"At the time, Mr. Trump was supportive of the most incorrect things that Comey did — editorializing about the facts of the then ended investigation and later announcing that the investigation had been reopened. ""I view the firing based, it seems, entirely on Comey's mishandling of the Clinton investigation by making various inappropriate public statements as a sham," Ayer wrote. Ayer said he was not available for further comment because he is trekking in Nepal.Ayer, along with dozens of other former DOJ officials, signed a Rosenstein quoted from that October letter in his memo to Sessions on Tuesday.Updated with additional comments from Donald Ayer and information about his opposition to Trump's candidacy.Zoe Tillman is a senior legal reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.Looks like your browser doesn't support JavaScript. “After [Running down a list of those reforms, Ayer mentioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the Inspector General Act, expansion of the Freedom of Information Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act as Levi’s lasting legacy.Casting Barr’s recent work in the Trump White House as a wholesale repudiation of Levi’s decades-old reform agenda, Ayer stressed that DOJ’s “awesome powers” demand “transparent and orderly decison-making processes” that are reviewed on multiple levels and “free from improper personal considerations or political interference.”Having DOJ operate under such guidelines, Ayer contended, was both a multi-generational cause and a cause that was necessary to DOJ’s role as an agency dedicated to “fairness and impartiality.” The current attorney general’s efforts threaten that regime, he said.“Bill Barr’s service since last February has been a route and branch attack on Edward Levi’s vision and reforms–indeed the very idea that no person is above the law,” Ayer continued. “Barr has sought to give the president nearly unlimited powers by negating or overriding many independent processes that operate as important checks on executive branch action.”He referred to Barr’s “litigation, legal opinions and his own speeches” as efforts “to defeat meaningful oversight” by Congress and the federal courts–adding that the attorney general has also refused to testify before Congress “multiple times.”“Worst of all, I think, are his flamboyant media discussions of the facts supposedly unearthed by the specially-commissioned investigation he is personally conducting with the help of U.S. Attorney Calling Barr’s conduct “a textbook violation of Justice Manual” rules, Ayer said the “wrong is much worse” because Barr “is using a criminal investigation to produce fodder for the president’s campaign propaganda mill–which can have its effect even though it is false.”Ayer also characterized Barr as a man guided by a mission to validate and vindicate President “He publicly whitewashed the Mueller Report’s extensive findings on obstruction of justice,” Ayer continued, saying that Barr also “publicly contradicted key conclusions reached by Inspector General Horowitz in his FBI election interference probe.”“Both times, Barr’s interventions vocally reaffirmed positions regularly advanced in presidential tweets,” Ayer noted.Ayer called that portrait choice “Barr’s crowning dishonesty.” He is currently a partner at elite law firm Jones Day.“I believe that William Barr poses the greatest threat, in my lifetime, to our rule of law and to public trust in it,” Ayer said during his summary opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee. Former Deputy Attorney General Donald Ayer will testify on June 24 alongside Justice Department attorneys Aaron Zelinsky and John Elias, as well as former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department politicization.
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