Former Justice Department prosecutor Carmen Mercedes Lineberger has been indicted for allegedly removing confidential Justice Department material and then concealing her efforts. Lineberger is accused of secretly transferring Jack Smith’s final report and hiding the material under files labeled “chocolate cake recipe” and “bundt cake recipe.” There has not been a greater recipe for disaster since aides tried to fit all of Biden’s candles on a cake. The case is particularly interesting because there was another person who was accused of a secret removal of Justice Department material who was not prosecuted: former FBI Director James Comey.
Linebarger, 62, of Port St. Lucie, Florida, has been indicted on four criminal charges: one felony count of obstruction of justice, one felony count of concealing government records and two misdemeanor counts of theft of government property valued at less than $1,000.
According to the indictment, Lineberger altered electronic file names of government records to conceal unauthorized transmissions of the documents to her personal email accounts and used file names for cake recipes to conceal her possession of the confidential information.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon blocked the public release of the report after the prosecution collapsed against the President.
The Justice Department alleges that Lineberger received a copy of Smith’s report before the court sealed it. Months later, she allegedly decided to transfer it to her personal email account in violation of the court order and Justice Department rules.
She has now pleaded not guilty and faces up to 20 years on the obstruction charge and other charges.
The decision is notable for a couple of reasons.
First, Smith made one last move in dismissing the case against Trump that left the door open to resuming his prosecution. Smith moved to dismiss the indictment “without prejudice” and then stressed to the court that the Department has previously “noted the possibility that a court might equitably toll the statute of limitations to permit proceeding against the President once out of office.” In other words, Trump could be prosecuted after he leaves office.
It is not known what the motive might have been in this transfer. One possibility would be a type of souvenir or trophy grab, which would be ironic given Smith’s suggestion that Trump may have transferred classified material for that type of possessory thrill. Another is the possible use for a book. Finally, there might have been a desire to preserve evidence to avoid destruction during the Trump years or possible release to the media.
The second notable aspect is that Comey was accused of such a knowing removal, but he was never actually prosecuted.
There was no court order governing the material removed by Comey after his firing, but it was clearly departmental material.
The Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, found that Comey was a leaker and had violated FBI policy in his handling of FBI memos. He found that Comey grabbed the material on his way out of the Bureau, including those containing the “code name and true identity” of a sensitive source.
While he did not find a disclosure of the classified information, Horowitz found that Comey took “the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, to achieve a personally desired outcome.” He further added that Comey “set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees—and the many thousands of more former FBI employees—who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”
Comey later admitted that he asked his friend, Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman, to leak information from the documents to the New York Times.
While Comey is facing a weak criminal case over threats conveyed through beach shells, some of us saw his conduct in removing this material as a more serious breach.
Comey went on to write books on “ethical leadership” and recently sent a message to current FBI personnel that they should “hang on” and wait out Trump: “In two and a half years, and then we can rebuild.”
Rebuilding the bureau in Comey’s image is a truly chilling notion. Those “good old days” with Comey allowed agents to launch a baseless Russian collusion investigation at the behest of the Clinton campaign and lie to a secret court to secure surveillance of Trump figures.
In the meantime, it will be Lineberger, not Comey, who will face a jury for the removal of confidential material.
For Lineberger, these types of charges tend to be cut-and-dried for prosecutors if they can show that the material was restricted and that she took steps to conceal the alleged theft. While she gained access before the court order, she allegedly transferred the material after the order and then hid the material in files labeled as cake recipes. If those facts can be established in court, prosecutors likely believe that she can stick a fork in herself because she is done.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
An earlier version of this column ran on Fox.com
Lawfare as a political tool has been a new Black Plague. Biden and Trump turned it into Standard Operating Procedure.
I agree they have both been awful. But the Democrats are highly skilled in lawfare for decades, whereas the current Republican junta came to it lately.
The J6 protesters should have been prosecuted for tresspass or riot or some other more appropriate charges, laying it on thick with “insurrection” was a very bad idea and will continue to produce a backlash for another decade. People remember excess when they see it.,
“You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.”
who are you quoting?
Please correct me if I’m wrong JT, Did you write about this?
