Finally! Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to be Impeached

After exhausting House procedures to compel Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein to produce documents pertaining to the Mueller hearings, a group of House conservatives has confirmed that they are preparing to file charges of impeachment against the Deputy AG. The group’s spokesman said that impeachment was their only option because of Rosenstein’s lack of cooperation with their attempts to investigate reported political bias in the FBI.

House Freedom Caucus founder Jim Jordan (Rep-OH), Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows, and their conservative colleagues have spoken out against Rosenstein for months over his refusal to release to Congress documents related to allegations of bias within the FBI.

Former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova and frequent guest commentator on Fox News said that Rosenstein has “disqualified” himself from continued service with the Department of Justice.”

diGenova said that Rosenstein created the “original sin: an investigation of no crime” and President Trump is right to call such a “witch hunt.” He added that Rosenstein is ‘resisting Congress because he created the original sin: an investigation of no crime,” diGenova slammed Rosenstein as an “unaccountable bureaucrat.”

Key members in the House contend that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein has been “slow-walking” or hindering the House’s oversight of the FBI and DOJ.

Republican leaders in the House including Representative Bob Goodlatte, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, and Representative Trey Gowdy have publicly chastised the DOJ and FBI for “not responding in an effective and timely manner with Congress’ need for information on the Clinton email server investigation and on the circumstances surrounding the so-called Trump campaign and Russian collusion investigation.”

Though impeachment is impending for Rosenstein, there are some powerful voices on the Republican conservative side of the aisle who aren’t sold that impeachment is the best course of action.

House GOP leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy are clearly uncomfortable with the idea of impeachment. But that doesn’t mean that Rosenstein is out of the woods yet. Gowdy has been relentless in his attacks on FBI and DOJ officials and he shows no signs of letting up. Ryan supported a measure last month that condemned Rosenstein’s lack of response to Congress’s requests and demanded the release of thousands of FBI documents by July 6.

July 6 has come and gone and the documents continue to reach Congress in a trickle.

Complicating matters for impeachment was the news last week that Rosenstein had announced charges against 12 Russian intelligence officials for hacking the Democratic National Committee office. Though the indictments are welcomed, many Republicans are questioning the timing of their release.

Democrats have been casting the GOP-led probe of the FBI an attempt to distract from Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

While announcing the indictment of the Russian intelligence officials Friday, Rosenstein took advantage of the positive news and warned lawmakers and the press not to draw any conclusions about Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation.

“We follow the rule of law,” said Rosenstein, “which means that we follow procedures, and we reserve judgment. We complete our investigations, and we evaluate all of the relevant evidence before we reach any conclusion.”

But conservatives like political analyst Gerard Lameiro warns his fellow Republicans not to be fooled by the Deputy AG’s words. He believes that impeachment has taken too long, leaving Rod Rosenstein to think he can ignore Congress. He says that Republicans need to act now.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Rep – VA) has made it plain among his colleagues that the days of letting Rosenstein delay Congress will not be allowed to continue. After a daylong hearing last Thursday of Peter Strzok, the FBI counterintelligence agent whom Republicans have accused of bias in the Russia probe, Goodlatte blamed Rosenstein for limiting Strzok’s ability to reveal details of his work.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the conservative House Freedom Caucus leader bluntly told Rosenstein in a House committee meeting recently, “Mr. Rosenstein, we have caught you hiding information from Congress.” He made it plain that such will not be excused.

Lameiro notes that the House has the responsibility for oversight of Executive agencies. He said, “I think it likely that Rosenstein will be impeached rather than comply with the House subpoena requests.”

Now we can only hope that the fiasco that began with Attorney General Jeff Session recusing himself and appointing Rosenstein who then gave Mueller a free pass to go after the President – is FINALLY approaching the end.

~ American Liberty Report


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