In remarks Wednesday night, Attorney General William Barr accused some DOJ prosecutors of becoming 'headhunters, consumed with taking down their target.'
. Career prosecutors resigned from both cases after what they believed were Barr's improper interventions in matters of direct political interest to Trump.
President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr step off Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Sept. 1, 2020. The remarks amount to the sharpest public rebuke in recent memory by an attorney general aimed at officials employed by his own department, tasked with the often-grueling daily work of enforcing federal law around the nation.
MORE: Barr gives false recounting of Texas voter fraud case in effort to cast doubt on mail-in voting "In case after case, we have advanced and defended hyper-aggressive extensions of the criminal law. This is wrong and we must stop doing it," Barr said."We should want a fair system with clear rules that the people can understand. It does not serve the ends of justice to advocate for fuzzy and manipulable criminal prohibitions that maximize our options as prosecutors. Preventing that sort of pro-prosecutor uncertainty is what the ancient rule of lenity is all about."U.S.
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