More than 2,000 former Department of Justice officials are calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign, according to the group Protect Democracy.
"Although there are times when political leadership appropriately weighs in on individual prosecutions, it is unheard of for the Department's top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President, as Attorney General Barr did in the Stone case," they wrote.
The officials commended the actions of the four line prosecutors who resigned from the Stone case and called on more to resign. "We call on every DOJ employee to follow their heroic example and be prepared to report future abuses to the Inspector General, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and Congress; to refuse to carry out directives that are inconsistent with their oaths of office; to withdraw from cases that involve such directives or other misconduct; and, if necessary, to resign and report publicly -- in a manner consistent with professional ethics -- to the American people the reasons for their...
Attorney General William Barr speaks to ABC News'' Pierre Thomas during an interview on Feb. 13, 2020.On Monday, Donald Ayer, a former deputy attorney general under George H.W. Bush and former U.S. Attorney, said Barr needed to resign in an op/ed inMORE: Barr blasts Trump's tweets on Stone case: 'Impossible for me to do my job': ABC News Exclusive
"All of this conduct -- including Barr's personal interventions to influence or negate independent investigations or the pursuit of criminal cases, and his use of the department's resources to frustrate the checks and balances provided by other branches -- is incompatible with the rule of law as we know it, and especially as it has functioned since Levi's Watergate reforms," Ayer wrote, referring to Edward Levi, who was the attorney general appointed after President...
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