Supposed non-Republican Rachel Brand goes on Fox (!!!) to discuss her move, FBI to Walmart

[sharedvalues]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ex-doj-official-rachel-brand-i-didnt-resign-over-mueller-probe

Former Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand swatted away rumors on Wednesday that she’d left the position over concerns about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

“Anyone who actually knows me knows that had nothing to do with my departure,” she told Fox News in an interview, adding: “I never had any reason to think that the Mueller probe would come to me, and even if it had, it has nothing to do with why I left the department.”


Brand left the Justice Department to take a job as Walmart’s executive vice president of global governance and corporate secretary, Fox News noted.

This puts the lie to any notion that the FBI is some kind of hotbed of liberal activity.
Rachel Brand, who donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republicans, chose a right-wing propaganda outlet to give an interview to.



And the irony is not lost on us that Rachel, in typical style for a modern Republican, left a job in which she was serving the American people to go make lots of money for herself. Doubly ironic: she went to probably the single corporation most responsible for screwing the American working class in order to enrich GOP billionaire donors -- the Walton family, who are major donors to Koch causes.


Good luck making money for yourself via the revolving door, Ms. Brand! Hope it is worth it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. sick

[Hortensis]

2. Rachel Brand held high position in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,

probably the world's largest business lobbying firm, and among its most unconscionable. The USCOC had gone extremist "ilbertarian" by 2010, which forced many corporations to dissociate from it (and come back secretly through a special conduit set up).

Brand started there in 2011. She was head of the department that developed legal strategies to combat legislation in nations that obstructed harmful business activities. She worked with Walmart during that period and presumably was very useful to one of the planet's largest international corporations.

Given this background, I suspect this tough, competent woman's reason for leaving the JD was not, as claimed, the unpleasantness of honorably fulfilling her duties in the JD, but rather unwillingness to live with the fallout of the decisions she would have made.

The choice, at its most basic, is whether the president is above the law or is the president accountable to the people through application of the law?

Brand's only in her 40s. Doing her job honorably would not have hurt her with most corporations and would have made her a hero in society and in history books. However, loyalty to the antigovernment forces currently directing the right, such as the USCOC, would have meant being seen by most as a traitor to her nation for the rest of her life.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[sharedvalues]

4. Yes. Shes already hurt the nation by loyalty to money over everything.

We should not forget that in a time when her country needed great leadership, Rachel Brand slunk away to take a job that would be personally enriching.

She bravely turned her tail and fled. Consistent with her past record of service to billionaires at the USCOC.

Rod Rosenstein and Bob Mueller are choosing country over money and the GOP, which today is focused on greed and money. Not so Rachel Brand. She ran away.

[Hortensis]

5. As I said, tho, I don't think she chose only for money,

but is using that as an excuse to cover her larger motive. A person of her stature can always make big money, unless she ruins her stature.

What could be more "personally enriching" than staying right where she was and doing her duty to her nation? Money only if she lacked the right stuff. I think there's a huge clue in her refusal to stay and do the job she signed on for, thus abandoning her duty earlier than she perhaps might have betrayed it.

Harsh interpretation, but she did work for a much-loathed extreme right-wing organization and did abandon her country when she was called to serve.

[sharedvalues]

6. Agreed. Long term money or short term money,

She certainly didn’t choose “help save our country”.

Cheers. Have a good Sunday!

[Hortensis]

7. It is a good, lazy Sunday.

Sheltered from good rain on our covered patio watching the birds out on the marsh. Your version of the same to you.