Here’s my “Devil’s Advocate” scenario: If Comey approached him in early 2017 with a scenario to conduct a surveillance campaign against the President and Rosenstein thought Comey was absolutely crazy (and told him so), then what kind of denial could Rosenstein possibly make today — that they didn’t discuss the matter at all? That denial would be false, wouldn’t it?
As with Dallas, the purposes of the conspirators could not have been achieved without a legend, a cover story that could capture the allegiance - and the silence - of patriots who would be needed to pull the trigger - so to speak, in the recent affair.
I imagine with JFK it was abandoning the CIA invasion of Cuba, leaving the CIA troops to die because he was f***ing a Russian spy (the East German). In my imaginary novel, Allen Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover cook this up in 1962 and then draw in some patriots with convincing (fake but accurate) documentary evidence.
Here, they almost succeeded (and we don’t know if there’s an Oswald involved in the end game, yet), but they thought, wrongly, that we all hate “Russians” enough to blind us to reality.
So, untangling this mess involves separating the sheep (like Rosenstein) from the goats (like Obama), and turning the sheep who aspired to be goats (like Comey) to be state’s evidence.