Top lawyer in DOJ's National Security Division abruptly resigns
Summary
John Eisenberg, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division, resigned Friday, the department said. The division oversees counterterrorism and counterintelligence work and has recently handled large-scale reviews of Jeffrey Epstein-related files and high-profile national security investigations.Key Facts
- Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Eisenberg’s departure on X.
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon resigned from the Civil Rights Division on Thursday; she had told the White House before the election that she planned to leave.
- U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones of the Southern District of Florida also resigned Friday.
- The National Security Division has lost many career staff members over the past year.
- About 400 Justice Department attorneys reviewed roughly 5.2 million pages of Epstein-related files.
- Epstein victims said some of their names and personal details were released through the redactions, while members of Congress questioned how information about possible unindicted co-conspirators was handled.
- The division oversees counterterrorism, counterintelligence, export control enforcement, and reviews of foreign investments in U.S. companies.
- The division has worked on leak investigations involving journalists and on the first case brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.
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