‘Livid and frightened’: Inside the DOJ office at the center of the new Roger Stone scandal
Barr for “taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought.”
Channing Phillips, who served in the Justice Department for nearly three decades and led the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. under Republican and Democratic presidents including Donald Trump, tellsthat he never witnessed a series of events during his time in public service comparable to what happened in the Stone case.
Another former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office in D.C., who requested anonymity to share responses from old colleagues still working there, says lawyers are “livid and frightened” after the events of this week.. “All are looking for jobs outside of the government, but many don’t have the time in to leave. I really never have seen anything like this.”
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