“Tennessee just paid a retired cop $835,000 after he was put in jail for 37 days over a meme about Charlie Kirk. The meme quoted Donald Trump.”
LOL you think memes are the gods honest truth. What a fool. I have seem more lies in memes than in the Democrats communist platform.
That Tennessee story is mainstream news.
Slush Fund Violates Pam Bondi Memo
On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit an arrangement like the $1.8 billion fund. The memo, titled “Reinstating the Prohibitions on Improper Third Party Settlements,” revived a Justice Department policy that the Trump administration adopted in 2017 and the Biden administration subsequently canceled.
The memo said that except in “limited circumstances,” the department should not use settlements “to require payments to nongovernmental, third-party organizations that were neither victims nor parties to the lawsuits.”
The new fund, however, appears to be structured to steer a large pot of money to third-party claimants, most of whom have not filed suits and may never file suits now that there is a fund.
The purpose of the Bondi memo was to bar the kinds of arrangements sometimes made during the Obama administration, particularly with large financial institutions, that directed money to nongovernmental organizations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-explainer.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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This DOJ has lost all credibility. Therefore one has to ask how real this case against Lineberger might be. And isn’t it odd this Lineberger indictment comes right on top of the slush fund announcement?
Senate Republicans Hold Off Votes Over Slush Fund
Senate Republicans have canceled plans to begin voting this week on a budget reconciliation package that would provide approximately $70 billion to fund immigration enforcement operations through 2029 amid a furious disagreement within their conference over the Trump administration’s proposal to establish a $1.8 billion compensation fund for MAGA allies.
Senate Republicans emerging from a lengthy meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said they expect to leave Washington for the Memorial Day recess without voting on the budget reconciliation package that has stalled over disagreements among Republicans over how to put guardrails on the so-called anti-weaponization fund.
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) said she didn’t want any people who assaulted police officers at the Capitol on that day to receive compensation.
Britt also said she didn’t expect the Senate Budget Committee to unveil the budget reconciliation bill’s text anytime soon.
Republican lawmakers are also divided over whether to include money for the Secret Service amid a controversy over the prospect the money could be used to construct President Trump’s 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5889668-budget-reconciliation-anti-weaponization-fund-republicans/
Slush Fund: GOP Senators Vent At Todd Blanche
When Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, arrived at the Capitol on Thursday to meet with Republicans questioning the Justice Department fund that President Trump has said he wants to use to pay people who claim to have been unfairly targeted by the government, he may have expected a few strident complaints.
Instead, what unfolded in an ornate room just off the Senate floor on Thursday morning was a two-hour blowup in which dozens of Republican senators vented their anger and concern about the president’s fund at Mr. Blanche.
Inside the room, according to people familiar with the session, Mr. Blanche came under withering questioning and criticism from the majority of Republicans about the fund. They were incredulous that they were just learning about it, and deeply dissatisfied with the acting attorney general’s answers to queries about how it would work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/politics/trump-fund-congress-limits.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Again, this DOJ has exhausted all credibility. Even Republicans are furious with Todd Blanche. No one is even talking about the Lineberger indictment.
Processing of legal immigration paperwork has slowed to standstill. The Trump administration only moves its backside quickly for Israel it seems. If your foreign friends come from anywhere else, “fugheddaboudit”
President Obama established a compensation fund in response to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The federal government created the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) — initially administered by BP under an agreement with the Department of Justice and later overseen by Ken Feinberg after a separate claims process was set up — and the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and other mechanisms were used to pay claims and cleanup costs. That response and the legal settlements (including BP’s multibillion‑dollar civil and criminal settlements) are often cited as a precedent for large, administered compensation programs after disasters.
The Obama administration used the Judgment Fund to create large settlement-based compensation programs (notably the Keepseagle Native American farmers settlement), which officials and commentators point to as precedent for later executive-created funds.
In Keepseagle and related USDA discrimination suits the government settled and placed hundreds of millions into a claims fund administered to compensate affected farmers; those settlements have been cited by DOJ as precedent for using the Judgment Fund and settlement structures to set up compensation programs.
Though this one is not from a lawsuit it is still a government compensation fund.
