“If Trump could get away with locking up his political opponents, that’s exactly what he’d do,” says a former U.S. attorney. “And he’s getting closer and closer to getting away with it”
who was a federal prosecutor on the investigation of President Richard Nixon, is making a technical, if crucial, distinction between likely the worst political episode in American history and current events. During Watergate, Akerman’s bosses—first special prosecutor Archibald Cox and then Leon Jaworski—operated independently of the Department of Justice, from the pursuit of evidence all the way through to the resulting criminal trials.
Yet Akerman’s bland comparison of the organizational differences is actually a stunning statement: what is unfolding in Washington now is already, in some respects, out-scandaling Watergate. Almost 50 years later, the direct interference is coming from inside the Department of Justice building. Attorney Generalis on a trajectory to surpass Mitchell, the previous AG corruption champion, who was convicted of conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice, and went to prison for 19 months.
Morale at the DOJ, already sagging after nearly four years of Trump’s disregard for the rule of law, has taken another huge hit. “The people I’ve talked with inside DOJ are angry, depressed, confused, dismayed, disaffected—all of the above,” saysduring the Whitewater investigation, and a deputy assistant secretary for Homeland Security in the Bush administration.
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