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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to say it, and you can place yourself where you want on this [View all]moniss
(4,274 posts)others but not Bragg is questionable. If Bragg made his request a year ago for major documents in a case involving one of the most notorious figures in the world, didn't get them within let's say 90 days, apparently failed to go to Garland about it with his hair on fire does not square. You don't get to sit on your backside waiting and then bitch later about how somebody didn't give you what you needed in a year. Doing that is classic CYA crap. The question here is also whether Bragg is doing a "catch and kill" on this.
You can count on a bunch of motions from the defense about how they had info withheld from them and claiming proof therefore of unfairness etc. More delay, more appeals. People are incorrectly saying the case is delayed 30 days. The court did not say anything yet. The prosecution offered 30 days and the defense wants 90 days.
First of all this case investigation by SDNY looks to be one of the "bury them in paperwork" moves. The facts as alleged are as follows: 1. Screwed a porn star. 2. Arranged to pay porn star to keep quiet. 3. Lied about those payments on your business records.
The idea that you need over 100,000 pages to nail that down is BS. For example if Biden were to jaywalk and the media showed a clip of it and it started an investigation you could talk to Biden, his SS detail as witnesses and the media that showed the clip in order to ascertain authenticity etc. Probably wrap that up in about 3 pages. Or you could begin to interview who was in control of the schedule that day, the people responsible for placing the crosswalks and controlling signals, the legislators who passed the laws authorizing the placement of the signals and crosswalks to determine their intent, interview the WH chef about what breakfast was served that day to determine if there was any possible ill effect from bad food, track down and interview as many witnesses who were on the street or driving by and interview their friends/families/employers/previous classmates/teachers to determine their veracity as witnesses, interview thousands of people who claim to have seen it on TV, interview thousands of people who claim they saw something else on TV, etc.
Now at the end of the jaywalking investigation you have an investigation file of 500,000 pages. Boy there must be an awful lot going on because otherwise why would we have so much paper? The additional thing that SDNY could be making happen in dumping such a huge quantity of paper is that maybe some info about unrelated things are in there that SDNY knows about who talked about what things in the crooked businesses of this guy and what they said. Nice little "heads up" for their man. Now honestly everything I've said is really way over the top because everybody knows the SDNY and NY/NJ FBI have never engaged in crooked or partisan behavior.
In engineering we used to call it "engineering something to death". If your bosses, who had no technical background, were adamant in going in a direction you knew was not feasible then you just make the engineering work take forever and ever until the facts on the ground change and the thing can die as no longer applicable. Bury it in investigation and study when it's something you don't really want to happen. Just like in politics or many other things in life.