Deputy attorney general Rosenstein to step down in March: ofifcal

Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein to step down in March: official | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general who appointed a special counsel to investigate possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trumpā€™s campaign, is expected to step down by mid March, a Justice Department official said on Monday.

Good because losers are not needed.
And yet he remains. The guy's a cockroach

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein replaced Attorney General Jeff Sessions on all oversight of matters relating to ā€œRussian collusionā€ on the theory that, unlike Sessions, the Obama-era Justice Department official was nonpartisan, not conflicted, and thus could decide whether to appoint a special counsel, and, if so, whom.

Yet Rosenstein himself had himself signed one of the FISA warrant extensions that continued surveillance of former Trump campaign Carter Page, a fact of some importance to Special Counsel Robert Muellerā€™s subsequent investigation. Rosenstein, in fact, appointed Mueller, who was a longtime associate who had worked with him on prior investigations. Rosenstein had also drafted the memo justifying Trumpā€™s firing of FBI Director James Comey, which directly led to Muellerā€™s appointment.

Rosenstein would then meet with Comeyā€™s replacement, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, allegedly, to discuss the possibility of removing the elected President Trump on grounds under the 25th Amendment that he was mentally unfit. Rosensteinā€™s angst, apparently, arose because Trump had taken Rosensteinā€™s own advice to fire Comey, which had in turn prompted McCabe to launch new investigations, which Rosenstein, again apparently, then sort of joinedā€”in theory then to investigate in circular fashion himself?

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