1. If I were part of Trump's Russian conspiracy that Mueller was prevented from fully investigating, the person who Joe Biden put in as Deputy AG would concern me. He was the Asst. AG for the Nat Sec Div April 2014 to Oct. 15, 2016. He likely knows everything.
2. His name is John Carlin. And as acting Deputy AG runs the pointy end of the DOJ spear.
2.Carlin will oversee much of DOJ but IMO key is the Criminal Division. President Biden has appointed a former SDNY prosecutor to head it, Nicholas McQuaid, who also served as a White House lawyer in the Obama administration.
3. The acting Solicitor General is Elizabeth Prelogar who clerked for Judge Merrick Garland right out of law school. She fluent Russian speaker and has studied Russian media that IMO is propaganda. To fix propaganda here, that I think is often directed from Moscow, it would be
4. handy to have a lawyer who understands it and who is a top constitutional appellate lawyer who Merrick Garland trained, to help try to fix it.
5. John Demers is heading the National Security Division. He's a Trump political appointee who was in position to briefly be acting AG when Rosen stepped down. He appears to have national security background while working for the Trump DOJ. I think there is under the radar Trump
6. National Security investigation that, if I'm right, Demers would likely know of it. The fact that Trump never found out might explain why Demers' is still on the DOJ first team.
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