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</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">PUBLISHED 09/08/22&nbsp;</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Geoffrey Berman, a former top federal prosecutor during Donald Trump’s administration, reportedly writes in a new book that a spurious investigation of former Secretary of State John Kerry was set in motion in response to then-president Donald Trump’s May 2018 tweet accusing Kerry of “potentially illegal shadow diplomacy” with Iran. Trump’s tweet came in response to a report the then-president was watching at the time on Fox News, according to a Media Matters review.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">As president, Trump reportedly watched hours of Fox programming a day and regularly tweeted his responses to what he was seeing on television in real-time or on tape-delay, as Media Matters extensively documented. The network’s commentators and coverage shaped the former president’s worldview – and thus his administration’s actions, including presidential pardons, federal contracting, legislative and communications strategy, pandemic policies, and much more.&nbsp;</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Now it seems we can add a federal probe of one of Trump’s political opponents to the list. The New York Times reported Thursday that in a new book, Berman wrote that while he was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Justice Department officials ordered him to investigate Kerry after Trump criticized Kerry’s “possibly illegal” behavior on Twitter. Those tweets have their roots in Fox’s coverage.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On May 7, 2018, Washington, D.C., was abuzz with the prospect that Trump might withdraw from the Iran nuclear accord that Kerry negotiated during the Obama administration. The president, meanwhile, spent the morning tweeting along with Fox & Friends, the Fox morning show, which he was apparently watching on tape-delay.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At 10:08 a.m. ET, Trump tweeted, “The United States does not need John Kerry’s possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy on the very badly negotiated Iran Deal. He was the one who created this MESS in the first place!” As I noted at the time, that tweet tracked with the content of a segment that had aired on Fox’s America’s Newsroom roughly an hour earlier.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During that segment, Fox correspondent Griff Jenkins discussed a Boston Globe report from a few days earlier about Kerry’s behind-the-scenes effort to salvage the Iran deal. Kerry “has been engaging in what some are calling shadow diplomacy,” Jenkins reported, using the same term Trump would in his subsequent tweet.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Immediately after Jenkins’ report, anchor Bill Hemmer turned to contributor<b>&nbsp;Byron York</b>, who said that Kerry’s actions were “a big deal” because Kerry was “meeting with foreign governments in an attempt to undermine the current U.S. administration.” York added that while “you will hear” that Kerry may have violated the Logan Act, “it likely does not apply here.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Video From the May 7, 2018, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><b>Indeed, conservatives were raising the prospect that&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kerry had violated the Logan Act&nbsp;</span>– including Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">earlier that morning, in a segment the then-president likely watched. But as University of Texas School of Law professor Stephen Vladeck explained in the Globe report, that statute would not apply in this case, since Kerry was acting to maintain what was (at the time) current U.S. policy.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Trump’s tweet set off his supporters at the network, particularly Sean Hannity, who maintained dual roles as a close Trump adviser and primetime host. On his show that night, Hannity suggested that Kerry was “violating the law, the Logan Act,” and asked, “Where are the agents in the FBI and the DOJ breaking down John Kerry's door? Another blatant example of a two-tier justice system sadly in this country today.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Later in the program, Hannity polled members of his panel as to whether Kerry had violated the Logan Act. After they all agreed that he had, Hannity said, “Let's see when that investigation begins.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Video From the May 7, 2018, edition of Fox News' Hannity.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox’s criticism of Kerry continued into the next day on Fox & Friends, including a segment in which co-host&nbsp;<b>Brian Kilmeade claimed his action “seems to be a violation of the Logan Act,” while his guest compared the former secretary of state to the Taliban.</b>&nbsp;Roughly an hour after that, Trump tweeted, “John Kerry can’t get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it! Stay away from negotiations John, you are hurting your country!”&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Later that day, Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the Iran deal.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><b>Trump’s tweets had a major and immediate impact, Berman explained in his book. The Times reported:</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><b>On May 9, Mr. Berman writes, Justice Department officials told his office that it would be responsible for an investigation into Mr. Kerry’s Iran-related conduct. The F.B.I. would join the inquiry.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The focus was on the Logan Act, a rarely invoked 1799 statute barring private citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments, which has been criticized as unconstitutionally vague. Mr. Berman notes that no one has ever been successfully prosecuted under the law.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><b>But, as he puts it, “The conduct that had annoyed the president was now a priority of the Department of Justice.”</b></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Although Mr. Berman says he does not know what prompted the Justice Department to seek a Kerry investigation, “No one needed to talk with Trump to know what he wanted. You could read his tweets.”</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">According to the Times account, Berman wrote that in subsequent months, the Justice Department repeatedly pressured his office to move forward with the investigation of Kerry, particularly after Trump again tweeted about the purported crimes.&nbsp;</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">“They were asking us, basically, what’s taking so long? Why aren’t you going harder and faster at this enemy of the president? There was no other way for me to look at it,” he wrote.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Berman said that when his office told the Justice Department it would not be prosecuting Kerry following a year-long investigation, the case was passed to another U.S. attorney’s office. When that office also determined the case lacked merit, he wrote, “the Kerry investigation just quietly died — as it should have.”</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Trump ultimately fired Berman in June 2020 during a purge of federal prosecutors seen as insufficiently loyal to him.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div style=""><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">vice no lnx</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prosecuted While President</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a new book, the former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan says Trump’s Justice Department “kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically.”</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Paul Blest</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">September 8, 2022,&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">trump prosecuting democrats jeffrey berman</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former President Donald Trump has spent the weeks since the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago describing the investigation as yet another witch hunt brought against him by partisan Democrats.&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Trump’s own former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan reportedly claims in a new book that the Department of Justice pushed him to prosecute Democrats and even bring criminal charges against former Secretary of State John Kerry.&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Geoffrey Berman spent two and a half years as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, one of the most high-profile prosecutorial positions in the federal government, before he was forced out in June 2020. Prior to that, Berman had volunteered on the Trump campaign transition and was a law partner of Rudy Giuliani.</font></b></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in Berman’s new book, he says that he quickly fell out of favor with the Department of Justice because he declined to prosecute Democrats on trumped-up charges, according to the New York Times, which obtained a copy of the book.&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Throughout my tenure as U.S. attorney,” Berman wrote in the new book, “Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining — in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired.”</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Specifically, Berman says that he was pressured to pursue charges against former Secretary of State John Kerry, who made Trump angry when he attempted to salvage the Iran nuclear deal during Trump’s presidency.&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman also said a senior Justice Department official called one of his deputies and pressed him to charge Gregory Craig, a Democratic lawyer accused by Republicans of breaking the Foreign Agents Registration Act, because Berman’s office had gone after Trump allies for breaking the law.&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman said he believed Craig was innocent of the charge, and he ultimately was not charged, but the Justice Department official allegedly told Berman’s deputy that it was “time for you guys to even things out.”&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The official, former </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">told the Times Berman’s claim was “categorically false.”&nbsp;</span></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Attorney General William Barr pushed for Berman to be replaced with an administration ally, and Trump fired him after he refused to resign in June 2020. “The reason Barr wanted me to resign immediately was so I could be replaced with an outsider he trusted,” Berman writes in the book, according to the Guardian.&nbsp;</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I walked this tightrope for two and a half years,” he said. “Eventually, the rope snapped.”