RACHEL BRAND | The Making Of A Deepstate Asset
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The deepstate's feeling the pressure as another rat flees the administration. Rewarded for her service to the deepstate, Rachel Brand was handed a lucrative job at Walmart after she recently stepped down from her position as the United States Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice.
Brand stepping down at this crucial time in the Russia-Trump investigation comes as no coincidence. If Trump either decided to fire Rosenstein, or if Rosenstein was called as a witness in the Mueller investigation, Brand would have been left to oversee the controversial investigation. This would have ptentually left her exposed and in a vulnerable situation.
Rachel Brand: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy - 02/09/2018
Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 attorney at the Justice Department as Associate Attorney General, has resigned her position. What makes the surprise resignation even more interesting: It was previously thought that she could end up overseeing the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election and possible collusion with the Donald Trump campaign if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had to recuse himself for his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey (or if Rosenstein were fired).
From all the news recently you would think Brand was just another Trump appointee. Although he did appoint her, this is not the first time she has work for, or resigned from, the DOJ. In 2007 she was involved in the controversial firing of several of her fellow DOJ colleagues.
Political Résumé, Not Court, Stood Out for a Contender | New York Times - 04/17/2007
WASHINGTON, April 13 — Rachel L. Brand, by her own admission, has never prosecuted so much as a traffic case. But in January 2006, when Justice Department officials began to discuss removing some United States attorneys, Ms. Brand was proposed as the top federal prosecutor in the Western District of Michigan, an e-mail message released on Friday shows.
In the end, Ms. Brand, who heads the Office of Legal Policy in the department, decided that she did not want the position and was not nominated to succeed Margaret M. Chiara, then the top prosecutor for the district. Ms. Chiara was later ousted.
The four other people proposed in the message as successors to other United States attorneys had greater experience. But it was notable that Ms. Brand, a 33-year-old cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, was recommended by D. Kyle Sampson, then chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
After being caught out trying to eliminate her competition for the top prosecutor position she decided to step down as the head the Office of Legal Policy at the DOJ.
Seventh official quits Justice Department | Reuters - 06/29/2007
An assistant attorney general at the Justice Department announced her resignation on Friday, becoming the seventh official to quit the department since the Democratic-led Congress launched an investigation in March into the firing of nine federal prosecutors. Rachel Brand, assistant attorney general for legal policy, said she would step down on July 9. No reason was given. Brand was nominated to her position on March 29, 2005, and confirmed by the Senate four months later.