Posted on 11/22/2020 4:36:05 AM PST by Kaslin
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Sidney Powell for several years. Let me say unequivocally that I would stake my life on her integrity and abilities as a lawyer.
Sidney is one of the most serious, upright individuals you will ever encounter. Her towering physical stature befits a righteous Texan with a towering legal mind.
I first met Sidney when she graciously agreed to be interviewed for a podcast interview I conducted of her while she was in Washington about her first book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. The book is extraordinary for its stark disclosures about breathtaking corruption within the Justice Department, of which Sidney was a 10-year veteran as a prosecutor. We subsequently dined and attended social functions together, and stayed in touch on professional matters. Despite her tough-as-nails public persona, she is a genuinely warm and caring individual.
The allegations Sidney made in her book about a host of corrupt individuals was remarkable in that it named names, no holds barred. As Robert Zmirak points out in his laudatory column about Powell, what’s equally remarkable about Sidney’s book is that none of those she accuses of corruption sued her for defamation. That’s a huge “tell.” Those individuals include one whom Sidney calls the “poster child of prosecutorial misconduct,” Andrew Weissmann, who would essentially lead Robert Mueller’s special counsel team in its two-year quest to find evidence of Donald Trump “colluding” with Russia, or committing any other crime. We all know how that turned out. Tens of millions of dollars spent, an administration hounded, and no evidence of “collusion” unearthed.
Licensed to Lie should be required reading for any aspiring lawyer as an abject lesson in the enormous power wielded by the government, which can be, and sometimes is, weaponized against hapless citizens and corporations. I cited the book at length in a column in these pages in 2019, titled “The Sad Sack and the Cardinal,” discussing the venality of Robert Mueller and James Comey in their persecution of Donald Trump over the Hillary Clinton-invented Russia-Trump collusion delusion.
Powell takes us through a litany of incredible abuses of power by the “Justice” Department, including the creation of a “crime,” that lacked criminal intent, used by Weissmann against the esteemed accounting firm Arthur Andersen, which had been Enron’s accountant.
After initially being convicted of this manufactured crime, Arthur Andersen would appeal, and its conviction would be overturned in a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. A unanimous decision. How often does that happen?
But no matter, Weissmann and the Justice Department achieved their objective. The mere initial conviction caused most of Andersen’s clients to flee and the company collapsed, leaving 85,000 employees and their families destitute, while Andersen’s appeals wended their way through the judicial system.
Sidney also detailed the Justice Department’s utter abuse of the late senator, Ted Stevens, who was unjustly indicted, prosecuted and convicted of making false statements in an alleged public corruption case, only to have his conviction overturned after a brave FBI agent whistleblower came forward, exposing that the government had withheld exculpatory evidence. But just as in the case of Arthur Andersen, the damage was done, and Stevens lost his reelection bid.
Powell’s estimable work in defending Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in the outrageous Barack Obama-directed persecution of this American patriot and combat veteran is the stuff of Hollywood legal thrillers. Gen. Flynn’s prosecution will go down in the annals of egregious government misconduct as among the worst abuses of an American citizen – annals which seem to be growing at an exponential rate. Despite logging legal victory after legal victory in her defense of Flynn, Powell has had to confront a maddeningly intractable judge in Emmet Sullivan, who has not dismissed the case despite the Justice Department itself requesting its dismissal. It is the court case from hell, but Sidney Powell has hung in for her client like a pit bull defending hearth and home.
Now Powell has taken on the greatest legal challenge of her career and, if she’s correct, the greatest crime in American history: the complete subversion of the American electoral process. The press conference she recently conducted with Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and others on President Trump’s legal team laid out a shocking level of fraud that they allege occurred in the presidential election this month. In subsequent interviews, like this one on Larry O’Connor’s radio show, Powell expanded on the implications of the design features in the vote tabulation hardware and software being used to count, and rig, elections around the world, including here in the United States. They are enormous and mind-boggling. Every American should learn of them and be equal measures frightened and angry.
As Powell told O’Connor, she is risking her hard-won reputation and potentially much more if the allegations she is making are not well-founded, because companies she is accusing of knowingly engaging in this massive fraud, like Dominion Voting Systems, could sue her for defamation. She notes that she would welcome such litigation, because it would open these companies up to the discovery process and expose much more of what she alleges are their corrupt operations.
Powell has come under much criticism for not providing evidence to support her claims – or at least evidence satisfactory to the mainstream media. But as Giuliani and Ellis explained in the press conference, they were merely providing a broad overview of the fraud that occurred and the proper venue for laying out the evidence is a court of law, which Powell assures us will take place soon, as they assemble their case.
For those who demand that President Trump cede the election to Joe Biden, recall that it took Al Gore 36 days to concede his loss to George W. Bush following the 2000 general election. And that election was contested over one narrow issue – “hanging chads” – in one state: Florida. The Trump legal team, on the other hand, has raised many serious electoral fraud issues – from bogus ballot-creation/stuffing, to Republican observers being barred from watching ballot-counting, to ballot tabulation software manipulation/rigging – in half a dozen swing states. Their task is daunting, to say the least.
Sidney Powell could not have been a better addition to the Trump legal team. She is deeply patriotic, and truly shocked by the level of fraud that she saw in this election, which was self-evident from her at-times uncharacteristically emotional delivery at the press conference. She is fighting for our Republic right now because – make no mistake – honest American elections, and the continuing viability of our democracy, is on the line right now.
