CNN: Rosenstein knew Comey was going to be removed before R wrote the letter.

[pnwmom]

Carl Bernstein says this shows that Rosenstein was just window dressing for DT's decision.

[mhw]

1. DT used Rosenstein??

Uh oh.
Is that why R ignored DT & chose Mueller?

[hamsterjill]

5. That's my guess, at least.

Welcome to DU!

[dalton99a]

2. As suspected.

[leftynyc]

3. I thought that was already known

That he told him he wanted to fire Comey and asked Rosenstein to write a memo to back it up.

[pnwmom]

4. A lot of us guessed that, but it's been confirmed. n/t