QuoteFormer Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said it was his call to release hundreds of politically charged text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to the media, according to a Friday court filing by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In his declaration, Rosenstein explained he did not see any legitimate reason to withhold the text messages because they were sent on government phones and subject to FBI review. He also said they were being sought by the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate, for oversight reasons.
"I learned that the text messages were ready for release to the Senate and House committees that had requested them, there was no basis to withhold them, and they were arguably relevant to the Judiciary Committee's oversight hearings," he wrote, according to the DOJ filing.
"[The texts] were sent on government phones with the knowledge that they were subject to review by FBI; [and] were so inappropriate and intertwined with their FBI work that they raised concerns about political bias influencing official duties," Rosenstein said. Rosenstein said he released the text messages in their entirety on Dec. 12, 2017, to avoid selective leaking by federal lawmakers, who were set to receive the texts the next day.https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rosenstein-strzok-page-russia-texts

Wow, I don't know what to think of Rosenstein but this kind of shows he wasn't in the bag with anyone. Kind of independent But lord he did enough other crap I wont give him a pass yet!!

https://bombardsbodylanguage.com/2020/06/04/body-language-rod-rosenstein-testimony-on-corrupt-russia-investigation/

little weasel.

Wait! You mean he eventually got around to reading some of the stuff he was rubberstamping!

Quote from: mdgiles on June 05, 2020, 07:32:55 AM
Wait! You mean he eventually got around to reading some of the stuff he was rubberstamping!

Yeah, too convenient! A mans family, business and political career as the next POTUS is on the line, and this guy casually reads over serious complaints as if it's just another bureaucratic day?
I'm not buying it either.

Quote from: mdgiles on June 05, 2020, 07:32:55 AM
Wait! You mean he eventually got around to reading some of the stuff he was rubberstamping!

What did he rubberstamp?  Why would Carter Page's FISA be any different than the thousands of other apps they execute?

Quote from: redbeard on January 18, 2020, 03:47:17 PM
Wow, I don't know what to think of Rosenstein but this kind of shows he wasn't in the bag with anyone. Kind of independent But lord he did enough other crap I wont give him a pass yet!!

The more information I get about Rosenstein, the more pissed I get at how people are trying to tear down this man.

Then again, you haven't really followed any of this.  You just parrot Hannity.

I'm on the fence with Rosenstein but after watching that hearing Wednesday and with this Friday dump I'm starting to climb down on the Rosenstein side and here is why.

I waited all day to see if anyone in the senate would ask him if he wore a wire to try and get Trump on the 25th Amendment. Once that didn't happen I started to climb down the fence.

Also, He knows what happened and in order for him to bring a lot of players out of the shadows something major had to happen. It did, in the form of the Mueller report. Like it or not the Mueller report brought forth the Horowitz report which lead us to Durham doing a criminal  investigation.

IMO...without that Mueller report everything would have been gossip about the deep state. That Mueller report went from a screen script to a full Hollywood production. Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum have to be saying............ damn it why did we think of this.

Quote from: Bronx on June 05, 2020, 10:14:32 AM
I'm on the fence with Rosenstein but after watching that hearing Wednesday and with this Friday dump I'm starting to climb down on the Rosenstein side and here is why.

I waited all day to see if anyone in the senate would ask him if he wore a wire to try and get Trump on the 25th Amendment. Once that didn't happen I started to climb down the fence.

Also, He knows what happened and in order for him to bring a lot of players out of the shadows something major had to happen. It did, in the form of the Mueller report. Like it or not the Mueller report brought forth the Horowitz report which lead us to Durham doing a criminal  investigation.

IMO...without that Mueller report everything would have been gossip about the deep state. That Mueller report went from a screen script to a full Hollywood production. Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum have to be saying............ damn it why did we think of this.

I'm with you on this.  I think a lot of these guys really don't take into account the context of what the situation was in May of 2017.  He came into an impossible situation with the FBI straight up lying to him.  If Rosenstein hadn't done what he did, Trump would have been not only impeached, but thrown out of office.  This was also in early on in the administration, so Trump also hadn't had time to build up a bigger following like he has now, cemented with his actions in office.

The more I take in about Rosenstein, the more I get that he's a good guy that's being shit on by the Fox News-led hyenas on "our side".

I'm in the middle of reading this and also hits on your "wear a wire" point: https://uncoverdc.com/2020/06/05/rosenstein-and-mccabe-spar-before-a-biased-referee/

I was about to watch this video with Sarge because Jeff Carlson recommended it (I haven't watched it yet but will probably tonight):

https://twitter.com/themarketswork/status/1268615669546811392

EXCELLENT thread by Shipwreckedcrew:

https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1268952344063954944

Wow. Here's one I can't believe I missed (from SWC's article):

QuoteBut let us move the ball down the field a bit and look at what it is precisely that Andy McCabe has said in Wittes' "substantial evidentiary record."

Regarding the 25th Amendment, McCabe refers to Rosenstein as repeatedly referencing "other Cabinet officials".

That's odd phrasing given that Rosenstein was not himself a "Cabinet official".  Rosenstein was Deputy Attorney General, not the Attorney General.

Quote from: taxed on June 05, 2020, 10:56:12 AM
Wow. Here's one I can't believe I missed (from SWC's article):

After Trump Towers were bugged and when Trump moved into the White he had to exterminate the White House from bugs. Do people really think Trump was going to let someone walk into the Oval Office bugged.

Roger Stone has a different take.

Rod Rosenstein Testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary committee that he did NOT  authorize the Mueller investigation into Roger Stone when in fact he signed the second scope memo doing exactly that on October 20, 2017 ,three months AFTER Mueller already knew there was no Russian collusion. This proves that Muller's investigation and indictment of Stone was a malicious political prosecution they had nothing whatsoever to do with Russian collusion.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/exclusive-roger-stone-speaks-rod-rosenstein-lied-congress-exact-crime-stone-falsely-convicted/

Quote from: Bronx on June 05, 2020, 01:21:22 PM
After Trump Towers were bugged and when Trump moved into the White he had to exterminate the White House from bugs. Do people really think Trump was going to let someone walk into the Oval Office bugged.

Absolutely....