Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2017, 5:07 PM UTC

Law Firm Partner’s Twitter Account Draws Questions During Vetting

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Sullivan & Cromwell’s Brent McIntosh holds an impressive resume with stints in the White House and top positions in the U.S. Department of Justice. Will his use of Twitter sabotage the next stage in his career, as the proposed general counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department?

The co-head of S&C’s cybersecurity practice had been selected to be the agency’s top lawyer by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Bloomberg reports, but now White House aides are asking whether some number of his roughly 3,000 tweets raise questions about his loyalty to President Trump.

Bloomberg reports :

McIntosh ... got an especially tough vetting by the White House personnel office ...

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