Of all the creepy, skin crawling lawyers in all the gin joints.....
From the Hill:
"The Special Counsel’s Office is aware of no information indicating that reporters were given any advance knowledge of a possible indictment from the Special Counsel’s Office," prosecutors wrote in a footnote of a new court filing Friday.
Of course, if they tipped them off then it would be a very improper act. I’ve never believed it because there were plenty of opportunities for Mueller to do stuff like this, and he didn’t take them before.
Don't suppose you're planning to look into the matter ?
On the other hand, if he wanted to leak this there’s plenty of ways to get it to CNN in a manner that would give him plausible deniability. OR it could be someone on his team, OR some Democrat in Congress that leaked it.
As for CNN, they’ve maintained that it was just good reporting that got them there:
CNN has publicly denied Stone’s claim that it was tipped off to the arrest. The outlet has credited good instincts, dogged reporting and a little luck for the early morning scoop.
Former FBI agent and congressman Mike Rogers now works at CNN. Perhaps Mike could provide some insight.
"Stakeouts are a common practice in the news business. CNN, in fact, had another crew out on a stakeout in another state that same morning," the network said in an online post. "The crew was at the home of another player in the Mueller probe, on the suspicion that the person could be arrested, but that hunch didn’t pan out."
Very interesting.
Strange that no one on the FBI assault team thought to secure the area of civilians in case gunfire broke out. The hapless CNN cameraman would have been right in the line of fire. Obviously more work needed.