Posted on 04/29/2019 2:31:08 PM PDT by CaptainK
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to President Trump on Monday, ending a tumultuous two years in which he tried to steady a rocky Justice Department and its relationship with the White House.
His resignation is effective May 11.
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OAN said Barr wants Jeffery Rosen.
Horowitz does not have subpoena authority and can only force interviews with current federal employees. It’s possible Rosenstein turns out to be a “good guy”. We’ll see ...
Bet the President “made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”.
Much more than that. I support the complete dissolution of the Civil Service bureaucratic army of Derp State leftists. We need an absolute return to patronage from top to bottom, from Cabinet Secretaries to janitors. Complete loyalty to the new administration and no lifetime sinecures with royal benefits. All government unions abolished. You come in with an administration and go out with it, back to the private sector to get a real job.
Government service should mean personal sacrifice for the time you’re there, instead we’ve got armies of people getting rich and insulating themselves from the rest of the country and any accountability. When we’re in a recession, they live high on the hog. This must end immediately.
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Fredo Rosenstein this guy looks like Fredo and acted like Fredo. May 11 we need set off fireworks to celebrate this traitor departure. The real tell will be who he signs on with. It will tell us a lot more about Fredo the Traitor.
Some form of that or close to that would be helpful.
I will say though, that would leave the place wide open when an Obama came to town.
He could put the absolute worst of the worst in and get away with it.
Overly verbose and preachy. Should have been one short paragraph.
The text:
April 29, 2019
Dear Mr. President:
The Department of Justice made rapid progress in achieving the Administration’s law enforcement priorities reducing violent crime, curtailing opioid abuse, protecting consumers, improving immigration enforcement, and building confidence in the police while preserving national security and strengthening federal efforts in other areas. We staffed the Department of Justice and the US. Attorneys’ Offices with skilled and principled leaders devoted to the values that make America great. By consulting stakeholders, implementing constructive policies, reducing bureaucracy, and using results-driven management, we maximized the public benefit of our $28 billion budget. Productivity rose, and crime fell.
Our nation is safer, our elections are more secure, and our citizens are better informed about covert foreign influence efforts and schemes to commit fraud, steal intellectual property, and launch cyber attacks. We also pursued illegal leaks, investigated credible allegations of employee misconduct, and accommodated congressional oversight without compromising law enforcement interests. I commend our 1 15,000 employees for their accomplishments and their devotion to duty. As Thomas Paine wrote, “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
The median tenure of a Deputy Attorney General is 16 months, and few serve longer than two years. As I submit my resignation effective on May 11, I am grateful to you for the opportunity to serve; for the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations; and for the goals you set in your inaugural address: patriotism, unity, safety, education, and prosperity, because “a nation exists to serve its citizens.” The Department of Justice pursues those goals while operating in accordance with the rule of law. The rule of law is the foundation of America. It secures our freedom, allows our citizens to flourish, and enables our nation to serve as a model of liberty and justice for all.
At the Department of Justice, we stand watch over what Attorney General Robert Jackson called “the inner ramparts of our society the Constitution, its guarantees, our freedoms and the supremacy of law.” As a result, the Department bears a special responsibility to avoid partisanship. Political considerations may influence policy choices, but neutral principles must drive decisions about individual cases. In 1940, Jackson explained that government lawyers “must at times risk ourselves and our records to defend our legal processes from discredit, and to maintain a dispassionate, disinterested, and impartial enforcement of the law.” Facing “corrosive skepticism and cynicism concerning the administration of justice” in 1975, Edward Levi urged us to “make clear by word and deed that our law is not an instrument of partisan purpose used in ways which are careless of the higher values within us all.” In 2001, John Ashcroft called for “a professional Justice Department free from politics uncompromisingly fair defined by integrity and dedicated to upholding the rule of law.”
We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls. We ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter, because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle.
We keep the faith, we follow the rules, and we always put America first.
Sincerely,
Rod J. Rosenstein
I have to say, I like this letter. Both personal praise for the President and reaffirming the rule of law. Quoting the President’s inaugural address and John Ashcroft were nice touches. I’m still happy he’s gone but the letter is class
April 25, 2019:
“The Horowitz report is coming out in May or possibly early June,” Joe diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said. He was referring to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation.
“There’s another report that everyone has forgotten about involving James Comey alone,” diGenova said. “That will be out in two weeks. That report is going to be a bombshell. It is going to open up the investigation on a very high note, and there are going to be criminal referrals in it.”
“Why doesn’t he just retire”
He will collect retirement. His position is of such a powerful nature that they use the term resign - but it just means giving up the position and its powers.
A mouthful of what?
“I wonder who his replacement will be.”
Deputy Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Rosen was nominated, and has had his Senate hearings. He is expected to be approved. That is likely what delayed Rosenstein’s departure from March.
“He was one of the ones that tried to take Trump down”
... yet Trump left him Deputy AG for over 2 years.
Hop out the back Jack?
We will know if he is a white hat if the President invites him to the White House to thank him for everything. What are the odds of that happening?
Bye, you won’t be missed.
His job was really tricky. I heard him speak, and he wants to live a normal life. The job he had to do was immensely forced by both sides to weaponize and chastise the other. I wish we could all move on...and get to making America great again.
Nonsense. Nobody forced Rotten Rod to sign a fraudently FISA warrant application renewal, write a biased scope memo and turn a blind eye for TWO YEARS as Mueller and his 16 angry Democrats used police state tactics against POTUS and his supporters. Frankly, he belongs under criminal investigation at a minimum.
The Left launched a coup attempt. We merely tried to survive it.
The left? There was no more bipartisan issue inside the beltway the last two years than enabling the Mueller Coup. The GOP gave aid and comfort to a biased and criminally conflicted Mueller and his Democrat staff at every turn.
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