Notes / Political and Geostrategic Observatory of the United States
10 April 2026
The Department of Justice After Pam Bondi
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Lincoln Mitchell
Political analyst, essayist, lecturer at Columbia University
John Mitchell (no relation) was Richard Nixon’s Attorney General during his first term. Mitchell
then served as Nixon’s campaign manager in 1972, a role that, naturally, led him to become
enmeshed in the Watergate Scandal. In 1975, a few months after Nixon resigned, Mitchell was
found guilty of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. He served 19 months in a federal
penitentiary.
When it comes to being a disgrace to the Department of Justice, Mitchell had nothing on Pam
Bondi.