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"In those meetings and others, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election strictly limits the number of outsiders who may attend. Militant about leaks, the former FBI director swears participants to secrecy that they have honored to a remarkable degree. Reporters have long considered him among Washington’s toughest nuts to crack: “You’d be embarrassed to ask Bob Mueller for a leak,” said the veteran journalist Steven Brill, who has written extensively about media coverage of special counsels. “It’d be like asking him to watch a porn movie with you.”
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Others reject the premise that Mueller’s team is dishing on its work, noting that many of the stories about his probe could have come from people with whom he has interacted.
“I’ve seen almost nothing at all in any story in any newspaper that could not have come from somebody else,” said Paul Rosenzweig, who served as a senior counsel to Starr. “There’s very little evidence that this is Mueller—and if you read it closely in most instances it’s not.”
It’s a “dirty little secret” that defense attorneys can talk to reporters about any aspect of the investigation they’ve seen, said Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who edits the blog Lawfare.
Some defense lawyers also speak on background with reporters, agreeing to provide quotes or information if it is attributed in a way that could point a finger back at prosecutors — or in this case, some suspect, at Mueller.
“Then [they] turn around and complain of prosecutorial leaking,” Wittes added — a tactic Starr’s office accused the Clinton White House of using during the Lewinsky investigation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/robert-mueller-russia-probe-secret-243345
"In those meetings and others, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election strictly limits the number of outsiders who may attend. Militant about leaks, the former FBI director swears participants to secrecy that they have honored to a remarkable degree. Reporters have long considered him among Washington’s toughest nuts to crack: “You’d be embarrassed to ask Bob Mueller for a leak,” said the veteran journalist Steven Brill, who has written extensively about media coverage of special counsels. “It’d be like asking him to watch a porn movie with you.”
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Others reject the premise that Mueller’s team is dishing on its work, noting that many of the stories about his probe could have come from people with whom he has interacted.
“I’ve seen almost nothing at all in any story in any newspaper that could not have come from somebody else,” said Paul Rosenzweig, who served as a senior counsel to Starr. “There’s very little evidence that this is Mueller—and if you read it closely in most instances it’s not.”
It’s a “dirty little secret” that defense attorneys can talk to reporters about any aspect of the investigation they’ve seen, said Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who edits the blog Lawfare.
Some defense lawyers also speak on background with reporters, agreeing to provide quotes or information if it is attributed in a way that could point a finger back at prosecutors — or in this case, some suspect, at Mueller.
“Then [they] turn around and complain of prosecutorial leaking,” Wittes added — a tactic Starr’s office accused the Clinton White House of using during the Lewinsky investigation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/robert-mueller-russia-probe-secret-243345
