Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein names new acting deputy

cbsnews ^ | 4/3/2018 | kathryn watson

[bitt]

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has named a new acting deputy of his own. The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced Edward O'Callaghan will be the acting principal associate deputy attorney general.

O'Callaghan will replace Robert Hur, who is taking Rosenstein's old job as the U.S. Attorney in the District of Maryland. O'Callaghan's new position is key, as it will involve oversight of the FBI's probe of Russian election meddling and any ties to the Trump campaign. O'Callaghan has been serving as the principal deputy assistant attorney general for the DOJ's National Security Division.

"Edward O'Callaghan has served the Department of Justice with distinction, excelling as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and most recently as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division," Rosenstein said in a statement. "His experiences in a variety of roles throughout the Department will be invaluable as we work to protect our national security, reduce violent crime, and promote the rule of law. I also want to thank Robert Hur for serving as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. His counsel was invaluable over the past ten months and I look forward to seeing him thrive as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland."

[dragnet2]

I like the anti vehicle barriers around the Wizard of Oz style doors.

Those types generally have a steel core or pier going down about 8 feet.

[Eddie01]

I stared at the DOJ and FBI HQ building entrances today.

Behind majestic columns and walls of granite are tiny pathetic humans attempting to steal our Freedom.

The institutions are small and the people are even smaller.

[shanover]

The President should have put HIS people of impeccable loyalty and honor in and fired everyone else day one. This whole charade is actually devastating the progress of the administration and making a mockery of the law.

[Always A Marine]

Instead of slinging outright lies and childish rants that would make David Hogg seem like an intellectual giant, why don't you engage in honest, frank discussion.

Hear! Hear!

[Michael.SF.]

What knockers!

[Hostage]

I’m holding fire on Sessions until April 19 when SHTF is expected.

11 days and a wakeup.

[DarthVader]

He is naming a new deputy because he knows his days are numbered. This will likely be disallowed.

[SaveFerris]

That’s gonna be an interesting day. Well, let’s see what happens....

I’d say April 19 would be a day for a Democrat false flag, but that would be pure tinfoil, of course.

You know, something to pull the IG report off the headlines. But again, that’s just my tinfoil hat.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

There are a lot of decent, loyal people working at DOJ who have not been corrupted by the Obama/Holder/Lynch/Comey/Mueller and Clinton cabals.

The problem that has plagued DOJ really began in the Clinton Administrations and was re-enhanced by Obama and Holder is that they brought in far-left ideologues instead of straight-down-the-line professionals.

Holder is corrupt as can be but he sure covered his ass in the cloak of “respectability” and used race to keep people from really digging into his leftist/corrupt machinations such as “Fast and Furious”.

This corruption enabled the Obama regime to corrupt the IRS - Koshesin (sp is wrong) and Lerner; the EPA already being corrupted by the Clintons (Marxist Carol Browner and then Lisa Jackson under Obama); DOJ - pansies at the JCS; State Dept. -Clinton and Kerry (Mr. Cambodia Xmas 1969)and the NSC staff of Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Anita Dunn, etc.

Don’t forget the corruption at HUD, the disfunctionality at HHS, the disorganization at DHS and TSA, pansies leading the military agencies, Brennan at the CIA (don’t know whose side he’s been on but I have serious doubts that it was ours, or he was just totally incompetent and not a covert Islamic sympathizer; Clapper - DNI - don’t know what went wrong with him; NSA - a few leaders gone Obama Rogue; etc.

Over the years I’ve worked with great people at DOJ, people who left their politics at home and tried to make America a better place to live in.

Unfortunately, the rot of the Marxist-wing of the Democrat Party spread far and wide during the Clinton/Gore and Obama/Biden years, and it is going to take a lot of cutting to get it out, like the political “gangrene” it has become on the “body politique”.

[conservative98]

Oh, boy.

[VideoDoctor]

Boy.. wait until Sessions wakes up from his nap and finds out what Rosen$hit has been up to. /s

[morphing libertarian]

has he recused himself from every aspect of his job?

[jazminerose]

Amen to that.

Some days I have to double check to be sure I’m actually on FR and not DU.

[Flick Lives]

Behind majestic columns and walls of granite are tiny pathetic humans attempting to steal our Freedom.

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Well said.

[Candor7]

principal associate deputy attorney general. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

PADAG?

Just one more Obama liberal fascist lawyer sinking his roots in so he won’t be “fired.”

The weaponized DOJ needs to be cleaned out of its criminal syndicate of liberal fascist mafia.

[af_vet_1981]

Some days I have to double check to be sure I’m actually on FR and not DU.

Concur; I found this about him:

Edward O'Callaghan is an American Republican lawyer, former co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, who resigned from the US Attorney's Office in July, 2008 to join John McCain's presidential campaign. One of three leaders of Sarah Palin's Alaska "truth squad," O'Callaghan became the public face of Palin's legal pushback against ethics charges related to her former brother-in-law, the so-called "Troopergate." From 2009 to 2011, he worked at the law firm Nixon Peabody, then from 2011 to 2017, he was a partner at the New York office of law firm Clifford Chance. In 2017, he became the principal deputy assistant attorney general of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.[1]

O'Callaghan moved into private practice in March 2009 when the law firm Nixon Peabody announced he had joined its Government Investigations and White Collar Defense Practice Group.[2] In 2011, he joined the international law firm Clifford Chance in New York as a Partner in its White Collar, Regulatory Enforcement and Government Investigations practice group.[3] Since joining Clifford Chance, O'Callaghan has worked on several high-profile representations, including Achilles Macris, who was head of the London branch of JP Morgan’s chief investment office, where the trader nicknamed the "London Whale," Bruno Iksil, worked; [4] Jeffrey Webb, the former President of CONCACAF and FIFA Executive Committee Member, in the criminal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) indictment pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; [5] and Fokker Services, B.V., in the successful negotiation of a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with DOJ involving historical violations of the U.S. sanctions, and related court proceedings in United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The Fokker case represented a landmark victory that established important constitutional limits on judicial review of DPAs. [6]

[Brandonmark]

Edward O'Callaghan will be the acting principal associate deputy attorney general.

Methinks "acting" is the key word here.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

If I am not mistaken, the Southern District of NY is also where Comey and Loretta Lynch are from.

Great, just great!

[tired&retired]

Per Wiki

Edward O’Callaghan is an American Republican lawyer, former co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, who resigned from the US Attorney’s Office in July, 2008 to join John McCain’s presidential campaign.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

When truth-seeking people hit 40 they realize how full of crap the Demoncrat party is.