🚨🚨 Senior DOJ Resignation🚨🚨
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband Announces Departure from Civil Rights Division
Assistant Attorney General Eric S. Dreiband of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced his departure from the department, effective Jan. 8, 2021. Dreiband has served as Assistant Attorney General since Nov. 1, 2018.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/assistant-attorney-general-eric-dreiband-announces-departure-civil-rights-division
🚨🚨 Dems pushing out both Sergeant at Arms🚨🚨
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2021/01/house-sergeant-at-arms-resigns-leaders-seek-resignation-of-capitol-police-chief-after-breach-of-us-capitol.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will ask for the resignation of Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund a day after supporters of President Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 presidential election results.
The California Democrat also said Thursday that House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, another key security official, had already submitted his resignation. He reports directly to Pelosi, while Sund answers to both House and Senate.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he’ll fire the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger.
Lawmakers have mixed praise for the Capitol Police with harsh criticism for the outfit, which was overwhelmed by Wednesday’s mob and unprepared for it.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is also vowing to fire Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Stenger is in charge of the chamber’s security.
Schumer says, “I will fire him as soon as Democrats have a majority in the Senate.” The New York Democrat will become the majority leader after Georgia Sens.-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are sworn in.
Top Republican and outgoing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agrees that there was a “massive failure’' by police and other officials that allowed a violent breach at the Capitol Wednesday.
McConnell says a “painstaking investigation and thorough review must now take place and significant changes must follow.’'
He says the “ultimate blame” lies with the criminals who broke into the Capitol and the people who incited them. But he said that “does not and will not preclude our addressing the shocking failures in the Capitol’s security posture and protocols.”