Excellent article. Copying link so people wee see where these excerpts are from:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-rosenstein-departs-the-battlefield-is-now-ready_2921586.html
The Department of Justice on May 9 held a going-away ceremony for Rod Rosenstein, who is leaving after having served probably the most crucial role in the Trump administration for the past two years.
As Rosenstein makes his long-anticipated departure as deputy attorney general, the final pieces are moving into position on the battlefield that President Donald Trump has been carefully preparing for more than two years.
While you are in the role of being called as a witness in certain criminal cases, you cant also be in a position of authority over those selfsame cases. Thats why both Sessions and Rosenstein had to leave the DOJ before the prosecution phase could be launched.
People such as former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, whose key roles in the Spygate insurance policy are well known, are now making the rounds in the U.S. news media trying to get out ahead of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitzs soon-to-be-released FISA abuse report, by giving interviews in which they insist they did nothing wrong and were only acting in the best interests of the country and certainly not on the basis of political partisanship or anything like that.
Key Fact About Rosenstein
If you recall, Trump invited former FBI Director Robert Mueller to the White House on May 16, 2017, supposedly to discuss the then-vacant top job at the FBI. James Comey had been fired by Trump just a week earlier, on May 9.
It just so happens that its a matter of public record that Rosenstein was also in the Oval Office for this crucial meeting.
Another interesting fact about that May 16 Oval Office interview is that Bloomberg News reported back on Aug. 3, 2018, that then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was also there...
So, far from this being a solo one-on-one meeting with just Trump and Mueller present, sources place both Sessions and Rosenstein in the room as well, which changes the picture, doesnt it?
Now the popular narrative about this interview is that Rosenstein and Mueller fooled Trump by not telling him a thing before Muellers sudden surprise appointment as special counsel the following day. Were to imagine the president of the United States sitting there prattling on at length during this interview of Mueller, while not having any idea whats about to happen, with Mueller trying to keep from smirking at him.
Thats the cover story were told. And you know why cover stories are used? Because most people will just instantly accept them.
...While you are in the role of being called as a witness in certain criminal cases, you cant also be in a position of authority over those selfsame cases....
hmm news to me that’s what recusal is for...