lying about getting a blowjob.
Don't you?
PRESIDENT Clinton was not about whitewater, it was about Monica Lewinsky. Then women like Jennifer Flowers, brought allegations against Bill Clinton for improper behavior against women as governor, to try and tie Mr Clinton to a pattern of behavior. His eventual charges towards impeachment, was lying to a Federal prosecutor relating to Questioning involving Monica Lewinsky. I shouldn’t have to be educating you on this, it wasn’t that long ago.
It all started out with Whitewater- just like our current situation started out with Russian Collusion.
I am glad to help educate you:
Timeline for Clinton Impeachment:
1992
The Whitewater Development Corp is dissolved, leaving Bill and Hillary Clinton with a loss of more than $40,000.
January 1994
Attorney General Janet Reno appoints Robert Fiske Jr. as the independent counsel in charge of investigating financial irregularities in the dealings of the Whitewater property company. The Clintons, and their business partners, James and Susan McDougal, are implicated.
August 1994
Fiske is replaced by the more conservative Kenneth Starr as the independent counsel investigating the Whitewater scandal.
July 1995
Monica Lewinsky graduates from Lewis and Clark College, and joins the White House staff as an unpaid intern.
November 1995
Ms Lewinsky accepts a paid job at the White House office of legislative affairs and, two days later, sexual contact between Ms Lewinsky and President Clinton begins. The affair continues, sporadically, for the next 18 months.
April 1996
Ms Lewinsky leaves the White House for public affairs post at the Pentagon.
May 1996
The first Whitewater trial ends with the conviction of the McDougals for fraud. A Senate hearing ends inconclusively a month later.
February 1997
Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel investigating the Whitewater scandal, announces he will step down from the investigation. He then changes his mind and continues his investigations.
May 1997
According to the Starr report released in September 1998, President Clinton tells Ms Lewinsky the affair is at an end. Just days later the Supreme Court reject Mr Clinton's claim that as President he should have immunity from civil cases. This ruling allows the Paula Jones harassment case to proceed against him.
August 1997
Linda Tripp is reported in Newsweek magazine as having seen White House staffer Kathleen Willey emerging from the Oval Office looking dishevelled but happy, and with her lipstick smeared. Mr Clinton's attorney, Robert Bennett, claims Ms Tripp is "not to be believed."
September 1997
Ms Tripp begins to tape her telephone conversations with Ms Lewinsky, who remains in touch with the President.
December 17, 1997
Ms Lewinsky is subpoenaed by lawyers for Paula Jones.
December 26, 1997
Ms Lewinsky leaves the Pentagon.
January 5, 1998
President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky have what proves to be their last telephone conversation.
January 7, 1998
In a sworn affidavit, Monica Lewinsky denies having an affair with Mr Clinton, in an attempt to avoid testifying in the sexual harassment case brought by Paula Jones against President Clinton.
January 12, 1998
Tripp dismisses her lawyers, allegedly because they were "too close to the White House." She then contacts Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office, offering him 20 hours of taped conversations between herself and Lewinsky.
January 13, 1998
Ms Tripp is kitted-out with a hidden microphone by FBI agents for further conversations with Ms Lewinsky.
January 16, 1998
Janet Reno, the US Attorney General, approves the Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr's request for an expansion of the inquiry to include the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.
January 17, 1998
President Clinton, testifying under oath to lawyers in the Jones harassment case, denies having had an affair with Ms Lewinsky. He reportedly acknowledges having had an affair with Gennifer Flowers, a charge he previously denied.
January 19, 1998
Monica Lewinsky's name and the rumours linking her with Clinton are published on the Drudge report internet site. Drudge reveals that Newsweek obtained tapes of the Lewinsky-Tripp conversations but pulled their publication after pressure from Starr, who insisted his investigation would be jeopardised.
January 21, 1998
The Washington Post reports Lewinsky's allegations. President Clinton denies the charges in vague terms. There is no improper relationship," he tells a TV interviewer.
January 26, 1998
"I want you to listen to me. I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky. I never told a single person to lie, not a single time, never," an angry President Clinton declares to an invited media audience at the White House.
January 29, 1998
President Clinton posts his highest ever opinion poll rating. Gallup for CNN find 67 per cent of Americans approve of the President (up five per cent from his previous best); just 28 per cent disapprove. Ms Lewinsky is only believed by 13 per cent of Americans.
March 13, 1998
Paula Jones' lawyers in the sexual harassment suit against Clinton publish much of their evidence, one of the many breaches of the judicial gagging order on this case.
March 15, 1998
Kathleen Willey, a former White House volunteer and key witness in the Jones harassment case, makes her first public comments about an alleged incident in 1991 when Mr Clinton is said to have fondled her against her will.
April 1, 1998
The Paula Jones harassment case against the President is dismissed by the judge before it goes to trial.
June 2, 1998
The possibility of a new immunity deal being struck between Ms Lewinsky and Prosecutor Starr is raised as Lewinsky's main lawyer, William Ginsburg is replaced by two well-known Washington criminal defence lawyers, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris. Both cleared former White House employees of corruption in the 1980s.
June 30, 1998
Ms Tripp begins giving evidence to the Washington grand jury investigating President Clinton's alleged cover-up of the affair. Polls show that only one in 10 Americans view her sympathetically.
July 28, 1998
Ms Lewinsky's lawyers announce that an immunity deal has been struck with independent counsel Starr. For Ms Lewinsky's "full and truthful testimony", she will receive transactional immunity a legal blanket which means nothing she says can be used against her. She is questioned by the grand jury over the next 15 days.
July 29, 1998
President Clinton decides to testify voluntarily before the prosecutor over the allegations that he committed perjury in covering up a sexual affair with Ms Lewinsky.
August 3, 1998
Clinton is asked for a blood sample for DNA testing.
August 17, 1998
Bill Clinton testifies in the grand jury, acknowledging "inappropriate intimate contact" with Ms Lewinsky. But he insists the evidence he gave to the Jones case in January suit had been accurate.
September 8, 1998
Attorney-general Janet Reno announces a 90-day inquiry into whether Bill Clinton helped to plan a $44 million Democratic Party "issue ad" that breached election campaign spending laws.
September 9, 1998
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr releases his report to Congress. It has 11 possible grounds for impeachment. The House votes to make the 445-page report public.
September 11, 1998
Congress makes the report public.
September 18, 1998
Republicans vote to release the videotape of Mr Clinton's grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
September 21, 1998
The tape is released and broadcast on American cable channels across the country.
October 2, 1998
More evidence from Mr Starr's investigation is released, including the transcript of taped telephone conversations between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp that triggered the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal in January.
October 5, 1998
The House Judiciary Committee votes to launch a congressional impeachment inquiry against President Clinton.
October 6, 1998
Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff, confirms he will leave his post at the end of the week. With senior policy advisor Rahm Emmanuel and press secretary Mike McCurry are also leaving. All three insist they have not resigned for political reasons.
October 8, 1998
The House of Representatives vote for impeachment proceedings to begin against Clinton. The House judiciary committee will be given wide powers to draw up detailed charges against Mr Clinton, based on 11 allegations by the independent counsel Kenneth Starr in his report on the Monica Lewinsky affair.
October 14, 1998
The House judiciary committee chairman Henry Hyde announces the impeachment inquiry will concentrate its focus on two core charges: that Mr Clinton lied under oath and attempted to obstruct justice.