That back and forth with judge is, or should be secondary. It's a procedural nothing burger which to say fairly substance-free. They get a short adjournment and that issue is resolved in no time.
But what's beyond concerning is whatever the insanity or whatever that was going on with crafting the plea deal -- something of a wrist slap for what seems to be a much bigger matter than the plea deal regards. Either the FBI dropped the ball here or there's some sort of influence thing happening to minimize the sentence the defendant would be facing. (tl;dr: DOJ entered into a plea before the full scope of the defendant's acts were known and then pushed an usually light sentence. It seems the plea was based on what the defendant did re a single victim when the defendant actually had a number of victims.)
I'm far from an expert in the area, maybe this happens all the time with child porn cases, but this one seems weird...
I expect nothing better reporting-wise from the Times (which broke the story) or TPM; in the latter case, kiddie porn plea bargains is beyond the site's normal scope and David's noting of the courtroom action is exactly where TPM's focus should be. So no blame for TPM, and not much blame for the Times; indeed the transcripts make the problem clear enough. But direct reporting or god forbid follow up would be nice, given the issues of (apparent) FBI incompetence and (apparent) sketchiness with setting up pea bargains. (To again be clear: I'm not expecting any such reporting from TPM but from the establishment press although, in the normal course, that would require an interest I don't believe they have at least in the normal course.
Mostly unrelated but a fun fact: The six senators who faced prosecution re that video telling the troops to ignore illegal orders apparently have no great issue to speak of with Donny's Iranian adventure.
Kash Patel is far more interested in Cosplay, taking selfies and being on Social Media for hours every day than in actually running the FBI. He has in just 1 year managed to mostly destroy the hard earned reputation of the FBI and taken them back to the day(1970s) when they were known far and wide as the Fumbling Bunch of Idiots
All I know about the apparent FBI fuckup is what’s in the transcript in the Bluesky thread. Could be Patel’s influence, likelier (I *think*) is that DOJ wanted to lock in 5his plea prematurely.
No, no, no. The issue is the extent to which they’re opposing the war now, whether or not it’s illegal.
When the only power the national Ds have as a rule is their performances, what are they doing now? Supporting the war but on their terms?
Besides the legality idiocy, national security doesn’t require this war to say the least. And then their are the related issues of the planning or lack of same and maybe even more important that the military-industrial complex has gifted us with far and away the biggest military and it still, after sixty-odd years, can’t defeat an enemy engaged in grossly asymmetric warfare or at least not as easily as one with a trillion $ budget should. So planning and corruption crippling our military there…
did we take the bait and forget Epstein? perhaps the egregious flurry of malfeasance is just a parallel track, but we do have to address all of it. Many thanks.
The massive incompetence of the entire Trump II regime is beyond my comprehension. But the fact that the MSM aka Corporate Media isn't screaming from the rooftops about just how the DOJ screwed up criminal cases makes me wonder just WTAF is going on. That DOJ is unable to find good lawyers and are now reduced to trolling law schools looking for recent grads to become prosecutors makes me wonder how many years its going to take after the current massive cluster f*ck to reestablish the agencies reputation. Seriously you have either incompetence or corruption, starting with Bondi and working all the way down. I lived in Oklahoma until last July, the 4 Districts of AUSA Oklahoma, which quite possibly might be the 4 busiest AUSA Districts in the Country. From my reading it looks like Musk came through and fired a bunch of prosecutors add to that the number of prosecutors who got fed up and left when Bondi turned DOJ into lawyers defending trump rather than impartially enforcing the rule of law
"eviscerates" that should do the trick! seriously until these judges put people in jail nothing will change.
About that Jersey thing...
https://bsky.app/profile/clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social/post/3mhbroujna22a
That back and forth with judge is, or should be secondary. It's a procedural nothing burger which to say fairly substance-free. They get a short adjournment and that issue is resolved in no time.
But what's beyond concerning is whatever the insanity or whatever that was going on with crafting the plea deal -- something of a wrist slap for what seems to be a much bigger matter than the plea deal regards. Either the FBI dropped the ball here or there's some sort of influence thing happening to minimize the sentence the defendant would be facing. (tl;dr: DOJ entered into a plea before the full scope of the defendant's acts were known and then pushed an usually light sentence. It seems the plea was based on what the defendant did re a single victim when the defendant actually had a number of victims.)
I'm far from an expert in the area, maybe this happens all the time with child porn cases, but this one seems weird...
I expect nothing better reporting-wise from the Times (which broke the story) or TPM; in the latter case, kiddie porn plea bargains is beyond the site's normal scope and David's noting of the courtroom action is exactly where TPM's focus should be. So no blame for TPM, and not much blame for the Times; indeed the transcripts make the problem clear enough. But direct reporting or god forbid follow up would be nice, given the issues of (apparent) FBI incompetence and (apparent) sketchiness with setting up pea bargains. (To again be clear: I'm not expecting any such reporting from TPM but from the establishment press although, in the normal course, that would require an interest I don't believe they have at least in the normal course.
Mostly unrelated but a fun fact: The six senators who faced prosecution re that video telling the troops to ignore illegal orders apparently have no great issue to speak of with Donny's Iranian adventure.
Kash Patel is far more interested in Cosplay, taking selfies and being on Social Media for hours every day than in actually running the FBI. He has in just 1 year managed to mostly destroy the hard earned reputation of the FBI and taken them back to the day(1970s) when they were known far and wide as the Fumbling Bunch of Idiots
All I know about the apparent FBI fuckup is what’s in the transcript in the Bluesky thread. Could be Patel’s influence, likelier (I *think*) is that DOJ wanted to lock in 5his plea prematurely.
Incompetence along with Corruption and Chaos
I tend to think they know what’s going on then to ignore it or misreport it.
Whatever. It’s been harmful to the nation and complicit in bringing us to this point.
I think the six senators pretty much covered "all war" activities in their video. 😉
No, no, no. The issue is the extent to which they’re opposing the war now, whether or not it’s illegal.
When the only power the national Ds have as a rule is their performances, what are they doing now? Supporting the war but on their terms?
Besides the legality idiocy, national security doesn’t require this war to say the least. And then their are the related issues of the planning or lack of same and maybe even more important that the military-industrial complex has gifted us with far and away the biggest military and it still, after sixty-odd years, can’t defeat an enemy engaged in grossly asymmetric warfare or at least not as easily as one with a trillion $ budget should. So planning and corruption crippling our military there…
did we take the bait and forget Epstein? perhaps the egregious flurry of malfeasance is just a parallel track, but we do have to address all of it. Many thanks.
Corporate Media took the bait and forgot Epstein. Then again they are apparently unable to walk and chew gum at the same time.....so there is that
The massive incompetence of the entire Trump II regime is beyond my comprehension. But the fact that the MSM aka Corporate Media isn't screaming from the rooftops about just how the DOJ screwed up criminal cases makes me wonder just WTAF is going on. That DOJ is unable to find good lawyers and are now reduced to trolling law schools looking for recent grads to become prosecutors makes me wonder how many years its going to take after the current massive cluster f*ck to reestablish the agencies reputation. Seriously you have either incompetence or corruption, starting with Bondi and working all the way down. I lived in Oklahoma until last July, the 4 Districts of AUSA Oklahoma, which quite possibly might be the 4 busiest AUSA Districts in the Country. From my reading it looks like Musk came through and fired a bunch of prosecutors add to that the number of prosecutors who got fed up and left when Bondi turned DOJ into lawyers defending trump rather than impartially enforcing the rule of law
Since when, especially with Epstein's muck all over the DOJ, do they start porn plea bargains with pedophiles?