Their work is done. Time for indictments and convictions.
Yeah that is my thinking as well, if they were junior members then maybe they are just done with the work they needed to do.
Were they not angry enuf? Not Democratic enuf?
Now its only 16 angry Democrats?!
Yeah, I have a feeling this phase of their careers is over, but they’re going on to bigger and better stuff.
SDNY needs them now.
Here’s the problem. Working on Mueller’s team is the career opportunity of a lifetime, but you pay for the privilege with long hours and rather bad pay, not to mention Giuliani’s goons constantly pawing through your private life. Experienced prosecutors have all done time in private practice and salted away a large stash, so it’s worth it for them, a gap year for a good cause. Some junior prosecutor is more likely to question whether they can take the effort (a lifetime of MSNBC gigs won’t make up for never seeing your kids during their formative years). There is a strong incentive (both financial and from the perspective of serving your country for something worthwhile) to stay, but not necessarily enough to wreck what’s left of the rest of your life.
One of these guy was a hacking and cybercrime specialist. And I’m guessing this means his work was done.
And, by “his work,” I specifically mean gathering and making sense of information. That his assignment is over means either that they’ve decided that there’s nothing more to prosecute beyond the Russian indictments or that they’re getting ready to drop another indictment.
The 60 day pre-election window closes September 5, btw. And Trump’s frantic, flailing terror level has taken a noticeable incremental jump. Magic 8 Ball says all signs point to something big about to drop, whether today or Tuesday. Though, of course, they can keep filing sealed indictments right through to Election Day.
The mythical sixty-day window?
DOWN to 15 ANGRY DEMONRATS.
Mueller Team Loses Two Prosecutors
That seems rather careless.
It’s important to be earnest…
That “window” only applies to charges against candidates.
No one in the White House is a candidate.
Oh, it’s very real. But it doesn’t apply to you if your self-perceived holiness and purity of motive are sufficiently Jesusy. Nothing very bad can happen as long as you are acting to preserve your and your agency from Republican attack.
Perhaps SDNY or AGNY will find them!
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Before we burn Comey in effigy yet again, two questions: (1) The 60-day thing is “very real”? (2) Where do you find it?
Here’s the USAM:
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This is literally a re-statement from 5 USC § 7323. There is no mention of “sixty days” in either place.
Nor is there any mention of it in USAM 9-85.210 (“Violations of Campaign Financing Laws, Federal Patronage Laws, and Corruption of the Electional Process—Consultation Requirement”).
And then there’s Attorney General Mike Mukasey’s 2008 memorandum, entitled “ELECTION YEAR SENSITIVITIES”:
No “sixty days” there, either. (Incidentally, what most people miss is that these words were under the heading “election crimes.” There’s nothing to say they apply to perjury or insider trading or anything else.)
In the next section, discussing the Hatch Act, the Mukasey memorandum adds:
Again, no “sixty days.”
So how “very real” is it?
Unwritten <> illusory.
Unwritten = “very real”?
Well, there is this thing of unwritten norms breaking down all around us.