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Document: Greg Craig Indicted on FARA Charges
Mikhaila Fogel Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 2:58 PM
On Thursday, April 11, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of former White House Counsel Greg Craig.
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Bill Barr’s Low Moment
Benjamin Wittes Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 11:42 PM
Attorney General Bill Barr’s statements today on supposed “spying” by the FBI on the Trump campaign before the Senate Committee on Appropriations were indefensible. They were at once indecipherable and contentless, on the one hand, and incendiary, on the other hand.
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Memo to the Press: How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report
Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 2:12 PM
The press screwed up bigly on the Barr letter. Here are nine ideas for doing better the second time around.
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Document: Transcripts of Jim Baker Interview with House Judiciary and Oversight Committees
Lev Sugarman Tue, Apr 9, 2019, 2:30 PM
Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary Doug Collins (R-Ga.) released the transcript of House Judiciary and Oversight committees' interviews with former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker from October 3 and October 18, 2018. The full transcripts are available below.
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Document: W. Samuel Patten Sentencing Memoranda
Mikhaila Fogel Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 2:30 PM
W. Samuel Patten's legal team has filed a sentencing memorandum with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia seeking no prison time for their client. Patten pleaded guilty in August 2018 to failing to register as an agent of a foreign principal for his work on behalf of the Ukrainian political party, Opposition Bloc, a Russia-allied political group.
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Documents: Justice Department Defends Mueller Report Redaction Process and Chairman Nadler Responds
Mikhaila Fogel Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 11:31 AM
On Thursday, Justice Department Spokesperson Kerri Kupec released a statement, included in full below, regarding Attorney General Bill Barr's letter concerning the Mueller report.
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Document: House Letter to Barr Seeking Full Mueller Report
Lev Sugarman Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 2:44 PM
Six Democratic House committee chairs have sent a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr, following up on their previous request that the Justice Department to provide Congress Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s full report. The letter, available here and below, responded to two letters from Barr on the issue: his Mar.
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Document: Transcript of Bill Priestap Interview with House Judiciary Committee
Lev Sugarman Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 2:42 PM
Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary Doug Collins (R-Ga.) has released the transcript of the committee's June 5, 2018 interview with former assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap. The full transcript is available here and below.
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Confidence in Mueller’s Investigation Soars After Barr Letter
Mieke Eoyang, Ben Freeman, Ryan Pougiales, Benjamin Wittes Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 11:53 AM
March 21 to March 22, just prior to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s delivery of his report on the Russia investigation to Attorney General William Barr, we conducted a nationwide survey asking respondents a series of questions regarding Mueller’s investigation. From March 26 to March 28, after the release of Barr’s letter with his top-line summary of the investigation’s conclusions, we conducted another nationwide survey asking respondents the same series of questions to gauge how the report’s release and subsequent media coverage affected the public’s opinion of the investigation.
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Document: Attorney General Barr's Status Update to Congress
Lev Sugarman Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 3:49 PM
On Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Senate Judiciary Commitee Chairman Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) responding to their earlier inquiries regarding Barr's Mar. 24 letter on the Mueller report's conclusions.