Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has made several “significant” edits to the Department of Justice manual to centralize the agency's powers. According to to findings From the Article III project obtained exclusively by Blaze News.
This exclusive report shows Monaco's various ties to Big Tech companies like Google, which, combined with her sweeping powers at the Justice Department, threaten to undermine President Joe Biden's longstanding antitrust policies. This indicates that there is a possibility of “damage”.
“The only thing President Biden has gotten right in almost four years is antitrust enforcement against Big Tech,” Mike Davis, president and founder of the Article III Project, told Blaze News.
“If Lisa Monaco is looking for another job and can't do her current job, she should quit immediately,” Davis told Blaze News.
“Lisa Monaco, currently the Biden administration’s No. 2 senior Justice Department official, is currently facing two game-changing antitrust lawsuits from Judge Biden, including the $1 trillion Big Tech monopoly.” “It appears he is trying to undermine his boss's longstanding antitrust law to curry favor with Google, a company that has been punished by authorities for gross abuses of the online search and advertising markets,” Davis said. continued.
According to the report, Monaco was previously a partner at law firm O'Melveny & Myers, where he represented Big Tech companies such as Apple and Google in class actions and copyright litigation, as well as patent and antitrust litigation. It was. Monaco also acted as an advisor to WestExec and worked closely with Google on Project Maven, a controversial defense contract to develop artificial intelligence for drones.
According to the report, editing authority for the Justice Department manual was transferred from the U.S. Attorney's Office to the manual's “editor-in-chief” and “editor-in-chief” in March of this year. Both of these positions are manually selected by the DAG. As a result, Monaco was able to adjust the wording of the manual to strengthen its own powers and weaken those of the incoming government.
At the same time, a sentence was added to the manual stating that “questions regarding internal control policies and procedures should be directed to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General,” according to the report.
The manual was edited in December 2022 under Monaco's government, giving the DAG the power to “delegate the power to adjudicate disciplinary actions regarding non-career lawyers,” the report said. The manual was also revised to include a provision that allows the Department of Justice to adjudicate personal misconduct appeals from the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Office of Inspector General.
The report also compares several parts of the manual that have been amended to mandate DAG permissions for various communications.
For example, a section called “Communications with the White House” was added to the manual in April 2022, and initial communications between the White House and the Department of Justice include only the DAG or AG and the President's Counsel or Deputy Counsel. That was required. According to the report.
In addition, all communications from high-level security officials at the Department of Justice, requests for legal opinions from the White House, and communications between the White House and the Office of the Attorney General regarding the Supreme Court involve only the AG, DAG. I have to. According to the report, or the Secretary-General.
All of these efforts to strengthen the power of Mr. Monaco's office raise questions about his antitrust compliance, given his past ties to Big Tech companies, the report said.
“If Lisa Monaco is looking for another job and can't do her current job, she should quit immediately,” Davis told Blaze News.
The Justice Department's Office of Media Investigations did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
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