Letter left on fired federal prosecutor's office door warns Americans are less safe

A fired top national security prosecutor on Friday appeared to accuse Justice Department leaders of “making American citizens less safe” amid a string of firings, according to a letter to his colleagues obtained by a source who said the missive was posted on the ousted prosecutor’s office door

A fired top national security prosecutor on Friday appeared to accuse Justice Department leaders of “making American citizens less safe” amid a string of firings, according to a letter to his colleagues obtained by a source who said the missive was posted on the ousted prosecutor’s office door.

Michael Ben’Ary, who three sources familiar with the situation confirmed to NBC News was terminated Wednesday after a social media post from a Trump-aligned writer suggested he was part of the “internal resistance” to indicting former FBI Director James Comey, seemingly wrote he lamented “what has happened to this office and the Department of Justice in just a few short months.”

Ben’Ary worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The letter said that his former colleagues’ oath to the Constitution remains their responsibility to uphold.

“It is this oath that requires you to follow the facts and the law wherever they lead, free from fear or favor, and unhindered by political interference. In recent months, the political leadership of the Department have violated these principles, jeopardizing our national security and making American citizens less safe,” the letter said.

The letter attributed to Ben’Ary also said that the Justice Department’s “decisions to remove experienced career officials from US Attorneys Offices, the FBI, and other critical parts of DOJ undermines our country’s ability to counter terrorist organizations, malign nation-state actors, and countless others that seek to harm our nation and its citizens.”