Barack Obama Quotes
I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton].
Obama, Barack. "Interview with Chris Wallace." Fox News Sunday, 10 Apr. 2016.
She did not think that the U. S. Attorneys, most of whom were Republicans, were loyal enough to President George W. Bush or ideological enough. The Attorney General refused to fire them all, but he did fire eight for political reasons including one to be replaced by a friend of White House Aide Karl Rove. Miers was so unqualified for the Supreme Court that the Senate members of her own party forced her to withdraw.
The advice turned out to be essentially correct.
This Attorney General didn’t even want the FBI or the Immigration & Naturalization Service in his department as size and power might compromise the objectivity of the advice he gave the President. See {45926}
the CIA and the FBI This was not the only time where the CIA and the FBI impeded investigations of serious criminals. Both for example withheld evidence and lied to the Warren Commission investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The FBI for years helped Southern Law Enforcement officials cover up their and other racial murders and assaults. The CIA had a history of lying to a number of presidents. Each time a reorganization and house cleaning promised to change the agency, but it only works for a while. In the case of the Nazis, it started with our intelligence agencies trying to bring Nazi and Japanese scientists who had committed war crimes to the U. S. to help develop weapons against the Russians, who were also lying to their own people and bringing them to Russia to develop weapons for use against the West. Then Nazi spymasters were brought over and soon, any Nazi War criminal who would claim that he and information about the Communists of Eastern Europe or Russia. Finally, it was lower level Nazi concentration camp guards who had murdered inmates. At that time the intelligence agencies did not want American knowing that many war criminals were living well in the United States even though they were often wanted for crimes in Germany of other European countries. So they preferred that the investigations cease and the media not focus on the problem. There is no evidence that President Reagan knew about the investigation obstructions, however his assistant Pat Buchanan had a history of trying to stop of delay the deportation of Nazi War criminals who had lied on their applications to enter the United States. Many analysts noted a tendency toward anti-semitism in his personal and public life, and he was particularly unconcerned when the victims of the war crimes had been Russians or other European communists.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
