Obstruction of justice?

Special counsel Robert Mueller asked former Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente to be interviewed as part of the probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

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Boente served as acting deputy attorney general from 2011 to 2017. He was tapped to serve after Sally Yates was fired.

He currently serves as the acting assistant attorney general of the National Security Division.

  The Hill

An article on Heavy.com October 28 speculated about why Boente resigned his position.

Boente and the Eastern District of Virginia office oversaw the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2016, alongside the FBI, according to the Washington Post.

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First, a little background on Boente. When Sally Yates was fired for refusing to implement the Donald Trump travel ban, Boente briefly served as acting AG. A 33-year veteran of the Department of Justice, Boente became the US Attorney in the powerful Virginia district after being appointed to the slot by former President Barack Obama.

According to The Washington Post, “The job is an important and high-profile one. The Eastern District is home to the CIA and the Pentagon, and its prosecutors often handle terrorism cases. It includes about 300 lawyers and other employees with offices in Alexandria, Richmond, Norfolk and Newport News.” Boente was also “serving as acting assistant attorney general of the National Security Division and will remain in that post until John C. Demers, an attorney for Boeing who worked at the Justice Department under President George W. Bush, is confirmed,” reported The Post.

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Astute observers remembered that Dana Boente was involved in the Flynn investigation. One theory holds that Boente quit because his work was done.

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Others think that, if Boente’s resignation relates to Michael Flynn at all, it might mean that Flynn has been cooperating with the FBI (after all, he once asked for immunity for his testimony), not that he’s the subject under indictment.

  Heavy

Obviously, this article was written before it was known that Mueller flipped Flynn. Whoever these "others" are who think Boente's resignation meant Flynn was cooperating were right about Flynn at least.

“James Comey has testified to Congress under oath that the president contacted him inappropriately, many times, to put pressure on him about the Russia investigation before he fired him. According to James Comey, one of the witnesses to one of those overtures by the president was Dana Boente.”

As Raw Story put it, “If Boente is a witness in the obstruction case, that might be a reason that he could no longer continue in his position.”

He may have been invited to leave when Trump fired Comey.

According to the liberal site Daily Kos, Rachel Maddow “interviewed former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller Friday night and Miller reported that Boente was looking forward to his successor being confirmed at the Department of Justice, so that he could return to his old post as U.S. Attorney. Miller told Maddow that Boente’s abrupt resignation, ‘was not a resignation that was completely of his own volition.’” The site theorized that Trump forced out Boente to set the stage for a “Saturday Night Massacre.”

Newsweek was another outlet that argued it’s possible that Dana Boente was forced out by Trump in an effort to ultimately fire Robert Mueller.

Or maybe Trump is just a super asshole who gets rid of anybody he thinks might side with Comey.

As an Obama holdover, Boente is perceived as sympathetic to the Mueller quest. Thus, some are speculating that he merely wanted to retire but didn’t want to do so until Mueller’s investigation was far enough along.

And now Mueller will get Boente's confirmation of Comey's testimony.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.