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A newly discovered blind and burrowing amphibian is to be officially named Dermophis donaldtrumpi, in recognition of the US president’s climate change denial.
The name was chosen by the boss of https://www.envirobuild.com/blogs/articles/donald-trump-amphibian (EnviroBuild), a sustainable building materials company, who paid $25,000 (£19,800) at an auction for the right. The small, legless creature was found in Panama and EnviroBuild’s Aidan Bell said its ability to bury its head in the ground matched Donald Trump’s approach to global warming.
Alan Dershowitz, famed Harvard Law School professor and successful trial and appellate lawyer, is lying to you.
He's lying about American law — the subject he ostensibly teaches, the subject on which he is called upon as an expert — for partisan reasons, in order to defend President Trump and discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He's lying repeatedly, shamelessly, and angrily.
Professor Dershowitz's lies are, appropriately enough, of a professorial sort. Trading on his reputation as a legal titan, he's offering normative views (what the law should be) as descriptive views (what the law is.) ...
In short, there is no credible argument that Alan Dershowitz's repeated assertion is a correct statement of the law. It would be malpractice to advise a client that way. It would be deceitful to tell students. And it's dishonest to tell the nation without telling them that this is your theory of what the law should be, without revealing what the law is. Advocates push the boundaries of the law. They ought to. But honest advocacy doesn't involve lying about the current state of the law. Indeed, lawyers have an ethical obligation to reveal contrary authority when arguing in court, and judges will burn you down to the ground if you don't.
I would argue that legal experts — who trade on their reputation for knowing what the law is — have a similar ethical obligation to reveal when existing law flatly contradicts what they are arguing. That's particularly true where, as here, Dershowitz's argument hasn't just not succeeded yet — it's been repeatedly, specifically called wrong by every court to take it up.
The law is clear: the FBI can find irrefutable evidence of a crime, interview you about it, collect lies that it knows are lies and that do not deter it for a second, and then have you charged with lying under Section 1001. Is this what the law should be? No. I think it is not. I've been complaining for years that this definition of materiality lets the government, in effect, manufacture crimes. I've written about how it creates incentives for investigators to conduct interviews for the purposes of soliciting lies when they can't prove an underlying crime.
I've pointed out how it's been key to numerous prominent prosecutions. I think it gives the government dangerous and excessive power. But here's the difference: I have not lied to you about what the law is. I've told you what the law is and why I think it's wrong. That's what an ethical "legal expert" should do.
Alan Dershowitz is brilliant and experienced. This is not a failure of knowledge. This is a failure of character.
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He has a bone spur. Thats the reason he cant visit.
A federal judge today asked a prosecutor whether President Trump's first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, might be charged with treason. He stated that Flynn had sold his country out and openly lied to the FBI while on the grounds of the White House.
He was angry at Flynn and candidly, he should have been. As a general, as a senior intelligence official, and as a citizen Flynn should have known better. The chorus of partisans who have somehow argued that he was trapped or mistreated by the FBI, were shut down today.
Flynn, didn't just act as the agent of a despotic govt during the presidential campaign & while serving as nat'l security advisor. He didn't just lie to the FBI. He also repeatedly sought to undermine the policies of the Obama Admin during the transition-a violation of the law.
He sought to profit from his position and was willing to ignore US national interests and the law in so doing. And throughout he was uncomfortably cozy with a Russian regime that he knew was using covert measures to actively seek to tip the election to Donald Trump.
(He knew that, because we all knew that. Because it was public record. And surely, as a former head of DIA, he knew even more than the average American.)
He did all that while accepting one of the most important jobs in the US government and swearing, again, an oath to the US.
Think back. Not in Iran-Contra nor in Watergate, will you find acts of a similarly high placed official that so betrayed his country and his oath. The prosecutor said in response to the judge that they did not consider charging Flynn with treason.
