Posted on 09/25/2018 7:07:11 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Rod J. Rosenstein’s departure seemed so certain this week that his boss’s chief of staff told colleagues that he had been tapped by the White House to take over as second-in-command of the Justice Department, while another official would supervise the special counsel probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, people familiar with the matter said.
But by Monday afternoon, the succession plan had been scrapped. Rosenstein, who told the White House he was willing to quit if President Trump wouldn’t disparage him, would remain the deputy attorney general in advance of a high-stakes meeting on Thursday to discuss the future of his employment. The other officials, too, would go back to work, facing the prospect that in just days they could be leading the department through a historic crisis.
Inside the Justice Department on Tuesday, officials still struggled to understand the events that nearly produced a seismic upheaval in their leadership ranks — until it didn’t — and they braced for a potential repeat of that chaos later in the week.
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We’ve had the “keep waiting they’re busy being smart playing 3D chess” chastisement for two long years. You call being fed up with 2 years worth of this fruitless nonsense being ansty?
“Noel Francisco, take the DAG job, and he is also reputed to be a solid conservative.”
I heard he’s swamp—SES. Wouldn’t be surprising, the entire DOJ needs to be fumigated
It is possible he will fail or die from a bullet or from a heart attack-he is 72 years old- but there is no one else who can do it. It requires his abilities AND his independent wealth so that he is not subornable. No, I don't see it as 3D chess because he works on highly experience-educated reflex and intuition. He could probably take out the visible top perps in one swift flurry of arrests and trials but he has to expose and cut off the deep roots and that is what takes the most time. He has to turn certain characters against themselves which is what he has done now with Rosenstein. He cannot function as an order taker or part of a committee; it has to be his own savvy and methods or it would never have got past the first 6 months before he had been impeached and removed and the iron sky had begun to close down on the nation.
Wouldn't surprise me either, but he's SES (actually ES) by law due to his position. Everyone in a senior fedgov position is going to be SE/SES. Sessions is ES-1, Rosenstein ES-2, Francisco ES-3. I don't know a lot about him, but he was confirmed as SG 50-47 without a single dem vote, so that tells me he can't be all bad...
“I don’t know a lot about him, but he was confirmed as SG 50-47 without a single dem vote, so that tells me he can’t be all bad... “
Sessions got one dem vote for his confirmation and he’s one of the best moles the deepstate ever had...
I think you might be mistaken about no Senate confirmation needed.
I believe there is a 210 day limit for a “promoted” person to hold a job that requires confirmation.
I don't know what happens after 210 days.
I trust that President Trump will make sure that Rosenstein is not using any means of recording the meeting and probably have Kelly in the room during the meeting, too.
You got too much faith in one man. We are to hold Trump's feet to the fire if he does not produce the results we voted for. He's had plenty of time for maneuvering over the past two years. Patience can only extend so far.
You countin on Trump to win a second term? Don't count it. We may only have 2 years left to root out this scourge, and the clock is ticking.
The evil doers will walk free and be left in place for future havok after Trump's term ends if the clock is allowed to run out. And they will become much worse if they get away with it. You should think about that a little.
I imagine that the perps would encourage Trump supporters to have supreme patience.. all the way till the end of Trump's term.
I was a Cruz supporter in the primaries, a fanatic one, actually, until Trump said those nasty things about him. I thought it was a crass unstatesmanlike thing to do and I castigated DJT for it until Cruz's reaction. It showed me big that Cruz had not the fortitude to handle the Democrats or even the Republicans in Congress. If this is how it is with our most solid Constitutional Conservative then we need a brawler and that is what we got, and he's the best.
This administration is our last roll of the dice. If the swamp isn't drained then it will prevail.
AG Sessions appears to be rat of the worst kind. Even Trump is insinuating that. Which makes no sense really, considering it's within his power to sack Sessions at any time. If Trump knows that Sessions has a well laid out plan of attack that's gonna bring down the whole bunch in due time then why is he lambasting him on twitter? More 3D chess?
You go your way I'll go mine.
It’s not useful for this president. You can’t. He follows his own instincts and all your foot holding will serve only to make you think you are doing something. You misread Sessioins, too. If he wee that terribly incompetent he would be long gone.He is doing what Trump wants him to do. The Trumpian excoriation is the way he gets the Left to defend and support him. The Russian BS he recused himself from is half the operation.Sessions is getting things done under cover of Russia! Russia1 Russia! that is keeping the focus of MSM and the Democrats off the main show. The complaints of the short sighted conservatives helps that, too, so your indignation is also helpful but not in keeping Sessions’ feet to any fire.
bttt
Never said that Sessions was terribly incompetent. Incompetent would imply that his action, or lack of action to be more accurate, is completely unintentional. There's a huge difference between unintentional and rat.
Yeah sure, Trump is playing a smart game with Sessions (/s). What I actually am worried about is that Sessions is doing exactly what Trump wants him to be doing. And I don't think I'm the only one who is worried about that.
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