A March 6th Executive Order targeting the Clinton-aligned firm Perkins Coie for its role in promulgating the Steele Dossier raised eyebrows, and was criticized by the National Review for moving too far in the direction of mere “payback.”
Fine, call it payback. But what we need is some basic legal accountability for this pile of malice we had to deal with for the last eight years.
100% self-thought "principled conservative Never Trumper's who would rather lose gracefully than go down fighting. They lost me when they let VDH walk.
VDH was the last straw for me too, but it started with Mark Steyn. I stuck around for VDH and I always like James Lileks but I can get James Substack and elsewhere. Have they been bought by someone like everyone thinks happened to Drudge?
03/17/25: I too was surprised that anyone is paying any attention at all to the National Review any longer.
They're really in the same category as the NY Jets and NY Giants.
It's a legal obligation to list all three corporations in their respective professional standings. But what and how all three do after that is of interest to very few people, other than the rich saps who pay to keep the two teams and the magazine in business.
All three are paid to be professional losers. And as the pre-Trump RINOs found out, filling such a niche can be quite lucrative, which is why they reacted to his candidacy in complete panic in 2015-2016. Which was fun to watch, wasn't it?
03/18/25: In principle, I have nothing against them. But Jerry Jones is going off into mental outer space in 2025 and this is bound to seriously erode their competitiveness. Especially when they somehow let Cooper Rush get away (to Baltimore).
03/18/25: Mea culpa! That is a pretty awkward way to use a word. Let's put it this way: When a sports owner loses his mind, the ripple effects hit almost everything, and not to the good. Exhibit A: George Steinbrenner.
Yeah, at least the Jets have a crazy owner/owner's son and who knows who runs the Giants anymore. With the money he could have saved extending Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb before their markets increased even more, ole Jerry could have saved Cooper Rush from leaving and had tons left over. After Myles Garrett's extension, we know the same thing will happen with Micah Parsons. I think it was Demarcus Lawrence who described the situation best when Jerry urged stars--through the media--to take less on contract extensions so he could sign more players. DLaw says "that sounds like a YOU problem, not a ME problem."
Yep, but what you’re really pointing out is how trigger-happy people can be when a commenter doesn’t use quotation marks, so let that be a lesson. Not everyone who reads MT is as judicious as he is. Thank God we have him. But for crissake Racketeers - take a chill pill!
I actually make myself sit thru CNN and MSNBC occasionally, but I must admit it’s usually to hard to stomach. I remember reading, free, The Economist for a while until I couldn’t take their bias and then alas my WSJ subscription I canceled about 6 years ago when the opinion section journalists were being threatened by their coworkers. I had read that paper for 30 years. See what TDS can do? I’m really trying to see the full and true picture. I guess that’s what led me to Matt. 🙏answered.
If they were really slaves to Buckley they would be much more prominent. I miss him wisdom, his class, his debating skills, his erudition, no one even comes close the man was so enlightening and an amazing communicator. No one today comes close to him.
I like the NR. Their "The Editors" podcast is excellent. If you listened you would realize how stupid your "Cheney lovers and proud Romney voters" comment is.
My NR subscription will lapse soon and then they will not get another dime from me. There are one - maybe two honest ?? authors / op-ed writers - what ever they call themselves but the rest are part of the uniparty blob incapable of seeing any truth or strategy that goes against their priors or financial interest.
You’ve obviously heard the saying, “a lore can travel halfway around the world before the truth can even get its shoes on.”
That’s why it’s important to take any media outlet to task that engages in ‘so whatism’ regarding the law fare engaged against the President. Lies work every second of everyday and have to be stamped out.
Why on earth would the Democrats ever stop using lawfare if there weren't clear consequences for it? Calling this "payback" as though it's a vulgar word shows just how out of touch the principled pussies at the national review are. I want Weissman to suffer 4 separate prosecutions with the very real risk of prison time.
I’d like to see him start paying large sums of money to lawyers over the next few years as he tries to fight multiple DOJ/Congressional investigations. He’ll greatly appreciate the “process” once he’s on the receiving end of it.
Like when some young man gets pinched for robbery or assault, and goes away for a spell. Not sure he can call society's reaction to his actions payback.
