US Attorney Preet Bharara fired

[xenogear3]

He is lucky.

In my country, Clinton and him will be mysteriously disappeared long ago.

[Orange Joe]

Better source for story.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS...rneys-46053019
And
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justi...ry?id=46066959

Notable.

When Bharara met with Trump and Sessions in November, it was clear he was asked to stay on, according to the person briefed on the situation. What was apparently not made explicit was whether that request applied to Trump's full term or just the transition period. Bharara had believed it was for the full term.

[Barnabas]

Ok so he chose to be fired and this is newsworthy?

[Ghostpanther]

Trump had personally asked him to stay on in November. You can call it a gross violation, but it also proves that either trump isn't controlling his administration, or the presidents word means nothing.

And then Sessions asked him to resign and he did not. So he got fired ( removed ). I would say he was asking to be fired. :P

And by the way this is common practice with new incoming administrations. Even Lincoln did it. Clear the old administrations left over residue.

[Tijuana]

After refusing into forced resignation with the attempted purges going on by Trump and Sessions, Preet Bharara was apparently fired.

Jesus fucking christ. He was one of the nation's best and most respected federal prosecutors but the DOJ at request of Trump and new AG Sessions have begun trying to purge. Bharara was even asked to stay by Trump and Sessions after the election before just in the past week demanding their resignation of select attorneys for reasons not given.

edit: The twist, Bharara would be the prosecutor overseeing the investigation on Trump Tower, the wiretapping claim, and any information pulled from the FBI's investigation of the server communications with Russian banks coming from the Trump email server.

Replacing all the prosecutors is standard practice since Bill Clinton was president. This is not a news story.

[Logwyn]

Replacing all the prosecutors is standard practice since Bill Clinton was president. This is not a news story.

I'm sure that its happened way before Clinton.

[Kuntantee]

Donald "Erdogan" Trump?
Good thing we're not closing our borders, US-refugees are welcome!

lol, this made me chuckle

[Valsaber]

Oh didn't Trump claim in some of his rigorous campaigns that "we're gonna drain the swamp" and maybe even that Obama officials are going to be fired????
Or does that not count for a warning??? Oh the contradictions in liberal heads, so hard to resolve, so hard.

[Ivanstone]

And by the way this is common practice with new incoming administrations. Even Lincoln did it. Clear the old administrations left over residue.

Aren't you supposed to have replacements lined up first?

Replacing all the prosecutors is standard practice since Bill Clinton was president. This is not a news story.

Aren't you supposed to have replacements lined up first?

[Orange Joe]

Aren't you supposed to have replacements lined up first?



Aren't you supposed to have replacements lined up first?

Doesn't seem so. Not going to hurt anything anyways.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justi...ry?id=46066959

Until new U.S. attorneys are confirmed, Flores said career prosecutors in the 94 districts will continue overseeing cases. The Trump administration has not yet nominated any new U.S. attorneys.

[Adam Jensen]

The only reason this is news is because Trump is involved. I am so bored of the manufactured outrage, when there are legitimate things to object to. This is another bullet for him to fire back at the MSM. Cut it out.

It's also scummy because unlike with past presidents, there's no replacement lined up.

Usually federal attorneys stay in office until their replacement is confirmed and ready to take over.

So yeah, this is different.

[Garnier Fructis]

It's also scummy because unlike with past presidents, there's no replacement lined up.

Usually AGs stay in office until their replacement is confirmed and ready to take over.

So yeah, this is different.

Trump can't even do what other presidents have done without fucking it up.

How do you get that rich being that incompetent?

[Tijuana]

Aren't you supposed to have replacements lined up first?



Aren't you supposed to have replacements lined up first?

Their second in command will do the job until replacements are confirmed. This isn't really a significant event. This is like slow news day fodder.

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I'm sure that its happened way before Clinton.

Yes but, he was the first to replace them all right off the bat, and that has been the practice ever since.

[dcschess05]

It's also scummy because unlike with past presidents, there's no replacement lined up.

Usually federal attorneys stay in office until their replacement is confirmed and ready to take over.

So yeah, this is different.

It may be different, but I am not seeing the problem. The mission is still being completed until the replacements are named. If the mission fails, or replacements are never named, then I am on board.

[Hammerfest]

He was one of the nation's best and most respected federal prosecutors but the DOJ at request of Trump and new AG Sessions have begun trying to purge.

This isn't new. Clinton fired ALL of the US Attorneys when he came into office. They serve at the pleasure of the President. It's been that way for longer than I've been alive.

[belfpala]

There'll be a witch hunt either way, and considering a few sources posted her state he was asked to stay on but no defined length, it's just a weird way of handling what other presidents have done.

The only issue, really, is that it highlights the hand of politics touching the legal system. Prosecutors are supposed to be independent, but we all know they aren't really, and things like this show light through the cracks.

The same issue has come up in some form or another for every president I've been alive during, and ultimately it blows over.

[belfpala]

There is meant to be independance in almost everything involving government officials, and that isn't working out too well at all. We'd have to clean out almosr every country's current governments and start again to weed out the corruption...

We'd have to start humanity over to weed out corruption, and even that probably wouldn't work.

[schwarzkopf]

An Interesting read below on how dictatorships frequently replace the justice system with something more to their liking. Make no mistake USA - you are heading down this road.

The Third Reich has been called a dual state, since the normal judicial system coexisted with the arbitrary power of Hitler and the police. Yet, like most areas of public life after the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the German system of justice underwent "coordination" (alignment with Nazi goals). All professional associations involved with the administration of justice were merged into the National Socialist League of German Jurists.
Source LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE THIRD REICH

[Deleted]

Good. Trump is keeping his promise of drainingthe swamp.

[schwarzkopf]

Good. Trump is keeping his promise of drainingthe swamp.

And filling it with toxic waste.... no rational person can see Trump's actions as good. That's a fact.

Then again - 43% of the country believes the world is 6000 years old, so rationality is definitely in short supply. That is what you get when education isn't an important thing.