Democrats should do more than refuse to reauthorize FISA 702 until Trump pulls his bid to put Bill Pulte in charge of the Office of Director of National Intelligence. Todd Blanche's history of lying and weaponization makes him patently unqualified to certify FISA certifications, whether for individual FISA orders or 702.
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Ellis Boyle charged Jim Comey more harshly for his non-threat than he charged several other people charged in the same time frame for actually issuing real threats to Trump or his top aides.
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One thing Trump's "Human Printer," Natalie Harp does late at night, as she feeds his narcissistic meltdowns, is to stoke distrust of rule of law.
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Kash Patel yesterday proved he is willing to lie, in his official capacity, about criminal defendants.
And that puts everything he touches at risk.
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Todd Blanche has resorted to telling wildly unconvincing tales to deny that charging the former FBI Director for posting a picture of seashells was selective prosecution.
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DOJ waited until the sentencing hearing for Sal Russotto, who pled guilty to threatening to 86 and wish a slow painful death to Alina Habba, until they revealed Russotto's 86 threats started by targeting Jim Comey.
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Todd Blanche confessed that he couldn't convince a grand jury that Jim Comey's beach pictures were a threat without rummaging through all of Jim Comey's communications, using a protocol already rejected under Fourth Circuit precedent.
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Todd Blanche's claim that Jim Comey's picture showing shells writing out 8647 is a threat is wildly inconsistent with the claims he made when Trump was the defendant.
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Why would Pam Bondi have more sense not to appoint Joe DiGenova as Grand Conspiracy prosecutor than Todd Blanche?
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The biggest reason Joe DiGenova is a wildly inappropriate person to lead an attempt to criminalize the Russian investigation is his past efforts to get paid by Russian-backed Ukrainians to do the same thing.
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Trump has fired Pam Bondi, but unless something significant disrupts Trump's control over Congress, Bondi will be back as a judge. Which is why it is important to remember the specifics of how she fucked up the Epstein scandal.
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