In a blue area he'll get reinstated quickly, just like how the FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence for the FISA warrant on the Trump campaign got restored to the DC bar while he was still on probation for that offense. And people still wonder why so many said "to hell with it" and voted for the orange maniac.
Removing security clearances they have no reason to have in the first place isn't payback. It's ordinary functioning of government. I'm so tired of people acting like completely innocent things are evil, it makes actual redress and justice impossible if the things that are literally nothing are treated as huge deals.
'Mere payback?' The administration could, and should go after Weissman just because of Russiagate - which Weissman and everyone else knew all along was a hoax - as well as the unrelated South American conflict of interest.
It doesn't surprise me a bit the the cuckservatives at National Review disapprove of Trump's effort to rein in these scoundrels. NR has morphed into a Trojan Horse operation.
I have major beef with Elias, but he's not at PC anymore. This is the dude that fights to get the Greens off the ballots, amongst the Clinton stuff and other slime.
Justice and payback align. I want to see weisman and eisen et.al. wail, weep and run for their lives into utter ruin so that their kind shall not rise again.
Removing Security Clearances from Perkins Coie could have a direct effect in reducing one channel for the "weaponization of government" -- Perkins is claimed /rumored to have (or have had) one or more FBI workstations, potentially with counter-intelligence query powers, on-site:
Under the circumstances, "payback" assumes a beneficial role. The utterly evil intent of the Steele Dossier warrants, in fact requires swift and terrible consequences. The sooner, the better.
Andrew Weissmann was involved in the Mueller coup against the democratically elected president Donald Trump. He's also been directly involved in at least half a dozen men going to prison that he knew were innocent just to make himself look good and better his career.
Here’s to the DOJ locking Weissmann's sorry ass up for the rest of his life.
He was a prime mover of the idiocy during Russiagate. I feel like he was the worst of the bunch, since Mueller redeemed himself slightly by holding back on "obstruction" in the end. But Weissmann wanted to push obstruction so bad he could taste his own bile.
Mueller had already pulled a Biden mentally. Weismann was in charge. I wonder if any of these guys will put a pistol in their mouth or accidentally crash into a bridge abutment?
Take a look at how Weismann destroyed Arthur Andersen. A move later reversed by the Supreme Court. Too late to save the firm but a number of lives upended just to put a feather in Weismann’s cap. A truly evil man.
This scam of building toll roads in South America has been a lucrative cash grab for our alliance of corporate lawyers—banks—politicians for decades, it is very similar to a Mafia bust-out.
I worked on one for a major NYC law firm in the 90s and it goes something like this:
1) American bankers and lawyers, often with ties to the country in question, go down to a poor area and present a plan for "toll-road privatization" to the corrupt local rulers;
2) The plan involves bribing them up front, both with their cuts of the deal and with them getting to skim off the back end when fees are collected;
3) The road is sold and/or built, with a small amount coming from the outside buyers and a much larger amount coming from the Treasury of the country in question, which pays for the privilege of being fleeced;
4) The road is never used by locals, as they don't have the money to pay and know which back roads to use to avoid it, so the Treasury is on the hook again, as their fees don't cover the debt that must be paid;
5) The American axis of graft has scored enormous legal and consulting fees, plus a permanent stream of funding in a poor country, and escape with many millions, minus the bribes needed to maintain the operation.
I doubt that Trump has noble intentions here (or anywhere), but to continue the Mafia analogy, it's not hard to pursue a legal case against people you know are criminals. Just follow the money, roll up some subordinates, and pretty soon a crime is revealed.
CIA and US have been doing stuff like this since the Marshall Plan. Halliburton, MK, Brown and Root, etc. made lots of money while the various countries rack up debt for airports, roads, dams etc they can't use.
I was wondering when someone was gonna mention Perkins. He confirmed my suspicions that there's nothin' new here. America is deeply corrupt and always has been.
The method these day is the one companies like Cargill use. First comes the rationalization. "We have no choice but to engage in corrupt practices because that's how business is done on other countries. Kinda like, when in Rome. . . " Then comes the bribe itself. "We don't engage in bribery. They do." I.e., to cover their tracks, U.S. corporations these days hire a local company to, say, build their processing plant with instructions to "do whatever it takes." Thus they plead ignorance and innocence and the American employees involved (unlike Perkins, who after a while couldn't live with himself) actually believe their own b.s.
