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By Josh Marshall
May 10, 2019 3:54 pm
Last night at our DC event I picked up on a question someone had been asked on the panel: Basically, how bad can it get? To me its already gotten that bad and in a way and place that is at once front and center and yet oddly invisible. Virtually everyone closely involved in the origins of the Russia probe has either been fired, had their career ended or in key cases face real threats of imprisonment: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Baker, Ohr I could list off at least half a dozen other names. Some of these folks will be fine. And in most cases the criminal jeopardy is probably somewhat notional. But its not about the individual people. Its the warning it sends to everyone else through the federal bureaucracy law enforcement, intelligence and everywhere else that the real law is power. This is how autocrats discipline and destroy civil institutions and the rule of law. One of these people, former FBI general counsel Jim Baker spoke out for the first time this afternoon at an event at Brookings. Tierney Sneed was there.
bhikkhu
(10,728 posts)to how bad it can get, for at what point they might become concerned. As long as the economy chugs along and the Great Ship is upright, there's a lot of people who don't care about the worms in the keel or whether anyone is manning the sails.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)triron
(22,031 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)More Republicans are coming out . . .
This means, they are talking among themselves that time is up.
robbob
(3,546 posts)Unfortunately, this has always been so.
Did you read the op? I assume thats Josh Marshall talking/writing, and he says the real law is power.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,504 posts)Just ask anyone running even for state offices what their campaign costs.
Just look at the global power Russia and Saudi Arabia have just because they're sitting on oil reserves.
Just ask any poor young kid locked up for minor possession that can't make bail or hire a lawyer. Or conversely, ask any rich kid that walks even after being charged with rape.
We'll stay in this slow, downward spiral until we find ways to deconstruct the mostly hidden global plutocracy......