On December 18, 2015, President Obama signed into law the James Zadroga 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Reauthorization Act (the “Reauthorized Zadroga Act”). The Act extends the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 which provides compensation to any individual (or a personal representative of a deceased individual) who suffered physical harm or was killed as a result of the terrorist-related aircraft crashes of September 11, 2001, or the rescue and recovery efforts during the immediate aftermath of such crashes or the debris removal efforts that took place in the immediate aftermath of those crashes.
If the Democrats would win, that would put an end to reparations talk. That would be a compensation fund and set a precedent.
President Trump should then take the whole $10 billion settlement and set up his own nonprofit compensation fund.
It explains why Trump won the lawsuit and how the amount was figured as a mathematical formula by the court. With facts and evidence. Something Democrats and Trolls don’t posses.
https://youtu.be/3tUHD8CEIpE
Trumps proposal is not cy pres. Completely different.
Smells of a rather cheesy subterfuge. She certainly did cut it didn’t she?
She should be disbarred at the very least.
I cheddar at your pun. It made me fromage at the mouth. That is more than a nit pecorino.
HAHA all the crap they flung at Trump ends up hitting them in their own face!
There is nothing to fear from these deep state and lawfare actors, they are utterly inept.
Tell it to Epstein who was at the service of the “Deep State” guys sorry to tell you.
If Donald Trump had no obligation to answer for retaining government documents, why should Lineberger have to answer?? It’s a double standard to presume she should.
She was not authorized and she is not the POTUS, like Trump was at the time and is now.
Farmer, Trump was never authorized to take the documents he retained. So it IS a double-standard. And if Jack Smith couldn’t present his case, this DOJ certainly shouldn’t be allowed. After the slush fund announcement, this DOJ is barely legit at best.
Excuse me, do you know who boxed the documents and sent them to Mara Lago?
The President of the United States can take whatever he wants, however he is required to maintain high level security procedures and protection over those documents. Whereas a VP cannot for he doesn’t have that power or privilege and a cardboard box in the garage does not meet the standard. The President can declassify whatever he wishes, he is the Chief Executive Officer, number One.
“Trump was never authorized to take the documents he retained”
Insincere. You know.
Please tell me who the authority is, that “allows” a President to take documents. I’ll wait.
Oh, what was this ‘slush fund’ for? I’ll wait.
He’s the Commander and Chief, he is fully authorized by his position under the powers of his Presidency.
I have no idea what “slush fund” you’re referring to. Leaking someone’s tax returns is illegal and there are consequences…
8, I was addressing Anon who didn’t mention the violation of Trump’s rights as the reason.
If Trump can take whatever he wants, according to MAGA, they why did the National Archives demand the return of the documents? Why did Trump lie when he claimed he returned all of them, so when the Archives checked, they knew there were still classified documents he retained, and they contacted the DOJ, which obtained a warrant and went to MAL and reclaimed them. It is a MAGA lie, started by Trump, that he “mentally declassified” classified documents–that cannot be done, and was NOT done.
If you don’t know what the “slush fund” is, you haven’t been paying attention to real media that is not MAGA. Trump sued the federal government, claiming damages for the leak, by an IRS contractor, of his tax returns. The lawsuit was filed outside of the 2-year statute of limitations, and Trump lied by claiming that he was unaware of the leak, so as to toll the running of the statute. A news conference given by Alina Habba, his attorney, proves this is a lie–she complained about the leak. The case was not timely filed. The federal judge overseeing the case ordered the parties to brief the issue of adversity of interest–Trump was both the named Plaintiff and de facto Defendant, since he had the power to decide whether to settle, for how much and the terms of the settlement WITH HIMSELF. If there is not adversity of interests, there is no federal jurisdiction. Briefing was due May 18, so Blanche “settled” the case for $1,776 Billion right before briefing was due because he knew he couldn’t defend it. AND the “settlement” contained a provision that the IRS can NEVER audit Trump, any member of his family or any company of his, and that the IRS cannot prosecute them for any tax-related crimes. Blanche would appoint a “commission” of people he names who can dole out the money in any amount to anybody they want, and can remove members of the “commission” for any reason or no reason, without recourse or oversight. When confronted about the provision that the IRS can never audit or prosecute Trump or his family or companies, Trump said he knew nothing about the settlement. So, is Trump lying or is Blanche lying?
