President Obama formally nominated U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to serve as the next attorney general on Saturday, praising Lynch's "commitment to equal justice under the law" and urging the Senate to confirm her "without delay."
In a statement on Saturday, Holder praised Lynch as "an extraordinarily talented attorney, a dedicated public servant, and a leader of considerable experience and consummate skill."
He thanked Holder for his "outstanding service" and said the nation is "freer and safer" because of Holder's work.
Lynch has been confirmed easily by the Senate twice before: once, in 2000, as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York at the end of then-President Clinton's second term, and again in 2010 for the same job under Mr. Obama.
The early reaction from Republicans to Lynch's nomination was noncommittal, offering neither praise nor criticism. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who serves on the Judiciary Committee, pledged a "full and fair confirmation process," but he said the nomination would draw added scrutiny "in light of the troubling abuses under the current attorney general."
If confirmed, Lynch would be the first African-American woman to take the helm at the Justice Department. She would succeed Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African-American to hold the post. Holder has been on the job since the beginning of Mr. Obama's administration, but he announced in September that he would step down when his successor is confirmed.
In her own remarks Saturday, Lynch thanked the president for the faith he's placed in her by putting forward her nomination.
Out of close to 11,000 warrant applications during the Obama administration only two were rejected by the FISA Court. “It’s almost like getting an indictment from a grand jury. A decent prosecutor could get a ham sandwich indicted. Likewise, judges aren’t tough on warrants unless they believe the requester is on a ‘fishing expedition’ or the request is totally without merit,” said former police officer and corporate security director Iris Aquino.
As this week’s spy drama continues to unfold, a former military intelligence officer and police detective told NewsWithViews.com that last year President Barack Obama’s Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, signed off on — and expedited — two FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court requests to wiretap the Trump campaign.
Also, instead of asking the appropriate committees in the House and Senate to probe the nation’s vulnerability to foreign espionage — especially cyber espionage — the Democrats wish to create an ad hoc or select committee to investigate the alleged cyber crimes perpetrated against their opposition.
When on Saturday morning President Trump’s tweeted that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower in October 2016, the usual cabal of Democrats and news media outlets began their routine of casting doubts on Trump’s accusation. “It was as if they were saying ‘how dare you make outrageous allegations against Saint Barack,'” Aquino noted in a tongue-in-cheek quip.
Besides Neallon’s statement to NewsWithViews.com, ABC News reported on Thursday that all of the applications to the FISA Court were authorized by Lynch.
During the last presidential election cycle, a man named Julian Assange single-handedly alerted a large number of American voters about the secretive, devious and hypocritical goings-on at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and their connections to the Hillary Clinton for President campaign and members of the so-called mainstream news media. The damage done to the Democratic Party as a result of the leaked information may never be fully gauged.
Just about every news story on the subject of the Trump wiretaps mentions that the FISA Court turned down the first request to wiretap Trump even though it was requested by Lynch herself. The fact the FISA judge nixed the warrant is evidence that the Justice Department did not even come close to satisfying the usually minimal standards for obtaining such warrants.