While the Constitutional definition of treason speaks of aiding and abetting an enemy--and Flynn certainly did that--there are legal technicalities concerning declared wars and more that make it impossible to charge him with that crime.
But while saying he "sold out" America is strong, it is also somehow not enough. What do we call these people--like Trump and Flynn and Manafort and the others in the Trump orbit who sought the help of our enemies to win office, to defraud the American people?
What do we call them who regularly and reflexively lied about their Russian contacts--who clearly therefore knew what they were doing was wrong? What do we call those who put personal profit or power ahead of the interests of the people they were sworn to serve?
It is betrayal. And there is a word for a "person who betrays a friend, a country or a principle." It is traitor. And whether technically guilty of treason or conspiracy or collusion or not, it is clear that they have betrayed both their country...
...and principles central to our existence. And we must use the term because lesser words do not convey sufficiently the gravity of their wrong-doing. Never in our history have we had an official as senior as Flynn who was a traitor.
But now it is not just him but the president and the circle around him. Traitors. History will treat them and their crimes with contempt. But there is no reason to wait for history to call out them and what have they have done with the proper language.
Traitor and traitors. Betrayors. Criminals. Enemies of America. That's not hyperbole. That's what the facts show. And it is high time that they face justice and that they are removed from public life to face the consequences of their crimes.
Thread by @djrothkopf: "A federal judge today asked a prosecutor whether President Trump's first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, might be charged with tre […]"
He was angry at Flynn and candidly, he should have been. As a general, as a senior intelligence official, and as a citizen Flynn should have known better. The chorus of partisans who have somehow argued that he was trapped or mistreated by the FBI, were shut down today.
Flynn, didn't just act as the agent of a despotic govt during the presidential campaign & while serving as nat'l security advisor. He didn't just lie to the FBI. He also repeatedly sought to undermine the policies of the Obama Admin during the transition-a violation of the law.
He sought to profit from his position and was willing to ignore US national interests and the law in so doing. And throughout he was uncomfortably cozy with a Russian regime that he knew was using covert measures to actively seek to tip the election to Donald Trump.
(He knew that, because we all knew that. Because it was public record. And surely, as a former head of DIA, he knew even more than the average American.)
He did all that while accepting one of the most important jobs in the US government and swearing, again, an oath to the US.
Think back. Not in Iran-Contra nor in Watergate, will you find acts of a similarly high placed official that so betrayed his country and his oath. The prosecutor said in response to the judge that they did not consider charging Flynn with treason.
While the Constitutional definition of treason speaks of aiding and abetting an enemy--and Flynn certainly did that--there are legal technicalities concerning declared wars and more that make it impossible to charge him with that crime.
But while saying he "sold out" America is strong, it is also somehow not enough. What do we call these people--like Trump and Flynn and Manafort and the others in the Trump orbit who sought the help of our enemies to win office, to defraud the American people?
What do we call them who regularly and reflexively lied about their Russian contacts--who clearly therefore knew what they were doing was wrong? What do we call those who put personal profit or power ahead of the interests of the people they were sworn to serve?
It is betrayal. And there is a word for a "person who betrays a friend, a country or a principle." It is traitor. And whether technically guilty of treason or conspiracy or collusion or not, it is clear that they have betrayed both their country...
...and principles central to our existence. And we must use the term because lesser words do not convey sufficiently the gravity of their wrong-doing. Never in our history have we had an official as senior as Flynn who was a traitor.
But now it is not just him but the president and the circle around him. Traitors. History will treat them and their crimes with contempt. But there is no reason to wait for history to call out them and what have they have done with the proper language.
Traitor and traitors. Betrayors. Criminals. Enemies of America. That's not hyperbole. That's what the facts show. And it is high time that they face justice and that they are removed from public life to face the consequences of their crimes.
Thread by @djrothkopf: "A federal judge today asked a prosecutor whether President Trump's first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, might be charged with tre […]"
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^ The rats are jumping ship.
