In the Department of Justice, Jeffrey Epstein Mess took into account the World War II novel of Harman Wuk.Can mutini“The film in the paragraph Captain Queng-Bads, depicted by Humphre Bogart on the film-a quarter of a stolen quarter of the strawberry makes his ship upside down. They laughed at me, but they were only trying to protect some fellow officers.”
Hundreds of employees in justice department and FBI Operated A equally obsessive discovery, this time for the mythological “customer list” of Epstein for sex smuggling. The explorers combined through offices, cabinets, wardrobe and hard drives, reviewing more than 100,000 pages. The effort consumed law enforcement resources, but nothing was found. Captain Queng was proud.
The frantic discovery left the Department of Justice without any option, but for the contradiction of Attorney General Palm Bondi Earlier claim The client’s list “was sitting on my desk,” and admits that she has no such list. (Bandy is Shrink His claim back.)
To please Trump’s angry Maga base, the department announced a “strike force” for the missing strawberry and a “strike force” for the missing strawberry and the turn of even more crime-fighting resources. Baseless charge One “Traitors conspiracyFormer President Barack Obama and his intelligence officials arose from Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Welcome to the Dambing of the Department of Justice, where the most clever and most experienced prosecutors are resigning or rejecting; Particular, substandard lawyers are replacing them; And the mission of the department has been re -designed to serve the President’s political and vengeance agenda and to examine the principles of bizarre conspiracy.
Ten experienced, high quality Federal prosecutor Left the department on his decision to give up allegations of corruption against New York City Mayor Eric Adams Help For the immigration crack of Trump. More than two-thirds of lawyers in the department’s civil rights division Has left Because its mission has turned from implementing civil rights to implement Trump’s executive orders. Trump colleagues forced most Advocate In the public integrity section, prosecuting the corrupt Washington officials is less important than clearly extinguishing unspecified immigrants who work hard, pay taxes and have no crime.
Who is filling the vacuum? Start with Ed Martin Jr.There is no prosecution experience with a Missouri lawyer and conservative worker, which is a subject Pending disciplinary proceedings And which was once Found in contempt To fail to follow the court order. Trump nominated him to be an American advocate for the Colombia district, but he also proved to be much more for Republican Senators. Trump was supposed to withdraw his nomination, but Martin was then established in several high-ranking justice departments Role He bypasses the confirmation of the Senate.
This is followed by Alina Habba, which Trump appointed an interim American Attorney for New Jersey, despite any lack of experience of her prosecution. She previously worked as one of Trump’s own personal lawyers. Publicly swore off To “New Jersey Red Turn”, promising to give up bias in favor of Republican in implementing the law. When his interim word ended, the federal judges of the New Jersey appointed a highly respected career prosecutor, Desri Leh Grace, using their legal mandate, to be successful. Bondi immediately removed the grace from that situation and REINStalled Habba.
For the historic perspective on the decline of the Department of Justice, see 1973, when Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in public interest instead of giving an order to firing Archballd Cox from President Richard Nixon, some prosecutors who were investigating the Watergate Scandal, some Richardson I promised Not in hearing of his Senate confirmation.
In today’s justice department, in search of integrity and moral courage, it is equally meaningless, such as the victim of Captain Queng for missing strawberries.
Gregory J. Vaalans Carter and Reagan were a federal prosecutor in the administration and a member of the Absam Prosecution Team, who convicted an American senator and six representatives of the bribe. He is a writer “In Siberia: George Kenon’s epic journey through Russia’s cruel, frozen heart,,
