Welp, if SCotUS sees these depos they may decide Wilbur doesn’t need to be deposed. This all establishes what happened – KKKris KKKobach got Wilbur’s ear and he ignored his experts at the Bureau. I’ll grant them this: turning the Census into a political weapon is really creative.
But for me, the most telling thing is this:
“My job is to figure out how to carry out what my boss asks me to do,” Comstock testified. “So you go forward and you find a legal rationale. Doesn’t matter what his particular personal perspective is on it.”
Nuremberg defense, anyone? BTW, if someone hires me as a senior advisor, is my role really to find out how to do what the boss wants, or is my role to tell the boss why this is a good idea, a bad idea, or a mediocre idea, and how to make the idea better?
Kavanaugh is going to earn his big bucks very soon.
With ethical public servants, the second description would be the undisputed role of the senior advisor. But in today’s White House, the role is better described as sycophant, minion, lackey, toady… there’s some other word I suddenly can’t think of, but you get the point.
boot-licker, brown-noser, ass-kisser, rusty-trombonist…
(Don’t look up that last in the Urbane Dictionary. You’ll regret it.)
Oh, Man! I gotta start taking people’s advice when they tell me not to do something.
Sounds a lot like what Cheney told the intelligence community to get us into a war with IRAQ. Make the data fit the agenda.
Next, they’re going to claim that any deposition is a perjury trap.