Did Trump reverse an Obama order last month because he knew there would be a Sessions-Russia investi

[womanofthehills]

On Feb. 9, the same day current Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn into office, Donald Trump quietly signed an executive order that effectively changed the line of succession within the Department of Justice, laying out who will succeed Sessions in the event he dies, resigns or otherwise becomes incapacitated.

Trump’s order was a reversal of one signed a month prior by then-president Barack Obama. A week before leaving office, Obama authorized Executive Order 13762, “Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice.” That order inexplicably removed Obama appointee Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, from the DOJ line of succession. As USA Today reports, at the time Obama offered no justification for why he removed an attorney he appointed from the order of succession within the DOJ.

Fast-forward to Jan. 30, less than two weeks after Trump took office, when the president dramatically fired Obama holdover Sally Yates as Acting Attorney General after she refused to defend Trump’s controversial (and ultimately futile) immigration ban. As Sessions had yet to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Trump was able to elevate whomever he pleased to take Yates’ place.

If Boente’s name sounds familiar, that’s not surprising. In the wake of Yates’ ouster, Trump asked Boente to serve as Acting AG. The Virginia attorney was officially named Acting Attorney General on Feb. 9, the same day Sessions was sworn into office—and the same day Trump signed the executive order reversing Obama’s line of succession.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/did-trump-reverse-an-obama-order-last-month-because-he-knew-there-would-be-a-sessions-russia-investigation/

[Stinky The Clown]

1. That's the what. Now what is the why, particularly with respect to Dana Boente?

[Docreed2003]

2. Exactly

Obama is a brilliant man. What was his motivation in passing such a change mere days prior to leaving office? We're missing a gigantic piece of this puzzle.

[Alice11111]

4. Yeah, my guess is he didn't want to stir it up at end of term.

Protecting his legacy. Smooth transfer of power. Etc. IMHO, he should have blown it wide open, made a recess Supreme Court appointment, and fired Comey. I kept thinking he would , but....He was maybe both our most intelligent and most compassionate Prez though. Probably, in his worst nightmare, he didn't think it would be this bad.

Still, he left a lot of work for Dems who don't have the votes. I guess he thought Hillary would take over, and we would probably have the Senate.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Glad you found that.

Makes me feel good that Pres. Obama was thinking that far ahead,
makes me curious why Trump's camp was.
all the more argument for a special Prosecutor.
and Sessions has to go, I don't trust him to stay out of it.

[Alice11111]

5. Don't think DT thinks farther ahead than his nose.Bannon's

Job is to think for everyone in DT's administration. No one else, but maybe Kushner has any authority to think. DT has no capacity.
Agree, Obama was a deliberator. Very intelligent.

[yodermon]

6. Here's Why.

https://patribotics.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/the-carolina-conspiracy-putin-catfished-weiner-louise-mensch/

....
Who Was Weiner Actually Talking To?

I can exclusively report that there is ample evidence that suggests that Weiner was sexting not with a 15 year old girl but with a hacker, working for Russia, part of the North Carolina hacking group ‘Crackas With Attitude’, who hacked the head of the CIA, and a great many FBI agents, police officers, and other law enforcement officials.

There is evidence linking Russia’s propaganda outlet Sputnik to both acts of hacking; and there is, therefore, grave reason to be concerned about Trump’s choice of Dana Boente as Jeff Sessions’ second-in-command at the Justice Department. Which he now is. For in a little-noticed Executive Order released this weekend, Trump altered the order of succession at the Justice Department in order to make Boente second to Sessions.

Two of the Americans involved in Crackas With Attitude were arrested and took a guilty plea in December.

And one of the prosecuting AGs on that case? Dana Boente.

As I have previously reported, Jeff Sessions was placed by Trump as Attorney General, I believe, for the sole reason of protecting Trump from impeachment and prosecution in the matter of Russia’s hack on America. The placement of Boente as Sessions’ number two ought to raise yet another red flag. For Dana Boente is listed as AG on the North Carolina Crackas With Attitude case.

If I am right on the theory which I report here – that Crackas With Attitude conspired with Russian moles within the FBI and NY in New York, with the encouragement of Sputnik, to invent a criminal case against Anthony Weiner in order that Russia’s Nikulin could plant Hillary Clinton’s emails on Weiner’s now “discoverable” laptop – then Messrs Trump and Bannon, above all other things, need the CWA case to go away really fast – and now its prosecutor Dana Boente finds himself number two to Jeff Sessions in Trump’s Justice Department.

[Tiggeroshii]

7. That means trump needs a deputy ag appointed fast

Or boente becomes ag if sessions resigns and could probably blow the crackas thing wide open?

[wishstar]

9. Boente may be Trump's man willing to cover up nefarious Trump stuff

My impression was that Boente got picked for interim AG by Trump because he was willing to go along with the Trump ban that Sally Yates refused to enforce-

No question Boente has insider knowledge of the NC hacker/Russia collusion

[sarah FAILIN]

10. or maybe it means Dana is dirty.

Involvement in this case is no accident. Crackas with Attitude sounds like a white supremacists version of a hacker group to me. If Obama wanted someone off of the ladder to the top and didn't have time to do it right, maybe this is how he handled it.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Thanks for that. VERY helpful!

[dalton99a]

11. Kick.