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President Trump has added key additions to the White House legal team, in what is both a possible purge of previous Obama staff, and a bolstering of the legal team in preparation for prosecution of those affiliated with illegal spying leaks. (Comment - and maybe investigate Hillary & the Foundation?)
BREAKING: White House Hires Massive New Legal Team - Check Out Who And Why
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=66475
https://twitter.com/TRUNEWS/status/83…
Details of the appointees are below: President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to the Office of the White House Counsel
President Donald J. Trump announced additional members of the White House Counsel's Office who are serving under White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn II. The full list of appointees is below.
Jeff Sessions requested 46 US Attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama to hand their resignation letters.
Attorney General Sessions Asks 46 Obama-Appointed US Attorneys to Resign
https://sputniknews.com/us/201703101051466778-sessions-asks-attorneys-resign/
10.03.2017 - US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday requested 46 US Attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama to hand their resignation letters, Department of Justice said in a statement.
"The Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 providentially appointed US Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition," the statement noted.
In a move that will likely provoke further media, and pundit, fury despite it being a routine act that is concurrent with every change in administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked all remaining Obama-appointed U.S. Attorneys for their resignation.
Jeff Sessions Asks All Remaining Obama-Appointed U.S. Attorneys To Resign
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-10/jeff-sessions-asks-all-remaining-obama-appointed-attorneys-resign
Sarah Isgur Flores, Director of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, released the following statement:
"As was the case in prior transitions, many of the United States Attorneys nominated by the previous administration already have left the Department of Justice. The Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations in order to ensure a uniform transition. Until the new U.S. Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney's Offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders."
Trump had previously asked the Obama-appointed U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, to stay on. In addition, the Obama-appointed U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, Dana Boente, is currently serving as acting deputy attorney general, and Trump has nominated the Obama-appointed U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Rod Rosenstein, for the deputy attorney general, Politico adds.
However, as NBC adds, Preet Bharara is one of the Attorneys asked to resigns, suggesting that something may have changed in the amicable realtionship between Trump and Bharara in the past few months.
[...] As a reminder, it is standard practice for a new president to appoint his own U.S. attorneys, who are political appointees. (Article continues.)