A top Justice Department official who helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email investigation resigned Wednesday, reports the Washington Post.
A Justice Department official who helped oversee the controversial probes of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election stepped down this week.
David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in 2014 became chief of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said farewell to colleagues Wednesday. He cited personal reasons. […]
“It’s tough to leave a mission this compelling and an institution as exceptional as the Department of Justice,” said Laufman, 59. “But I know that prosecutors and agents will continue to bring to their work precisely what the American people should expect: a fierce and relentless commitment to protect the national security of the United States.” […]
Critics noted that Laufman had donated to Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, referring to him as a “holdover.”
Laufman joins a growing list of key officials leaving the Justice Department/FBI cabal amid Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s probe into the bureau’s Clinton email investigation.
Former FBI special agent Josh Campbell recently quit the bureau to join CNN, citing increasing levels of criticism directed at the agency.
In a New York Times op-ed, Campbell wrote, “To be effective, the F.B.I. must be believed and must maintain the support of the public it serves. … These political attacks on the bureau must stop.”
“If those critics of the agency persuade the public that the F.B.I. cannot be trusted, they will also have succeeded in making our nation less safe,” Campbell added.
In what was a significant shakeup at the FBI, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down January 29th.
“McCabe, who served a brief stint as acting director of the bureau, was already expected to leave. He will stay on ‘terminal leave’ until he is eligible to retire with benefits in March,” reported CNBC.
According to the Washington Post, McCabe intended to resign from the FBI once he was eligible for full pension benefits in March.
In late January, James Rybicki, a top FBI official who was once chief of staff to James Comey and current Bureau Director Christopher Wray, resigned as well.
KEY FBI MAN OUT – James Rybicki, who was chief of staff to former FBI Director James Comey and continued in the post under current Director Christopher Wray, is leaving the bureau, Fox News has learned. https://t.co/x5J5rrHhlR pic.twitter.com/8YZjxP00vn
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