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22 Dec 2018, 6:17 am by William Ford
On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, David Priess examined how presidents have been removed from office in the past: Back in June, we learned this week, the president’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, sent an unsolicited memorandum to the Justice Department describing Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation into whether Trump obstructed justice as “fatally misconceived” and “legally insupportable. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 10:32 am by Margaret Taylor
That email and thousands more were turned over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 5:35 am by Staci Zaretsky
* In completely unshocking news, despite advice from ethics officials, Acting Attorney General and former Tight End Matthew Whitaker has refused to recuse himself from oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russian election interference probe. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 4:27 pm by Steven D. Schwinn
Bill Barr, President Trump's nominee to be AG, earlier this year issued a sweeping criticism of Robert Mueller's investigation into obstruction of justice by the President that further reveals his views on executive authority. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 4:04 pm by Mikhaila Fogel, Benjamin Wittes
As the Wall Street Journal first reported, Barr, whom the president has nominated to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general, sent the unsolicited memo—dated June 8, 2018—to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to offer his view of Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation into possible obstruction of justice by the president. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 3:45 pm by Elie Mystal
NOMINATIONS FOR LAWYER OF THE YEAR ARE OPEN: Hint, we've already thought of "Robert Mueller" and "Michael Cohen," and they'll be finalists so, hit is up with somebody we may have overlooked. [read post]
Newspaper headlines blare the latest controversy — from use of personal emails for government business, to numerous investigations alleging corruption of current and former government employees, including several cabinet secretaries, and the continuing developments from Special Counsel Robert Muellers Russia investigation. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 10:34 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
Earlier this week Mueller released a memo detailing Flynn’s January 2017 FBI interview. [read post]
19 Dec 2018, 5:48 am by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
Neither Flynn nor Special Counsel Robert Mueller can be happy with what emerged—and the public shouldn’t be either. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 6:00 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurecic
CNN successfully spotted two members of Robert Muellers team, Zainab Ahmad and Michael Dreeben, arrive back at the special counsel’s offices ten minutes after arguments concluded. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 5:21 pm by Jen Patja Howell
Long before becoming Lawfare's head of operations, Priess was an intelligence officer, manager, and briefer with the CIA, including some time spent as a primary PDB briefer to then-FBI director Robert Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 5:21 pm by Jen Patja Howell
Long before becoming Lawfare's head of operations, Priess was an intelligence officer, manager, and briefer with the CIA, including some time spent as a primary PDB briefer to then-FBI director Robert Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 9:16 am by Ken White
He's lying about American law — the subject he ostensibly teaches, the subject on which he is called upon as an expert — for partisan reasons, in order to defend President Trump and discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 11:21 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
There’s even a special mystery witness Mueller was fighting in court last week. [read post]
16 Dec 2018, 4:09 pm by Tom Smith
Justice Department careerists, led by special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, have now served notice that they are targeting the presidency of Donald J. [read post]
16 Dec 2018, 12:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
All of this with the first special counsel investigation against a president in 20 years hanging over Trump’s head, spinning out charges and strong-arming guilty pleas from underlings while keeping in suspense whether the president — “Individual 1” in prosecutor Robert Muellers coded legalese — will end up accused of criminal behavior himself. [read post]
It includes public perceptions of government institutions and of the two major political parties’ handling of national security; about the public’s comfort with intelligence authorities; about the president’s handling of key national security issues; about Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation; and about ongoing military operations. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 5:00 am by Sarah Grant, Chuck Rosenberg
In this effort, we considered only information in the public domain from trustworthy and official government sources, including documents released by Special Counsel Robert Muellers office in connection with the criminal cases brought against Paul Manafort, the 12 Russian intelligence officers, the Internet Research Agency trolling operation and associated entities, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 6:00 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is filing a federal lawsuit against special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI chief charged with investigating the Trump campaign’s alleged relationship with Russia. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
If President Trump were to pardon Paul Manafort or other people who have been or may be indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, prosecutors in New York or another state might respond by seeking indictments under state law. [read post]