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Good grief. The Right wing cancel culture logic is as silly as that on the Left. The fed attorney received no illegal orders. He just followed his boss’s orders reflecting policy we might not agree was best.

I never argued that Barr's order was illegal per se on its face, just incredibly stupid at best, and used to further the CCP plot to steal the WH.
See my post here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3975565/posts?page=9#9
It's so stupid that Barr was obviously complicit.

On the other more Left-looking hand, generally without better options suggested, folks here want to disown this guy because he did not (could not) stop his boss’s policy decisions and could not find a way to sacrifice himself to save the guy who hired his boss?
I don’t know McSwain from Adam. But the arguments against him here seem quite weak.

Hmmm...How hard was it write a resignation letter protesting Barr's policy and tender it to the president who appointed him? Now consider how much more attention it would have gotten if he had called a press conference and read that resignation letter in front of the federal court house in Philadelphia?

The argument against McSwain is that he was extremely rigid, and that made him weak.

"How hard was it write a resignation letter protesting Barr's policy and tender it to the president who appointed him?"

Well, I'd imagine doing such a thing, in real life, would be quite traumatic to his family, career, his work associates, case participants, etc. Certainly much harder than asking some unknown third party to do it on our behalf.

"Now consider how much more attention it would have gotten..."

...if Trump himself had just fired the actual troublemaker of this story, Barr, instead of sacrificing an honest man for attention.

I'm grateful this type of guy even exists at the U.S. Attorney level. I'm humble enough to admit I don't know what, exactly, is the best chess move for this potential knight. And to thank God it's not my decision.

Perhaps the Right in PA will put up someone better and beat this guy fairly and squarely. I just would hate to see him 'cancelled' for such hypothetical scenarios.