DOJ Afraid to Put Things in Writing for Fear It’d Be Used Against Them

Lawyers working at the Department of Justice are refusing to put certain information in writing out of fear that it could be used against them. The DOJ is prosecuting two journalists over their coverage of an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in Minnesota in January, and one of them, Georgia Ellyse Fort, is charged with three felonies, including a hate crime. Fort’s defense counsel is accusing the government of spying on her, and a judge barred the government from using toll records and cell…