RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

pacino wrote:Rosenstein's conclusions are sound and correct. I just don't trust Sessions or Trump and it looks to me and to most sane people like they used Rosenstein's conclusions to hide their real rationale.

Of course. But I was responding to doc's suggestion that Rosenstein was engaging in some Machiavellian plot. That is almost certainly an untrue statement.

I think that promoting public confidence in law enforcement is one of our most important obligations. It’s something that we, as employees of the Justice Department, should be thinking about in everything that we do. The American public is not able to judge our motives. They don’t know what we’re thinking. They can only observe what we say and do and draw inferences from that.

So when information comes to light that gives people reason to be suspicious about the motives of the Justice Department, then you inevitably have the kind of speculation that we’ve had recently. It casts a shadow on all of our work. That is damaging.

I think it is important to recognize that it’s not just damaging to this administration. It’s damaging to the government and the people because our Justice Department has been really a shining light for the entire world, when you think about it. Federal courts and federal law enforcement in the United States are integral to American democracy and the promise of equal justice under the rule of law. If people’s confidence in that is shaken, it’s really damaging to everybody.

JFLNYC wrote:
Guess who said it?

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Rod Rosenstein in 2007.

thephan wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:
Guess who said it?

[Reveal] Spoiler:

Rod Rosenstein in 2007.

Youthful indiscretion. Actually, I am not sure we should be terribly worried about him at all.

drsmooth wrote:reporters ask Pence questions, & he flees

drsmooth wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

pacino wrote:Rosenstein's conclusions are sound and correct. I just don't trust Sessions or Trump and it looks to me and to most sane people like they used Rosenstein's conclusions to hide their real rationale.

Of course. But I was responding to doc's suggestion that Rosenstein was engaging in some Machiavellian plot. That is almost certainly an untrue statement.

I wasn't suggesting that, Blackstone.

I was suggesting that while Rosenstein's 3-pager is probably less than what would normally be composed by an official in this situation for this purpose, the exaggerated urgency of its... 'tone', I guess ... makes it read to an outsider, a non-lawyer, like it was written to achieve a larger purpose.... Of course it wasn't, but it may as well have been

CalvinBall wrote:are we getting trolled?

drsmooth wrote:sight unseen, i want to be intimate with Lavrov's translator