DOJ’s Jan. 6 Investigations Seek Truth
By Douglas V. Gibbs
In a Soviet-style production at its finest, two former Department of Justice prosecutors—Mike Romano and Sara Levine—took center stage before the Senate Intelligence Committee, not to defend liberty, but to gloat over its suppression.
Romano, once embedded in the DOJ’s so-called “Public Integrity Section,” proudly declared his role in jailing American citizens for the crime of being present at the Capitol. Not for violence. Not for insurrection. For misdemeanors. Petty charges. Political optics masquerading as justice.
“Thanks to the work of our team,” Romano boasted, “the Justice Department charged more than 1,500 people and obtained convictions against almost 1,300.” Translation: We criminalized dissent. We made examples of patriots. We built a narrative.
Romano didn’t mention the shattered families, the lost jobs, the veterans and grandmothers swept into a prosecutorial dragnet. No remorse. Just pride in a public record designed to intimidate based on a false production of agitation and straight out lies.
Sara Levine—another bitter relic of the DOJ’s partisan crusade—launched into a self-congratulatory tirade about her career, her hiring, her firing, and her heartbreak. Not heartbreak for the Americans she helped imprison. No, her tears flowed for her legacy, erased by a single act of presidential courage.
“On Jan. 20, 2025,” Levine sobbed, “the president pardoned almost all of the defendants and commuted the sentences of the rest. I was heartbroken.”
Heartbroken? She should be ashamed. The real heartbreak belongs to the families torn apart by her department’s political vendetta. But shame requires conscience—and conscience is in short supply at the DOJ.
This wasn’t justice. It was lawfare. A weaponization of the legal system to punish opposition and rewrite history. And now, with the truth emerging and the pardons issued, the architects of this disgrace are scrambling to salvage their reputations.
But history will remember. And so will we.
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