The LEO thread

[GoCubsGo]

Sounds like there might be some Quid Pro Quo this time.

[Vrede too]

Just correcting a "lawfare" retribution by the bunglars [sic, irony ] in the Garland DOJ.

Posted like a true cultist. If anything, Garland was too measured, slow and conservative. Ignorance, indeed, is bliss.

... Sassoon and at least six other prosecutors quit rather than drop the case.

Just like Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. On SoupySales' paranoid MAGA planet 7 prosecutors ended their careers because they're part of some imaginary "lawfare" cabal . Here in the real world we know that they saw the prosecution of MAGA Dem Eric Adams as legit, and that accountability, adherence to campaign finance law and our legal system itself has been corrupted by the ongoing DonOLD criminal enterprise, 7!

Of course, worshipful SoupySales will never have the stones to admit it. He likes illegals as long as their MAGA. More irony.

(Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil) Bove, Antoinette Bacon, a supervisory official in the Justice Department's criminal division, and Ed Sullivan, a career prosecutor, signed the court filing asking to dismiss the charges.

Bove is a hardcore MAGAt, a member of the Dolt .45 admin* and on TRE45QN's legal team during the Biden admin.

Ed Sullivan? A zombie lawyer? They finally found a corrupt cowardly stooge to forever tarnish himself. Shame.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho must rule on accepting the motion....

Will Dale be a Ho for MAGA or will he refuse to put up with this ? Caveat: To be fair, his hands may be tied when a corrupt DoJ asks to dismiss.

[1 CAT FAN]

January 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is killed by police in traffic stop
Indiana state police say Matthew Huttle, who was given six months in prison, was shot after allegedly resisting arrest

There, you may continue on with your hatred of law enforcement. So much of it littered in this thread.

[Vrede too]

There, you may continue on with your hatred of law enforcement. So much of it littered in this thread.

You're really really stupid when all I have to do is cut and paste in order to point out how whiny, hypocritical and STUPID you are.
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No, this Sedition thread is more specific and apt, 1 FAT CAN. Damn, you're stupid.

Y'all even excuse folks who violently attack cops, ick.

Sudden affection for law enforcement

I've never violently attacked cops nor advocated for it like your team did and have now excused. It's adorable that you're desperately deflecting from that fact, Pussy.

There are so very many adult discussions you could participate in here. What is wrong with you that you're so obsessed with me, and are so bad at it?

Now, off to your Nazi meeting to plan your next deadly mass attack on cops.

[1 CAT FAN]

January 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is killed by police in traffic stop
Indiana state police say Matthew Huttle, who was given six months in prison, was shot after allegedly resisting arrest

There, you may continue on with your hatred of law enforcement. So much of it littered in this thread.

You don’t want to add your 1312 to the story? All cops are bastards. The bastard in the story got shot.

[Vrede too]

You don’t want to add your 1312 to the story? All cops are bastards. The bastard in the story got shot.

It's in my signature. Damn, you're slow.

It's hyperbole to the extent that there are good people and heroes in law enforcement. However, they all work for a corrupt, oppressive, wildly expensive and racist system, our prison-industrial complex.

Besides, I've never violently attacked cops nor advocated for it like your team did and have now excused. It's adorable that you're desperately deflecting from that fact, Pussy.

[Vrede too]

Just correcting a "lawfare" retribution by the bunglars [sic, bungled] in the Garland DOJ.

Despite the corrupt dismissal of charges things ain't looking too good for SoupySales' favorite Dem:

N.Y. Gov. Hochul signals she may move to force NYC Mayor Eric Adams from office

... Hochul acknowledged in a statement that ousting Adams, a fellow Democrat, would be a "serious step" but said "alleged conduct at City Hall that has been reported over the past two weeks is troubling and cannot be ignored."

Hochul said she plans to meet with "key leaders" in Manhattan on Tuesday before issuing a decision.

This development comes after controversy surrounding Adams deepened on Monday as four of his top aides and deputy mayors announced they're resigning.

The departures were triggered by the U.S. Justice Department's controversial decision to drop corruption charges against Adams.

