Draggingtree Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 : Attorney General Sessions by Andrew C. McCarthy December 19, 2016, Issue @ AndrewCMcCarthy He will have the task of depoliticizing the Justice Department Of Washington’s many swamps, none is more in need of draining than the Department of Justice. In choosing to nominate Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) as the next attorney general, President-elect Trump is off to a promising start. The institution in which I proudly spent nearly 20 years as a prosecutor is in crisis, no small thanks to the mockery made of the Justice Department by its last two leaders: Eric Holder, the first attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress (for obstructing the oversight investigation of the “Fast and Furious” fiasco), and his successor, Loretta Lynch, who began her term as the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer by endorsing President Obama’s aversion to enforcing the immigration laws and is ending it with the farce of her shameful tête-à-tête with Bill Clinton on an Arizona tarmac, necessitating her all-but-formal recusal from the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal—which Lynch’s subordinates managed nonetheless to whitewash. Of course, attorneys general take their cues from the president. Rarely in history has there been one as deeply involved in the Justice Department’s work as Barack Obama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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