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The White House has withdrawn the nomination of former U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu for a top post at the Treasury Department, CBS News has confirmed. Liu was previously the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where she oversaw the prosecutions of Trump associate Roger Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.Liu stepped do stanley deutschland wn from her role as U.S. attorney in late 2019. The Trump administration has yet to give any explanation for withdrawing Liu s name. Her nomination for under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes was sent to the Senate last month.But news of her withdrawn nomination comes the same day all four government attorneys involved in prosecuting Stone resigned from the case. The government had initially recommended a sentence of seven to nine years for Stone, who stands convicted of of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness. Overnight, the president tweeted his displeasure with the sentencing recommendation, calling it a miscarriage of justice. The government said in a court filing Tuesday that recommendation was too harsh, and said it would leave it to the court to decide Stone s fate. The president insists he hasn t spoken with the Justice Department about Stone s sentencing.A senior Justice Department stanley spain o stanley cup fficial called the president s tweet an inconvenient coincidence. The official claimed the fourth and fifth floors of the Justice Department, Efow Pennsylvania Senate GOP primary recount begins
AP/Washington Post A report in London s Daily Telegraph today, citing retir stanley cup ed Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, alleges that among the photos President Obama wants to keep from the public are images that show American soldiers raping detainees as well as sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phospho termo stanley rescent tube. Both the Pentagon and the White House today disputed the report and criticized the newspaper from which it came. But they stopped short of suggesting that the photographs do not exist. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Telegraph has completely mischaracterized the images. He added: None of the photos in question depict the images that are described in that article. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, meanwhile, attacked the British press stanley cups uk . If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I m not entirely sure it d be the first stack of clips I picked up, he said. Gibbs went on to say that you re not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other. Echoing Whitman, he also said that none of the photographs in question depict the images described in the article. But those comments leave some wiggle room. Taguba investigated abuse at Abu Ghraib, but it is not clear that he was privy to the detainee photos the president wants kept classified. Those pictures, which allegedly depict abuse at various facilities in Iraq and Afghanis
The White House has withdrawn the nomination of former U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu for a top post at the Treasury Department, CBS News has confirmed. Liu was previously the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where she oversaw the prosecutions of Trump associate Roger Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.Liu stepped do stanley deutschland wn from her role as U.S. attorney in late 2019. The Trump administration has yet to give any explanation for withdrawing Liu s name. Her nomination for under secretary for terrorism and financial crimes was sent to the Senate last month.But news of her withdrawn nomination comes the same day all four government attorneys involved in prosecuting Stone resigned from the case. The government had initially recommended a sentence of seven to nine years for Stone, who stands convicted of of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness. Overnight, the president tweeted his displeasure with the sentencing recommendation, calling it a miscarriage of justice. The government said in a court filing Tuesday that recommendation was too harsh, and said it would leave it to the court to decide Stone s fate. The president insists he hasn t spoken with the Justice Department about Stone s sentencing.A senior Justice Department stanley spain o stanley cup fficial called the president s tweet an inconvenient coincidence. The official claimed the fourth and fifth floors of the Justice Department, Efow Pennsylvania Senate GOP primary recount begins
AP/Washington Post A report in London s Daily Telegraph today, citing retir stanley cup ed Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, alleges that among the photos President Obama wants to keep from the public are images that show American soldiers raping detainees as well as sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phospho termo stanley rescent tube. Both the Pentagon and the White House today disputed the report and criticized the newspaper from which it came. But they stopped short of suggesting that the photographs do not exist. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the Telegraph has completely mischaracterized the images. He added: None of the photos in question depict the images that are described in that article. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, meanwhile, attacked the British press stanley cups uk . If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I m not entirely sure it d be the first stack of clips I picked up, he said. Gibbs went on to say that you re not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other. Echoing Whitman, he also said that none of the photographs in question depict the images described in the article. But those comments leave some wiggle room. Taguba investigated abuse at Abu Ghraib, but it is not clear that he was privy to the detainee photos the president wants kept classified. Those pictures, which allegedly depict abuse at various facilities in Iraq and Afghanis
