Thread by @DawsonSField

AG Barr has demoted a lawyer at DOJ who decides what secret surveillance actions are legal. The Dems are very upset that this career lawyer who could give get out of jail free cards out by ruling things legal is gone.
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HT: @ebolanteres #ButNothingsHappening

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann had headed the Office of Law and Policy in the Justice Department's National Security Division for almost a decade. After Trump was elected, he took Obama NSA officials like Katrina Mulligan onto his team. #VivaLaResistance?

So what does the DOJ National Security Division Office of Law and Policy do? It decides what federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities are legal & what ones are not.
Take a wild guess what you think this office decided in regards to Spygate? I have a few guesses

He has been replaced by Kellen Dwyer, who was an Assistant US Attorney in Northern Virginia working for USA Zach Terwilliger. Terwilliger's dad was AG Barr's Deputy in 1992 & was part of the band from DOJ that tried to prosecute BCCI & CIA.

Dwyer's claim to fame is that he is the one who 'accidentally' revealed that Julian Assange had been indicted by leaving his name in an indictment of another unrelated case.
Dems find the timing suspicious, of course they do!

Former Obama officials have been sure to tell ABC that they are very worried about a Trump political appointee heading the office that decides if government surveillance policies are legal or not...

The office's rulings also seem to tie the DOJ's hands in regards to what information the DOJ can share about election interference!
And when it is legal to spy on people for counterintelligence cases. Which would give the spies a get out of jail free card if it was ruled legal.

All of the Obama officials quoted in the article think Weigmann was not a political creature, which means he was on their side...

Those Obama officials assume Barr must be doing this in order to get an office that will approve releasing the Durham report to the public....

Wow, @ABC stooped to KKK level attacks about Dwyer being part of a Catholic non-profit organization committed to the tenents of the Catholic Church.

I didn't expect them to be that blatant in finding an angle...

See if the link pasted right this time.
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Someone posted the link in the first tweet isn't working, lets try it again.

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