Public corruption experts and former prosecutors who have built cases off similar operations said that if he remains in possession of the money as a top official in the administration, even without criminal charges or a conviction, there would still be few avenues for the government to seek the return of the cash. read more
David Wallace-Wells: "ICE goes masked for a single reason " to terrorize Americans into quiescence," a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. "In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police," he continued. The judge, a Reagan appointee, compared immigration agents to "cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan" and declared that federal efforts to deport outspoken protesters amounted to a "full-throated assault" on freedom of speech." read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped a series of simple yes-or-no questions at a Senate judiciary hearing on Tuesday about border czar Tom Homan and the $50,000 in cash he allegedly accepted from undercover FBI agents in a paper Cava bag. read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday stonewalled a question at a Senate Judiciary Committee about who ordered FBI agents to flag any documents that mentioned President Donald Trump during a review this year of investigative files about the late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. read more
Trump on Monday left the door open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. read more
My memories of the 1967 March on the Pentagon have faded over the years, but some remain pretty vivid. After being in the crowd I moved to a more elevated spot and observed as the scene unfolded, leaving when a few bozos attempted to charge the building. Through it all you were talking in excess of 50,000 anti war demonstrators, troops and other federal officers. Rifles were out, flowers shoved down some barrels. It was an apprehensive sort of situation. And yet, throughout, I never once saw a soldier or marshal disguising their identity behind a mask. I did some searching this morning on the google machine and, nope, no masks (other than visors on helmets or gas masks for tear gas).
There is only one valid reason for ICE goons to wear masks: they do not want to be held responsible for their behavior.