US Marshals were mobilized to warn fired DOJ lawyer over congressional testimony, attorney says

[malaise]

The U.S. Justice Department sent armed U.S. Marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to congressional Democrats, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
“This highly unusual step of directing armed law enforcement officers to the home of a former Department of Justice employee who has engaged in no misconduct, let alone criminal conduct, simply to deliver a letter, is both unprecedented and completely inappropriate,” Michael Bromwich, a lawyer representing fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer, wrote to the Justice
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[Tadpole Raisin]

1. I.e., threaten. Who is kidding who? nt

[Tickle]

2. This is getting way out of hand

Someone or something needs to make this stop 🛑😭

[maxsolomon]

3. Unprecedented and unsurprising

We're getting back to the old ways - the J. Edgar Hoover ways.

[Arazi]

4. Mob tactics

[Irish_Dem]

5. Trump's Gestapo making a nice friendly little visit.

The threat was perfectly clear.

[malaise]

6. More here

https://www.msnbc.com/the-weekend/watch/fired-doj-attorney-there-is-real-retaliation-of-doj-employees-who-speak-out-236661317517

Watergate 2 coming up

[Irish_Dem]

8. Yes this attorney was on Rachel Maddow's show last night.

We have become Nazi Germany.

[Martin Eden]

7. MAGA

Menacing
Armed
Gestapo
Agents

[malaise]

9. Sure looks so

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