30 Mar 2019 12:31 pm
Yes ma'am.Misty » 30 Mar 2019 12:17 pm » wrote: Is that the same Rosenstein who wrote the phony memo about James Comey being fired because of how he handled the Hillary email investigation?
The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that he stood by a memo he wrote which was used to fire the FBI director, James Comey, insisting: “I wrote it. I believe it. I stand by it.”
During a pair of separate briefings with House and Senate lawmakers this week, Rosenstein said that Donald Trump had resolved to fire Comey before he produced the memo.
But in his statement, made public on Friday after he briefed House lawmakers, Rosenstein summarized what he called “longstanding concerns” over Comey’s handling of the agency’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server.
And turning to the day in July when Comey held a press conference about the Clinton emails, Rosenstein said: “I thought the July 5 press conference was profoundly wrong and unfair both to the Department of Justice and secretary Clinton.”
Rosenstein said he had learned about Trump’s intention to fire Comey the day before it happened, and believed it was an appropriate course of action, telling Congress: “Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/19/comey-deeply-uncomfortable-trump-attempts-relationship