Originally published at: Pam Bondi Finally Relents in US Attorney Fiasco
Judges Appoint Interim NJ US Attorney After a month’s long saga in which the Trump DOJ put at risk dozens of criminal prosecutions with brazenly unlawful efforts to install an interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Attorney General Pam Bondi finally stood down. After conferring with DOJ leadership, the local federal judges exercised their statutory…
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Paul in the morning
Why is profiting from insider information about national security decisions effectively a form of treason? First, it’s hard to think of a more fundamental principle for officials we entrust with important decisions, especially those that involve national security, that they or people they know should not be allowed to exploit their positions for personal gain.
Second, financial trading based on what should be closely held secrets reveals information to current or potential foreign adversaries. To exaggerate a bit, but only a bit, who needs to bribe agents within the government, or recruit them with honey traps, when you can infer the same information by keeping track of transactions on futures markets?
Finally, there isn’t that big a gap between using knowledge of national secrets to make lucrative financial trades and simply selling those secrets to the highest bidder. Once you’re breached the line that says you shouldn’t profit personally from access to information that is or should be highly classified, the line between trading based on state secrets and selling those secrets directly is a blurry one.
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Start with Trump and the Republican Party.
Climate Change Crisis?
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TACO Tuesday?
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Don’t be silly ralph
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It’s disturbing that one case at a time the “originalist” and “textualist” Supreme Court is changing the Constitution. States get to regulate elections, it’s in the document. There should be nothing to discuss.
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Leaving the administration to become a lobbyist had nothing at all to do with the war in Iran. Absolutely nothing. Total coincidence
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This.
Iran charges some ships for safe passage through strait of Hormuz - report
Iran has reportedly begun charging some commercial vessels transit fees to pass through the strait of Hormuz, highlighting its growing influence over the key global shipping route.
Sources say payments of up to $2m per voyage are being requested on an ad hoc basis, effectively creating an informal toll, Bloomberg reported.
[Iran denies this, of course]
And This.
Hey! An Islamic Republic has to make a living!
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From the article
“Continental Strategy, founded by Carlos Trujillo, who was US Ambassador to the Organization of American States during President Donald Trump‘s first term, reported a 1,423% rise in federal lobbying revenue last year,” Bloomberg Government reported.
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** TPM’s Kate Riga: Fox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail*
Someone’s gotta get Faux to cover the invasion of the shape-shifting, interdimensional lizard people so Sammy can use the imminent threat they pose to justify one of his rulings.
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Shit!
Now we’ll never be able to get Donnie to give up trying to take the Strait of Hormuz.
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a new set of restrictions that includes moving all reporters out of correspondents’ corridor to an annex on the grounds
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Prince Bonesaw wants a bigger war. Free gifted link:
Saudi Prince Is Said to Push Trump to Continue Iran War in Recent Calls
Prince Mohammed bin Salman sees a “historic opportunity” to remake the region, according to people briefed by U.S. officials on the conversations.
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Did you colour that in? Nice job. Stayed within the lines.
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Why spend so much on they on they own militaries, when 4 billion in the right hands will rent you the biggest one there is? Bibi is not the only one taking advantage of the American Taxpayer.
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Telephone game diplomacy?
Trump says peace talks progressing as Iran officials deny negotiations
Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey have taken the lead in efforts to broker a peace deal between the United States and Iran, serving as intermediaries in talks between Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, according to U.S. and foreign officials.
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