AG Barr delivered a thoughtful speech on the importance of political accountability in the criminal-justice system at @Hillsdale, which the media is now completely distorting.
Read it in full, free from the media’s usual hysteria:
justice.gov/opa/speech/rem…
The AG has been accused of “attacking” career prosecutors in this speech. He wasn’t. He was making the point that DOJ is a chain-of-command institution. It cannot function with thousands of politically unaccountable line prosecutors setting their own individual policies.
We’ve all seen what happens when overzealous, unaccountable prosecutors use their positions to hound and harass their enemies. Just ask General Flynn. It’s the job of every prosecutor to prevent such gross miscarriages of justice.
Career prosecutors represent the government, they’re not running their own activist law firms. And that means they answer to the AG—and that he answers in turn to the President and the American people. “The buck stops at the top.”
There is nothing controversial about anything the AG said – FDR’s AG Robert Jackson made several similar points decades ago. What’s controversial is the media spreading complete lies about the theme and tenor of this speech.
Again, read the speech in full. You’ll be better informed than the journalists hyperventilating about it on Twitter:
justice.gov/opa/speech/rem…
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