IMHO, Blanche engaged in unethical behavior for the following reasons: 1. he had a fiduciary duty to the citizens of the United States to defend the case–there was no adversity of interest, and the case should have been, and would have been, dismissed but for the settlement; if anyone else besides Trump was a party, the case would have been summarily dismissed; 2. the claim was bogus—the statute of limitations was a complete defense that Blanche was duty-bound to raise–he failed to do this; Blanche has a duty not to give away tax money for bogus claims; 3. Trump said that he knew nothing about the settlement or its terms–if that is true, then Blanche violated the Rules of Professional Conduct by settling a case without authorization from his client; 4. the “commmission” is totally illegal–Blanche said that even J6 participants who were found guilty by a jury of their peers could apply for damages for “lawfare”–that their prosecution was politically-motivated–a defense that was raised and rejected by juries who tried these cases. The remedy for an adverse verdict was an appeal–you can’t overturn a jury verdict in this manner; 5. Only Congress can decide how to dole out our tax dollars. J 6 Defendants are bragging on social media about the new cars, new houses and other things they are going to purchase with our tax money. BTW: the cops who were beaten up got zilch. Some of them could not return to police work. Some of them are suffering from PTSD. This slush fund scheme is a slap in their faces. The J 6 Defendants are criminals–beating up the Capitol Police who were defending members of Congress was a crime, as was breaking into the building and doing millions of property damage that the taxpayers had to cover. It is outrageous that these bums not only received a pardon, but a financial reward.
Sorry, to prevent further brain damage I went right to the last sentence…A financial reward? Awesome!
USAID and the Democratic fraud machine has bilked billions if not trillions out of our treasury at least since 2008. What’s your spin on that? Hey, where’s Ilhan Omar and Tampon Tim Walz on battling Minnesota billion dollar fraud tunnel to Somalialand? No strings attached… How much taxpayer dollars went to deporting Mayorkas and Bidens open border Bullchit, how many American lives? Where’s your deep concern for that, all blatant violations of law.
Crickets
There’s so much wrong with your thinking, I wouldn’t know where to begin. You are either deeply delusional or paid to write the garbage you write. Even Republicans are pushing back on the slush fund and ballroom we don’t want. They left town for a week and won’t give Trump the money he wants from our treasury. Opposition is growing as more and more Americans are outraged that our tax dollars are being used to enrich criminals who attacked our Capitol and beat up the police while Trump admits he doesn’t care about the financial fallout from the war he decided to wage. At least we agree that you have brain damage. USAID not only saved millions of lives and not only was the moral thing to do–out of our plenteous bounty, we were able to help out people suffering the effects of war and drought–neither of which are the fault of the women and children who suffer disproportionately. The peanut paste formulated for starving children was manufactured here in the US–it benefitted peanut growers in the South. Not only did we save lives, the aid we provided had the effect of creating a positive view of the United States as a caring and generous country in developing countries. It wasn’t just food aid desperately needed for starving people, it was immunizations and financial aid to provide doctors, nurses, clinics and supplies for prenatal and pediatric care. Hundreds of thousands have died as a result of the US pulling aid. China is already moving in to take our place in some areas of Africa where they can take advantage of rare earth minerals and other natural resources that we will lose access to. That’s another reason that pulling USAID was a dumb mistake even if you ignore the humanitarian reasons–Africa is a rich source of many resources we need and now we are seen as being run by billionaires who don’t want to pay taxes and don’t care if children die of starvation. Instead of funding USAID, Trump is giving tax breaks to his billionaire contributors and giving away our money to Israel in the form of cash and weapons so they can bomb Lebanon. There has been no fraud proven in Minnesota–just more MAGA lies. There has been no fraud proven regarding USAID–as Bill Gates said when Elon Musk pulled the funding: “the world’s richest man is killing the world’s poorest children.”
