@zenvelo as far as I can see, Barr is trying to depoliticize the DoJ. He is digging into the corruption that may have been in place for the past dozen years. And as I said, Berman was a Trump appointee. Politicizing things would, to my thinking, look somewhat different than firing someone you put into place. Bolton’s book is, I suspect, a huge nothing burger. What I have seen so far of the excerpts, it is nothing more than opinion. The opinion of someone that was fired for getting out of control. So put your faith in it if you like. Just as with the impeachment inquiry, unsubstantiated accusations and blatant opinion seem to be all the press and the Dems need to try writing a story. But, again, all that is speculation as to why Berman was asked to resign. And that is the other part of why it seems odd to call it politicization. He was asked to resign, not fired outright. It wasn’t until he basically made a public spectacle to say he wasn’t going anywhere and they couldn’t make him that he got fired. If you are truly doing things for political reasons, firing outright would have been a much more expedient way to do things. Create whatever excuse you like, but fire him. In this case, no reason has actually come out. Which makes me think it is probably more involving Durham’s investigation or something like that, rather than some sort of ham-handed attempt at obstruction.