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Rod Rosenstein, Resistance Leader-Andrew C. McCarthy
Posted on 9/24/18 at 5:11 am
Posted on 9/24/18 at 5:11 am
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
September 23, 2018 7:55 PM
Weasel words, weasel moves from an emotionally overwrought deputy AG eager to ingratiate himself with Democrats
Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general’s non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:
"The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. . . . I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment."
Let’s parse this.
*The Times story “is inaccurate and factually incorrect.” Rosenstein won’t say exactly what is wrong in the report. He is careful not to say that the gist of the report is wrong — he just hopes that, if he sounds indignant enough, you will hear it that way. The Times may have gotten a few details wrong, but you can bet the story is essentially true.
*You can’t trust “anonymous sources”: this from the guy who, in approving a FISA warrant application to spy on an American political campaign, relied on anonymous sources — some of them Russian operatives — who were channeling information through a foreign spy from whom the Justice Department continued to take information even after telling a federal court that the spy had been cut out of the investigation for leaking to the media.
*And my favorite: Rosenstein knows “there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment” against President Trump. Of course, that does not respond to what the Times report actually says, which is that back in May 2017, when he was an emotional wreck because Democrats were being mean to him, Rosenstein urged that there might at that time be a basis to remove the president under the 25th Amendment (specifically, Section 4) if he could get enough top officials to agree that Trump was unfit to discharge his duties.
The Times account is based on multiple unnamed sources and draws on memoranda about interactions with Rosenstein, writtenby the FBI’s former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, and other officials.
The Times creates ambiguity about whether its journalists have actually seen these memos. Times reporters Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt indicate that the chirpy anonymous officials with whom they spoke “were briefed either on the events themselves or on [the] memos” — implying that the journalists are relying on their sources’ accounts of the memos. Yet, the report subsequently adds a quote from McCabe’s lawyer, Michael Bromwich, who says his client “has no knowledge of how any member of the media obtained those memos.”
Miscalculating the Comey Firing
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September 23, 2018 7:55 PM
Weasel words, weasel moves from an emotionally overwrought deputy AG eager to ingratiate himself with Democrats
Rod Rosenstein is even a weasel when repudiating his weasel moves. Here (with my italics) is the deputy attorney general’s non-denial denial of a New York Times report Friday that he brainstormed about ousting President Trump in May 2017:
"The New York Times’s story is inaccurate and factually incorrect. . . . I will not further comment on a story based on anonymous sources who are obviously biased against the department and are advancing their own personal agenda. But let me be clear about this: Based on my personal dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment."
Let’s parse this.
*The Times story “is inaccurate and factually incorrect.” Rosenstein won’t say exactly what is wrong in the report. He is careful not to say that the gist of the report is wrong — he just hopes that, if he sounds indignant enough, you will hear it that way. The Times may have gotten a few details wrong, but you can bet the story is essentially true.
*You can’t trust “anonymous sources”: this from the guy who, in approving a FISA warrant application to spy on an American political campaign, relied on anonymous sources — some of them Russian operatives — who were channeling information through a foreign spy from whom the Justice Department continued to take information even after telling a federal court that the spy had been cut out of the investigation for leaking to the media.
*And my favorite: Rosenstein knows “there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment” against President Trump. Of course, that does not respond to what the Times report actually says, which is that back in May 2017, when he was an emotional wreck because Democrats were being mean to him, Rosenstein urged that there might at that time be a basis to remove the president under the 25th Amendment (specifically, Section 4) if he could get enough top officials to agree that Trump was unfit to discharge his duties.
The Times account is based on multiple unnamed sources and draws on memoranda about interactions with Rosenstein, writtenby the FBI’s former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, and other officials.
The Times creates ambiguity about whether its journalists have actually seen these memos. Times reporters Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt indicate that the chirpy anonymous officials with whom they spoke “were briefed either on the events themselves or on [the] memos” — implying that the journalists are relying on their sources’ accounts of the memos. Yet, the report subsequently adds a quote from McCabe’s lawyer, Michael Bromwich, who says his client “has no knowledge of how any member of the media obtained those memos.”
