The problem is that only Congress can fill in that blank with a crime. And while you can certainly write confidentiality/non-disclosure obligations into their contracts, breach of contract still isn’t a crime.
Roughly 200 defendants charged with the 20-year-max felony of obstructing an official proceeding. More than another 100 charged with felonies for violently assaulting cops, with most of those folks probably looking at upwards of a decade in prison, maybe more. Dozens looking at multiple years on felony charges of being in a restricted location while armed. A few dozen of them cooling their heels in prison pretrial because they’re dangers to the community. That’s a whole lot of “nothing” there.
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Yes I understand that non-disclosure obligations aren’t enforceable, it’s just that we’ve seen what an dangerous person can do to whip his “followers” into a frenzy. I know it’s futile but I keep hoping that there has to be some adults on the Republican side.
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Meh, Trump’ll pardon every one of them on January 21st, 2025.
It won’t happen unless and until their party has been tossed into the electoral wilderness long enough that they are made to understand they can no longer win as currently constituted. And even then, the petulant toddlers will continue to hold political power in a whole lot of what are still red states.
Reminds me that if I were on the bench in D.C., my minimum sentence for anyone guilty of a J6 felony would be “Long enough so they’re still in prison come the next Inaugural Day.”
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Hey, I’m not knocking that. Even Manafort did a decent chunk of time for an older guy who can’t have been having much fun there. Have to take what we can get.
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Wow! Obstructing an Official proceeding, did you say? I had no idea that the federal government would bring out the BIG GUN charges against those who… I think my words were… “fomented and caused the 1/6 insurrection…” And by the way, none (that would be 0) of the 200 persons charged, i.e., those 200 of whom you spoke, actually “fomented and caused” the 1/6 insurrection. Those charged to date were just the button men, not the decision-makers behind the attempted coup. But then, you know that, don’t you? So, in summary, yep, a whole lot of nothing. You might even call it a Nothingburger, hold the cheese… well, hold everything, actually. Which is fitting for a Nothingburger. Or for federal law enforcement, in the face of an attempted coup. .
And you’re being a complete asshat on this thread. Take the loss.
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20-year-max. That’s just as long as the max. penalty for “insurrectuion,” which a lot of silly people think should be the charge because it sounds cool or something.
If you have knowledge of any facts indicating that the insurrection was planned inside the White House or in Roger Stone’s hotel room or whatever, you should probably inform the FBI.
Stated with all the grace of a petulant 6-year-old crying that he wanted strawberry ice cream, not vanilla.
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Don’t sneer. Remember, they got Capone on tax evasion.
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There are categories of unclassified information with civil and criminal penalties for inappropriate disclosure. Anyone with authorized access would have signed a form acknowledging that they knew the rules. Over ~20 years as a DOE contractor, I had to take annual training on the rules for handling sensitive information. My guess is that they could make a criminal case for unlawful disclosure.
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Yes, there are. But none of the criminal statutes appear to protect from disclosure the location of Congress’s J6 hidey hole.
I am sure I wasn’t the only person in America watching on January 6th and fearing that the police might turn around and start charging with the rioters.
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Maybe he was running around plugging in air fresheners. Some of those people looked a bit unkempt.
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Yes. Maybe you should consider Milley’s comparison to the 1905 Russian Revolution. If anything, this was just a dress rehearsal for something much more serious next time.
Some people still stuck in the pre-Trump mindset of It Can’t Happen Here.
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I know you’re aiming for sneering superiority here, but it just comes across as condescending petulance.
Next time you feel like posting this kind of stuff, I suggest you step away from the keyboard and reconsider your options.
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If security has been so violated that your speculative MAGA Mob Of The Future somehow catch the cops totally unaware again and know exactly where to target the previous place the cops had the members shelter, maybe they ought to shelter somewhere else the next time your imaginary nonsense occurs?
ETA:
I can assure you that my pithy elbow-jabs are always well-considered, so take your bad take and shove it.
McConnell is the omnipresent malevolent entity behind this. 45* wouldn’t know how to write a bill about gerrymandering if you held a gun to his head and reminded him what gerrymandering was.
It’s the GOP inner circle that is keeping this country in jeopardy with their short-sighted greedy politics.
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early duck face
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