Lead prosecutor on investigation into former CIA director no longer on case | Trump administration
The federal prosecutor who led the investigation into former CIA director John Brennan is no longer working on the case after expressing reservations about the matter, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Prosecutor Maria Medetis Long informed the lawyers involved in the case that she would no longer be handling the case: According to CNNHe first stated that he was leaving the case. Medetis Long is a career attorney who serves as chief of the national security section of the U.S. attorney’s office in the southern district of Florida. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The investigation is said to be related to the intelligence community’s assessment following the 2016 election that Russia had intervened to improve Donald Trump’s chances. Trump and his allies have long been outraged by this outcome.
Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney in Florida’s southern district, told justice department officials that an indictment could be coming soon, according to the New York Times.
This development comes after Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month; He was reportedly angry at the lack of progress in prosecuting his political rivals. Acting attorney general Todd Blanche reportedly wants the job, and Trump is said to have told him that his time in the acting role would be an audition of sorts. According to Fox News. A former top aide to Blanche recently moved from the department’s headquarters in Washington to the southern district of Florida and is reportedly working on the Brennan matter. Bloomberg Law reported.
As Trump sought to sue New York attorney general Letitia James last year, career prosecutors in Virginia expressed reservations about the case and fired from the department.
