Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the mob boss in the White House, exposing the Department of Justice

as nothing more than his private law firm, with concieres, who are his former defense lawyers,

unleashed like junkyard dogs to hound, harass, bankrupt, and, if possible, jail, Donald Trump's enemies.

Joining us to assess the state of the DOJ for which Trump's number one target James Comey,

in response to being indicted by Trump's rogue justice crew, is heartbroken, is Harry Littman,

a former United States Attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General

in the Justice Department. A professor of constitutional law and national security law at the

University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a senior

fellow at the Annenberg Center at the University of Southern California and the executive

producer host of the Talking Fed's podcasts as well as author of the Talking Fed substack.

A senior legal columnist at the New Republic, his latest article is Maureen Comey's case will tell us.

Does impartial justice still exist?

Then we'll go to an interview I recorded on Friday because our guest is on a boat with

the flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, which has been out of range of satellite communication

for the past two days as they head into greater danger.

Joining us is David Adler, General Coordinator of the Progressive International,

who previously served as Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Bernie Sanders, in his campaign for

U.S. President, policy director of the Democracy and Europe Movement 2025, and the co-founder

of its Green New Deal for Europe campaign.

He is on a boat with a flotilla heading for Gaza that has already been under attack by Israeli drones

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