Houston Officer Behind Deadly Botched Raid Hit With Two Felony Murder Indictments
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200119/12285743763/houston-officer-behind-deadly-botched-raid-hit-with-two-felony-murder-indictments.shtml
Rick Wilson Issues Warning For Slow-Learning GOP Senators
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/rick-wilson-issues-warning-slow-learning
Yeah, They Will Kill You Dead
http://www.dailypundit.com/dailypundit.wordpress/2019/12/22/yeah-they-will-kill-you-dead/
Beyond Monday's Gun-Laden March In Richmond, Militias' Plans For A 'Civil War' Look To Go National
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/beyond-mondays-gun-laden-march-richmond
Virginia Gov. Northam Smears Gun Control Opponents to Frighten His Base
https://reason.com/2020/01/20/virginias-governor-undermines-his-own-authority-by-smearing-gun-control-opponents/
Doing Damage Control After Richmond
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/01/23/doing-damage-control-after-richmond/
Democrats Say Rally Won’t Impact Their Plans For Gun Control Legislation
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/01/20/democrats-say-rally-wont-impact-their-plans-for-gun-control-legislation/
GQ Declares Nonviolent Richmond Gun Protest Violent After Admitting It Was Nonviolent
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/23/gq-declares-nonviolent-richmond-gun-protest-violent-after-admitting-it-was-nonviolent/
Not on the god-emperor's watch:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/01/never-going-to-happen.html
Deputies Caught on Camera Entering Home after Cutting Wires to Outside Cameras
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-gone-rogue/deputies-caught-on-camera-entering-home-after-cutting-wires-to-outside-cameras-JjSLc-zk7kWEPdWh-7k0EA
A Year Ago, the Media Mangled the Covington Catholic Story. What Happened Next Was Even Worse.
https://reason.com/2020/01/21/covington-catholic-media-nick-sandmann-lincoln-memorial/
Sokolow’s Astute Observations On The Failure of Title IX
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/01/22/sokolows-astute-observations-on-the-failure-of-title-ix/
Martha McSally’s Blasphemy
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/martha-mcsally-hack-comment-journalists-see-some-great-sacrilege/
The Media Loves — And, I Mean, Really Loves — Adam Schiff
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-media-loves-and-i-mean-really-loves-adam-schiff/
Is Noah Berlatsky a Pedophile?
https://theothermccain.com/2020/01/19/is-noah-berlatsky-a-pedophile/
National Review’s Dangerous Third Way On Impeachment
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/23/national-reviews-dangerous-third-way-on-impeachment/
Spy Court Admits FISA Warrants Against Carter Page Were ‘Not Valid’
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/23/breaking-spy-court-admits-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page-were-not-valid/
Friday, January 24, 2020
Shame on the GOP
Shame on the GOP as the party of rape apologists for the credibly accused Duke Lacrosse/UVA Frat gang rapists that will hypocritically not defend Hollywood, the media and the press because of Politics, looking for any info to discredit the victim's story or smear the women by pointing out inconsistencies that proves the rape victims suffered trauma. More discrepancies in a rape victim's story proves the rape because the traumatic event distorts the memory of the event and anything related to the event.
They created a toxic narrative so bad, insulting and hurtful that progressives refuse to talk about them. Just like the CBC and the teabaggers yelling the N-word at John Lewis.
The Duke Lacrosse Frat Gang rapists were proven guilty because they were indicted and could have been prosecuted Federally under Obama's DOE #TitleIX guidance.
They created a toxic narrative so bad, insulting and hurtful that progressives refuse to talk about them. Just like the CBC and the teabaggers yelling the N-word at John Lewis.
The Duke Lacrosse Frat Gang rapists were proven guilty because they were indicted and could have been prosecuted Federally under Obama's DOE #TitleIX guidance.
lying idiot hack Dayvoe debunked by reading the law.
This morning, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler tweeted this:
Thanks @trish_regan for calling out the ridiculous claims from the far left. Soleimani was a terrorist and enemy combatant, and the world is a safer place since @realDonaldTrump took him off the battlefield. https://t.co/6jtP34S1m7 — Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (@GReschenthaler) January 24, 2020 Wow. There's a lot to unpack.
