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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
-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.…
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”
“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”
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
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…
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
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…
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?
That remind you of anyone else we know?
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
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
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 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
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
HT @realhublife
Thanks @gretchenbarton
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”
“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
