The federal prosecutor who helped steer the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has condemned the decision to pardon those convicted of being involved, suggesting this action prompted his resignation from the Justice Department.

Greg Rosen, the former chief of the Justice Department’s now-dissolved Capitol Siege Section, said he was “shocked, if not stunned, by the breadth of the pardons.”

“I think the message that they send is that political violence towards a political goal is acceptable in a modern democratic society,” he told CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane in an interview posted on Monday. Some 1,500 defendants were pardoned by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term in the Oval Office, and members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers had their sente

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