Critics say the DOJ shelved its criminal corruption and bribery case against Adams after he agreed to collaborate with President Trump's immigration crackdown.

You know it's bad when the latest corruption is even too much for top aides that stuck with lawbreaking Adams this long.

... The case against Adams was one of several federal investigations into the mayor and his administration. His police commissioner, schools chancellor and other key members of his team resigned last year.

Kick him to the curb. Maybe Turkey will again hire Adams for something. He might have to shun future pork, though.

[Supsalemgr]

Once again Vrede's imagination ranges far and wide. Could he share anywhere I have expressed specific support for Mayor Adams?

[Vrede too]

Once again Vrede's imagination ranges far and wide. Could he share anywhere I have expressed specific support for Mayor Adams?

I just quoted you claiming that he was a victim of "'lawfare' retribution by the bunglars [sic] in the Garland DOJ," rather than admit what most of America, at least 8 career DoJ prosecutors, 4 or more current top aides and Gov Hochul can see - Adams was the criminal recipient of illegal campaign contributions from Turkey and elsewhere, and charges were only eventually dropped because he kissed PINO's ass. Now THAT is "lawfare", akin to welfare instead of warfare.

[Supsalemgr]

Once again Vrede's imagination ranges far and wide. Could he share anywhere I have expressed specific support for Mayor Adams?

I just quoted you claiming that he was a victim of "'lawfare' retribution by the bunglars [sic] in the Garland DOJ," rather than admit what most of America, at least 8 career DoJ prosecutors, 4 or more current top aides and Gov Hochul can see - Adams was the criminal recipient of illegal campaign contributions from Turkey and elsewhere, and charges were only eventually dropped because he kissed PINO's ass. Now THAT is "lawfare", akin to welfare instead of warfare.

Stating an observation does not necessarily reflect support. But as always, post as you see fit.

[Vrede too]

Once again Vrede's imagination ranges far and wide. Could he share anywhere I have expressed specific support for Mayor Adams?

I just quoted you claiming that he was a victim of "'lawfare' retribution by the bunglars [sic] in the Garland DOJ," rather than admit what most of America, at least 8 career DoJ prosecutors, 4 or more current top aides and Gov Hochul can see - Adams was the criminal recipient of illegal campaign contributions from Turkey and elsewhere, and charges were only eventually dropped because he kissed PINO's ass. Now THAT is "lawfare", akin to welfare instead of warfare.

Stating an observation does not necessarily reflect support. But as always, post as you see fit.

It's adorable when you run screeching away from your own posts. It's not some objective "observation". It's CLEARLY a biased defense of indefensible Adams, all because your cult leader told you it was so.

[O Really]

. It's not some objective "observation". It's CLEARLY a biased defense of indefensible Adams, all because your cult leader told you it was so.

C'mon, are you going to believe Supes or your own lyin' eyes?

[Vrede too]

... It's not some objective "observation". It's CLEARLY a biased defense of indefensible Adams, all because your cult leader told you it was so.

C'mon, are you going to believe Supes or your own lyin' eyes?

My bad. Idk what came over me that this looked like SoupySales lovin' on corrupt Adams:

Just correcting a "lawfare" retribution by the bunglars [sic, irony ] in the Garland DOJ.

Posted like a true cultist. If anything, Garland was too measured, slow and conservative. Ignorance, indeed, is bliss.

... Sassoon and at least six other prosecutors quit rather than drop the case.

Just like Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. On SoupySales' paranoid MAGA planet 7 prosecutors ended their careers because they're part of some imaginary "lawfare" cabal . Here in the real world we know that they saw the prosecution of MAGA Dem Eric Adams as legit, and that accountability, adherence to campaign finance law and our legal system itself has been corrupted by the ongoing DonOLD criminal enterprise, 7!

Of course, worshipful SoupySales will never have the stones to admit it. He likes illegals as long as their MAGA. More irony.

(Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil) Bove, Antoinette Bacon, a supervisory official in the Justice Department's criminal division, and Ed Sullivan, a career prosecutor, signed the court filing asking to dismiss the charges.

