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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Crowell Snags Former Intelligence IG Fired By Trump Law360 (February 17, 2021, 12:02 AM EST) -- Crowell & Moring LLP announced Wednesday it has brought on former U.S. Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael K. Atkinson as a partner, just under a year after Atkinson was fired by then-President Donald Trump, ostensibly for setting in motion his first impeachment. The hire adds significant firepower to Crowell & Moring's white collar, internal investigations and national security capabilities. Atkinson, who will join the firm's Washington, D.C., office and c...

Brings Two Decades of Justice Department and Intelligence Agency Experience Washington—February 17, 2021: Michael K. Atkinson, the former Inspector General of the U.S. Intelligence Community, is joining Crowell & Moring as a partner, expanding the firm’s white collar, internal investigations, and national security capabilities. As the former presidentially appointed and Senate confirmed chief watchdog of the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies, Atkinson led dozens of high-profile investigations, including the investigation of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint that led to the first impea...

The Senate Intelligence Committee will examine the influence of Russia and other foreign powers on antigovernment extremist groups like the ones that helped mobilize the deadly attack on the Capitol last month, the panel’s new chairman said in an interview this week.

US institutions after Trump Jan 23,2021 - Last updated at Jan 23,2021 BOSTON  —  The storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6 may be remembered as a turning point in American history. The insurrection, incited by the president himself, has raised profound questions about the kind of political institutions future generations will inherit. Two narratives have come to describe this nadir of an already-tumultuous presidential transition in the United States. The first frames the Capitol insurrection as a singular failure of US institutions, which implies that the...

Trust deficit in US federal bodies cries for attention Daron Acemoglu Filed on January 21, 2021 Two narratives have come to describe this nadir of an already-tumultuous presidential transition in the United States. The storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6 may be remembered as a turning point in American history. The insurrection, incited by the president himself, has raised profound questions about the kind of political institutions future generations will inherit. Two narratives have come to describe this nadir of an already-tumultuous presidential t...