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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings.  He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo.  He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input.  So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9.  After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585[/quote]

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation.  That was indeed fake news. 
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Careful parsing of words.  He's a political weasel trying to walk the tightrope until Sessions is forced to resign to spend more time with his burning cross, hood and robe.[/quote]
Just stop.  Rosenstein made it clear.  There was no parsing of words.
And as for the rest of your comment - go do some damn research.   You are revealing yourself as totally ignorant.  [/quote]
This is what he said.  To me, it's not a clear denial nor is it particularly damning of the Administration:
[quote]Finally, I want to address the media claims that the FBI asked for additional resources for the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. I am not aware of any such request. Moreover, I consulted my staff and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and none of them recalls such a request.[/quote]
https://lawfareblog.com/dag-rosensteins-statement-house-representatives-fbi-director-comeys-dismissal

These kinds of statements mean that they are not prepared to categorically refute something, but they have done a preliminary investigation and found no evidence to support it either.  TBH, people are blaming the media and the unnamed sources for all of the scandal in the news, but if you ask me this is happening after 4 mos of a completely unreliable WH...not to mention likely a few Comey loyalists who have it in for the POTUS.

While I find the fact that it would seem IC and/or Federal LEO are intentionally sabotaging a POTUS (albeit one I think is terrible) to be quite frightening, I also think you need to look at the bigger picture here.  There is very little happening right now that isn't the President's own making.  Asking Comey to resign would have been the normal way to get him out of the FBI without creating a media frenzy.  Not doubling-down on speculation by citing the ongoing investigation into Russia during a televised interview with a reporter would have been a way to quell the media frenzy you created.  Not continuing to contact your disgraced ex-NSA Director after you asked him to resign would have been a way to let a news cycle run its course.  All of these are things that Trump irrefutably did...and it's why people think he's behaving a like a guilty person, regardless of whether he is.  IMHO, if he were anyone else acting this way, I would assume for sure they were guilty.  With Trump the possibility that he's a lunatic or just an idiot (or both) are both, to my mind, equally likely possibilities.[/quote]

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