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In response to the DOJ alumni letter on the Flynn case

BY MARK D. FERBRACHE, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR

05/16/20 12:00 PM EDT

"I read the “DOJ Alumni Statement on Flynn Case,” as well as the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss further prosecution of former national security adviser and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. The assumption by all those who signed the alumni letter seems to be that Attorney General William Barr’s primary motivation to accept U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen’s recommendation to dismiss the case was politically motivated, to curry favor with President Trump — and, for this, AG Barr must resign.

Regarding the dismissal, the DOJ alumni letter states: “The Department’s purported justification for doing so does not hold up to scrutiny, given the ample evidence that the investigation was well-founded and — more importantly — the fact that Flynn admitted under oath and in open court that he told material lies to the FBI in violation of longstanding federal law.”

“Purported justification … does not hold up to scrutiny” — those words leave me wondering if the letter’s signers actually read the DOJ’s motion to dismiss. If they did, can they honestly say, as former federal prosecutors, that the government’s motion to dismiss is not well-grounded in objective facts and adheres to the rule of law, not to mention DOJ policy? Should we assume that the DOJ alumni also are calling for the resignations of U.S. Attorney Jensen, of U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea whose D.C. office filed the dismissal motion, and perhaps even of U.S. Attorney John Durham, who continues to investigate the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe?

The letter makes reference to some of President Trump’s public comments cheering the dismissal and claiming Flynn’s exoneration, but it makes no attempt to critique DOJ’s reasoning in support of the motion. In fact, the letter completely ignores the recent disclosures that led to the Flynn dismissal, such as:"