Rosenstein, Rod: (#514, plus over 100 other mentions in Drops) Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney serving as United States Deputy Attorney General since 2017. Prior to his current appointment, he served as a United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. Only six senators voted against his confirmation as deputy Attorney General: Blumenthal (D-CT) Booker (D-NJ) Cortez Masto (D-NV) Gillibrand (D-NY) Harris (D-CA) Warren (D-MA). In early 2017, Rosenstein was tasked with writing a recommendation on whether or not the then Director of the FBI James Comey, of whom Rosenstein was due to his position as Deputy Attorney General the direct supervisor, should be fired for a variety of reasons. His conclusion in that letter was that Director should be fired. Comey was in fact terminated from his position of FBI director by the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Subsequently, Rosenstein,in the position as (Acting) Attorney General after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any decisions revolving around the issues having to do with Russia, appointed a Special Counsel to investigate the involvement of Russia in the 2016 election and also supposed obstruction of justice by the President for firing the FBI director, which he recommended be done. He appointed a life-long friend, Robert Mueller, as the special counsel to handle the investigation when, due to the writing of the recommendation letter, Rosenstein himself would be a primary witness in any obstruction investigation against the president and by law required him to recuse himself from making any decisions. The latest development are reports published in mid-September 2018 by the New York Times, which considering the anonymous sources may mean they are not true, that Rosenstein offered within days of being appointed to his position to wear a "wire," a microphone and recording device, when meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, intending to record the President to demonstrate how "unfit for office" the newly elected president" who had just appointed him was to serve as president, and that the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which allows a majority of Cabinet Members can recommend the removal of a sitting president be removed for mental or physical disability, be immediately invoked. Rosenstein denies he ever made such an offer. The following week Rosenstein went to the White House to meet with Chief of Staff John Kelly amid rumors of either being fired or resignation to forestall being fired. (See DOJ, FBI, former FBI Director James Comey Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Chief of Staff John Kelly, President Donald Trump).