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.
During Trump’s 2nd term, I would like to see her heading a commission to clean out corruption in at least the DoJ (including the FBI), if not the entire government.
Boomark
I work on Dominion machines and their systems. (I am not a Dominion employee)
There is no way to do what they are saying was done.
The fraud occurred in absentees, VBM, fake registrations and fake ballots being run through the machines.
The Dominion/Smartmatic story is a red herring designed to make Trump and his team look foolish.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
Glad to hear...Be sure to us all know when Dominion/Smartmatic/Scytle whoever TF they all really are, files defamation lawsuits against some of the Trump legal team.
......crickets......
...let us all know....
Would love to see those numbers. I also have to think that biden knew this. Guessing that’s why he could stay in his basement and blame COVID. If they can prove he was in on it he will be arrested. And he will flip on a bunch of people. Maybe obama. Might be why obama barely campaigned for him.
We’ll see.
I think she has the goods, but we’ll see. All along I thought fighting the small ball cases of a few signatures here and throwing out 1,000 ballots there was a loser. It’s either the massive fraud we say it is, or it isn’t.
If it is, the burden of proof is much higher, but the potential victory is vastly larger-—really a Trump 350 or so EV victory and the popular vote. Moreover, it would show how the election was nationally and deliberately compromised.
It HAS to be Dominion.
Proving it is an entirely different matter, but I think she can prove it. But proving it to the RIGHT PEOPLE so they ACT IN THE RIGHT WAY is still another matter yet.
BTW, so far, Powell has not freed Flynn. She has done amazing work, and got the DOJ to drop charges, but the ultimate goal has not been reached there, either. And if Trump doesn’t win, Flynn will be forced to accept a pardon, cuz Sullivan then will never back down.
So let’s keep an eye out.
Democrat spin. Which one of you logged in with this old account to make snide remarks this morning? :)
“Working on Dominion” and “NOT a Dominioh employee” .....more and more interesting and curious !!
If it’s true .....not sure that people should believe your very suspiscious assertions .
Sounds like a poor desperate argument
What a nasty little accusation. You’ve exposed your nasty little self for all to see.
Check out its posting history. Very interesting.
Great post!... Ome caveat: the ‘machines’ are the tabulating machines which receive the data from the counting sites, manipulate the data to reflect the desired outcome, then the numbers are sent back to Clarity for distribution to the networks. The fraud is many faceted, but the massive vote switching took place at server locations not in the vote taking machines where our votes are cast first. There was also gross fraud at the voting machine level, to connect them to the Internet so counts could be monitored on site. Fraudulent ballots were counted and certifying a fraudulent number is an act of sedition if the certifiers can be shown to have known there was much fraud in the tabulations.
You do fine work!
I am intimately familiar with the system
1 - There are safeguards in place to prevent fraud
2 - The number of people, locations and pieces of equipment required to pull off massive digital manipulation makes these allegations ridiculous
3- VBM, absentee voting and unverified voter ID’s are low tech simple and difficult to audit
Occam’s razor
Before the week is out, Sidney Powell will walk back much her allegations of vote switching and mysterious servers in Europe. Count on it.
A great legal mind would not go down this rabbit hole
You have to trust me on this one
Taking the AG job would be a good start. The task to clean out the DOJ and FBI is more than one heroine can do, the corruption is so pervasive.
If you are correct, we are sunk.
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