problematic authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. now, that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the new york times or and the washington post, for quote relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election,ru and its connectionso the trump campaign, the president-elect transition team, and his eventual administration. now that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually led the pulitzer board to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. and this week, the pulitzer board has announced the results of those investigations, and here is part of what they said. no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that subsequent to the con fe
election sensitivities memo which continues barr s 2020 policy that the opening of any investigation into presidential candidates must first be cleared by the attorney general. and it comes at a time when garland s justice department is facing serious scrutiny over whether its is being aggressiv enough into the investigation, into january 6th and the broader plot by trump and his allies to overturn our 2020 election. especially as two other investigations into the matter continue to move forward and make new revelations. take for example fulton county georgia. the local district attorney there has sent target letters to 16 people involved in the fake electors plot in that state. today, that investigation advanced even further, because a judgeig there ordered that rudy giuliani will have to appear before a special grand jury. and then there s the investigation that we re all witnessing in realtime. the one by january 6th. the january 6th committee rather which is set to hold its eighth