WASHINGTON: The dramatic sacking of the FBI director has left a bespectacled 52-year-old most Americans have never heard of holding the credibility of the US justice system—and possibly even its democracy—in his hands.

Rod Rosenstein, a man more used to beavering away in obscurity over case law, has been thrust into the middle of one of the biggest US political upheavals in years by a three-page brief he wrote for President Donald Trump.

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