Kate Shaw
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first heard Dec 2024
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Anyway, as Leah recounted with guest host Emily Amick,
The withdrawal of the subpoenas came after a truly unbelievable hearing at which DOJ lawyers acknowledged all kinds of things lawyers don't typically do, like omitting the fact that at issue were journalist records.
That was in one request.
They also mistakenly included reporter spouses and in one case a parent in a records request.
And then they just generally made a hash of procedures and protocols and the rule of law.
So
Fortunately, after being basically filleted by the district judge during this hearing last week, the government voluntarily withdrew the subpoenas.
But as one of the Times lawyers noted in the hearing, these kinds of efforts can have chilling effects on vigorous reporting, whatever the ultimate legal disposition.
And that seems to be the point.
So while we obviously celebrate the withdrawal of these subpoenas, it is an outrage that they were issued at all.
And as a postscript to the episode involving these subpoenas, the White House has now announced that Qatari Force One will actually be offline for a stretch for some security upgrades.
Carolyn Leavitt referred to this as plane maxing.
I mean, this is just the worst timeline I know.
But anyway, the point here is that that seems to fully vindicate the Times' reporting about the security concerns that were what prompted these short-lived subpoenas in the first place.
And especially where you literally have communications in writing where you have members of the Secret Service saying that this is legally dubious.
Exactly.
Then they just go ahead and did it.
That was one of many truly stunning details in this 20-plus page affidavit.
Okay.
But the maybe best part, I thought – I don't know if you read this entire affidavit with your jaw on the floor on Wednesday night the way I did.
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