Posted on 10/15/2020 1:25:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
After 36 years, I’m fleeing what was the U.S. Department of Justice — where I proudly served 19 different attorneys general and six different presidents. For the last three-plus decades, I have respected our leadership regardless of whether we were led by a Republican or a Democrat. I always believed the department’s past leaders were dedicated to the rule of law and the guiding principle that justice is blind. That is a bygone era, but it should not be forgotten.
Maybe I should’ve seen this coming, but like many of my colleagues, I fervently hoped that Attorney General William Barr’s preemptive misrepresentation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was an honest mistake or a solitary misstep — rather than a deliberate attempt to conceal potential presidential misconduct. After all, Barr has never actually investigated, charged or tried a case. He’s a well-trained bureaucrat but has no actual experience as a prosecutor.
Unfortunately, over the last year, Barr’s resentment toward rule-of-law prosecutors became increasingly difficult to ignore, as did his slavish obedience to Donald Trump’s will in his selective meddling with the criminal justice system in the Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Roger Stone cases. In each of these cases, Barr overruled career prosecutors in order to assist the president’s associates and/or friends, who potentially harbor incriminating information. This career bureaucrat seems determined to turn our democracy into an autocracy.
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WAIT.
This clown worked for Eric Holder and never had a problem?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
GOOD RIDDANCE and take all your fellow SCUMBAGS with you!
“This career bureaucrat seems determined to turn our democracy into an autocracy. “
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The former AG can run ruffshod over democracy and not a peep.
Acting like you’re a non-partisan doesn’t make you non-partisan.
So long asshole!!!
And who was old bag under Clinton that ordered the fire bombing of Waco to protect the children. Can’t recall her name
HE must know Trump will win?
Bye Felicia!
Was it getting too hot in his kitchen?
Getting out while the getting was still good?
Hitting the trail hard before the posse was formed?
Did somebody open his closet and see the skeletons he had hidden?
SO many questions.
Perhaps "spending time with his family" would have been a better opus line.
So you had no problem with serving alongside Wingman Eric Holder, Grandkids Loretta Lynch, I work with the Russians Bruce and Nellie Ohr or Mr. Higher Honor, James Comey.
But you draw the line at William Barr.
Yeah, you have credibility.
What your swamp did to General Mike Flynn deserves a spit in the face. Barr was right!
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Sorry, rule-of-law prosectors don't exist...not in today's DOJ.
Ha! This guy is the epitome of a career bureaucrat! A democrat, or rino, I wouldn’t be surprised to find. They all need to resign. They’re used to doing what they want, and playing politics as usual. Now they’re all P.O.’d the old system is being shaken.
As a retirement wish may he croak within a year,
Who knew pussies could talk?
Great - there are 4 million bureaucrats in the executive branch. If one quits every 3 weeks, the swamp will be drained in less than 231 thousand years.
This idiot was appointed by TRUMP. Again, who the hell gave Trump this guys name, and told him he would be a good judge?
He works in the snake pit that is SDNY, the most corrupt court in the country. A court that consistently rejects the authority of the Trump DOJ and has relentlessly persecuted anyone associated with Trump in their quest to remove him as POTUS. That he is resigning now, just before an election, tells me he expects Trump and Barr to be around for a while.
As a retirement wish may he croak within a year.
Put on your pink pussy hat, get your $h!t and just go.
“This career bureaucrat seems determined to turn our democracy into an autocracy.”
Let’s see. Phillips Halpern = unelected bureaucrat who has fed at the public trough for 36 years. What a hypocrite. He is obviously a partisan Democrat or he wouldn’t be crying about Barr thwarting a small percentage of crimes against democracy committed by Democrat Party lawfare jihadi within the DoJ. Good riddance. May you inspire large numbers of your like-minded colleagues to leave as well.
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