The former officials,who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations,criticised Barr,the country's top law enforcement officer,for over-ruling his own prosecutors.
The US President fired off a barrage of heated tweets attacking and naming a federal judge involved in the case.
The Justice Department signalled it would preempt the sentencing after Trump tweeted,"This is a horrible and very unfair situation."
The managers bring institutional and subject matter expertise to the task,as well as geographic diversity.
The sentence came despite what the judge described as Gates'"extraordinary"cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
Andrew McCabe,then the FBI's deputy director,said that Downer's information was the"tipping point"that led the FBI to open the investigation.
After a decade defying the authorities,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is finally set to face court. Is democracy at stake,like his supporters say?
The prospect that his reelection campaign could lose access to some Facebook mictrotargeting tools appears to be vexing his team.
A conversation in a London bar set off a chain of events that dragged Australia into the investigation into Russian interference in Donald Trump's election.
Investigations into presidential misconduct have an aura of administration-crippling power,but are only as strong as the public and political appetite for them.
Yet even though Democrats hold the House majority,they're far from the 218 votes that would be needed to approve articles of impeachment. The special counsel didn't change that.