A former CNN legal analyst and alleged conspiracy theorist has a new job — and critics are outraged.
Susan Hennessey, who spread the debunked Russiagate conspiracy to Americans unchecked for almost four years, has been hired by President Joe Biden to serve in the Department of Justice’s National Security Division.
Hennessey made the announcement on social media… after critics said she tried to delete “hundreds” of controversial and debunked conspiracy theories about former President Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1391718717093040128
Critics quickly pounced on the news.
Hennessey was described by one critic as “One of the most deranged Russiagate conspiracists of the last 4 years.”
In a scathing rebuke of her hiring, The National Review wrote that Hennessey was a core part of the three “wilder Democratic activists” groups.
“One group is the economic socialists. The second group is the woke culture warriors,” The National Review wrote. “The third, of whom Hennessey has been a conspicuous spokeswoman, is the hard-core #Resistance types (the CNN demographic) who spent four years wallowing in conspiracy theories under which the 2016 election was stolen by Russian hacking or Russian ‘collusion,’ Donald Trump had been on the Russian payroll since the 1980s and/or was being blackmailed by the ‘pee tape,’ and Trump was always just a few more days from being frog-marched out of the White House, etc.”
In 2017, critics noted that Hennessy co-authored an article that alleged the very existence of the Steele Dossier was potential proof that Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
“Why Are the Trump Allegations Hanging Around When They Haven’t Been Substantiated?” reads in part:
The intelligence community simply does not concern itself with every crazy allegation against a sitting or incoming President that might be circulating or out there in the ether.
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There is, in short, something significant about the fact that these allegations, given that they have not been validated, are not part of the giant compost heap of things the intelligence community simply ignores. And there is something very significant about the fact that the intelligence chiefs elevated it to the level of presidential eyes. Why hasn’t the government, after some months of investigation, affirmatively put the questions to rest by concluding the documents are untrue?
After two years of an exhaustive investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia was ever found.
Critics accused her of hiding prior tweets about the Russia conspiracy theory and warned she could target the special investigation into the Russia probe by John Durham.
Hey @Susan_Hennessey, why did you delete this along with hundreds of other Russiagate tweets? https://t.co/sGenwhZXXT pic.twitter.com/qd0d16DcQM
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) May 10, 2021
Susan Hennessey, not a fan of the Durham probe, which she will likely be dealing with in her new job as general counsel of the DOJ national security division. via @FreeBeacon https://t.co/cVv8gVtyM7 pic.twitter.com/bJGAPNsHHV
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) May 10, 2021
One of the most notorious very online spreaders of resistance conspiracies is now working at the DOJ.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 10, 2021