{"id":1110073,"date":"2021-12-11T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1110073"},"modified":"2021-12-11T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T01:28:44","slug":"jake-sullivans-wife-pressured-to-recuse-herself-from-durham-probe-while-working-for-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-sullivans-wife-pressured-to-recuse-herself-from-durham-probe-while-working-for-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Sullivan&#039;s Wife Pressured to Recuse Herself from\u00a0Durham Probe While Working for DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjake-sullivans-wife-pressured-to-recuse-herself-from-durham-probe-while-working-for-doj%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1110073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP_452379245279-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Jake Sullivan\u2019s wife, Margaret Goodlander, is under pressure to recuse herself from Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s Trump-Russia probe, which involves her husband who worked for the 2016 Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As Durham investigates the Russia Hoax perpetrated on Americans after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016,&nbsp;Jake Sullivan, who serves as President Biden\u2019s national security adviser and is named in an indictment involving the probe, is married to Goodlander, an attorney who works for the Justice Department under Attorney General Marek Garland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Durham probe is overseen by&nbsp;Garland, which presents a conflict of&nbsp;interest&nbsp;for&nbsp;Goodlander, whose&nbsp;boss has authority over Durham\u2019s investigative budget, scope, and release of the probe\u2019s outstanding report.<\/p>\n<p>While Sullivan has not been reportedly indicted for any crime related to the Russia Hoax,&nbsp;\u201cthe national security adviser could be a witness for the investigation given that he was a foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign,\u201d the Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/jake-sullivans-wife-faces-growing-calls-for-recusal-from-durham-probe\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.349019607843\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jake Sullivan&#8217;s Wife Faces Growing Calls for Recusal From Durham Probe<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Goodlander serves as counsel to AG Merrick Garland, who oversees the probe.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckRossDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChuckRossDC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kWyNeunqTl\">https:\/\/t.co\/kWyNeunqTl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1469706049263484930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDurham\u2019s report could also reveal embarrassing details about Sullivan\u2019s work on the campaign to dig up dirt on Donald Trump\u2019s possible links to Russia,\u201d the publication added.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told the publication Goodlander must formally recuse herself from Durham\u2019s investigation to remove any conflict of interest that may arise during the ongoing probe involving her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Justice Department\u2019s standing guidance calls for employees to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest, especially when it comes to ongoing criminal investigations,\u201d Grassley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in Garland\u2019s best interest\u2014and he\u2019s obligated\u2014to be transparent about whether his department is walling off officials who have a real or even perceived conflict, just as prior administrations have done,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Foster, founder and president of Empower Oversight, a watchdog group, told the Free Beacon&nbsp;Goodlander\u2019s recusal would be \u201cno imposition\u201d on the Justice Department, while her recusal would build public reassurance that the probe is carried out justly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be no imposition on [Goodlander] or AG Garland to simply recuse herself from providing any advice to him in relation to that investigation\u2014and thus reassure the public that she will continue to have no role in the future,\u201d Foster said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Sullivan\u2019s wife, Margaret Goodlander, is under pressure to recuse herself from Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s Trump-Russia probe, which involves her husband who worked for the 2016 Clinton campaign. 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