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The White House seems to have gone to great lengths to make sure Sally Yates doesn't provide public testimony to Congress. Why would someone who was elevated to the position of acting Attorney General for a total of 10 days give Trump officials such a scare? Because every time Yates is at bat, she hits it out of the park. And she's no Devin Nunes—she’s not playing for their team.
Remember why Yates got fired in the first place: She ordered Justice Department attorneys not to defend Donald Trump's original Muslim ban, in part, because she deemed it unlawful and unjust in light of statements made by administration officials and surrogates. Since then, two federal judges (among others) and one appeals court have sided with her assessment of the order and the context surrounding it, issuing a series of decisions that have effectively ground one of Trump's biggest policy initiatives to a halt.
Yates' other act of patriotism within that 10-day window came when she informed White House officials that national security adviser Michael Flynn was lying about the content of his conversations with Russian officials. The mid-February revelation that Yates and a national security officer had met with White House officials in late January was what triggered Flynn's resignation. It also exposed a roughly two-week gap between when the White House became aware of Flynn's lie and when Trump finally fired him—a delay that has never been explained.
In just 10 days on the job, Sally Yates helped deliver Trump’s White House two of its earliest and most consequential failures by simply speaking the truth, which is like kryptonite to this administration. Who knows what kind of damage Yates could do with another round of truth-telling, at a Congressional hearing no less. So far, she's batting a thousand.