The Biden administration’s latest hire to the Department of Justice is a CNN analyst and Obama administration alumna with a history of spreading baseless conspiracy theories and disparaging the investigation into the federal government’s surveillance abuse of members of the Trump campaign.
Susan Hennessey, who on Monday was appointed as the DOJ’s new general counsel, deleted thousands of tweets prior to her appointment, a move her colleagues says was routine and a result of an auto-delete feature rather than an attempt to hide her past statements. Hennessey was one of the biggest purveyors in the conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election, an allegation that was disproven after a two-year special counsel investigation. Hennessey was so prolific in her spreading of what has come to be known as the Russiagate hoax that journalist Glenn Greenwald called her “one of the most deranged Russiagate conspiracists of the last 4 years.”
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