So that the Washington Post and by extension the American People could get a gander at those documents. Specifical specifically the posts motion called for up redacting a whole bunch of the Court Materials from manaforts case that related to how he broke his plea deal when he repeatedly and the judge ruled intentionally lied to prosecutors. The motion also called for the release of an unredacted version of the sentencing submission filed with the court by Robert Mueller and the special counsels office. It was fascinating, the parts we could see, but large parts of it looked like that. So the post filed to have all that stuff unsealed. And, you know, this is this is actually an important dynamic to watch, you know . Today we got the public release of all of these hundreds of pages of documents from the Michael Cohen trial, which well be talking about a little later on. The reason we got these documents released today was because of a motion filed with the court by the new york times. Th
within the justice department. zaynab ahmad going somewhere else in the justice department. andrew weisman reportedly leaving to go back to academia. does that give you the sense that things are changing fundamentally at the special counsel s office. that things are wrapping up, that they may be handing off any unrelated stuff to nonspecial prosecutors? it s not as if the mueller shop is fully open or fully closed. all these people, particularly those remaining within the justice department, can be recalled to work on, you know, bits and pieces of their case that remain, but by and large, rachel, mueller s remit 22 months ago was rather narrow. it was russian interference in the 2016 election and links or coordination with those associated with the trump for president campaign. what animates mueller is that he s a marine infantry officer.
then we got another just yesterday. zaynab ahmad, another counterterrorism prosecutor. she worked on the flynn case. she has also gone back to her old job. and, yes, the special counsel is basically done with mike flynn in terms of his cooperation, but that is not the only case ahmad was working on. she s also been part of the mystery case involving mueller s office and some mystery corporation we re not 5uallowedo know the name of that s run by some foreign country we re not allowed to know either. that case does not seem to be done. zaynab ahmad was apparently part of that, but nevertheless is leaving the special counsel s office. what do we make of these departures? i mean, it s been argued in some cases more was made of these exits than should have been made, but there is enough enough of them that they re starting to feel like a criminal mass. whether or not mueller is wrapping up, and how would we know? it s also seeming relevant that