Epstein Secrets

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3, Re, 27.59M) reports a newly released two-page memo "written by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe outlined how former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein proposed wearing a wire in the White House 'to collect additional evidence on the president's true intentions,' and thought the scheme was plausible

fter a transparency lawsuit by Judicial Watch, provided the strongest documentary evidence to date to undercut previous claims by DOJ officials that Rosenstein was joking when he apparently made the suggestion." McCabe 'said in the partially redacted memo that Rosenstein offered to wear a recording device

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m, according to sources both near the investigation and the White House, has prepared a case, but it requires the approval of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who-with the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions from the Russia-related investigation- oversees the Mueller team. He would need to set aside

ding that the former opinion was inaccurate re the president being above the law. therby creating an inability to indict a sitting president. Indeed, Rosenstein, as recently as April, publicly declared that the President was not a target. This may have been a form of fig leaf to soothe a President who regular