(January 27, 2016, 12:59 PM EST) -- LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced Jan. 25 that as part of the probe into the lead water crisis in Flint, Mich., he had appointed a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to establish a “conflict wall” between the special counsel and the Attorney General’s Office amid accusations from the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) that the attorney general should be replaced by an independent investigator....