Nothing, it may be said, became Rod Rosenstein’s career at the Department of Justice so little as his manner of leaving it—that is to say, in his resignation letter, Rosenstein abandoned the last shred of the professional decency and honor that he had fitfully displayed during his two years as deputy attorney general under Donald…
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Rod Rosenstein probably didn’t sign up for this. But what did he sign up for?
The New York Times has a long article, ”‘Shaken” Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing’”, by Michael Schmidt and Adam Goldman, that leaves me a little, you know, shaken but not stirred. Because what is the deal with Rod Rosenstein? Two weeks after being sworn in as deputy attorney general, Rosenstein writes…
Shorter Rod Rosenstein: “I’ve always been a pr*ck!”
That’s what 100 senators learned at a special, closed, “classified”1 hearing from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last Thursday. The House held a similar hearing on Friday. From what was leaked, it seems that “R-Rod” couldn’t stop talking about what a shit he is. In fact, we now have Rosenstein’s statement from the Friday meeting,…
Of course, when that happened during the Obama Administration, he threw them in jail
“Some brave patriots in intelligence and law enforcement and elsewhere in the federal government have taken risks to get the facts out.” Thus quoth WashPost columnist Dana Milbank, celebrating the appointment of Robert Mueller as special prosecutor for l’affaire Russe. As Dana sums things up, a little too generously, “With the stroke of a pen,…
Rod Rosenstein, a shande fur di goyim
As I’ve already noted, the New York Times has called upon Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to save “us” and himself by somehow leveraging his “sterling reputation” to make the Trump Administration’s ax murder/defenestration of now former FBI Director James Comey not look like the gaping wound in the body politic that it so obviously…
Dear New York Times: Rod Rosenstein will not save us
The New York Times writes a dreadfully earnest “open” letter1 to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein beseeching him, “[a]t this fraught moment”, in light of his “sterling reputation”—“including a 27-year career in the Justice Department under five administrations, and the distinction of being the longest-serving United States attorney in history”—yada, yada, yada to basically “save…