Rod Rosenstein, confirmed late Tuesday as the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, will face immediate scrutiny on a potentially volatile question: how he will run the department’s probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Mr. Rosenstein served on the independent Whitewater investigation that led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, and was assigned by the Obama administration to help lead a leak...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 26, 2017 09:22 UTC