And bad actors at that 
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Here’s a thought exercise: What’s the most cynical interpretation you can put on the bipartisan nature of this, given the periodic spasms of bipartisan actual-job-doing we’ve seen from this Congress? Maybe they just want to look clean, want to distance themselves from this shitshow. And maybe that’s because they recognize this is an administration so reckless and corrupt, so willing to actually engage in conspiracies, that they need to back as far away from this as they can because there could be a bomb there that could blow any time. Of course they’ve shamelessly enabled this administration and done no oversight for two long years. But I think it’s telling what they balk at. There are falls they won’t take.
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Yeah, I would be interested to know who this “temp” guard was, and what he does when not “temping” at a prison facility. Assassination specialist maybe?
And who knows in attempting to avoid answering Oversights’s questions, what might creep out from under a rock?
In the immortal words of Lamont Cranston: “The Shadow knows.”
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With these same comments, you could be talking about the evangelicals getting upset about Trump saying goddamn a couple of times at a recent ego-boost rally.
Of course, Falwell, Jr. says it’s all ok, and since he speaks for gods I guess they are all assuaged. Put it in the same box as children in cages and paying off porn stars.
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For his Trumpist enthusiasm, Falwell gets Russian money and their restraint from public exposure of his fleshly hobbies. Or I’ll eat my hat.
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Hats aren’t on the menu.
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There are sleepyheads and there are determined sleepyheads. My son is one (he is the former type).
He is too busy working and raising a family to hang on to every word coming down the political pike…and he may not know as much as I do that Barr is a FUCKING CORRUPT TRAITOR…and then there are the people who–for whatever reason–WILL NOT wake up to what faces us with Team Trump.
I am betting that there are more people like my kid out there and what I would like to see is a growing and GROWING realization among people like him that Barr is the worst kind of traitor, the worst kind of crook. Perhaps the worst this country has had in its history.
I sincerely believe that that was the spirit with which Mimi Rocah and John Heilemann conversed with Lawrence last night.
A conversation in which Barr’s absolute depravity was a central point of discourse.
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I think the Huffington Post article also pointed out that funding for federal prisons is insufficient and they have a shortage of staff. Guards are required to work double shifts when no one is there to replace them, and apparently staff hired for other jobs (they mentioned education and cooks) are having to fill in as well. And guess who is responsible for the cuts in funding…
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One of today’s most notorious inmates who may have the goods on a lot of powerful men and they call a temp agency to guard him? Seems to me something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
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They will say the Clintons are behind it no matter what the facts prove.
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The elephant in the room is that his suicide was the least surprising ever. Conspiracy theories abounded well before the event and thus it’s fertile ground for conjecture and rumor. You would be laughed out of a publisher’s or producer’s office with this story’s ending, because all you’d get is “well, duhhhhh, of course he’s dead now”.
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If I were interested in helping the people out who need some morale support (because we are still fighting the potential Trump Dictatorship), I would be focusing on
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The fact that the Epstein Affair is not over and how and why that is
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The fact that Barr has so much to answer for and he should talk about that. And if he fails to show up to talk to the people I am referring to, he should be held in contempt
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It will be interesting to see how Barr investigates himself as head of the Bureau of Prisons and a responsible party in all this. Oh wait…
Maybe he’ll issue an official slap on the hand for himself when all this is over.
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Hypothetically, if I were going to structure Epstein’s “suicide”, I would, like, not have saved him three weeks ago. Then you wouldn’t have all of this jibber jabber about suicide watches and cameras missing film and why didn’t he have a roommate and whatever. Or there might have been an “accident” when he was taken into custody. Any number of simpler, safer, less sketchy-looking options.
These conspiracy theories are silly, as conspiracy theories nearly always are.
Meanwhile, “American prisons are awful and people kill themselves distressingly often, especially when they know there’s no light at the end of the tunnel” is so simple, so succinct, and so awfully, empirically true.
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As usual, the Democrats are after the truth, while the GOP is after confirmation of Trump’s batshit insane conspiracy theory about Clinton’s involvement, since his theory makes them look like idiots for supporting him and, although we all know that they’re fucking idiots, they don’t want to LOOK like fucking idiots.
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And being able to misuse those committee hearings to advance that conspiracy even after its been proven to be total bullshit. Its never stopped them before and it won’t now, ergo the entire reason this effort is bipartisan on their part.
Seven years of Benghazi didn’t net these fools what they wanted and her emails were also a wash…so here we go again.
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The entire federal prison system is understaffed. This is not just about the Metropolitan Corrections Complex.
Contractually, the fill-in “guards” were required to do jobs for which they were woefully unprepared—they got a few hours of training. Most were clerks, secretaries, teachers, or similar non-law-enforcement people.
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