To Rosenstein, it was pretty clear that the FBI leadership thought a group of Russian sympathizers had taken over the United States government. Rosenstein should have been told about the memos. The FBI clearly didn’t trust the Justice Department, or him. He thought the bureau was operating like J. Edgar Hoover—a power unto itself. “I don’t understand why The New York Times has these,” he said to McCabe, “and I don’t have them, and my prosecutors don’t have them.” Outraged, Rosenstein sent one of his deputies to the FBI to get copies of the Comey memos. He felt sandbagged. This was clearly bad
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