The Situation: The Stakes in Those Justice Department Firings -- Benjamin Wittes - Lawfare

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--the-stakes-in-those-justice-department-firings

What does ousting career prosecutors have to do with the nomination of Kash Patel?

oday I want to talk about the most dangerous of the nominees—Kash Patel—in the context of the latest disturbing Justice Department news.

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There is a temptation among Democrats to focus their nominations energy on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom seem a bit more vulnerable than Patel. This would be a mistake.

There simply is no more dangerous position in the wrong hands than the one to which Patel has been nominated, and there is no more dangerous reason to nominate a man to it than the one that drove Trump to name Patel. The events of the last few days show exactly what Trump has in mind for the Justice Department and its investigative components.

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How do you get rid of such people, and along the way, bully thousands of others into submission so that Patel can do what he wants? The answer is that you pick a few and you make examples of them, and you do it not with some pretext that they defied an order or had porn on their computers or did something else. You fire them for being on the wrong side of the election—or the litigation that turned on the election results. You fire them for being the “Deep State,” the “Government Gangsters.”

And by doing so, you let the career workforce know who is the dog and who is the fire hydrant.

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