understood that they have to follow the department of justice guidelines but it s true there are trap doors in those doj guidelines. that might mean there is a way to indict a sitting president. should the special counsel conclude that the extraordinary circumstances of any particular decision would render compliance inappropriate so the president could inn theory ask deputy attorney general rod rosenstein for a hall pass to ignore that olc memo about not indict ago sitting president and, by the way, that s not the only track door. and on the office of legal