From Politico:

“It’s got to be among the most demoralizing moments in the history of the Department of Justice,” said one former DOJ career official. “It is a flat-out purge of individuals who this administration must view either of suspect loyalty or have worked on matters they just did not like. … We are in the early phases of what to me is just looking like a wholesale politically inspired demolition of the Department of Justice in key places.”

Cry me a river.

I joined the Department of Justice in July 1992.

That means I worked through the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 and the change in party control at DOJ from the GOP to the Democrats.

I worked through the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and the change in party control at DOJ from the Democrats to the GOP.

I worked through the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the change in party control at DOJ from GOP to the Democrats.

Only the last one — Bush to Obama — was dramatic in any fashion. During Bush 43’s second term, the Democrats began their assault on what they claimed was an excessive numbers of conservative DOJ attorneys, marked by membership in the Federalist Society. This followed the attacks that were made following Bush’s nomination of Alberto Gonzalez to be Attorney General during his second term.