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...
“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.
Congresses attempts at oversight are not unreasonable given the misconduct and conflicts of interest we already know for a fact exist at DOJ and FBI
Congress is trying to get to bottom of what looks like serious crimes and public corruption committed by high level DOJ and FBI officials and Rosenstein is implicated in the misconduct to the point that he at least is a witness, if not target, of an potential criminal investigation so he should be recusing himself as is his ethical duty .
There is only legitimate, lawful reason for Rosenstein to be uncooperative and that is if he has been instructed to do by President Trump.
Sounds like RosenWeasel is trying to obstruct the Constitutional Justice he so richly deserves.
The way the swamp thinks, politicians come and go, but bureaucrats stay on forever. For Congress to threaten that is a threat they cannot abide.
The criminal bum should be in prison ,