Quin Hillyer writes for the Washington Examiner about the need for federal law enforcement reform.

I report here for the first time about an unforgivable investigation under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, one of several outrageous ones of which I am aware, that shows why it should be easier to punish agents and prosecutors who improperly exploit their vast power to harass victims and even ruin lives.

This particular case comes against a backdrop of long-standing problems with prosecutorial abuses combined with a massive politicization, usually for leftist or Democratic ends, within the federal leviathan. Indeed, even during Republican administrations going back decades, the ranks of “career” employees at the DOJ have been manned by hugely disproportionate amounts of people from the Left rather than the Right. …

… Now comes the case of Mark Corallo, the former communications director for the DOJ with a well-earned, bipartisan reputation for integrity and smarts. I’ll admit to a bias here, as Corallo has been a friend for 40 years, but the facts would speak for themselves regardless of my bias.

Corallo was doing public relations work for one of Trump’s (then-president) former lawyers related to the Russia election interference investigation when, believing that some in Trump’s orbit suggested he do something unethical, Corallo publicly withdrew from the possibly lucrative case rather than be compromised in any way. (As I said, bedrock integrity.)

Still, that put Corallo in the news (again) as a high-profile Republican.

Not long after that, lawyers with whom he was newly dealing advised him that, in an abundance of caution, he should file a FARA … form relating to representation several years earlier of a private, foreign client for a project that lasted only about three months. …

… Although Corallo eventually and rightly was cleared via what he described as a rather snide letter from the DOJ’s counterintelligence chief, and although the investigation tactics were patently abusive, there has been no apology from the DOJ and no known discipline against the FBI special agent who targeted Corallo and Corallo alone, but not the Democratic firm.

I am aware of other cases eerily similar to Corallo’s, again targeting only Republicans but not similarly situated Democrats, that for legal reasons cannot yet be written about.