Posted on 04/25/2019 8:44:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
On Thursday evening, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke to the audience at an Armenian Bar Association event, and the Washington Examiner’s Byron York shared a passage from the speech:
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At my confirmation hearing in March 2017, a Republican Senator asked me to make a commitment. He said: “You’re going to be in charge of this [Russia] investigation. I want you to look me in the eye and tell me that you’ll do it right, that you’ll take it to its conclusion and you’ll report [your results] to the American people.”
I did pledge to do it right and take it to the appropriate conclusion. I did not promise to report all results to the public, because grand jury investigations are ex parte proceedings. It is not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges.
Some critical decisions about the Russia investigation were made before I got there. The previous Administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America. The FBI disclosed classified evidence about the investigation to ranking legislators and their staffers. Someone selectively leaked details to the news media. The FBI Director announced at a congressional hearing that there was a counterintelligence investigation that might result in criminal charges. Then the former FBI Director alleged that the President pressured him to close the investigation, and the President denied that the conversation occurred.
So that happened
I did pledge to do it right and take it to the appropriate conclusion. I did not promise to report all results to the public, because grand jury investigations are ex parte proceedings. It is not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges.
Some critical decisions about the Russia investigation were made before I got there. The previous Administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America. The FBI disclosed classified evidence about the investigation to ranking legislators and their staffers. Someone selectively leaked details to the news media. The FBI Director announced at a congressional hearing that there was a counterintelligence investigation that might result in criminal charges. Then the former FBI Director alleged that the President pressured him to close the investigation, and the President denied that the conversation occurred.
So that happened.
Bfl
He just freaking thru Comey AND Obama under the bus FULL FORCE! Why would he willingly do this?
Helps him with any wrongdoing or he cut a deal????
Maybe that’s why he is still employed????
Jeff, who was the Republican Senator that may have told Rosenstein this? McConnell?
Don’t know.
McCain?
Maybe Chuck Grassley.
This is big. He’s implicating POSObama and Comey.They’ll be tossing each other under the bus like crazy.
There is no honor among thieves.
we can rule out McCain
Surely you jest.
If someone asks to be removed from your ping list, remove that name from your list. Likewise, if you have a list of people that did not ask to be on your ping list, remove them. Otherwise, you’re just harassing them.
Will do, Jim.
And what did he do about it?
Not
A
Thing
L
Whoa! So that happened. Whoa happened! So? Whoa! So!
Does any body say say what they mean anymore?
Well, despite the echo chamber FR has become on the topic, Rosenstein is not a black hat, as everyone will come to understand in time. Formulating conclusions in the absence of facts is always a bad idea, and that’s just what has been done by most. They’ve had it wrong all along.
Huge crowds of Armenian Americans march in Los Angeles during an annual commemoration of the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The march was intended to press demands that Turkey, the successor of the Ottoman Empire, recognize the deaths as genocide. Turkey contends the deaths starting in 1915 were due to civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I did see talk of this yesterday and the day before.
I saw articles about how turkey won’t admit it was genocide.
Saw my acupuncturist on Tuesday.
He’s Armenian and he and his family escaped and went to Moscow
from Azerbaijan when the muslims came into his country and thought
that democracy meant they could take over.
America asked Moscow if they could take some of the refugees
and Moscow said “what refugees?” lol
But they were able to get out and get to America. He was about 17 at the time.
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