Let's start in the middle and work our way out, shall we? Fox "News" talking head Trish Regan is appalled that some:
...liberal ex-CIA attorney is now accusing President Trump of HOMICIDE for killing Iranian terrorist general Solemani! This part of the story is, in fact, true.
In her article at the Daily Beast, ex-CIA attorney Vicki Divoll writes as such:
In bragging that he ordered a successful hit on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, President Trump has admitted to killing a senior government official of a sovereign state, Iran, while he was traveling in another sovereign state, Iraq. On its face, his conduct and intent satisfy the elements of premeditated murder under Section 1116 of Title 18 of the United States Criminal Code, "Murder or manslaughter of foreign officials, official guests, or internationally protected persons." If you were curious, you can find Section 1116 of Title 18 here. Opens with this:
Whoever kills or attempts to kill a foreign official, official guest, or internationally protected person shall be punished as provided under sections 1111, 1112, and 1113 of this title. In this case, Solemani was a "internationally protected person" and the law defines that term as:
...any other representative, officer, employee, or agent of the United States Government, a foreign government, or international organization who at the time and place concerned is entitled pursuant to international law to special protection against attack upon his person... I'm not a lawyer, but if I am reading the law correctly and despite the obvious blood on his hands, Solemani certainly fit that definition of a protected person entitled to protection against attack.
It's the law. And I am sorry, Rep. Reschenthaler, it's not ridiculous.
On the other hand, you and your party defend a man for whom the term "rule of law" has utterly no meaning.
Now let's back out of that to Guy's opening:
Solemani was taking the pallets of cash that Obama had sent him as part of that bunk nuclear deal... There it is. Those mythological Obama "pallets of cash" that the GOP likes to reference (but not explain) whenever it's cornered.
I'll let Reuters explain this, again:
The United States and Iran on Sunday settled a longstanding claim at the Hague, releasing to Tehran $400 million in funds frozen since 1981 plus $1.3 billion in interest, the State Department said.
The funds were part of a trust fund once used by Iran to purchase military equipment from the United States but which was tied up for decades in litigation at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. Yes, Solemani was a beast among men, no question. But assassination is against the law.
The ends do not justify the means.
Nor should they justify lying to the American People (as you did with those "pallets of cash"), Rep. Reschenthaler.
Thanks @trish_regan for calling out the ridiculous claims from the far left. Soleimani was a terrorist and enemy combatant, and the world is a safer place since @realDonaldTrump took him off the battlefield. https://t.co/6jtP34S1m7 — Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (@GReschenthaler) January 24, 2020 Wow. There's a lot to unpack.
Let's start in the middle and work our way out, shall we? Fox "News" talking head Trish Regan is appalled that some:
...liberal ex-CIA attorney is now accusing President Trump of HOMICIDE for killing Iranian terrorist general Solemani! This part of the story is, in fact, true.
In her article at the Daily Beast, ex-CIA attorney Vicki Divoll writes as such:
In bragging that he ordered a successful hit on Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, President Trump has admitted to killing a senior government official of a sovereign state, Iran, while he was traveling in another sovereign state, Iraq. On its face, his conduct and intent satisfy the elements of premeditated murder under Section 1116 of Title 18 of the United States Criminal Code, "Murder or manslaughter of foreign officials, official guests, or internationally protected persons." If you were curious, you can find Section 1116 of Title 18 here. Opens with this:
Whoever kills or attempts to kill a foreign official, official guest, or internationally protected person shall be punished as provided under sections 1111, 1112, and 1113 of this title. In this case, Solemani was a "internationally protected person" and the law defines that term as:
...any other representative, officer, employee, or agent of the United States Government, a foreign government, or international organization who at the time and place concerned is entitled pursuant to international law to special protection against attack upon his person... I'm not a lawyer, but if I am reading the law correctly and despite the obvious blood on his hands, Solemani certainly fit that definition of a protected person entitled to protection against attack.
It's the law. And I am sorry, Rep. Reschenthaler, it's not ridiculous.
On the other hand, you and your party defend a man for whom the term "rule of law" has utterly no meaning.
Now let's back out of that to Guy's opening:
Solemani was taking the pallets of cash that Obama had sent him as part of that bunk nuclear deal... There it is. Those mythological Obama "pallets of cash" that the GOP likes to reference (but not explain) whenever it's cornered.
