Check me on this, but I don't think leaving out significant sources of income on your tax returns is somehow exonerated by neglecting to fill out that part of the form altogether.
@IRS_CI wanting it made *crystal* clear is understandable, however.
Tens of thousands of de facto guilty pleas on people's tax returns - in an ever-expanding cloud of culpability and collusion - strikes at the heart of the estimated $10s of trillions of global offshored wealth.
Particularly that of transnational organized crime & rogue regimes.
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@ericgarland Can we all pause for a moment to appreciate the sheer genius of dropping this response to Trump's first, insane pardon, as he dangles full, sweeping pardons for *everyone* inside and outside his Administration?
The possibility of state charges puts him, personally, at risk...
People like @TheRickWilson, who have studied Trump intensely, realize he is intensely self-centered.
If there is a real possibility that each successive pardon offered in exchange for something - money, silence, loyalty, favors - increases the likelihood...
@ericgarland@TheRickWilson He will not only end up in prison, but in a *state* maximum-security prison, like Rikers Island, what are the odds he will endanger himself personally to do so?
*Worse,* what happens when that not only occurs to Trump, but to everyone relying on him for a pardon?
@markyzaguirre@TheRickWilson We've also been treating this 4-year, slow-motion explosion like new geography rather than the snapshot of a blastwave and scattering shrapnel that it is.
It's not just that none of this was sustainable.
It's how much of their reserves our adversaries burnt down to attempt it.
Lawyers going into court with spurious arguments or spouting conspiracy theories and clear falsehoods are facing far more than a stern lecture or the scorn of their peers.
@markyzaguirre@TheRickWilson See also the incredibly granular map counterintel and law enforcement now have of the offshored wealth being illegally onshored via money laundering and other illicit exchanges.
@ericgarland To employ the full power of quantum computing & a host of other tools before dictatorships could use them to destroy us, the only alternative was to let everything turn into a single, vast, interconnected crime scene.
Not so much "probable cause" as "beyond a reasonable doubt."
This message is for everyone working on behalf of Russia, China and other foreign powers, and/or transnational organized crime, to commit heinous criminal acts.
Just between you, me, Eric, and the @FBI, I have a bit of friendly advice.
"Buckle up, Buttercup."
@ericgarland@FBI You know the old adage that "We have to be lucky all the time, the terrorists only have to be lucky once"?
Bad news.
When you're committing treason in an insane, sprawling conspiracy connecting virtually every inept spy, asset and major criminal conspiracy on Earth...
So, with 3 weeks to the election, why not start a book club?
Not really, but here's an early public discussion of automated micro-corporate entities &/or subsentient programs running wild & destroying everything as evolutionary algorithms.
The novel is Accelerando, and in case you're wondering why I figured out the basic methods of using evolutionary algorithms in psychological warfare - not to mention why it was fundamentally suicidal - here's one of them.
Another would be the "basilisk hack."
Langford started with basilisks - images triggering thoughts a human mind can't handle, cognitively or physically.
Other creators made them even more formidable and subversive, ultimately rewriting the target's mind or even their entire body... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lan…