Posted on 04/09/2019 11:20:16 AM PDT by Starman417
This is something that has been rolling around my head for a couple of years but it is making more and more sense.
On January 31, 2017 Donald Trump fired Sally Yates for insubordination.
The Supreme Court would later uphold the order.President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for "refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States," the White House said.
"(Yates) has betrayed the Department of Justice," the White House statement said.
Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was sworn in at 9 p.m. ET, per an administration official. A few hours later, Boente issued a statement rescinding Yates' order, instructing DOJ lawyers to "defend the lawful orders of our President."
Trump didn't call Yates to dismiss her, she was informed by hand-delivered letter, according to a different administration official.
The dramatic move came soon after CNN reported Yates told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees.
The next day Trump nominated Rod Rosenstein to be Deputy Attorney General of the United States and he was subsequently confirmed.
FBI Director James Comey met with Trump just before the phony dossier was published to "warn" Trump about it, but strangely left out some critical information- the fact that it was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat National Committee.
Comey was fired by Trump on May 9, 2017 not to stop the Russia investigation as so commonly asserted, but instead because Comey was lying to Trump. Three times Comey told Trump privately that Trump was not under investigation but would not confirm it publicly. The letter terminating Comey was written by Rod Rosenstein.
Although the President has the power to remove an FBI director, the decision should not be taken lightly. I agree with the nearly unanimous opinions of former Department officials. The way the Director handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong. As a result, the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.On May 17, 2017 Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate the claims of collusion and there is a clue contained within:
“In my capacity as acting Attorney General, I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a Special Counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,” said Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. “My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination. What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.”"...a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.”
The normal chain of command was hopelessly corrupt. Comey hated Trump and lied to him repeatedly. McCabe was bought and owned by Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton and the Democrat National Committee commissioned Fusion GPS via Perkins Coie to fabricate the phony dossier with nonsense compiled by Christopher Steele. The dossier was then fed to the FBI and who then failed to even question its veracity. The dossier was the basis for obtaining a FISA warrant on Carter Page and this allowed them to collect the communications of anyone in the Trump sphere.
Then Obama changed the rules to allow NSA intercepts to fall into convenient political hands under the ruse of national security:
To intelligence professionals, the public revelations affirm an undeniable reality.They assured us that there was nothing to worry about:Over the last decade, the assumption of civil liberty and privacy protections for Americans incidentally intercepted by the NSA overseas has been eroded in the name of national security.
Today, the power to unmask an American’s name inside an NSA intercept -- once considered a rare event in the intelligence and civil liberty communities -- now resides with about 20 different officials inside the NSA alone. The FBI also has the ability to unmask Americans’ names to other intelligence professionals and policymakers.
A U.S. intelligence official directly familiar with the procedures told Circa that while the unmasking requirements have been eased and the availability of intercepts widened, the NSA still regards protecting Americans’ privacy as essential.But there was. In my opinion this occurred at a moment that was not coincidental.“When [the NSA] uses their authority to unmask them we have very stringent rules,” the official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity due to secret nature of the NSA’s work. “We have very strict oversight from all three branches of government -- the executive, judicial and legislative.
"We obviously are concerned that the authorities that are granted are not abused, and that’s why we have a strict compliance regimen.”
National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers had been looking into abuse of intelligence for some time. This is from a remarkable piece of work by Jeff Carlson:
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
Why?
What stopped you from posting it here?
A good theory... except Rosenstein attempted a coup d’etat apart from the Mueller coup.
I don’t trust rosenweasel even a tiny bit.
I initially had this thought as well. At the time, we did not know how far the Deep State had infiltrated State, Justice, and the IC. The first clue should have been how hard they went after Flynn whenever the agents involved said that they didn’t think he lied. I like the theory. He was necessary to remove.
Well then just wait and see.
Crow served every day ;-)
Bkmk
I thought he was ‘leaving in the middle of March’.
“My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted....”
So, then why appoint a special counsel....?
Also, you didn’t pass this by Jeff Sessions? I mean, he’s the AG, and you didn’t consult him about it?
I think someone is overthinking, Rosenstein was always a duplicitous schemer.
Thanks HG, for your vigilant work.
You're welcome!
Could be a combination of both ideas. Maybe there were two separate coup attempts - maybe one just wanted Trump knee-capped, and the other wanted him dead and gone.
I THINK we will, WHEN it will do Trump the most good in his re-election bid, know EVERYTHING that happened eventually.
The “document dump” will be made WHEN it benefits him most.
He will use it to attack the SWAMP and the “DEEP STATE”.
He is surviving without the full disclosure which I think will point to the most egregious dirty tricks campaign ever waged against a candidate.
He is waiting because it traces all the way back and to Obama.
Seems to be a peculiar defense of Rosenstein, and the convoluted reasoning behind it does not bear out the actual unfolding of events. The firing of James Comey was supposedly the catalyst that initiated the appointment of Mueller, and the assembly of a team that was almost universally adversarial and hostile to Donald Trump, while studiously feigning total disinterest in any other line of inquiry other than that relating exclusively to Team Trump.
The body of evidence that Rosenstein was in on the scam is far greater than any evidence he was following the law or trying to help Trump.
For me, his signature on the letter that expanded Mueller’s scope is enough, and the time frame that it was done in (August 2017), as anyone knows was a time that the conspirators and special counsel was aflame in prosepective failure.
The existence of the Strozk-Page memos had only been disclosed a few weeks before. After that, they arrested Papadopoulos...Federal Agents arrested him on a probable cause arrest (Something almost NEVER, EVER DONE by the Feds) in an airport as he returned from Greece. They may have been trying to frame him with coming into the country with undeclared cash, but Papadopoulos was smart enough to leave it in Greece. (A guy, an Israeli he didn’t know, just appeared out of the blue and gave him exactly $10K to write a paper and offered another $10K a month just to be on retainer for them for consultations. $10K in cash is the exact limit for declaring in Customs.
Then a few days later, the scope memo from Rosenstein.
Rosenstein is in a rather awkward situation.
His signature is on the FISA, which puts him in some trouble right there. His signature is on the firing of Comey. His signature is on expanded scope letter. And his signature is on the report exonerating Trump.
It will be fascinating to see how he is as a witness in the coming trials when he is called as a witness, if not a defendant.
Rosenstein is not a White Hat, not at all.
The desire to earn clicks and impressions money from click-bait off unsuspecting FReepers?
Who's to say the site isn't also attempting to install malware.
See my post above. There is a reason he is called Rosenweasel.
Anybody enticing clicks is highly suspect.
I’d agree with that except wouldn’t you think the midterms were a good time for Trump to unload on them? Okay. Now I’m arguing with myself because 1. the special counsel was still ongoing 2. Many in the Repub. party didn’t support him fully. Yet having a majority in both houses should’ve helped him. I give up trying to figure this out. Like you say, we will know eventually.
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