The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    DoJ Flynn Kraziness part ii

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 1:55am |

    Sullivan delayed twice so Barr's DoJ could make this statement:

    Comments

    Mueller complained to Barr 3 days after he finished about Barr's misrepresentation of his reports. Barr met Durham *the same day* to start rewriting the record on Mueller's works. Now Barr's assigned Durham a criminal investigation that he "doesn't expect" (tee-hee) to reach Biden & Obama.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 7:47am

    Elaine Chao, eh?


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 05/27/2020 - 6:33am


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 10:06am

    Jeff Sessions in on the whole plot against King Drumpf:


    by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 12:02am

    oh my, a few tweets down in the feed, I see Jeff responds!


    by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 12:05am

    Beth Wilkinson, now advocating for Flynn judge Emmet Sullivan, is also the lawyer to Summer Zervos in her defamation case against Trump, and she is representing former Clinton aide Cheryl Mills in a DC Circuit dispute over a deposition in a FOIA case https://t.co/7sLzGvXKYx

    — Mike Scarcella (@MikeScarcella) May 23, 2020

    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 6:20pm

    I bet Powell is beginning to regret the references to Kafka in her Writ of Mandamus petition. Accusing Sullivan of corrupt intentions works on Fox but not in court.


    by moat on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 8:26pm

    Do these people *do* regrets?

    BTW,


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/24/2020 - 1:22am

    this looks to me like "Obamagate" isn't selling very well with the fans, got to go back to the old standards they know and love:


    by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 8:22pm

    Flynn 1st atty - no great deed goes unpunished


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/26/2020 - 8:34am

    Truth as Casualty

    This is the problem. She could be totally innocent, but we would have no way of knowing because Bill Barr has shown us that we can't trust him to administer justice impartially. In fact, he has given us reason to suspect that every decision DOJ makes is drenched in politics. https://t.co/EpJhcPWTue

    — Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) May 27, 2020

    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 05/27/2020 - 6:14am


    by artappraiser on Wed, 05/27/2020 - 11:38pm

    The most significant omission in Lake’s essay is his argument that the FBI lacked predication for interviewing Flynn. His argument completely ignores the FBI’s counterintelligence mission and baselessly attacks the legitimacy of investigating Flynn’s potential criminal conduct.

    While not legally required, predication is an FBI internal policy that requires a factual basis to indicate the existence of criminal conduct or a national security threat before agents may start an investigation. This policy reflects the FBI’s dual mission to investigate federal crimes and to lead counterintelligence activities. Under its counterintelligence mission, the FBI is responsible for detecting and countering actions of foreign intelligence services to gather information about the United States that adversely affects our national interests.

    - https://www.justsecurity.org/70425/eli-lakes-omissions-and-misleading-facts-in-defense-of-michael-flynn/


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 1:13am

    Flynn simple answers

    Incredible how the right/Team TrumpBarr keep trying to pretend an obvious US intelligence concern shouldn't be investigated, and keep lying about basic facts & documentation to "prove" that point.

    https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/28/on-the-two-ecs-opening-the-investi...


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 5:02am

    Flynn/Trump = colluding agents

    (with Barr, the AG heading DoJ, thinking it's ok for US citizens to actively work with foreign governments to derail official US policy)

    https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/05/28/stealing-elections-the-underlying-...


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 5:10am

    Sullivan has upper hand

    https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/499928-judge-sullivan-didnt-let-th...


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 6:17am

    Hack GOP attys argue judges have no power

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/500069-more-than-two-dozen-former-prosecutors-judges-and-active-trial

    "There is simply no basis upon which this Court can review and deny the Government's motion to dismiss, to which the defense has consented," they wrote.

    Yeah, like the police showing up to a domestic violence call when the wife decides she doesn't want to press charges...? The 30-day review was put into place to prevent corruption, not safeguard defendants - such as when a monster buys off the prosecution.

    Sure, judges have no say anymore.... sez Mitch the Federalist


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 7:11am

    McCord : Comey went rogue

    https://spanishsabores.com/2020/05/25/seafood-paella-recipe/


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 12:31pm

    Flynn begs like a bitch, oh my


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 4:38pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 4:58pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 5:14pm

    Flynn discussed w Trump


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 6:05pm

    Mueller knew Trump knew


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 6:28pm