Days after being fired, the prime nationwide safety prosecutor in Virginia’s japanese district taped a letter outdoors his former workplace accusing prime Justice Department officers of being “more concerned” with going after President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies than defending the nation’s safety.
The typed letter dated Friday and signed by Michael Ben’Ary stated that as a prosecutor, he took an oath “that requires you to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead, free from fear or favor, and unhindered by political interference.”
“In recent months, the political leadership of the Department have violated these principles, jeopardizing our national security and making American citizens less safe,” he stated.
Ben’Ary’s letter provides to a checklist of federal prosecutors who, since Trump took workplace in January, say they have been fired as a part of a political calculous and with out consideration for his or her work.
The prosecutor was fired Wednesday after Julie Kelly, a pro-Donald Trump activist and author, posted on X that “One can only assume he was a big part of the internal resistance to the (James) Comey indictment.”
But he wasn’t concerned in the case towards former FBI director James Comey case, NCS beforehand reported, and Ben’Ary denounced his firing as “without cause” and “based on little more than a single social media post containing false information.”
Ben’Ary wrote that his firing “highlights the most troubling aspect of the current operations of the Department of Justice: the leadership is more concerned with punishing the President’s perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security.”
Ben’Ary added that he was main the felony prosecution towards a man allegedly concerned in the planning of a bombing throughout the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
“Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed that day,” he stated.
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The Eastern District of Virginia was thrust into turmoil final month when its former chief was pressured out over his refusal to indict one Trump’s perceived enemies, New York Attorney General Letitia James, with mortgage fraud. The new US Attorney, Trump ally Lindsey Halligan, rapidly secured an indictment towards Comey for allegedly mendacity throughout congressional testimony about the Russia investigation.
“The decisions to remove experienced career officials from US Attorneys Offices, the FBI, and other critical parts of DOJ undermines our country’s ability to counter terrorist organizations, malign nation-state actors, and countless others that seek to harm our nation and its citizens,” Ben’Ary wrote.