'We fear that Attorney General Barr intends to use the DOJ's vast law enforcement powers to undermine our most fundamental democratic value: free and fair elections.'
calling career Justice Department attorneys"headhunters" who have become overly aggressive in pursuing criminal cases.Career prosecutors, or Justice Department attorneys who aren't politically appointed,"are generally part of the permanent bureaucracy," Barr said during a recent speech at Hillsdale College in which he defended his involvement in criminal cases.
In the past year, Barr has overruled line prosecutors by recommending a lighter sentence for Trump political adviser Roger Stone, while he has also sought to drop the prosecution of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. "Attorney General Barr’s comments display a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of career prosecutors and why many of them have openly resisted his interventions on President Trump’s behalf," the letter said."While it is of course true that the DOJ is managed by its political leaders, when those leaders violate their oath to faithfully execute the law, the career staff is obligated by their own oaths of office to uphold the principle of equal justice under law.
Patrick Cotter, a former federal prosecutor and one of letter's signatories, said Barr's actions are"very serious breaches" of the Justice Department's traditional role as an apolitical institution. "But of particular concern to me is the threatened Durham Investigation. That the Attorney General has gone so out of his way to designate a hand-picked prosecutor to engage in an amazingly unusual investigation which seems both in its subject matter and even more so in its apparent timing intentionally designed to affect a national presidential election is breathtaking in its impropriety," Cotter said.
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