CAFE Insider 04/15: "Spying" & Lying
Preet and Anne discuss:
- The arrest and indictment of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and the likelihood that he’ll testify at Roger Stone’s trial
- Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony that the Justice Department would look into potential inappropriate “spying” on the Trump campaign
- The indictment of prominent Democratic lawyer Greg Craig who served as President Obama’s White House counsel
- The indictment of attorney Michael Avenatti in California on dozens of charges arising from a scheme to defraud his clients
- President Trump’s proposal to send undocumented immigrants to Sanctuary Cities
- The relationship between the police and prosecutors.
REFERENCES AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS
JULIAN ASSANGE’S INDICTMENT & PRESS FREEDOMS
- Julian Assange’s indictment filed by the Eastern District of Virginia
- “Assange: A Self-Proclaimed Foe of Secrecy Who Inspires Both Admiration and Fury,” NYT, 4/11/19
- “Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing,” Washington Post, 11/15/18
- “Press Freedoms and the Case Against Julian Assange, Explained,” NYT, 4/11/19
- “Q: Could U.S. Prosecute Reporters For Classified Scoops? A: Maybe,” NPR, 3/22/17
- “How Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning became intertwined,” ABCNews, 4/12/19
- “Everything You Need to Know About Wikileaks,” MIT Technology Review, 12/9/10
- “Julian Assange, A Man Without A Country,” New Yorker, 8/14/17
- “Julian Assange’s arrest could end as a test for press freedom,” CNN, 4/11/19
- “Trump on WikiLeaks after Assange arrest: ‘It’s not my thing,’” The Hill, 4/11/19
- Christina Wilkie’s tweet documenting Trump’s inconsistent love of Wikileaks
- “Behind the Race to Publish the Top-Secret Pentagon Papers,” NYT, 12/20/17
- “What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do With the Pentagon Papers Today?,” NYT, 4/18/10
JULIAN ASSANGE’S CAT
EXTRADITION
ROGER STONE
- Stone’s Motion to Dismiss his indictment in DC court
- Stone’s Motion to Compel Complete Report of the Special Counsel
- Stone indictment filed by the District Court for the District of Columbia
- “Roger Stone wants to put Assange on the stand,” Politico, 4/12/19
BILL BARR & CAMPAIGN “SPYING”
- “Clip: Attorney General Says He Thinks Spying Occurred on Trump Campaign,” C-SPAN, 4/10/19
- “Bill Barr’s Low Moment,” Lawfare Blog, 4/10/19
- “Comey: 'I have no idea' what Barr meant with 'spying' comment,” The Hill, 4/11/19
- Trump’s “never forget” tweet invoking Barr’s use of the word “spying”
GREG CRAIG
- Greg Craig’s indictment filed in the District Court for the District of Columbia
- 18 U.S. Code § 1001
- Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Department of Justice
- “Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel, charged with making false statements related to Ukraine work in latest Mueller fallout,” Washington Post, 4/11/19
- “Prominent Democratic lawyer Greg Craig close to being charged in case stemming from Mueller probe,” CNN, 3/28/19
- “Paul Manafort Guilty Plea Highlights Increased Enforcement of Foreign Agents Registration,” Lawfare Blog, 9/14/18
MICHAEL AVENATTI
- The indictment filed by the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California against Michael Avenatti
- “Attorney Michael Avenatti Named in Federal Grand Jury Indictment that Accuses Him of Stealing Millions of Dollars from Clients,” U.S. Attorney’s Office for Central District of CA, 4/11/19
- “Michael Avenatti Faces New Criminal Charges in Escalated Federal Case,” NYT, 4/11/19
SANCTUARY CITIES
- “White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes,” Washington Post, 4/11/19
- Trump’s tweet confirming reports on the Sanctuary Cities proposal
- “Trump Urged Homeland Security Official to Close Border Despite an Earlier Promise of a Delay,” NYT, 4/12/19
- Mayor Jenny Durkan,“Seattle isn’t afraid of immigrants, Mr. Trump,” Washington Post, 4/12/19
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