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Fiendish Thingy

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70. Best case scenario:

Tue Jun 20, 2023, 02:08 PM

Jun 2023

Reasonable people will read both stories, and understand the nuances contained within, rather than using the headlines to jump to bias-confirming conclusions.

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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