WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - A top aide to the criminal prosecutor whom Attorney-General William Barr assigned to scrutinise the Trump-Russia investigation has resigned unexpectedly from the Justice Department, a spokesman said Friday (Sept 11).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - A top aide to the criminal prosecutor whom Attorney-General William Barr assigned to scrutinise the Trump-Russia investigation has resigned unexpectedly from the Justice Department, a spokesman said Friday .
His spokesman, Thomas Carson, said:"We can confirm that Nora Dannehy has left the Department of Justice. No further comment from us." Barr has repeatedly raised tantalising hints about Durham's work, contrary to the department norm against speaking about continuing investigations except through indictments.
Barr assigned Durham last year to scrutinise the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation shortly after special counsel Robert Mueller turned in his report that documented Russia's extensive operations to sabotage the 2016 election and Trump's efforts to thwart the inquiry. Her husband, Leonard C Boyle, is also a close colleague of Durham's, serving as the first assistant US attorney in Connecticut.
This was not the first time that Dannehy had taken on a high-profile, politically fraught investigation. "The same reasoning could apply to pressuring a prosecutor to take partisan political considerations into account in his charging decisions."
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