</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Follow Paul Blest on Twitter.</font></font></font></p><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 9 22 ah</font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican attorney Geoffrey S. Berman was once an ally of Donald Trump. The former federal prosecutor volunteered on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and he was a law partner of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But in his forthcoming book, “Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent U.S. Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department,” Berman reveals that he was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-book.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">fired from his position</a>&nbsp;with the Southern District of New York in 2020 after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z398/trump-tried-prosecuting-democrats-geoffrey-berman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">refusing to prosecute</a>&nbsp;some Democrats who Trump had it in for.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York Times has obtained a copy of Berman’s book, which has a September 13 release date on Amazon. In the book, according to Times reporter Benjamin Weiser, Berman describes himself as a Rockefeller Republican — in other words, a moderate Republican. And that would explain why Berman eventually proved incompatible with Trump and the far-right MAGA movement.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/bill-barr-refers-to-trump-as-a-lame-duck-seeking-revenge/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Bill Barr refers to Trump as a lame duck seeking revenge</a>
</strong></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman, now 62, was a Southern District of New York prosecutor from 1990-1994, and he returned to the Southern District in January 2018 — an announcement made by Jeff Sessions, who was U.S. attorney general for the Trump Administration at the time.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weiser reports, “Mr. Berman’s book says that during Mr. Trump’s presidency, (Justice) Department officials made ‘overtly political’ demands, choosing targets that would directly further Mr. Trump’s desires for revenge and advantage. Mr. Berman wrote that the pressure was clearly inspired by the president’s openly professed wants.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Democrats Trump and his allies wanted to prosecute, according to Berman, included former</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;Secretary of State John Kerry</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;and attorney Gregory Craig (who Trump’s allies accused of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act). But Berman, according to his book, didn’t believe that a prosecution of either Kerry or Craig was warranted.</span></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/cassidy-hutchinson-2657757307/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>'Flag-waving' liberal Norman Lear, now 100, warns against the 'threat of authoritarianism' America faces</strong></a></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his four years in the White House, Trump could turn against fellow Republicans in a hurry. Trump fired Sessions in 2018 for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/politics/jeff-sessions-trump-alabama-tommy-tuberville/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">recusing himself</a>&nbsp;from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and Bill Barr became U.S. attorney general in early 2019. Later, both Barr and Trump turned against Berman, according to “Holding the Line.”</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the book, according to&nbsp;<span style="transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">The Guardian’s Martin Pengelly</span>, guk&nbsp;Berman writes, “The reason Barr wanted me to resign immediately was so I could be replaced with an outsider he trusted.”
</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Berman also writes, “Throughout my tenure as U.S. attorney, Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining — in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired…. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped.”</font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/bill-barr-destroys-donald-trump/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Bill Barr destroys Donald Trump: 'Unprecedented for a president to take all this classified info'</strong></a></font></font></font></p></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-book.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/nyregion/geoffrey-berman-trump-book.html</a></font></font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="" /></font></font><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump Pushed Officials to Prosecute His Critics, Ex-U.S. Attorney Says</b></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Geoffrey S. Berman, who headed the Manhattan office, says in a book the Justice Department pushed cases, against John Kerry and others, to help Mr. Trump.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Benjamin Weiser</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sept. 8, 2022</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A book by a former top federal prosecutor offers new details about how the Justice Department under President Donald J. Trump sought to use the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan to support Mr. Trump politically and pursue his critics — even pushing the office to open a criminal investigation of former secretary of state John Kerry.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The prosecutor, Geoffrey S. Berman, was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York for two and a half years until June 2020, when Mr. Trump fired him after he refused a request to resign by Attorney General William P. Barr, who sought to replace him with an administration ally.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A copy of Mr. Berman’s book, “Holding the Line,” was obtained by The New York Times before its scheduled publication Tuesday.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The book paints a picture of Justice Department officials motivated by partisan concerns in pursuing investigations or blocking them; in weighing how forthright to be in court filings; and in shopping investigations to other prosecutors’ offices when the Southern District declined to act.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The book contains accounts of how department officials tried to have allusions to Mr. Trump scrubbed from charging papers for Michael D. Cohen, his former personal lawyer, and how the attorney general later tried to have his conviction reversed.&nbsp;<b>It tells of pressure to pursue Mr. Kerry, who had angered Mr. Trump by attempting to preserve the nuclear deal he had negotiated with Iran.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And in September 2018, Mr. Berman writes, two months before the November midterms, a senior department official called Mr. Berman’s deputy, cited the Southern District’s recent prosecutions of two prominent Trump loyalists, and bluntly asserted that the office, which had been investigating Gregory B. Craig, a powerful Democratic lawyer, should charge him — and should do so before Election Day.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s time for you guys to even things out,” the official said, according to Mr. Berman.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The book comes as Mr. Trump and his supporters have accused the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland of using the Justice Department as a weapon after a judge authorized FBI agents to search his Florida house for missing classified records. Mr. Trump, who is a likely presidential candidate in 2024, has suggested without evidence that President Biden is playing a role in that investigation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, Mr. Berman’s book says that during Mr. Trump’s presidency, department officials made “overtly political” demands, choosing targets that would directly further Mr. Trump’s desires for revenge and advantage. Mr. Berman wrote that the pressure was clearly inspired by the president’s openly professed wants.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the book, Mr. Berman, who as U.S. attorney did not give news interviews, offers new details about the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">high-profile prosecutions of defendants like Mr. Cohen; Chris Collins, a Republican congressman from New York; Michael Avenatti, the celebrity attorney and Trump antagonist; and Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>He says there were cases his office pursued without pressure from Washington, but in others, he makes clear his greatest challenges did not always have to do with the law.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Throughout my tenure as U.S. attorney,” Mr. Berman, 62, writes, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“Trump’s Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">— in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I walked this tightrope for two and a half years,” writes Mr. Berman, who is now in private practice. “Eventually, the rope snapped.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Berman, who in the book describes himself as a Rockefeller Republican, had been a federal prosecutor in the Manhattan office from 1990 to 1994, and went on to become a co-managing partner of the New Jersey office of the law firm Greenberg Traurig.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Numerous inquiries. Since former President Donald J. Trump left office, he has been facing several civil and criminal investigations into his business dealings and political activities. Here is a look at some notable cases:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Classified documents inquiry. The F.B.I. searched Mr. Trump’s Florida home as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified materials. The inquiry is focused on documents that Mr. Trump had brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence, when he left the White House.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jan. 6 investigations. In a series of public hearings, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack laid out a comprehensive narrative of Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This evidence could allow federal prosecutors, who are conducting a parallel criminal investigation, to indict Mr. Trump.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Georgia election interference case. Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney, has been leading a wide-ranging criminal investigation into the efforts of Mr. Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. This case could pose the most immediate legal peril for the former president and his associates.