It also shows the degree to which Justice, at the career level, has become a private fiefdom of the Democrat party. You can’t read the arguments put forth by US Attorney Jeffrey Jensen for dismissal of the case…and the mindboggling stupid defense of the Flynn procedure (read these posts from my colleague shipwreckedcrew)…without realizing that what is going on here is simply partisan Democrats who used to work a Justice showing that they are perfectly happy defending a grotesque mockery of our legal system so long as they perceive that the outcome, that would be an innocent man bullied into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit, damages Trump.
While this letter will have no impact on Barr he should not ignore it. He should use these 2,000 names as a point of departure to carve out the rot in his agency. Those people left footprints. There are people who hired them, who mentored them, who championed their careers still in the Department of Justice. Surely some of those people were well aware that they were supporting, if not an outright sociopath, someone who was 100% in favor of using the power of the Justice Department to further partisan goals. You can bet that if they did it for one passionate leftist, they did it for many. Antonio Gramsci’s ‘Long March Through the Instituions’ is not a solo activity. Now is the time to find them and send them packing so they can sign the next letter demanding Barr’s resignation.