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Yesterday was Sally Yates’ big day. Yates was the acting attorney general for the last days of the Obama administration and the first days of the Trump administration. She was a career DOJ lawyer. The Trump administration fired her, they said initially, because she refused to enforce Trump’s Muslim Ban executive order. While that probably was a factor, Yates was also ringing the alarm at DOJ and the White House about Mike Flynn, Trump’s now-ousted National Security Adviser. Flynn was the guy who was in bed with the Russians, to the point where Yates believed he ...