Dana Boente Resigns - Breaking on Rachel

[OliverQ]

Heard rumors of this on twitter earlier today.

[Corgigal]

1. Witness

He must be needed.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. That's no rumour!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dana-boente-resigns-as-us-attorney-for-eastern-district-of-virginia/2017/10/27/78fda97a-bb43-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.5d55c09d339a

Dana Boente announces resignation as U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia

Dana Boente, the U.S. attorney from Virginia who gained national prominence when he took a temporary leading role in President Trump’s Justice Department, has submitted his resignation.

He plans to serve until a successor is confirmed.

“I will be around for a while and hope to visit with all of you to discuss how much the office and our work means to each of us,” Boente wrote in a letter to the lawyers he oversees in the Eastern District of Virginia. “I have so much respect for you and the work you do every day.”

Boente, a 33-year veteran of the Justice Department, was tapped earlier this year to serve as acting attorney general after Sally Yates was fired. He went on to serve as acting deputy attorney general.

He is serving as acting assistant attorney general of the National Security Division and will remain in that post until John C. Demers, an attorney for Boeing who worked at the Justice Department under President George W. Bush, is confirmed.

“Dana is a superb prosecutor — tough, smart, honest, compassionate and fair — and a cherished colleague and friend,” said Chuck Rosenberg, a former U.S. attorney for the same district who recently resigned as acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

[OliverQ]

3. Updated my post - it was rumored on twitter earlier today, now confirmed.

[PhilosopherKing]

4. What does this mean exactly?

Anyone?

[OliverQ]

5. Probably a witness for Mueller and now that charges are going on, he's not needed

to be a US attorney anymore.