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How to kick your own ass in the US.Kash Patel Is Getting in the Way of His Own RetributionThere are rules about identifying the defendants before the crimes.LAVRENTY BERIA, THE HEAD OF THE SOVIET secret police is (perhaps apocryphally) remembered for saying, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” That chilling phrase is the very definition of what, in American law, we call a vindictive prosecution—the claim that a prosecution is being brought as retribution against a person for acts that are unrelated to the crime being charged.... if Kash Patel becomes director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as President Trump has suggested he should, he will be the poster child of vindictiveness—and his infamous public declarations of retribution may lead to the dismissal of any politically motivated prosecutions he initiates against his enemies list of “Deep State” opponents.....Patel’s nomination presents senators with a stark moral choice: They can allow Trump to pay no price for firing the FBI director whom he appointed just seven years ago (and who therefore still has three years left on his term) and replace him with someone whose interest is not in enforcing the law but in punishing his perceived enemies, or they can force Trump to nominate someone who doesn’t sound like an American Beria bent on Stalinesque vindictiveness.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-getting-in-way-of-his-own-retribution[/URL]
How to kick your own ass in the US.
LAVRENTY BERIA, THE HEAD OF THE SOVIET secret police is (perhaps apocryphally) remembered for saying, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” That chilling phrase is the very definition of what, in American law, we call a vindictive prosecution—the claim that a prosecution is being brought as retribution against a person for acts that are unrelated to the crime being charged.
... if Kash Patel becomes director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as President Trump has suggested he should, he will be the poster child of vindictiveness—and his infamous public declarations of retribution may lead to the dismissal of any politically motivated prosecutions he initiates against his enemies list of “Deep State” opponents.
....Patel’s nomination presents senators with a stark moral choice: They can allow Trump to pay no price for firing the FBI director whom he appointed just seven years ago (and who therefore still has three years left on his term) and replace him with someone whose interest is not in enforcing the law but in punishing his perceived enemies, or they can force Trump to nominate someone who doesn’t sound like an American Beria bent on Stalinesque vindictiveness.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-getting-in-way-of-his-own-retribution[/URL]
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