| | May 16, 2013 | | Meet a hard-charging federal prosecutor at the center of the Justice Department's controversial leak investigation. By Daniel Klaidman. J. David Ake/AP Attorney General Eric Holder is taking all the heat for the Justice Department's seizure of phone records at the Associated Press. But Holder recused himself from that investigation a long time ago. Instead, it was the deliciously named, hard-charging federal prosecutor Jonathan Malis who helped to order up the subpoenas. The Daily Beast's Daniel Klaidman on what we know about Malis—including a caustic 2007 confrontation with Holder, his future boss. | |
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