Fun piece from Wittes/Lawfare on this.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--malevolence--incompetence--and-the-strange-case-of-lindsey-halligan
Oh.
ETA: Also like Wittes' conclusion here.
All of this evil incompetence would be comical, except for the real world effects—incompetent evil being funny only in the movies.
Because what is the point of all this abuse and rake-stomping? It is all intended to deploy the legal system to establish a falsehood, which is that James Comey lied to Congress eight years ago and then doubled down on that lie, and thus obstructed a congressional investigation, five years ago.
And why is it important for the United States federal government to establish this lie as official truth? Because if Comey is not a liar, then a lot of things are true that aren’t allowed to be true—like, for example, that Donald Trump had, and may still have, an untoward relationship with Russia and its president that warranted serious investigation in 2017 and still warrants scrutiny today, that the Russia investigation and its progeny were not a witch hunt, that Trump has tried to rig the justice system from the earliest days of his presidency, and that an entire political movement has eagerly lied to itself, and to the public, to deny these reality. And that it has been doing so—however incompetently and malevolently—for eight years and counting.
Just like Lindsey Halligan.