Newly
released emails by the Department of Justice (DOJ) reveal details about the
internal response by the agency to allegations that then-Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein had wanted to wiretap President Donald
Trump and invoke the 25th Amendment against him.
Between May 8 and May 17, 2016, Rosenstein met with then-acting
FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other senior Justice Department FBI
officials and discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove
President Trump and whether Rosenstein and others should wear a wire to
secretly record conversations with the President.
Judicial Watch sued the Department of Justice for records of communications
of former Attorneys General Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Dana Boente and
Jeff Sessions; Deputy Attorneys General Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod
Rosenstein.
The
Justice Department disclosed that it may soon provide Judicial Watch with
additional, previously withheld material from the heavily redacted August 2
memorandum in which Rod Rosenstein granted broad authority to Special
Counsel Robert Mueller.
