John P. Carlin named as Deputy Chief of Staff for FBI director Mueller. Who is Carlin?...

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Given that this was a late press release on Friday, that is usually buried in the news, it seems like someone we should look at as a personnel move in the intelligence agencies and ask ourselves how it's going to change things there, or if things will change there.

Note that he was already on Mueller's staff as his counselor. Just got promoted to be deputy chief of staff.

From:
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/carlin013009.htm

For Immediate Release
January 30, 2009

Washington D.C.
FBI National Press Office
[phone]

John P. Carlin Named as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to FBI Director Mueller

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III, has appointed John P. Carlin to be Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Director. Mr. Carlin, an experienced Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the District of Columbia, has served as Special Counsel to the Director since July 2007. As Special Counsel, Mr. Carlin has advised the Director on a wide range of legal and policy matters in the national security, cyber and criminal arenas.

“John’s record of achievement as both a criminal prosecutor and a legal and policy advisor make him exceptionally well-suited for this position,” said Director Robert S. Mueller, III. “I look forward to his continued contributions as Deputy Chief of Staff,” Mueller said.

As Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr. Carlin will continue to spearhead priority projects, provide advice and counsel to the Director, and work closely with the Chief of Staff to manage the day-to-day operations of the Director’s Office.

A former federal prosecutor and experienced Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA), Mr. Carlin previously served as National Coordinator of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) program.

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Doing a little research on him, he was involved in the prosecution of Mitch Wade who bribed Duke Cunningham. Wade supposedly cut some plea bargain deals for providing information on other congressmen/women (rumors had Virgil Goode and Kathleen Harris amongst others on this list). Still haven't seen any other substantive prosecutions stemming from his "help" yet, but we shall see. Dusty Foggo was also prosecuted in a case linked to these cases with Cunningham, which now appears to be being covered up. Hopefully Carlin was fighting the good fight to get the right guys in jail and exposing the bad things, and not facilitating these coverups.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/dc/Press_Releases/2008%20Archives/December/08-338.html

John Carlin has been experienced in prosecuting a lot of intellectual property and hacking crimes online...

http://w3.bsa.org/ipcrimesforum//participants.html

John Carlin
National Coordinator
Computer Hacking & Intellectual Property Network
United States Department of Justice

John Carlin serves as the National Coordinator of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Program. The CHIP program involves 240 AUSAs and DOJ federal prosecutors specially trained to prosecute cyber crime and intellectual property cases and to provide advice and instruction on issues arising from the collection of digital evidence. Mr. Carlin joined DOJ through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1999, first prosecuting criminal cases in the Tax Division. In 2001, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C., where he prosecuted cases ranging from homicide to complex federal white-collar crimes including public corruption, fraud, money-laundering and election crimes. As a member of D.C.’s CHIP unit, Mr. Carlin had office responsibility for prosecuting computer intrusions, spam, phishing, and crimes against copyright and trademark. He is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate of Williams College and is a graduate of Harvard Law School where he received the Samuel J. Heyman Fellowship for Federal Government Service and served as articles editor for the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

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Note John P. Carlin shouldn't be confused with former archivist John W. Carlin who was forced out of that position by Gonzales and company over the Sandy Berger "coverup", etc.

Anyone have any more info?

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1. Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney...

If the past is any indication facilitating coverups seems to be the preferred choice for career advancement:

The old Austin gang and the law

The Austin Gang – Bush, Rove, Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers – saw the legal world as something to control, if for no other reason than if they did not, the Trial Lawyers – the backbone of the modern Texas Democratic Party – would.

Gonzales made his bones literally keeping Bush out of court when, as governor, Bush was called to jury duty. Had Bush been subject to questioning by attorneys over his suitability to serve, he would have had to reveal that he had been arrested for drunk driving. Not a good thing to do before a presidential campaign. Gonzales managed to get the Boss out of the jury pool...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17610820/
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