[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...Avenatti and Brennan could be implicated in the event or at a minimum were aware it was to occur

IIRC, my opinion was something like "...if that POS didn't issue the orders, he damn sure knew who did."

I don't consider Avenatti high enough in the food chain to have issued many orders, but I'll count him in as at least another POS complicit in the deal.

[edzo4]

What is that expression about hindsight always being 20/20

https://www.weeklystandard.com/daniel-halper/no-bible-for-brennan-swearing-in

No Bible for Brennan Swearing in.

“Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution, dating from 1787, which has George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it,” according to the White House. He does not appear to have placed his hand on a Bible, a Torah, a Koran, or other sacred religious text as he said the oath.

UPDATE: Empywheel.net notices that this Constitution lacks a Bill of Rights: “That means, when Brennan vowed to protect and defend the Constitution, he was swearing on one that did not include the First, Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendments — or any of the other Amendments now included in our Constitution. The Bill of Rights did not become part of our Constitution until 1791, 4 years after the Constitution that Brennan took his oath on.”