Thread by @verykate44

Rod Rosenstein makes a couple interesting references in his resignation letter

-Robert H Jackson

-Edward Levi

-Thomas Paine

I don’t think these individuals were quoted by happenstance

Robert H Jackson was the Chief US Prosecutor at the Military Tribunal in Nuremberg which was the prosecution of Nazi war criminals

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H.…

Jackson opened the trials with this...

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, bc it cannot survive their being repeated”

https://mobile.twitter.com/Moxi_Mimi/status/1122996638425997312

If ever there was a quote to describe what we are going through in this battle for our country, this is it

We, here in this corner of Twitter, know the evil & corruption #MAGA has been been fighting

Next, Rosenstein quotes Edward Levi

In 1976, in response to the Church Committee’s findings of FBI misconduct, Attorney General Edward Levi issued the first set of Domestic Security Investigation

oig.justice.gov/special/0509/c…

These guidelines placed specific limits on techniques the FBI could use in domestic surveillance, including the use of informants

All these guidelines appear to have been broken under the Obama Admin

#SpyGate

Finally, Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776

He spoke in plain language to common people to urge people to fight for independence

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Se…

Plain language to common Americans

That remind you of anyone else we know?

Most interesting, Paine published Common Sense anonymously

google.com/amp/s/www.hist…

There’s no way for us to know the motives of Rod Rosenstein

But it sure seems like he’s taken a Master Class in Trolling

If I were the #DeepState, I’d be in a full blown panic!

#TheReckoning #SpyGate

Addendum/

Rosenstein also quotes John Ashcroft, Bush 43’s AG, who called for a DOJ-free from politics

More notably, Ashcroft, Comey & Mueller were the main players in the Hospital Showdown of 2004

While Ashcroft was lying in his deathbed, Comey refused to reauthorize a component of Bush’s secret surveillance

The details are here but for simplification the dispute was about collecting metadata w/o a FISA

cato.org/blog/what-come…

The dispute with the Bush White House was so serious that Comey & Mueller threatened to quit

Snowden’s leak revealed the details of the “Hospital Showdown” & this article states that Comey wasn’t willing to do the legal gymnastics necessary to permit the collection of metadata

IMO, you’d have to do an excessive amount of mental gymnastics to dismiss Rosenstein’s quote by Ashcroft as coincidence

Mueller, Comey, FISA’s, electronic surveillance...

These are the issues that led us here

Now AG Barr is quoting AG Robert Jackson in his opening statement to the Senate tomorrow

HT @realhublife
Thanks @gretchenbarton

https://mobile.twitter.com/realhublife/status/1123424573767073792

The appointment of a Special Counsel calls for particular care since it poses the risk of what Attorney General Robert Jackson called

“the most dangerous power of the prosecutor:that he will pick people he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted”

Nope, this is not a coincidence at all