Bove is a hardcore MAGAt, a member of the Dolt .45 admin* and on TRE45QN's legal team during the Biden admin.

Ed Sullivan? A zombie lawyer? They finally found a corrupt cowardly stooge to forever tarnish himself. Shame.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho must rule on accepting the motion....

Will Dale be a Ho for MAGA or will he refuse to put up with this ? Caveat: To be fair, his hands may be tied when a corrupt DoJ asks to dismiss.

Judge Ho is at least making venal Adams and PINO's DoJ jump through some hoops:

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, DOJ Ordered To Appear In Court Over Charges’ Dismissal
Adams and Department of Justice officials were ordered to address the government’s motion to drop his criminal charges.

Grill them under oath, get the corruption on record!

Ex-Watergate Prosecutor Urges Judge To Reject Request To Drop Eric Adams Charges
Nathaniel Akerman said he sought to intervene because, he believes, nobody was representing the public’s interest in the case against the New York City mayor.

... A former Watergate prosecutor on Monday urged a federal judge presiding over the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams to assign a special counsel to help decide how to handle the Justice Department’s request to drop charges while three ex-U.S. attorneys urged a “searching factual inquiry.”

... The one-time Watergate prosecutor urged the judge to reject the dismissal request, saying the court could look into how the Justice Department reached its decision and could require Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, who first directed prosecutors to drop the case, to appear in court and explain his position....

Three ex-U.S. attorneys also submitted arguments to Ho Monday, saying what was at stake was “far more than an internal prosecutorial dispute about an individual case.”

“The public furor that has arisen during the past week raises concerns about respect for the rule of law and the division of power between the Executive and Judicial Branches of government in our nation,” wrote John S. Martin Jr., the Manhattan U.S. attorney from 1980 to 1983; Robert J. Cleary, U.S. attorney for New Jersey from 1999 to 2002; and Deirdre M. Daly, U.S. attorney for Connecticut from 2013 to 2017.

They suggested Ho first learn why the Justice Department wanted the charges dismissed and whether its reasons were pretextual.

If the judge decides dismissal of charges is inappropriate, he will have multiple remedies, including the power to appoint a special prosecutor or to direct federal prosecutors to make evidence, including grand jury materials, available to state and local prosecutors, they said.

They also wrote that a factual inquiry might lead to other “necessary and important outcomes,” including the possibility of a contempt proceeding, criminal referrals and disciplinary recommendations....

The ex-prosecutors also told the judge that additional public statements regarding the events of the past week have been issued or would be issued shortly by hundreds of former federal prosecutors.

Adams has pleaded not guilty to charges that while in his prior role as Brooklyn borough president, he accepted over $100,000 in illegal campaign contributions and lavish travel perks from a Turkish official and business leaders seeking to buy his influence.

The last week has featured after an unusual public fight between Bove, the second-in-command of the Justice Department, and two top New York federal prosecutors: interim Manhattan U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan who led the Adams prosecution.

On Thursday, Sassoon resigned, along with five high-ranking Justice Department officials. A day later, Scotten resigned, noting that Sassoon had properly resisted a demand that the charges be dropped and the possibility they could be reinstated after this year’s election.

“No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives,” he wrote.

On Monday, Adams — amid calls to resign by some Democrats — confirmed that four of his top deputies had decided to resign in the fallout from the Justice Department’s push to end the corruption case against him and ensure his cooperation with Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In his letter to Ho, Akerman echoed Sassoon’s assertion that the Justice Department had accepted a request by Adams’ lawyers for a “quid pro quo” — his help on immigration enforcement in exchange for dropping the case. She called it a “breathtaking and dangerous precedent.”

Akerman wrote that there was “overwhelming evidence from DOJ’s own internal documents showing that the dismissal of the Adams indictment is not in the public interest and is part of a corrupt quid pro quo between Mayor Adams and the Trump administration.”

Art of the Illegal and Immoral Deal - by DJT

... When he directed Sassoon to drop the charges a week ago, Bove said the mayor of America’s largest city was needed to assist in Trump’s immigration crackdown and the dismissal of charges could enable Adams to campaign for reelection against multiple opponents unencumbered by criminal charges.

