All posts tagged "Joe Digenova"

Attorney General Todd Blanche looks anxious pushing President Donald Trump's revenge investigation that has little to do with justice, an analyst wrote.

In a Saturday piece for her emptywheel blog, legal analyst Marcy Wheeler argued that Blanche is steering the so-called "grand conspiracy" investigation to protect his own position, pointing to his "flopsweat efforts to deliver on Trump's demands for revenge."

Wheeler built her argument around a New York Times report on the turmoil inside the probe, including a bitter clash between Blanche and Joe diGenova, the veteran Republican lawyer who quit the investigation amid the dispute....

A Trump-aligned prosecutor issued a cryptic warning Friday after abruptly quitting the Justice Department, saying his former team will succeed only “if they are allowed to do their jobs.”

Joe diGenova, who spent five months leading a sprawling investigation into whether federal officials conspired to target President Donald Trump, told NBC News that a specific clash with department leaders led to his resignation. But he refused to reveal what happened.

“The days leading up to my resignation are shrouded in the secrecy of administrative behavior, and they will remain so,” diGenova told the outlet....

A Department of Justice prosecutor's "vendetta" against a former CIA director threatens to backfire and arm President Donald Trump's foes, a legal expert argued.

All Rise News legal analyst Adam Klasfeld flagged on Saturday a new federal court motion from former CIA Director John Brennan, the target of the "grand conspiracy" probe into the FBI's 2016 Trump-Russia investigation, which Trump calls illegitimate.

Brennan asked a Washington, D.C. judge to force the Justice department to preserve internal records ahead of what his attorneys call a "constitutionally vindictive and selective" prosecution, according to Klasfeld....