The Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed the Department of Justice's hiring of former CNN analyst Susan Hennessey as senior counsel to the its national security division, a role potentially involving "election related investigations and enforcement." The board wrote Wednesday that Hennessey, a former fellow at the Brookings Institution and peddler of conspiracy theories involving Russian collusion in the 2016 election, was "a dangerous pick." NEW BIDEN DOJ STAFFER DELETED OVER 39K TWEETS, INCLUDING RUSSIA COLLUSION ACCUSATIONSHennessey made a name for herself as a commentator on CNN by hyping up allegations of Russian collusion against the Trump campaign, in addition to touting the discredited Christopher Steele dossier. "A former National Security Agency lawyer, she bestowed phony credibility on the Steele dossier after the 2016 election," the op-ed continued. "In 2017 she wrote that the unlawful leak of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador 'posed a countervailing set of extraordinary circumstances.'"

Source: Fox News May 13, 2021 20:26 UTC