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Jody Hunt was chief of staff to Sessions
From my timeline:
March 2, 2017: The deadline for renewal of the FISA warrant was approaching. Comey couldn’t get the renewal unless Justice could get the President to sign an executive order to grant it! The first FISA application had been on October 21st, 2016, and the first of four renewals on January 12, 2017 before Trump's inauguration. These were issued during Obama's administration. When Yates, the Deputy Attorney General, had been fired on January 30th, 2017, she was replaced on January 31st (see link) by the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), Boente, and there had been at that time no Attorney General. Boente was acting DAG until Sessions's confirmation on February 8th, 2017. Boente would remain until Rosenstein's confirmation on April 25th, 2017. So on this date of March 2nd, Dana Boente was in a small group meeting working on getting Sessions to recuse himself from anything to do with the 2016 election, which of course would include the FBI counterintelligence investigation Crossfire Hurricane. Sessions recused himself, but it may have been not for the reason the plotters thought. He recused himself because he would be part of the IG's investigation of the FISA abuses, of which he would be a witness. Trump already had a plan in motion, and Sessions was to assign Horowitz on the investigation, as well as other investigators in other far ranging matters. 'At this meeting on March 2 were Sessions’schief of staff Jody Hunt;Criminal Chief in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, Jim Crowell; Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) in the Department of Justice National Security Division Tash Gauhar (FISA lawyer); and Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools. Tash Gauhar had been the lawyer for FBI Clinton case; and Scott Schools had participated in the draft of Clinton's exoneration letter. With Sessions recused, Comey now reported to Acting Deputy AG Dana Boente. However, because he was only the Acting DAG, this presented a problem in applying for the FISA renewal, the deadline of which was approaching. A confirmed Deputy AG had to sign it. Rosenstein would not be confirmed until April 25th, past the deadline of the 12th.
May 8, 2017: White House counsel Don McGahn met with Sessions and Rosenstein. Present also wereJody Hunt, Sessions’ chief of staffand White House Counsel’s Office attorney Uttam Dhillon. McGahn informed them of Trump's decision to fire Comey, asking their view of this. Sessions and Rosenstein did not object to this. According toHunt,Sessions remarked he had already recommended Comey be fired and Rosenstein questioned Comey’s handling of the Clinton email investigation.In fact, Sessions and Rosenstein had discussed this ever since Sessions was nominated for AG. This satisfied McGahn and Dhillon that it was not considered obstruction of justice.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-acting-attorney-general-sally-yates/