{"id":26311,"date":"2018-07-14T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T16:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=26311"},"modified":"2018-07-14T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T16:11:18","slug":"house-to-impeach-rosenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=26311","title":{"rendered":"House To Impeach Rosenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rod Rosenstein Impeachment Plans Drawn Up: Report<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>House GOP members led by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (NC) have drawn up articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/07\/13\/house-republicans-rod-rosenstein-impeachment-719816\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rosenstein_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101031\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rosenstein_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative sources say they could file the impeachment document\u00a0<strong>as soon as Monday<\/strong>, as Meadows and Freedom Caucus founder Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) look to build Republican support in the House. One source cautioned, however, that the timing was still fluid. &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/07\/13\/house-republicans-rod-rosenstein-impeachment-719816\"><em>Politico<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>GOP legislators\u00a0could also try to hold Rosenstein in contempt of Congress prior to actual impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>The knives have been out for Rosenstein for weeks, as Congressional investigators have repeatedly accused the DOJ\u00a0of &#8220;slow walking&#8221; documents related to their investigations. Frustrated lawmakers have been given the runaround &#8211; while Rosenstein and the rest of the DOJ are hiding behind the argument that the materials requested by various Congressional\u00a0oversight committees\u00a0would potentially compromise ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n<p>In late June, Rosenstein along with FBI Director Christopher Wray clashed with House Republicans during a fiery hearing over an internal DOJ report criticizing the FBI&#8217;s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation by special agents who harbored extreme animus towards Donald Trump while expressing support for Clinton. Republicans on the panel grilled a defiant Rosenstein on the Trump-Russia investigation which has yet to prove any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis country is being hurt by it. We are being divided,\u201d Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)\u00a0said of Mueller\u2019s investigation.\u00a0 \u201cWhatever you got,\u201d Gowdy added, \u201cFinish it the hell up because this country is being torn apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid400987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4uN9uIqNqxg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rosenstein pushed back &#8211; dodging responsibility for decisions made by subordinates while claiming that Mueller was moving &#8220;as expeditiously as possible,&#8221; and\u00a0insisting that he was &#8220;not trying to hide anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not in contempt of this Congress, and we are not going to be in contempt of this Congress,\u201d Rosenstein told lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>approved a resolution on the House floor demanding that the DOJ turn over thousands of requested documents by July 6<\/strong>. And while the DOJ did provide Congressional investigators with access to a trove of documents, House GOP said\u00a0<strong>the document delivery was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/07\/06\/doj-fbi-still-not-in-full-compliance-with-document-request-sources.html\">incomplete<\/a><\/strong>, according to\u00a0<em>Fox News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t impress Congressional GOP.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>For over eight months, they have had the opportunity to choose transparency. But they\u2019ve instead chosen to withhold information<\/strong>\u00a0and impede any effort of Congress to conduct oversight,\u201d said Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a sponsor of Thursday\u2019s House resolution who raised the possibility of impeachment this week. \u201c<strong>If Rod Rosenstein and the Department of Justice have nothing to hide, they certainly haven\u2019t acted like it.<\/strong>\u201d &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/28\/us\/politics\/house-republicans-rod-rosenstein-russia.html\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0(6\/28\/18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep. Meadows, meanwhile, fully admits that the document requests are related to efforts to quash the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, when we get these documents,\u00a0<strong>we believe that it will do away with this whole fiasco of what they call the Russian Trump collusion because there wasn\u2019t any<\/strong>,\u201d Meadows\u00a0said on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, following a long day of grilling FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte blamed Rosenstein for hindering Strzok&#8217;s ability to reveal the details of his work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRosenstein, who has oversight over the FBI and of the Mueller investigation is where the buck stops,\u201d he said. \u201cCongress has been blocked today from conducting its constitutional oversight duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Rosenstein&#8217;s appears to be close to\u00a0the chopping block,\u00a0whether or not he will actually be impeached is an entirely different matter.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-14\/rod-rosenstein-impeachment-plans-drawn-report\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-14\/rod-rosenstein-impeachment-plans-drawn-report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Rosenstein Impeachment Plans Drawn Up: Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}