It's what replaced gunboat colonialism. Some economic hit men and the local compradors and voila, wealth is extracted from the local working classes. IT can't be fixed, it needs to be ended. Hopefully China will be able to drive a steel stake through its Cold heart.
So are you a member of the "human nature" school of business? Everybody is a scumbag, so . . . If so, 1) why do you subscribe to Racket, and 2) can you support your opinion that China is just as bad as we are? Hard evidence is what I'm after, not insinuations.
Even happens here, where it's apparently kind-of-legal. Long before Chicago sold its meter rights, former Reagan Budget Director and then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels, sold the toll rights to the Indiana Toll Road to a Spanish-Australian consortium (that already owned the Chicago Skyway) in the early to mid-2000s, for a few billion. And every trucker driving from New York to Chicago or Chicago to NY has been paying out the ass ever since. And forevermore will.
Many freeways have been built as toll roads, that's how the construction is paid for. I can't speak to South American versions, but in the US it's a common strategy. Most toll roads until recently are tolled for a period of time (say 30 years) until the bonds are paid off. Don't know the deal in Indiana. In CA many of the toll roads built in the 90s went bk because the revenue was not enough for bond payments.
Because the federal gas tax, once used for freeway construction, is not indexed, the revenue has been going down over time. Many states are now using toll roads or toll lanes to raise revenue for freeway construction. Texas and CA are both doing this.
This graft that this Weissmann character was involved in is another financial crime on a ;large scale.
"I doubt that Trump has noble intentions here (or anywhere)." I agree with that. His "pause" of enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act isn't something that someone fighting corruption would do, not to mention getting rid of various officials whose job was to look for corruption within the government.
Weissman and Eisen are color revolution lawfare architects. Both are out in the open writing about it on Substack. Perhaps it’s better they are getting paid directly by their brainwashed readers than dark money.
Do I recall correctly that Andrew Weissmann played a key part in the case cooked up to taint Alaska Senator Ted Stevens reputation and subsequent reelection?
These lawyers are the worst and what’s good for the geese is, “you know the thing…” If it takes resources to defend themselves that alone would be a good outcome. As with autopen, this is masterclass trolling. Lovin it!
Well, he almost did get killed. I can’t imagine what their (Vance) families must go through. Some of these people have no boundaries nor ethical thoughts. Just hate! Imagine having someone follow you all the way because you’re driving a Tesla, just to call you a fucking racist. It’s sick
As Michael Kinsley said long ago about D.C., "the scandal isn't what is illegal, it is what is legal." Lefties abuse the legal system with lawfare using hyper-partisan judges that should never have been confirmed, and then when tables are turned and they begin to be held accountable they complain of "payback," as if that were somehow unjustified. Lawfare is so devastating to its targets, even if totally innocent, that it is an injustice that needs to be stopped. A word to Weissman, Smith, et. al. "What goes around comes around." Except what is coming around will be fully justified, whereas what they did wasn't.
Only fair to hold Trump to the same standard. Or are you saying that his illegal deportations are actually legal despite judges' decisions to the contrary? Are the judges wrong or bribed or what?
I legitimately hope Trump is able to nail these people and anyone, whether R or D or red state or blue state, who has been doing this type of thing. I'm so sick of it all. If he can do it AND get his revenge, that's just a cherry on top.
The bad guys always think that when the good guys dodge the bullet they'll be too thankful for escaping the danger that they won't want to counter attack. Trump is different. I think we should know that by now. Drag every one of them under the waves so they can never do this again. To anyone.
I certainly agree that actual good-guys need to get over the whole "Disney Hero" ideal ("grab my hand and let me rescue you so you can immediately betray me!") - fortunately, I could name a few indicators that indeed we have.