Miscalculating the Comey Firing
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This post was edited on 9/24/18 at 8:45 am
Posted on 9/24/18 at 6:03 am to cajunangelle
quote:
Rod Rosenstein, Resistance Leader
quote:
Leader
No but a loyal subject
Posted on 9/24/18 at 6:04 am to cajunangelle
Yet clownshoes is still employed. Aren’t there several people in Trump and Sessions ears asking them what the hell is RR still employed?
Posted on 9/24/18 at 6:11 am to idlewatcher
quote:
Yet clownshoes is still employed. Aren’t there several people in Trump and Sessions ears asking them what the hell is RR still employed
Sessions is the bigger problem
Posted on 9/24/18 at 8:41 am to idlewatcher
Idle,
Ya gotta let this play out. I dont doubt he said the stuff in the article. Remember this is the same guy who threatened to disclose staffers emails and phone/text when they hassled him about disclosure. But firing him now would cause a shitstorm of "obstruction" talk. I think thats why it was leaked, piss him off and maybe even get Trump to can him.
More interesting is the fact that GB asked Trump not to release the documents. Part of that release is the CIA memo to the FBI that started this whole mess, and Im betting its got Hannigan (head of GCHQ) mentioned in it. It cant be Steele, he has been mentioned a million times and was not even employed by their govt. they wouldnt care about him.
The fella was Brennans counterpart in GB govt. Early fifties, at the apex of his career, only there for a couple of years, no scandals, Trump wins and he quits the next week. Hell he didnt even site the usual "personal reasons" just slithered out of the swamp.
There is a reason May, after her first one on one with Trump in the White House, came out to the press brief and looked like she had been reamed with a hot red poker, and then Trump in the following weeks is kissing Macron, nothing like showing off your new girlfriend to your old one, while May is swinging in the wind with the Brexit dabacle. He could have touted bilateral trade deals with them when the debacle was sorted out, he just left her out to dry.
Ya gotta let this play out. I dont doubt he said the stuff in the article. Remember this is the same guy who threatened to disclose staffers emails and phone/text when they hassled him about disclosure. But firing him now would cause a shitstorm of "obstruction" talk. I think thats why it was leaked, piss him off and maybe even get Trump to can him.
More interesting is the fact that GB asked Trump not to release the documents. Part of that release is the CIA memo to the FBI that started this whole mess, and Im betting its got Hannigan (head of GCHQ) mentioned in it. It cant be Steele, he has been mentioned a million times and was not even employed by their govt. they wouldnt care about him.
The fella was Brennans counterpart in GB govt. Early fifties, at the apex of his career, only there for a couple of years, no scandals, Trump wins and he quits the next week. Hell he didnt even site the usual "personal reasons" just slithered out of the swamp.
There is a reason May, after her first one on one with Trump in the White House, came out to the press brief and looked like she had been reamed with a hot red poker, and then Trump in the following weeks is kissing Macron, nothing like showing off your new girlfriend to your old one, while May is swinging in the wind with the Brexit dabacle. He could have touted bilateral trade deals with them when the debacle was sorted out, he just left her out to dry.
Posted on 9/24/18 at 8:50 am to cajunangelle
RR signed off on that last fraudulent FISA warrant. His days are numbered; that's the reason for that deer-in-the-headlight look that He always sports.
Posted on 9/24/18 at 8:55 am to RCDfan1950
But RCD he said he did not even read it, he cant read everything he signs. HMMMMM you are signing a warrant to spy on the president of the United States, you are the top law enforcement officer in the free world....and you did not read it. Okie Dokie, that ll stand up in court.
Posted on 9/24/18 at 8:57 am to cajunangelle
Well he’s a smarmy jew, so...
Posted on 9/24/18 at 8:58 am to idlewatcher
quote:
Yet clownshoes is still employed. Aren’t there several people in Trump and Sessions ears asking them what the hell is RR still employed?
The Russia probe is the only reason that RR And sessions still have a job. Literally the only reason.
Posted on 9/24/18 at 9:14 am to idlewatcher
quote:
m what the hell is RR still employed?
it's a play by the Neo-Coms to undermine Trump yet again. There were only about 1/2 dozen people in the room, one of them McCabe
McCabe leaks this half-truth out, mostly as a CYA and to create chaos. He figures Trump is going to react and fire RR. The Neo-Coms scream "obstruction!!" and drag this whole charade out another 6 months
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