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Deputy Attorney General whose recommendation led to Comey's firing 'threatened to resign'
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly upset that the White House pinned him as the reason for the Comey firing
The Justice Department official whose recommendation has been cast as the main reason why President Donald Trump decided to fire FBI director James Comey, reportedly threatened to resign.
According to one report, Mr Trump had long questioned Mr Comey’s loyalty and judgment, and was unhappy by what he viewed as the director’s lack of action on leaks from within the federal government. Mr Trump officially decided to dismiss Mr Comey based on comments from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to documents released by the White House.
In a memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Mr Rosenstein said he could not defend Mr Comey’s “refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken” in the way he handled an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.
But the Washington Post said Mr Rosenstein was deeply upset about taking the blame for the president's decision and threatened to quit. ABC News also reported that Mr Rosenstein was on the verge of resigning, upset that the White House had pinned him as the reason for the Comey firing.
On Capitol Hill, Vice President Mike Pence said that when Mr Rosenstein “brought the recommendation to the president that the director of the FBI should be removed, President Trump provided the kind of strong and decisive leadership the American people have become to be accustomed from him”.
FBI confirms activity in Annapolis
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations were in Annapolis Thursday to investigate an organization with offices in the vicinity of Main Street, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed.
Media reports on Twitter linked the site of the activity to the address of a Republican fundraising and consulting firm. FBI officials wouldn't confirm whether their investigation was linked to the organization.
FBI spokeswoman Lindsay Ram said the investigation is being conducted through the bureau's Washington field office, which has jurisdiction in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia. She said agents from the office sometimes cross over into other jurisdictions when the entity they are investigating has offices in multiple locations.
ACLU Takes Legal Action Over Trump Election Commission Executive Order
The American Civil Liberties Union took legal action today related to President Trump’s new executive order establishing a “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.” The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act “FOIA” request seeking information that the Trump administration is using as the basis for its voter fraud claims. The commission vice chair is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, whom the American Civil Liberties Union has successfully sued numerous times over voter suppression policies.
Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, had this reaction to the executive order:
“President Trump is attempting to spread his own fake news about election integrity. Such claims have been widely debunked, but he is still trying to push his false reality on the American public. It is telling that the president’s choice to co-lead the commission is none other than Kris Kobach, one of the worst offenders of voter suppression in the nation today. If the Trump administration really cares about election integrity, it will divulge its supposed evidence before embarking on this commission boondoggle.”
Garth wrote:Grumpy David wrote:Anyone got a decent summary article about Trump and Russia? It's a story that seems to not go away and gets worse, but I don't know where to begin to catch up with what's going on.
This briefly covers most of the major events:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38966846
This goes into more detail and includes Trump's known personal history with the Russians:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... l-timeline
Connections between the Trump team and Russia:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics ... 6bd24c9780
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017 ... nnections/
The goings on over the past few days with the firing of the FBI Director etc:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... i-treasury
Plus of course, there's the damning dossier from the former MI6 spy who specialised in Russia throughout his career (after this went public, there was an alarming number of deaths of Russian diplomats):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tr ... ia_dossier
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/24/europe/dead-russians/
And now today we're getting news of an FBI raid at a Republican fund-raising company!
twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/862799949196656640
twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/862804764278616065
twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/862809180993757184
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