A former Justice Department official says Attorney General William Barr “twisted” her words to justify the decision to drop the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
McCord continued, “And it does not support the Justice Department’s assertion that the continued prosecution of the case against Mr. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to knowingly making material false statements to the FBI, ‘would not serve the interests of justice.'”
The op-ed from McCord is a blistering rebuke of Barr and the political appointees at the DOJ who took over the Flynn case from career prosecutors. McCord spent nearly 20 years at the DOJ, rising to top posts in the Obama administration and early months of the Trump administration.