As the Bush DOJ of the Enron Task Force Weissman dragged the outside accounting firm of Arthur Anderson so far down the rabbit hole with his "all or nothing" twisted legal maneuvers the firm wound up in a jury trial for obstruction of justice as the accounting firm for Enron, although it was an outside accounting practice it was still found guilty by Weissman's use of his unscrupulous charges. Of course, its CPA license was surrendered, it went bankrupt and 85,000 people lost their jobs. He twisted the law so far that he was overturned by SCOTUS 9-0 and in the end it was known as "Weissman's law" which was described as being identical to what would be used in a third world show trial.
Not surprisingly, that same year Robert Mueller as FBI Director named Weissman to be Special Counsel to the Director. Six years later, made him General Counsel for the FBI. And, of course he pops up again as Mueller's shadow investigator who ran the Russian collusion hoax for over 2 years. He certainly wrote the report that Mueller read at the hearing where Mueller clearly had no idea what the report said or in fact, what was going on at all.
So, 23 years later, we hope the 85,000 people who got the Weissman treatment get an opportunity to see Weissman get his own time (a long, long time) in the crosshairs of the justice system, since if anyone needs revenge served cold, it is the employees of Arthur Anderson.
As the bard said, “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” I am 100% behind President Trump metaphorically killing off these corrupt legal rats by prosecuting them with righteous vigor to the fullest extent of the law, and executing strong justice upon them. They need to pay for their crimes against the Republic. An epic legal curb stomping, and a purging of our corrupted judicial system is very much in order.
Do you consider prosecuting traitors who fomented a riot to overturn a free and fair election a crime against the Republic? What crime is it? Can you find it in Title 18 of the US Code for me?
A March 6th Executive Order targeting the Clinton-aligned firm Perkins Coie for its role in promulgating the Steele Dossier raised eyebrows, and was criticized by the National Review for moving too far in the direction of mere “payback.”
Fine, call it payback. But what we need is some basic legal accountability for this pile of malice we had to deal with for the last eight years.
Know what shocked me about your comment?
You're one of six people who still reads National Review.
Who gives a fuck what they think?
Cheney lovers and proud Romney voters
100% self-thought "principled conservative Never Trumper's who would rather lose gracefully than go down fighting. They lost me when they let VDH walk.
Agreed. TNR is an empty, corrupted shell, not some reliable bell weather for conservative thought.
VDH was the last straw for me too, but it started with Mark Steyn. I stuck around for VDH and I always like James Lileks but I can get James Substack and elsewhere. Have they been bought by someone like everyone thinks happened to Drudge?
The Blade of Precious is awesome.
A big win for all.
03/17/25: I too was surprised that anyone is paying any attention at all to the National Review any longer.
They're really in the same category as the NY Jets and NY Giants.
It's a legal obligation to list all three corporations in their respective professional standings. But what and how all three do after that is of interest to very few people, other than the rich saps who pay to keep the two teams and the magazine in business.
All three are paid to be professional losers. And as the pre-Trump RINOs found out, filling such a niche can be quite lucrative, which is why they reacted to his candidacy in complete panic in 2015-2016. Which was fun to watch, wasn't it?
JEB!
Trump's takedown of Jeb! in the 2016 debates ranks as one of my all time Greatest Moments in Politics.
03/18/25: It sure was. Jeb was stupid enough to verbally escort his mother into the debate. Trump: "Good --- she should run!" Jeb, instant roadkill!
Jeb: "While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe."
Trump: "I saw the World Trade Center came down . . . that's not keeping us safe."
How ‘bout them Cowboys?
03/18/25: In principle, I have nothing against them. But Jerry Jones is going off into mental outer space in 2025 and this is bound to seriously erode their competitiveness. Especially when they somehow let Cooper Rush get away (to Baltimore).
Don, that's a pretty generous use of the word "competitiveness." :)
03/18/25: Mea culpa! That is a pretty awkward way to use a word. Let's put it this way: When a sports owner loses his mind, the ripple effects hit almost everything, and not to the good. Exhibit A: George Steinbrenner.
Yeah, at least the Jets have a crazy owner/owner's son and who knows who runs the Giants anymore. With the money he could have saved extending Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb before their markets increased even more, ole Jerry could have saved Cooper Rush from leaving and had tons left over. After Myles Garrett's extension, we know the same thing will happen with Micah Parsons. I think it was Demarcus Lawrence who described the situation best when Jerry urged stars--through the media--to take less on contract extensions so he could sign more players. DLaw says "that sounds like a YOU problem, not a ME problem."
