Christina Bobb in a TV slot referred to the classified cover sheets as cover letters.
A cover letter is what you submit with your resume for a job.
A cover sheet is the term well known by normal attorneys and civil servants the world over.
"They're not sending their best."
Now 45 is claiming that the DOJ's evidentiary photo suggests the documents were found in a messy state on the floor.
Jesus. Everyone, incl. the public, knows that when an LEO is assembling items of recovered evidence they display them, with markers, for the court.
So dumb.
Like every extremely proficient LE agency in the world, the DOJ is only releasing the minimum info it needs to release in a given affidavit.
I am certain there is a plethora of photo, video, documentary, and eye witness testimony they have yet to use. They have CCTV footage.
T**** is whining about the way in which the (lawful) search was carried out, when the only people who really know how it was done are the authorized officers and officials who were there, and those who have seen the video footage of *everything* they did while on the premises.
To be clear: The DOJ has it's own footage from 8/8/22 plus the CCTV recorded by T****'s staff over a reportedly two month period.
The feds have hard evidence of every time certain doors were opened, by whom, how long they were there, and what they appeared to carry in or out.
The mistake he and his reps are making is that they are talking too much, often in a live recorded situation, where every little error belies their criminal intent. He's even making admissions in social media posts.
Of which there are hundreds a day. He is panicked af.
This pathetic, whining, crybaby sore loser is such a narcissist that he thinks a ridiculously cluttered desk & office before becoming president looked good.
A similarly staged photo in the Oval also has about a hundred times more pieces of paper on the desk than were needed.
These images tell me he's not a naturally organized, conscientious person. I realize those are overly euphemistic terms to describe a criminal, former traitor-in-chief but bear with me...
Doing things properly doesn't matter to him, bc no one has ever told him no. Until now.
He openly admits his belief that all those government property documents are "mine, not theirs!"
That can and will be used against him in court.
Imagine the level of hubris it takes to dismiss the basic legal advice that he's been given during and since his term of office.
Combine all these personal legal missteps with the accelerating collapse of voter support for today's republican party in special elections and primaries week by week, and it paints a grim picture for them.
GOOD!
This is been a long time coming.
“There will come a day when Donald [T****] is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” Rep Liz Cheney
It's clear now that AG Merrick Garland does not play games. He will do all he can to hold accountable those who took innocent lives whether via 1/6, or selling secrets to enemies.
Nothing is more important than this investigation & likely prosecution. I admit, we are unlikely to achieve full justice or prevent every death caused by these extensive national security breaches.
But we have to try.
Thank you, every 2020 Blue voter. Please repeat in '22.
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"The waiting is the hardest part
Every day you get one more yard"
The Espionage Act investigation into the former traitor-in-chief brings worse news for him and co each day now.
We are having to WAIT for justice, and even for basic national security.
We? Yes we. I'm a New Zealander and like people in every other country outside the US, I can see that these crimes led to a clear (and possibly imminent) threat to national security everywhere.
No one knows how much damage has already been done. We may never know.
This discussion on the day's events is pretty informative and accessible:
The four panelists are among the best of the best.
RIP, Mikhail Gorbachev. I don't give him unmitigated praise, because he tried to keep Chernobyl secret, and it was only reported after nearby free countries in the West detected radiation in their own airspace.
Gorbachev failed to assist the USSR safely and constructively through the 1990s and by the end of the decade, president-for-life and right wing fascist dictator Putin was in power.
Countries like Ukraine and Georgia have suffered the most, and still do.
Neither Gorbachev nor Reagan can rightly claim credit for ending the Cold War.
That belongs to every man and woman in the West and the East who, through millions of small scale actions, turned the tide of history for as many people as possible.
Thread: The potential culpability of the intel officers who allowed 45 to retain certain documents, and never followed up.
Make no mistake: 45 himself bears ultimate responsibility. But, most of us were relying on the officers to act as a kind of brake.
🤔Why didn't they?
So far, the public commentary that I've read about this part of the crime kinda suggests they got tired of pushing back.
That is NOT ever an adequate defense for something so serious. No matter how hard it is to do in practice.
While not an intel officer, I have worked in the (New Zealand) government, with a level of security clearance enabling me to use pretty sensitive info. We're not even sworn to protect it here, but I treated it that seriously anyway.
Val Demings for Florida encapsulates the future of American politics if voters will continue in the growing pro-democracy trend.
Not just female, and black, she's also a former Police Chief. And, I love her humility about her primary win.
I particularly enjoy seeing people of color and/or women taking the fight directly to the door of republicans at this time. Because Rs have done so much to attack these groups, and also LGTQ+ people, immigrants, disabled people, and anyone without certain kinds of privilege.
Republican talking points rely on what is usually a false claim that a WOC like Val Demings got to where she is without merit. They claim that gender or race had an outsized influence. When you learn about a Democratic candidate's record you soon see the republican dishonesty.
A tiny UK right wing podcast interviewed self-appointed "public intellectual" Sam Harris and maga completely misunderstood his comments and are unknowingly promoting the evidence of their childlike misunderstanding.
Their downfall so often is that they don't understand the meaning of words like "conspiracy" and they don't stop to consider which of several word meanings is being used.
The word itself triggers them.😆
When Sam Harris said there was a "conspiracy" to deny T**** a second term he meant (obviously, to me) that the Democratic party and people like #RepublicansForBiden and #IndiesForBiden *openly* conspired/collaborated with each other to lawfully achieve their goal. That's all.
There's no doubt in my mind that he would be clinically diagnosable as having Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and more.
Having been burned by an NPD years ago, I studied all I could about the disorder, to further protect myself and to assist others targeted by them.
NPDs live in the moment. They are willing to say anything, to achieve their aim of gaining fuel, gaining and keeping control, & terrorizing those around them into compliance and silence.
This is why they often say things that end up creating massive problems for them later on.