Please explain which transfer you are referring to
I pray you are correct, but I wouldn't bet a nickle on your theory.
He would only alter the code in the server.
I agree that mail in ballots are a huge fraudulent factor. They should be banned for all but military unable to get to the precinct in which they are registered, government employees with the same problem and persons handicapped in one way or another who have a statement from their doctor.
But there is no reason to hack into a server that was designed specifically for the purpose of meddling in elections.
Powell has an affidavit from a person who was present at meetings where the specifications were spelled out for its software.
That will be disputed in court so we should find out from court decisions as to its validity.
I suspect the affidavit will be validated.
Sidney Powell is that desperate to get 5 weeks of “billable hours”??
No offense, but your post is dumb.
No one is “blaming” Dominion bymut it was the vessel-—the smoking gun of the crime & to even have a hope of getting Brennanskie you must start with Dominion.
Win this case first and then grant her the ‘legal giant’ status.
Which server are you referring to?
We had 10K absentee ballots in a small, non-decisive County.
I can only guess that the number of VBM ballots were exponentially higher in the states that mattered.
We all want to believe there is some super-villain responsible for the outcome. Everyone was so sure of the outcome that they want to validate their position instead of accepting reality.
Trump won
The election was stolen
It was done the old-fashioned way
She will have the undying loyalty of the overwhelming majority of Trump supporters regardless of how this turns out. Not an insignificant audience.
Sorry
Humans have made me cynical
I have seen a lot of respected people do some f’ed up things
I don’t put anything past anyone anymore
You are a LYING POS!!!
And it SHOWS!!
I’m also a programmer and yes what they say CAN BE DONE!!
The diversion tactic, to focus upon Dominion not the CIA interference in our elections may be a last ditch effort to have a plausible enemy without exposing the treachery of CIA.
That is certainly plausible.
Excellent insight.
I never said it couldn’t be done
I said it would be both extraordinarily difficult and easy to discover.
Convince me otherwise without the name calling and ALLCAPS
Please do - I would like nothing more than to be proven utterly and completely wrong
I have found that anytime anyone says “trust me”, you are in peril.
Whether it is money, romance, physical safety or simply as in this case the desire to hoodo you.
It ranks right up there and is usually combined with “I would never lie to you”.
BTW, your red herring comment wasn’t dumb. It’s something I was thinking about too.
It's one thing to have all the evidence needed to prove the case. It's an entirely different thing to be able to present extremely TECHNICAL data to an audience in a way that ANYONE can understand it.
If the audience can't understand it, they won't believe it, and they won't “overturn” the fraud. Whether the audience is the general public, a jury, a judge, SCOTUS, or the House of Representatives.
We're talking about computer algorithms, for crying out loud. This isn't simple “math”. It's highly complex. VERY FEW PEOPLE can understand it in a way that will sway their opinions.
FACTS don't change people's minds, particularly if those facts are “beyond comprehension.”
(Imagine Steven Hawking trying to prove to you that Black Holes exist by using complicated mathematical theorems & quantum physics.)
I've watched several online videos that “prove” the fraud, some over 1 hr long (Dr. Shiva, for example). But almost without exception, these videos -— purported to explain it in “simple terms that anyone can understand” -— are far too complicated, far to nerd-ish, and far too detailed for the AUDIENCE to absorb, let alone comprehend, let alone RULE IN TRUMP'S FAVOR (in AMERICA’s FAVOR).
So this case is about more than FACTS and DATA and PROOF. It's about MARKETING.
Sidney Powell and Team need to be able to put the information in a 5-panel CARTOON slide that is simple enough for an 8th Grader to understand. If they can do that, they win the case. If not.... then we can kiss our Republic goodbye.
There's not much time, but if any case needed a focus group or a shadow jury, to have the case “presented” to them to see if it can be understood by ANYONE.... this is that case.
Please pass this info on to the Team defending AMERICA.
(As an aside: I'm really good at critiquing presentations to ensure they are hitting their target audience and can be understood by the lowest-common-denominator in the “room.” I'd be happy to be in the focus group to help review the presentation. Put me in, Coach!!)
Which server are you referring to?
The server in Germany.
Why do you think this server, owned by the CIA and believed to be operating on software originally designed to keep Chavez in office, software reputedly used in many other elections including obummer’s in 2012 and Hillary vs Sanders in 2016, has suddenly become so important that one branch of government seized it from another?
Interesting that at the same time multiple resignations and firings occurred at that level in government and to top it all of Sidney Powell made the public statement that CIA director Haspel should be fired.
You know what they say about the statistical possibilities of multiple coincidences?
“There is no way to do what they are saying was done.”
It wasn’t done on the machines.
It was done on the server.
Here are videos of votes being switched in real time on CNN.
Here is an 8-hour synchronized video of 4 stations to demonstrate that the above videos were not altered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpC_oww1grk&feature=emb_logo
Which server?
Aside from her tendency to repeat herself a lot, it's a good book and I do recommend it.
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The image of Sydney P. standing behind the podium, attempting to keep anger, frustration, knowledge of betrayal in check, certainly made it difficult for a peaceful evening’s sleep.
So evident were her emotions, the only release to be found would have been a magnitude of tears.
Most American Citizens felt just as she. Appalling behavior on the part of d’rats. A disgusted, sick to our stomachs reaction on the part of American patriots
The fury emerges and grows expeditiously.
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