The Cowboys are finished until 2 full seasons after the death of Jerry Jones.
Goi Birds!!!
Jones needed more money for his giant yacht (read ego).
Didn't Matt just quote NR in this article?
Yep, but what you’re really pointing out is how trigger-happy people can be when a commenter doesn’t use quotation marks, so let that be a lesson. Not everyone who reads MT is as judicious as he is. Thank God we have him. But for crissake Racketeers - take a chill pill!
I actually make myself sit thru CNN and MSNBC occasionally, but I must admit it’s usually to hard to stomach. I remember reading, free, The Economist for a while until I couldn’t take their bias and then alas my WSJ subscription I canceled about 6 years ago when the opinion section journalists were being threatened by their coworkers. I had read that paper for 30 years. See what TDS can do? I’m really trying to see the full and true picture. I guess that’s what led me to Matt. 🙏answered.
Or maybe some people gloss through, or even ignore the narrative to go straight to comments. Attack without context.
I confess I have done that lol although not on taibbi articles
That's the only way I can read Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. Can be quite entertaining.
She's still at it? I wonder what the appeal is. Unless it's exactly as you suggest--people want to watch the debate on whatever she wrote.
"Racketeers". I love it.
National Review is still kind of a slave to William F Buckley who was relevant in his era but its time to evolve
If they were really slaves to Buckley they would be much more prominent. I miss him wisdom, his class, his debating skills, his erudition, no one even comes close the man was so enlightening and an amazing communicator. No one today comes close to him.
I like the NR. Their "The Editors" podcast is excellent. If you listened you would realize how stupid your "Cheney lovers and proud Romney voters" comment is.
03/18/25: How To Make Friends and Influence People. You must be the night watchman.
Love to have a Dale Carnegie podcast
In their defense, they have evolved. Just not as much as I have.
They are too interested in distinction without difference.
MBD is always worth a listen - I cannot tolerate Noah - IMHO just a uniparty fool.
My NR subscription will lapse soon and then they will not get another dime from me. There are one - maybe two honest ?? authors / op-ed writers - what ever they call themselves but the rest are part of the uniparty blob incapable of seeing any truth or strategy that goes against their priors or financial interest.
You’ve obviously heard the saying, “a lore can travel halfway around the world before the truth can even get its shoes on.”
That’s why it’s important to take any media outlet to task that engages in ‘so whatism’ regarding the law fare engaged against the President. Lies work every second of everyday and have to be stamped out.
It’s an alternative view and good for Matt for tracking it. It has predictable TDS but was not an apologist for Biden.
The old Republicans. They've all but vanished and I don't miss them.
I'd like to make them vanish Pinochet style.
Why on earth would the Democrats ever stop using lawfare if there weren't clear consequences for it? Calling this "payback" as though it's a vulgar word shows just how out of touch the principled pussies at the national review are. I want Weissman to suffer 4 separate prosecutions with the very real risk of prison time.
I’d like to see him start paying large sums of money to lawyers over the next few years as he tries to fight multiple DOJ/Congressional investigations. He’ll greatly appreciate the “process” once he’s on the receiving end of it.
Like when some young man gets pinched for robbery or assault, and goes away for a spell. Not sure he can call society's reaction to his actions payback.
Turning the other cheek has no conscience - striking effect on people who don't have consciences.
At the very least he should be disbarred for failing to disclose a conflict of interest. Tough to prove, though.
In a blue area he'll get reinstated quickly, just like how the FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence for the FISA warrant on the Trump campaign got restored to the DC bar while he was still on probation for that offense. And people still wonder why so many said "to hell with it" and voted for the orange maniac.
I want him in supermax for life in the unibombers cell.
Removing security clearances they have no reason to have in the first place isn't payback. It's ordinary functioning of government. I'm so tired of people acting like completely innocent things are evil, it makes actual redress and justice impossible if the things that are literally nothing are treated as huge deals.
