In case you haven noticed by now, I'm not big on Congressional investigations. Too much politics, very little justice. I believe that the justice department should be all over this, as well as a lot of other Barr interventions, like the coverup of the Italian CIA investigation of Trump, suppression of the Mu…
In case you haven noticed by now, I'm not big on Congressional investigations. Too much politics, very little justice. I believe that the justice department should be all over this, as well as a lot of other Barr interventions, like the coverup of the Italian CIA investigation of Trump, suppression of the Mueller investigation, even the jailing of Michael Cohen to suppress his first book.
Collaterally, Barr is still practicing law and litigating his law license could be the source of compelling discovery .
Besides Barr, Jeff Rosen and other DOJ types may/may not have been involved. In February 2020, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu resigned from the Treasury Department after Trump withdrew her nomination to serve as undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes. News reports suggest that Liu’s resignation and revoked nomination were related to Trump’s dissatisfaction with her work as U.S. attorney — specifically, Liu’s perceived lack of involvement in politically sensitive investigations, including the cases of Trump ally Roger Stone and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Don't forget Barr's involvement in the Epstein mess. That's another entire can of worms. Barr's Father hired Epstein to teach at a Rich Private Boy's School and they both were fired. Why? But Epstein's new career seems to have started afterwards. Alexander Acosta who got Epstein off and became Trump's Secretary of Labor was from Barr's Law Firm. And Barr was in charge of the Federal Prison System and visited Epstein before he committed suicide. In addition one of the two missing prison guards was killed in a hit and run a week afterwards. Barr immediately went to Epstein's home the day after the suicide. This stinks big time.
I am almost finished binge watching Billions, I know it is dramatization of reality, but it is also enliightening, the intermeshing of money and politics. The wheeling and dealing behind the scenes, the vendettas, the compromises made. It is a wonder that anything good comes of elections.
I couldn't stand it. My dad was an assistant DA, DA, special prosecutor. My wife once worked in the public corruption section of DOJ. I grew up with this stuff.
I may be naive, but I still believe in the rule of law. Everything is aspirational. Corruption can be fixed. The perfect is the enemy of the practical.
I qualified my statement about Billions with "dramatization. Just like war movies are over dramatizations of real events.
When you watch a war movie you see, hundreds of "events" in two hours, and all associated with one person,or platoon or company. Those events did happen, but not to the person, the platoon,the company in the time and place in the movie.
They were spread out and happened at different times. I spent a year in Vietnam
I was deployed to over 20 locations and I saw shit that happened at different times in different locations, I even saw ROK's throw a VC out of a helicopter, I saw Puff unleash it's mini guns. And on the night of Tet I watched a Cobra, hanging not more than 50 above the house in which I lived, spit out 20 mm grenades and spray the graveyard with it's minigun, while I was dressed in black pajama's, I had just been awakened and rushed to the roof. I've seen what a bee hive round fired from a 105 mm howitzer can do to a platoon of VC (not pretty). I smelled and saw the 72 body bags of a company of the 173rd Airborne brigade, lying outside the mortuary tent at Dak To,and that's only part of what I have personally seen, and that was only one year.. Hollywood would compress all of that into one movie, about one person, platoon or company.
Same with Suits and Billions. After I retired I had a job as a law firm adminstrator, I got a taste of how law firms operate. Billions maybe fiction, but it does depict the attitudes, the mentality, the wheelings and dealings of hedge funds, private equity funds and the politics that goes on behind the scenes.
5 year statute of limitations.
In case you haven noticed by now, I'm not big on Congressional investigations. Too much politics, very little justice. I believe that the justice department should be all over this, as well as a lot of other Barr interventions, like the coverup of the Italian CIA investigation of Trump, suppression of the Mueller investigation, even the jailing of Michael Cohen to suppress his first book.
Collaterally, Barr is still practicing law and litigating his law license could be the source of compelling discovery .
Besides Barr, Jeff Rosen and other DOJ types may/may not have been involved. In February 2020, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu resigned from the Treasury Department after Trump withdrew her nomination to serve as undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes. News reports suggest that Liu’s resignation and revoked nomination were related to Trump’s dissatisfaction with her work as U.S. attorney — specifically, Liu’s perceived lack of involvement in politically sensitive investigations, including the cases of Trump ally Roger Stone and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
Don't forget Barr's involvement in the Epstein mess. That's another entire can of worms. Barr's Father hired Epstein to teach at a Rich Private Boy's School and they both were fired. Why? But Epstein's new career seems to have started afterwards. Alexander Acosta who got Epstein off and became Trump's Secretary of Labor was from Barr's Law Firm. And Barr was in charge of the Federal Prison System and visited Epstein before he committed suicide. In addition one of the two missing prison guards was killed in a hit and run a week afterwards. Barr immediately went to Epstein's home the day after the suicide. This stinks big time.
Statute of limitations has run.
I am almost finished binge watching Billions, I know it is dramatization of reality, but it is also enliightening, the intermeshing of money and politics. The wheeling and dealing behind the scenes, the vendettas, the compromises made. It is a wonder that anything good comes of elections.
I couldn't stand it. My dad was an assistant DA, DA, special prosecutor. My wife once worked in the public corruption section of DOJ. I grew up with this stuff.
I may be naive, but I still believe in the rule of law. Everything is aspirational. Corruption can be fixed. The perfect is the enemy of the practical.
I qualified my statement about Billions with "dramatization. Just like war movies are over dramatizations of real events.
When you watch a war movie you see, hundreds of "events" in two hours, and all associated with one person,or platoon or company. Those events did happen, but not to the person, the platoon,the company in the time and place in the movie.
They were spread out and happened at different times. I spent a year in Vietnam
I was deployed to over 20 locations and I saw shit that happened at different times in different locations, I even saw ROK's throw a VC out of a helicopter, I saw Puff unleash it's mini guns. And on the night of Tet I watched a Cobra, hanging not more than 50 above the house in which I lived, spit out 20 mm grenades and spray the graveyard with it's minigun, while I was dressed in black pajama's, I had just been awakened and rushed to the roof. I've seen what a bee hive round fired from a 105 mm howitzer can do to a platoon of VC (not pretty). I smelled and saw the 72 body bags of a company of the 173rd Airborne brigade, lying outside the mortuary tent at Dak To,and that's only part of what I have personally seen, and that was only one year.. Hollywood would compress all of that into one movie, about one person, platoon or company.
Same with Suits and Billions. After I retired I had a job as a law firm adminstrator, I got a taste of how law firms operate. Billions maybe fiction, but it does depict the attitudes, the mentality, the wheelings and dealings of hedge funds, private equity funds and the politics that goes on behind the scenes.
We watched a few seasons of it. If that show is not an exaggeration, we need to figure out how to change the economic system. The question is how?
By empowering state and federal oversight committees, cabinets and prosecuting attorney's., but money reaches out and corrupts everything.