Rod Rosenstein will leave a contentious and consequential legacy
by Chris Megerian and Del Quentin Wilber, Los Angeles Times
Feb 20, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON - After President Donald Trump picked Rod Rosenstein two years ago for the second highest job at the Justice Department, his daughter asked if his picture would appear in the newspaper.
"I said, 'No,'" Rosenstein recalled recently. "I told her, 'The deputy attorney general is a low-profile job. Nobody knows the deputy attorney general.'"
Instead, Rosenstein's role overseeing the Russia investigation made him a household name, the target of political attacks and a key figure in a counterintelligence and criminal investigation that has ensnared some of Trump's top former aides.
Now his tenure is coming to an end. The White House announced late Tuesday that
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