'Mere payback?' The administration could, and should go after Weissman just because of Russiagate - which Weissman and everyone else knew all along was a hoax - as well as the unrelated South American conflict of interest.
It doesn't surprise me a bit the the cuckservatives at National Review disapprove of Trump's effort to rein in these scoundrels. NR has morphed into a Trojan Horse operation.
I have major beef with Elias, but he's not at PC anymore. This is the dude that fights to get the Greens off the ballots, amongst the Clinton stuff and other slime.
Sounds like Andy McCarthy
Justice and payback align. I want to see weisman and eisen et.al. wail, weep and run for their lives into utter ruin so that their kind shall not rise again.
Removing Security Clearances from Perkins Coie could have a direct effect in reducing one channel for the "weaponization of government" -- Perkins is claimed /rumored to have (or have had) one or more FBI workstations, potentially with counter-intelligence query powers, on-site:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/01/extending-the-political-surveillance-discussion-with-new-revelations-the-fbi-had-a-workspace-inside-perkins-coie-dc-law-offices/
Under the circumstances, "payback" assumes a beneficial role. The utterly evil intent of the Steele Dossier warrants, in fact requires swift and terrible consequences. The sooner, the better.
8 years??
Try 25, -at minimum-.
Andrew Weissmann was involved in the Mueller coup against the democratically elected president Donald Trump. He's also been directly involved in at least half a dozen men going to prison that he knew were innocent just to make himself look good and better his career.
Here’s to the DOJ locking Weissmann's sorry ass up for the rest of his life.
He was a prime mover of the idiocy during Russiagate. I feel like he was the worst of the bunch, since Mueller redeemed himself slightly by holding back on "obstruction" in the end. But Weissmann wanted to push obstruction so bad he could taste his own bile.
Still need to go after Fusion GPS and then Hillary's Henchman Sidney Blumenthal. Marc Elias needs to be behind bars too.
03/17/25: Yes, Ol' Snakey Sid has slid right under the radar. Would be nice to hold him accountable for his misdeeds.
His son Max is doing a pretty good job of that.
I’d really like to see Hilary behind bars, too. Lock ‘er up!
Some real winners you have here, Taibbi!
mueller was the puppet mccord eisen and weissman had the strings
Mueller had already pulled a Biden mentally. Weismann was in charge. I wonder if any of these guys will put a pistol in their mouth or accidentally crash into a bridge abutment?
Take a look at how Weismann destroyed Arthur Andersen. A move later reversed by the Supreme Court. Too late to save the firm but a number of lives upended just to put a feather in Weismann’s cap. A truly evil man.
check out his role in the Ted Stevens railroad job
This scam of building toll roads in South America has been a lucrative cash grab for our alliance of corporate lawyers—banks—politicians for decades, it is very similar to a Mafia bust-out.
I worked on one for a major NYC law firm in the 90s and it goes something like this:
1) American bankers and lawyers, often with ties to the country in question, go down to a poor area and present a plan for "toll-road privatization" to the corrupt local rulers;
2) The plan involves bribing them up front, both with their cuts of the deal and with them getting to skim off the back end when fees are collected;
3) The road is sold and/or built, with a small amount coming from the outside buyers and a much larger amount coming from the Treasury of the country in question, which pays for the privilege of being fleeced;
4) The road is never used by locals, as they don't have the money to pay and know which back roads to use to avoid it, so the Treasury is on the hook again, as their fees don't cover the debt that must be paid;
5) The American axis of graft has scored enormous legal and consulting fees, plus a permanent stream of funding in a poor country, and escape with many millions, minus the bribes needed to maintain the operation.
I doubt that Trump has noble intentions here (or anywhere), but to continue the Mafia analogy, it's not hard to pursue a legal case against people you know are criminals. Just follow the money, roll up some subordinates, and pretty soon a crime is revealed.
The Blob must be trembling in fear like Jell-O.
CIA and US have been doing stuff like this since the Marshall Plan. Halliburton, MK, Brown and Root, etc. made lots of money while the various countries rack up debt for airports, roads, dams etc they can't use.
Yep, and it was documented long ago in John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hitman.”
All three of Perkins ' books worth the read. He mentions an island in the Caribbean where politicians are comprised.
