After reading Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's memo urging President Trump to fire FBI Director James Comey three times, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she's starting to smell a rat. In a statement released Thursday, Feinstein suggested that Rosenstein's "legal expertise and 27-year Justice Department career" doesn't match up with the letter, which fails to provide a "detailed and comprehensive rationale":
But instead of a document that provides meaningful analysis, the memo reads like a political document. It includes quotes from op-eds and television appearances that are as old as six months. It doesn't include any contemporary insights from inside the FBI. The memo appears to have been hastily assembled to justify a preordained outcome. [Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)]
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