Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced on Friday that he was launching a review of the DOJ’s role in preparing for and responding to…
Barack Obama should be attorney general, says Reagan, Bush administration lawyer
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President-elect Joe Biden has yet to formally announce who he will be nominating to become the head of the Justice Department under his administration. One attorney has argued that the best attorney general may just be Biden’s former colleague, former president Barack Obama.
In a piece for The Hill, Douglas Kmiec, who served under the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations in the Office of Legal Counsel claimed that tapping Obama for the post as DOJ attorney general would restore the rule of law. Kmiec explained that Biden would have to try and appeal to voters of both parties as well as independents and assure them that he will work in the interest of the country.
Despite repeatedly insisting that Obama’s intelligence agencies conducted “no spying on Donald Trump’s campaign,” a claim contradicted by inspector general reports, a two-year special counsel probe, congressional inquiries, and continued investigation, Obama administration CIA Director John Brennan said that the CIA values honesty.
“When you go into the intelligence profession, there also is a premium put on honesty, which sounds a bit, maybe, ironic to some, given that CIA officers sometimes have to adopt false personas when they go overseas to recruit spies,” Brennan told Tyler Cowen on a podcast episode of “Conversations With Tyler.”
“But inside of the CIA family, there is a real need to make sure that people don’t stray from the truth because national security really hangs in the balance,” Brennan said.
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