Republicans Nominate Alfa Bank Lawyer to Justice Department - Polidicks

[quote=CNN] President Donald Trump's nominee [B]to head up the criminal division at the Justice Department[/B] has disclosed to members of the Senate judiciary committee that he [B]previously represented a Russian bank whose computer server activity has been under scrutiny by FBI counterintelligence[/B]. Brian Benczkowski served in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush and is currently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He told senators in a letter obtained by CNN that he specifically disclosed his law firm's representation of Alfa Bank in connection with completing his SF-86 security clearance form. [B]Questions about the bank's activity first arose last year when a group of computer scientists raised concerns about internet records that showed that Alfa Bank servers repeatedly looked up the unique internet address of a Trump Organization computer server in the United States[/B]. The bank later hired a cybersecurity firm called Stroz Friedberg to investigate unusual computer server activity, and background materials submitted to senators by Viet Dinh, one of Benczkowski's partners at Kirkland, now show [B]Benczkowski supervised that project[/B]. [/quote] [url]http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-to-put-russian-bank-lawyer-in-coveted-doj-position-1057620547994[/url] [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/25/justice-dept-nominee-acknowledges-work-for-russian-bank-but-pledges-independence/?utm_term=.f82bc33b16bc[/url] [url]http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/brian-benczkowski-alfa-bank/index.html[/url] tl;dr Benczkowski was part of Trump's transition team, specifically overseeing the transition for the Justice Department. Benczkowski also was a lawyer representing the Russian Alfa Bank when they were trying to build a case to sue BuzzFeed for publishing the Steele Dossier which alleged that Trump and Alfa Bank were in business together. Alfa Bank is the bank whose servers were communicating with Trump Tower servers during the campaign. Republicans are now nominating Benczkowski to head the Justice Department's Criminal Division, which if I'm not mistaken is the division that Mueller's team/investigation works under. The team/investigation that is currently investigating Alfa Bank for their possible role in the 2016 presidential election. Drain the swamp!

Oh boy, nominating a potential enemy of the United States. How fucked are we that this is even happening.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;52730467]Oh boy, nominating a potential enemy of the United States. How fucked are we that this is even happening.[/QUOTE] DeVos is in charge of teaching children when she couldn't even comment when someone asked "Does your nomination have anything to do with the fact that you're a rich person with rich friends?" The president has hired lawyers, and lawyers for their lawyers, while being under investigation for collusion with a foreign government. Note that Trump has before said that someone who is being investigated like this is unfit to be president. Billionaire politicians and Trump's friends are being nominated to positions of power on science which they are doing their best to undermine. The majority congress was unable to come up with a plan to repeal something they've been vehemently campaigning against for 7 years. The president has openly denied the biggest foreign policy threat since the cold war (global climate change) which will displace millions within most of our lifetimes. He did this while spending a large amount of money to help future-proof his Mar-A-Lago resort against the effects of Climate Change. The president thinks that "sounding tough" means saying, verbatim: "Don't do it Vladimir." while making a scary face into the interviewer's camera. With how old the current Supreme Court justices are, Trump will probably control what the SC will look like for decades. [URL="http://www.crfb.org/sites/default/files/CRFB_Promises_and_Price_Tags.pdf"]The fiscal policy proposed by the president while he was running would destroy the US economy.[/URL] The president takes longer to condemn actual Nazis than athletes kneeling during the national anthems. The president, during DIPLOMATIC MEETINGS with foreign heads of state, openly brags about how much he won the electoral college by, after losing the vote of the American people. The president's companies and estates have been given as a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust"]blind trust[/URL] to his children. The president's wife worked in the US illegally before getting documentation to work legally, under Trump's immigration laws she would have been deported. One of the US State Department's three science envoys resigned, with their resignation letter spelling out IMPEACH with the first letter of each paragraph. The Commander In Chief of the armed forces has stated, on the record, how he sneers at POWs for being captured, while draft dodging during Vietnam and saying how his time in school was harder than being in the military. The current president has frequently berated president Obama for his liberal use of executive orders, whilst using more executive orders in 200 days than Obama did in a year (on average) The president feels no restraint when accusing Obama about wiretapping his phones, a felony at best and treason at worst. The president, while berating Obama for spending too much time and taxpayer money on vacations and golfing trips, has spent three times more leisure days than Obama in the first half of his first year. The president, hours after one of his first speeches in office, where he said "the nation must come together" went on twitter to say how democrats are awful and won't work together with the administration. And now his government nominates who is basically just a Russian oligarch into the Justice Department. I wonder if [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank_of_Russia"]Sberbank [/URL]is gonna be next. This is only going to get worse. There is not a single fiber of good in this man or in this administration. He's stolen the election and he's dismantling the US government from within. I don't care that this is hyperbole, but not a single person that legitimately supports Trump is a good person. Calling them the scum of the earth would make the scum sue me for libel and slander. Any sensible population of educated people would be marching on the white house with pitchforks and torches for the things that this completely inconceivably horrible man has said and done about/to women, Mexicans, poor people, old people, war veterans, sick people, his voting base etc.

Trump administration job requirements: Detrimental to the position Connections with Russia Immediately available for investigation

Is the Mueller probe making any progress?

[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;52731117]Is the Mueller probe making any progress?[/QUOTE] Been Hearing reports that Mueller may be farther ahead of watergate because Trump and co keep walking into Traps. In fact there may be an indictment imminent for two people, Flynn and Manafort.

Will there be more after?

[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;52731117]Is the Mueller probe making any progress?[/QUOTE] A week or so ago, Manafort was supposedly notified that he would be indicted. Mueller has been subpoenaing various associates as well. Lots of stuff on /r/politics.

[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;52731117]Is the Mueller probe making any progress?[/QUOTE] People keep saying, and asking this, but they need to prepare for the real possibility that the Mueller investigation might [B]not[/B] ultimately impeach or bring charges against Donald Trump, or other significant members of his White House. In the case of Richard Nixon, Nixon very nearly avoided any trouble at all, until a deep sense of loyalty (and fear) that Nixon felt for his agents drove him to commit Whitehouse resources to protecting them from the law (which they themselves actually did not want Nixon to do for them at the time.) This is what created the "obstruction of justice," issue for Nixon. Trump, so far, [I]might[/I] have committed some resource in a wrongful way, but that's a pretty soft might, given how much hiring and firing has taken place in the Whitehouse, often over personal disputes. However, Trump has mostly been willing to let virtually anyone hang out to dry and likely will not end up overcomitting himself to protect anyone, assuming he even did [B]intentionally and of his own volition[/B] collaborate with the Russians. It could be that people within his campaign, unknown to Trump, did so, which again is no charge against Donald Trump. A lot of what we view as "seditious" or "scummy," like Trump's son's meeting with the Russian "with dirt on Hillary," is also not actually illegal or impeachable, and has very real analogues in the Democratic campaign against Trump, as well as the current political resistance against Trump. (Ie. the grey legality of most leaks from the administration.)