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 | | Subject: FBI's Top Lawyer, Dana Boente, Ousted Amid Fox News Criticism Sat May 30, 2020 4:49 pm | |
| FBI's top lawyer, Dana Boente, ousted amid Fox News criticism for role in Flynn investigation
Boente was asked to resign on Friday and two sources familiar with the decision to dismiss him said it came from high levels of the Justice Department rather than directly from FBI Director Christopher Wray.
After a 38-year career with the Justice Department, the FBI's top lawyer Dana Boente was asked to resign on Friday.
Two sources familiar with the decision to dismiss Boente said it came from high levels of the Justice Department rather than directly from FBI Director Christopher Wray.
His departure comes on the heels of recent criticism by Fox News for his role in the investigation of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
A spokesman for the FBI confirmed to NBC News that Boente did in fact resign on Friday.
Fox News has recently criticized Boente's role in the investigation of Flynn, whose criminal charge for lying to the FBI was recently dropped by the Justice Department based in part on the argument that his lies were not material to an underlying investigation.
Boente also said in a recently leaked memo that material put into the public record about Flynn was not exculpatory for the former national security advisor.
The memo undermines the Justice Department's latest position that material about Flynn was mishandled by prosecutors.
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs said on April 27 that, "Shocking new reports suggest F.B.I. General Counsel Dana Boente day was acting in coordination with F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray to block the release of that evidence that would have cleared General Flynn."
Wray formally asked for Boente's resignation, but the decision to end his tenure at the FBI came from Attorney General William Barr's Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, according to two sources.
A spokesman for the FBI said Boente announced on Friday his decision to retire, which will take effect June 30.
"Few people have served so well in so many critical, high-level roles at the Department," Wray said in a statement.
"Throughout his long and distinguished career as a public servant, Dana has demonstrated a selfless determination to ensure that justice is always served on behalf of our citizens."
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| | Subject: Re: FBI's Top Lawyer, Dana Boente, Ousted Amid Fox News Criticism Sat May 30, 2020 5:05 pm | |
| He may have been a source for leaks =
On April 11, 2018, Rachel Maddow showed on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC notes from Boente where he documented his conversation with James Comey about Comey's experiences with Donald Trump. Maddow also showed a letter from Boente to the Department of Justice wherein Boente relayed a request to other officials to preserve "Documents and Responsive Materials" about Trump's dismissal of James Comey as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| | Subject: Re: FBI's Top Lawyer, Dana Boente, Ousted Amid Fox News Criticism Sat May 30, 2020 6:30 pm | |
| All those papers/documents were public whatever
and reporters get hold of them through, can't recall what its call.
Nothing classified etc..
And Dana Boente had 38-year career
that's a half a lifetime, and he was clean.
trump let him go because Fox wanted him gone..
trump hasn't a clue what to do about anything
he has fox Hannity, Dobs etc tell him what to do BWAA
trump is so inept .. |
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