Bundt Cakes, Sealed Files, and the Implosion of the Jack Smith Apparatus

For decades, Carmen Mercedes Lineberger cultivated the image of the consummate federal prosecutor. She was not some transient political operative bouncing from cable television studios to activist nonprofits. She was a career Department of Justice (DOJ) insider who rose through the prosecutorial ranks with the quiet bureaucratic discipline that Washington traditionally rewards. As Managing Assistant […]