2026-09-14T09:00:29.307Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/politics/todd-blanche-joe-digenova-trump-turmoil-call-resignation
负责这项调查的首席检察官突然辞职，使得美国司法部针对曾参与针对总统唐纳德·特朗普调查的前官员展开的大规模共谋调查陷入混乱，甚至可能进一步推迟。
据两名知情人士透露，负责佛罗里达州南部这项调查的华盛顿律师、前首席检察官乔·迪杰诺瓦，在与司法部长托德·布兰奇周三进行紧张通话的次日辞职。最终冲突的核心是迪杰诺瓦试图阻止司法部总部派遣律师协助调查，此前他与司法部高层官员就调查进度存在广泛分歧。
两名熟悉调查情况的人士告诉CNN，加剧迪杰诺瓦与华盛顿上司之间紧张关系的争议包括：迪杰诺瓦要求在皮尔斯堡办事处建造一个名为“敏感 compartmented information facility（SCIF，保密情报设施）”的高安全房间，以便检控团队更容易存放高度机密材料。该团队当时在一间带有特殊房间的办公室办公，可以处理敏感但非最高级别的证据。司法部官员告诉迪杰诺瓦，他和团队应使用数英里外联邦调查局办公室内的保密情报设施。
迪杰诺瓦还为团队争取更多律师。据两名熟悉调查的人士透露，司法部官员驳斥了他被剥夺资源的说法。
一年多来，司法部官员一直试图对前中央情报局局长约翰·布伦南提起刑事指控，后者被指控向国会作出虚假陈述，多年来一直是总统的抨击目标。自迪杰诺瓦今年4月接手调查以来，他选择对多名特朗普的政治批评者提起更广泛的指控，其中包括布伦南——这些人在过去十年中都参与过针对特朗普的调查。
一名知情人士告诉CNN，迪杰诺瓦周四辞职当天，调查正处于繁忙阶段，调查人员正在向大陪审团提交一名证人的证词，这是特朗普总统的首要任务之一。迪杰诺瓦突然离职可能会导致调查进一步延误——这项调查已经错过了今年早些时候提起指控的内部预期时间。CNN此前曾报道，司法部总部官员最近曾预计最早本月就能提起首批指控。
一名美国执法官员表示，随着迪杰诺瓦的离开，司法部官员对团队充满信心，并预计调查势头将会回升。
迪杰诺瓦拒绝置评，仅提及他上周对CNN所说的话，称能为总统和司法部服务是一种荣幸，并补充道：“作为一名拥有50多年经验的老检察官，我办案遵循老办法：证人、证据等等。这需要时间。”
负责调查的职业检察官曾反对提起此案，并准备了一份法律分析报告，对证据不足无法维持起诉提出担忧。司法部高层官员对此持不同意见，并于今年4月罢免了负责该案的职业检察官玛丽亚·梅代蒂斯·朗。
迪杰诺瓦接手调查后，选择对过去十年中参与针对特朗普调查的多名特朗普政治批评者提起更广泛的指控。
按照迪杰诺瓦的设想，这项调查将审查与针对特朗普的政府调查相关的可能罪行，最早可追溯至2016年俄罗斯干预选举调查，直至2021年1月6日国会骚乱案以及海湖庄园机密文件案中对特朗普的联邦指控。
尽管幕后存在分歧，但近几周调查活动似乎有所加强，向证人发出了大量传票以获取文件，在某些情况下还要求证人到大陪审团作证，据八名知情人士透露。
据了解调查情况的人士透露，此次调查的目标似乎不止布伦南一人，范围更广。
近期收到迪杰诺瓦团队联系的中高层前政府官员，主要了解联邦调查局在调查特朗普与2016年俄罗斯选举干预关联事件中的角色。
这些人士表示，当时这批员工能够接触到调查的高层领导，包括时任联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米——他也是特朗普的对手，可能成为迪杰诺瓦调查的目标之一。
上周发出了一份大陪审团传票，要求前联邦调查局律师、长期抨击特朗普的丽莎·佩奇出庭作证。另一份大陪审团证词传票发给了律师丹·里奇曼，他在2016年和2017年俄罗斯调查活跃期间是科米的密切联系人。
四名知情人士告诉CNN，联邦调查局俄罗斯调查的一名前主管最近也接受了迪杰诺瓦团队的数小时面谈，检察官已为其提供了豁免权。
这些证人的代表均拒绝向CNN置评。
其他在迪杰诺瓦调查中涉及的中情局和情报界基层工作人员，近期也接受了迪杰诺瓦团队的面谈。消息人士称，这些面谈主要围绕情报界对2016年选举的评估以及布伦南的领导情况展开。
消息人士还表示，被联系的证人类型以及被问及的问题，凸显了迪杰诺瓦所谓“大阴谋”调查的范围有多广。
一些消息人士称，部分调查人员还调查了2016年克林顿竞选团队相关情报以及公众对特朗普与俄罗斯关系的看法——这些话题多年来一直激怒特朗普。
但最近几周，至少有一名证人因涉及2023年对特朗普海湖庄园住宅的搜查，收到了佛罗里达州南部地区美国检察官办公室的联系。这一调查似乎将迪杰诺瓦团队近一个月来询问的时间范围扩大了，使其问题更贴近当下。
对迪杰诺瓦调查的一贯批评和可能的法律挑战在于，其调查追溯到十年前的事件，这可能超出了可提起指控的时效窗口，且与大陪审团所在地佛罗里达州南部几乎没有关联。
消息人士称，部分面谈 closely adhered to past inquiries revisiting the FBI’s 2016 Russia investigation, called “Crossfire Hurricane,” the sources said. 多年前，特别检察官约翰·达勒姆（司法部监察长）和国会山调查人员曾就政府的做法展开过长期调查。
Exclusive: Tense phone call and resignation upend Justice Department probe into Trump’s top foes
2026-09-14T09:00:29.307Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/politics/todd-blanche-joe-digenova-trump-turmoil-call-resignation
The Justice Department’s push to pursue a sweeping conspiracy probe into former officials behind investigations targeting President Donald Trump has descended into turmoil and possibly new delays following the abrupt resignation of the top prosecutor overseeing the probe.
