Prosecutors
DOJ ‘extra involved with punishing’ perceived Trump enemies than public security, fired prosecutor’s letter says
A letter taped to the door of Michael Ben’Ary, an assistant U.S. lawyer who was abruptly fired final week, mentioned a false social media publish apparently led to his termination. (Photograph by Caffeinated Chihuahua, CC-PD-Mark, through Wikimedia Commons)
A letter taped to the door of an assistant U.S. lawyer who was abruptly fired final week mentioned a false social media publish apparently led to his termination whereas he was in the course of a terrorism prosecution.
The letter bore the typed signature of the fired prosecutor, Michael Ben’Ary, who labored within the Jap District of Virginia, report NBC News, the Guardian and CNN.
The message warned that the political management of the Division of Justice was making America much less secure by eradicating profession officers from U.S. lawyer’s workplaces and the FBI.
Ben’Ary was prosecuting a suspect within the 2021 bombing of an airport in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S service members and 160 Afghan civilians when he was fired.
“Justice for People killed and injured by our enemies shouldn’t be contingent on what somebody within the Division of Justice sees of their social media feed that day,” the letter mentioned.
Ben’Ary was fired after pro-Trump commentator Julie Kelly steered on social media that he was an ally of former U.S. Deputy Legal professional Normal Lisa Monaco, who served within the Biden administration.
“One can solely assume he was a giant a part of the inner resistance” to the indictment of former FBI director James Comey, Kelly wrote.
Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump, has been indicted by Ben’Ary’s newly put in boss, interim U.S. Legal professional Lindsey Halligan, for an alleged false assertion to Congress. Halligan changed U.S. Legal professional Erik S. Siebert, who left his position after Trump pressured him to indict Comey.
The letter mentioned Ben’Ary’s firing “highlights probably the most troubling side of the present operations of the Division of Justice: The management is extra involved with punishing the president’s perceived enemies than they’re with defending our nationwide safety.”
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