Well she didn’t exactly use the word “weaponized,” but we thought it sounded good because former US Attorney Nora Dannehy’s actual description to the Connecticut state Assembly during her confirmation testimony for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court of why she quit her old job does kind of fit neatly with the kind of shit Jim Jordan constantly accuses the Justice Department of doing.
The AP reports Dannehy told Connecticut lawmakers that she “simply couldn’t be part of it. So I resigned” from her post in September 2020 after then-Attorney General Bill Barr began pressuring her then-boss John Durham to slap together an interim report to be released before the election as the Orange Slob then in the White House had been screaming at them to do. “I had been taught and spent my entire career at the DOJ conducting any investigation in an objective and apolitical manner. In the spring and summer of 2020, I had growing concerns that this Russia investigation was not being conducted in that way. Barr began to speak more publicly and specifically about the ongoing criminal investigation. I thought these public comments violated DOJ guidelines,” Dannehy said.