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Apr 30, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
I’ll be talking in about ten minutes with ⁦@mateagold⁩ ⁦@PostRoz⁩ ⁦@DevlinBarrett⁩ and ⁦@nakashimae⁩ about covering the Mueller investigation. Hope you’ll tune in, and tweet questions at us using the hashtag #PostLive washingtonpost.com/post-live-2019…
This was a cool event today. Produced some news. Gave everyone a look under the hood of the reporting process. I'll tweet some highlights.

Perhaps most significant, Adam Schiff confirmed he'll refer Erik Prince to DoJ for possibly lying to Congress. washingtonpost.com/politics/schif…
Rosenstein plans to leave DoJ on May 11. But his time in the spotlight might not be over. Schiff said he wants to summon Rosenstein to testify, asserting that he has a "deeply mixed record" as DAG and should not have had a role in deciding obstruction case washingtonpost.com/video/postlive…
Schiff isn't alone in wanting to hear from Rosenstein. So, too, does Mark Meadows, one of President Trump's strongest conservative allies in the House. Meadows is an OG when it comes to sparring with Rosenstein. washingtonpost.com/video/postlive…
Finally, yours truly talked about what it was like at The Post the day the Mueller report dropped, and how we put out news alerts, a paper and finished an introduction and various other stuff for a book washingtonpost.com/video/postlive…

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Sep 1, 2021
A former Marine was pulled over for following a truck too closely. Without charging him, police took nearly $87,000 of his cash. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Civil asset forfeiture has long been controversial. In the Obama administration AG Holder curtailed one particularly thorny practice: federal "adoption" of local seizures, which helped agencies skirt state laws & ultimately keep the cash for themselves washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
But AG Sessions undid Holder's directive (which itself had significant exceptions) & adoptions crept back into fashion. AG Garland had taken no action on the practice. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Jul 13, 2021
NEW: Bill Barr denies he muzzled former US Attorney William McSwain on voter fraud. He alleges McSwain made such a claim so Trump wouldn't ruin his gubernatorial ambitions.
“I can’t have Trump attacking me,” McSwain allegedly told Barr in a phone call.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
This is a bit complicated, so I’ll do a thread to try to unspool it. Yesterday, Trump publicly released a letter sent to him in June by William McSwain, the former US Attorney in the Eastern District of PA. You can find links to the letter & the @PhillyInquirer’s coverage here:
McSwain is now thinking about running for governor, and he wanted Trump’s support. So he asked for it, and in doing so, echoed the president’s unfounded attacks on the election and took a shot at Barr.
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Jun 12, 2021
I've been thinking a lot & talking to people about how it could be that Sessions, Rosenstein & Barr could all honestly be asserting no knowledge of the subpoena for Schiff & Swalwell's records. I don't have a definitive answer but here's a theory... washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trum…
The crux of this theory is that the focus on the actual tactic used in this investigation - the subpoena - might be a little misplaced, and, as I mentioned last night, the underlying reckoning the Justice Department will have to face is whether & when to pursue leak cases at all
Hypothetically: There is a news story that the feds believe contains classified information. The Justice Department opens a case, and they zero in on a suspect. Just for the sake of this example, let's say he's an intel committee staffer, & his name is George Smith
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Jun 12, 2021
House Democrats want Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions to testify about subpoena for data of House Intel Committee members.
Barr, Sessions and Rod Rosenstein have told people they don’t remember hearing about the subpoena while at DOJ. washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trum…
The Justice IG is investigating this, along with recently disclosed demands for media records. The problem: the IG can’t compel testimony from former DOJ employees. And almost all of this occurred in the last administration.
washingtonpost.com/powerpost/trum…
This all stems from a leak crackdown that began under Sessions and continued under Barr. They supervised lots of cases, on a range of topics. At least one focused on a House Intel staffer. But these cases are hard, and that probe ultimately went nowhere.
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Jun 9, 2021
Interesting new disclosure today, in that CNN had been secretly negotiating for months - mostly in the Trump administration - over a Justice Dept. request for one of its journalists' records. A few points worthy of highlighting... washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Only a few at CNN (including lawyers & President Jeff Zucker) knew about this, and they say they were bound by a court from informing the news network's journalists or even the journalist whose records were at issue: Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr
Back in May, The Justice Department formally notified Starr of the request, and a successful effort to get her phone records. At the time, Zucker said “CNN strongly condemns the secret collection of any aspect of a journalist’s correspondence." washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Jan 21, 2021
The Biden administration has tapped a whole slate of folks to serve in acting capacities at the Justice Department while their nominees await confirmation. Here are the names we know so far:
The acting AG is Monty Wilkinson. He had most recently been working as a human resources official at the department, and before that, worked as a counselor in Eric Holder's office and as the head of the Executive Office Office for U.S. Attorneys. justice.gov/jmd/staff-prof…
The acting deputy AG is John Carlin. He was head of the Justice Department's National Security Division in the Obama administration and had been a lawyer in private practice at Morrison & Foerster. He's also a former chief of staff to Robert Mueller.
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