Anna Bower on What Happened in Coffee County
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Lawfare Fulton County Correspondent Anna Bower is the author of the Lawfare article entitled, “What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?” It is a detailed look back at the computer intrusion that shows up rather prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment. Anna joined Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk it through. How did all of this information—depositions, court filings, etc.—fall into her lap and reveal this incredible yarn? Why did people associated with the Trump campaign get interested in what happened in Coffee County, Georgia? And how did a team end up taking election system data from the county—in broad daylight—despite it being computer intrusion and theft?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. It sounds like, you know, Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani |
| 0:38.3 | and other folks had this idea that if they could just get access to some of these machines, |
| 0:45.0 | they would be able to show that they're really was fraud and that there really was, you |
| 0:49.7 | know, a manipulative algorithm or something wrong with the system and that they could prove |
| 0:55.2 | that Trump had really won the election by getting access to these machines. I'm Benjamin |
| 1:00.9 | Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast August 17th, 2023 and a bower is LawFair's Fulton County |
| 1:10.5 | correspondent. She is the author of the Magisterial article on LawFair on Tuesday entitled What |
| 1:21.3 | the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia. It is a detailed look back at the computer |
| 1:28.7 | intrusion that shows up rather prominently in Fulton County District Attorney, Fanny |
| 1:35.1 | Willis' election interference indictment. Anna has been working on it for many weeks |
| 1:42.2 | and she joined me in the virtual jungle studio to talk it through. How did all of this information, |
| 1:50.7 | repositions, court filings fall into her lap and reveal this incredible yarn? Why did people |
| 1:59.7 | associated with the Trump campaign get interested in what happened in coffee county, Georgia and how |
| 2:07.4 | did a team end up taking election system data from the county in broad daylight, |
| 2:17.7 | despite it being computer intrusion and theft? It's the LawFair podcast August 17th and a bower |
| 2:27.7 | on what happened in coffee county. So Anna Bower, it sounds like there's a little bit going on |
| 2:36.5 | in the background. Are you in line? I am not in line. I am at a cafe. I have had non-stop |
| 2:46.5 | back-to-back media stuff going on over the past two days since the Fulton County indictment came |
| 2:54.8 | down and I didn't have time to drive home to get to a quiet place. So I unfortunately am having |
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