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New York State civil inquiry. Letitia James, the New York attorney general, has been conducting a civil investigation into Mr. Trump and his family business. The case is focused on whether Mr. Trump’s statements about the value of his assets were part of a pattern of fraud or were simply Trumpian showmanship.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Manhattan criminal case. Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has been investigating whether Mr. Trump or his family business intentionally submitted false property values to potential lenders. But the inquiry faded from view after signs emerged suggesting that Mr. Trump was unlikely to be indicted.]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>During the 2016 presidential primary season, Mr. Berman volunteered for Mr. Trump’s campaign and later for his transition committee. Originally believing he might be named U.S. attorney for New Jersey, he was instead tapped to lead the Southern District, the most prestigious prosecutor’s office outside Washington. It handles Wall Street crime, international terrorism, political corruption and complex frauds.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Berman met briefly with Mr. Trump in the Oval Office in June 2017, where the president did most of the talking, he writes. Mr. Berman, a Princeton resident, said he would need to move into the city. Mr. Trump recommended he live in downtown Manhattan, near the Southern District’s offices, ahead of what could be a dicey confirmation hearing.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Make it a rental,” Mr. Trump said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In March 2018, some two months after Mr. Berman assumed the post, the Justice Department, then headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, referred to the Southern District the investigation of Mr. Craig.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The allegations focused on whether Mr. Craig, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama, had concealed work he had done years earlier for the government of Ukraine in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and whether he had lied to the Justice Department when questioned about it.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After months of investigation, the Southern District and Justice Department met with Mr. Craig’s lawyers, who made a presentation on his behalf. After his lawyers left and prosecutors voiced their opinions, Mr. Berman said he believed Mr. Craig was innocent of the FARA charge and so a jury would be unlikely to convict him on a false statement count.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A short time later, around mid-September, Mr. Berman writes, his deputy, Robert S. Khuzami, walked into his office and said he had just gotten a call from</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Edward O’Callaghan, the principal associate deputy attorney general, a political appointee. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Mr. O’Callaghan, the book says, asked that the office “even things out” by charging Mr. Craig before Election Day.</span></b></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In that conversation, Mr. Berman writes, Mr. O’Callaghan kept reminding Mr. Khuzami that the Southern District had just prosecuted Representative Collins and Mr. Cohen.</span></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Mr. O’Callaghan said in a brief interview Wednesday that he had not read the book, but after being told by The Times of the statements attributed to him, called them “categorically false.”</b></div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</b></div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Mr. Berman says he ignored the edict.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In mid-December, after a thorough investigation, Mr. Berman informed the department that his office was declining to prosecute Mr. Craig.&nbsp;<b>He writes that he soon learned that the department had “peddled” the case to the U.S. attorney in Washington, where Mr. Craig was eventually indicted and tried on a single count of making false statements.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Sept. 4, 2019, Mr. Craig was acquitted by the jury in less than five hours.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>One of his lawyers, William W. Taylor III, said after the trial that the department had “hounded” his client “without any evidence and without any purpose.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Berman writes: “The verdict felt like justice. Greg Craig should never have been prosecuted.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One case Mr. Berman says his office had to fight to keep alive was the 2018 prosecution of Mr. Cohen, the president’s former lawyer. That August, Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations over payments he arranged before the 2016 election, to keep two women from disclosing affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Mr. Berman did not participate in the investigation, because he had volunteered for the campaign. But he was later briefed on interference in the case.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before the plea, Mr. Berman writes, as his office was preparing a charging document detailing the crimes, a Justice Department official badgered his deputy, Mr. Khuzami, without success, to remove all references to a person identified as “Individual-1.” It was Mr. Trump.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the months after Mr. Cohen’s guilty plea, Mr. Berman writes, the Southern District continued to pursue investigations related to possible campaign finance violations, apparently by others in Mr. Trump’s orbit.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But after Mr. Barr became attorney general in February 2019, Mr. Berman writes, he tried to kill the investigations and suggested that Mr. Cohen’s conviction on campaign finance charges be reversed, even though six months had passed since Mr. Cohen had entered his guilty plea.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late February, he writes, Mr. Barr summoned the Southern District deputy, Mr. Khuzami, who was overseeing the inquiry, to challenge the legal basis for Mr. Cohen’s plea and “the reasoning behind pursuing similar campaign finance charges against other individuals.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His office was ordered to pause all investigative steps, Mr. Berman writes. “Not a single document in our possession could be reviewed,” he says. Mr. Barr assigned the department’s Office of Legal Counsel to study the issue.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Berman says his office submitted memos to the department in support of its position, and top prosecutors met with officials in Washington, including Mr. Barr, to press the case.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Read More on the Trump Investigations</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key developments in the inquiries into the former president and his allies.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Master: A judge granted former President Donald J. Trump’s request for an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to review the documents the F.B.I. seized from Mar-a-Lago. The ruling surprised experts and could slow the investigation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ‘60-Day Rule’: As midterms near, the Justice Department is weighing whether to temporarily scale back the criminal investigations involving Mr. Trump because of an unwritten rule forbidding overt actions that could improperly influence the vote.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Election Data: Newly released surveillance video from rural Coffee County, Ga., raised questions about the extent to which election data was improperly shared with pro-Trump figures who were challenging the 2020 election results.]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In late April, with the case effectively stalled, Audrey Strauss, who had succeeded Mr. Khuzami as Mr. Berman’s deputy, finally persuaded Mr. Barr there was no basis to dismiss any charges against Mr. Cohen and that the investigations should be completed, Mr. Berman writes. The inquiry eventually ended without additional charges.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Barr did not respond to a request for comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>After the September 2019 acquittal of Gregory Craig, Mr. Berman writes, he hoped the verdict would ease pressure on the Southern District “to prosecute yet another enemy of the president” — Mr. Kerry.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“That was naïve on my part,” Mr. Berman says.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mr. Kerry, a Vietnam War veteran and a former longtime Massachusetts senator, was secretary of state under President Obama, a role in which he led the lengthy negotiations that produced the Iran nuclear accord — that administration’s signature foreign policy achievement. Mr. Trump, during his presidential campaign, called the deal “insane” and a “disaster.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">On May 7, 2018, Mr. Trump tweeted about Mr. Kerry’s “possibly illegal Shadow Diplomacy” — an apparent reference to reports of Mr. Kerry having conversations as a private citizen with Iranian and other officials.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mr. Trump tweeted another attack on Mr. Kerry the next day — the same day Mr. Trump announced the United States was withdrawing from the accord.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On May 9, Mr. Berman writes, Justice Department officials told his office that it would be responsible for an investigation into Mr. Kerry’s Iran-related conduct. The F.B.I. would join the inquiry.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The focus was on the Logan Act, a rarely invoked 1799 statute barring private citizens from unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments, which has been criticized as unconstitutionally vague. Mr. Berman notes that no one has ever been successfully prosecuted under the law.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But, as he puts it, “The conduct that had annoyed the president was now a priority of the Department of Justice.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although Mr. Berman says he does not know what prompted the Justice Department to seek a Kerry investigation, “No one needed to talk with Trump to know what he wanted. You could read his tweets.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Berman writes that Mr. Kerry did not learn of the investigation and it never leaked into the news media.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mr. Trump, meanwhile, kept tweeting. “Iran is being given VERY BAD advice by @JohnKerry,” he tweeted on the morning of April 22, 2019. “Big violation of Logan Act?”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">That afternoon, Mr. Berman says, one of the co-chiefs of the Southern District’s national security unit got a call from a Justice Department official, asking why the office was delaying seeking an order to review “header information,” such as the date, recipients and senders of Mr. Kerry’s electronic communications. A more senior official pressed the issue again the next day with Southern District officials.