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Feb. 14, 2020

Resignations expose illness at the DOJ

Roger Stone will have his place in history, but not merely for his role as a gadfly in the president’s once-inner circle. More significantly, he will be remembered largely for exposing a terminal illness at the Department of Justice.

Carol C. Lam

Carol is the former United States attorney for the Southern District of California. She is a contributor to MSNBC.

Resignations expose illness at the DOJ
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Roger Stone will have his place in history, but not merely for his role as a gadfly in the president's once-inner circle. More significantly, he will be remembered largely for exposing a terminal illness at the Department of Justice.

Last Tuesday, high-level officials at the DOJ, reflecting the sentiment in President Donald Trump's tweet that Roger Stone was being mistreated, took the extraordinary step of overruling and withdrawing ...

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