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.
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Actually what you say illustrates that there are a large number of possibilities. Possibly Don Jr.
“I viewed Rosenstein as a white hat for awhile...”
If memory is correct, Rosenweasel wrote POTUS’ Comey-your-fired letter. Maybe that is why one could see him as a white hat in the beginning. But as things have unfolded .... That letter is either a stroke of genius by or luck for Trump. Rosenweasel can’t support prevaricator Comey if it comes to a criminal prosecution. Rosenweasel also sold-out his fellow conspirators by doing this, because Comey was part of the inner circle. If he refused to write the letter, he would have had to resigned or be dismissed. If he resigned, he would be out of the “action” and perhaps be subject to some type of “accident” that seems to happen to certain DC types when needed.
Rosenstein thought Democrats would support Comey’s firing. He calculated wrong. Spectacularly.
No, he is not.
L
Sessions was useless. No, he was worse than useless. He was complicit.
Rosenstein is a weasel.
He was a weasel then.
He’s a weasel today.
He will be a weasel until the day he dies.
And that day can’t come soon enough to suit me.
Now go play with your Qballs. Adults are talking.
L
LOL! No, I actually have a custom-made RealDoll of Sessions waiting for me :-)
“I actually have a custom-made RealDoll of Sessions waiting for me :-)”
I actually believe you do.
L
Hey, is your billionaire POS Governor Pritzker at least letting you go outside?
“Hey, is your billionaire POS Governor Pritzker at least letting you go outside?”
Yep. Spent the entire weekend fishing in beautiful spring weather. Caught a bunch of monster largemouth. One was over 5 pounds. Over 30 fish from Friday afternoon till Sunday.
Nobody around here gives much of a **** what Governor Creosote has to say.
L
Good to hear fellow patriot! Glad that you’re still representing. Take care.
APPARENTLY THERE WAS COLLUSION IN THE RUSSIA SITUATION. THE COLLUSION WAS BETWEEN THE FBI AND THE DEMOCRATS TO OVERTURN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THAT IS CALLED A COUP ATTEMPT AND COUP ATTEMPTS ARE SEDITION. SEDITIONISTS BELONG IN PRISON.
“Good to hear fellow patriot!”
Just doing what we can with what we got. Now we push our timid Board members into opening the range. Lots of members are pissed about that. Might be some new faces on the Board come January.
I plan on being one of them.
L
Correctamundo! Stone it is, I believe, in the redacted passages.
Yes, he did. And that was a big part of what fooled me. I think Rosenstein was in a corner there. Plus, as you allude, calculated that firing Comey would give him cover - Trump would see Rosenstein opposing Comey, and might then view Rosenstein as an ally or at least not an opponent.
Hi Lodi - Yours is another good angle to consider. Their hatred of course was grounded in what he said in getting HRC off the hook for her criminal acts. Don’t bet for a minute that he wrote his own speech - obozo and company told him what to say. Comey parsed his words; he had no choice. Their sycophants on the outside were angry - they wanted total exoneration of their criminal candidate. In the end, the angry demonkraps still found Comey useful to push Muleface to consider indicting POTUS on obstruction of justice - because POTUS fired Comey!
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