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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
With all those hollow men in this sad story, the mistake is easily explained.
And that final stanza is very apt to describe those same guys wailing and flailing to avoid prison.
Presumably because if some lunatic had taken it upon themselves to attack her (or does in the future), his lawyers obviously want to distance him from it as much as possible. The moron seems to be in enough trouble without adding a blatant incitement to violence on top of everything.
If he gets away with it, the precedent is pretty fucked. It would mean you can send an email to someone that threatens them, as long as that email contains an attachment and claims you didn’t mean it, the threat would be legal. The mob extorting a business, once done... a lawyer would walk in with a letter of apology to say all threats made were unintentional, meaning to carry no ill intent.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
That "random picture" Stone found on the internet, has anyone found the "source"?
His lie is amazing. Why that background, Stone? Why is the only unobstructed object in the background the cross hairs, Stone?
Like I said, keep telling yourself whatever you need to.
Edit: looks like we might get more info on the "mystery subpoena" soon. My money is still on qatar.
Stone hauled back into court to explain the cross-hairs.
Reportedly, the judge is going to demand an answer to "why shouldn't I modify the gag order?" And I'm so eager to hear that defense.
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So is a "Minute Order" an order so obvious that it only took a minute to fill out the paperwork? Asking for a Stone.
...or it could be that. Yes, Judge Jackson is clearly out of fucks to give by now.
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The NYTimes reports that Trump asked acting AG Whitaker to put Geoffrey Berman in charge of the FBI's investigation into Cohen.
"But that doesn't make sense. Berman recused himself in April. Whitaker wasn't acting AG yet."
Indeed.
Berman, Trump and Giulliani have personal and business ties, and Trump fired Preet Brahahahahaha last year, replacing him with Berman. As such, Berman was basically forced to recuse himself. Trump knew that, and asked Whitaker anyhow.
Incidentally, supposedly Whitaker also knew this, and refused the order. And then Trump tweeted and went golfing.
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Always back up your data.
The Associated Press reports that McCabe, worried that other people would be fired after Comey was --
"Wasn't McCabe himself fired?"
Well, yes, that's kind of the point. Anyhow, McCabe had the FBI make backups of all the evidence of the Russian and related probes, for exactly this type of situation.
ALso:
McCabe more or less confirms it personally.McCabe hinted at that anxiety in an interview that aired Sunday with CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” saying he met with investigators after Comey’s firing.
“I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion,” McCabe said. “That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.”
He added, “I wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision.”
I feel like if the writers of V for Vendetta wrote a prequel, scenes like the above would be in it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...m-post-n973161
Saying "I'm sorry" and hoping that would be good enough isn't the iron-clad strategy these days as it was when you were six.A judge may send Roger Stone to jail after Stone posted a photo of the judge on Instagram Monday afternoon with crosshairs in the background next to her head.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Stone's prosecution in D.C. federal court, scheduled a new hearing Thursday to discuss "why the media contact order entered in this case and/or his conditions of release should not be modified or revoked in light of the posts on his Instagram account." The judge's options include revoking his bail.