Yesterday, Jim Comey told Nicole Wallace he believes it was Rod Rosenstein who

terminated the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump.

He really was a terrible Deputy A.G. whose tenure was so short that it's easy to forget what a terrible job he did.

Some people remember the story about Rod Rosenstein "panicking" after Comey's firing and offering to wear a wire into a meeting with Trump in order to possibly remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment, and think he might have been a decent person who became overwhelmed by events. But the bulk of the evidence is that he was a rather chaotic personality who in the end decided to mostly help out Trump.

Peter Strzok writes in his book Compromised that he believes it was Rosenstein who leaked his and Lisa Page's private emails (either to Republican politicians or directly to the media).

One of the mysteries of the last four years has been, "What happened to the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence investigation into Trump? Is it still open?" Some passages in Peter Strzok's book seemed to leave oven the possibility it had never been closed. But Comey believes it was closed by Rosenstein.

I'm disappointed about that, but relieved to finally have an answer.