Fired Justice Department official warns we are “driving straight into an abyss” – CBS News
By Scott MacFarlane, Updated on: July 10, 2025 / 7:47 PM EDT / CBS News
A 17-year former Justice Department official is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors’ offices, told CBS News, “The rules don’t exist anymore.”
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi, is the fourth person connected to the agency’s work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.
“There used to be a line, used to be a very distinct separation between the White House and the Department of Justice, because one should not interfere with the work of the other,” Hartman told CBS News. “That line is very definitely gone.”
Hartman isn’t a prosecutor, but worked on the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s Office public affairs team that distributed news releases about the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions.
Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.
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