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A BLITZ ON LISA MONACO
Lisa Oudens Monaco was born on February 25, 1968. She received a bachelor of arts in American history and literature at Harvard University in 1990, and a law degree at the University of Chicago in 1997.

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In 1996, Monaco served as a White House intern in the Clinton Administration, as a member of the Office of Legislative Affairs.

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By 1998, Monaco was working as a clerk for a federal judge in Delaware.

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The federal judge Monaco worked for was Judge Jane R. Roth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, a position she held between 1997 to 1998.

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After this, Monaco became the Counsel to the Attorney General of the United States, Janet Reno. She served in this role between 1998 to 2001.

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If you wanted to get more specific, then Monaco worked in Room 5121 at the Office of the Attorney General.

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Back at the University of Chicago in 1996, Monaco wrote an article entitled "Give the People What They Want: The Failure of 'Responsive' Lawmaking".

First words are "Congress is unpopular."

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Sorry about the brief step back in time there.

Around the September 11 attacks in 2001, Monaco first met Kathryn Helen Ruemmler, where they would go on to become friends.

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In 2001, Monaco left the White House (presumably when George W. Bush came into office as President of the United States) and became an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia.

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During Monaco's time as assistant attorney for the District of Columbia, she prosecuted multiple different crimes, including violent crime, fraud and public corruption cases.

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In 2004, Monaco was then added to the Enron Task Force.

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The Enron Task Force was initially led by Director Leslie Caldwell, who was replaced with Andrew Weissmann on March 1, 2004, as announced by Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray.

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This is a spotlight I have previously done on Andrew Weissmann:

In July 2005, Monaco declined to comment to the Denver Post about the importance of the 1,800 hours of videotapes in the Enron case, as did Weissmann.

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On September 12, 2006, Monaco received the Attorney General's Award For Exceptional Service due to her work on the Enron Task Force from Alberto Gonzalez and Paul J. McNulty. Ruemmler was also on the Enron Task Force.

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After the completion of her role in the Enron Task Force, Monaco became an aide to Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller.

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Monaco also worked with Cliff Stricklin on the Enron Task Force, a role which Stricklin had to learn everything from scratch.

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Monaco was then promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to Director Mueller on March 20, 2007.

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On March 29, 2007, Monaco received a call from Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Alberto Gonzalez, to complain about Daniel Dzwilewski's comments about the dismissal of United States attorneys and his coming to the defence of Carol Lam.

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This is a photograph of Monaco with Director Mueller and the Deputy Director John Pistole.

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Monaco described the culture in the Federal Bureau of Investigation as evolving, dedicated and in need of more people becoming leaders to handle counter-terrorism positions, which was becoming more necessary.

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On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected to become the President of the United States.
On January 29, 2009, Monaco's position changed, and she became the Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General.

David W. Ogden would become the Deputy Attorney General on March 12, 2009.

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Monaco worked in Room 4218 during this time, working alongside Neil H. MacBride, David Margolis, Scott N. Schools and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. as other Associate Deputy Attorney Generals.

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It was common for both Ogden and Attorney General Eric Holder to meet with her and others. These are examples from September 2009. Other names on here include George Toscas, John Carlin, James Baker and Ruemmler.

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This is the calendar of Eric Holder for April 2010. Monaco is again with people such as James Baker, Preet Bharara and Greg Andres. She also did a lot of work with Gary Grindler.

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This is the spotlight for Greg Andres:

On January 26, 2011, Monaco was promoted to Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, where she helped Holder and Deputy Director James M. Cole with management of the 94 United States Attorney Offices.

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By April 2011, Monaco had been nominated to become the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, presented by Senator Scott Brown, with a recommendation from Senator John Kerry.

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Monaco's parents are Dr. Anthony Monaco and Mary Lou Monaco. She has three brothers, one named Mark (who is married to Jennifer), with her second brother married to Lisa, and her third brother Peter, who is married to Sara.

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This is a photograph of Monaco during the Senate Select Intelligence confirmation hearing on May 17, 2011.

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Senate began planning for an official confirmation vote of Monaco's promotion to Assistant Attorney General for National Security in June 2011.

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By September 2011, Monaco had been promoted to the position, announcing charges with Neil H. MacBride and James W. McJunkin against Jubair Ahmad for providing material support to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.

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Monaco also served in the Supreme Court of the United States for the case John Reece Roth vs. the United States of America, working with Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. (Solicitor General Counsel of Record) and John A. Brennan (Attorney, Department of Justice).

