CNN’s Kasie Hunt Panel Cries Over ‘Career Prosecutors’ Losing Power — Calls It ‘Intensely Problematic’

On CNN’s The Arena with Kasie Hunt (October 13, 2025), the network’s legal panel tried to sound the alarm over “career prosecutors” leaving the Justice Department — spinning it as proof that courts are losing faith in the DOJ.

In reality, it was just another case of the D.C. establishment mistaking accountability for chaos.

CNN’s legal panel said:

“Somehow ends up losing their job. You know, I’ll teach you a term that you can use to dazzle at cocktail parties, Jamal — speak about what’s called the presumption of regularity. There’s a concept in the law that the government is believed to be acting in good faith when it engages with a court. They are losing that. And courts are beginning to say, we do not trust what comes out of the Justice Department because of the news that we are reading about what’s been happening to career prosecutors there.

Again, people are free to leave, free to go to the private sector and do whatever they want with their careers. But that’s not—I think a little more is happening there, and there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that something intensely problematic [is] happening.”

This is the classic CNN move — pretend something is a national crisis when it’s really the Washington insiders losing their grip.

CNN treats “career prosecutors” like the best and brightest — the trusted guardians of justice we’re all supposed to believe in without question. But these are the same insiders who’ve buried evidence, stalled investigations, leaked to friendly media, shielded Democrats, and weaponized the law against conservatives — all while hiding behind the word “nonpartisan.”

CNN portrays “career prosecutors” as impartial guardians of justice, but the record tells a different story. Under political leadership, DOJ prosecutors were involved in the decision not to charge Hillary Clinton despite evidence of mishandled classified emails, approved flawed FISA warrants during the Trump–Russia investigation, and slow-walked aspects of the Hunter Biden probe. They’ve also faced criticism for aggressively pursuing January 6 cases viewed as politically motivated while bringing limited federal charges in the 2020 riot-related violence. Far from demonstrating equal justice, their actions often appear to protect institutional and political interests over public trust.

So when CNN calls their exit “intensely problematic,” what they really mean is that the old guard is losing control. And if they’re finally leaving, good. That’s not a crisis. That’s justice catching up.