Note from Elie 3/26: DOJ’s Selective Do-Nothing Era

The Counsel

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Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst. For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.9	Well, this is it. I'm officially retiring the joke, I guess, you can call it a joke that I make seemingly every week about how normally
0:27.5	we do Fridays, but something crazy happens. So we're doing Tuesday, Wednesday. You get it. You've
0:31.5	heard it a million times. You probably understand how my kids feel now. I do tend to repeat my jokes.
0:35.7	I'm retiring this one. Everything's crazy. It's Trump
0:38.4	2.0. You never know when stuff's going to happen. We're going to do our best to keep up with it.
0:42.6	As always, love to hear your thoughts, questions, comments. So keep in coming. Letters at cafe.com. When Hillary Clinton used a private email server while she was Secretary of State, she became the subject of a years-long Justice Department investigation
1:11.4	that culminated with a public announcement by the FBI director that she had been, quote,
1:16.8	extremely careless, end quote, but would not be indicted. When Donald Trump took dozens of classified
1:23.1	documents to his gilded ballroom and bathroom at Mara Lago, he got indicted, and he might have ended
1:29.2	up in prison if he hadn't won the 2024 election. And when it emerged that Joe Biden kept
1:34.8	classified documents at his private home and office, DOJ, under Biden himself, appointed a
1:40.9	special counsel who concluded that Biden had, quote, willfully retained and
1:44.9	disclosed classified materials, end quote, but on balance should not be charged.
1:50.1	But don't expect the same scrutiny to apply where our nation's top defense and national
1:55.4	security officials group chatted in the widely available signal app about the operational details of an imminent
2:02.2	military strike in plain view of a national journalist. This will be the new normal. Under the
2:08.4	halting, distracted leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Justice Department has made
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