Even though it was correct that Comey acted improperly toward Clinton, Rosenstein knew Trump was looking for a pretense to fire Comey.

support the (mis)administration's stance on immigration and other crap developments in the Justice Dept.. While he may draw the line at Russian collusion and outright criminal activity, I agree the memo was craven, and I think his extremist political views and partisan history mandate a watchful eye, even as I'm hopeful regarding the Mueller investigation and his role in it. (Hopeful, but wary.)

Here's something about the shared history of Wray, Rosenstein and Kavanaugh:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/01/kavanaugh-fbi-wray-rosenstein-220810

"...But there is another reason we cannot expect Wray and Rosenstein to buck White House direction of the investigation. To them, Kavanaugh is not merely the target of an FBI investigation. Kavanaugh is a longtime colleague, political ally and perhaps even friend. The three men have known each other for decades, working closely on the shared mission of advancing conservative judicial and policy goals. We simply cannot expect Wray and Rosenstein to block the advancement of their fellow conservative and longtime colleague to the highest court in the land.

Thirty years ago, Wray was two years behind Kavanaugh at Yale College, and followed him to Yale Law School. Famously small and insular, Yale Law School’s reputation is largely liberal but it has an intense, dedicated cadre of conservative professors and students. This conservative group has played an outsized role in conservative judicial circles, as the cradle for the influential Federalist Society back in 1982....

...In the George W. Bush administration, Kavanaugh and Wray went on to be political appointees and colleagues. Wray was a senior aide to the deputy attorney general, and Kavanaugh was in the White House Counsel’s office, where he would have worked closely with the Justice Department on nominations and other matters. Wray then became assistant attorney general for criminal, where he would often have intersected with the White House Counsel’s Office.

Rosenstein did not attend Yale Law School—he went to Harvard, alas—but he also joined The Federalist Society there. He served alongside Kavanaugh on Ken Starr’s independent counsel team. Together, they joined to investigate Bill and Hillary Clinton and their aides and business associates in what became a virtual cradle for appointments in the Bush 43 and Trump administrations. Each served President George W. Bush, and each was nominated by him to federal circuit judgeships (Kavanaugh advanced after three years of waiting, but Rosenstein did not and was instead appointed to be United States attorney for Maryland.)

Rosenstein and Wray also served together as senior appointees in the George W. Bush Justice Department, and Wray wrote a letter supporting Rosenstein’s nomination for deputy attorney general in 2017."

As long as they don't stab Mueller or us in the back, I don't really care that they don't get along. Just want Rosenstein to publicly release the report and I'll be happy. Don't trust either of them not to hide the information if Mueller gets fired, which is quite likely.

As it was under J Edgar Hoover.

i agree there are corrupt fbi like the ones from the new york area but i don't think this is about that.