I'll let Reuters explain this, again:
The United States and Iran on Sunday settled a longstanding claim at the Hague, releasing to Tehran $400 million in funds frozen since 1981 plus $1.3 billion in interest, the State Department said.
The funds were part of a trust fund once used by Iran to purchase military equipment from the United States but which was tied up for decades in litigation at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. Yes, Solemani was a beast among men, no question. But assassination is against the law.
The ends do not justify the means.
Nor should they justify lying to the American People (as you did with those "pallets of cash"), Rep. Reschenthaler.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Links
New Sharyl Attkisson Lawsuit Over Alleged Government Spying Names Rod Rosenstein and Four Others As Involved in the Hacking
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385222.php#385222
Lawfare Blog Owner: The Horowitz Report Really Embarrasses Us and Hurts Our Credibility
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/384887.php#384887
Washington Post asks reporters to explain their ‘sunny remarks’ about the Steele dossier in light of the IG report
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/08/washington-post-asks-media-figures-sunny-remarks-steele-dossier/
NYPD Cop who Terrorized Black Family Resigns after Pressure from Public
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in-cuffs/nypd-cop-who-terrorized-black-family-resigns-after-pressure-from-public-xh3Ibejfh0a67isy-ppzFw
An NYPD Cop Was Sentenced to a Day in Jail for a Lie That Nearly Doomed a Man to 15 Years in Prison
https://reason.com/2020/01/10/an-nypd-cop-was-sentenced-to-a-day-in-jail-for-a-lie-that-nearly-doomed-a-man-to-15-years-in-prison/
Connecticut Racial Ridicule Prosecution: One Student Agrees to Probation, the Other's Case Is Still Pending
https://reason.com/2020/01/10/connecticut-racial-ridicule-prosecution-one-student-agrees-to-probation-the-others-case-is-still-pending/
Good News: Qasim Soleimani, Dead as Dead can be
https://www.thediplomad.com/2020/01/good-news-qasim-soleimani-dead-as-dead.html
The Strange Career of Eric Boehlert
https://theothermccain.com/2019/12/23/the-strange-career-of-eric-boehlert/
Who the F*** Is @EmmaVigeland?
https://theothermccain.com/2019/12/22/emma-vigeland-anti-white-male/
Moms Demand calls gun sanctuaries ‘dangerous attempts to defy the democratic will of the people
https://twitchy.com/brett-3136/2020/01/09/moms-demand-calls-gun-sanctuaries-dangerous-attempts-to-defy-the-democratic-will-of-the-people/
New Lawsuit Is Latest Example Of Residents Seeking Accountability For Wrongful Arrests In New York City
https://theappeal.org/new-lawsuit-is-latest-example-of-residents-seeking-accountability-for-wrongful-arrests-in-new-york-city/
Riding The Crazy Train With Ian
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/01/15/riding-the-crazy-train-with-ian/
Pelosi Appoints Steele Dossier Truthers As Anti-Trump Impeachment Managers
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/15/pelosi-appoints-steele-dossier-truthers-as-anti-trump-impeachment-managers/
Grand Jury Backs Murder Charges Against Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid
https://reason.com/2020/01/15/grand-jury-backs-murder-charges-against-houston-cop-who-lied-to-justify-a-deadly-drug-raid/
Judge Says Chicago PD Must Release Nearly 50 Years Of Misconduct Files Before The End Of This Year
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200112/18240243717/judge-says-chicago-pd-must-release-nearly-50-years-misconduct-files-before-end-this-year.shtml
Yes, Obama Helped Fund the Iranian Regime
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-acknowledges-cash-payment-to-iran-was-leverage-in-prisoner-release-1471558389
FOR THE FOLKS WHO THINK THE GAO CLAIM AGAINST TRUMP MEANS ANYTHING…
http://hopelesslypartisan.com/for-the-folks-who-think-the-gao-claim-against-trump-means-anything/
Cop Indicted After BB Gun Planted on Innocent Man to Justify Running Him Over with Cruiser
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/bb-gun-cop-framing-innocent/
Caging Other Men
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/01/17/caging-other-men/
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY Pelosi Time
“This is a very important day for us. As you know I referenced temporal markers that our founders and our poets and others have used over time to place us in time, to emphasize the importance of time, because everything is about time."
