Normal procedures involve document requests to the FBI, not the DOJ. It is pure fantasy to think that Rosenstein, inserting himself (and his US Attorneys) into this process will expedite this procedure. Rosenstein has been stonewalling document requests for 18 months.
Your thinking that Sessions and Trump have ordered the stonewalling Rosenstein to get involved, is pure fantasy.
Do I trust Grassley (who doesn't like Rosenstein) and McConnell (who did after all change the filibuster rule) at this point more than I trust Rod Rosenstein, the guy who has been dragging his feet for over a year producing documents and the guy who signed off on a bogus FISA warrant? You bet I do.
I don't understand a conservative thinking that Rod Rosenstein, inserting himself into a document request, is good news.
I don't understand a conservative thinking that Rod Rosenstein, inserting himself into a document request, is good news.
Because Sessions is not recused from the Kavanaugh nomination.
Sessions either personally ordered it or personally approved it.
Don't make too much of the fact that Rosenstein's name is on the letters to the USAOs leaked to the press.
Sessions is the CO and Rosenstein is like the EO or Operations Officer. His job is to implement an order from Sessions and that is why his name is on those letters.
Sessions has, in my opinion, been a coward as to his recusal and the matters covered thereby.
But in fairness, on the things he is not recused on, Sessions has actually done a pretty good job in my view. Of course, the problem is that what he has recused himself from is far and away the most important matter going on.