So, you think it is “awesome” to reward people who tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power based on a lie? So, it’s OK with you to beat up police officers who were responsible for protecting members of Congress, and to not only pardon them but pay them our taxpayer money because they were arrested, many of them tried and convicted by a jury of their peers–because they tried to help a pathological liar who couldn’t accept the fact that he lost the election? Trump doesn’t care about the law, about morality, about Congress, about taxpayers or anything other than his ego. He KNOWS he’s a lame duck and his days are numbered, so he’s going to get as much adulation as he can while he can. In 2020, he got his enormous ass kicked by Joe Biden, who successfully turned around the economy Trump broke, got the pandemic he botched under control, and got America back to work, back to school, and back to taking vacations again. Trump’s ego can’t stand that Biden was more successful than he was, so he’s going to get revenge–he’s going to take our tax money and enrich the Proud Boys, the 3 Percenters, the Neo Nazis and other cretins who tried to stop Biden’s victory based on his lie, thus incentivizing further such attacks while he is in office. He and MAGA media portray this trash as heroes–they are anything but–several of them are child molesters and otherwise have criminal histories. The Capitol Police are portrayed as the bad guys. This is an outrageous flip of reality. All based on that ego–Trump can’t be wrong. Trump cannot have lost in 2020 and that is what is driving the slush fund–the people who tried to help him cheat to stay in office deserve a reward, so it was OK for them to beat up police officers. If you can’t see what’s wrong with that, you are blind. Or, maybe you’re just well paid.
He’s going to take ballots in states he lost, that have been recounted over and over again, and he’s going to claim they show he really won. He’s going after Comey, Jack Smith, and anyone else who tried to bring him to justice for the Big Lie and the insurrection–and why? Because of that ego. He can’t be wrong, and he will lie, manipulate and do everything possible to try to reverse history and the truth–but it won’t work. That same ego drives him to tear down part of our White House and to build a vanity ballroom no one wants, after lying about it being privately financed, and without the consent or approval of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Congress or anyone else–because he doesn’t care that the White House belongs to the people, that it is historic, that it was designed to look a certain way and the dumb, unnecessary ballroom would destroy the aesthetics of the White House itself by dwarfing it. That same ego that drives him to paint the reflecting pool and to try to build a 250 ft. monument to himself that would block the view to Arlington National Cemetery, to put his name above JFK on the JFK Center For Performing Arts. It’s going to cost us a fortune to tear down the ballroom if it gets built–and it WILL get torn down, to rebuild the East Wing (and it WILL get rebuilt), to strip that blue paint off of the granite of the reflecting pool (we may have to replace it entirely, but it’s not going to stay that way), to pry off Trump’s name from the JFK Center for Performing Arts, to pry off all of the gaudy gold embellishments in the Oval Office, to restore Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden and get rid of the other artifacts of Trump’s ego. Trump thinks he can “make” himself “great” and create some kind of lasting legacy to his ego by redesigning the White House, the Lincoln Memorial and the views of Arlington National Cemetery. He can’t. Current polling is 31% approval. Republicans can’t keep ignoring the reality that the overwhelming majority of us want this crap stopped.
Slush fund? The same slush fund judge Moore used for the courthouse rock video? Spare change…
What was in the stolen documents hidden in the cake recipes? A secret? Which one?
The Verdict- I wanted to be a nurse!
Bless your heart….
If the owner of the company can have a key to the building why can’t the kid that was hired two weeks ago?
This is the level of intelligence we on the right have to deal with.
And your comment is an example of the level of intelligence WE on the right have to deal with…
Insincere. You know why. If you admit you don’t know, you are admitting you are dumb. You know.
Turley: you just have to stop repeating this MAGA lie: “Comey allowed agents to launch a baseless Russian collusion investigation at the behest of the Clinton campaign and lie to a secret court to secure surveillance of Trump figures.”
1. The Clinton campaign was NOT the impetus for the investigation into Russia’s collusion with the Trump campaign. The investigation was the result of George Papadoloulos telling an Australian diplomat in London that Russia had “dirt” in Hillary Clinton. That information was transmitted to the FBI. Both a Republican–led Senate committee and Mueller’s investigation concluded that there were ties between Trump’s campaign and Russians, some of whom hacked into Hillary Clinton’s computer. You will recall that Trump refused to be deposed or to testify on the matter.
2. The Russian collusion investigation was not “baseless” . From ‘PBS”, dateline 8.18/2020:
“The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help.
