Keep A Close Eye On Jack Smith’s Percolating Jan. 6 Probe

[bcgister]

@godwit

Yes. I didn’t mean to exclude the possibility of straight-up selling them, but I do think he likes the drama of flattering/blackmailing people into doing “favors”

Those’re certainly be the kinds of thing he’d hold onto the documents for, as would any possibilities of taking revenge on his antagonists.
All of these are possibilities beyond selling. Which he intended to pursue are not clear from the public record.

[pshah]

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Jack now be down in Georgia.

BREAKING: talk about burying the lede. RAFFENSPERGER will be interviewed by Jack Smith’s office IN ATLANTA on Wednesday. Is Smith prosecuting trump in Georgia? Sweet baby Jesus, I can’t keep up! https://t.co/tToiOhuSMS pic.twitter.com/8ASrvBDo9a

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 27, 2023

[zenicetus]

So the leaked audio tape is an exoneration because… because… what?

I know Trump operates on the assumption that his fan base just accepts whatever he says, but it’s going to be fun to hear how he’s going to explain how saying on tape that he shouldn’t have the docs really means that he should have the docs.

[pshah]

Yes and how incompetent is DoJ that they ‘spun’ a tape to “exonerate” him. It’s all utter nonsense.

[arrendis]

@occamscoin

If the French had dominated then we’d be speaking French and discussing French.

French did dominate. That’s why lingua francas are lingua francas. French was the language of diplomacy and trade until after WWI.

[arrendis]

@castor_troy

I can list any number of scenarios in group settings where “you fucked “X” up” could be the whole group, part of the group, or one individual.

I can list a whole bunch of scenarios where people fail to provide the contextual cues needed, too. Doesn’t make them right.

[leftcoaster]

Probably a good time to remind people that as SDNY was about to obtain access to the recording Michael Cohen made of Trump ordering a hush payment (which will be used in NYS trial), Trump released it preemptively.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 27, 2023

It happened at the equivalent time, too: Trump got access to what had been seized from Cohen by intervening in that Special Master process. And then, voila! the tape got released.

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 27, 2023

[godwit]

That’s a telling pattern…but why? How does releasing damning evidence help him? What was he trying to do? Did it work?

[leftcoaster]

Good question. Maybe trying to get ahead of it in order to spin it or trying to influence the jury pool who may be supporters? His behavior is increasingly bizarre these days. Trump and the two women in the room laughed about his divulging classified information to them. That was very disturbing to me.

ETA: No I don’t think releasing the Cohen tape worked as it will be played at the trial in New York State.

[yoopertj]

@eaharrison

So TFG didn’t install a Coke Button at Bedminster like he had at the WH?

Deep State Technology.
No way they let him keep the Coke Button after he loses the election.

[martinheldt]

@martinheldt

you couldn’t drive across town without seeing Trump flags on homes and trucks. Save my neighbor, the Uber Eats driver, they’ve all now vanished. More telling to me is that I’m not getting any of the usual Trumpist feedback when I display my posters.

The magat car from the NPR story had to endure a little Dark Brandon tonight.

[Fire_Joni_Ernst]

FBI apparently couldn’t imagine, “couldn’t believe it if it smacked 'em in the face” - that Trump cultists would do damage and violence. Was the FBI just happy it wasn’t (shudder) a BLM protest?

Steven D’Antuono, FBI Washington Field Office assistant director in charge repeatedly tried to tamp down agency failures and investigation of Trump for 10 months.

The agencies and the committee did not investigate why evidence and recordings from ex-Marine Oath Keeper Rasheed Abdullah about Stewart Rhodes and others ginning up “the base” were not followed up on.

FBI Saw Itself "Managing What the Elephant Sees and Hears" in Advance of...

Good thing that the FBI started these! FBI and their little “Homeland Security” peeps can collect information in the field and get it to those that need this information with fusion centers.

https://www.dhs.gov/fbi-field-intelligence-groups-and-fusion-centers

FIGs function as the primary mechanism through which FBI field offices develop human intelligence; identify, evaluate, and prioritize threats and emerging trends within their areas of responsibility; and support the FBI’s investigative efforts.

The FIGs failed. So does it sound like the “FIG” has something to hide?

[Fire_Joni_Ernst]

If they wish to continue to be known as JTTF: Joint Terrorism Task Force, they should actually do their job. Otherwise, they might be nicknamed the:
Jack-off
Time
Task
Force.

[Fire_Joni_Ernst]

@Fire_Joni_Ernst

On January 2, 2021, the guy in charge of counterterrorism in DC’s FBI office suggested that managing what the Federal government – which he called an “elephant” – sees and hears

Otherwise known as bias in favor of these right-wing groups who provided ample investive tips. The FBI did not defend our country. Was it because the tips were pro-democracy and anti-right-wing authoritarianism?

[axel]

Story is two years old but still stunning. So, the girl was in a suicide pact with another 12-year-old. But what led her (probably with encouragement from one of those suicide sites on the dark web) to kill her father first?