Nearly 2000 former Justice Department officials have signed onto a letter calling for Attorney General William Barr to resign over what they describe as his improper intervention in the criminal case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
"Attorney General Barr’s repeated actions to use the Department as a tool to further President Trump’s personal and political interests have undermined any claim to the deference that courts usually apply to the Department’s decisions about whether or not to prosecute a case," reads the letter, which was organized by the group 'Protect Democracy'.
The filing last Thursday by the U.S. Attorney in D.C. Timothy Shea cited new evidence uncovered in Jensen's review that the department said rendered the investigation into Flynn illegitimate at the time of his interview. "The report of my interview is no support for Mr. Barr’s dismissal of the Flynn case," McCord said."It does not suggest that the F.B.I. had no counterintelligence reason for investigating Mr. Flynn. It does not suggest that the F.B.I.’s interview of Mr. Flynn — which led to the false-statements charge — was unlawful or unjustified."
Separately, a former career prosecutor who resigned from the department after Barr's intervention in the sentencing of former Trump ally Roger Stone broke his silence Monday in a Washington Post op-ed, describing the move as the latest"appalling chapter" in the politicization of the nation's top law enforcement agency.
I am with Barr and the truth.
Panic in DC. They didn’t care when in 2017 Obama gave a General a pardon for lying to the FBI or Obama pardoning Chelsea Manning, a traitor.
The people gonna take care this November.
Former officials hoping to get jobs apparently when the dust settles. Fat chance
He's going to expose those 2000 former DOJ Officials.
he don't care
Joshua_Pollack Have the voices of reason always been so faint?
WHOA! .... It’s time he steps down. He crossed the line
Of course they do...he’s getting too close to the truth