Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. But amid the pandemic and protests across the U.S., the country’s attention is focused elsewhere
In another time, it would have been the biggest story of the week: a former top Justice Department official testifying to Congress about his role overseeing one of the highest-profile investigations of the century.
“We’ll ask him probing questions about … whether he thinks it’s constructive for us to re-litigate this or not,” Sen. Chris Coons , a Judiciary Committee member, said in an interview. But the former top Justice Department official made decisions throughout the process that angered politicians on both sides of the political aisle. And newly released, highly redacted documents — obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit — indicate that he was more involved than previously known in the department’s controversial roll-out of Mueller’s findings.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said the hearing will zero in on the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act courts. The report found widespread abuses and other missteps, including “significant errors and omissions,” as part of the effort to seek a surveillance warrant for Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
“Cutting through all the Republican hype, any honest objective law enforcement professional would say this investigation under Robert Mueller was well-warranted based on the information available then and now,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal , a Judiciary Committee member, said in an interview.
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