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- The DOJ publicly rebuked its own career prosecutors on Tuesday when a senior official told reporters that the department will intervene to recommend a lower sentence for the longtime GOP strategist Roger Stone.
- The move comes after President Donald Trump publicly went to bat for Stone and called the initial sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years "horrible and unfair."
- Hours later, a senior official publicly undermined the initial sentencing recommendation, telling reporters, "The department finds the recommendation extreme and excessive and disproportionate to Stone's offenses. The department will clarify its position later today."
- Tuesday's reversal from the DOJ left former career prosecutors flabbergasted.
- "DOJ needs to register as a Republican Political Action Committee," Jeffrey Cramer, a longtime former prosecutor who spent 12 years at the DOJ, told Insider.
- "Impossible to overstate how alarmed people should be right now," Susan Hennessey, the former general counsel at the National Security Agency at a managing editor at Lawfare, wrote.
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Senior Justice Department leadership publicly rebuked career prosecutors on Tuesday when an official announced that the department was "shocked" by prosecutors' sentencing recommendation for the longtime GOP strategist Roger Stone.
A senior official told The Washington Post and The New York Times that the department "was shocked to see the sentencing recommendation in the Roger Stone case last night."See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: A law professor weighs in on how Trump could beat impeachment See Also: SEE ALSO: GOP strategist Roger Stone convicted on 7 counts of obstruction, witness tampering, and false statements |