CIA | |
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Stands for | Central Intelligence Agency |
Introduction | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world. |
Phil Weiser | |
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Born | 1967/1968 (age 53–54) |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Heidi Wald ( m. 2002) |
Education | Swarthmore College (BA) New York University (JD) |
United States Attorney General | |
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Incumbent Merrick Garland since March 11, 2021 | |
United States Department of Justice | |
Style | Mr. Attorney General (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
Member of | Cabinet National Security Council |
Clarke said at the same news conference that whoever is selected as attorney general “must have a clear and bold record when it comes to civil rights and racial justice.”. Sharpton responded to the Garland pick with a skeptical statement and asked for a meeting with the nominee.
The announcement of the attorney general, along with other senior leaders of the Justice Department, is expected to be made as soon as Thursday as Biden moves closer to filling the remaining seats in his Cabinet before assuming power on January 20.
Sharpton responded to the Garland pick with a skeptical statement and asked for a meeting with the nominee.
Defenders of Garland argued he would be a particularly strong choice to lead the Justice Department in the post-Trump era because he is seen as above reproach of partisan politics. Some allies describe him as a “Boy Scout,” which is intended to suggest he would be seen as a non-political figure.
Garland was chosen by Biden for attorney general over former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones and former acting attorney general Sally Yates, the two other finalists for the position.
Prior to his appointment as a US circuit judge, Garland served as principal associate deputy attorney general. He supervised the investigation of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed more than 160 people and injured several hundred more. Garland also led the investigations of the 1996 Olympics bombing in Atlanta, in which two people died and more than 100 others were injured.
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris met last month with civil rights leaders and members of the NAACP, who have been pressuring Biden to diversify his Cabinet and create a position within the White House for a civil rights czar.
As chief legal officers of the states, commonwealths, District of Columbia, and territories of the United States, the role of an attorney general is to serve as counselor to state government agencies and legislatures, and as a representative of the public interest.
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The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United Stateson all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States.
For example, upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch left her position, so then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who had also tendered her resignation, was asked to stay on to serve as the acting attorney general until the confirmation of the new attorney general Jeff Sessions, who had been nominated for the office in November 2016 by then- President-elect Donald Trump.
The original duties of this officer were "to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the president of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments". Some of these duties have since been transferred to the United States solicitor general and the White House counsel .
Attorney General is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule, thus earning a salary of US$ 221,400, as of January 2021.
Presidential transition[edit] It is the practice for the attorney general, along with the other Cabinet secretaries and high-level political appointees of the President, to tender a resignation with effect on the Inauguration Day(January 20) of a new president.
Gerson was fourth in the line of succession at the Justice Department, but other senior DOJ officials had already resigned.[14] Janet Reno, President Clinton's nominee for attorney general, was confirmed on March 12,[15]and he resigned the same day.
The Department of Justice was established in 1870 to support the attorneys general in the discharge of their responsibilities.
The President was frustrated with his attorney general's comments to the AP and had a "contentious," lengthy meeting at the White House the day they were published, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
Barr repeatedly and unapologetically prioritized Trump's political goals while furthering his own vision of expansive presidential power. In his most notorious move, Barr delivered a misleading summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, essentially clearing Trump in the Russia probe, which drew a sharp rebuke from Mueller himself. ...
The attorney general echoed the President's anger at coronavirus lockdowns, calling them, apart from slavery, "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history." Barr also asked for the Justice Department to take over the President's defense in a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Jean E. Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault.
Barr's loyalty to Trump during his tenure at the Justice Department had sometimes put him in a tough public spot, including in September, when he was asked about Antifa, a left-wing group the Justice Department has claimed stirs protests toward violence.
(CNN) Attorney General William Barr on Monday said he would resign next week, ending a tenure in which the President Donald Trump loyalist carried the administration's "law and order" message but ultimately dealt the most credible blow to Trump's unfounded claims that the 2020 election was littered with fraud.
Still, a White House official said Barr was not forced out or fired.
Mueller objected – first in a letter to Barr, then in a public statement and again when he testified to Congress last year. Barr’s rollout “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions” of the report, Mueller said.
Grewal departs July 26 after serving since January 2018 as the state’s top law enforcement officer. He will become the SEC’s director of the enforcement division, the agency announced in a statement. Murphy, a Democrat, called Grewal an “invaluable member of our administration.”.
In his new role, Grewal will be charged with pursuing violations of law for the SEC, which regulates the nation’s financial markets. “The Enforcement Division has a critical role to play in finding and punishing violations of the law,” Grewal said in a statement.
There has not been a peep out of John Durham, the U.S. Attorney from Connecticut that Barr appointed to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. Durham failed to produce an October surprise in the form of a report damning the investigation. Now, there are also rumors that there will be no Durham report at all.
In just two years, Attorney General William Barr transformed the Department of Justice into a sleazy, third-rate law firm devoted to shielding Donald Trump and his friends from the consequences of their crimes. A coterie of attorneys with prestigious law degrees and sterling résumés joined Barr’s crusade to place Trump above the law. The attorney general’s tenure played out as a natural experiment: What happens when the embodiment of the right-wing Federalist Society becomes the nation’s chief law enforcement officer? The answer has been a ghastly disaster for the rule of law.
First of all, Nora Dannehy, Durham’s trusted deputy, resigned from the investigation in September, telling colleagues that it was in response to Barr’s pressure for them to release a report before the election. According to Waas’s sources, Durham called Barr shortly after that and made it clear that “his office would not be releasing a report or taking any other significant public actions before Election Day.” The implied threat was that if the attorney general kept up the pressure, Dannehy wouldn’t be the only one to walk away. Durham and other members of his team might follow suit.
Democrats pushed the narrative that Barr filed a motion to dismiss the criminal charge against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn because of Flynn’s connection to the president. Barr countered this charge both generally and specifically.
He literally asked for the job by suggesting he'd do Trump's bidding as AG, and Trump obliged because even Sessions had more of an ethical backbone than Barr. see more.
First of all, Nora Dannehy, Durham’s trusted deputy, resigned from the investigation in September, telling colleagues that it was in response to Barr’s pressure for them to release a report before the election.
In the past, Barr has been unable to stay silent. He broke with Justice Department policy to comment on the Durham investigation while it was still underway, declaring that the Trump-Russia investigation was “one of the greatest travesties” in American history based on a “bogus scandal.”.