The Justice Department must be held accountable for transparency and will face legal consequences if they willfully conceal information regarding the Epstein files.

“Those people would still be not in compliance with the law, so they could be subject to future prosecution if it was done willfully in terms of concealment.”

The Department of Justice's recent conduct in subpoenaing reporters and their family members represents an unprecedented departure from established law and professional standards.

“that they've fallen to this level where they're subpoenaing reporters against the the own ethics rules, and policies, and regulations against statute, federal statute, against governing case law in the second circuit under Gonzales, not realizing it or saying that was it was an oversight”

The Department of Justice displayed significant incompetence and lack of transparency by misrepresenting the public status of their investigation in a non-disclosure application.

“the statement that was made in that non-disclosure application about the investigation not being public was you know, it not correct in his words. And he and he said to the judge that it was an inadvertent error.”

The Justice Department's enforcement of foreign lobbying laws has been historically inconsistent, moving toward a more selective and partisan approach under the second Trump administration.

“And now you're right, Emily, when it's convenient for them when they think that there's an angle to use it to go after their political rivals as opposed to people in their own camp, the Trump Justice Department seems to be headed towards a ramping back up of a very selective type of far enforcement.”