On Monday, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reported on a stunning Signal exchange she had with Lindsey Halligan , the loyalist lawyer Donald Trump installed as interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia with an explicit mission to go after his political foes. Halligan—who had no experience as a prosecutor before she brought an indictment against James Comey a week after her appointment—had initiated a correspondence with Bower over the secure-messaging app just to browbeat Bower over her “way off” and “biased” reporting. That “reporting,” as it were, was actually a tweet linking to a New York Times story about the case Halligan had brought against New York attorney general Letitia James .

What, exactly, had she gotten wrong? Bower asked. Halligan wouldn’t s

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