Posted on 05/02/2018 9:11:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former US attorney Preet Bharara applauded Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for his response to reports that some members of the House Freedom Caucus were moving to seek his impeachment as a last resort to hamstring the Russia investigation.
Rosenstein slapped down that threat on Tuesday during a discussion with reporters, saying "The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted."
The deputy attorney general oversees the Russia probe being led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Preet Bharara, a former US attorney and an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, applauded Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's response to news that members of the House Freedom Caucus might seek to impeach him as a last resort.
Rosenstein slapped down that threat in front of reporters on Tuesday, saying "The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted."
Rosenstein oversees the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting the Russia investigation and an inquiry into whether Trump obstructed justice during the probe while in office.
Bharara called Rosenstein's reaction "dramatic and defiant," and said that was precisely how Rosenstein needed to respond.
Here's Bharara: "To be clear: this is the most dramatic and defiant thing anyone at the top of DOJ has said about the ongoing nonsense," Bharara said, apparently referring to efforts by Trump's Republican allies in Congress to hamstring the Russia probe.
He said Rosenstein's clap-back was "long overdue."
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Rod Rosenstein said this today:
“The way we operate in the Department of Justice, if we are going to accuse someone of wrongdoing, we have to have admissible evidence, and credible witnesses, we need to be prepared to prove our case in court. And we have to fix our signature to the charging document, and that is something that not everybody appreciates,” Rosenstein told the audience.”
How does the Dossier fit that Evidence?
I say make old Rosenstein Exhibit #1.
He was bragging on his Dept, and this should come back to bite him.
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Sounds to me like Congress has no choice now but to impeach Rosenstein.
IOW, the dept of justice is past justice..makes sense yea that’s the ticket..sarc
Another corrupt "lawman".
He's too busy being mad for DJT firing him. These kooks don't go away quietly.
America's Founders thoughtfully and carefully divided, separated, and provided checks and balances to prevent either an imperfect person, or groups of imperfect persons, from exceeding Constitutional limits on their temporary exercise of power over either their peers or "We, the People's" rights, intending that the "representatives" of "the People" should, in fact, represent their interests and hold unelected officials accountable to "the People," through them?
Where does this 21st Century unelected tyrant named Rosenstein believe he fits into the total scheme of things?
Does such an inflated sense of self reminds one of the previous president and then head of the FBI?
More of what Jeff Sessions ineptitude (or plotting) has wrought
Preet is suspect #1 as head leaker of the Mueller probe,
Rosenstein Truly should be fired for his statement. Congress has every right to bring articles of impeachment and it was extremely inappropriate to mock them and to characterize their actions as criminal activity.
Hey Preet, get your affairs in order. You’ll soon be relocated to Ft. Leavenworth.
> “The Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.”
How does Rosenstein connect ‘impeachment’ to ‘extortion’?
The Congress has the authority to impeach appointed officials.
The only connection I see, and it would not be extortion, as that term is a term of criminal offense, is from impeachment to confession.
Is Rosenstein saying that Congress in seeking his confession, his answers to their questions, amounts to ‘extortion’?
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The deep state players are not firing on all cylinders for sure.
Just yesterday, Sheila Jackson Lee said “We must get to the bottom of Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election”.
Me: Girl, you ain’t got nothing because there ain’t nothing.
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And Maxine Waters just last week had this to say to President Trump:
“Please resign so that I won’t have to keep up this fight of your having to be impeached, because I don’t think you deserve to be there.
“Just get out!” she declared.
The president has previously dismissed Waters as “low I.Q.”
Me: The president was being generous, I would have said “No I.Q.”.
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Now Rosenstein is claiming he is being ‘extorted’? Say what?
It truly is the patients running the Asylum.
Rosenweasel’s playing in traffic again. He’d look good splayed on a semi bumper.
THEY do the extorting...
Wait, didn’t you know the Congress only has oversight power when DemocRats, are in control?
“The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and -
“(a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney’s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and
“(b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.”
“The jurisdiction of a Special Counsel shall be established by the Attorney General.”
“The jurisdiction of a Special Counsel shall also include the authority to investigate and prosecute federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, the Special Counsel’s investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses”
“the Attorney General may request that the Special Counsel provide an explanation for any investigative or prosecutorial step, and may after review conclude that the action is so inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices that it should not be pursued.”
“The Special Counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. The Attorney General may remove a Special Counsel for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies. The Attorney General shall inform the Special Counsel in writing of the specific reason for his or her removal.”
“...90 days before the beginning of each fiscal year, the Special Counsel shall report to the Attorney General the status of the investigation, and provide a budget request for the following year. The Attorney General shall determine whether the investigation should continue and, if so, establish the budget for the next year.”
28 CFR 600
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Rosenstein may try to cloak himself in 'the law', but it's obvious that the only purpose behind Rosenstein's obstruction of congressional oversight is to prevent Rosenstein's own misdeeds and lawbreaking from coming to light.
That's not a proper reason (a.k.a. 'pretext') for withholding the evidence, and Congress' interest in seeing the evidence has nothing whatsoever to do with 'hamstringing the Russia probe'.
Nevertheless, I'd expect Rosenstein to continue to stonewall, even if it leads to his impeachment. Either Rosenstein gives up the goods, which reveal his wrongdoing and may lead to impeachment or even indictment (yeah, as if we could hope for 'the law' to be followed by a corrupt DOJ), or else he continues to resist which may lead to his impeachment.
Bahara either knows or ought to know what's going on - it doesn't take rocket surgery to figure it out. The likely result of Rosenstein's and Bahara's evasions and grandstanding and smokescreens will be to bolster suspicions that not only were Rosenstein's actions in the FISA-gate affair tainted, but perhaps Bahara is also implicated in the wrongdoing.
Rosenstein is not a judge.
Congress can simply abolish his job by majority vote.
Not surprising crooks scream bloody murder.
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