“If Trump has the unredacted report and he catches RR in a lie told directly to the President, kiss RR goodbye”
The purpose of redacting or altering the Horowitz report is obviously not to deceive the POTUS or whitewash anything. Rosenstien would not be stupid enough to believe he could keep the POTUS from seeing the unredacted report.
If the DOJ can continue to withhold information from the public, and from leaky congressional committees, even after Trump has seen the unredacted report, that will indicate that whatever the POTUS saw convinced him of the legitimate need to withhold certain information from the public at this time.
I think this report is part of a larger case the DOJ is building against former Obama administration officials, perhaps Obama himself, charging them for gross abuse of power, specifically criminal “weaponizing” of executive branch departments and agencies for political advantage.
Targets implicated in any such improper operations will argue that they were deceived by their superiors and believed the operations were fully legitimate and sanctioned. There will no doubt be many immunity deals offered in exchange for information implicating higher level officials.
For all we know, Rosenstien has been offered immunity regarding his involvement with improper FISA warrant applications, and has “flipped”.
It’s almost the only possible explanation for his boldness and apparent invulnerability.
The point is we don’t know - I’m optimistic - I think the deep state is in disarray. I think they are leaderless and on the run. I think none of them trust each other and are all waiting for another shoe to drop.
I think the Trump “white hats” - whoever they are - now have the upper hand in a very slow process of following evidence and testimony up the Obama chain of command.
At the end of it all, I somehow doubt we’ll get to see Obama or other Democrats at the very top go to prison, but hopefully they will at least be humiliated and disgraced for all time.
Trump may want to wait until he has 5 reliable SCOTUS votes before tangling with RR in court. This might come up in confirmation hearings,
your larger case theory is tempting to think about but I highly doubt it.
going after Obama, would be the kiss of death for any gov’t worker, sooner or later, the Dems will be back in charge, and we all know how vicious they are to people who “crossed” them.