Again: Chris Wray kept his job by not pushing back against attacks on FBI.
David Bowdich has personally been part of punishing people for deigning to investigation Trump associates.
Both Michael Sherwin and Ken Kohl were installed by Bill Barr to undermine cases v Trumpsters.
It's not JUST a question of race (though it is that). It's also that Trump has spent 4 years making sure no one in DOJ or FBI will investigate the ways Trump and his supporters are national security threats.
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So Schumer should (I hope is) asking Mitch for agreement that the insurgents are stripped of committee positions, w/o replacements for the GOP (as a way to incent GOP to replace them).
This piece from @JameelJaffer makes a number of outright errors in his argument that the case against Assange is dangerous. The case IS dangerous. So is misrepresenting the facts in Assange's defense.
@JameelJaffer Key to the problem--one fostered by propaganda Assange used in his extradition hearing--is the suggestion that Assange was charged BECAUSE the Trump admin made decisions Obama wouldn't. Nope. The public records shows that Obama Admin ALSO had a changed understanding of him.
@JameelJaffer Baraister's ruling on the 3 publication charges is likewise dangerous (tho unsurprising given the law and UK's Official Secrets Act). But the rest of her ruling clearly distinguished what Assange did from what journalists do.
As noted, when Collins texted the WH for help, Trump only encouraged the insurgents. She uses the term, incitement, that is the article of impeachment.