By persistently interjecting himself in political controversies and regularly ruling in a partisan, protective fashion in all things Trump, Attorney General William Barr has destroyed any semblance of the notion that the Attorney General, as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is the pillar of an independent and non-partisan Department of Justice.
Even in the face of mass public denunciation by former federal prosecutors and some judges, Mr. Barr's callous disregard for the truth and the rule of law endures. Now he denounces the inspector-general who followed the law and did his duty to alert Congress to the complaint of a whistle-blower whose allegations were proven true and which moved the House of Representatives to impeach the president.
While Mr. Trump's vengeful firing of Inspector-General Atkinson was predictable, the disingenuous defense of that shameful act, by AG Barr, is a dangerous detour from the traditional role of the attorney-general and further besmirches a once revered institution.
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