A nation must think before it acts.
Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law
This report was undertaken by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), in conjunction with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), to address serious concerns about the activities of the Department of Justice (“the DOJ”) under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr with respect to the rule of law. CERL and CREW consulted with a bipartisan group of experts consisting of national security specialists, lawyers, retired military, former acting and deputy attorney generals, and law professors and, assisted by student interns, consulted open source reports as well as conducted a series of interviews pertaining to DOJ activities during a period of over 19 months, namely from the beginning of Mr. Barr’s current tenure as attorney general on February 14, 2019 to October 1, 2020.