(CNN) — Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, told her former colleagues in an email that her sudden firing should “fuel the fire” of their work fighting abuses of power.

Comey, who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs criminal cases, was fired Wednesday by the Justice Department.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” she wrote in a message to her former colleagues, which was obtained by CNN. “Do not let that happen.”

She continued: “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.

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