Trump nominates Russia bank lawyer for DOJ Post that oversees investigation

[orangecrush]

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s criminal division, Brian A. Benczkowski, has disclosed to Congress that he previously represented Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions, whose owners have ties to President Vladimir V. Putin.

Mr. Trump nominated Mr. Benczkowski, a partner at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm and a former Bush administration Justice Department official, in June, and he is scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Alfa Bank was at the center of scrutiny last year over potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia after computer experts discovered data suggesting a stream of communications between a server linked to the Trump Organization and a server linked to the bank. Reports about the mysterious data transmissions fueled speculation about a back channel.


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/us/politics/brian-benczkowski-justice-alfa-bank.html


Brian Benczkowski, a former aide to Jeff Sessions, will soon be in a position to share information about the grand jury investigation with the president.
BY MARCY WHEELER
October 16, 2017
On September 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved on a party line vote the nomination of Brian Benczkowski to be the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. The vote put President Donald Trump one step closer to installing a potential mole at the department, with the ability to inform him of any wiretaps or significant developments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury investigation into the possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.


https://newrepublic.com/article/145323/donald-trump-installing-mole-mueller-probe



This is alarming.

There is still time to stop this.

Please call your Senators today.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. It just keeps getting worse and worse n/t

[orangecrush]

4. Call your Senators

This is worth it.

He can still be stopped.

I've already called mine.

Think of it as your chance to do counterintelligence against Putin!

[JustAnotherGen]

14. I run an indivisible group

But it still keeps getting worse.

When I'm vicious to 'Trump Voters' - this is why.

I hope they are happy with themselves.

[orangecrush]

18. He is trying

To keep his idiot supporters happy.

Behind the scenes, the repubs are worried about impeachment.

[bdamomma]

2. he is beholden

to his Russian owners. Oh Mr. Putin you have taught your grasshopper well, get a Russian infiltrated right in our government you POS.

[orangecrush]

5. That is

Where we are.

Call your Senators and save the investigation.

[Botany]

3. Can he look anymore guilty?

Alfa bank's lawyer to oversee the investigation?

Are you fucking kidding me?

[orangecrush]

6. I wish I was kidding.

Your phone is a powerful counterintelligence weapon in this case.

And you don't need one made by Q that shoots cyanide gas, just an ordinary phone.

Think of Putin while you dial!

[C_U_L8R]

7. Putinesque.

Monkey see monkey do seems to be Trump's grand strategy

[orangecrush]

17. The Putin and Mercer Presidency

Trump is just a carnival barker.

[davertcx]

8. How long these will continue ?

How long these will continue

[orangecrush]

16. Until 2018

Unless Mueller gets him first.

[ananda]

9. Didn't anybody here expect all this on November 9th?

It was always going to be this bad and probably worse.

[orangecrush]

15. If Trump keeps going down this road

Hopefully the House will flip and he will be impeached.

[bdamomma]

10. do you think Mueller is aware of this mole plant?

and from this snip of the article which was posted in OP was this guy already appointed?

October 16, 2017
On September 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved on a party line vote the nomination of Brian Benczkowski to be the head of the Justice Department’s criminal division. The vote put President Donald Trump one step closer to installing a potential mole at the department, with the ability to inform him of any wiretaps or significant developments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury investigation into the possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.

[orangecrush]

12. Not appointed yet!

Needs full Senate confirmation.

Still time to call them.

And no doubt Mueller is quite aware.

[ancianita]

11. A mole. Fuck. Over Mueller's team. Fuck. They've GOT to disqualify him over his conflict of

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interest Senate confirmers. What an evil move this nomination is.

[orangecrush]

13. Committee approved on party lines

Ie not a single dem voted for this rat.

[bdamomma]

19. K&R

[orangecrush]

20. Thank you