Former special counsel Jack Smith warns that rule of law is 'under attack' [View all]

(NPR) The federal prosecutor who built two criminal cases against President Trump is sounding the alarm about dire threats to the legal system.

In his first public remarks since leaving the Justice Department, former special counsel Jack Smith said he's sad and angry about the dismissals of career public servants and the loss of credibility the DOJ has suffered this year.

"My career has been about the rule of law and I believe that today it is under attack like in no other period in our lifetimes," Smith told an audience of students, professors and members of the public at George Mason University
last week.

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