Overview
- Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, issued more than two dozen subpoenas last week in the developing investigation.
- Recipients include former intelligence figures James R. Clapper Jr., Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page, according to reporting based on people with direct knowledge.
- The subpoenas seek communications and documents related to the intelligence community’s January 2017 Russia interference assessment covering July 1, 2016 through Feb. 28, 2017, with production due in Miami by Nov. 20.
- The inquiry, which zeroes in on John O. Brennan’s role in drafting the assessment, was transferred from U.S. Attorney David Metcalf in Pennsylvania to Reding Quiñones as its scope widened.
- Far-right influencers have promoted Miami as a venue for cases against Trump’s adversaries, even as the New York Times reports that broad claims of a coordinated conspiracy remain unsupported by available evidence.