How firing hundreds of employees this year has transformed the Justice Department

This year, hundreds of employees at the Justice Department have been fired, sometimes over clashes with the Trump administration, and other times for unknown reasons.

Those departures are spreading fear across the workforce and transforming the Justice Department.

NPR Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson spoke with a few of the career civil servants who have lost their job for reasons they say are illegal or improper.

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