JUST IN: Nearly 2,000 former Justice Dept. and FBI officials have signed an open letter strongly critical of AG Barr's decision to abandon the prosecution of Michael Flynn, calling the action 'extraordinarily rare, if not unprecedented.'
The letter urges the judge who is in charge of the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, to"take a long, hard look at the government's explanation and the evidence." Barr is using the Justice Department to further President Donald Trump's personal and political interests, it says, and"has undermined any claim to the deference that courts usually apply to the department's decisions about whether or not to prosecute a case.
Most of the signers are former career lawyers from both Republican and Democratic administrations, though many former political appointees are included. The highest-ranking to sign so far is Stuart Gerson, who served briefly as acting attorney general at the start of the Clinton administration after leading the Justice Department Civil Division in the first Bush administration.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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