Posted on 06/03/2020 11:17:19 AM PDT by sickoflibs
Rod Rosenstein is currently testifying before the Senate and it’s not going well. While there will no doubt be a lot more to come out as the day unfolds, there’s already been some highlights that are worth hitting.
For example, Rosenstein is admitting that he had no evidence by which to start the Mueller investigation.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley · 3h Replying to @JonathanTurley Rosenstein just said he did not know that investigators by the early January 2017 asked for Flynn to be removed from the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. He signed off on these warrants and applications but was never informed of those critical facts.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley Rosenstein insists that the information in appointing Mueller was based on that incomplete information at the time. He admitted that by August 2017 when he signed off on the Mueller investigation there was no evidence at all of collusion with the Russians.
3,230 10:42 AM - Jun 3, 2020
If he had no evidence at all of collusion, why did he sign off on it? Who signs off on a special counsel based on nothing? It’s one thing to have lower level prosecutors chase rabbits, but it’s a completely different thing to appoint a special counsel, which is typically predicated on probable cause that needs to be handled without conflicts of interests. Instead, Rosenstein, having no evidence of anything, let the dogs loose and told them to have fun.
If you watch his testimony, he’s doing his best to deflect blame to everyone else. That’s a weak excuse for the guy who was supposedly in charge. In fact, it appears that he let Mueller write his own scope memo.
Undercover Huber @JohnWHuber · 3h Rosenstein is absolutely imploding in this hearing. The most interesting take away is he’s not even trying to defend himself other than “dog ate my homework”
Undercover Huber @JohnWHuber And the most consequential thing that is going to come out of this is that Team Mueller wrote their own scope memo. Not only did they have no adult supervision, they were supervising themselves
6,009 10:43 AM - Jun 3, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy
Again, Rosenstein claims he signed off based on incomplete information. This was the most politicized case in our history and he gave Mueller a blank check without even having all the information? It’s insanity.
Shem Horne @Shem_Infinite Rosenstein is now saying he didn't try to mislead Congress, he said that he didn't want to comment on an ongoing investigation, and said that all the damning information that has come out about it he had no idea about. He is basically saying he never knew anything, what a joke. https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1268192769480196096 …
Shem Horne @Shem_Infinite Grassley is now ripping Rosenstein for misleading him, Congress, and the American people about the General Flynn probe.
250 10:50 AM - Jun 3, 2020
Shem Horne @Shem_Infinite Rod Rosenstein is in front of Congress right now repeatedly saying that he didn't know anything about all the widespread abuse and lying going on and citing the IG report and public news reports as if he was just some random guy like you and me and not the Deputy Attorney General
496 11:07 AM - Jun 3, 2020
As I’ve written before, Rosenstein is not a victim here. He was intimately involved and his attempts to straddle the fence are weak and pathetic. His handling of the Mueller investigation was not simply ignorance on his part. We know that he was well aware of the conspiracy theories floating around given he expressed a desire to wear a wire while talking to the President. He didn’t think to actually gather evidence of such? That makes no sense at all because it’s clearly not true.
Rosenstein also claims that he would not have signed the Page FISA if he knew about the lack of evidence and that the Steele Dossier was discredited. Numerous DOJ officials are documented as being aware of the dossier’s problems at the time. The idea that Rosenstein didn’t know doesn’t pass muster, nor is it an excuse for his lack of due diligence on such a high profile matter.
It’s absolutely incredible just how corrupt the FBI and DOJ were in the first few years of the Trump administration (and the current FBI isn’t much better). What’s just as incredible is that they think they can play dumb and make it all go away. Rosenstein is just as culpable as Andrew McCabe and James Comey. While Lindsey Graham is doing his best in this hearing to cover for the guy, it’s not working out very well.
Remember that speech he gave about how hard it is to get a FISA warrant and how careful and professional DOJ is?
“Mistakes were made”
Whatta joke
it doesn’t matter.
Rosenstein would have remained an insignificant ,nameless, Obama bureaucrat if Sessions had not been a dolt.
He’s cut a deal, or his attorney is working on one.
Limbaugh said that Rosenstein threw McCabe out of the bus, backed over him, revved back in drive and drove over him again, then got out of the bus and drug him back in, only to throw him out and repeat the process.
Won’t be covered by the Lame Media - if no body sees it, it didn’t occur
He’s either a crook or an idiot and he has chosen to claim to be an idiot. At least he looks the part.
Someone who was in cahoots with those who wanted to destroy Trump.
Good point.
Linseed made me sick to my stomach!...kept saying what an honest and honorably guy rosenweasle was....smh
Book ‘em Danno
Rod is toast.
He’s cut a deal, or his attorney is working on one.
That could explain this.
Even Judge Sullivan is shaking his head.
So his defense is he’s incompetent.
Not that novel, but I’ve seen it work!
At work, not seeing this...yokes!
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