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The Counsel

Why the FBI’s Minneapolis ICE Shooting Investigation is Hopelessly Compromised

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 11 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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1:05.8

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Tuesday.

1:09.3

Once again, not waiting till Friday. We'd like to

1:12.6

publish these on Fridays normally, but the last couple weeks, major, major developments have

1:18.2

gone down and we just want to get word out to you as soon as possible when that happens.

1:23.2

We'll be talking this week about the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE special agent in Minneapolis.

1:31.2

I don't in this piece get into the merits of the shooting.

1:35.1

Is it justified?

1:36.4

Is it unjustified?

1:37.4

I've spoken about this a bit on air elsewhere.

1:41.0

My view is it's very close.

1:43.3

I lean towards, and our information is a little bit incomplete,

1:48.0

but I lean towards this being a bad shooting, an unjustified shooting, but I do think it's a

1:53.4

close call, and I do think there's a valid argument each way. I think a lot of people just came

1:58.6

right out of the bat, and I'll talk about some of them in this

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