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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRod Rosenstein Stopped Robert Mueller Investigating Trump's Financial Ties to Russia: Report
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33848359/rod-rosenstein-trump-russia-block-robert-mueller/But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trumps own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere...
Mr. Rosenstein concluded the F.B.I. lacked sufficient reason to conduct an investigation into the presidents links to a foreign adversary. Mr. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew G. McCabe, had conflicts of interest.
We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia, Mr. McCabe said. I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)Tribetime
(4,710 posts)Justice matters.
(6,941 posts)Lovie777
(12,329 posts)he was one of shithole's inside man.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)keithsw
(436 posts)Instead, he proved to be a gutless Republican. Which is REALLY what most of us thought of him to begin with
renate
(13,776 posts)I thought he was one of the good guys.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,567 posts)He had such a sterling reputation that I thought he'd do what was RIGHT! Alas...
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Big disappointment to me, and that kept me from getting too excited. But I get it, we all hoped.
triron
(22,020 posts)Why? Mueller failed when he could have done an admirable job.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)He clearly wanted nothing to do with this case.
keithsw
(436 posts)Got paid a small fortune. Just more money for him for doing nothing. After all, he always was a Republican. And we know they can never have enough money
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)in a high profile position. Although, truthfully Im not sure about latter, maybe he just wanted one last payday.
LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)joetheman
(1,450 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Can you imagine what's going to come out?
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,964 posts)For All of History.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)niyad
(113,576 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)It's obviously the right thing to do but I'd keep that fact away from the right wing media circus
MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)just note that the Charlie Pierce article is from August, 2020.
Nonetheless, we persist!
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Rosenstein played the role of good cop even though he was acting out as a bad cop. A role that was pretty obvious when Trump didn't fire him, but now we know.
SunSeeker
(51,715 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)....but he proved me wrong.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,675 posts)prove me wrong !
LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)Along with Barr, of course. There's that pro-Republican bias at work in the FBI. Rod quit the FBI in 2019 and we were glad to see his ass go.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)meet with former guy... had me convinced. After the news came out about them speaking about invoking the 25th.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)UTUSN
(70,744 posts)******Whups, I said "Fascist" with a negative connotation - does that make me ANTIFA?!1
Kid Berwyn
(14,964 posts)The truth will come out. And the parts with their name on it will leave an indelible stain on the record and throughout our reality. Unfortunately.
For fun reading:
Why Rudy G, John Solomon, OAN, Fox Noise and Dumpy are in Deep Shit.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215382580
Deminpenn
(15,290 posts)had a good bit of detail about how closely Rosenstein managed the Mueller investigation, too.
Botany
(70,585 posts)Barr: You can't indict a sitting President.
Rosenstein: Mueller was limited to just looking @ Trump/Russia but when the investigation
showed links between Trump & Russia and obstruction by Trump then Mueller couldn't indict
Trump.
Trump/Russia/Putin/2016 was part of the biggest crime in America's history and that crime
helped to make it possible for > 1/2 a million Americans to die needlessly. Trump dismantled
the people, protocols, and materials that were in place and would have stopped the C-19 virus
in China.