Posted on 02/08/2019 10:15:06 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Former senior FBI official Chuck Rosenberg ripped Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker on Friday night, calling his testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee “disgraceful.”
"I’ve testified many times in Congress," Rosenberg, who served as chief of staff under former FBI Director James Comey and as a U.S. attorney in the Bush (and Obama) administration(s), explained during an interview on MSBNC.
"Sometimes the questions are good and thoughtful, sometimes they’re compound and incomprehensible, but you have to answer every one with a degree of civility and dignity, and that was sorely lacking.”
Whitaker sparred with various lawmakers during his appearance before the Judiciary panel on Friday, with Democrats peppering him with questions for hours and blasting his responses to certain questions.
At one point, the Trump administration official shocked committee members and spectators alike after he told Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) that his time for questioning had run out.
“Mr. Chairman, I see that your five minutes is up,” Whitaker said, drawing gasps from the panel and a packed crowd.
“I am here voluntarily. We have agreed to five-minute rounds,” he added.
Lawmakers routinely go over their five-minute time limits for questioning, and it is particularly rare for a witness to accuse the chairman of a panel of having gone over his time limit.
“The committee will come to order. I will point out we didn't enforce the five-minute rule on acting Attorney General Whitaker,” Nadler responded.
During the hearing, Whitaker also said he had not interfered in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow in 2016.
Rosenberg has emerged as a staunch critic of the Trump administration, often appearing on cable news to denounce what he says is the president’s mistreatment of the Justice Department.
“Senator Brewster’s story as related here [in the Senate hearing] is a pack of lies”. - Howard Hughes Testimony in Senate Committee.
Nobody speaks to these entitled jackazzes like that anymore. Probably because they have so much more power today.
There is much to fear from an implacable passive-aggressive with an I.Q. exponentially higher than the combined total of the committee. It was like watching a Sensei take out a class of arrogant white belts.
He was Comey’s “buttboy”. No wonder he attacked an FBI leader who wasn’t putting up with the Congressional Left’s shit and smear attacks.
My how far the FBI fell under Mueller and Comey. It’s going to take a long time to repair the damage they did (and thanks Rosenberg for being one of them).
Glad I didn’t work under you.
Whitaker actually gave the committee more respect than they deserved. If you are subpoened you have to appear but can refuse to answer unless you are a Deep State member. “I write to offer a strong reaffirmation of the operating principles to which we, as law enforcement professionals, adhere. I write because we have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong. That’s what law enforcement officers do. That’s what you do. We fix stuff. At least, we try.”
Rosenberg is a real puke. Just watched a video of a 66 year old man being marched out of his house barefoot in January. There are valid reasons why Trump has more faith in Putin than the Deep State intel community.
I suppose Loretta Lynch or Eric Holder are the proper examples to follow.
I thought the line of questioning of Whitaker resembled a kangaroo court. Most of the afternoon dealt with questions about the Mueller investigation. This was not a oversight hearing, it was a character assassination where Whitaker was not given the time to explain his answers. He was given only the answer yes or no to a statement that was calculated to get him no matter how he answered it. They constantly told him he was running the clock when he wanted to more completely explain his answers. And they wanted him to talk about conversations with the President when that information was privileged information. They used every trick in the book and they did not spare any disrespectful behavior.
Rosenberg has emerged as a staunch critic of the Trump administration, often appearing on cable news to denounce what he says is the president’s mistreatment of the Justice Department.
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Hill writer too stupid to notice baked in contradiction in this statement as the FBI goon is the one criticizing the DOJ official.
If you didn’t have Chuck Rosenberg on your Big List of Bad Actors Who Need To Be Brought To Justice, your list is incomplete.
FBI needs to be disbanded.
Is the author of this article related to David Axelrod?
Actually Chuck, the FBI, Comey and his entire staff(including you) and the Bush-Obama uniparty are what is truly disgraceful.
Yes. The democrats made that thing disgraceful. It is as sickening their retarded level of “questions”.
This wasn’t a hearing. It was a Soviet Show Trial. And it was disgraceful, but not because of Whitaker.
And the building burned to the ground.
and we all remember his complaining about Holder testifying to Congress which resulted in contempt! What an a$$hole!!!!
That might prove difficult, since his head’s so far up his ass.
So Jimbo Comey’s former towel boy doesn’t like the humor added to the circus by Acting AG Whittaker? Tough sh#t.
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