Posted on 05/07/2020 3:09:09 PM PDT by ransomnote
A spurious prosecutor futilely investigated four nobodies who did not commit the nonexistent crimes they were ridiculously accused of.
Finally, three years coming, the Justice Department is showing a little more leg on the Rosenstein “scope” memo — the directive by which then–deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein defined the parameters of the investigation he’d appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to conduct.
Of course, the games never end in the Trump–Russia probe, so there’s a hitch. The scope memo remains partially, tantalizingly redacted. Disclosure is limited to Rosenstein’s purported grounds for investigating four members of the Trump presidential campaign: Carter Page, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, and Michael Flynn. But six lines of text, which appear to describe a fifth person, and the supposed basis for investigating that person, remain blacked out.
Does this redacted section refer to President Trump? We do not know.
We do know that the FBI had opened a criminal investigation of Trump, based on the untenable theory that a president’s firing of the FBI director could amount to obstruction of justice. The last 200 pages of the special counsel’s voluminous report, moreover, demonstrate that the cabal of activist Democrats that Robert Mueller recruited to conduct the investigation tried like hell to make an obstruction case on Trump. But was that aspect of the special counsel’s enterprise licensed by Rosenstein’s scope memo? For some reason, we’re not being told.
The scope memo is dated August 2, 2017. It is worth rehearsing why it was necessary.
On Trump–Russia, there was no factual basis for a criminal investigation, which is why Rosenstein did not attempt to articulate one in his directive appointing Mueller. Therefore, the question of whether there was a conflict requiring the appointment of a prosecutor from outside DOJ should never have been reached. Even if it had been reached, there was no conflict, which is why the FBI and DOJ had been conducting the Russia investigation for nearly a year before Mueller’s appointment. In any event, because the FBI’s counterintelligence mission is not prosecutor work, it normally does not need a DOJ prosecutor, much less an outside prosecutor.
That the initial appointment directive was wholly inadequate is not surprising. In that Week That Was, Rosenstein was evidently an emotional wreck.
MORE AT LINK includes audio recording of story and related videos.
Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general’s non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:"
How about ALL THE MONEY SPENT on this crap! Who is going to pay it back? No wages for the LIBs until every cent is returned!!
The 53 interviews that have been withheld by Adam Schiff have just been released.
Wasn’t Rosenstein supposed to be a white hat?
The redaction is the most important part. I suspect it wasn’t Trump. More likely Sessions.
Could be Cohen I guess but why redact it?
Or Stone. Maybe it’s still redacted because he’s appealing.
Hi.
In the fwiw department, I want hides, blood and sinew.
I’ve named 18 of the perps here and on fb.
Everyone knows who they are and what part in the attempted coup they played.
If I can’t get blood, I’ll take hemp and a tree.
5.56mm
Hasn't that fact been beaten to death for a few years now?
Wasn’t Rosenstein supposed to be a white hat?
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He always appeared to be a visibly weak, lying weasel to me. At the Barr announcement re the Mueller investigation, said weasel looked catatonic. *smh*
Damn, some people need to go to jail.
Rosenweasel needs to go to prison for a looooong time.
Brian Cates, @drawandstrike, maintains that to this day.
I viewed Rosenstein as a white hat for awhile, even afer Mueller was appointed (I viewed Mueller as a black hat). After awhile, I forget exactly what Rosenstein did or said that flipped my point of view, I came to view Rosenstein as a black hat. I'm still "there."
To be fair, there are shades of gray. Comey is full-on black, but some of these snakes might come at least partly clean and the reveal progresses.
Jared Kushner is probably a slightly more likely possibility than almost anyone else I can think of.
Then I thought about it some more and I said to myself: “If I was a GOOD guy and I was testifying there, I’d probably say the exact same things he’s saying.”
I have to admit that I am totally mystified by Rosenstein.
Adam Ant is toast.
Until people are in bracelets and in the back of cruisers I am most skeptical. Oh BTW, Stand by for another catastrophe, in 3-2-1...
AG Barr no doubt knew all of this when he threw Rosenstein a retirement party.
INDICT AND SUE THESES POSes!
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(See, I can post a single capital letter too!)
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