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Friday, March 08, 2024

A floating pier and causeway that will be used to deliver critical humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza is expected to take at least one month or possibly as long as two for the US military to build and become fully operational, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder said on Friday.

Ryder also said the construction of the pier and causeway will likely require as many as 1,000 US military personnel to complete.

The extended timeline reflects the complicated nature of the project, which is the second such extraordinary measure the Biden administration has announced in just under a week to try to alleviate the desperate humanitarian situation facing Palestinians in Gaza caused by Israel's refusal to open additional land crossings or surge more aid by land into the enclave as it continues to fight Hamas. read more


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So now I have most of the transcript, at least the first day (Ill get to the rest tonight.) I want to make it clear that any perceived criticisms of Biden are my own analysis of the facts, and not in any way support for Trump. I haven't studied Trumps Classified Docs case in detail because his guilt appears to be a foregone conclusion, which makes it less interesting to me, and I don't see the point of making it a comparison.

I don't think you can draw conclusions from just reading the Biden interview transcript without first reading the investigative report, and I did. The "evidence" is detailed in the report of the investigation, most of which was completed prior to Biden's interview. The transcript of the interview includes very little of the evidence, which consisted of interviews with Biden staffers and descriptions of collected evidence.

As to the investigative report, I would have preferred to see each FBI Agent's investigative report rather than Hurs summation, because Hur's report was lacking and not put together like an investigation at all. The interview lacked important context that would have been apparent with audio or video. The interview itself was REALLY wierd, because Prosecutors do not normally do investigative interviews. Law Enforcement (FBI or police) do interviews WITHOUT Prosecutors present. This is because being present makes them witnesses, then they would be barred from the courtroom during the trial. I've heard Media Outlets call the interview a deposition, and Prosecutors do depositions, but they are always sworn (so they stand alone as evidence instead of just an interview) and President Biden was not sworn in. Also, normally the subject of a case is not deposed. So the whole process was really odd. Hur is a terrible investigative interviewer. His language was very imprecise, he allowed the President to give answers in very imprecise language without clarification. That would not work well with a witness on the stand either, so it leaves me wondering how much trial experience he has. I haven't counted the questions he asked, but not very many, it seems, because he allowed President Biden to go into lengthy personal monologues that had nothing to do with the question. I imagine it would be difficult to interrupt POTUS to insist that he answer the question and move on to the next one. A little bit of a power dynamic there.

So I will catch up later or tommorrow with further comment after I read the rest of the transcript.

#12 I agree the numbers are debatable. I was referring to, the apparent increase in Republicans vs Democrats since 2020 according to Gallup:

news.gallup.com

The trend is concerning, but regardless of the overall numbers, elections come down to turnout. I'll have to look for it, but I recall a study about how Hillary's "Deplorables" comment literally turned the tide in the 2016 election. When you insults a swath of the electorate, don't expect them to vote for you.

#13 of course I don't believe Trump. I despise Trump, do not support Trump, have never voted for Trump. Do I need to put that at the top of every message just to be clear?

#16 I would like to "ask the same of conservatives who like to trash talk all liberals and progressives", but theres only one or two here, and they are trolls I prefer to ignore. The rest of you have that covered.

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