Sets forth articles impeaching Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General of the United States,
stating that Rosenstein:
1. Engaged in a pattern of conduct incompatible with the trust and confidence placed in him
in that position by refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the House Committee
on the Judiciary on March 22, 2018 in connection to the congressional investigation
seeking documents and information related to potential abuses of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act;
2. Failed to enforce multiple laws; including improper authorization of searches and
electronic surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and
Executive Order 12333 on Intelligence;
3. Failed to act on the behalf of the Attorney General by properly supervising the
administration of FISA by failing to demonstrate probable cause to believe that targets of
surveillance were a foreign power or agents of a foreign power, that a significant purpose
of the surveillance was to obtain foreign intelligence information, and that appropriate
minimization procedures were in place;
4. Failed his oath of office by refusing to discipline or recommend the removal of DOJ
personnel after obtaining evidence of disqualifying conflicts of interest demonstrated
throughout the course of the ongoing investigation regarding charging decisions in the
investigation surrounding former Secretary Clinton’s private email server in 2016;
5. Knowingly provided misleading statements related to his supervision of the initial
Department of Justice investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged contacts with
Russia when he testified under oath before Congress on December 13, 2017 that any
involvement FBI attorney Bruce Ohr had in the Russian investigation was without his
knowledge;
6. Failed to recuse himself from supervising the Department of Justice’s response to the
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on
the Judiciary’s joint congressional investigation seeking documents related to potential
abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when his fairness or objectivity could
reasonably be questioned after he had supervised the application process for the
potentially improper FISA warrants at issue in the investigation;
7. Knowingly and intentionally prevented the production of documents and information to
the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee
in an effort to delay and impede the congressional investigation into potential abuses of
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; and
8. Knowingly and intentionally prevented the production of all documents and information
dated between December 2016-May 2017 in an effort to delay and impede the production
of information referring and relating to the FBI and broader Department of Justice’s
initial investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged contacts with Russia.