Senior Justice Department official rejects GOP complaints about Russia investigation
by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2017
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into whether President Donald Trump's team assisted Russian meddling in last year's campaign, pushed back strongly Wednesday against Republican accusations that the probe is infected with partisan bias and steadfastly defended special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
"The special counsel's investigation is not a witch hunt," Rosenstein told a heated House Judiciary Committee hearing, specifically rejecting the phrase that Trump has used to denounce the case. He said
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