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Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein Supervises Mueller Probe But He's Also A Witness

As the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference intensifies, legal experts and Justice Department veterans puzzle over why the deputy attorney general is overseeing the probe.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference October 17, 2017, at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C.

To the many mysteries swirling around the investigation of Russian election interference and the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey, add this one: why Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein continues to supervise the investigation.

Rosenstein is the Justice Department official who pulled the trigger and named special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the probe in May, only

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