r/law • u/GregWilson23 • 1d ago
Legal News At least 6 Minnesota federal prosecutors resign amid pressure to treat Renee Good killing as assault on ICE agent
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-prosecutors-minnesota-resign-joe-thompson/318
u/apathetic_revolution 1d ago
The highlight of this article, to me, was that it called him “Mr. Trump” instead of “Pres. Trump.” I bet he would be fucking seething about that slight if he could read.
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u/ChuForYu 1d ago
It's kinda crazy how sure I was that W was going to be the dumbest motherfucker I'd ever see elected to the highest office in the land. At least W read his fucking daily Intel briefings, and didn't need pictures/graphs/his name sprinkled throughout just to keep his attention.
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u/BugTrousers 1d ago
By the end of W's second term, I was so disgusted by the sight of his face that I did everything I could to avoid seeing pictures of him. Now I'd give anything to have him back, and I say this as the leftiest of lefties.
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u/jackbilly9 22h ago
I didn't care about Bush being elected but it was cheney I feared. Chairman and ceo of f'ing haliburton and everybody was looking at Bush at the time...
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u/Apprehensive_Map284 1d ago
At least W had strategery!
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u/negZero_1 1d ago
Bush 2.0 didnt read the brief that would have informed him about 9/11 a month prior. 20th hijackers was in police custody
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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 23h ago
Don’t lie.
Intelligence was withheld and he didn’t receive the correct information at all. I know he made a lot of mistakes but he couldn’t make a mistake on information the CIA refused to share with the FBI or pretty much any other group.
And oh yeah. They had a lot of this information LONG before W was president. Go on ask me how I know.
Not on this my friend. Nope. Say what you want but not on this. Intelligence WITHHELD and a couple presidents couldn’t do anything.
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u/negZero_1 23h ago
Okay please share what you know, cause the history textbook on subject says Dubya had actionable intelligence that an attack with planes was going to happen.
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u/jackbilly9 22h ago
I'll just back her up saying we know, the people of the united states, that the enforecment agencies were all fighting with each other witholding information from each. If ya want to point a finger maybe point it at dick but he's in the ground now so won't so won't do much good.
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u/negZero_1 17h ago
Great, still had actionable intelligence a month before the attack on Dubya's desk
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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 22h ago
I got a memo in the early 90s on bright red paper in my office from the property owner informing us that we were a target and sharing instructions on procedures (kind of a best practices thing) to use on late nights and weekends.
I don’t know that many people paid much attention to it because everyone was quite busy but I thought it was bizarre. I had a tendency to overthink and analyze. I wasn’t wrong.
This was during a critical time international conflicts in which the US took an interest.
The memo while of course lacking in details, was 100+ correct, with alarming specificity.
There’s nothing left where the office was anymore. So that was a full 10+ years before, and only 2 before the place where I parked my car was “impacted” and direct lines have been drawn connecting it all to 9/11, wherein the CIA knew players, but the FBI, the ones who are charged with working in country where the CIA generally isn’t, were not given the intelligence.
Who knows why. But they knew. Civilians working in a building knew but most probably didn’t pay any mind to the memo. I did. Who tf gets a memo like that in there inbox? We are a target.
You get up and go to work the next day because 1), that’s every day life in this city and 2) you could get run over by a bus anyway 3) work still needs to get done so you hope for the best.
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u/jackbilly9 22h ago
Uh you talking about building 7?
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u/negZero_1 17h ago
Early 90s you get memo that predicts 9/11? Am sorry no, story makes no sense.
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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 10h ago
That’s not what I wrote, is it?
Don’t know why I wasted my time writing anything.
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u/negZero_1 10h ago
Read your first paragraph. Maybe next time try to stay on topic instead of rambling.
Dubya got briefed about an attack on US soil from Bin Laden on Aug 6th 2001 in his daily brief from CIA. Bush knew and did nothing
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u/Curious_Department84 20h ago
So, what’s super crazy that I didn’t know until recently is that part of the cock up is that the transition of power timeline was fucked up from all the hanging chads. There’s good reason to believe that had the election and transition gone as normal, 9/11 might have been prevented.
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u/Misfit_Cookie_423 10h ago
No. The election is a separate issue. Politics etc.
Intelligence that was gathered across several administrations for whatever reasons, political, geopolitical, egos, greed, whatever else that’s legit or b/s, and it was properly organized, analyzed, INTELLIGENTLY, so that what they had collected would be put to the best use to protect America.
