The question of concern.

What is or constitutes a ' legal' investigation?

...are legal

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann removal changes the dynamic..?

What happens when this question is fairly and Lawfully assessed?

Spygate lawful?

Former Obama administration officials concerns legitimate as the Mueller investigation?

To be determined...

Barr’s removal of career national security official, weeks before election, raises concernsA little-known office in the Justice Department has lost its long-time chief.

Current and former national security officials are raising concerns over Attorney General William Barr's recent decision to remove the head of a Justice Department office👉 that helps ensure federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence activities are legal – 👈and replace him with a political appointee with relatively limited experience.

👉"It's very alarming," said Katrina Mulligan, who worked for the Obama administration in several national security roles and then, after President Donald Trump's inauguration, 👈joined the Office of Law and Policy in the Justice Department's National Security Division.

For much of the past decade, that little-known office has been led by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brad Wiegmann, a 23-year career public servant, not a political appointee. But two weeks ago, Wiegmann, 54, was told he is being reassigned and replaced with a political appointee, according to a Justice Department spokesman and sources familiar with the matter.

The timing of the personnel change – coming just two months before the U.S. presidential election, and in the midst of a battle against domestic terrorism and foreign interference in the election – has worried current and former members of the national security community.

👉Matt Olsen, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center under the Obama administration,👈 agreed, saying "in and of itself, it's unremarkable" for Wiegmann's position to be filled with a political appointee, but "the concern here is that you have someone who by all accounts has been doing a great job in a very sensitive role … [and] now within really just weeks of the election is replaced with somebody who is viewed more as a partisan."

Now the office is being steered by a political appointee with power to potentially influence decisions over national security policy, especially debates over 👉"what we will and won't do overseas and at home," including in terms of secret surveillance, and when "it is and isn't appropriate"👈 for the Justice Department to tell the public about election interference, Mulligan said.

Though a relatively small unit of fewer than two dozen attorneys, the Office of Law and Policy participates in almost every National Security Council meeting, works with congressional staff to draft new legislation, and 👉conducts oversight of the FBI's intelligence-gathering activities.

"[It] has been sort of the center of gravity for the Department of Justice on national security policy, and it's a central role," said Olsen,👉 who at one point ran the department's National Security Division and later advised Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Wiegmann has led the office since the Obama administration and for almost all of the Trump administration.

Democrats have accused Barr of bending to Trump's will, most recently with his claimsthat left-wing radicals were hijacking civil rights protests and driving bursts of violence across the country, and his suggestion 👉that just weeks before the election he might release the findings of a department review scrutinizing the FBI's investigation of ties between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.👈

Durham clear to proceed?

Obstruction removed?

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/barrs-removal-career-national-security-official-weeks-election/story?id=72726426