http://hopelesslypartisan.com/the-quote-of-the-day-1076/
Ex-DOJ official picked to review changes to FISA Court process was a critic of the Nunes memo
https://www.lawfareblog.com/further-thoughts-crossfire-hurricane-report
FISA Court Selects Lawyer Who Vehemently Denied FBI Misled FISA To Oversee FBI Reforms
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/01/13/fisa-court-selects-lawyer-who-vehemently-denied-fbi-misled-fisa-to-oversee-fbi-reforms/
Surprise! FISC Court Picks a Kneejerk FBI-Defender and Collusion Conspiracy Peddler As Its Pointman to Fix the Broken System He Claimed Wasn't Broken At All
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385274.php
Spy Court Picks FISA Abuse Denier To Tackle FISA Abuse
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/12/spy-court-picks-fisa-abuse-denier-to-tackle-fisa-abuse/
We now know: FISA court must go
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/we-now-know-fisa-court-must-go.php
From Progressive Feminist thought leader Amanda Marcotte.
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/16/state-of-emergency-high-tension-in-virginia-as-right-wing-gun-fanatics-descend-on-richmond/
Far right pro-gun group are Neo-Nazi terrorist groups.
Why did Virginia’s governor declare a state of emergency in Richmond. In short, to prevent another Charlottesville
Pass No Fly No Buy. No one on the No Fly list should possess a gun. .
Ban anyone on the Terrorist Watch list from possessing a gun.
Add all members of the Extremist right Domestic Terrorist group the NRA to the Terrorist Watch list.
Make them support the Rule of Law.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385222.php#385222
Lawfare Blog Owner: The Horowitz Report Really Embarrasses Us and Hurts Our Credibility
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/384887.php#384887
Washington Post asks reporters to explain their ‘sunny remarks’ about the Steele dossier in light of the IG report
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/08/washington-post-asks-media-figures-sunny-remarks-steele-dossier/
NYPD Cop who Terrorized Black Family Resigns after Pressure from Public
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in-cuffs/nypd-cop-who-terrorized-black-family-resigns-after-pressure-from-public-xh3Ibejfh0a67isy-ppzFw
An NYPD Cop Was Sentenced to a Day in Jail for a Lie That Nearly Doomed a Man to 15 Years in Prison
https://reason.com/2020/01/10/an-nypd-cop-was-sentenced-to-a-day-in-jail-for-a-lie-that-nearly-doomed-a-man-to-15-years-in-prison/
Connecticut Racial Ridicule Prosecution: One Student Agrees to Probation, the Other's Case Is Still Pending
https://reason.com/2020/01/10/connecticut-racial-ridicule-prosecution-one-student-agrees-to-probation-the-others-case-is-still-pending/
Good News: Qasim Soleimani, Dead as Dead can be
https://www.thediplomad.com/2020/01/good-news-qasim-soleimani-dead-as-dead.html
The Strange Career of Eric Boehlert
https://theothermccain.com/2019/12/23/the-strange-career-of-eric-boehlert/
Who the F*** Is @EmmaVigeland?
https://theothermccain.com/2019/12/22/emma-vigeland-anti-white-male/
Moms Demand calls gun sanctuaries ‘dangerous attempts to defy the democratic will of the people
https://twitchy.com/brett-3136/2020/01/09/moms-demand-calls-gun-sanctuaries-dangerous-attempts-to-defy-the-democratic-will-of-the-people/
New Lawsuit Is Latest Example Of Residents Seeking Accountability For Wrongful Arrests In New York City
https://theappeal.org/new-lawsuit-is-latest-example-of-residents-seeking-accountability-for-wrongful-arrests-in-new-york-city/
Riding The Crazy Train With Ian
https://blog.simplejustice.us/2020/01/15/riding-the-crazy-train-with-ian/
Pelosi Appoints Steele Dossier Truthers As Anti-Trump Impeachment Managers
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/15/pelosi-appoints-steele-dossier-truthers-as-anti-trump-impeachment-managers/
Grand Jury Backs Murder Charges Against Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid
https://reason.com/2020/01/15/grand-jury-backs-murder-charges-against-houston-cop-who-lied-to-justify-a-deadly-drug-raid/
Judge Says Chicago PD Must Release Nearly 50 Years Of Misconduct Files Before The End Of This Year
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200112/18240243717/judge-says-chicago-pd-must-release-nearly-50-years-misconduct-files-before-end-this-year.shtml
Yes, Obama Helped Fund the Iranian Regime
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-acknowledges-cash-payment-to-iran-was-leverage-in-prisoner-release-1471558389
FOR THE FOLKS WHO THINK THE GAO CLAIM AGAINST TRUMP MEANS ANYTHING…
http://hopelesslypartisan.com/for-the-folks-who-think-the-gao-claim-against-trump-means-anything/
Cop Indicted After BB Gun Planted on Innocent Man to Justify Running Him Over with Cruiser
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/bb-gun-cop-framing-innocent/
Caging Other Men
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/01/17/caging-other-men/
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY Pelosi Time
“This is a very important day for us. As you know I referenced temporal markers that our founders and our poets and others have used over time to place us in time, to emphasize the importance of time, because everything is about time."
