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Opinion | A Dangerous Pick at Justice
The Editorial Board
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Susan Hennessey
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Even as the 2020 stolen-election myth continues to tear at the GOP, the
Biden Administration is elevating a key figure in the campaign to
delegitimize Donald Trump’s election in 2016.
Susan Hennessey of the Brookings Institution announced this week on
Twitter that she is joining the Justice Department’s national security
division, where Politico reports she will be senior counsel. The post
doesn’t require Senate confirmation, but it can play a role in
election-related investigations and enforcement.
Ms. Hennessey made her name as a commentator by hyping Russian collusion
allegations. A former National Security Agency lawyer, she bestowed
phony credibility on the Steele dossier after the 2016 election. In 2017
she wrote that the unlawful leak of National Security Adviser Michael
Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador “posed a
countervailing set of extraordinary circumstances.” She tweeted in 2019
that the decision to drop charges against Mr. Flynn was “an astonishing
assault on the rule of law.”
Ms. Hennessey has an undisguised partisan interest in the Russia probe,
which is still being investigated by U.S. Attorney John Durham. After
the 2020 election, Ms. Hennessey tweeted that Mr. Durham’s work was
“partisan silliness.”
Then there’s the investigation of Rudy Giuliani, who was recently the
target of search warrants, apparently over dealings in Ukraine. Leaks to
the press—perhaps from Justice—claimed falsely that the FBI had briefed
him on a Russian disinformation campaign. Ms. Hennessey is the wrong
person to be anywhere near these investigations, or anything that
involves her miles-long list of people she loathes.
We were optimistic about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s ability to
restore confidence in apolitical justice. But the way his department is
shaping up—from personnel picks to the aggressive moves against police
departments—Justice may only be sliding deeper into the partisan muck.
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