The Department of Injustice – Opinion
Opinion
A number of recent Department of Justice incidents seems to paint this government agency as having a pro Republican bias and out of this propensity may lead the United States into being a dictatorship.
The first incident was when FBI Director Comey decided to make a late-October, 2016, announcement that the Clinton email probe had been reopened. The FBI is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice.
The second incident was when the Department of Justice McCabe decided to publicly confirm the existence of the Clinton Foundation probe.
“In each case, FBI officials violated Justice Department policy against disclosing sensitive information about investigations close to an election, and in each case they did so to the disadvantage of the Democratic candidate” Hillary Clinton and to the advantage of the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.
The third incident is when William Barr, the US Department of Justice Attorney General, failed to release the full Mueller Report to congress and the American public allowing Donald Trump to promote his version that he was innocent.
It appears to some that the Department of Justice could be now called the Department of UnJustice for ignoring the norm to not promote one political party over another.
This is a problem for a number of reasons. First, is the expectation that any national government agency should act without bias and adhere to norms and policy. Second is the apparent Department of UnJustice allegedly throwing flower petals on the path for the Republican Party that seems to be on a trajectory to diminishing the United States from being a Democracy as outlined in the book How Democracies Die.
References:
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/comey-mccabe-fbi-clinton/558200/
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/24/how-democracies-die-review