Opps, an admission of guilt. MAGAts are kinda slow.

GoHoGo!

[Vrede too]

Grand jury recommends Alabama police department be 'immediately abolished'

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief.

Five Hanceville police officers were arrested and charged amid a probe into the department, Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker said. The spouse of one of the officers was also charged, he said....


Cody Alan Kelso, Jason Scott Wilbanks, Jason Shane Marlin, William Andrew Shelnutt, and Eric Michael Kelso are shown in these booking photos released by the Cullman County Sheriff's Office.

Among those charged are Hanceville Police Chief Jason Shane Marlin, who was charged with failure to report an ethics crime and tampering with physical evidence, Crocker said.

Officers Cody Alan Kelso and Jason Scott Wilbanks were charged with computer tampering, tampering with physical evidence, conspiracy to commit a controlled substance crime and use of an official position for personal gain, Crocker said.

Officer William Andrew Shelnutt was charged with tampering with physical evidence, Crocker said.

Eric Michael Kelso, who was a reserve officer, and his wife, Donna Reid Kelso, were charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and conspiracy to unlawfully distribute a controlled substance, Crocker said....


The booking photo for Donna Reid Kelso. (Cullman County Sheriff's Office)

All charges are felonies except for tampering with physical evidence, which is a misdemeanor, Crocker said....

1312, great to see them on that side of the booking camera. Lock them up!

[Vrede too]

Senate Confirms Kash Patel As Next FBI Director

... The vote was 51-49. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined all Democrats and independents in voting against the confirmation....

Patel also has been confronted with past statements calling for retribution against Trump’s critics. Those fears were exacerbated by reports that the FBI has distributed a questionnaire to agents about their work on January 6th cases.

In a statement explaining her vote, Collins said, “Mr. Patel has made numerous politically charged statements in his book and elsewhere discrediting the work of the FBI, the very institution he has been nominated to lead. These statements, in conjunction with the questionnaire sent to thousands of FBI employees, cast doubt on Mr. Patel’s ability to advance the FBI’s law enforcement mission in a way that is free from the appearance of political motivation.”

... Yet Democrats warn that Patel will be the very type of figure who brings partisanship to the FBI. Ahead of his confirmation hearing, they pointed to a social media post that Patel had shared in which he was depicted using a chain saw to sever the heads of media organizations and various members of Congress.

Comments:

So now that her vote is no longer needed for the GOP to push things through the Senate, Susanne Collins grows a “spine” and votes against a partisan confirmation. The fact that Collins has kept her seat this long is an embarrassment to the otherwise great state of Maine.

Buh-bye ‘Merica. It was fun while it lasted.

Now is when we see actual "lawfare retribution" in place of Supsalemgr's imaginary version. Crap.

[Supsalemgr]

Probably a lot of retirement requests being submitted. All the outrage I am seeing from the left tells me he is going to do a good job.

[Vrede too]

Probably a lot of retirement requests being submitted. All the outrage I am seeing from the left tells me he is going to do a good job.

That's a childish and stupid basis for forming an opinion on anything. Conspiracy theory wingnuts should be shunned by left and right.

[Supsalemgr]

Probably a lot of retirement requests being submitted. All the outrage I am seeing from the left tells me he is going to do a good job.

That's a childish and stupid basis for forming an opinion on anything. Conspiracy theory wingnuts should be shunned by left and right.

Oh my! Vrede didn't appreciate my post.

[Vrede too]

Probably a lot of retirement requests being submitted. All the outrage I am seeing from the left tells me he is going to do a good job.

That's a childish and stupid basis for forming an opinion on anything. Conspiracy theory wingnuts should be shunned by left and right.

Oh my! Vrede didn't appreciate my post.

Oh my! SoupySales doesn't get that I very much appreciate him representing MAGA stupidity and childishness. More, please.

[O Really]

Probably a lot of retirement requests being submitted. All the outrage I am seeing from the left tells me he is going to do a good job.

Seriously? You agree with reckless stupidity and malicious destruction just because it pisses off "the left"?