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The Counsel

The Malignant Incompetence of Kash Patel

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Introducing the redesigned Dell PC with the Intel Core Ultra processor.

0:04.0

It helps you handle a lot.

0:06.0

Even when your holiday to do lists get to be a lot.

0:09.0

Like organising your holiday shopping and responding to holiday requests

0:12.0

and customer questions and customers requesting custom things

0:15.0

plus planning the perfect holiday dinner for vegans, vegetarians and Uncle Mike's carnival diet.

0:19.0

Luckily the Dell PC helps you handle a lot.

0:21.6

And with impressive battery life, you can do it all faster to get it all done.

0:25.0

That's the power of a Dell PC with Intel inside.

0:27.6

Get yours at Dell.co.uk forward slash holiday.

0:31.6

Hey everyone, Ellie here wishing you a happy Friday.

0:34.9

Two quick orders of business before we get to this week's podcast.

0:39.5

On the, I guess, more serious side, there is reporting, as I record this late in the week,

0:45.0

that the Eastern District of Virginia may seek to re-indict Jim Comey any moment.

0:51.5

Could be, by the time you hear this, could be next week. Who knows? You'll recall,

0:56.9

of course, that this is one of Donald Trump's vindictive prosecutions was thrown out because

1:01.5

the purported U.S. attorney, Lindsay Halligan, was inappropriately appointed. And so as of the

1:08.2

moment I'm recording this, the case is still dismissed, but DOJ has vowed they will act quickly to bring it back to life.

1:13.8

If that happens, two things.

1:15.5

One, I'm not so sure a grand jury will actually indict the case.

1:19.8

Remember, they barely approved the Comey indictment the first time.

1:23.5

The grand jury rejected one of the three counts and barely approved the other two.

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