DOJ overcomes Trump's privilege wall in Jan 6. investigation, pushing deeper into former President's

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to force the top two lawyers from Donald Trump’s White House counsel’s office to testify about their conversations with the former President, as it tries to break through the privilege firewall Trump has used to avoid scrutiny of his actions on January 6, 2021, according to three people familiar with the investigation.

The move to compel additional testimony from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy White House counsel Patrick Philbin just last week is part of a set of secret court proceedings. Trump has been fighting to keep former advisers from testifying before a criminal grand jury about certain conversations, citing executive and attorney-client privileges to keep information confidential or slow down criminal investigators.

But the Justice Department successfully secured answers from top vice presidential advisers Greg Jacob and Marc Short over the past three weeks in significant court victories that could make it more likely the criminal investigation reaches further into Trump’s inner circle.

Jacob’s testimony on October 6, which has not been previously reported, is the first identifiable time when the confidentiality Trump had tried to maintain around the West Wing after the 2020 election has been pierced in the criminal probe following a court battle. A week after Jacob spoke to the grand jury again, Short had his own grand jury appearance date, CNN reported.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/politics/trump-firewall-justice-department-cipollone-philbin-secret-grand-jury/index.html

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But don't they know that all the evidence needed for an indictment is already available? The blogosphere has said so...

[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. And here I thought they weren't doing anything...

And Garland needed to be fired.

[gab13by13]

2. Proving seditious conspiracy was never going to be easy.

For my part, I don't think that DOJ should even go for indicting Trump for it. There are other Trump crimes that are much easier to get a conviction.

I certainly can see a big difference in DOJ's investigations into the stolen top secret documents. In this investigation no one needs to say, we don't know whether or not DOJ is investigating. We found out that Kash Patel testified to a grand jury within 1 week that tells me that DOJ is well along in its investigation.

I have zero reason to criticize DOJ for the stolen documents case, I have no desire to know what DOJ is finding because I know that DOJ is investigating, that's all I ever wanted.

[uncle ray]

3. the blogosphere is correct.

however, in cases like this, i endorse building a rock solid case before nailing the creamsickle shitstain.

[Grasswire2]

4. I believe the privilege Eastman claimed was from a 1984 memo..

...written by Theodore Olsen.

If a memo of opinion written by a partisan can over-ride established criminal law that was enacted by representatives of the will of the electorate, then we are governed by DECREE.

Any OLC memo written by partisan over-riding established law is DECREE. FIAT. Banana republic stuff. A conservative cabal has seized our system of justice.