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Mr. Berman writes that the pattern was “clear — and outrageous.” He said that the investigation began after Mr. Trump started tweeting “his displeasure about Kerry,” and a new tweet 11 months later prompted further prodding.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“And they were asking us, basically, what’s taking so long? Why aren’t you going harder and faster at this enemy of the president? There was no other way for me to look at it,” Mr. Berman writes.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A spokesman for Mr. Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Mr. Berman says that after an investigation of roughly a year, his office told the Justice Department that it would not prosecute Mr. Kerry.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A short time later, on Sept. 19, 2019, Mr. Berman writes, a senior adviser to the attorney general called to say that Mr. Barr expected to take the Kerry case to another U.S. attorney’s office, this time in Maryland.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>That office reached the same conclusion as the Southern District had, Mr. Berman writes, “and the Kerry investigation just quietly died — as it should have.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Alain Delaquérière contributed research.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div></div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">an 8 22 ah</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy about lambasting former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr— who he now despises for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/bill-barr-calls-bullshit-on-trumps-election-lies" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">refusing to go along with</a>&nbsp;the Big Lie and Trump’s false, totally debunked claim that widespread voter fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election. Trump now views Barr as a Republican who, like former Vice President Mike Pence, didn’t have the courage to stick by him.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But before the election, Barr’s critics often slammed him for being a Trump loyalist who defended Trump vigorously after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his final report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorney Neal Katyal, in an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/opinion/trump-barr-justice-department.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">op-ed published by the New York Times</a>&nbsp;on August 30, offers some reasons why a recently released&nbsp;<a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https:/int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/justice-dept/307e63e07f3e332b/full.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">March 24, 2019 memo</a>&nbsp;paints such a troubling picture of Barr and his relationship with then-President Trump</span>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The memo, released by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/bill-barr-donald-trumpjustice-department-mueller-obstruction-memo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">the U.S. Department of Justice</a>&nbsp;(DOJ) on August 21,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/us/politics/barr-trump-memo-mueller.html?searchResultPosition=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">details Barr’s justifications</a>&nbsp;for the DOJ clearing Trump of obstruction charges. These days, Trump views Barr as a traitor to the MAGA cause. But in 2019, he praised Barr as someone who had the backbone to come through for him in a way that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn’t.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/justice-department-releases-memo-obstruction/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Justice Department releases memo explaining why it declined to prosecute Donald Trump for obstruction</strong></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The memo released last week by the Justice Department closing the book on the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election is a frightening document,” explains Katyal, a former solicitor genreal who is often featured as a legal expert on MSNBC. “Critics have rightly focused on its substance, slipshod legal analysis and omission of damning facts. But the process by which that memo, sent in March 2019, came to be is just as worrisome.”</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The attorney continues, “Delivered to the attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, the memo was written by two political appointees in the Justice Department. Mr. Barr used the memo to go around the special counsel regulations and to clear President Donald Trump of obstruction of justice. If left to fester, this decision will have pernicious consequences for investigations of future high-level wrongdoing.”</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Katyal goes on to offer some more reasons why he finds the March 24, 2019 memo so troubling.<b>&nbsp;As Katyal sees it, the memo is an example of the United States’ system of checks and balances being undermined during the Trump years.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The 2019 memo tendentiously argued that Mr. Trump committed no crimes — leaving the final decision on the matter to Republican-aligned appointees instead of to the independent special counsel,” Katyal notes. “The challenge in devising the regulations was to develop a framework for the prosecution of high-level executive branch officials — which is harder than it sounds, because the Constitution requires the executive branch to control prosecutions.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;So, we are left with one of the oldest philosophical problems: Who will guard the guardians?”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/appeals-court-orders-release-memo/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Appeals court orders release of memo Bill Barr used to justify not prosecuting Donald Trump</strong></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During Mueller’s investigation, many MAGA Republicans tried to paint him as a Democratic partisan — even though the former FBI director was a conservative and a lifelong Republican who had been on very friendly terms with the George W. Bush Administration. But during the Russian investigation, Mueller’s admirers often praised him for valuing country over party. When Democrats and Never Trump conservatives used the word “institutionalist” to describe Mueller in 2017 or 2018, it was meant as high praise.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A special counsel in a federal investigation, Katyal stresses, needs to be someone who is independent rather than partisan — which Special Counsel Mueller was. But Barr, Katyal laments, undermined Special Counsel Mueller’s work in the end.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We created the role of special counsel to fill a void — to concentrate in one person responsibility and ultimate blame so that investigations would not be covered up from the get-go and to give that person independence from political pressure,” Katyal writes. “It is outrageous that Mr. Barr acted so brazenly in the face of this framework. The point of requiring a special counsel was to provide for an independent determination of any potential criminal wrongdoing by Mr. Trump. B<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ut the political appointees in his Justice Department took what was the most important part of that inquiry — the decision of whether he committed crimes — and grabbed it for themselves. This was a fundamental betrayal of the special counsel guidelines not for some principle, but because it protected their boss, Mr. Trump.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>READ MORE:&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/donald-trump-al-capone-moment/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>The FBI's Mar-a-Lago search was Donald Trump's 'Al Capone moment'</strong></a></font></p></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">---</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ref</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/bill-barr-donald-trumpjustice-department-mueller-obstruction-memo" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bill&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/topic/william-barr" target="blank" data-uri="5191256660c68b0603f9339653bfb419" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; opacity: 0.6; line-height: inherit;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Barr</strong></a>&nbsp;played a starring role in the January 6 committee’s public hearings this summer when he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/bill-barr-calls-bullshit-on-trumps-election-lies" target="blank" data-uri="d2fb7f2e6ae4dbffb8b6e82e2d252d13" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">declared</a>&nbsp;in videotaped testimony that&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Donald Trump</strong>’s election fraud claims were “bullshit,” “completely bullshit,” “stupid,” “crazy,” “complete nonsense,” and “a great, great disservice to the country.” But it’s important to remember that for the majority of the time he was serving as attorney general, Barr operated the Justice Department like it was the 45th president’s personal law firm and his title was “chief footstool to Donald Trump.” Yes, whether he was claiming, with a straight face, that the FBI had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/12/willliam-barr-trump-fbi-civil-liberties" target="blank" data-uri="b92de9222bec53960cda30e8f20f3cd6" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">violated</a>&nbsp;Trump’s “civil liberties,” using the DOJ to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/donald-trump-bill-barr-e-jean-carroll" target="blank" data-uri="f4604d5a786e98f0ee16eba39a6dfef3" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">try to kill</a>&nbsp;a rape defamation suit against the president, or attempting to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/nancy-pelosi-william-barr-ukraine" target="blank" data-uri="07230f08dbc74ba4ebf8457e61a44432" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">bury</a>&nbsp;the “urgent“ whistle-blower report that became the basis of the House’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">first</em>&nbsp;impeachment proceedings against Trump, Barr made his loyalties very, very clear. But in case you needed further evidence that the former AG was a total hack, today’s your lucky day!</font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Wednesday, the government released the 2019 DOJ&nbsp;<a data-offer-url="https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2019.03.24-Memorandum-to-AG-from-DAG-re-Mueller-Report-Review.pdf" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.citizensforethics.org="www.citizensforethics.org" wp-content="wp-content" uploads="uploads" memorandum-to-ag-from-dag-re-mueller-report-review.pdf="Memorandum-to-AG-from-DAG-re-Mueller-Report-Review.pdf" href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2019.03.24-Memorandum-to-AG-from-DAG-re-Mueller-Report-Review.