The nearly 1,000-page report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, details how Russia launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the election on Trump’s behalf. It says the Trump campaign chairman had regular contact with a Russian intelligence officer and says other Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
The report is the culmination of a bipartisan probe that produced what the committee called “the most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed.” The investigation spanned more than three years as the panel’s leaders said they wanted to thoroughly document the unprecedented attack on U.S. elections.
The findings, including unflinching characterizations of furtive interactions between Trump associates and Russian operatives, echo to a large degree those of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and appear to repudiate the Republican president’s claims that the FBI had no basis to investigate whether his campaign was conspiring with Russia. Trump has called the Russia investigations a “hoax.””
In MAGAverse, lies keep getting repeated over and over again, but they are still lies–just like Trump continuing to lie about losing in 2020 and getting syncophantic losers to deny that he loss. He even got Tulsi Gabbard to seize voter rolls and ballots, to try to turn the lie about his loss into the truth.
Our European allies actually view Trump as a ‘Putin ally’. They honestly do! That’s no exaggeration!!
Therefore this idea that the Russia investigation was a ‘hoax’ is rank cynicism
Newly declassified evidence suggests FBI conspired with Clinton to legitimize Russiagate allegations
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/damning-classified-annex-durham-clinton-plan-intel-released
‘Shut it down’: Bombshell FBI timeline exposes political interference in Clinton corruption probe
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/shut-it-down-bombshell-fbi-timeline-chronicles-political-interference
So, because our European friends learn American news from the New York Times, they can confirm the fabrications of the New York Times? QED
You mean the allies that helped in Iran?
FBI documents show agency sat on intel on potential China plan to meddle in 2020 election for Biden
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-documents-show-it-sat-intel-potential-chinese-plan-meddle-2020
Dems fight Gabbard’s disclosure with faulty Senate report that claimed Steele Dossier wasn’t in ICA
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dems-combat-gabbard-declass-pointing-senate-report-which-wrongly?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Dude
Did you not read and/or listen to what was revealed about this from the burn bags and the Mueller report?! You are stuck on dumazz, Empty. It was CLINTON colluding with ex-foreign intelligence agents to create a smear campaign. Every bit of it. Fulton county ballots speak for themselves, corruption.
EightBall,
Correct.
I have posted the newly declassifed documentation showing the links to Clinton and the hoax debunking old Democrat/MSM narrative that Gigi desperately clings to.
Declassified intel ties Soros to Clinton’s Russiagate plan for FBI to ‘put more oil into the fire’
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/clinton-plan-tying-trump-russia-had-hope-fbi-will-put-more-oil-fire
Former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger admitted in 2005 that he unlawfully removed classified documents from the National Archives while preparing for testimony before the 9/11 Commission. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge involving unauthorized removal and retention of classified material after concealing documents in his jacket, socks, and pants, and later destroying some of them.
And he got a slap on the wrist.
Are we to gather, Lindbergh ‘took government documents’? According to Judge Cannon, that’s no big deal at all.
So did biden before he became the Prez.
Feel like a fool now.
“She has now pleaded not guilty and faces up to 20 years on the obstruction charge and other charges.”
– Professor Turley
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If a defendant is found guilty, does his “not guilty” plea constitute actionable perjury?
No.
No, of course not.
So his “not guilty” plea, which is irrefutably perjury, is protected perjury?
Who dreamed that one up?
Did he swear an oath to tell the truth, so help him God?
Who steals classified materials? Enemies, spies, saboteurs, power-brokers, traitors.
Who did I leave out?
Trump
Defend the criminal much?
Trump can’t steal any classified documents, he OWNS them! libs can’t handle this one fact yet you know it’s true.
Just deal with it, you don’t ‘have him now!’.
Trump wields the power of the Presidency and you cannot stand it! It’s very entertaining.
Biden.
“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
OT
BLAME GAME?
“…because you don’t want real history taught in our schools because you’re afraid that it’s going to hurt people’s feelings to know that their ancestors were so savage that they would enslave Black folk…”
– Jasmine Crockett
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Jasmine Crockett fails to mention the basis for slavery in the British colonies, which was the monumental effort of her ancestral African tribal chiefs who abducted and sold the ancestors of Crockett et al. to Arab slave traders who sold them to British shippers who delivered them to British planters in the British colonies.
