Hundreds of former Justice Department employees called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign after his decision to move to drop the case against former …
Hundreds of former Justice Department employees called on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign after his decision to move to drop the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
“I want to make sure that we restore confidence in the system. There’s only one standard of justice,” Barr told CBS News’ Catherine Herridge last week. “And, I believe that… justice, in this case, requires dismissing the charges against General Flynn.”
The DOJ announced it had dismissed its case against Flynn, accused of lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia, in a stunning development that came after internal memos were released raising serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to Flynn’s late 2017 guilty plea of lying to the FBI.
“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,” read a statement on Medium signed by 1,956 DOJ alumni.
