Who said Rosenstein has been tasked with investigating the spying. Trump just demanded that it be investigated. I suspect Trump is going to ask who leaked the name of the spy to the NYT and WP. I think Trump already knows, and the DNI certainly knows because Dan Coats has access to EVERYTHING.
Won’t be surprised if both are fired by COB on Tuesday. Mueller my be fired by COB on Friday when there is proof Mueller, Comey and Rosenstein are proven to be conspiring to commit sedition and treason.
Extorting General Flynn into a guilty plea when they knew he was innocent, attempting to extort Manafort and Cohen, lots of other stuff will be plenty of cover if he fires them all.
I believe that in the last day or so Rosenstein stated that he would run an investigation into the spying.
I searched for news of it, and found that the Inspector General was tasked with seeing an investigation was executed.
Will that fall to Rosenstein? I don’t know.
Rosenstein did voice a need for it. Will the Inspector General task Rosenstein and thereby Mueller with it. I honestly don’t know.
I do think it’s interesting that Rosenstein popped up on the subject. Why would it be his place to address the issue?
Is he planning on being the force behind the investigation? Seems possible with his attention on it already.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-fbi-spy-20180520-story.html
Here’s another interesting article on the subject, and the writer addresses with interest Rosenstein’s comments / involvement here.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/politics/trump-fbi-justice/index.html