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Anonymous ID: 722351 Oct. 6, 2020, 5:14 p.m. No.10953922   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3944 >>4012 >>4072 >>4106

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/15/oil.disaster.bromwich/index.html

Obama names new top drilling regulator

2010

Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday appointed Michael Bromwich, a former Justice Department watchdog in the Clinton administration, as the new head of a reorganized federal effort to regulate offshore oil drilling.

 

A White House statement said Bromwich would "lead the effort to reform the Minerals Management Service," an Interior Department agency accused of corrupt practices and poor oversight of offshore drilling in the run-up to the Gulf oil disaster.

 

"For a decade or more, the cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency was allowed to go unchecked," Obama said in a White House statement. "That allowed drilling permits to be issued in exchange not for safety plans, but assurances of safety from oil companies. That cannot and will not happen anymore."

 

According to the statement, Bromwich will develop plans "for a new oversight structure, replacing long-standing, inadequate practices with a gold-standard approach for environmental and safety regulation."

 

"He has a mandate to implement far-reaching change and will have the resources to accomplish that change," the statement said.

 

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar previously announced plans to split MMS into three new divisions – the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue.

 

Bromwich, a lawyer who specializes in internal investigations and regulatory matters, was the Justice Department inspector general from 1994-1999 under President Bill Clinton. The job entailed investigating alleged corruption and misconduct in the department.

 

A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Bromwich was a federal prosecutor in New York and served as an associate for the independent counsel office in the Iran-Contra case.

Anonymous ID: 722351 Oct. 6, 2020, 5:15 p.m. No.10953944   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3963

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>Bromwich, a lawyer who specializes in internal investigations and regulatory matters, was the Justice Department inspector general from 1994-1999 under President Bill Clinton. The job entailed investigating alleged corruption and misconduct in the department.

>A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Bromwich was a federal prosecutor in New York and served as an associate for the independent counsel office in the Iran-Contra case.

Anonymous ID: 722351 Oct. 6, 2020, 5:27 p.m. No.10954185   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4285

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>attorney for Andy McCabe

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/29/andrew-mccabe-says-fbi-withholding-documents-ahead/

https://outline.com/Ccv3bM

Andrew McCabe says FBI withholding documents ahead of Senate testimony, demands IG investigate

Attorneys for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Tuesday accused the bureau of improperly withholding documents they say are critical to his Senate testimony next month.

In a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, attorney Michael Bromwich called for an investigation into why his client was denied the materials.

“The facts and circumstances described in this request for an OIG investigation demonstrate that the FBI has improperly and unjustifiably blocked Mr. McCabe from obtaining access that would refresh and enhance his recollection of matters that occurred several years ago in connection with his upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee testimony,” Mr. Bromwich wrote.

“The FBI’s decisions, likely in consultation with DOJ leadership, violate Mr. McCabe’s rights to be properly prepared to testify under oath, is contrary to fundamental fairness, and as a result works to obstruct and impede the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation.”

Mr. McCabe is scheduled to testify before the panel Oct. 6 as part of its investigation into the FBI’s decision-making in the early stages of its investigation into allegations of collusion between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.

He is seeking access to his personal calendars and personal notes from that period, but Mr. Bromwich says the FBI concluded the request was “unmanageably voluminous” and outside the scope of the Russia probe.

When he pushed back, the FBI said the calendars could not be released because they might contain classified material, according to Mr. Bromwich’s letter. Mr. Bromwich disputes that claim.

“Even a cursory check would have demonstrated to the FBI lawyers that the calendars were kept on an unclassified FBI system,” he wrote.

Mr. Bromwich says the FBI has denied the request because Mr. McCabe has a lawsuit pending against the bureau and Justice Department. The lawsuit, filed last year, argues that he was fired in 2018 as an act of political retribution at the behest of Mr. Trump.

In early 2018, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Mr. McCabe, citing an inspector general report that concluded he misled investigators about the leaks he had made to the press.

The FBI has made a discretionary decision, very likely in consultation with DOJ leadership that has borne animus towards Mr. McCabe for the last three years, and at least in part because of his pending civil litigation against the DOJ and FBI,” Mr. Bromwich wrote.

“An FBI spokeswoman said in a statement that that the bureau “has been, and will continue to be, fully cooperative with the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

“The FBI considers a number of factors when evaluating requests for former employees seeking access to bureau records, including the scope of the request and whether the former employee maintains an active security clearance,” the statement said.