By Betsy Woodruff
In a secure location in southwest Washington, D.C., with access to a
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility for classified material, 16
of the country’s top lawyers have passed the last several months
working on an investigation that will likely be as consequential as it
is secretive.
The following details—gleaned from conversations with people familiar with President Donald Trump’s legal team, as well as intelligence experts and friends of the people working for special counsel Robert Mueller—help explain the broad range of legal and counterintelligence experts he’s assembled. Mueller has essentially built his own miniature Justice Department.
Andrew Weissmann
Weissmann has spent most of his career in the Justice Department—first in the Eastern District of New York, and now at Main Justice. He’s on detail from his position overseeing fraud prosecutions to work with Mueller.
It isn’t their first tour of duty together. Weissmann was Mueller’s general counsel at the FBI for years.
A former FBI official who worked with him there told The Daily Beast that unlike many government attorneys, Weissmann rarely equivocated or dilly-dallied about decisions.
“He was not a paper tiger,” the former official said.
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Daily Beast
The following details—gleaned from conversations with people familiar with President Donald Trump’s legal team, as well as intelligence experts and friends of the people working for special counsel Robert Mueller—help explain the broad range of legal and counterintelligence experts he’s assembled. Mueller has essentially built his own miniature Justice Department.
Andrew Weissmann
Weissmann has spent most of his career in the Justice Department—first in the Eastern District of New York, and now at Main Justice. He’s on detail from his position overseeing fraud prosecutions to work with Mueller.
It isn’t their first tour of duty together. Weissmann was Mueller’s general counsel at the FBI for years.
A former FBI official who worked with him there told The Daily Beast that unlike many government attorneys, Weissmann rarely equivocated or dilly-dallied about decisions.
“He was not a paper tiger,” the former official said.
Click here for the full article.
Source: The Daily Beast
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