BREAKING NEWS!
NATION’S TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITIES HUMILIATED IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
All DOJ and 37,000 FBI personnel impugned!
Larry and Curly appear, but where’s Moe? (Does Jeff Sessions Really Believe in These Two?)
Perhaps we exaggerate…but maybe not. If you watched all or a substantial part of the House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, you undoubtedly have an opinion.
Quite seriously though, if you saw the testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein you may have been struck by the utterly poor representatives of their respective organizations these two are.
The recently appointed FBI Director Wray comes off as a clueless bureaucrat who thinks that if he offers a pro forma praise of his bureau and asserts his firm commitment to not ever again allow such bungling of its responsibilities as recently occurred, it’s all good.
His rambling, incoherent remarks in the hearing were no more enlightening than his recent comments following release of the DOJ IG report. From what we heard from Mr. Wray added nothing to current knowledge regarding his agency’s disgraceful handling of major criminal and national security matters.
Rod Rosenstein, however, was an artistic success.
Playing the role of a smug, arrogant twerp, Rosenstein turned in an Academy Award performance.
It turns out, according to his own responses to congressional questions, that Rosenstein really knows almost nothing about what his people do in the Justice Department and is adamant in his assertion that he is not responsible for any actual, or appearance of, incompetence or wrongdoing by anyone within his nominal area of responsibility.
We won’t attempt to give all the examples which led us to this conclusion but one that stood out to us was his response to the extent of his responsiblity for the “alleged” stonewalling and
extensive redactions of information when it is produced.
Essentially “Rod” noted that he doesn’t do redactions. Having to painfully explain how DOJ ‘processes’ work, the Deputy AG informed the committee that his underlings do the redactions. So, while he seems to have no grasp of why they are made or by whom, he’s pretty satisfied that great work is being done.
Essentially it was the same answer to inquiry as to his role when he signed off on FISA applications and when he wrote the letter to the president recommending Jim Comey’s firing.
As to questions about why he should not have recused himself from any part in the Mueller investigation of “obstruction” since he played a major role in the firing of Comey, Rod was very convincing in persuading Democrats on the committee that he was undoubtedly the best person to handle the whole Mueller probe.
The net effect of all this incompetence, arrogance, duplicity, and defiance of congressional oversight is the impugning of all of the “dedicated, hardworking, ‘above reproach'” employees of the the DOJ and the FBI. Under the leadership of these two and their most recent predecessors, what competent, dedicated to true justice, individual would tolerate working for such government entities as these?
In our opinion, if you are an idealistic, highly-qualified, true to the rule of law American, why would you work even one full day under the leadership of the likes of Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, et al.
It seems apparent, only people like Sally Yates, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page…and, what, 36,000 other agents and other FBI personnel would.
If so, it should scare the hell out of every American.
We believe, however, and fondly hope that is not the case…but unless they and those millions of American citizens who do still cherish the dream and the reality of the United States of America let their voices be heard, this is the kind of corrupt police state in our future.
As they say…You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”. DLH
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(Here’s POWERLINE’s Take on the redactions:
By Scott Johanson ROD ROSENSTEIN: IT AIN’T ME, BABE
In the House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, 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.
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.
Related reading: House Gives Rosenstein One Week To Hand Over Subpoenaed FBI Documents
