More than 150 pages of previously sealed court records and transcripts were released late Tuesday and reveal for the first time the Justice Department’s arguments as to why a complaint alleging prosecution and FBI misconduct in the Ted Stevens case should be kept from the public.
Brenda Morris, the principal deputy chief of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, argued vigorously against the court releasing an FBI agent’s whistleblower complaint that accuses prosecutors — and a fellow FBI agent, Mary Beth Kepner — of misconduct during the Stevens trial last year, according to a transcript of a sealed court hearing that took place Dec. 19. Morris was the lead trial prosecutor in the Stevens case. The DOJ has tapped three other lawyers to tackle post-trial litigation regarding the misconduct allegations.
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