While they don't all fit the narrow definition of treason, the list of people who should be behind bars awaiting trial is endless once you start putting down names:
Andrew Weismann, Rod Rosenstein, James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, Greg Craig, John Podesta, Huma Abedin, Lois Lerner, James Koskinen, Jamie GOrelick, Robert Mueller, Zainab Ahmad, Jeannie Rhee ...hell, why not make that the whole mueller team?
The Team
Robert S. Mueller III
Special counsel
Mr. Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017 to oversee the investigation into Russia’s election interference and whether any Trump associates conspired. Having served for decades in law enforcement, Mr. Mueller was previously best known for his 12 years as the director of the F.B.I., where he reshaped the bureau to fight terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Zainab N. Ahmad
Along with Brandon L. Van Grack, who has left Mr. Mueller’s team, Ms. Ahmad prosecuted Michael T. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser. They helped secure a plea deal and Mr. Flynn’s cooperation. During her time as a federal prosecutor in New York, Ms. Ahmad built her reputation by successfully pursuing high-profile terrorism convictions.
Greg D. Andres
A prominent trial lawyer, Mr. Andres led the special counsel’s team at the trial of Mr. Manafort and helped secure Mr. Manafort’s plea deal ahead of what would have been a second trial. Mr. Andres also assisted in the guilty plea of Alex van der Zwaan, a lawyer who was charged with lying to investigators in the case. Mr. Andres made his name as a trial attorney handling complex money laundering cases. He once was targeted in an assassination plot by a mob boss who was upset Mr. Andres had subpoenaed his wife.
Lawrence Atkinson
Mr. Atkinson secured the plea agreement from Mr. Cohen and the grand jury indictment of 13 Russians who carried out part of Moscow’s interference effort. He also played a role in the sentencing of Richard Pinedo, a California man who unwittingly aided the interference. The son of a journalist, Mr. Atkinson is one of the youngest members of the Mueller team. He graduated from law school eight years ago and joined the Justice Department’s national security division.
Michael R. Dreeben
A leading expert in criminal law who has made more than 100 oral arguments before the Supreme Court, some as deputy solicitor general, Mr. Dreeben is handling pretrial litigation for the office. His aim is to defend the mandate of the special counsel’s office from legal attacks in court and to help prevent the office from losing cases on appeal.
Andrew D. Goldstein
Mr. Goldstein worked on Mr. Cohen’s case and handled the sentencing of George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign aide, and some grand jury questioning of associates of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to Mr. Trump. Previously, Mr. Goldstein led the public corruption unit at the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan, where he prosecuted Sheldon Silver, the former New York Assembly speaker who was convicted in 2015 on corruption charges. Mr. Goldstein worked as a journalist before he became a lawyer, and former colleagues at Time magazine recalled how he would bring loaves of bread baked in his bread-making machine to share.
Adam Jed
Mr. Jed has defended the Mueller team in pretrial litigation, including arguing that certain records should be sealed from the public in order to protect the open investigation. He joined the inquiry from the appellate staff of the Justice Department’s civil division, where he was recognized in 2013 as part of a team that successfully argued in court that the act outlawing gay marriage was unconstitutional.
Scott A.C. Meisler
Mr. Meisler joined the special counsel team from the appellate staff of the criminal division of the Justice Department. He has been involved in pretrial litigation, including defending the use of certain pieces of evidence collected for the Manafort trial.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Ms. Prelogar, the office’s resident Russian speaker, joined the team from the solicitor general’s office and has been involved in pretrial litigation and witness interviews. Ms. Prelogar deferred her admission to Harvard Law School to pursue a Fulbright scholarship in St. Petersburg, Russia, and went on to clerk for two Supreme Court justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan. She also once competed in the Miss America pageant as Miss Idaho.
James L. Quarles III
Mr. Quarles is the special counsel’s main contact with the White House, tangling with Mr. Trump’s lawyers over the questioning of the president. At 72, Mr. Quarles is one of the oldest and most senior members of the team, and he has a history in Washington: He was a Watergate prosecutor. He was also one of three lawyers Mr. Mueller brought on from WilmerHale, his former firm.
Jeannie Rhee
Ms. Rhee, a former assistant attorney general and another former WilmerHale colleague of Mr. Mueller’s, has had a hand in most of the special counsel’s cases: Mr. Papadopoulos’s, Mr. Cohen’s and Mr. Manafort’s plea agreements and the indictments of Russians on charges of interfering in the 2016 election. She once said that she knew she wanted to be a lawyer after a fourth-grade play in which she played an attorney who defended a piece of candy on trial for causing tooth decay.
Brandon L. Van Grack
Mr. Van Grack was on detail from the Justice Department’s national security division until early October and was involved in several of the most public elements of the Mueller investigation, including Mr. Flynn’s and Mr. Manafort’s plea deals, and Mr. Manafort’s convictions in his August trial. Mr. Van Grack has returned to the national security division but will still be involved in some aspects of the special counsel’s work.
Andrew Weissmann
One of the highest-profile prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller, Mr. Weissmann has prosecuted Mafia bosses and led the task force investigating Enron more than a decade ago. He specializes in flipping witnesses and oversaw or took part in almost every early aspect of the special counsel’s investigation, including Mr. Manafort’s prosecution and the case against Mr. van der Zwaan. Mr. Weissmann’s aggressive tactics have prompted criticism, but some defense lawyers have noted his compassionate side, and his interests outside work extend to sports — he once attended tennis camp as an adult.
Aaron Zebley
Considered Mr. Mueller’s closest associate, Mr. Zebley often serves as an intermediary between Mr. Mueller’s office and senior officials at the Justice Department who oversee the investigation. He was Mr. Mueller’s chief of staff at the F.B.I. and followed him to WilmerHale. Mr. Zebley was part of a team of F.B.I. agents who chased suspected members of Al Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks, and he is credited with getting one of the conspirators to confess in the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa.
Aaron S.J. Zelinsky
Mr. Zelinsky helped secure a guilty plea from Mr. Papadopoulos and has handled grand jury questioning of associates of Mr. Stone. A federal prosecutor on loan from Maryland, he worked there for the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, when Mr. Rosenstein was the United States attorney for the state. Mr. Zelinsky has a bipartisan résumé: He clerked for liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices and worked at the State Department during the Obama administration.