Anonymous ID: 206a8a July 20, 2020, 8:03 a.m. No.10021721   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-hires-new-top-lawyer-as-it-deals-with-russia-investigation-controversies

 

The FBI has hired a new top lawyer as it contends with fallout from the Russia investigation.

 

Director Christopher Wray picked Jason Jones, a partner at law firm King & Spalding LLP, to come on as general counsel, an FBI representative confirmed to the Washington Examiner.

 

He will start in August, according to an internal letter obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Wray and Jones previously worked together at King & Spalding LLP. Two recent deputy attorneys general, Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein, rejoined the law firm after leaving the Justice Department.

 

Jones is replacing Dana Boente, who faced criticism by Republicans for his role in the Russia investigation. Boente agreed to resign under pressure in late May and left the bureau at the end of June.

 

Jones, a former federal prosecutor, is joining the bureau as it cooperates with U.S. Attorney John Durham's criminal investigation into the Russia investigation and conducts a review of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications after the Justice Department watchdog found several “significant errors and omissions” in the surveillance of Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Anonymous ID: 206a8a July 20, 2020, 8:22 a.m. No.10021874   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1955

https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/new-plan-for-fbi-headquarters-project

 

n line with this plan to maximize space availability at FBI-owned locations, reduce overall costs, and leverage operational efficiencies, the FBI will be moving more than 2,500 positions—both employees and contractors—to its owned facilities across the nation, including Clarksburg, West Virginia; Huntsville, Alabama; Pocatello, Idaho; and Quantico, Virginia. It is anticipated that several hundred positions could be shifted to FBI facilities in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and Pocatello, Idaho, while the remainder would be realigned to Huntsville, Alabama. The FBI already has a substantial presence in each of these communities. The FBI first began operations in Pocatello in 1984 and Clarksburg in 1995. The FBI’s presence at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville dates back to the establishment of the Hazardous Devices School in 1971. The FBI’s long history at these locations suggests that the functions and staff realigned to those locations can be successful in performing mission operations.

 

In summary, the current J. Edgar Hoover building is an impediment to achieving the operational, organizational, and workforce flexibility required by today’s FBI to perform its national security, criminal investigative, and criminal justice services missions and meet the expectations of the American public.