Joe diGenova, the Washington lawyer and former top prosecutor leading the South Florida-based investigation, resigned a day after a tense phone call Wednesday with Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to two people familiar with the matter. The final clash centered on diGenova’s effort to block lawyers dispatched by Justice Department headquarters from assisting the probe, following broader disagreements with top Justice officials over its pace.
Among the disputes that added to tensions between diGenova and his bosses in Washington was diGenova’s request for a high-security room known as a SCIF to be built at the Fort Pierce office, to make it easier for the prosecution team to store highly classified materials, two people familiar with the investigation told CNN. The team worked in an office with a special room where sensitive, but not the highest-classified, evidence could be handled. Justice Department officials told diGenova he and his team should use a SCIF at an FBI office miles away, two people familiar with the investigation told CNN.
DiGenova also pressed for more lawyers for his team. Justice officials pushed back on any claims that he was denied resources, according to two people familiar with the investigation.
For more than a year, Justice Department officials have pushed to bring criminal charges against former CIA director John Brennan, who is accused of making false statements to Congress and has been the subject of the president’s ire for years. Since diGenova joined the probe in April, he’s chosen to pursue a broader set of charges against several of Trump’s political critics — including Brennan — who were involved in investigations of him over the past decade.
DiGenova resigned Thursday on what was a busy day for the inquiry, as investigators were presenting a witness for testimony to a grand jury in the probe, one of President Trump’s top priorities, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. DiGenova’s abrupt departure could mean more delays in an investigation that has stumbled past internal expectations of charges earlier this year. More recently, officials at Justice Department headquarters had anticipated possibly seeing the first charges to come as soon as this month, CNN previously reported.
With diGenova gone, Justice Department officials feel confident in the team and expect to see momentum pick up, a US law enforcement official said.
DiGenova declined comment beyond what he told CNN last week, calling it a privilege to serve the president and the Justice Department and adding: “As an old prosecutor of more than 50 years, I make cases the old fashioned way: witnesses, evidence, etc. That takes time.”
Career prosecutors running the investigation balked at bringing the case, and prepared a legal analysis that raised concerns about insufficient evidence to sustain a prosecution. Top Justice Department officials disagreed and, in April, pushed aside Maria Medetis Long, the career prosecutor in charge.
DiGenova took over the probe and chose to pursue a broader set of charges against Trump’s political critics who were involved in investigations of him over the past decade.
As diGenova envisioned it, the probe would examine possible crimes associated with government investigations into Trump stretching as far back as the 2016 Russian election interference inquiry and culminating with the federal charges against Trump in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the Mar-a-Lago classified documents cases.
Despite the behind-the scenes disputes, investigative activity appeared to have intensified in recent weeks, with a flurry of subpoenas issued to witnesses seeking documents and, in some cases, for grand jury testimony, according to eight people familiar with the matter.
The effort appears to focus on a broader set of targets beyond Brennan, according to people with knowledge of the investigation.
Mid- to senior-level former government employees who had heard from diGenova’s team recently primarily had insight into the FBI’s role in the investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia’s 2016 election interference.
At the time, that group of employees had access to top leadership in the investigation such as then-FBI Director James Comey, another Trump foe and possible target of diGenova’s work, the people said.
One grand jury subpoena, seeking the testimony of former FBI lawyer and longtime Trump foe Lisa Page, went out last week. Another grand jury testimonial subpoena went to lawyer Dan Richman, a close contact of Comey in 2016 and 2017 — when the Russia probe was active.
A former supervisor in the FBI’s Russia investigation also recently sat for an interview with diGenova’s investigators for several hours in one day, having been given immunity by prosecutors, four people with knowledge told CNN.
Representatives for each of those witnesses declined to comment to CNN.
Other witnesses in diGenova’s probe, who worked at lower levels in the CIA and intelligence, were also recently interviewed by diGenova’s team recently. Those interviews were largely about the intelligence community’s assessment of the 2016 election and the leadership of Brennan, the sources said.
The types of witnesses contacted and the questions some have been asked highlight how wide-ranging diGenova’s approach to the so-called “grand conspiracy” has been, the sources also said.
Some investigators have looked into intelligence around the Clinton campaign in 2016 and the public perception of Trump’s relationship to Russia — both topics that have angered Trump for years, some sources said.
But at least one witness in recent weeks received outreach from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida because of their work on the 2023 search of Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. That inquiry appears to have widened the timeline of what diGenova’s team was asking about over the past month, bringing their questions closer to the present day.
A repeated criticism and likely legal challenge with diGenova’s investigation has been how it stretches far back to events of ten years ago, which would be outside of the window of time where charges could have been brought, and have little connection to south Florida, where a grand jury has met.
Some of the interviews have closely adhered to past inquiries revisiting the FBI’s 2016 Russia investigation, called “Crossfire Hurricane,” the sources said. Years ago, lengthy investigations on the government’s approach were done by special prosecutor John Durham, the inspector general of the Justice Department, and by Capitol Hill investigators.