IRA STOLL: The Other FBI Scandal.
But remember, if you dare to criticize the FBI you’re provoking a constitutional crisis or something.---Posted by Glenn ReynoldsSo long as Congress and the Trump White House are taking a look at FBI shenanigans, let them not forget the case of Supervisory Special Agent David Chaves.He is the one whose interactions with reporters for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times were described by federal prosecutors in a January 2017 court filing as “unquestionable misconduct by an agent of the Government…improper and inexcusable.” The federal judge presiding over the insider trading case affected by the illegal leaks of grand jury information, P. Kevin Castel, was so worked up about the issue that he ordered the Justice Department to provide updates every three months on the status of the leak investigation.
The latest of those updates appears here, with enough redaction to make it resemble a late Rothko painting. . . .Chaves, like McCabe, has now apparently retired, according to his page at the speaker’s bureau that represents him...''
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