Carrie Johnson

Oh, happy to do it.

More than 5,000 workers have left the Justice Department this year by some estimates.

That includes the acting director of the FBI and many of the other top FBI officials.

At the Justice Department, the pardon attorney is gone.

The ethics advisor is gone.

Most of the prosecutors who took on public corruption are gone, as well as people who worked on cases involving the Capitol riot nearly five years ago.

And at the Civil Rights Division, nearly three out of four lawyers are gone.

The first thing to say is that there have been a lot of mistakes, misstatements of law, like in a big Texas redistricting case.

A Trump-appointed judge says the DOJ civil rights letter in that case contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors that even lawyers working for the Texas Attorney General, allies of President Trump, called the letter legally unsound, ham-fisted, and a mess.

Then there are these alleged misrepresentations to courts in deportation cases.

In D.C., Judge Jeb Boasberg is demanding to hear from the Justice Department about whether lawyers intentionally flouted his order this year to turn planes around carrying Venezuelan migrants.

Erez Ruveni spent 15 years at the DOJ.

He later blew the whistle on what he saw as misconduct in immigration cases.

Here's what he told me this year.

The attorney general has called Rivani a disgruntled employee and a leaker.

People who've worked at the DOJ and the FBI really worry it's making the country less safe.

The former acting director of the FBI and two other top officials there say they were fired for improper political reasons this year.

Chris Maddy's a lawyer for some of those fired officials.

Then another bunch of FBI agents who had nearly 200 years of experience got fired for taking a knee during racial justice protests five years ago.

President Trump has been pretty clear about his intentions.