Given the Department of Justice’s dogged refusal to provide information to the committees with oversight responsibility–and, even worse, its concealing of relevant information through obviously improper redactions–I infer that Rod Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe and others at the DOJ and FBI are covering up a major scandal, perhaps the worst in American history.Meanwhile Scott Johnson writes:
Rep. Jim Jordan grilled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about information improperly withheld or redacted from documents produced to the House in the Trump-Russia collusion investigations. Rosenstein smirked and explained that it’s not his fault. Rosenstein wanted it known that he just supervised the hired hands responsible for the work.One thing is very clear to this lifelong management professor: Rob Rosenstein doesn't understand that as the boss, he is ultimately responsible for whatever his subordinates do or fail to do. The buck stops with him, and I expect Congress will eventually hand him his head.
That might be a reasonable response if Rosenstein could say that he had done anything to prevent it, disciplined the perpetrators or felt any regret. There is serious wrongdoing involved here and Rosenstein is unrepentant. He all but sings Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe” and reprises Freddie Prinze’s comedic catchphrase, “It’s not my job.”
Rosenstein must know that as soon as Mueller ends his investigation, he will be fired in the next 24 hours. Knowing this, Mueller will make it last as long as possible.
