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14 Jun 2020, 12:26 pm
On Thursday, the Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to authorize Committee Chair Lindsey Graham to unilaterally issue subpoenas related to this Judiciary Committee "oversight" investigation, including to 53 specifically named current and former officials from the FBI, DOJ and the Intelligence Community: Trisha Anderson, Brian Auten, James Baker, William Barr, Dana Boente, Jennifer Boone, John Brennan, James Clapper, Kevin Clinesmith, James Comey,… [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 5:43 am
FBI General Counsel Dana Boente is resigning amidst a recent resurgence in pressure from the Trump administration to remove him for his role in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 8:34 am
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a Lawfare series covering Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, which explored possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 5:12 pm
The request came in a letter FBI General Counsel Dana Boente sent to her counterpart at Apple on Monday, NBC News reported. [read post]
1 Jun 2018, 7:00 am
Dana Boente, then the U.S. attorney in eastern Virginia and acting head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a statement that the charges against Mallory “should send a message to anyone who would consider violating the public’s trust and compromising our national security by disclosing classified information. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 6:43 pm
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein eached signed at least one warrant on behalf of the Justice Department. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 2:05 pm
Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 March 8, 2017: Nunes and Schiff send a letter to then-acting Attorney General Dana Boente requesting, according to the Washington Post, “copies of any applications the Justice Department submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, any orders that the court released, and any copies of warrants issued by federal judges or magistrates regarding Trump, his campaign surrogates, business associates, employees, family and… [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 1:02 pm
Wray selected Dana Boente—the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and head of the national security division at the Justice Department—as the FBI’s new general counsel and Zachary Harmon—a former colleague of Wray’s from King & Spalding, a law firm—to replace Wray’s current chief of staff, Jim Rybicki. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 4:00 am
But the president may choose to direct another Senate-confirmed officer to fill the position in an acting capacity, which is how Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney for Virginia’s eastern district, acted as attorney general after Yates left. [read post]
28 Oct 2017, 3:09 pm
Is the resignation of Dana Boente related to any of this? [read post]
16 Oct 2017, 6:30 am
Last month, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Dana Boente declined to answer whether civilian prosecution of terrorists is effective at all–a puzzling position for the head of the division largely responsible for such prosecutions. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 7:30 am
Others could include Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and Dana Boente, the acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security. [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 2:06 pm
Boente; the U.S. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 9:17 pm
(Succession is complicated by the fact that, after Rosenstein, there are only two other confirmed officials in DOJ: Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division Dana Boente, who was previously confirmed to be the U.S. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 3:07 pm
On March 30, Comey called the acting AG to pass the buck–it didn’t work: I called Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente (AG Sessions had by then recused himself on all Russia – related matters), to report the substance of the call from the President, and said I would await his guidance. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 11:36 am
The president replied that “the cloud” was interfering with his ability to do his job and suggested that he might have “his people” reach out to Boente. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:30 am
Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert S. [read post]
18 May 2017, 5:02 pm
The New York Times is reporting tonight: President Trump called the F.B.I. [read post]
13 May 2017, 11:11 am
Final slotting into tiers:Top tier: Mark Filip, Michael Luttig, John Pistole, Mike Rogers, Ken Wainstein, Fran Townsend.Middle tier: Kelly Ayotte, Dana Boente, Alice Fisher, Chuck Rosenberg, George Terwilliger, Larry Thompson.Bottom tier: Chris Christie, John Cornyn, Rudy Giuliani, Trey Gowdy, Ray Kelly, Amy St. [read post]
10 May 2017, 1:49 pm
Attorney Dana Boente, who currently serves as the acting head of DOJ’s national security division and is leading the Department’s investigation of Wikileaks and Julian Assange. [read post]