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" data-uri="f80e4b1478c72a63f0f6934a186465db" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">memo</a>&nbsp;Barr used as justification for not charging Trump with obstructing the Mueller investigation, despite the fact that the special counsel found&nbsp;<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/robert-mueller-statement" target="blank" data-uri="c77a02fba387739eeb00dc7e37b2feec" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">numerous instances of obstruction by Trump</a>&nbsp;that could have resulted in him being charged with a crime, from firing FBI director&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">James Comey</strong>&nbsp;and telling a White House lawyer to fire&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Robert Mueller</strong>&nbsp;to warning witnesses not to flip. Yet the memo, which was written, at Barr’s request, by&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Steven Engel,</strong>&nbsp;the former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, and&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Ed O’Callaghan,</strong>&nbsp;the principal associate deputy attorney general, insist none of that was worth taking legal action, a conclusion they came to based on what some say was a&nbsp;<a data-offer-url="https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/crew-gets-secret-barr-memo-on-trump-obstruction/" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" www.citizensforethics.org="www.citizensforethics.org" news="news" press-releases="press-releases" crew-gets-secret-barr-memo-on-trump-obstruction="crew-gets-secret-barr-memo-on-trump-obstruction" href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/crew-gets-secret-barr-memo-on-trump-obstruction/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" data-uri="f6d983279e175d1e7a330ad811aaebec" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">twisting of facts</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-offer-url="https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1562538580576051201" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" twitter.com="twitter.com" muellershewrote="MuellerSheWrote" status="status" href="https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1562538580576051201" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" data-uri="d68481553a5729ba68c6e2f68c6104a0" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">legal falsehoods</a>.</font></p><p class="paywall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>For starters, the memo argues that obstruction charges are usually brought when an individual blocks the investigation and prosecution of an underlying crime, and since the Mueller probe did not establish one, they shouldn‘t charge Trump. That, of course, is not how the law works,</b>&nbsp;which is why if you hide evidence from the cops about an attempted murder that didn’t actually result in someone being killed, you’d very likely still be in trouble. Then, there’s the memo writers’ claim that because other people didn’t go along with Trump‘s attempts to obstruct justice, he shouldn’t be charged. This is, once again, not how the law works!&nbsp;</font></p><p class="paywall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As former Veterans Affairs employee and&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Mueller, She Wrote</em>&nbsp;podcast host&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Allison Gill</strong>&nbsp;<a data-offer-url="https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1562538592798248960" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" twitter.com="twitter.com" muellershewrote="MuellerSheWrote" status="status" href="https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1562538592798248960" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" data-uri="98ae6efc5a9cb2e086e09cc86d9da57d" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">tweeted</a>&nbsp;Wednesday, “That would be like if I told the getaway driver to blow up the bank and [if] they didn’t, I’m off the hook.” The memo also wildly asserts, without evidence, that Trump did the things he did, like asking White House counsel&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Don McGahn</strong>&nbsp;to fire Mueller, “not for an illegal purpose, but rather because he believed the investigation was politically motivated and undermined his administration’s efforts to govern.” It also cites the fact that Trump never literally used the word&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">fire</em>&nbsp;to McGahn when he was talking about Mueller, probably because he operates like a mafia boss who speaks in code. (In sworn testimony, McGahn&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-claims-he-never-told-mcgahn-fire-mueller-mcgahn-mueller-n998411" target="blank" data-uri="da8c6840176b1106ed33e47c7de7176b" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">said</a>&nbsp;Trump called him at home and told him “Mueller has to go” and “call me back when you do it.”) As for Trump then instructing McGahn to lie about trying to get Mueller fired, we already know the Barr DOJ’s thoughts there, given that while testifying, Barr told lawmakers it was “<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/barr-not-a-crime-for-trump-to-demand-staffers-lie-to-investigators" target="blank" data-uri="f317289cb357d7147697c35346b8ef05" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">not a crime</a>” for the president to demand staffers lie to investigators.</font></p><div class="Container-inlOGG fUgTuc" data-event-boundary="click" data-event-click="{" pattern="pattern" cneinterludeembed="CNEInterludeEmbed" data-include-experiments="true" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="paywall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Responding to the memo on Twitter,&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Norm Eisen,</strong>&nbsp;an attorney and former U.S. ambassador,&nbsp;<a data-offer-url="https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1562534403573956608" class="external-link" data-event-click="{" element="element" externallink="ExternalLink" outgoingurl="outgoingURL" https="https" twitter.com="twitter.com" normeisen="NormEisen" status="status" href="https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1562534403573956608" rel="nofollow noopener" target="blank" data-uri="249580676d4e166f399cc42e77f60b30" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">wrote</a>: “No wonder a series of judges have slammed Barr for dishonesty in connection with all this. It’s garbage. Anyone else woulda been prosecuted. Barr should be disciplined.</span>”&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Samuel Buell,</strong>&nbsp;a Duke University law professor and former prosecutor,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/us/politics/barr-trump-memo-mueller.html?smid=tw-share" target="blank" data-uri="ba8a7e32f3cfa9d840cdc6ec04c9a33e" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">told</a>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The New York Times:</em>&nbsp;“It reads more like a defense lawyer’s brief than a full and balanced analysis citing the legal authorities.”&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Ryan Goodman,</strong>&nbsp;a New York University law professor, described the memo as a “get out of jail free” card, telling&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Times:</em>&nbsp;“It’s hard to stomach a memo that amounts to saying someone is not guilty of obstruction for deliberately trying to induce witnesses not to cooperate with law enforcement in a major criminal investigation.”</font></p><div class="AdWrapper-fGbOzD fLeJdj ad imgjohhmd" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="adslot adslot--in-content" data-node-id="2wvzh6" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="cns-ads-slot-type-in-content-0" class="cns-ads-stage cns-ads-slot-type-in-content cns-ads-slot-type-in-content-0 cns-ads-slot-state-filled cns-ads-slot-size-0" data-name="in_content_0" data-slot-type="in_content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 679.6px; z-index: 1;"><div id="in_content_0" class="cns-ads-container" data-node-id="2wvzh6" data-google-query-id="CMeC9dP-7vkCFRJZwQodN1cDmg" style="box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px auto;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_3379/conde.vanityfair.native/in-content/news/article/1_0container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0pt none; text-align: center; width: 679.6px; height: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></div></div></div></div></div><p class="paywall" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last year, two federal courts&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/barr-mueller-report/index.html" target="blank" data-uri="c6bbb56c014890a8fbfeaca708878c54" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">concluded</a>&nbsp;that Barr had already decided not to charge Trump before commissioning the memo, and signed it after informing Congress of his decision. When it was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/04/politics/william-barr-memo-trump-memo/index.html" target="blank" data-uri="0a851482b5cc4ccdc9b08205907b69f7" style="text-decoration: inherit; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; --colortoken-name:colors.interactive.base.light; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">released</a>&nbsp;in redacted form in May 2021, Judge&nbsp;<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Amy Berman Jackson</strong>&nbsp;wrote, “The agency’s redactions and incomplete explanations obfuscate the true purpose of the memorandum, and the excised portions belie the notion that it fell to the Attorney General to make a prosecution decision or that any such decision was on the table at any time. The fact that [Trump] would not be prosecuted was a given.</span>”</font></font></font></font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">s<b>teven Andrew Engel</b>&nbsp;(born June 29, 1974)<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dechertnomination_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-dechertnomination-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;is an American lawyer. He served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Legal_Counsel" title="Office of Legal Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Office of Legal Counsel</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="Presidency of Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Donald Trump administration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-leadership_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-leadership-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;Engel, who previously worked in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W.Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">George W. Bush administration</a>&nbsp;as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, was nominated by President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;on January 31, 2017, and confirmed on November 7, 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-wt_nomination_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-wt_nomination-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;On January 20, 2021, he was succeeded by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_H.Schroeder" title="Christopher H. Schroeder" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Christopher H. Schroeder</a>, serving under the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden" title="Presidency of Joe Biden" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Biden Administration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></font></font></font></div><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#Early_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#Office_of_Legal_Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Office of Legal Counsel</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#Private_practice" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Private practice</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Engel was born on June 29, 1974, in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hyde_Park,New_York" title="New Hyde Park, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">New Hyde Park, New York</a>, a Long Island suburb of New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;He was raised in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Washington,New_York" title="Port Washington, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Port Washington, New York</a>&nbsp;and graduated as valedictorian from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D.Schreiber_Senior_High_School" title="Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School</a>&nbsp;in 1992, earning a bachelor's degree&nbsp;<i>summa cum laude</i>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Harvard University</a>&nbsp;in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-allgov_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-allgov-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;From 1996–1997, Engel was a Knox Fellow at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">University of Cambridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-decherthire_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-decherthire-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-welcomes_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-welcomes-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;He was awarded a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Juris Doctor</a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Yale Law School</a>&nbsp;in 2000,<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;and then clerked for Judge&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Kozinski" title="Alex Kozinski" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Alex Kozinski</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a>, followed by a clerkship for Justice&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy" title="Anthony Kennedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Anthony Kennedy</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Supreme Court of the United States</a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-leadership_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-leadership-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_career">Early career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Engel practiced law at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland%26_Ellis" title="Kirkland & Ellis" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Kirkland & Ellis</a>&nbsp;from 2002 through 2006<sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[1]</a></sup>&nbsp;before serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration from 2006 through 2009.</span><sup id="cite_ref-questionnaire_1-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-questionnaire-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">1]</a></sup>&nbsp;In June 2009, Engel became a partner at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechert" title="Dechert" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Dechert</a>, an international law firm.<sup id="cite_ref-decherthire_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-decherthire-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-allgov_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-allgov-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-leadership_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-leadership-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Office_of_Legal_Counsel">Office of Legal Counsel</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On January 31, 2017, the White House announced that President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;intended to nominate Engel to serve as the Assistant Attorney General heading the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Legal_Counsel" title="Office of Legal Counsel" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Office of Legal Counsel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wt_nomination_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-wt_nomination-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dechertnomination_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-dechertnomination-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;Engel's nomination was opposed by U.S. Senator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">John McCain</a>, a former&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">prisoner of war</a>&nbsp;who was&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture" title="Torture" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">tortured</a>&nbsp;while in captivity. McCain cited Engel's involvement in commenting on and reviewing one of the so-called&nbsp;<b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_memo" class="mw-redirect" title="Torture memo" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Torture memos</a>"</b>&nbsp;that signed off on six different "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques" title="Enhanced interrogation techniques" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">enhanced interrogation techniques</a>."</span><sup id="cite_ref-politico2017_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-politico2017-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;<b>Various human rights groups expressed concerns about Engel's nomination, also citing his involvement with the July 20, 2007, memo authored by&nbsp;</b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_G.Bradbury" title="Steven G. Bradbury" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;"><b>Steven G. Bradbury</b></a><b>, then-head of the OLC</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-hrw_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-hrw-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Senate Judiciary Committee received support for the nomination from former Attorneys General&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mukasey" title="Michael Mukasey" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Mukasay</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales" title="Alberto Gonzales" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Gonzales</a>, other former senior executive branch officials, and the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Benevolent_Association_of_the_City_of_New_York" title="Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Engel was confirmed by a 51–47 vote, largely along party lines with one Democrat, Senator&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Manchin" title="Joe Manchin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Joe Manchin</a>&nbsp;(West Virginia), voting in favor of confirmation.<sup id="cite_ref-engel_confirmation_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-engel_confirmation-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a></sup></span></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In November 2017, Engel issued an opinion supporting the President’s appointment of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney" title="Mick Mulvaney" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Mick Mulvaney</a></span>&nbsp;as the Acting Director of the Consumer Finance Protection Board under the Vacancies Reform Act.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In April 2018, Engel approved airstrikes launched by President Trump against facilities associated with Syria’s chemical-weapons program without congressional authorization.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;In March 2019, Engel issued a memorandum to Attorney General&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr" title="William Barr" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">William Barr</a>&nbsp;making the determination that the evidence laid out in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report" title="Mueller report" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Mueller report</a>&nbsp;did not support the conclusion that then-President Trump committed&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice" title="Obstruction of justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">obstruction of justice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obstruction_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-obstruction-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[16]</a></sup>&nbsp;(This memo was ordered released in May 2021, and was finally released in August 2022</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-released_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-released-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>)</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In May 2019, Engel issued an opinion concluding that the former White House Counsel,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn" title="Don McGahn" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Don McGahn</a>, was immune from compelled congressional testimony.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" title="United States House Committee on the Judiciary" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">House Judiciary Committee</a>&nbsp;challenged that decision, and Engel’s opinion was rejected by U.S. District Judge&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson" title="Ketanji Brown Jackson" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Ketanji Brown Jackson</a>, who was later nominated by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Joe Biden</a>&nbsp;to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Jackson’s opinion was twice reversed by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit.</span><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">19]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4">In June 2019, Engel issued an OLC opinion supporting the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Justice Department</a>'s decision not to release&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump" title="Tax returns of Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Donald Trump's tax returns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[20]</a></sup></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In September 2019, Engel authored the OLC opinion<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[21]</a></sup>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Justice Department</a>&nbsp;to not forward the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_scandal" title="Trump–Ukraine scandal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Trump–Ukraine scandal</a>&nbsp;whistleblower complaint<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[22]</a></sup>&nbsp;to Congress. The&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_Inspectors_General_on_Integrity_and_Efficiency" title="Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency</a>&nbsp;concluded that Engel's opinion had a "chilling effect on effective oversight"</span>&nbsp;and was "wrong as a matter of law and policy"; urging him to withdraw or modify it.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup>&nbsp;Engel responded that the opinion had simply applied the law as it was written and that it did not construe the statutory provisions protecting whistleblowers.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></font></p><div class="thumb tright" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: right; float: right; width: auto; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; padding: 3px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); width: 222px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Donald_Trump" title="Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background: none;">impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump</a></b>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">On September 9, 2020, President Donald Trump identified Engel among a list of potential future nominees to the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Supreme Court</a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup></font></font></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In January 2021, after then-President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s re-election bid failed, Trump undertook a number of unprecedented acts to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">overturn the 2020 election</a>, including a pressure campaign to request the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Justice Department</a>&nbsp;to falsely claim fraud and invalidate the results of the election in key battleground states. E<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ngel, along with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Donoghue" title="Richard Donoghue" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Richard Donoghue</a>&nbsp;and others, refused to carry out the scheme and reportedly threatened to resign if he replaced Acting Attorney General&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_A.Rosen" title="Jeffrey A. Rosen" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Jeffrey Rosen</a>&nbsp;with Assistant Attorney General&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Clark" title="Jeffrey Clark" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Jeffrey B. Clark</a>&nbsp;in an effort to overturn the election.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Benner_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-Benner-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-35" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[35]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[36]</a></sup>&nbsp;On June 23, 2022, Engel testified in the fifth&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack_public_hearings" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack public hearings" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">public hearing</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack" title="United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack</a>.</span></font></font></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Private_practice">Private practice</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></font></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In May 2021,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechert" title="Dechert" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Dechert LLP</a>&nbsp;announced that Engel had rejoined their law firm as a partner.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Engel#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Legal experts are reviewing&nbsp;<a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/memorandum-to-barr-re-mueller-report-review/244f6c5240fa4804/full.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a legal memo</a>&nbsp;that served as the basis for Attorney General Bill Barr deciding to not charge then-President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice, and they are calling it “garbage,” “disingenuous,” a “total whitewash,” and “ass-covering.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The memo, published Wednesday afternoon by The New York Times, is dated March 24, 2019.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“For the reasons stated below,” it reads in part, “we conclude that the evidence described in Volume II of the Report is not, in our judgment, sufficient to support a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the President violated the obstruction-of-justice statutes.</span>&nbsp;In addition, we believe that certain of the conduct examined by the Special Counsel could not, as a matter of law, support an obstruction charge under the circumstances. Accordingly, were there no constitutional barrier, we would recommend, under the Principles of Federal Prosecution, that you decline to commence such a prosecution.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Norm Eisen, a well-known Harvard-educated attorney, former U.S. Ambassador, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and a CNN legal analyst calls the legal memo “garbage.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“No wonder a series of judges have slammed Barr for dishonesty in connection with all this,” Eisen&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1562534403573956608/photo/1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">writes</a>. “It’s garbage. Anyone else woulda been prosecuted. Barr should be disciplined.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorney Andrew Weissman calls the memo&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AWeissmann/status/1562533174366056450" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">“disingenuous” and a “total whitewash.”</a></span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AWeissmann/status/1562535280472510464" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">adds</a>: “note no discussion of Barr telling Special Counsel Mueller that he should make the decision whether Trump obstructed justice. Why? Because new DOJ memo reveals they thought Mueller Report could be read to say he did obstruct! So Barr shd say the opposite.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig calls the memo “<a href="https://twitter.com/eliehonig/status/1562537078705242112" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">ass-covering</a>.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“To recap,” he writes, detailing these bullet points:</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
“Mueller failed by refusing to state a conclusion,” “Barr publicly distorted Mueller’s findings,” “DOJ drafted this flimsy, ass-covering memo,” “Barr misled a federal court about this bogus memo,” “Garland appealed on Barr’s behalf, and lost.”</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>This is a breaking news and developing story.</strong></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;wiki 8 22</font></div><div style=""><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b style="">edward Casey O'Callaghan</b>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(born June 8, 1969) is an American attorney who served as the co-chief of the terrorism and national security unit of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Attorney" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Attorney</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'s office for the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" title="United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Southern District</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York(state)" title="New York (state)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New York</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who r</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">esigned in July 2008 to join&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John McCain</a>'s presidential campaign. One of three leaders of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sarah Palin</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alaska</a>&nbsp;"truth squad,"<b> O'Callaghan became the public face of Palin's legal defense</b> against ethics charges related to her former brother-in-law, the so-called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Public_Safety_Commissioner_dismissal" title="Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Troopergate</a>." </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From 2009 to 2011, he worked at the law firm&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Peabody" title="Nixon Peabody" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Nixon Peabody</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, then from 2011 to 2017 he was a partner at the New York office of law firm&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Chance" title="Clifford Chance" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Clifford Chance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In 2017, he became the principal deputy assistant attorney general of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice_National_Security_Division" title="United States Department of Justice National Security Division" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">National Security Division</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;at the U.S. Department of Justice.</span><sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-:0-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life and education</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#Career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#Sarah_Palin%22truth_squad%22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sarah Palin "truth squad"</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#Private_practice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Private practice</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#Government_service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Government service</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">O'Callaghan was born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn,New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brooklyn, New York</a>. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Georgetown University</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Juris Doctor</a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_School_of_Law" title="New York University School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York University School of Law</a>. From 1995 to 1996, O'Callaghan served as a law clerk to Judge&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Duffy" title="Kevin Duffy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kevin Duffy</a>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Southern_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Southern District of New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States District Court for the Southern District of New York</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="Sarah_Palin.22truth_squad.22"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sarah_Palin" truth_squad="truth_squad">Sarah Palin "truth squad"</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h3><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Main article:&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Public_Safety_Commissioner_dismissal" title="Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal</a></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="4">In 2008, O'Callaghan co-led what the&nbsp;<i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorage_Daily_News" title="Anchorage Daily News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Anchorage Daily News</a></i>&nbsp;called "a cadre of high-powered operatives" described by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_2008_presidential_campaign" title="John McCain 2008 presidential campaign" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John McCain's campaign</a>&nbsp;as a "truth squad" to field questions about and defend attacks against vice-presidential candidate&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Sarah Palin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ADN_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-ADN-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;His two co-leaders were&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Karl Rove</a>&nbsp;protégée Brian Jones, and <b>Washington lawyer&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Paoletta" title="Mark Paoletta" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Paoletta</a>.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Paoletta, Jones, and O'Callaghan were "tasked specifically with responding to the sort of viral attacks that have been popping up about Palin’s background and record in Alaska... The public face for this pushback, though, will be woman Republican politicians, a 'truth squad' team designed to highlight attacks on Palin and draw sympathy to her side."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;Paoletta and Jones were volunteers while O'Callaghan was on staff.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">O'Callaghan was sent to Alaska to handle "legal issues that are affecting the political dynamic of the campaign," according to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Griffin" title="Taylor Griffin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Taylor Griffin</a>, a former Treasury Department official in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bush</a>&nbsp;administration.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Newsweek</a>&nbsp;described O'Callaghan's role as "helping to direct an aggressive legal strategy aimed at shutting down a pre-election ethics investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin." Working with Palin's attorney Thomas Van Flein, O'Callaghan worked to block the investigation. </b>"There was no Ethics Act violation and there is no need to go forward with this," O'Callaghan told reporters.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Alaska Personnel Board concluded that Palin did not violate the Alaska Executive Ethics Act by trying to get her brother-in-law fired. Alaska Personnel Board investigations are normally secret, but the three-member board chose to release its report one day before the Presidential election</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Private_practice">Private practice</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">O'Callaghan moved into private practice in March 2009 when the law firm&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Peabody" title="Nixon Peabody" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Nixon Peabody</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;announced he had joined its Government Investigations and White Collar Defense Practice Group.</span><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;In 2011, he joined the international law firm&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Chance" title="Clifford Chance" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Clifford Chance</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in New York as a Partner in its White Collar, Regulatory Enforcement and Government Investigations practice group.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;O'Callaghan worked on several high-profile representations, including Achilles Macris, who was head of the London branch of&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">JPMorgan Chase</a>'s chief investment office, where the trader nicknamed the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Whale" class="mw-redirect" title="London Whale" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">London Whale</a>" operated.</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-13" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-13" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">13]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;O'Callaghan also served on the defense of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Webb(football_executive)" title="Jeffrey Webb (football executive)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeffrey Webb</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the former President of&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF" title="CONCACAF" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">CONCACAF</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and member of the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_Council" title="FIFA Council" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">FIFA Council</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, in the criminal&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act" title="Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">RICO</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;indictment pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.</span><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Government_service">Government service</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2017, O'Callaghan became the principal deputy assistant attorney general of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice_National_Security_Division" title="United States Department of Justice National Security Division" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Department of Justice National Security Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-:0-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In April 2018, he became the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Principal_associate_deputy_attorney_general&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Principal associate deputy attorney general (page does not exist)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">principal associate deputy attorney general</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, replacing&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K.Hur" title="Robert K. Hur" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Robert K. Hur</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;O'Callaghan left office in December 2019 and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rejoined&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmer_Cutler_Pickering_Hale_and_Dorr" title="Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">WilmerHale</a>&nbsp;in April 2020</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; margin-top: 0.3em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.martindale.com/attorney/edward-casey-o-callaghan-496905/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Edward Casey O'Callaghan Lawyer Profile on Martindale.com"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martindale-Hubbell" title="Martindale-Hubbell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Martindale-Hubbell</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.adn.com/palin/story/529637.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">the original</a>&nbsp;on February 14, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Anchorage+Daily+News&rft.atitle=Campaign+fields+Palin+questions&rft.date=2008-09-18&rft.aulast=Sutton&rft.aufirst=Anne&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.adn.com%2Fpalin%2Fstory%2F529637.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+O%27Callaghan" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_ref-6" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMartin2008" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Martin, Jonathan (September 10, 2008).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.politico.com/story/2008/09/palin-team-stocked-with-bush-veterans-013323" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Palin team stocked with Bush veterans"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Politico</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved&nbsp;<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 29,</span>&nbsp;2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Politico&rft.atitle=Palin+team+stocked+with+Bush+veterans&rft.date=2008-09-10&rft.aulast=Martin&rft.aufirst=Jonathan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fstory%2F2008%2F09%2Fpalin-team-stocked-with-bush-veterans-013323&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEd+O%27Callaghan" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_O%27Callaghan#cite_ref-7" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span>&nbsp;}<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAmbinder2008" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ambinder" title="Marc Ambinder" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ambinder, Marc</a>&nbsp;(September 9, 2008).&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081013101928/http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/mccain_campaign_stands_up_pali.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"McCain Campaign Stands Up Palin Truth-Squadding Team"</a>.&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Atlantic</a></i>. 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