Whether there was any impropriety or political motivation
The DoJ is jumping because Donald said “jump.”
In a statement, the Department of Justice said it would ask the Inspector General “to expand the ongoing review of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] application process to include determining whether there was any impropriety or political motivation in how the FBI conducted its counterintelligence investigation of persons suspected of involvement with the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 presidential election.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein added that “if anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action.”
Or maybe it’s not so much jumping as allowing Trump to make a fool of himself, because there is no infiltration or surveillance to find.
Trump’s impatience, and his people’s ignorance of how to navigate the system, has saved us from the worst of Trump’s abuses. Trump still thinks that the President just has to give an order, and stuff happens instantaneously. Which, in some cases, is true, but in other situations those orders have to go through a process of drafting regulations or conducting an investigation or whatever.
Most likely this is Rosenstein’s way of buying Mueller some time and avoiding an immediate confrontation with Trump. It’s probably the savvy move. But it’s still very sad to see the DoJ acknowledging that it’s going to initiate an investigation because the president sent an angry tweet.
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