"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,"
"One can only assume he was a big part of the internal resistance"
"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."
Michael Ben'Ary, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, was abruptly fired while prosecuting a suspect in the 2021 airport bombing in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members and 160 Afghan civilians. A note left on his office indicated a false social media post contributed to his termination. The termination followed a pro-Trump commentator's claim linking Ben'Ary to former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and alleging internal resistance related to a Comey indictment. Lindsey Halligan was installed as interim U.S. Attorney after the previous U.S. attorney left following political pressure.
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