If you ask Donald Eyre about his political affiliation, I think it'd be just as likely

to describe himself as a former prosecutor as anything else, a good guy.

DOJ was, you know, maybe the best place I ever worked, So I have a lot of really warm feelings about it.

You were a prosecutor for how many years? Well, I've had multiple jobs in the Justice Department,

and altogether it adds up to about 10 years. Donald Eyre hasn't worked at the Department of Justice

for decades, but he served under President Bush, the first one, and he still considers

himself a DOJ alum. So where are all of you former prosecutors talking? You have a Facebook

group or a text thread? No. I know I know a few, I have a few friends who are former prosecutors,

but I don't, we don't have a, you know, like an AA group or something

like that that we sit around and meet with regularly. They may not be sitting around a church

basement with stale coffee, but these prosecutors are keeping in touch, commiserating, especially

as they watch Bill Barr set to work in their old offices.

They've started releasing these letters of dissent.

Earlier this month, they flat out called on Bill Barr to resign, saying he's enabling

authoritarianism.

For someone like Donald Eyre, who believes in the system, these are harsh words.

It's just, I think it's a spontaneous feeling that a lot of different people have by virtue of the experiences they've had. I just wondered, do you worry at some point that maybe these letters, they aren't making a difference, they aren't

breaking through?

Well, I don't know.

I mean, I think it's pretty hard to judge that.

You know, I think consequences of things people do are unfold over time.

And I'm hopeful that we'll kind of correct course and get back on the course that we were on for quite a number of years in terms of the way justice is administered.

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