Status Updates From Injustice: How Politics and...

“‘But these types of issues - chain of command, accountability, to the one democratically elected official in the executive branch - they’re really important and there’s no room for divergence,’ Bove said.”

“Then Bove stressed that as prosecutors they had to uphold the Constitution.
‘That means implementing the agenda that the president was elected to implement,’ he said.
Some prosecutors found their brows furrowing. That was absolutely not what upholding the Constitution meant.”

“When Bove’s deadline arrived at noon on Tuesday, Driscoll had arranged to send a list of agents - but instead of names, he provided employee ID numbers. Bove was furious. That same day, FBI Agents Assn filed its suit to stop the release of agents’ names.
‘This feels like a resistance,’ Bove said.
‘Because it is,’ Driscoll said.”

Executive Order 14147 - “The name of the order bore an Orwellian quality. Most of the steps that Trump took or pressed his lieutenants to take under the order were aimed at punishing those at DOJ who had investigated him or those he considered political enemies.”

“Senior Justice Dept lawyers reviewing the case saw copious evidence that Trump had abused his office to stay in power, and behaved reprehensibly by pushing a lie to the public and bullying his fellow public servants to keep him in power.”

“…. could be affirmatively proved true.”

“By listening to Trump’s speech on the Ellipse on the morning of Jan 6, Duree and others identified more than 40 individual claims of fraud. By studying his additional claims on Twitter and at rallies, they added over 10 more. Over several months, they contacted state election officials, reviewed ballot records and electronic voting systems, and eventually found not one of Trump’s claims …

“Trump’s chief of staff said he had been in the president’s bedroom in the residence only once - when Trump had COVID - and noticed boxes of records there but didn’t know their contents.”

“Smith told them he planned to name Cooley as his deputy. ‘J.P. gets shit done,’ Smith said.”

“Smith had accepted an unprecedented high-wire assignment as well as an imperative to beat an urgently ticking clock. Without a doubt, Smith was also the first to begin such a challenge from a hospital bed in a foreign country.”

“The Justice Department was, as much as the public, learning for the first time about Trump’s schemes and hearing the firsthand accounts of so many people in his orbit.”

“…whether there was an adequate basis to turn its powerful investigative spotlight in evidence linking Jan 6 to Team Trump.”

“D’Antuono ultimately answered to Abbate, FBI Director Chris Wray, and, finally, Deputy Attny Gen Lisa Monaco. If any of them told him to open an investigation, he knew he would have to do it.
But none ever did. Garland and Monaco almost never gave a top-down order to the FBI, and certainly would not in a case with these political trip wire. For a 3rd time since 1/6, the DOJ leaders couldn’t agree on …

“Garland and Monaco, mindful of new leads and reporting that fall that pointed to the pre-January 6 planning of Trump’s top allies, began to see a need to expand the bandwidth of the DC US Attorney’s Office. They wanted someone dedicated exclusively to reviewing evidence of possible connections between people in Trump’s orbit and the attack.”