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Scrivener7

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52. Blech. While we are mocked for believing Schiff and the Washington Post and

Tue Jun 20, 2023, 06:18 AM

Jun 2023

Rachel and Nicole and the J6 Committee, those doing the mocking love to hold up emptywheel as their Info Jesus. Emptywheel ffs.

They also hold her up as some kind of proof that the Post article should be ignored when in fact, though she is still dedicated - without evidence - to the notion of the double secret probation investigation, emptywheel negates nothing the Post article says.

It's bizarre.

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So, those who were suspect over DoJ/FBI [View all] boston bean Jun 2023 OP

Don't forget the Durham interference WhiteTara Jun 2023 #1

edit to add WhiteTara Jun 2023 #2

Sure, but it won't happen because President Biden doesn't want to do what trump did JohnSJ Jun 2023 #7

No one wants to do what tfg did WhiteTara Jun 2023 #27

If Biden fired Wray, it would be viewed by some like trump firing Comey, even though it isn't JohnSJ Jun 2023 #29

No it wouldn't because Biden hasn't ask Wray for arthritisR_US Jun 2023 #42

I'd say that the FBI did a good job TexasDem69 Jun 2023 #3

Not really. It started with Comey, and Wray according to the WP contributed to the delays JohnSJ Jun 2023 #6

Comey said the NYC office had gone rogue. WhiteTara Jun 2023 #76

Comey 11 days before the general election, against direct orders of the AG, took it upon himself to JohnSJ Jun 2023 #78

why hasn't there been any repercussion for his actions? WhiteTara Jun 2023 #80

That is a good question. JohnSJ Jun 2023 #81

WE'd love an answer WhiteTara Jun 2023 #83

The people that one should be angry with is the DOJ and FBI, not our colleagues here expressing JohnSJ Jun 2023 #4

That is who i am angry with. boston bean Jun 2023 #8

Of course, I was speaking generally. I agree with you JohnSJ Jun 2023 #10

that OP seems to take a pretty hefty swipe stopdiggin Jun 2023 #40

Nope. All those things did happen and there's nothing wrong with acknowledging it. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #54

read the string stopdiggin Jun 2023 #64

Yes. She said it. So what? Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #66

and I responded stopdiggin Jun 2023 #69

Meh. The attempts to shut us up quite pissed me off. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #9

Sure, but do you expect a mea Culpa from them? JohnSJ Jun 2023 #11

No. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #13

You are right, but other posts I have seen from asking for that, to even going as far as saying JohnSJ Jun 2023 #17

He would have made a fine Justice. boston bean Jun 2023 #18

Two different jobs, head of DOJ and Supreme Court justice. Not comparable. Most important thing JohnSJ Jun 2023 #26

The DOJ should have been leading the charge you say arthritisR_US Jun 2023 #44

I agree. I was told that DOJ was on top of things because pawns were going to jail. dem4decades Jun 2023 #19

I'm angry at both, at least at those on DU who were demeaning to people who rightly suspected... Silent3 Jun 2023 #25

This is well said. I have plenty of tolerance for those on DU with opinions different than mine, Earth-shine Jun 2023 #45

This. I have even seen, TODAY, a post that suggests Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #51

K&R, the fake electors could've been arrested weeks after the attempted coup. They had SIGNATURES .. uponit7771 Jun 2023 #5

Great point! arthritisR_US Jun 2023 #46

Being obstructed is not the same as willful delay. Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #12

So at least we agree there was a senseless delay. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #15

Well, I see it as a senseless obstruction. Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #24

It wasn't senseless it was planned and well though out. republianmushroom Jun 2023 #31

Lot of unsubstantiated accusations there Doc Sportello Jun 2023 #35

I will repost the substantiation of the gaps and inaccuracies: Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #38

Blech. While we are mocked for believing Schiff and the Washington Post and Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #52

Didn't emptywheel just last week report that Cannon would not be the judge in TFG's doc trial? msfiddlestix Jun 2023 #56

Emptywheel did not claim Cannon would not be the judge for Trump's trial Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #60

Marcy's 'not the end of the world" article was published just after The Cannon Will NOT preside OP msfiddlestix Jun 2023 #75

More specious claims Doc Sportello Jun 2023 #58

Many are blindly trusting the WaPo story as confirmation Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #62

And many are blindly trusting the empty wheel story. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #67

Best case scenario: Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #70

Yeah. Too late for that. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #72

👍😁 yup Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #84

Is your DOJ so weak they can be so obstructed? Sad arthritisR_US Jun 2023 #47

Was the boss of the DOJ so unable to manage his people and steer the work they did? Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #53

that's not what the article says bigtree Jun 2023 #14

Why did Garland appoint a special prosecutor? boston bean Jun 2023 #16

obviously Trump as candidate, which is what he said bigtree Jun 2023 #20

Thanks for your permission, but don't need it. boston bean Jun 2023 #21

and there's that unfounded, nonfactual speculation bigtree Jun 2023 #22

That makes no sense. boston bean Jun 2023 #23

Can't you walk and chew gum at the same time as the saying goes? JohnSJ Jun 2023 #32

yes. but that doesn't really apply to investigations stopdiggin Jun 2023 #41

The January 6 committee started in 2021, and was disbanded in January 2023, though I believe their JohnSJ Jun 2023 #59

I thought your post was a reference stopdiggin Jun 2023 #65

I probably didn't word it correctly, regardless, the point I was making was I think they should JohnSJ Jun 2023 #71

agree with this posting. republianmushroom Jun 2023 #28

I know, right? We were the assholes. Who are the assholes now? JanMichael Jun 2023 #30

THANK YOU Skittles Jun 2023 #33

Perhaps that is why he called Jack Smith? kentuck Jun 2023 #34

There's a reason the FBI was afraid of being too partisan. summer_in_TX Jun 2023 #39

The reason he appointed Smith is because boston bean Jun 2023 #55

This is the standard way of going after organized crime. Phoenix61 Jun 2023 #36

that doesn't sound so much like 'delaying tactic' stopdiggin Jun 2023 #43

Sherwin was appointed by Wm Barr to the DC gig Deminpenn Jun 2023 #48

"... the ultimate in political." Duppers Jun 2023 #37

Fmr. Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal & Andrew Weissman, fmr DOJ Eastern District Chief... SunSeeker Jun 2023 #49

I don't really care about blame...I want the Insurrection Caucus thrown out of Congress...NOW! pecosbob Jun 2023 #50

Claire McCaskill, on Morning Joe today, sounded just as pissed at DOJ/Garland as you do Stinky The Clown Jun 2023 #57

Oh well inthewind21 Jun 2023 #61

::snort:: Stinky The Clown Jun 2023 #63

Would you prefer we accept the emptywheel article as gospel? Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #68

Wheeler doesn't say the WP article is wrong stopdiggin Jun 2023 #73

Yes, I know what it says. Unlike most of the people touting it, I have read it. Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #74

There are some using the libertarian darling, ex-Intercept employee, previously Obama-bashing Celerity Jun 2023 #85

I haven't been neutral about Garland, but now that Smith is at the helm, I think we are Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #86

I love your closing prose Celerity Jun 2023 #87

A chance to use this smilie!!! Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #88

I'd prefer inthewind21 Jun 2023 #77

You mean not just accept what they read as gospel like the way people are accepting Scrivener7 Jun 2023 #79

I mean any of it inthewind21 Jun 2023 #82