Good television, but not much else

Remember when Mark Zuckerberg went before the congressional committee to answer questions about Facebook and other computer related topics and it became painfully clear that most of those with the sternest questions misused terms, showed they knew little of the topic at hand, and, in order to sound  informed rather than their biggest high tech accomplishment being stopping the 12:00 from blinking on their VCR, had to read questions off papers to sound informed?

Well, they did that again this week when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein sat before them to answer questions about the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails, but got very few about that.

After having opened his committee to investigate the events that took place at our embassy in Benghazi by saying,

“I remain hopeful there are still things left in our country that can transcend politics. I remain convinced our fellow citizens deserve all of the facts of what happened before, during, and after the attacks in Benghazi and they deserve an investigative process worthy of the memory of those who died and worthy of the trust of our fellow citizens”

and then spending two years and $17 million on the hearings only to come up empty handed, when it came to the Mueller investigation, Trey Gowdy told Rosenstein,

“We’ve seen the bias, we need to see the evidence. If you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. If you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people.”

He seems to have forgotten

  • George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
  • Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
  • Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide, was indicted on similar charges to Manafort, and agreed to a plea deal with Mueller’s team for one false statements charge and one conspiracy charge
  • Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chair, indicted for conspiracy, money laundering, and false statements
  • 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies were indicted on conspiracy charges, and, in some cases, identity theft related to a Russian propaganda effort designed to interfere with the 2016 campaign.
  • Richard Pinedo pleaded guilty to an identity theft charge in connection with the Russian indictments, and has agreed to cooperate with Mueller.
  • Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Rick Gates.
  • Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate of Manafort and Gates was charged alongside Manafort with attempting to obstruct justice by tampering with witnesses.

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Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who likes to be seen without a jacket because just a shirt and tie screams,“I am tough and I mean business,” made a series of accusations impugning Rosenstein’s integrity even when the basis of his attacks were not grounded in the real world.

Of course, he didn’t let Rosenstein respond to his accusations.

It made for some interesting and entertaining television, and showed how just wearing a shirt and tie did mean he was tough and meant business, but it accomplished nothing. Rather, it made him look somewhat uninformed as he had to be reminded by Rosenstein that in spite of Jordan’s claim that the Assistant AG had refused to comply with a congressional request to subpoena phone calls, the AAG had to point out that you cannot subpoena phone calls,

He based certain accusations, not on official reports or documents, but only on what he had read in the “lying media”.

As Rosenstein had to explain,

 “As with most things in Washington, the real work is not done on television and it is not all done by me. Trump administration officials are meeting and talking to your staffs every day to accommodate requests and produce relevant information to this committee, other committees and several Senate committees.” 

When accused of being Angry Democrats hell-bent on destroying Trump,

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced.

“I’m not a Democrat, and I’m not angry.”

And Chris Wray, the FBI director, when asked if he was an angry Democrat, responded,

“I do not consider myself an angry Democrat, you can be confident in that.”

 

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