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Apr. 11, 2018

Fired White House Official Hired by DOJ at Trump’s Insistence

Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a controversial former national security aide to President Donald Trump who was pushed out of the White House by H.R. McMaster, is rejoining the Trump administration. In his new role he will serve as Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s national security adviser.

A 31-year-old former intelligence officer, Cohen-Watnick was brought on to Trump’s national Security Council by Michael Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser. When Flynn’s 24-day tenure ended in February of 2017, his replacement, H.R. McMaster, began cleaning house. But he wasn’t able to remove Cohen-Watnick, who reportedly used his alliances with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon to stay in the White House.

McMaster eventually got his way, pushing out Cohen-Watnick last summer after he became involved with Representative Devin Nunes and his attempts to prove Trump’s claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. He then went to work for Silicon Valley tech giant Oracle, according to Talking Points Memo, which said his return to the Trump administration has been in the works for months.

With McMaster out of the way, Trump moved to bring back Cohen-Watnick, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Trump “personally ordered the Department of Justice to hire,” Bloomberg says, despite a general policy not to rehire people who were fired.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/fired-white-house-official-joins-doj-at-trumps-insistence.html

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That sentiment was echoed by the former assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, Randy Coleman, who said the bureau had “a group of guys in here, professionals, that are conducting an investigation. And the … president of the United States just came out and said there’s no there there.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-doj-officials-upset-obamas-comments-hillary-clinton-email-use-ig-finds

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The former assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, Randy Coleman, wrote a note saying “Crimes Against Children” in connection to the digital devices of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner.

Coleman’s notes, which were obtained by the Department of Justice Inspector General, were taken on Oct. 4, 2016.

Just over a week earlier, on Sept. 26, the FBI obtained a search warrant for Weiner’s iPhone, iPad and laptop computer related to crimes of “transmitting obscene material to a minor, sexual exploitation of children, and activities related to child pornography.”

Weiner was charged with and pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a 15-year-old girl. He was not charged with possession of child pornography or other related charges, however.

In his notes, as published in a report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General, Coleman wrote:

(1) Anthony Wiener [sic]

(2) [Unrelated]

(3) Wiener [sic] – texting 15 yo – Sexually Explicit

9/26 – Federal SW – IPhone/IPAD/Laptop

Initial analysis of laptop – thousands emails

Hillary Clinton & Foundation

Crime Against Children

After obtaining Weiner’s devices, the agent processing their contents discovered “within hours” over 300,000 emails, many of them involving communications between Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, and Hillary Clinton.

The findings were deemed relevant to the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton sending classified information using a private email server.

From Coleman’s notes, the exact context of the “Crime Against Children” is unclear, as well as the mention of the Clinton Foundation.

Coleman did not reply to an emailed request for comment from The Epoch Times. Coleman left the FBI in December 2016 and now works in the private sector.

Coleman told the Inspector General that the notes “likely represent information he was briefed on, first thing in the morning by his subordinates in the Criminal Investigative Division,” and that he might “have passed this information to other FBI executives after the morning briefing with the Director.”

The agenda of then-FBI Director James Comey on Oct. 4 showed that he had a meeting scheduled with Coleman from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/top-fbi-official-made-crimes-against-children-note-in-connection-to-weiners-devices_2568226.html