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美国司法部表示，司法部长国家安全助理总检察长约翰·艾森伯格于上周五突然辞职。
司法部长托德·布兰奇在推特上宣布了艾森伯格的辞职，感谢他“增强了我们国家应对国内外威胁的能力”。
艾森伯格是本周第二位辞职的助理总检察长，距离民主党在中期选举中获胜、重新掌控参众两院仅两天时间。
周四，民权司助理总检察长哈米特·迪隆也提交了辞呈，不过她早在选举前就已告知白宫，她打算辞职。
司法部另一名特朗普任命的官员、佛罗里达州南区联邦检察官贾森·雷丁·基尼奥内斯也于上周五辞职。
与迪隆不同，艾森伯格在国家安全司任职期间保持着相对低调，而该司过去一年已流失大量职业员工。
去年年底，该司被推向一个棘手的角色：负责对与涉嫌性 trafficking的杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关的数百万页调查文件进行删改，这是国会在要求公布这些文件的压力不断升级的情况下强制下达的一项重大任务。
这项任务后来扩大到寻求司法部其他部门的协助，包括联邦调查局、刑事司和曼哈顿联邦检察官办公室，共计派出400名律师审查约520万页文件。
这些删改工作此后受到严厉批评，爱泼斯坦的多名受害者投诉称，她们的姓名和个人细节被不慎公开。国会议员们还指责司法部不当删改了关于可能未被起诉的同谋的信息。
国家安全司是在9·11恐怖袭击发生几年后成立的，负责管理司法部的反恐和反情报工作、出口管制执法，以及审查外国对美国公司的投资。
全国各地联邦检察官办公室提起的许多类型的国家安全案件都需要国家安全司的咨询意见，有时还需获得其批准。
自特朗普总统1月就职以来，国家安全司在一些备受关注的案件中发挥了作用，包括针对记者的重大泄密调查，例如《华盛顿邮报》记者汉娜·纳坦森的家今年早些时候遭到搜查，该搜查是针对一名政府承包商的《反间谍法》调查的一部分。
该司还是去年时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪启动的国内恐怖主义调查全面改革的核心。
去年12月，邦迪命令执法机构和联邦检察官优先调查和起诉属于反法西斯组织“反法西斯行动”（Antifa）或被视为“极端分子”的团体和个人。
她的备忘录扩大了可能作为国内恐怖主义案件起诉的犯罪范围，比如公布执法人员的个人信息（doxxing）或游行以意图妨碍司法行政。
今年，国家安全司参与了在外国人恐怖分子驱逐庭（Alien Terrorist Removal Court）审理的首个此类案件。该法院是一个已有数十年历史、神秘的联邦移民法庭，使用机密证据驱逐涉嫌“外国恐怖分子”，即便这些人从未被起诉过任何罪行。
但在法院得以测试该案件的宪法限制之前，案件目标纳齐拉·哈吉·扎达同意被驱逐回她的祖国阿富汗，而不是对政府指控她是“外国恐怖分子”的说法提出异议。
Top lawyer in DOJ’s National Security Division abruptly resigns
November 6, 2026 / 12:51 PM EST / CBS News
John Eisenberg, the Justice Department’s National Security Division assistant attorney general, abruptly resigned on Friday, the department said.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Eisenberg’s departure on X, thanking him for “strengthening our nation’s ability to address threats, both foreign and domestic.”
Eisenberg is the second assistant attorney general this week to step down, just two days after Democrats swept the midterm elections and won back control of the House of Representatives and Senate.
On Thursday, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon also tendered her resignation, though she had already told the White House before the election that she intended to step down.
Another Trump-appointee at the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones of the Southern District of Florida, also resigned on Friday.
Eisenberg, unlike Dhillon, maintained a relatively low profile during his tenure at the National Security Division, which over the last year has lost a large number of its career staff.
The division was thrust into the uncomfortable role late last year of overseeing the redactions of millions of pages of investigative files related to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a monumental task that was mandated by Congress amid mounting pressure to publish the files.
The assignment was later expanded to enlist help from other parts of the Justice Department, including the FBI, the Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan, which collectively detailed 400 attorneys to review approximately 5.2 million pages.
The redactions have since come under withering criticism, with many of Epstein’s victims complaining that their names and personal details were inadvertently publicly released. Members of Congress also accused the Justice Department of improperly redacting information about possible unindicted co-conspirators.
Created several years after the 9/11 terror attacks, the National Security Division is in charge of managing the Justice Department’s counterterrorism and counterintelligence work, export control enforcement and reviewing foreign investments in U.S. companies.
Many types of national security cases brought by U.S. attorney’s offices around the country require consultation and sometimes approval by the National Security Division.
Since President Trump took office in January, the National Security Division has played a role in some of the highest-profile cases, including major leak investigations that have targeted journalists such as Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, whose home was raided earlier this year as part of an Espionage Act investigation into a government contractor.
The division has also been at the heart of sweeping changes to domestic terrorism investigations initiated by then-Attorney General Pam Bondi last year.
In December, Bondi ordered law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to prioritize efforts to investigate and prosecute groups and individuals who belong to the anti-fascist antifa movement or are deemed “extremist.”
Her memo broadened the scope of the kinds of crimes that might be pursued as domestic terrorism cases, such as doxxing members of law enforcement or parading with the intent to obstruct the administration of justice.
The National Security Division was involved this year in bringing the first-ever case before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a decades-old, secretive federal immigration court that uses classified evidence to deport suspected “alien terrorists,” even if they have never been charged with a crime.
But before the court could test the constitutional limits of the case, the target in the case — Nazira Haji Zada — agreed to be deported to her native Afghanistan rather than contest the government’s allegations that she was an “alien terrorist.”
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