The NY Times has broken a story that is likely to result in the firing of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and, thus, put at risk the completion of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump and collusion between the Trump administration and Russia to affect the 2016 election.
The sources of the NY Times story apparently are persons within the Justice Department and/or the FBI among whose number, undoubtedly, are Trump supporters. I submit that those persons have used the NY Times to advance an agenda that includes discrediting and ending the Mueller probe. That inference is supported by recent predictions made on air by rightwing Fox commentators that Rosenstein would soon be in deep trouble.
The leaked information may well be true, that Rosenstein questioned the president's competence, raised the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment and considered recording his conversations with Trump. That does not justify its publication by the Times given the damage it likely will cause an investigation relied upon to expose the grave threat to our democracy and to hold accountable those responsible. Newspaper publishers in the past have distinguished themselves by refraining from printing news obviously harmful to national security. This was another such opportunity which, regrettably, has been lost.
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