Re Make sure the list of resignations remains updated.
Important. Here are 2 that have recently resigned.
David Laufman, who leads the DOJ’s counterintelligence division, is leaving the DOJ for “personal reasons,” according to The Washington Post.
From a WaPo article, “David’s departure is a great loss for the department,’’ said Mary McCord, a former acting head of the National Security Division who resigned in May. “He has the integrity and attention to detail that is critical to investigating and prosecuting the types of sensitive matters handled by the department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.”
The Clinton and Russia probes have fueled political rancor. But “David never expressed any hint of partisanship in the management of his investigations,’’ said McCord, who is now a senior litigator at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.”
I was digging a little more on this Mary McCord since she also resigned. Check this little tidbit out, “She credits her husband, Sheldon “Shelly” Snook, with carrying the load. He’s also a lawyer and a former longtime administrative assistant for the U.S. District Court. He is now special assistant to the counselor for the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
This is interesting as well, “One of McCord’s enduring memories dates to September 2012, when the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia attacked U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in the assault. Then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. immediately assigned the case to her office, and she was on the phone briefing him the weekend after it happened on what investigators had learned in the first three days.”
I would bet $100 she will be implicated in the corruption soon. “It was she, as a career attorney overseeing the high-profile Justice Department probe into potential collusion between associates of President Trump and the Kremlin, who accompanied the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, to the White House to warn the president’s lawyer that the national security adviser was at risk of being blackmailed, according to an individual familiar with the matter.
Yates said she thought “it was important” to bring a career national security professional. After all, McCord “had been the one who was most intimately familiar” with the facts, said Yates, who did not name the attorney in congressional testimony. Nor would McCord in an interview confirm or comment on the visit.”
Here’s a link to the article excerpted above. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/career-attorney-who-oversaw-russia-probe-at-justice-steps-aside—willingly/2017/05/11/ddf6e1c0-3501-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html?utm_term=.5799eb49448b
I was looking into Mary McCord’s connections.
More about McCord, Kenneth Wainstein, the first NSD head, who made McCord his deputy chief in the sex offense and domestic violence section when he was the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said McCord was always “a standout prosecutor.” Of course Kenneth Wainstein is a Never Trumper. So it wouldn’t be shocking if these birds flock together. https://www.nytimes.com/.../national-security-letter...
He signed a letter in August 2016 stating he would not vote for Trump and that he was not fit to be President. He was a George W Bush appointee.
I wonder how many that resign to “spend more time with their family” actually do spend more time with their family?
I guess not many.