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[ponchi101]

Ok. Let's see.
You are telling me that AI could actually REPLACE LAWYERS?
(Thoughts on changing my mind.... )

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Ok. Let's see.
You are telling me that AI could actually REPLACE LAWYERS?
(Thoughts on changing my mind.... )

Right?

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[Owendonovan]

My husband sat next to him on flight from NYC to DC and said nothing.

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[ponchi101]

Iowa and NH GOP voters could not care less about E. Jean Carroll. We know how they think.

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Airman Who Leaked Files Is Indicted on Charges of Mishandling Secrets
The airman, Jack Teixeira, 21, was arrested at his home in North Dighton, Mass., on April 13.

By Glenn Thrush
Reporting from Washington

June 15, 2023
Updated 6:32 p.m. ET

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who posted dozens of secret intelligence reports and other sensitive documents on a gaming server, on six counts of retaining and transmitting classified national defense information.

The filing of criminal charges against Airman Teixeira, 21, comes two months after F.B.I. agents arrested him at his home in North Dighton, Mass., on April 13.

Airman Teixeira has remained in federal custody after prosecutors presented evidence that he had a history of making violent and racist threats, had access to an arsenal of weapons and represented a risk of sharing sensitive information with foreign countries.

“The unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified information jeopardizes our nation’s security,” Joshua S. Levy, the acting U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, said in a statement. “Individuals granted access to classified materials have a fundamental duty to safeguard the information for the safety of the United States, our active service members, its citizens and its allies.”

“We are committed to ensuring that those entrusted with sensitive national security information adhere to the law,” he added.

Airman Teixeira’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Before his arrest, Air Force officials caught Airman Teixeira taking notes and conducting deep-dive searches for classified material months before he was charged with leaking a vast trove of government secrets, but did not remove him from his job, according to previous filings in the case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/p ... leaks.html

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From the ETTD files:

[ponchi101]

I could cry!!

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Hunter Biden expected to plead guilty to tax-related misdemeanor crimes as part of a plea agreement
The president's son was charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony firearm crime by a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney in Delaware.

June 20, 2023, 9:27 AM EDT / Updated June 20, 2023, 2:00 PM EDT
By Sarah Fitzpatrick and Tom Winter
The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware has reached a plea agreement with Hunter Biden, in which he is expected to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes. Biden also faces a separate felony gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed if he meets certain conditions, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.

Two sources familiar with the agreement told NBC News that it includes a provision in which the U.S. attorney has agreed to recommend probation for Biden for his tax violations. Legal experts also said that the tax and gun charges will most likely not result in any jail time for President Joe Biden’s son.

It’s the first time the Justice Department — part of the executive branch, headed by the president — has brought charges against a child of a sitting president.

The decision by U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2018, indicates an end to the sweeping, five-year investigation by federal prosecutors, FBI agents and IRS officials into Hunter Biden’s conduct. The Biden administration has kept Weiss in place in order to avoid having a U.S. attorney appointed by the president oversee his son’s criminal case.

Weiss's office said in a statement, "Hunter Biden received taxable income in excess of $1,500,000 annually in calendar years 2017 and 2018. Despite owing in excess of $100,000 in federal income taxes each year, he did not pay the income tax due for either year." Regarding the gun charge, the statement said, "from on or about October 12, 2018 through October 23, 2018, Hunter Biden possessed a firearm despite knowing he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance." Weiss's office also said that its investigation of Biden is ongoing.

Chris Clark, attorney for Hunter Biden, told NBC News in a statement: “With the announcement of two agreements between my client, Hunter Biden, and the Unites States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, it is my understanding that the five-year investigation into Hunter is resolved."

"Hunter will take responsibility for two instances of misdemeanor failure to file tax payments when due pursuant to a plea agreement. A firearm charge, which will be subject to a pretrial diversion agreement and will not be the subject of the plea agreement, will also be filed by the Government. I know Hunter believes it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life. He looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward.”

A White House spokesperson said, “The President and First Lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. We will have no further comment.”

Former President Donald Trump, who faces criminal charges for his alleged mishandling of classified documents, criticized the agreement in a post on his website Truth Social.

“The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere ‘traffic ticket.’ Our system is BROKEN,” Trump wrote.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-bi ... -rcna90144

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Aggregation via @threadreaderapp

Palmer Report
@PalmerReport

Why are Fox News personalities ranging from Bret Baier to Brit Hume all torching Donald Trump today? Why is Fox allowing him to? Because Trump is finished, and even Fox’s audience is starting to figure it out, and Fox has to keep pace with that in order to keep its audience.

As always, you don’t need to give anyone at Fox News any credit for finally torching Donald Trump. Fox isn’t doing it for the right reason. But this kind of thing is a reliable harbinger of how public opinion is shifting, even when it comes to the other side.

Fox News does not exist to help Republicans get elected. Fox News is a for-profit corporation that exists to drive revenue and ratings. Its right wing approach is just a means to an end for driving ratings. Its goal is to make money, not to help its “side” win elections.

Trump is ten days into a DOJ Espionage Act indictment and he’s maybe twenty days from another DOJ indictment for January 6th, and maybe forty days from a Fulton County RICO indictment. He’ll have four criminal trials well before the election. Four!

Even right wingers are about to start putting it together that he’s simply not going to be politically viable. And because he can’t even provide an answer on why he kept the classified documents, he’s making it so much harder for right wingers to keep the faith with him.

And so even as Fox News viewers are increasingly scratching their heads and wondering “why didn’t the idiot just return the boxes,” Fox News has to match that same tone in order to keep its viewers staring at the screen all day.

After all, (approximately) eleven billion other Republicans have all jumped in the 2024 presidential race, because they know Trump is toast, and half of them are now bashing Trump for not returning the boxes. Fox News knows its audience is hearing that.

So Fox News is just doing what all soulless for-profit mega corporations do whenever they see their target market shifting in a certain direction: they match their target market’s tone so that they can retain that market.

Remember, this is never about whether anyone at Fox News is has “grown a spine” or “deserves credit” or “is still bad.” Who cares? What matters is that Fox’s sudden anti-Trump shift is a *very clear* indicator that right wing audiences are also shifting away from Trump.

Nor does it matter that some Fox News personalities like Hannity will try to hang in there with Trump a bit longer than the rest of the network. Again, who cares? This isn’t about who at Fox is “good” or “bad.” It’s about Trump falling so far that even Fox is now tiptoeing away.

If you only follow politics so you can feel outrage, you’ll be so desperate to spin this into “but Fox is still bad” so you can keep feeling outrage toward Fox, you’ll miss the entire point, which is that Trump is toast.

Of course the outrage addicts on our side don’t want to hear that Trump is toast either, because they’re afraid that when he goes down, they won’t be able to feel as much outrage toward him going forward. And their only reason for living is to get to feel outrage.


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1670 ... 79684.html

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If AG Fani Willis in Georgia goes for RICO...

I mean even MAGAt's understand what espionage means, and almost everyone has a rudimentary knowledge of what RICO means.

[ponchi101]

I'll believe he is toast when he is dressed in orange, INSIDE THE PRISON.
Not before.