Rod Rosenstein’s Revenge—and What Comes Next
Vanity Fair
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You remember Rod Rosenstein. Way back on May 9, Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, was thrust from bureaucratic obscurity when the White House cited his three-page memo as the basis for the firing of F.B.I. director James Comey …
Late Wednesday afternoon, Rosenstein suddenly announced the appointment of a special prosecutor, former F.B.I. director Robert S. Mueller III, to take charge of the investigation into Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election …
… the Trump-inflicted turmoil inside U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies is also having ramifications in external, more corrosive ways. “What happened with the president and the Russians the other day makes counterterrorism work even more difficult,” says Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent who pursued the 9/11 attackers and now runs an international security firm. “Early on, the Israeli intelligence and military establishment warned the government about sharing intelligence with the White House for fear that Trump would share it with the Russians, and that the Russians will share it with the Iranians. And then we’ve proved them right. What I hear from people around the world, and from people who work for the U.S. overseas, is that the situation is chaotic. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for people in national security and the State Department and the intelligence community to operate …”
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