The administration of President Donald Trump of the United States has sacked the head of a key US Justice Department task force that combats drugs and organized crime....Read Full Article >>➤
In a post on social media, Adam Cohen, who was director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, said he had been fired by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former criminal defense attorney of the president.
His sack reportedly came 18 hours after Blanche released a memo that Cohen had helped him draft which announced that the task force he led would be playing a new leading role in combating illegal immigration, as part of an initiative dubbed Operation Take Back America.
Writing about his firing on LinkedIn, Cohen noted that he had been meeting regularly with leadership to discuss violent crime initiatives.
“It was a shock. Putting bad guys in jail was as apolitical as it gets. My personal politics were never relevant. Not until yesterday,” Cohen wrote.
Cohen’s firing is one of the latest examples of the Trump administration removing or sidelining career Justice Department officials, who typically keep their positions across presidential administrations.
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