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Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein concluded the FBI had not cleared the threshold needed to conduct a counterintel investigation into the president's ties to Russia. Rosenstein believed the FBI had acted far to hastily to open investigation as it grieved firing of director Comey.
I think we're going to have to wait to see why Muller didn't investigate instead of jumping to conclusions. We are only starting to get the story.
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)Volaris
(10,260 posts)And then FBI was told, essentially, the same thing about mueller, this looks real real bad for Rosenstein. But heres the thing..even if it couldn't ever be used for a domestic criminal proceeding on it's own, the outside-looking IC (CIA, NSA, Etc) HAVE ALL this Intel already. My bet would be that in the next month or so now, some of it starts to leak; they know full well what a complicitous ass trump truly is re: russian IntelServices, and I'd bet like hell they're pissed as all git at him for telling the american people their hard work was all bullshit for the last 4 years.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Oh, I'll bet they are pissed at chumputin!
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)BComplex
(7,980 posts)He never gave one shit about our country.
Cetacea
(7,367 posts)Barr was the main problem though he was not the only one. We still don't have access to the full report, nor the extremely important grand jury material.
Rudy and media pushed the notion that the investigation was dragging on too long (hello, Whitewater?) .
Members of congress were repeating over and over that their constituents did.not care about it.
He was ham stringed by the legal opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and that affected everything.
His warning to the American people was that Russia is still doing it "even as we sit here" and that every American should be aware and very concerned. Nobody seemed to listen.
BComplex
(7,980 posts)He did try to warn us.
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)LymphocyteLover
(5,601 posts)the Trump-Russia crime family. It's supremely dangerous and fucked up.
Funtatlaguy
(10,856 posts)Both physically and mentally.
He should not have been in charge.
agingdem
(7,754 posts)but at least we know something about Russian interference...and we're onto Trump and Russia... Mueller wasn't the Mighty Mouse we thought he was (Here I come to save the day!!) because he was weakened from the onset... if Rod Rosenstein thought kissing Trump's fat ass, hiding evidence, limiting the scope of the investigation, and allowing Trump to beat up Andrew McCabe was his ticket to the big leagues and a career topper, well, he was wrong...he was expendable and nothing special...Rosenstein will be vilified the rest of his life...good....
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Cetacea
(7,367 posts)I think that Barr killed it, as this "little' detail did not surface until just before the report was "finished".
Bev54
(9,958 posts)Most of us knew something was wrong with the investigation and Schiff kept trying to tell us and nobody was listening. I always felt something was wrong but now I understand. I never trusted Rosenstein but I did McCabe. What I didn't count on was how deceptive Rosenstein was to McCabe. I wish though Mueller had said as much in plain English when he was before congress. We are not jumping to conclusions, rather learning our unease was well founded.
Cozmo
(1,402 posts)Takket
(21,424 posts)investigation.
The ties between DOJ and the executive branch should have been severed after Nixon and we as a country blew that. if there weren't some GOP members in the senate during nixon's admin that had a spine and sense of country he would have gotten away with everything too. unfortunately those GOP members no linger exist.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Tiger8
(432 posts)Republicans want to hide this.
Investigation done, now they must prosecute Rosenstein! Let the burden of proof be on Republicans to give reasons why he should not be prosecuted...and this entire clusterfuck exposed, with the guilty parties hung out to dry.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)A political state that cannot protect its sovereignty is ripe for the picking. Where did our national resolve go? Why is it on hold these 4 years, and why has it been eroding for decades? We ain't what we used to be.