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Anna Bower is an American journalist who is a lawyer and senior editor for Lawfare.[1][2]
Bower became the focus of reporting after her reporting on Lindsey Halligan, a lawyer appointed US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, by President Donald Trump.[3] Power was one of the reporters covering Halligan's prosecution of Laetitia James, New York state's Attorney General, for her prosecution of Trump.[4] On October 19 Halligan used the signal messenger to contact Bower, to complain about inaccuracies.[5] During the course of this message exchange Halligan told Bower to consider all their messages as "off the record", even though, as a graduate of a broadcast journalism program, she should have known that requests reporters keep information off the record have to precede that information. Bower said that, although Halligan began by insisting her reporting was inaccurate, she failed to explain to her how it was inaccurate.
Legal career[edit | edit source]
Bower worked as a judicial assistant for a judge in Georgia, prior to studying law.[1] She has a Bachelor of Law from the University of Cambridge, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard she was an editor at the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.[2] She was a Fulbright Fellow at Anadolu University in Eskişehir Turkey. Circa 2023 she started her career at Lawfare as a Sumner M. Redstone Fellow.
Career as a Journalist[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Anna Bower". The Federalist Society. 2024-11-14. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "About Anna Bower". annabower.com. 2023-12-04. Archived from the original on 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
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Eric Lutz (2025-09-25). ""At Professional Risk": Charging Comey Could Land Lindsey Halligan in Hot Water". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 2025-09-25. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
'This isn’t normally a problem prosecutors face, as they start with a crime, then figure out whodunnit, rather than starting with a person and only then deciding whatthedun [sic],' as Benjamin Wittes and Anna Bower wrote in Lawfare on Wednesday.
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"Legal reporter details messages from Virginia prosecutor about Letitia James indictment" (video). CBS News. 2025-10-21. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
The U.S. attorney tasked with going after New York Attorney General Letitia James recently sent several messages via Signal to a legal reporter about the case.
- ↑ Anna Bower. ""Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."". Lawfare Media. Retrieved 2025-10-23.