Barr's intervention for Trump allies Flynn and Stone was 'egregious,' says prosecutor who quit DOJ
In a filing Thursday, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, former Barr advisor Timothy Shea, argued that the FBI's interview of Flynn was not justified by a counterintelligence investigation, and that his lies about what he said to a Russian diplomat were not "material" to that probe.
"I left a job I loved because I believed the department had abandoned its responsibility to do justice in one of my cases,"At the time, I thought that the handling of the Stone case, with senior officials intervening to recommend a lower sentence for a longtime ally of President Trump, was a disastrous mistake that the department would not make again," he wrote.
Kravis wrote that in both Stone's and Flynn's cases "the department undercut the work of career employees to protect an ally of the president, an abdication of the commitment to equal justice under the law," Kravis wrote. "For the attorney general now to directly intervene to benefit the president's associates makes this betrayal of the rule of law even more egregious," Kravis wrote.
"Barr's decision to excuse himself from these obligations and attack his own silenced employees is alarming," Kravis wrote. "Where is the evidence of those commitments in other cases that do not involve friends of the president?," he wrote.
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