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 Trumpās 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
Fox in the Henhouse
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein replaced Attorney General Jeff Sessions on all oversight of matters relating to āRussian 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 Muellerās 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 Trumpās firing of FBI Director James Comey, which directly led to Muellerās appointment.
Rosenstein would then meet with Comeyās 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. Rosensteinās angst, apparently, arose because Trump had taken Rosensteinās own advice to fire Comey, which had in turn prompted McCabe to launch new investigations, which Rosenstein, again apparently, then sort of joinedāin theory then to investigate in circular fashion himself?
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