In this episode of the CAFE Insider podcast, "DOJ, KSM, OLC," co-hosts Preet Bharara and Anne Milgram discuss:

-- The Justice Department’s reported antitrust inquiry into four automakers’ agreement with California to adhere to stricter auto emissions standards than the levels required by federal law and sought by the Trump administration.

-- The protracted prosecution of 911 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad whose military trial is set to begin in January 2021 at the US Naval facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

-- The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), often described as the “Supreme Court of the Executive Branch,” which has created what critics call a body of “secret law” in violation of democratic principles. 

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