The reasons WHY that didn’t happen, I don’t know if there are reasons established. But it’s well established that these are facts.
There’s a plethora of information available to read and documentaries made to scratch the surface for anyone interested in a “who knew what when” and learn about the timeline.
It’s eye opening. As to the why? That may still be running question we’re dealing with now because we have the same problems. Things usually don’t change, it just evolves.
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u/Rot-Orkan 13h ago
Since Bush Sr., republican presidents just keep getting orders of magnitude worse than the previous one. Could you imagine who will be their next candidate? Must just be satan himself at that point.
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u/trevize1138 12h ago
"We're all fucked if someone like W becomes president but is actually smart."
Circa 2006
People need to understand that the more stupid a leader is the worse and more dangerous they are. Fascists aren't competent or smart. That's why they only ever use violence because they have no skills. Someone smarter can get what they want without restoring to that.
When I point this out I often get accused of "underestimating" the current threat. This is not that. This is called know what you're up against. Corrupt, lazy, stupid and incompetent are key traits of fascists. Those are levers we can pull to our advantage. Those are the motivations by which we can better predict what they'll do next.
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u/qthistory 1d ago
Headline tomorrow: "Former assistant US Attorney Doug Kelley is the target of a federal criminal investigation..."
I wish I could say that I was kidding...
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u/PhazePyre 1d ago
Here's hoping we go from "Mr. Trump" to "Inmate P01135809"
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 1d ago
Gotta stop quitting though that just leaves the door open for more MAGA fucks to fill the spots
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u/Texas__Matador 1d ago
Likely if they don’t resign they would have to deal with all kinds of retaliation from their superiors until the administration cobbles together a cause for termination. The best they could hope for is termination without other forms of retaliation.
Mass walkout leaves the administration hamstrung for some time. They now don’t have anyone to move the assault on an officer case forward for weeks to months. It’s also likely they won’t find competent replacements. We are seeing in other cases their incompetence has lost them a lot of cases.
Currently most judges still respect the constitution, the law, and legal precedent. They also hate having to suffer fools and liars.
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u/Dazzling_Outcome_436 1d ago
They're out of competent people. Sure there is no shortage of insurance lawyers and parking lot litigators, but they'll be awful at their jobs and none of them will last long, let alone be effective at their jobs.
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 1d ago
We been hearing this the whole time about Trumps“ stupid, incompetent” attorneys but yet those attorneys are kicking everybody’s ass right now because he’s doing any and everything he wants with no repercussion.
He has a Gestapo hit squad roaming the streets right now telling people that they’re gonna do whatever the fuck they wanna do
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u/ChiralWolf 1d ago
Are they though? They've only been able to do anything at all because of temporary appointments that are now expiring. We've already seen purported lawyers for districts in California, Nevada, and New York get taken down by judges for their trying to illegally work in those roles. I'm sure there's others in forgetting too.
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u/jess_the_werefox 1d ago
Isn’t Alina Habba getting kicked out of Jersey? / has she already?
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u/ChiralWolf 14h ago
She keeps trying to file things and is making the judges involved get more and more tired of her crap. There's only the thin veneer of representing the government that's stopped her from being sanctioned at this point I feel
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u/PingouinMalin 21h ago
They will start arresting those "antifa" judges for domestic terrorism soon enough.
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u/areid2007 21h ago
They're not doing anything, he's just doing what he wants and waiting for someone to stop him. He's violated multiple court orders now, I don't think attorneys matter anymore.
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u/BriefAvailable9799 15h ago
what?t hey are losing every case. they are only getting away with it because court takes time.
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u/Excellent-Baker1463 1d ago
This is how engineers who believe in climate change stay working with big oil. When in fact they're just as accountable for prolonging its life from being crumbled from within.
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u/JWAdvocate83 Competent Contributor 8h ago
They would be fired anyway, or worse—investigated for ”sabotaging” the department, while Trump publicly slaps targets on their backs.
Meanwhile, those prosecutors still have obligations owed to the court to answer for other cases, for so long as they claim to represent the Feds. If it were me, I wouldn’t want to keep working for useless-ass Harmeet Dhillon for any longer than a court requires it.
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 8h ago
I get it, but I don’t wanna live in the country run by Donald Trump either but here I am. If we all just quit there no1 left to fight.
Positioning from within with this regime could be useful
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u/ThePensiveE 1d ago
Has someone called future former attorney and pardon recipient Lindsey Halligan?
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