But fails to mention Mitch. Your true colors are showing, Rosenstein! How do you really want History to see you?
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“The previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America…” [/quote]
IIRC, the Obama Administration was threatened by a couple of, ummm, elected representatives of The People. GOP affiliation, of course.
Selective memory seems to be a precondition to becoming a member of the GOP.
Rosenstein is a dickhead on soooooo many different levels.
If some future edgy movie director wants to make a film about the Trump era, Mr. Rosenstein would make a fascinating main character. He seems to have some integrity and intelligence and yet is somewhat enthusiastically enabling the most corrupt POTUS in U.S. history.
This dude’s story arc is like a bell shaped curve.
Started out as a right wing federalist society hack who aided and abetted crooks. Then he rose to heights few thought possible for a hack like him. As much as he probably deserves to be subject to a bar inquiry, we know much of the truth of what happened in the #trumprussia scandal because he protected the investigation. Then when he realized that Mueller really had the goods to indict Trump, he slammed the door and went back to his right wing hack roots of aiding and abetting crooks.
Rosenstein had a chance to be a hero for the ages. He blew it.
Scapegoating Obama and the media for all their own problems is truly becoming clinical for this administration
Oh, shut up, Rod – you know as well as I that if President Obama had informed the American public back in the late summer of 2016, your party (and especially your party’s candidate) would to this very day still be crying and bitching about how we threw the election, interfering during the campaigning, etc., and screaming at the top of your lungs that there was no there there.
Can you fill in some detail about RR’s early career? That’s interesting.
What a friggen partisan scumbag. NEVER should have trusted this guy after the Comey shenanigans.
"The FBI director announced at a congressional hearing that there was a counterintelligence investigation that might result in criminal charges. Then the former FBI director alleged that the President pressured him to close the investigation, and the President denied that the conversation occurred. So that happened.”
So Rosenstein is tossing out unverified allegations about Obama squelching efforts to ferret out Russian election interference. He uses the phrase "So that happened" in tandem with a sentence acknowledging the charges are merely allegations. He's sliming Obama with a charge I can find no evidence was investigated and results announced.
He also conveniently leaves alone reports Obama pleaded with Congress, specifically Mitch McConnell, to go public with Russian meddling concerns, and was shut down.
Jeh Johnson, the homeland-security secretary, was responsible for finding out whether the government could quickly shore up the security of the nation’s archaic patchwork of voting systems. He floated the idea of designating state mechanisms “critical infrastructure,” a label that would have entitled states to receive priority in federal cybersecurity assistance, putting them on a par with U.S. defense contractors and financial networks.
On Aug. 15, Johnson arranged a conference call with dozens of state officials, hoping to enlist their support. He ran into a wall of resistance.
The reaction “ranged from neutral to negative,” Johnson said in congressional testimony Wednesday.
Brian Kemp, the Republican secretary of state of Georgia, used the call to denounce Johnson’s proposal as an assault on state rights. “I think it was a politically calculated move by the previous administration,” Kemp said in a recent interview, adding that he remains unconvinced that Russia waged a campaign to disrupt the 2016 race. “I don’t necessarily believe that,” he said.
Stung by the reaction, the White House turned to Congress for help, hoping that a bipartisan appeal to states would be more effective.
In early September, Johnson
Jeh Johnson
Homeland security secretary. Johnson is tasked with securing voting systems and arranges meetings with dozens of state officials. , Comey
James B. Comey
FBI director appointed by Obama. Comey was one of four senior officials to participate in meetings in the Situation Room on how to respond to Russia’s interference. Comey particpates in a briefing for members of Congress on Russia’s activities, but the meeting disolves into partisan bickering. and Monaco
Lisa Monaco
Homeland security adviser. Monaco briefs key members of Congress on the intelligence. arrived on Capitol Hill in a caravan of black SUVs for a meeting with 12 key members of Congress, including the leadership of both parties.
The meeting devolved into a partisan squabble.
“The Dems were, ‘Hey, we have to tell the public,’ ” recalled one participant. But Republicans resisted, arguing that to warn the public that the election was under attack would further Russia’s aim of sapping confidence in the system.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went further, officials said, voicing skepticism that the underlying intelligence truly supported the White House’s claims. Through a spokeswoman, McConnell declined to comment, citing the secrecy of that meeting.
Keep fucking that chicken, Roddy Boy. You already destroyed your credibility and your career, and you can’t go lower than zero, so what the hell, right? And blaming Obama just like Trump does? What next, are you going to threaten to have Hillary and Christopher Steele arrested, too? Why not spread some Seth Rich conspiracy theories while you’re at it?
Oh, and there’s this little restaurant in D.C. called Comet Ping Pong Pizza. You won’t believe the things going on at that place! Well, actually, you probably would.
I knew where his heart was when he helped fire his boss.
Grecian Formula does not make a man.
I think that more and more it is resembling a hook.
Another Trumper to put out with the trash.
Waste Management, if you’re listening…
Who, I mean who could’ve seen Rosenstein was a Trump stooge and Republican hack a year and a half ago?
Next, I suppose someone will suggest Meadows and Nunes staged the Rosenstein hearings where they questioned him about his motives? 
Last week I said that Rosenstein should be dragged before a House committee and questioned unmercifully, and I was castigated by many here who were calling innocent Li’l Rod “one of the good guys”.
Hey, does that crow taste as bad as I heard?
Alot to unpack in the quotation.
Obama Admin: “The previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America,” he said, per Politico.
Gang of 8: “The FBI disclosed classified evidence about the investigation to ranking legislators and their staffers. Someone selectively leaked details to the news media.
Comey after election: The FBI director announced at a congressional hearing that there was a counterintelligence investigation that might result in criminal charges.
Comey and Trump Dinner: Then the former FBI director alleged that the President pressured him to close the investigation, and the President denied that the conversation occurred.
Wrap Up: So that happened.”
This guy’s all over the map. It seems like he wants to do the right thing and tries to when he can or thinks he can get away with it, but as soon as there’s pressure from above, he folds. He’s actually a lot like a lot of older liberal Dems in the Biden and Obama mold, trying to have it both ways and possessing a bit of a flexible spine.
It’s all situational, nothing solid or truly principled. Like most pols and top officials, he’s very political and has learned to read the tea leaves and work the system. Being principled and strong in the face of powerful opposition requires a special sort of combination of smarts and toughness that most do not possess.
I’ve taken to ignoring most of what he says and focus on what he does. While he’s publicly defended Trump, Barr and Sessions, and attacked Dems, Obama and Comey, he also initiated the SC investigation and named Mueller to head it, and protected him and it from Trump the whole time. Perhaps not as strongly as he should have, e.g. allowing Trump and his family to avoid being deposed by Mueller. But protected nonetheless.
As a result we have Mueller’s devastating if not wholly satisfying report. It’s out of both men’s hands now and up to Dems, the media and public as to what becomes of it. I imagine that both will be called to testify at some point, and there will be an attempt to prevent them from doing so. One wonders whether they’ll respect Trump’s demand that they not testify and wait for the courts to order them to do so, or defy him.
In any case, thanks, Rod–I think? But don’t expect us to take this drivel seriously. Hopefully this is for your soon to be ex-bosses, with a wink and a smile. Or not.
This is the Dems problem.
F Mitch. Obama was President and should have blew the lid off.
Just like the Dems should stop playing politics with our Democracy being taken over by a coup and impeach the traitorous bastard.
Stop the bitc#@ssness.