That split certainly exists, depending on the issue. See recusals.
If one is focused on Mueller, then AAG. As though Mueller is the entirety of DOJ.
I know we (you and I) have a strong differences of opinion on Sessions. I'm just going to leave it at that rather than discuss in any detail.
-- Rosenstein is not stupid. He may very well see the walls closing in, and he may have finally okayed the outside prosecutor coming in to take a peek at the corruption going on at the FBI and JD. --
FBI reports direct to Rosenstein, but for corruption in the FBI, he lacks the power to call for outside or special counsel. Sessions is not recused from FBI oversight, and sessions would be the likely superior in case Rosenstein is personally in legal jeopardy.
I read you. We’re good. (I can get carried away criticizing Sessions when feeling provoked, but without that there are still two reasons I hold against Jeff.)
Sessions is, 1) out of his league over there.
He played by Queensbury Rules (reFusal, on his DAY 2), with a pack of wily subversives. Trump took that personally and so did I. The cost may be immeasurable.
And, 2) there was nothing good going on at the JD and FBI, and all of the dirty stuff was directly tied to getting Hillary elected, in order to perpetuate more of it.
Sessions, being tied to the Trump campaign, was made out to be *forever too biased* to oversee any of the dirty tricks, and was virtually neutralized. All those JD activities that engulfed the JD and FBI had to do directly or indirectly with HRC. Not much room left for Sessions to play anything but small ball.
The swathe left for Sessions that can’t be tied to the period of the Trump Campaign, I’m afraid, was about as wide as a toilet tank.
From the department leaks, to the Russians, to the phantom “hacking” at DNC and also the exposure of Podesta’s computer, all of it happened during the Trump campaign, which entraps Sessions tenure, just for being there, during that period, in an association capacity to the campaign.
Rosenstein it seems to me has had, for the last year, the total run of the roost.