request for preserving documents, that request came from scott schools. when acting deputy ag dana boente had to let the higher ups at the department know he was being called as a witness in the special counsel s investigation, that notice went straight to scott schools. look at the handwritten notes in some of these documents. took notes to scott schools. provided to scott schools. scott schools, scott schools, scott schools. for the past year and a half scott schools seems kind of a guardrail at the justice department, protecting investigations and the work that the investigators do, try to protect them from the chaos that has been rattling around the doj since donald trump came president, providing a kind of rudder for his colleagues in terms of the right thing to do ethically, in terms of sticking to the rule of law and sticking to department process and procedure. described as kind of a security