Posted on 09/23/2017 7:25:45 AM PDT by DrDude
Matthew Whitaker has been appointed Chief of Staff for Jeff Sessions, AG. He will be working with Rod Rosenstein to determine if Muellers investigation is a Witch Hunt. Whitaker worked for CNN.
What will we see from this development? Why did Sessions wait until 9/22/17 to appoint a Chief of Staff?
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Hmmmmmmmm ... could be ...
A very bold statement. Is he going to do anything about it?
Nothing about CNN in his work history here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Whitaker
Republicans talk a lot....and do very little.
If Sessions doesn’t come up with something very soon as far as the corruption and in-your-face law breaking especially in the last administration, I will have to totally agree with Greg Jarrett of FoxNews.........Sessions should resign.
Last night the Alabama crowd was chanting “Lock Her Up” and Trump said, “You’ll have to talk to Jeff Sessions about that.”
It is in the first sentence in the third paragraph of the link provided.
He has appeared on CNN but I haven’t seen any evidence that he ever worked for the network.
Seems a little slow on the uptake in figuring that out.
Was Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as worthless when he was Alabama Attorney General as he appears to be as US Attorney General?
From the article:
Whitaker, a CNN legal commentator, wrote last month that President Donald Trump was “absolutely correct” when he said it was a “violation” for special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump family’s finances.
If I am incorrect that a CNN Legal Commentator is an employee, I apologize.
Maybe, just maybe, Mr. Sessions is ready to outsource for some backbone. Time will tell.
It’s possible Sessions could be using an internal investigative unit inside the DOJ, possibly the OIG or a secret unit, to investigate Clinton, Obama, Comey, etc. The FBI may be out of the loop.
According to the above link he “regularly appears on CNN as a legal commentator”.
I don’t think his appearances on the network qualify as employment per se, but I suppose he must be compensated by CNN for being on panels to discuss legal/political matters. More like an on-call contractor working under an agreement rather than a salaried employee.
Here are what some of the enemies of Jeff Sessions are saying (go to the articles for the specific accomplishments):
Jeff Sessions has done more damage in his first 100 days than his boss
US attorney general Jeff Sessions may not be part of the biggest investigation in the Department of Justice, but as he reaches 100 days in office, there’s little doubt that he’s had an important impact on the American criminal-justice system—potentially for years to come.
Despite the political turmoil of the Trump administration, Sessions has moved to reverse a tide of progressive reform and to fulfill his boss’s law-and-order agenda, a collection of concepts loosely articulated during the 2016 presidential campaign. Sessions’ biggest actions, from undermining federal oversight of police departments to cracking down on undocumented immigrants, have worried a wide array of lawmakers, law-enforcement leaders, advocates and scientists.
“Of all the cabinet members, maybe even the president, he has to this point had the most significant impact as to policy changes,” said Jesselyn McCurdy, the deputy director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Washington Legislative Office told Quartz.
Unlike his boss, Sessions is delivering on what he has promised—sometimes on causes he has championed for decades.
“There’s been a great bipartisan movement by organizations on the ground and members of Congress to reform the federal criminal-justice system, based on successes that have happened in the states, but the leader of opposition to that reform was Jeff Sessions, as a senator from Alabama,” McCurdy said. “These are all things that [Sessions], as a criminal justice reform opponent, had on his radar already.
McCurdy said Sessions was “definitely” living up to the ACLU’s concerns, and in some areas, fulfilling the worst-case scenarios.
Jeff Sessions ushers in 'Trump era' at the Justice Department
In just over two months, Sessions has proved to be a central figure in effectuating Trump's vision for America in tangible ways on immigration, crime, police reform and civil rights.
And while the White House searches for new messaging to frame what Trump has accomplished in the first 100 days in office, Sessions has single-handedly managed to make several significant domestic policy changes -- from pressing pause on implementing police reforms to withdrawing Obama-era protections for transgender students in public schools.
His radical transformation of the Justice Department's role is no accident.
Many of the changes Sessions has made thus far track a familiar principle of federalism: the notion that the federal government's powers are limited and it can't coerce states into action. In other words, the federal government should get out of the states' way.
Sessions' critics worry that he is well on his way to undoing many of the major progressive achievements of his predecessors, often by withdrawing from court cases or previous directives that fail to align with his views. Yet Trump supporters cheered Sessions on during the presidential campaign when he said, "the American people are not happy with their government."
Now that Sessions is the nation's top law enforcement officer, his defenders and critics universally agree: he's been busy fulfilling the President's campaign promises and he's just getting started.
Mueller is ‘Swamp Justice’.
Mueller is effectively creating his own parallel DOJ that is not subject to any higher authority or accountability.
He may or may not have received a appearance fee for commenting at CNN. I see where the article says he was working for them.
I was not digging at you as much as I was pointing out that the wiki article on him shows his work history and his appearance making a comment on CNN is so minor it was not mentioned.
Waiting for the right time to go on the offensive? If so, it will be even better than election day back in November.
An illegal act by Mueller would be blatant evidence of a witch hunt.
Are there any irrefutably illegal acts he has been a part of?
The nature of the FBI raid on Manafort’s house might qualify.
Any provable leak would qualify.
Anything else?
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