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Consider This a Target Letter

Serious Trouble

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I Don't Think There's Anything Wrong With Putting That Requirement in Writing

Lawrence Lessig: I would think that a reason you might, under billbar specifically, have this establishment of an explicit requirement to get written permission before opening such an investigation is because trump officials were often not unreasonably concerned about people in the lower ranks. And so if an attorney general were going to be paranoid about the idea that some one would open an investigation without his permission, against his wishes, i would think it would be an attorney general in the trump administration.

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