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Analyst stunned by 'subtle' line in lawsuit against Trump admin: 'Scathing thing to say'
The Justice Department as a Personal WeaponJohn Brennan has sued the Trump Justice Department over its investigation of him, and the filing does something unusually blunt: it says the DOJ no longer deserves the court’s presumption of regularity in cases involving the president’s perceived enemies. That is the immediate context. The deeper story is simpler and uglier: a former intelligence chief is telling a court that the country’s top law-enforcement institution may be operating as an instrument of revenge, not law.Power, Not ProcessThe relevant fact here is not Brennan’s discomfort. It is…
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