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On October 11, 2011, Monaco, Holder, Mueller and Bharara announced charges against Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri for plotting to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States with explosives on U.S. soil.

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On December 21, 2011, Monaco, Lanny A. Breuer, Joseph H. Hogsett, B. Todd Jones and Robert J. Holley announced Kexue Huang's sentencing, who was charged with economic espionage to benefit components of the Chinese government and theft of trade secrets.

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On October 12, 2011, Monaco announced an indictment against Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, who was working as an unregistered agent of the Syrian Government to spy on United States citizens protesting the Syrian Government crackdown.

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In November 2011, Monaco spoke to Reuters about Senate's plan to turn over al-Qaeda suspects to the military instead of civilian law enforcement, something which she was against as it would create further barriers for the intelligence agencies.

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On September 16, 2011 (I am bouncing around this year), Monaco spoke at Harvard Law School at Wasserstein Hall with Juliette Kayyem, Eugene Kontorovich, Juan Carlos Zarate and Robert Chesney about the war on terrorism.

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Monaco also reprimanded Stewart Nozette, who was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for spying for selling technology secrets to Israel after working at NASA, the National Space Council and the Department of Energy.

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In October 2010, Monaco spoke about the indictments against Wong Yuh Lan, Lim Yong Nam, Lim Kow Seng and Hia Soo Gan Benson, who had taken radio frequency modules from Minnesota to Singapore, then forwarded them to Iran for use in roadside bombs.

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Back in time a little bit: During her time as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, she worked with James A. Baker directly, as he was an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the time.

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In 2012, Monaco was still announcing sentences, such as Jeng Shih's sentence for conspiracy to illegally export U.S.-origin computers from the United States to Iran.

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On July 20, 2012, Monaco announced the sentencing for Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid. The prosecution of Soueid was worked on by Dennis Fitzpatrick, Neil Hammerstrom and Brandon L. Van Grack.

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This is the spotlight for Brandon Van Grack:

In June 2012, Monaco announced that the Justice Department would hold anybody compromising national security for the sake of profits accountable after United Technologies was caught covering up sales of sensitive military software to China.

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In February 2012 (I will be bouncing around here also), Monaco made a statement regarding the arrest of El Khalifi, who was planning to carry out a suicide bombing at the United States Capitol.

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In November 2012, Monaco made a statement about the sentencing of Adis Medunjanin, who was plotting to bomb New York City's subway system. He was sentenced to life.

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Monaco also made a statement about Glenn Duffie Shriver, an American who spied for China.

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Andrew McCabe, Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, sent Monaco a memorandum on December 7, 2012 regarding a request for "Attorney General Dissemination Authority". It is all redacted though, 7 pages.

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On March 8, 2013, Monaco's role changed, as she became the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

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Monaco was announced for the position on January 25, 2013 to replace John Brennan, who was scheduled to become the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Monaco had also been considered for the role of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to replace the departing Director Mueller. Other contenders included Merrick Garland, James Comey, Neil MacBride and Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

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We all know how that turned out.
It was only a few weeks later that Monaco had to advise President Obama on a large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil - the Boston Marathon Bombings, which occurred on April 15, 2013.

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Monaco served as the keynote speaker at the 53rd Annual Ceremony honouring Charles J. Bonaparte, which was hosted at the United States Department of Justice on August 23, 2013.

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When the Boston Marathon bombings occurred, Monaco's twin brother, Christopher, had attended the event and was not located for a time afterwards, although he was eventually found safe by Monaco's mother, Mary Lou.

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This is a photograph of Monaco and Bharara, taken on November 14, 2013.

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In December 2013, Monaco - alongside Ruemmler and Mueller - backed John Carlin's nomination to head the Department of Justice's National Security Division.

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Apparently President Obama chose Comey over Monaco for Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation because he did not want an Obama loyalist working at the FBI.

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On September 11, 2013, Monaco was placed in charge of reviewing national security measures for the anniversary of both 9/11 and Benghazi.

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In November 2013, Monaco commented on the designations of Boko Haram and Ansaru being added to the United States Department of State's list of terrorist organisations.

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Apparently in June 2013, Monaco attempted last minute lobbying to attempt to shut down Guantanamo Bay, but the House of Representatives passed a $638 billion defence bill to avoid it.

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I will have to stop here again unfortunately as it is 11:15 PM in the United Kingdom. I am about to enter 2014 though. I will add this to the spotlight pastebin.
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