Federal prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary learned that he was being fired from his position at the U.S. Department of Justice's Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday. And, according to The Guardian's Robert Mackey, he left a message for his colleagues on the way out.
According to an article by Mackey published Saturday, Ben'Ary "was apparently fired" because "a January 6 conspiracy theorist denounced him on social media for having worked for the deputy attorney general in the Biden Administration."
In a farewell note taped to his door on his last day at DOJ, Ben'Ary wrote, "It appears that my termination was based on little more than a single social media post containing false information. The leadership is more concerned with punishing the president's perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security."
Ben'Ary, in the note, went on to say, "Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed that day."
The conspiracy theorist that Mackey references is Julie Kelly, a far-right MAGA pundit.
Mackey reports, "The veteran federal prosecutor, Michael Ben’Ary, was fired on Wednesday, the same day that Julie Kelly, a pro-Trump commentator who once called a Capitol police officer beaten by the pro-Trump mob on January 6 a '“crisis actor," suggested on social media that Ben’Ary was an ally of his former boss, Lisa Monaco, a senior justice department official who helped drive the investigation of Donald Trump’s role in the Capitol riot.
Read the full article for The Guardian at this link.