All that history ever needed to do to preclude slavery was stop the African tribal chiefs from capturing and selling Africans.
“the monumental effort of her ancestral African tribal chiefs who abducted and sold the ancestors of Crockett et al. to Arab slave traders”
Largely valid, with one minor nitpick. It was usually a rival tribes abducting members of another to sell them into slavery, so Crockett’s ancestors were probably taken and sold by a different tribe.
Omg, don’t forget Rwanda and the slaughter. The neglected population were the pygmies native to rwanda who ran into Congo, were slaughtered there and eaten.
Omg
As a fan of the Professor, I find a habit of his distressing. I refer to the “some of us” phrase that he often uses including in this column, as in “as some of us have been saying”. He never links to any of the other “us” people. As such it seems that he uses this construction to add the weight of ” I am not alone in this opinion” without identifying any of the others who share his opinion. It is a clunky distracting phrase to otherwise insightful work.
The “us” refers to his overlords at Fox and NY Post who pay him big bucks for this propaganda
How is it propaganda if Lineberger is the one who knowingly took the documents, altered the documents and then renamed them as cake recipes to evade detection when she emailed them to her personal email account?
Seems like propaganda to claim the documents were altered when according to the indictment, only file names were altered.
“Seems like propaganda to claim the documents were altered when according to the indictment, only file names were altered.”
Meh. Seems more like the typical prosecutor tactic of bringing a laundry list of charges to guard against dismissal of some, and to add incentive for the defendant to plea out. I don’t particularly like it, but it is pretty much the norm.
A writer who worked for Time magazine said the first story he submitted said “some people think” and his editor changed it to “millions of people think”.
I mean, aside from the irony of Trump himself stealing God-knows how many boxes of classified and top secret materials and storing them in the Mar-A-Lago commode, and aside from the irony of Turley taking a dig at Biden’s advanced years while we are visibly watching Trump’s decrepit body rot in front of our eyes, is just the rank juvenile writing on Turley’s part. As it turns on, the “Mike Lindell with tenure,” as Turley has been so accurately described,” is just not a very good writer….
Doesn’t POTUS have the power to declassify anything without permission or formal process? That doesn’t square with your accusation of “stealing” does it?
Still pushing the “Trump’s decrepit body rot in front of our eyes” lie for how long now? Six months? Nine?
“Mike Lindell with tenure,” is not accurate at all. Mike Lindell is a businessman. PT is a professor, written two best selling books, is invited to speak at various venues, testified on Capitol Hill several times, and writes legal analysis for The Hill, USA Today, The NY Post and others.
Only the president and commander in chief possess the executive power to classify and declassify material.
Congress may pass no law that usurps and exercises executive power or the power of the commander-in-chief.
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Article 2, Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
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Article 2, Section 2
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States….
^^MSNBC true-believer here^^
You’ve got TDS!
Turley Writes:
“While Comey is facing a weak criminal case over threats conveyed through beach shells..
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Yes, the seashell case is weak indeed. Why is this case any more credible?
the recipe angle indicates she knew she needed to hide them and therefore wrong to take them. intent.
The two cases are not similar except for the demonstrations of democrat malfeasance.
Oh, Linerberger took government documents? I thought that wasn’t a crime?
If you are not authorized to take them, or you are not the POTUS, then yes it is a crime.
cmon. insincere is the hallmark of a weak argument. Get in gear or get out.
It’s only a crime if you are Trump apparently. If you aren’t a President, and you are on the left….you can do whatever you want, with no consequences, as we have seen proven over and over again.
Because the “offense”, unlike the sea shell case, is unambiguously illegal.
Comey’s 8647 was not part of an election campaign, the unavailability of a menu item, quickly exiting a speakeasy, or an impeachment effort. In Comey’s 8647 case, the only possible method for “getting rid of” Trump was assassination.
The judge took an oath and ultimately will have to accept her guilty plea. But no real consequence will befall her, like the infamous Sandy Berger and Kevin Clinesmith.
Except the jurisdiction is Florida, not Virginia. May have an impact.
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead knew the birthday cake was spiked. But ate some frosting anyway.
Karl Marx to a tee!