US govt documents show that during that 2011 trip to Washington, Starmer met w/ US Attorney General Eric Holder and other DOJ officials.

At end of 2010, Holder had stated he had given go-ahead for a number of unspecified actions as part of a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks
The following year, in November 2012, Starmer spent £6,808 on another flight to Washington for another “official meeting”. It is not known who this meeting was with. Then again, in September 2013—the month before he left the CPS—he spent £4,085 on another flight to Washington.
Also at Holder meeting was Gary Balch, UK Liaison Prosecutor to the US. Three weeks after Starmer's meeting with Holder, the US Attorney General met with then British home secretary, Theresa May, alongside 3 other DOJ personnel, two of whom had been in the meeting w/ Starmer.
The CPS admitted destroying key emails relating to Assange case, mostly covering period when it was run by Starmer.

A CPS lawyer working under Starmer advised Swedish authorities not to visit London in 2010/2011 to interview Assange. This could have prevented embassy standoff
An email from a lawyer in the CPS extradition unit on 25 January 2011 cautioned: “My earlier advice remains, that in my view it would not be prudent for the Swedish authorities to try to interview the defendant in the UK.”
Documents from CPS also show Swedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against Julian Assange as early as 2013 when Starmer was still head of CPS. A CPS lawyer commented on an article suggesting Sweden may drop the case: “Don’t you dare get cold feet!!!”.
In April 2013—the same month Starmer and MI5's Evans went for drinks—the CPS rejected Assange’s request for the personal data it had on him “because of the live matters still pending”.
But even GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, had granted Assange’s request for the personal information it held on him; this revealed one of its officers calling the Swedish case a “fit-up”.
THE TIMES NEWSPAPER: During his time at the CPS, Starmer developed a particularly close relationship with the Times and its sister paper the Sunday Times, papers owned by Rupert Murdoch.
In the space of two months in 2011, Starmer accepted hospitality from three Times/Sunday Times journalists, meeting for lunch or interviews with Francis Gibb, Sean O’Neill, and David Leppard. In December of the same year, Starmer attended Christmas drinks at the Times.
There is no record Starmer accepted hospitality from any other newspaper during his time at the CPS. In April 2012, he also met with Times editor James Harding to discuss CPS media prosecution guidelines, and the following month with John Witherow, editor of the Sunday Times.
Starmer met Leppard—the journalist who broke the fraudulent story on former Labour leader Michael Foot being a Soviet agent of influence—for lunch at Le Pain Quotidien on 2 June 2011.
Six months before, in January 2011, Leppard had got the big Sunday Times exclusive that an MI6 officer under investigation by the Metropolitan police for “possible criminal wrongdoing” since September 2009 would not face charges from Starmer's CPS.
While Starmer was in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, the Times played a key role in stopping his attempt to become PM, and was one of the favoured publications used by serving intelligence/military officials to leak info presenting Corbyn as a threat to national security.
Six weeks before lunch with Leppard, on 14 April 2011 Starmer had lunch with another Times journalist, Sean O’Neill, at Biagio.

O’Neill would come to write about the Labour Party when Starmer was in Corbyn's shadow cabinet.
One Times scoop on which Starmer's lunch partner Sean O’Neill was lead reporter came in February 2016 and was titled “How leadership is taking its toll on ‘paranoid’ Corbyn”.

O’Neill used anon briefings from shadow cabinet members to paint picture of Corbyn as out of his depth.
“Shadow cabinet members complain meetings lack structure, discipline and direction,” O'Neill wrote. One shadow cabinet source said: "[Corbyn] just lets people talk, but it often meanders pointlessly. If there's a row it ends up in media but more often discussion just wanders off”
Four months after O'Neill's article appeared in the Times, Starmer resigned from Corbyn’s shadow cabinet citing the “need for a much louder voice on the critical issues” and airing “reservations” about Corbyn’s leadership and the need for a change of leader.
To many people’s surprise Starmer wrote his first national media article after being elected Labour leader in the Sunday Times, which is behind a paywall.

(As an aside, the former head of MI6, Sir John Scarlett, joined board of the Times in 2010, the year after he left the SIS.)
Starmer also seems to have a close relationship with the “Society of Editors”—an organisation with a stated goal of advancing press freedom boasting 400 members—lunching there with unspecified individuals in May 2011 and April 2012.
Starmer also attended their conference in November 2011, and had another formal meeting with them in April 2012. The available records show his successor as head of the CPS, Alison Saunders, never received hospitality from them, or met them formally.
The Society of Editors appears to have unusual access to the British intelligence establishment. Then head of MI5 and Starmer's drinking partner, Sir Jonathan Evans, gave a rare public speech at its 2007 conference, an occurrence even he called “fairly unusual”.
Further to that in 2010, Sir John Sawers gave the first ever public speech by a serving head of MI6 at a meeting of the Society of Editors in London.
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