Trump Justice Department Targeted His Enemies

Playbook: “Nobody thinks these are isolated incidents. Clearly someone at Justice was targeting Trump’s perceived enemies, perhaps in a bid to crack down on leaks or for some other reason. Former A.G. Bill Barr and former Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein have both denied they were aware of the activity on lawmakers, and it’s unclear who at DOJ was. We’re told A.G. Merrick Garland is trying to quickly figure out what happened, but his department isn’t fully staffed up, complicating his efforts.”

“We haven’t seen the last of this. Think about it this way: We’re just now learning about these secret requests for data that were made about three years ago because the gag orders on the tech companies, after having been renewed annually, just expired. That puts us in early 2018. So it’s not unreasonable to ask: Who else did they request information about in the last three years of Trump’s presidency that we don’t yet know about? Democrats expect many more names to surface.”

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