What's Alina Habba doing these days?
She’s being corrupt in New Jersey. Totally different.
https://ccrjustice.org/ccrs-assessment-obama-administrations...
>Despite the fact that the prosecution of officials responsible for serious human rights abuses is required under both domestic and international law, President Obama has repeatedly indicated his reluctance to pursue prosecutions for these crimes, saying that he prefers to look forward rather than backward.
>In August, the Obama administration announced new transfer policy recommendations that endorse the continued practice of rendition: the forced transfer of a person to another country to be detained, interrogated and possibly tortured.
I regard it as important context. Yes, the country seems to be devolving into partisan recrimination. Similarly the comments...
However, there was a time when obvious crimes like torture and false pretenses for war were excused in the name of decorum. Whether Comey is guilty or not, whether the Russia Hoax was criminal or not, it is easy to see how the proceedings are becoming untenable.
But then, was a system that excused torture and false pretenses for war on a sound footing to begin with? Something is rotten on the Potomac.
The narrow partisan takes supporting or reacting with outrage to their opponent's weaponization of the judicial system seem irrelevant in comparison. There's a larger picture worth looking at if we can expand beyond the narrow view.
We all need cheered up sometimes with the world being so crazy and everything from Ted Cruz's wife getting called ugly to Bolton and Comey getting arrested is a small salve of schadenfreude for the utter chaos they've collectively helped unleash.
It also contains the appropriate level of anger that befits the situation which you don't get as journalists calmly take dictation on the next domino toppling in the fall of the American empire:
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social
As a christian right-wing man he's allowed to be angry at this kind of stuff in a way that isn't socially acceptable for some other people.
k310•4mo ago
Then again, Trump never forgets the slightest slight. I've got Belleek china that isn't as fragile.
wmf•4mo ago
cosmicgadget•4mo ago
jfengel•4mo ago
That makes him neutral, pursuing crimes by both sides. Which means Trump sees him as an enemy.
(Note: I don't buy Comey's explanation. He dropped that investigation two weeks later. It had already been investigated, finding no problems worth prosecuting. So choosing that particular day does not seem neutral to me.)
sigwinch•4mo ago