Justice Department Under Siege

“Career lawyers and staff at the Department of Justice say the rush of changes in the first week of the Trump administration make them feel like they’re under siege,” Politico reports.

“Even as the moves followed through on vows Trump made on the campaign trail to remake the department under his vision, the swift action still took staffers by surprise.”

Said a former DOJ official: “It is a flat-out purge of individuals who this administration must view either of suspect loyalty, or have worked on matters they just did not like… We are in the early phases of what to me is just looking like a wholesale politically-inspired demolition of the Department of Justice in key places.”