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14 May 2021, 4:00 am
Trump Justice Department Secretly Obtained Post Reporters’ Phone Records MSN – Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 5/7/2021 The Justice Department under former President Trump secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 4:00 am
Memo to Not Charge Trump in Russia Probe Released MSN – Devlin Barrett and Rachel Weiner (Washington Post) | Published: 8/24/2022 The Justice Department released the entire text of a secret 2019 memo that laid out the legal rationale for not charging then-President Trump with committing obstruction of justice in the investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 3:00 am
Judges Skeptical That Trump Is Immune from Jan. 6 Prosecution MSN – Rachel Weiner, Spencer Hsu, Perry Stein, and Devlin Barrett (Washington Post) | Published: 1/9/2024 A panel of three federal appellate judges expressed skepticism about Donald Trump’s claim to sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution and concerns about its implications, suggesting it would allow a future president to have a political rival assassinated by the military without repercussions. [read post]
12 Nov 2021, 3:00 am
Igor Danchenko Arrested, Charged with Lying to FBI About Information in Steele Dossier MSN – Devlin Barrett and Tom Jackman (Washington Post) | Published: 11/4/2021 An analyst who was a primary source for a 2016 dossier of allegations against Donald Trump has been arrested on charges he repeatedly lied to the FBI about where and how he got his information. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
Bid to Short Circuit Defamation Case Brought by Woman Who Accused Trump of Rape Washington Post – Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, and Shayna Jacobs | Published: 10/27/2020 A federal judge rejected the Justice Department’s bid to make the U.S. government the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says President Trump raped her several years ago, paving the way for the case to again proceed. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Biden Transition Elevates Former Facebook Exec as Ethics Arbiter Politico – Alex Thompson and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 10/1/2020 Joe Biden’s transition team named Jessica Hertz, until recently a Facebook executive focused on government regulations, as its general counsel and charged her with navigating conflicts-of-interest and other ethical issues for the Biden administration-in-waiting, a move that drew immediate fire from the left. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 3:00 am
Barr Accuses Justice Department of Headhunting and Meddling with Politics Washington Post – Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky | Published: 9/16/2020 Attorney General William Barr delivered a scathing critique of his own Justice Department on, insisting on his absolute authority to overrule career staffers, who he said too often injected themselves into politics and went “headhunting” for high-profile targets. [read post]
