[treis]

Prosecutors talk about their cases all the time. They hold press conferences and everything.

I don't think these messages are all that unusual. Well usually they have the sense to go off the record at he beginning instead of the end. But off the record complaints about reporting doesn't seem out of the ordinary.

[pitpatagain]

Prosecutors talk about cases all the time. But they specifically don't talk about matters occurring before a grand jury because it's illegal for them to do so. Grand jury secrecy means they are supposed to never disclose what happened inside the grand jury room even after the case has concluded.

It is not illegal for witnesses to disclose things from their own testimony. But in this conversation, Halligan is directly commenting on things disclosed by other parties thus making indirect disclosures of her own by implication.

It's incredibly risky ground to be treading, that she is doing for no apparent reason, having reached out to a reporter who wasn't even actively reporting on the case. It's pretty wtf.