Maddow tweets: Who's in control of Berman's physical office space and files right now?

[highplainsdem]

Tweeted late last night, two posts starting here, full text below:

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Who’s in control of Berman’s physical office space and files right now?




This isn’t a small consideration.

Urgent questions for right now, tonight:

Who is securing the office;

Is anyone preserving Berman’s access to the office, and those of his deputies;

Are federal marshals on site? Is Berman locked out?

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

Barr needs to be stopped.

[jaxexpat]

2. Hugely pertinant question.

Whereas the spirit of anti-Trump is very alive and well, the much-longed-for fruit of the investigating SDNY is a tangible, sustaining that spirit. Any Trump success in tamping down this avenue is a serious turn of events. Are Berman's files in his possession or control? Can Barr's goons remove, distort, redact, censure and censor their contents? Critical stuff. Their data could prove irreplaceable should Trump win again and critical for retributive justice when he loses.

[highplainsdem]

3. Claire McCaskill also wondering about this:

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Anybody reporting on status of Berman’s access to the investigative files of the office? Have they been secured?

[grantcart]

4. Who can change the locks?

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. I saw on CNN this morning that Berman was "supposed to" actually be relieved in early July

Also Barr's original plan was to "transfer" Berman to another Justice Dept. post. It seems like they thought they could force him to cooperate and hoped to avoid having to lock him out of his office at midnight which would have looked like the purge that it actually was rather than a reshuffling. That would imply Berman still controls his office for the moment, but now that Berman is refusing to leave Barr might have to explore a Plan B.

[Hortensis]

13. And he did say he would continue as before until

a replacement was approved by the senate.

[gab13by13]

6. Is it true that Berman is going to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday?

If Berman was locked out of his office this is going to get ugly for Barr and Trump. What did Berman turn up about Trump?

Let's also remember there are a lot more dedicated career people working at SDNY, will they also come forward?

[niyad]

10. According to a poster last night, the goon that palpating lite is nominating for Bermsn's post

Has deutsche bank for a client. DB is dimwit's moneylender. SDNY is investigating DB.

[SheltieLover]

7. K&R!

[UCmeNdc]

8. K&R

[MontanaMama]

9. I would hope that Berman would have been

on alert when they first began offering him other positions...maybe he got some of the most crucial information about tRump out of his office to where it would safe and see the light of day if something were to happen to him.

[paleotn]

11. I would think the same....

He didn't get to this position by being dumb. I'd hope he made provisions for this possible outcome.

[QED]

12. IQ45 logic: If there are no investigations, there is no crime.

Barr is trying to save Rudy, "the kids", the Boss, and his own sorry butt.

[donkeypoofed]

14. Sure hope Berman was a "forward thinker" & made a plan