Posted on 09/19/2022 11:55:18 AM PDT by Michael.SF.
On Monday, August 8, Justice Department officials spent nine hours raiding the Mar-a-Lago home of Donald Trump, carrying out 12 boxes of material. When criticism ensued, FBI spokespeople in wounded tones insisted the press eschew the harsh term “raid,” and use “execution of a search warrant” instead.
“Agents don’t like the word ‘raid,’ they don’t like it,” complained MSNBC analyst Frank Figliuzzi. He added with unintentional irony: “It sounds like it’s some sort of extrajudicial, non-legal thing.”
But it was a raid, as the surprisingly enormous number of people who’ve been on the business end of such actions since 9/11 will report. The state more and more now avails itself of a procedural trick that would have horrified everyone from Jefferson to to Potter Stewart to Thurgood Marshall. Investigating, say, one lawyer, prosecutors raid a whole firm, taking everything — emails, client files, cell phones and personal computers — then have a supposedly separate group of lawyers, called a “taint” or “filter” team, examine it all. In this way they learn the private details of hundreds or even thousands of clients .
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Crimes like the Espionage Act are intentionally drawn up to make conviction easy and punishment severe. Americans need to ask themselves what’s more dangerous: Donald Trump, or a federal law enforcement bureaucracy prosecutes people for the same rules it breaks, regularly argues that national security is harmed by allowing you to see the case against you, and appears ready to start using its vast power to punish political offenses? Is getting Donald Trump worth tossing out constitutional protections? Because that’s where this is all headed.
“When you have principles,” says Flowers, “sometimes those principles even protect people you don’t like.” But we need them, and if we don’t protect them, we’ll all lose them.
(Excerpt) Read more at taibbi.substack.com ...
No I am not blog pimping, and yes Matt Tabbi is a leftist, but he is one of the few honest ones.
Correction: The author of the piece is a Liberal, not a leftist. There is a distinct difference between them.
Define the “difference.”
Eric Holder was Obama’s “wingman”
Garland is Biden’s enforcer
Classical liberalism is defined as: “a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics; civil liberties under the rule of law with especial emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech.”
Today’s leftists no longer believe in free markets, civil liberties for those who don’t agree with them, limited government, economic freedom (for those they don’t agree with), political freedom (for those they don’t agree with), or freedom of speech (for those they don’t agree with).
Agents don’t like the word ‘raid,’ they don’t like it,” complained MSNBC analyst Frank Figliuzzi. He added with unintentional irony:
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“It sounds like it’s some sort of extrajudicial, non-legal thing.”
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That’s cuz IT IS !!!
Bkmk
There’s a sharp knock on your door. They call out that they are FBI. Are you glad they are there?
Merry Little Adolf needs to man up and recuse himself from all DOJ business just like the far left demanded Jeff Sessions to do. Merry is too political for the job.
From my perspective I would comment that a true liberal has integrity, while a leftist has none.
Motto for a liberal would be: ‘I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’
motto for a leftist might be: ‘By any means necessary’
All the more reason to get President Trump back in the oval. He’s one of the very few that has guts enough to gut all those corrupt departments........bad advice, lesson learned.
Let’s call it what it is: a home invasion.
I actually read, I do not recall where, that some were arguing for a 'carry-over' nomination. Garland was never officially withdrawn by Obama and so he should have gotten a hearing.
Well said. TY.
People noticed it when they started to call each other comrade.
They aren’t just violating the law.
They’re overturning the Constitution, reversing the Revolution.
What they are doing is orders of magnitude worse then what British officers were doing to the Colonists. Were we to invoke our Colonial rights, what would be the response of the current “government”? You have no such rights is what they would say.
These are are people who have gone insane with power. In no way is their world one that the Revolutionaries had in mind. King George looks meek and mild in comparison.
That the so-called American Left is happy with all of this and braying for more shows that they are merely statist thugs themselves who merely used civik rights as a wedge to attain power.
Mueller, Weissman, Garland, Comey, Holder and every other arrogant deranged bureaucrat should be up on plenary charges of subversion and rebellion for starters. What they have done is try to make the Presidency and the Judiciary subordiate to their will.
That “conservatives” like the pathetic Jefferson Sessions have gone along with this merely shows their cowardice and complicity.
Taibbi is right, and Trump is not the real victim: we the people who supported and voted for him are. That makes ALL of them federal criminals.
George III’s ‘Long Train of abuses and Usurpations” includes, “He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.”
T Jefferson, Declaration of Independence. 1776.
Well the special master just blasted Trump’s attorneys as the worst ever because they couldn’t explain how ex President declassified the documents. Not looking good folks.
Did President not sign an order to declassify? If he did, why didn’t his attorneys say that in their legal brief? Trump has claimed on social media that he declassified the material, but Trump’s lawyers have declined to say so in legal filings under their names. Trump lawyer Jim Trusty at one point said the lawyers were ‘not in a position’ to say whether Trump had declassified the documents until they could review them.
That seems like a pretty sensible position.
Good grief!!!!
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