"Prosecutors are only asking each misdemeanor rioter to pay a paltry $500 to fix damages to the US Capitol, even though tens of millions of dollars were spent on repairs and security in the wake of the insurrection."
"Prosecutors have used scorching language to condemn the attack on democracy, while simultaneously letting nonviolent rioters plead guilty to a petty misdemeanor and recommending probation in many cases."
"No wonder parts of this public are confused about whether what happened on Jan 6 at the Capitol was simply a petty offense of trespassing, with some disorderliness, or was shocking criminal conduct that posed a grave threat to our democratic norms."
"After rioters committed the 'crime of the century,' prosecutors are letting them plead guilty to 'the most minimal of federal charges, a class B misdemeanor petty offense.'"
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“In the 20 yrs since the country created fusion centers in response to the attacks of 9/11, Sena couldn’t remember a moment like this. For the first time, from coast to coast, the centers were blinking red. The hour, date & location of concern was the same: 1pm, USCapitol, 1/6.”
“Alerts were raised by local officials, FBI informants, social media companies, former national security officials, researchers, lawmakers and tipsters, new documents and firsthand accounts show.”
“After months of the president threatening to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, the agency’s senior leaders worried that any public statements by the director might be ‘asking for a desperate president to come after him,’ one person familiar with the discussions said.”
"Sure, they’ll go after the small people & prosecute the dude w/the horns & charge the the cattle prod guy. But when it comes to prosecuting the powerful—the congresspeople & financiers who aided & abetted the insurrection—Garland & Wray show no desire to take on that challenge."
"The failure of the DOJ to investigate the planning of the putsch is all the more shameful given the publicly available evidence that the insurrectionists may have had help on the inside."
It’s official - 1,913,369 ballots were cast but never counted in the 2016 presidential race. That’s from the US Elections Assistance Commisson: gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
“The US Civil Rights Commission took a look at #Florida’s throw-away pile and calculated that your chance of having your vote simply go uncounted, ‘spoiled,’ is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white.”
“In 2016, Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.
Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted. That’s official, too. Just ‘spoilage,’ that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, untallied. But not just anyone’s vote ‘spoiled.’ Most of these...