Robert Mueller to help teach course on Russia investigation at University of Virginia
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Washington — Former special counsel Robert Mueller will participate in a course on his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election taught at the University of Virginia School of Law in the fall, the university announced Wednesday.
The six-session class, "The Mueller Report and the Role of the Special Counsel," will be taught by three members of Mueller's team: Jim Quarles, his senior counsel; Andrew Goldstein, senior assistant special counsel; and Aaron Zebley, deputy special counsel. Mueller is expected to lead at least one class, and other prosecutors involved in the probe may participate as guest speakers, the Charlottesville, Virginia-based school said. The course will begin with the launch of the investigation into Russian interference, which was first handled by the FBI and then taken over by Mueller with his appointment as special counsel in May 2017, and include the use of public records to examine "why some paths were taken and not others," Zebley told the school.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.