Originally Posted by mellincf

"You know, Richard Nixon tried to use the Justice Department to punish his political enemies," Jeffrey Toobin said Friday night. Former Office of Government Ethics head Walter Shaub added: "This is the stuff that authoritarianism is made of... It's simply the scariest thing that I've seen happen so far in this administration. He just simply seems to have no appreciation for, or interest in, the importance of the independence of the DOJ."