CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIARY
JEFF CHILDERS HAS THE STORY in the comment section
Note I have self imposed limit of 5 “WOWs” per day
This is already wow #4 and it’s only 11 : 15 AM
sheesh
JEFF CHILDERS HAS THE STORY in the comment section
Note I have self imposed limit of 5 “WOWs” per day
This is already wow #4 and it’s only 11 : 15 AM
sheesh
In fits and starts, the weaponization story is trickling into the public eye. Yesterday, Reuters reported, “Exclusive: FBI investigation into Kash Patel was more extensive than previously reported.” That’s one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is: a corrupt nest of deep state judges and DOJ bureaucrats is being exposed to sunlight.
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Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating special prosecutor Jack Smith held a contentious hearing and released all-new records. Including, among other things, a 30-page subpoena that had dug into nearly every part of Kash Patel’s life while he was a private citizen. They got it all: his phone records, internet history, email accounts, device IDs, banking records, and probably even the coat check receipt from the humiliating time he went to see Kinky Boots on date night.
The FBI named its wide-reaching January 6th investigation “Arctic Frost,” presumably because “Watergate on Steroids” was already taken. The newest documents were discovered in another one of those special “prohibited access” storage rooms that the FBI used to hide things from itself.
“The Biden administration’s ‘Arctic Frost’ scheme, is not a single act,” Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), said. “It is a modern Watergate, trading a break-in at one office for a digital sweep into approximately 100,000 private communications, more than a dozen senators, and thousands of individuals’ lives.”
A clutch of DC Circuit judges green-lit and rubber-stamped the whole operation. Three main judicial participants chaperoned the domestic spying orgy: Chief Judge Beryl Howell (Obama appointee), the now-infamous and cadaverous Judge James Boasberg (Obama), and Magistrate James Mazzone (also Obama-era).
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One internal DOJ email unearthed by Senator Grassley’s subcommittee said, “before we tell Main (as in main Justice), we’re going to fire off subpoenas for so many members (of Congress) that I should make sure Jack’s aware.” In other words, the conspirators recorded in an email that they were going to subpoena Congress before asking their supervisors. Ask forgiveness, not permission.
Another memo found by the subcommittee concluded that it would be unconstitutional to surveill Senators because they were protected by the “Speech and Debate Clause.” They issued the subpoenas anyway.
But perhaps the ugliest details were notes about coordination between Prosecutor Smith and the judges before the subpoenas were issued. “She liked our approach of pursuing the executive privilege litigation in an omnibus fashion,” one agent’s notes recalled, referring to Chief Judge Howell. Another noted, “Chief judge knows it is coming and loves the idea.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a lawyer’s job is much easier if the judges tell you privately, ahead of time, what to put in the motion, and which ideas of yours they “love.” It sort of collapses the whole judicial system into a single easy step. It’s teamwork! Totally unethical and probably illegal, but what difference does that make? After all, they faced an unarmed insurrection.
Republicans wisely refused Democrat demands to have Jack Smith testify first. Now they have lots of information that they wouldn’t have otherwise had. By the time they get to Smith, the questions will be brutal.
Meanwhile, the volume of calls for Judge Boasberg’s impeachment is getting louder than a dance club just after midnight on Saturday. But Boasberg is only a symptom of the problem, like a horrid rash on your lower calf. Structural reform is required. Not tinkering. At some point, somebody needs to ask: what do we need to change to make sure a Boasberg cannot happen again?
Yeah, it’s crap. Boasberg should get a choice, retire without your pension now, or go to jail for 10 years, and then get released with your pension.