http://hopelesslypartisan.com/the-quote-of-the-day-1076/
Ex-DOJ official picked to review changes to FISA Court process was a critic of the Nunes memo
https://www.lawfareblog.com/further-thoughts-crossfire-hurricane-report
FISA Court Selects Lawyer Who Vehemently Denied FBI Misled FISA To Oversee FBI Reforms
https://jonathanturley.org/2020/01/13/fisa-court-selects-lawyer-who-vehemently-denied-fbi-misled-fisa-to-oversee-fbi-reforms/
Surprise! FISC Court Picks a Kneejerk FBI-Defender and Collusion Conspiracy Peddler As Its Pointman to Fix the Broken System He Claimed Wasn't Broken At All
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/385274.php
Spy Court Picks FISA Abuse Denier To Tackle FISA Abuse
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/12/spy-court-picks-fisa-abuse-denier-to-tackle-fisa-abuse/
We now know: FISA court must go
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/we-now-know-fisa-court-must-go.php
From Progressive Feminist thought leader Amanda Marcotte.
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/16/state-of-emergency-high-tension-in-virginia-as-right-wing-gun-fanatics-descend-on-richmond/
Far right pro-gun group are Neo-Nazi terrorist groups.
Why did Virginia’s governor declare a state of emergency in Richmond. In short, to prevent another Charlottesville
Pass No Fly No Buy. No one on the No Fly list should possess a gun. .
Ban anyone on the Terrorist Watch list from possessing a gun.
Add all members of the Extremist right Domestic Terrorist group the NRA to the Terrorist Watch list.
Make them support the Rule of Law.
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https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1220385875151880193
If we’re going to dip into federal criminal statutory analysis I’d enjoy it if the Daily Beast and Vicki Divoll would identify what part of 18 USC 1116 was violated — the theory under the statute.
EX-CIA Lawyer: The Soleimani Hit Was a Homicide Under U.S. Criminal Law
Was this murder? It sure looks that way, under a law that Congress passed specifically to deter global terrorist acts.
/2 Because when you say that something violated the statute you can’t just read the opening paragraph and assume your internal definitions of the terms are right. You have to see if the statute defines those terms. https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1116
/3 “foreign official” and “official guest” are both excluded by these definitions because Soleimani was not in the United States. The first definition of “internationally protected person” is excluded because he was not a head of state.
/4 The second definition of “internationally protected person” requires that Soleimani was “entitled pursuant to international law to special protection against attack upon his person.” I’m not an international law expert but I am dubious on this.
/5 In short, it sure looks like the author read the opening paragraph of a statute, threw together a Hot Take, and Daily Beast ran it without anyone familiar with the law being invoked (or even basic statutory analysis) vetting it.
/6 The thrust of the article seems to be “the nuances of international law aside, it clearly violates US law,” when in fact the only remotely plausible theory under the statute is explicitly based on whether international law gave him “special protection”
c)If the victim of an offense under subsection (a) is an internationally protected person outside the United States, the United States may exercise jurisdiction over the offense if (1) the victim is a representative, officer, employee, or agent of the United States, (2) an offender is a national of the United States, or (3) an offender is afterwards found in the United States.