top law enforcement officer is someone whoef oakes a different kind of emotional reaction out of particularly a paranoid slice of the public and it s therefore just a hard place to be first, to break any sort of barrier. i mean, the attorney general sits at the conjunction of law and policy and the justice department is in so many parts of so many people s lives. you know, from national security things to civil rights, voting, that you are a presence in a way that other cabinet members are not. that is at least one of the reasons why perhaps, you know, i could engender those kinds of negative feelings. most people saw me as a representative of the obama administration. and for some. and i m not saying this is for all. but for some i think there were probably some racial issues. in terms of the justice department as a national security agency, which in many ways it is, i ve always wondered
attorney generals have gotten in trouble when they have forgotten that they re different than other cabinet agencies. senator leahey said to me, you are not the secretary of justice, you are the duepartmen of justice. put up kind of an interesting thing between me and a president who i was a friend with. there were certain things we couldn t discuss, certain things we didn t discuss. but i think that s an appropriate way for an attorney general general to think of himself or herself and it s an appropriate way for the justice department to be run. is there more discontinuity between the justice department under jeff sessions and the justice department under president obama than there has been be under previous administrations? i m looking from outside but it sure seems that way to me. there have been statements this attorney general has made, attorney general sessions has made, the interactions he s had
hadn t end well. janet reno served before you, and you were the only african-american man to serve. the only have vi tral that i sa towards a man was towards janet reno. my theory has been the nation s top law enforcement officer evokes a different reaction, and therefore it s hard to be first to break any barrier. the attorney general sits at the conjunction of law and policy and the justice department is in so many parlts of people s lives, from national security to civil rights, voting. that you are a presence in a way that other cabinet members are not. i thought 1/2 one of the reasons why perhaps i could engender those kind of negative feelings. most people saw me as a
if it fits the line of national security policy making in the sense that it s less partisan than other types of domestic policy, what i mean by that is in my job i m often looking back into sometime in the last couple generations looking for historic a.m. context for things that aare happening now. if the public security officials are i often have to look up what their partisan affiliation is because in the national security environment it s just often not that important. and there s a certain continuity and inner shah in national security policy that transcends partisan wins. is that also true at justice? yes. and justice department officials have gotten in trouble, attorneys general have got nen trouble when they ve forgotten the justice department is really different from other cabinet agencies. i remember senator leahy said to me during the confirmation, you re not the secretary of justice, you re the attorney general of the united states, and there has to be a wall
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