On Monday, Lawfare’s Anna Bower reported on a stunning Signal exchange she had with Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist lawyer whom 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 days after being sworn in — had initiated a correspondence with Bower over the secure messaging app just to browbeat the editor over her “way off” and “biased” reporting. That “reporting,” as it were, was actually a tweet summarizing parts of a New York Times story (with screenshots included) about the case Halligan had brought against New York attorney general Letitia James.
Bower asked what, exactly, she had gotten wrong. Halligan wouldn’t say, and eventually went quiet — until Bower sought comment from the Justice Department on the extraordinary matter of a U.S. attorney discussing an active case with a member of the press. That’s when Halligan went into cleanup mode.
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