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Why Barry Soetoro asked Robert Mueller to stay on for two more years?
http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/12/behind-the-decision-to-keep-mueller-on-at-the-fbi/
So why stretch out his appointment? Insiders say months of searching turned up nobody as well qualified who was easily confirmable and willing to take the job.
Thursday’s announcement was a shrewd political move for Obama, who has struggled to win Senate approval for his nominees. (James Cole recently became the first nominee for deputy attorney general to face a filibuster.) Mueller’s extension will keep him in the job until September 4, 2013, well after the presidential election.
“This gets [Obama] through the re-elect with a solid, stable leader at the FBI,” said a senior administration official, who would not speak on the record. “And politically it makes sense for Republicans to support. If they win the presidency, they’ll get to pick the next director.”
For months, Holder and Vice President Biden led a search committee to find Mueller’s successor. Replacing him was bound to be a tall order.
Maybe something to cover up?
https://www.thenation.com/article/robert-muellers-questionable-extension-fbi-director/
During Mueller’s appearance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, only Senator Al Franken raised this question. Mueller—who had received largely softball questions and lengthy praise to that point—became visibly uncomfortable when Franken started off by telling him that “your department has been heavily criticized over the last ten years for significant misuse of the department’s surveillance powers and for other major civil liberties violations.”
Franken then asked about the findings of the Justice Department’s inspector general in 2007 that the FBI engaged in serious abuse of national security letters, which are essentially subpoenas issued by the FBI that are not subject to judicial review.
or could it have been this? (also 50 737 NextGen aircraft…possibly of the type that have crashed recently)
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3255-obamas-russia-adviser-michael-mcfaul-and-the-russian-spies
The McFaul-Surkov efforts paid off handsomely in June with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's trip to the United States, during which he signed an historic agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) "for collaboration in education and research in Russia."
Even more important was Medvedev's visit to California's Silicon Valley, where, among other things, he inked a $1 billion deal with Cisco Systems, and met with Apple's Steve Jobs (who presented him with one of the first iPhone 4 units).
The big deal, however, was the announced $4 billion sale of 50 Boeing Next-Generation 737 jet airplanes to Russia.
Skolkovo?
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3268-breathing-pixie-dust-investing-in-russia
Apparently, Dyson and other Medvedev cheerleaders were quite taken with the Russian President's easy delivery of scripted lines during his U.S. tour. On taking leave of California's Governor Schwarzenegger, Medvedev predictably borrowed quips from Arnold's action-hero movies. "I'll be back," he told Schwarzenegger. And with a wink, he added "Hasta la vista baby."
Esther Dyson is typical of the American elites who promote East-West convergence and claim to see a bright silver lining in every dark cloud over the Kremlin, a new blossoming of freedom in every new concentration of power by the KGB/FSB. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and an advisory board member of the Soros Medical Internet Project, Dyson is also well connected to the powers-that-be in Russia, including Putin, Medvedev, and unsavory oligarchs such as Yuri Milner, Alisher Usmanov, Roman Abramovich, and Viktor Vekselberg.