Top DOJ National Security Lawyers Pushed Out in Broad Purge (1)

Key national security lawyers and the chief of the Justice Department’s professional misconduct office were among those pushed out of their positions this week amid a shakeup at the department.

Melissa MacTough and Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorneys general at the DOJ’s National Security Division who have spent decades at the department, were both removed from their posts, according to people familiar with the moves.

MacTough oversaw the division’s intelligence office, while Wiegmann led its office of law and policy.

Their departures leave significant gaps in national security expertise at the department. “There’s literally no one at home. The lights ...