Carol Leonnig
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372 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6 Nov
Carol Leonnig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They conclude that it's very unlikely and they stop having their security meetings.
The immunity decision, again, is really interesting by how it reverberates when it comes down in July of 2024, because inside Attorney General Merrick Garland's office, he is just shocked by the opinion and conveys to his aides, because he knows these justices personally, that they have to know that what they've written is wrong.
You know, we actually, at the Washington Post when I was there, there was a decent amount of polling we were doing, trying to talk to our readers and also just citizens across America about whether or not an indictment and a trial would impact their view of Trump if they were already Trump supporters.
And some of them said it would change things for them to see that evidence.
But remember, we're reporters who weren't rooting for a particular president.
We weren't trying to push for one thing or another.
But we know from our reporting how devastating the failure to get this before the
And the person who said that best, we learned about a private meeting of judges where a Republican appointee was meeting with others in the D.C.
bench where the case would have been heard.
And he's very, very well respected.
Judge John Bates served as the chief of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for many years.
And has a broad support among Democrats and Republicans or I should say appointments by Democrat or Republican judges very down the middle.
And he said in this group setting, this was a huge failure of the American justice system that these trials never saw a courtroom.
Thank you.
The Bulwark Daily · Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations · 12 Feb 2025
podcast
It's great to be with you as usual.
No, just, you know, working on my self-care, my nails, nothing going on.
You know, it's really been a breathtaking set of days. And I don't just mean this to complain about our work-life balance. I just mean, if you are an employee of the FBI, you have experienced every day, maybe two or three events that have been stunners. A week before last, a series of the executive leadership for Chris Wray, the FBI director, all career employees, right?
They're not beholden to Chris Wray, but they are promoted by him into high-level jobs. All of them were brought into a meeting the day before Kash Patel's hearing and told, your names are on a list to go. And the next morning, while Kash Patel is testifying, they are brought again, a larger group of them brought into a meeting that
with their acting directors, Driscoll and Kassane, and told, you got to resign or you'll be fired by Friday. Resign, retire, your choice, but you got to be gone. And we're sorry, we're just the messengers here. Oh, yeah. And over the weekend, all the FBI employees are learning that they are going to be questioned on a formal survey about their role in January 6th.
Did you execute a search warrant? Did you subpoena anybody? Did you interview, testify, arrest? A kind of almost like a survey monkey survey to figure out, you know, what was your role in investigating a violent insurrection and attack on police? So all those things are happening in a string of days while Kash Patel is assuring the
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