Overview
- Lawfare journalist Anna Bower published messages showing Lindsey Halligan initiated a 33-hour Signal exchange starting Oct. 11 about the federal case targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James.
- Bower says she verified Halligan’s identity through prior meeting details and a cell number match, then documented messages that criticized her reporting and referenced grand jury matters.
- Halligan warned Bower she would be “completely discredited when the evidence comes out” while saying she could not share protected details tied to grand jury secrecy.
- After Bower sought Justice Department comment, Halligan asserted the entire conversation was retroactively off the record due to disappearing messages on Signal, a claim Bower rejected.
- Halligan, a defense and insurance lawyer with little prosecutorial experience who replaced Erik Siebert after he declined the James case, has since brought indictments against James and former FBI Director James Comey, drawing criticism from legal commentators.