Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman compared President Trump’s criticisms of the Department of Justice to the Nazi bombing of London during World War II on MSNBC Tuesday.
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“It’s a bone chilling development. Look, the Justice Department is under a shelling from the White House. It’s like London 1941 there. And some bombs hit big, some bombs hit small. This one, to my mind, is the biggest bomb of all,” Litman said.
“A confidential informant is the coin of the realm for the FBI. It was astonishing to me, with all respect to Phil, to be reading in the newspaper biographical details about someone who has been there for years. And you can only guess what sort of job the bureau now has and the CIA around the world trying to persuade people to help the United States ferret out dangers to them,” he added. (RELATED: MSNBC Commentator: ‘People Need To Start Taking To The Streets. This Is A Dictator.’)
“This I think is the most dangerous development in the ongoing war between the White House and the Department of Justice we have had so far.” (RELATED: MSNBC Commentator Gives His Hot Take On ‘Working-Class White People’)