As he has pursued the unprecedented and complex case against former President Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election, Special Counsel Jack Smith has had help from a longtime colleague. Joseph “J.P.” Cooney is a veteran federal prosecutor with a deep distaste for corruption and a hard charging approach.
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An excellent article. Bravo gentlemen!
Thank god we have real pros at the helm of this sucker and I have confidence they will make life very hard for these criminals. I hope it sends a damn strong message, too.
Wurst!
Just wish they had one of those features at the top of the written words, on these long articles (particularly when I’m kinda tired of reading) where the article is read to you if you desire the alternative. Just sayin’.
How 'bout it TPM? Willing to invest in that kinda thingy? Its probably all A.I. now anyway.
Yeah, let’s trivialize the very important story about people going after trumpet full bore.
You too.
Fascinating article. I feel like the ‘adults’ are in charge. However, I am even more furious that Barr not only interfered but that he is on a rehabilitation tour and the media is allowing it.
“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thanks to Hunter and Josh for great background on a key player. How lovely to get this reassuring but nuanced portrait.
It’s been Lucy and the football for so long, that, as much as I want to believe, I just can’t.
I worked at Jones Day on night shift as a proofreader about 20 years ago. Not too bad a gig. One partner was a smoker, and allowed anyone who was a smoker to use his office to fire up.
One partner though, would come in in the early morning, and just destroy a toilet. And I mean like you have never seen before. I walked in on it one morning and went to the desk in shock, I thought it was maybe vandalism, but she shook her head. The guy - I never met him - was rather overweight, and the crap, I guess, just went out something like an espresso screen.
One other quick scatological story of errant artist-type NYC employment: A partner at Sullivan and Cromwell was famous for being so exquisite at billing that he could be in and out of the toilet, one crap, one plop, hands washed, in 90 seconds. He had no idea that lawyers from all over the city would sometime congregate in that toilet - same toilet, same time of day - just to time him, and know that he was, essentially, the greatest biller of all time and their true leader.
I’m surprised they don’t do that already. I have subscription to Publico (Portuguese paper) and every story is accompanied with an audio version. Should be part of Infrastructure Week at TPM, I think.
I worked with a 100% blind Unix sys-admin 25 or 30 years ago. He had text-to-synthetic-voice software he used to read text in files and logs. The readout speed was adjustable. He had trained his ears so well that he could take it to the max. I listened to a sample through his headphones and it sounded like the buzzing of a mosquito on crystal meth. That software can only have gotten better over the following decades.
https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/
Copy and paste the article text, I think it might work. It’s not perfect, but it isn’t horrid.
Versed!
And a nice frank-n-stein too!
