( CNN) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein quipped about congressional demands and critics of the Justice Department in a speech Thursday in Chicago that delivered a passive admonition to his detractors in Washington.
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Recalling the words of former Attorney General Edward Levi, who served in Gerald's Ford administration and “devoted his tenure to building public confidence in law enforcement, ” Rosenstein deviated from his prepared remarks: “Levi, incidentally, also served less than two years. Merely saying.”
