Barbara McQuade: ‘There Is Career Prosecutor Who Looked Into This Case’ and Did Not Find Ample Justification for Charges

RUSH EXCERPT:

MCQUADE: “Yeah, this signals to me that there is a career prosecutor who looked into this case and is not either giving the Justice Department the answer it wants or is not moving quickly enough to deliver an indictment, and that she is no longer working on the case. I think it’s concerning that they don’t take her advice and instead want to persist in the case. But it does suggest to me that this lawyer has made perhaps an assessment that this case is not meritorious and that either it’s not ready or it’s just not there, and that the Justice Department doesn’t care and doesn’t want to hear what the legal analysis is. It”