Justice Department leaders abandoned a Trump first-term priority of addressing litigation challenges for prosecutors overwhelmed by electronic evidence, said a DOJ official in a scathing farewell message.
“In May 2025, DOJ’s new leadership and the White House disbanded all of those institutional structures” to improve how criminal and civil attorneys process soaring levels of digital data, said John Haried, the department’s electronic litigation director, in a LinkedIn post Saturday announcing he’d departed Dec. 1—"well before I wanted.”
“They did not replace them with new or better ideas. They simply discarded them,” added Haried. “The current leadership has shown zero interest ...
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