Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the allegations of Russian interference in the presidential election and rumors of collusion with the Trump campaign.

A copy of Rosenstein’s statement was posted by Time’s Zeke Miller.

Rosenstein: "In my capacity as acting Attorney General, I determined that it is in the public interest" to appoint special counsel pic.twitter.com/7DAfBWmFAj — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) May 17, 2017

Mueller was appointed FBI Director by President George W. Bush in 2001 and served an extra two years past his ten year term at the request of President Barack Obama and with the approval of Congress. Mueller served from September 4, 2001 to September 4, 2013 according to Wikipedia.

Mueller is good friends with his successor, now-fired FBI Director James Comey, according to a profile by Washingtonian published in 2013 with the headline, Forged Under Fire—Bob Mueller and Jim Comey’s Unusual Friendship.

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