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More I think about the NYT story, the more the takeaway for me is the tension between DOJ & FBI in that period, with a worrried and angry FBI taking a dramatic step that would make their investigation unkillable.
The story doesn’t say this explicitly, but it seems the FBI expanded the investigation into POTUS himself without approval from Rosenstein. Wow. That is, shall we say, suboptimal. In their defense, they would’ve had real questions about Rod after he wrote the Comey memo.
So if you’re the FBI and you’re worried your investigation is about to get squashed, what do you to to make that impossible? Up the ante and formally expand it into Trump himself. Tie DOJ’s hands.
Not to say the facts didn’t justify it (they clearly did), but the FBI doing it on their own is bureaucratic hardball. And it worked. A few days later Rosenstein appoints Mueller and the probe is now basically impossible to kill. A good result from an unprecedented 8 days at DOJ.
