Another career prosecutor has been pulled off a case against one of President Donald Trump’s political enemies after she resisted pressure to bring charges more quickly, according to sources briefed on the situation.
Maria Medetis Long notified lawyers representing people involved in the case that she was no longer investigating former CIA director John Brennan, who has long been a target of Trump’s ire over a 2017 intelligence assessment that found Russia had interfered in the previous year’s election to help him, reported CNN.
“Trump’s demands have taken on more urgency for the Justice Department after Trump fired former Attorney General Pam Bondi, in part because of dissatisfaction at the slow pace of cases he wants brought,” CNN reported. “Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has redoubled efforts to satisfy the president’s demands as he seeks to keep the job after Bondi’s ouster.”
Medetis Long had been working under Trump appointee Jason Reding Quiñones in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, and representatives from that office did not respond to request for comment on her removal.
“In recent weeks, DOJ officials met with Quiñones and others in his office to discuss the investigation’s progress,” CNN reported. “Quiñones told the officials that charges could still be months away, sources say, which top Justice officials told him was not acceptable.”
Investigators had in recent weeks conducted interviews with witnesses and issued a fresh round of subpoenas, sources said, showing the case was moving forward but perhaps not as quickly as DOJ officials had wanted, and career prosecutors handling the case have pushed back for months on demands to quickly charge Brennan.
Brennan testified to congressional investigators nearly a decade ago that Russia had “brazenly interfered” in the 2016 election and actively contacted members of Trump’s campaign, but he stopped short of declaring those efforts to be “collusion,” and an investigation later determined that none of those campaign operatives or associates had committed a crime.
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