Dec 20, 2015 · President Obama has chosen Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y., as his nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder -- ending widespread speculation over who might fill ...
"The information about a FISA application went to -- at least -- the chief of staff to the attorney general of the United States and apparently there was no follow-up," said Ray, remarking on the ...
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Dec 20, 2015 · Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning from the Obama administration, capping a tumultuous six-year term marked by several high-profile clashes with Congress. President Obama formally announced ...
Holder is the fourth-longest serving attorney general in U.S. history, and the first black attorney general. Rumors about his departure have circulated for a while. According to a Justice official, Holder had discussed his plans with Obama on "multiple occasions" in recent months.
Wendell Goler reports from the White House. Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning from the Obama administration, capping a tumultuous six-year term marked by several high-profile clashes with Congress.
A former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, Holder was pulled away from private practice to reshape a Justice Department that had been tarnished by a scandal involving fired U.S. attorneys and that had authorized harsh interrogation methods for terrorism suspects.
He argued that his original plan was vindicated by the successful prosecution in New York of Usama bin Laden's son-in-law -- this week, he was sentenced to life in prison. Under Holder's watch, the Justice Department also cracked down on news media reporting on national security matters.
DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz also reported that the Obama administration had reinterpreted oversight laws in a manner that affected his probe of Fast and Furious, the gunrunning sting operation linked to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol officer.
As a senator, Obama had recently co-sponsored the "Inspectors General Reform Act," which required presidents to provide 30 days' notice and a valid reason before firing an inspector general.
The ouster of the intelligence community IG was perhaps most controversial, considering his role in notifying Congress of a complaint that eventually touched off impeachment proceedings. The Obama administration, however, also saw the departures of other IGs under conspicuous circumstances.
Meanwhile, Fred Weiderhold was ousted as Amtrak's inspector general in 2009 — but only after receiving $310,000 in a severance payment that severely restricted his ability to say anything negative about the agency.
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Grassley also sounded the alarm about the Obama administration's firing of the International Trade Commission's Acting Inspector General Judith Gwynn, who was kept on six-month contracts and finally terminated amid allegations someone was forcibly stealing files from her office.
An Obama-appointed U.S. attorney, Lawrence Brown, then took the lead and settled the matter with Johnson, essentially cutting Walpin out of the loop. St. HOPE ultimately had to repay approximately $400,000, and Johnson himself was cleared. Walpin said he was then told by Norman Eisen, a special counsel to Obama on matters of ethics and government reform, that he had to "move on."
Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts has the latest on 'Special Report'. Jeffrey Rosen will be taking over as acting attorney general following Attorney General William Barr 's resignation. Rosen previously served as deputy attorney general, a position to which he was confirmed in May 2019 following the departure of Rod Rosenstein.
When Rosen was first confirmed to the deputy attorney general position in 2019, foreign interference in the 2016 election was still a top political concern, as special counsel Robert Mueller had just released the report on his Russia probe findings.
Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen holds a news conference to announce the results of the global resolution of criminal and civil investigations with an opioid manufacturer at the Justice Department on Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images) The report, which said there was a lack of evidence ...
The 2019 Senate confirmation vote fell along party lines, 52-45. Rosen takes over as head of the Justice Department at a time when Trump and his campaign are challenging the results of the presidential election. In August of this year, Rosen warned of possible election interference by foreign actors. While Rosen said that he had not seen evidence ...
Although the last U.S. troops finally withdrew from Iraq in December 2011, there are today almost twice as many American troops in Afghanistan as when Obama was first elected.
The Washington Post published a caustic op-ed by retired Army Maj. Gen. (and Fox News commentator) Robert Scales, who claimed that military personnel were “embarrassed to be associated with the amateurism of the Obama administration’s attempts to craft a plan that makes strategic sense.”.
In his book Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, Rajiv Chandrasekaran quotes Brig. Gen. Kenneth Dahl’s sarcastic 2011 rejoinder to Karl Eikenberry, then the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, who said that the civilian surge had reached “the high-water mark.” “That’s great,” Dahl responded.
That’s easier said than done. For this White House, the military is the proverbial 800-po und gorilla —more so than ever. After the Sept. 11, attacks, resources and authorities flowed lavishly to the Pentagon, which saw its budget almost double in the following decade. President George W. Bush’s administration “always wanted military guys between themselves and whatever the problem was,” recalls a retired general who served in senior positions during that period. And Bush was more than willing to spend the money needed to make that happen.
The military can advise, but they must do what the boss says in the way the boss wants, no more and no less.”. But, Dubik says, “most people in the military still favor the traditional separate-spheres model, while most people in the White House tend to think in terms of the employer-employee model.
In October 2009, the Obama administration and Fox News got into a public dispute over whether the Treasury Department intentionally attempted to exclude Fox News from on-camera TV interviews with the administration’s so-called “pay czar,” Kenneth Feinberg.
Obama Calls Fox News ‘Destructive ’. Obama may never have called Fox News “enemies of the people,” but he did say that its “point of view” was “ultimately destructive” to the U.S. In a Rolling Stone magazine interview in 2010, Obama compared Fox News to William Randolph Hearst and his style of so-called “ yellow journalism .”.
The Sept. 9, 2009, speech was carried by the Fox News Channel, but not the Fox network — which aired an episode of “ So You Think You Can Dance ,” from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. that night. Robert Gibbs, the Obama White House press secretary at the time, complained about it during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” prior to the speech.
When it came time to schedule Obama for the post-speech Sunday talk show circuit, Fox News was the only major Sunday show that did not have Obama as a guest.
In 2010, when investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea, the Obama Justice Department collected Fox News reporter James Rosen’s telephone and email records and tracked his movements at the State Department, according to the Washington Post.
Former President Barack Obama stood up for a free press in his first political speech of the 2018 campaign season, but he engaged in a bit of revisionist history when it came to his administration’s dealings with Fox News.
In the affidavit for a search warrant, FBI agent Reginald Reyes said there was evidence that Rosen — the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News — broke the law. Reyes described Rosen as “either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.”.