Executive Branch

The McGahn Cover Letter in Light of the Trump Tweet

Jack Goldsmith
Saturday, February 3, 2018, 10:46 AM

The Nunes memo was thoroughly debunked less than 12 hours after its publication.

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The Nunes memo was thoroughly debunked less than 12 hours after its publication. The sources of this debunking transcended politics, and ranged from The Intercept and Marcy Wheeler to Paul Rosenzweig and David French. I want to focus here on two other writings related to the memo: The cover letter to the release of the Nunes memo written by White House Counsel Donald McGahn, and President Trump’s Friday morning tweet.


At 6:33 on Friday morning, about six hours before the release of the Nunes memo, President Trump tweeted:


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Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School, co-founder of Lawfare, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 2003-2004, and Special Counsel to the Department of Defense from 2002-2003.

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