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Clinton Era Letter To Jeff Sessions

Tam

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Preet B has a new twitter account and you should see how he is whipping up the Trump haters. Shameful that a once respected man thinks so highly of himself that he feels a need to feed the wolves to destroy the President over something that is perfectly legal and has been done by every president before him. His tweets are proof Trump was right in getting rid of him. Loyalty to himself and no one but his self serving self.
 

Tam

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Sun Mar 12, 2017 | 5:41pm EDT
Trump tried to call New York prosecutor Bharara before firing him: officials
By Mark Hosenball | WASHINGTON
Two days before U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was fired, President Donald Trump tried to call the high-profile New York prosecutor in what a White House official said was an effort to "thank him for his service and to wish him good luck."

But a U.S. law enforcement official said Bharara declined to take the call, placed on Thursday, saying he did not want to talk to the president without the approval of his superiors.

Bharara said on Saturday he had been fired after he defied a request to resign. The move was a surprise because Bharara had told reporters in November that Trump had asked him to remain in the job.

As the chief federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan, Bharara oversaw several notable corruption and white-collar criminal cases, as well as prosecutions of terrorism suspects.

He was one of 46 Obama administration holdovers who were asked to resign by the Justice Department on Friday.

Although U.S. attorneys are political appointees, and the request from Trump's Justice Department is part of a routine process, the move came as a surprise. Not every new administration replaces all U.S. attorneys at once.

The White House declined to comment further on the resignations.

The office in the southern district of New York handles some of the most critical business and criminal cases that pass through the federal judicial system. Bharara had been overseeing a probe into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising.

Bharara said his deputy, Joon Kim, would serve as his temporary replacement.

The law enforcement source declined comment on whether the office had any active investigations related to Trump.

On Wednesday, three watchdog groups asked Bharara to take steps to prevent the Trump Organization from receiving benefits from foreign governments that might enrich Trump, who has not given up ownership of the business.

Norm Eisen, a former White House ethics lawyer who leads one of the groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, questioned the timing of the firings.

"I do believe that something odd happened," he said. "You don't decide to keep 46 folks on, then suddenly demand their immediate exit, without some precipitating cause or causes."

Democrat Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said on Sunday it was the president's prerogative to fire U.S. attorneys. But he questioned why Trump had suddenly changed his mind on keeping Bharara.

"I'm just curious as to why that is," Cummings said on ABC's "This Week" program. "Certainly, there's a lot of questions coming up as to whether ... President Trump is concerned about the jurisdiction of this U.S. attorney and whether that might affect his future."

Does the US Attorney's not work at the pleasure of the PRESIDENT who was going to give him the go ahead to talk to his ultimate BOSS? Maybe if the Obama appointee holdover had taken the call Trump would have asked him to stay like he did with other US Attorneys. But nope he refuses to take the call and runs to media about refusing to resign. If I had an employee that refused to take my call and refuse to obey my order to send in his/her resignation when asked I would FIRE that person too. He can't be trusted not to Grand Stand at the cost of the Oval Office and DOJ.
 

Steve

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Back in 2009, Politico had a much less sensational headline when reporting on all the Bush-era U.S. attorneys that Obama fired.

In 2009, Politico’s article on Obama’s decision to begin firing Bush-era attorneys was blandly entitled, “Obama to replace U.S. Attorneys.” Noticeably missing was the negative “oust” thrown atTrump. Instead, a milder “replace” was used to describe Obama’s actions.

The 2009 article was also written as a straight news piece with no negative connotations, no finger wagging, and no voices of opposition. In fact, the closest Politico got to negativity in 2009 was to say that Obama’s order “began to resolve the questions” over whether Obama would fire Bush’s attorneys in light of the trouble Bush got into from the left when he fired some of Clinton’s appointees back in 2006.

Finally, to put an even finer point on the bias exhibited between the two articles, the writer of the 2009 piece was none other than Josh Gerstein, the same writer responsible for the attack on Trump’s resignation request today.

two different reactions,.. how surprising?


This says it all..
Former GOP U.S. Attorney To Obama Appointees: Guys, Your Final Notice Was On November 8

In March 1993, Janet Reno began her tenure as President Bill Clinton’s attorney general by summarily firing United States attorneys for 93 of the 94 federal districts.

there are several article of a shaky turnover under Obama as well...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/16/bushs-dead-enders.html

I guess that wasn't "news" back then..
 

Steve

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Liberals sure can't connect dots well can they?

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin examined the firing of US attorney Preet Bharara on Saturday night, and he offered speculation about why President Trump took personal interest in relieving him of his position.

During his analysis, Toobin noted that Bharara’s position made him privy to numerous political developments and investigations pertaining to Trump, including the president’s connection to Russia. Toobin also noted that Bharara no longer has access to new information about Trump that he might’ve disclosed if he were not newly cut off from the Justice Department.
http://downtrend.com/71superb/conspiracy-alert-liberals-claim-trump-fired-us-attorney-to-avoid-investigation

Was he found to be one of the many "leakers"? Is Toobon upset as he just lost one of his credible sources?
 
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