Oh my oh my oh my, JaneAustin. Talk about feathering one's nest on leaving office (aside from stealing the White House silver), for the purpose of ensuring that one's perfidies performed in office are not exposed to the public. Fifty-seven career appointments is a very large number of political appointees to be smuggled into career service by E.O. of an outgoing president, whose status is binding on the next administration....
But then the guy was, is, and always will be a crook seeking to exploit the system to his own advantage.... It's a game with him, you see, a challenge to be "won."...
Thanks for this shocking news. Am going to bed now. Thank you, Jane Austin! [Who is, BTW, one of my favorite authors of all time.... I'll think of Elizabeth and Darcy before I go to sleep tonight, just to stay in touch with reality/sanity....)
HILLARY'S SECRET WAR: How Clintons took control of federal law enforcement
The first phase of the Clinton coup came on March 23, 1993. Only 11 days after becoming attorney general, Janet Reno called her first press conference to announce that she was firing all 93 U.S. attorneys and replacing them with Clinton loyalists. This was an unprecedented act. Phase 2 was equally unprecedented. Bill Clinton sacked FBI director William S. Sessions on July 19, 1993, on the pretext of various petty ethics charges.
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Phase 3 of the Clinton coup finished the job. The Clintons proceeded to defang the federal judiciary. Between 1994 and 1998, they appointed seven new judges to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. – all Clinton cronies. The new appointees nicknamed themselves the "Magnificent Seven" – a name that stuck until the Clintons appointed an eighth member to the team in 1998.
The Magnificent Seven scandalized their colleagues by holding closed meetings every month, from which other federal judges were excluded. "I cannot imagine any legitimate reason for them to meet together once a month, even socially," one courthouse official told the Washington Times. Another court official charged that the meetings "reek with impropriety."
Indeed they did. Throughout the Clinton years, these hand-picked judges issued ruling after ruling shielding the Clintons and their alleged accomplices from federal prosecutors.
It later came to light that the obstructive activities of the Magnificent Seven had been carefully coordinated. The Associated Press reported on July 31, 1999, that Carter-appointed judge Norma Holloway Johnson – chief U.S. district judge for Washington, D.C. – had flouted standard procedure by personally and secretly assigning Clinton-related cases to Clinton-appointed judges. Federal cases are ordinarily assigned at random, by a computer. But the Clinton judges followed their own rules. Whatever crimes the Clintons or their operatives may have committed, they now had little to fear from the law.