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@JackPosobiec Reporter: Do you have any misgivings about being told to plan a military parade? Mattis: “I’m not paid for my feelings. I save those for my girlfriend”

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And I'll bet they're scratching their collective heads wondering why. @ByRosenberg The San Jose Mercury News, the only daily newspaper in Silicon Valley, had 400 journalists a decade ago. After more layoffs this week, it's down to 41. Just awful to see basic news completely disappear in one of the world's most prosperous places Bay Area News Group Hammered by More Layoffs, Resignations sanjoseinside.com

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“This is a Very Big Deal”: Meet the Trump Appointee Who Could Replace Outgoing DOJ Official Rachel Brand

Gateway Pundit, by Joshua Caplan

The third-highest ranking Justice Department official, Rachel Brand, is leaving her post, reports the New York Times. Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision. (Snip) Who will replace Brand? According to an executive order on Justice Department succession issued on March 31, 2017, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia gets first dibs. Second is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina and third is the Northern District of Texas. Because Tracy Doherty-McCormick is only the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the official most likely to replace Brand is U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert Higdon.

Robert J. Higdon, Jr. was nominated to be the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina by President Donald Trump on August 2, 2017. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28, 2017. As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Higdon is the top-ranking federal law enforcement official in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which includes the 44 eastern most counties of North Carolina. He oversees a staff of 108 employees, including 51 attorneys and 57 non-attorney support personnel. The office also partners with some 20 Special Assistant United States Attorneys from branches of the United States military, local District Attorneys offices and federal and state regulatory agencies.

In 2012, Higdon was the lead prosecutor in the campaign finance fraud case involving former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.

Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas noted the shakeup is a, “very big deal.”

“It’s Brand (or her successor) who’s first in line to take over supervision of Mueller’s investigation if Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is fired.”

This is a very big deal.

It’s Brand (or her successor) who’s first in line to take over supervision of Mueller’s investigation if Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is fired… t.co

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 9, 2018

“So far as I know, there isn’t currently a confirmed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, so under the current Executive Order, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina is next in the line of succession,” added Vladeck.

So far as I know, there isn’t currently a confirmed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, so under the current Executive Order, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina is next in the line of succession:https://t.co/iEfJI9hKqB

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 9, 2018

Brand joins a growing list of key officials leaving the FBI/DOJ cabal amid Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s probe into the bureau’s Clinton email investigation.

Top Justice Department official, David Laufman, who helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email investigation resigned Wednesday, reported the Washington Post.

Former FBI special agent Josh Campbell recently quit the bureau to join CNN, citing increasing levels of criticism directed at the agency.

In what was a significant shakeup at the FBI, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down January 29th.

“McCabe, who served a brief stint as acting director of the bureau, was already expected to leave. He will stay on ‘terminal leave’ until he is eligible to retire with benefits in March,” reported CNBC.

In late January, James Rybicki, a top FBI official who was once chief of staff to James Comey and current Bureau Director Christopher Wray, resigned as well.

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