DOJ photo of William Barr and screengrab of Vladimir Putin
Attorney General Bill Barr's Department of Justice moved to end a prosecution over 2016 foreign election meddling in an after-hours filing on Monday.
"The U.S. Justice Department moved Monday to drop its two-year-long prosecution of a Russian company charged with orchestrating a social media campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election," The Washington Post reported Monday evening. "The stunning reversal came weeks before the case — a spin off of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe — was to go to trial."
Legal observers were shocked by the decision.
Here's some of what people were saying:
