Grassley confronts Rosenstein over Flynn: You misled me, Congress and the American people

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Grassley confronts Rosenstein over Flynn: You misled me, Congress and the American people
June 3, 2020 | Tom Tillison

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, facing questions about his handling of the Russia collusion investigation.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, went directly to the questionable circumstance involving President Trump’s former national security advisor Mike Flynn.

The senator pointed to records that showed the FBI wanted to close the investigation on Flynn until fired agent Peter Strzok intervened, that their own notes show “that the FBI may have deliberately set Flynn up to prosecute him, or get him fired,” and that the bureau “had no derogatory information on Flynn” and “no predicate to interview him.”

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Misled = lied 

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Addressing the witness, Grassley accused Rosenstein of withholding the records from Congress and Flynn’s legal team, along with special counsel Robert Mueller, and also accused him of not only misleading him, but the American people.

“In June of 2018, I met with you to discuss the Flynn case and my other oversight requests,” the Republican lawmaker said. “You suggested to me that Congress should be satisfied with the facts contained in the plea agreement. In light of all of the Brady material that has finally been released, it is clear that you were misleading me, Congress and the American people when you suggested we should be satisfied with Flynn’s plea agreement.”

I'm often a devotee at the altar of Hanlon's Razor, but the degree of cluelessness Rosenstein is basically claiming is just not credible. Literally or metaphorically, Rosenstein is basically smirking back, "Prove I knew what was going on!"