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Justice Dept. removes senior career officials from key positions
The Washington Post ^ | January 21, 2025 | Perry Stein, Ellen Nakashima

Posted on 01/21/2025 2:56:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Trump administration has removed or reassigned several top career officials in the Justice Department’s national security and criminal divisions, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.

Two of the people said that at least 15 experienced career staffers across several divisions were removed from their positions and reassigned, a sign that the new president and his aides plan to carry out their promises to dramatically reshape the agency, including to focus more on immigration enforcement.

As a way to skirt legal protections afforded to career staffers, many of the officials were transferred to other positions inside Justice, where they would likely have less influence on the department’s big decisions, the people said. The officials will have to decide whether to stay in their new assignment or leave the agency.

The Justice Department declined to comment.

Trump and his allies have long signaled they would make significant changes in the Justice Department’s national security division, which investigates and prosecutes cases related to terrorism, intelligence and other matters of national security.

Trump and his allies are particularly angry at this section for its role in investigating his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the presidency in 2021.

Among the people being removed from that division is deputy assistant attorney general George Toscas, who has served in the national security division for about two decades, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two people familiar with the matter said he was transferred to a newly created Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement in the associate attorney general’s office.

Toscas was a top counterintelligence attorney who played a key role in deciding to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to retrieve the documents. He served as a deputy...

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...according to multiple people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...

If not for magic "anonymous sources," the Compost would have no sources at all.

1 posted on 01/21/2025 2:56:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If they are protected by civil service, transfer them to Aleutian Islands, Alaska


2 posted on 01/21/2025 2:59:56 PM PST by BigEdLB (Bye-bye Brandon)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can Trump please rename the Atty General’s Office back to Office of Atty General rather than that odious and misleading “Dept. of Justice” which makes it sound like it is an adjudicatory function rather than a prosecutor function?

Please.

Thank you.


3 posted on 01/21/2025 3:00:01 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is Bondi acting AG until she is confirmed?


4 posted on 01/21/2025 3:01:47 PM PST by BigEdLB (Bye-bye Brandon)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“...As a way to skirt legal protections afforded to career staffers, many of the officials were transferred to other positions inside Justice, where they would likely have less influence on the department’s big decisions...”
Interesting logic there, WaPo. No wonder that all you could do in life was get a journalism degree.


5 posted on 01/21/2025 3:04:22 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Among the people being removed from that division is deputy assistant attorney general George Toscas, who has served in the national security division for about two decades, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two people familiar with the matter said he was transferred to a newly created Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement in the associate attorney general’s office.

Toscas was a top counterintelligence attorney who played a key role in deciding to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to retrieve the documents. He served as a deputy...


Hey, Tosca, how’s that taste?


6 posted on 01/21/2025 3:05:55 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Kind of like Ex Lax. Get rid of all the chitty operatives.


7 posted on 01/21/2025 3:07:02 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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> If they are protected by civil service, transfer them to Aleutian Islands, Alaska <

Either that or transfer them to the landscaping crew. Somebody gotta mow those laws.


8 posted on 01/21/2025 3:08:40 PM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are corrupt as h*** and need to run off by any means available.


9 posted on 01/21/2025 3:09:47 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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Among the people being removed from that division is deputy assistant attorney general George Toscas

He was also involved with the Russian collusion hoax. Looks like the DOJ will let him retire while serving in a useless job category..

10 posted on 01/21/2025 3:10:11 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: BigEdLB

Port Barrow is lovely this time of year, I hear.


11 posted on 01/21/2025 3:13:23 PM PST by BipolarBob (Trumps first EO bans Chinese Checkers.)
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To: Jim W N
Can Trump please rename the Atty General’s Office back to Office of Atty General

Please.

Just for you, I will pass on the word to Don.........

12 posted on 01/21/2025 3:13:38 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Leaning Right

That mower is not green enough. Give them one of those old manual reel mowers.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 3:15:52 PM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: BigEdLB

They shouldn’t have all been so WEF globalist treasonous evil and they wouldn’t have to worry about their jobs.

The USA has had no actual Dept of Justice for a very long time. Just a cabal of evil humans performing the illegal lawfare duties at the behest of a demonic Obama installed corrupt administration.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 3:17:08 PM PST by captmar-vell
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If they are protected by civil service, transfer them to Aleutian Islands, Alaska

The highest strategic use of Greenland might be as a place to transfer career bureaucrats.

15 posted on 01/21/2025 3:18:16 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: EVO X

The next one to be prosecuted will be the first one to be prosecuted will be the first to be prosecuted. And the last. They will allow those with enough time in to retire to retire. The remainder will be allowed to ride off into the sunset and continue to screw the public. Laws are made to keep the slaves, peons, and serfs, A/K/A, taxpayers in line. Not for the Elite Government Officials. At one time in the past it could have been different. But the Profession Politicians changed that.


16 posted on 01/21/2025 3:20:20 PM PST by sport
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://web.archive.org/web/20250121212904/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/21/justice-trump-removes-senior-staffers-national-security-criminal/

Read the entire article. It’s glorious


17 posted on 01/21/2025 3:36:35 PM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Open an office in Adak, Alaska and assign them there.


18 posted on 01/21/2025 3:41:17 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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It is a violation of the Free Republic consent decree to post archived links that bypass paywalls.


19 posted on 01/21/2025 3:41:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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>> If they are protected by civil service, transfer them to Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Or build an office shanty cooled by an undersized HVAC in Eagle Pass, TX and send them there. Remember, fedgov stooges — no remote work! Report to your office or yer FIRED!


20 posted on 01/21/2025 3:45:58 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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