https://www.wsj.com/articles/rod-ro...rtment-handling-of-mueller-report-11555021002 https://thehill.com/policy/national...-say-barr-misleading-public-on-mueller-report Rosenstein: 'Bizarre' to say Barr misleading public on Mueller report Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defended Attorney General William Barr's summary of the special counsel's report in an interview published Wednesday. “He’s being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he’s trying to mislead people, I think, is just completely bizarre,” Rosenstein told The Wall Street Journal. Barr last month released a four-page synopsis of special counsel Robert Mueller's approximately 400-page report on his investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether the country colluded with the Trump campaign. Barr said investigators did not find that there was collusion and that Mueller's team did not make a decision on whether Trump obstructed justice, but that he and Rosenstein decline to pursue those charges. He has also said he planned to release a redacted version of the report by mid-April. “It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, ‘I’m not going to give you the report,’" Rosenstein told the Journal. “What he said is, ‘Look, it’s going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what’s in it. I’m going to give you the top-line conclusions.’ That’s all he was trying to do.” He added that the public should have “tremendous confidence” in Barr. Democrats have demanded the release of the full report. Barr also faced sharp criticism from Democrats after he suggested Wednesday that there was "spying" on the Trump campaign. He later walked back his remarks, saying that he was merely concerned that there may have been “improper surveillance” and that he was “looking into it.” Rosenstein, who has worked at the Justice Department for almost 30 years, is expected to leave the department soon.
As I will say again. Rosenstein is the very epi-center of the Swamp over on the doj side. He is the ultimate survivor. Barr has been a smart cookie too. As much as people- myself included- wanted to see him shit-can rosenstein on day one, Barr made his future success dependent on putting an honorable frame and wrap-around the mueller thing but also appointed another deputy for confirmation in the meantime. Thus allowing Rosenstein a chance to avoid an McCabe type of departure but getting Rosenstein to defend him before going. REALLY FRIGGING SMART ON HIS PART. WE ARE NOT TALKING JEFF SESSIONS HERE. Now for the bad news for Andy. Rosenstein is a survivor and is smart enough to know that things are far enough along so that there is no closing out of the problems at doj without the obligatory executions, and he knows that if it does that the more who are taken down around him, the greater the chance that it will not involve him- prosecution wise anyway. Rosenstein is the consummate snake. He will participate in the taking down of McCabe. McCabe gonna be criminally charged on perjury at a minimum and his law license is toast.
So, to summarize: Two years of investigation by Mueller and no prosecution and no removal by impeachment. Yup. Can bust down doors over at Roger Stone's house and Mannafort's place but cannot make the big kill.
Idiot Dems always cherry-pick low-end, disgruntled, back-seat driver wannabees and project their thoughts on entire groups of folks. ---What disingenuous miscreants Idiot Dems are!
Not that Barr, several times, reiterates that Rosenstein was part of his decision-making in the key areas regarding how to deal with the Mueller report. This is the same Rosenstein that the lefties obsessed over for months- fearing that Trump was going to fire him or interfere, and that Rosenstein should be left alone to oversee Mueller. So it is not convenient for the lefties now to go after Rosenstein even though he partnered with Barr in dealing with the Mueller report and the decisions about how to summarize it and whether or not to prosecute.