Compromised?
I was wondering when someone was gonna mention Perkins. He confirmed my suspicions that there's nothin' new here. America is deeply corrupt and always has been.
The method these day is the one companies like Cargill use. First comes the rationalization. "We have no choice but to engage in corrupt practices because that's how business is done on other countries. Kinda like, when in Rome. . . " Then comes the bribe itself. "We don't engage in bribery. They do." I.e., to cover their tracks, U.S. corporations these days hire a local company to, say, build their processing plant with instructions to "do whatever it takes." Thus they plead ignorance and innocence and the American employees involved (unlike Perkins, who after a while couldn't live with himself) actually believe their own b.s.
I was just about to say that (throws nuts at you)
It's what replaced gunboat colonialism. Some economic hit men and the local compradors and voila, wealth is extracted from the local working classes. IT can't be fixed, it needs to be ended. Hopefully China will be able to drive a steel stake through its Cold heart.
Beijing’s errand boy is on the case
So are you a member of the "human nature" school of business? Everybody is a scumbag, so . . . If so, 1) why do you subscribe to Racket, and 2) can you support your opinion that China is just as bad as we are? Hard evidence is what I'm after, not insinuations.
Even happens here, where it's apparently kind-of-legal. Long before Chicago sold its meter rights, former Reagan Budget Director and then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels, sold the toll rights to the Indiana Toll Road to a Spanish-Australian consortium (that already owned the Chicago Skyway) in the early to mid-2000s, for a few billion. And every trucker driving from New York to Chicago or Chicago to NY has been paying out the ass ever since. And forevermore will.
Many freeways have been built as toll roads, that's how the construction is paid for. I can't speak to South American versions, but in the US it's a common strategy. Most toll roads until recently are tolled for a period of time (say 30 years) until the bonds are paid off. Don't know the deal in Indiana. In CA many of the toll roads built in the 90s went bk because the revenue was not enough for bond payments.
Because the federal gas tax, once used for freeway construction, is not indexed, the revenue has been going down over time. Many states are now using toll roads or toll lanes to raise revenue for freeway construction. Texas and CA are both doing this.
This graft that this Weissmann character was involved in is another financial crime on a ;large scale.
Mitch Daniels sold the rights for tolls on the Indiana Toll Road for 75 fucking years.
That provides interesting background.
"I doubt that Trump has noble intentions here (or anywhere)." I agree with that. His "pause" of enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act isn't something that someone fighting corruption would do, not to mention getting rid of various officials whose job was to look for corruption within the government.
Weissman and Eisen are color revolution lawfare architects. Both are out in the open writing about it on Substack. Perhaps it’s better they are getting paid directly by their brainwashed readers than dark money.
Shameless weasels.
They are getting that too
Stephen Miller called Weissmann a degenerate on live TV today.
And when a guy like Miller calls you a degenerate, you're pretty low.
He is!
Rush Limbaugh used to say "if you want to know what the democritters are doing, just look at what they are accusing the GOP of doing"
"Every accusation from the Left is a confession."
Aka "The Iron Law of Woke Projection"
Precisely. Miss Rush, could do with him now.
Do I recall correctly that Andrew Weissmann played a key part in the case cooked up to taint Alaska Senator Ted Stevens reputation and subsequent reelection?
Yes! All documented in Sidney Powell's book Licensed To Lie, Brown Books, 2014.
I have that book and it is mainly about the Enron crap and what happened to the audit firm.
Why, yes, yes it was: https://mustreadalaska.com/mueller-and-the-political-assassination-of-ted-stevens/
...and changed the balance of power in the Senate.
And Stevens conviction overturned, yet another defeat for poor Andrew.
He didn't win, right? To paraphrase a former Senate leader.
I guess that was the intent. Why am I not surprised. Law fare seems to be the democratic playbook
".... a reprehensible, evil scumbag former Senate leader."
Has he ever won a case that wasn’t overturned 😝
When can we string up scrum like Weissman, Brennan, and Storzk on the Washington Mall?
Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney, too.
And Fauci, along with the Covid band of liars while we're at it.
100%.
Dzack, too.
Many of us would love to see these lawfare architects like Weissman, Elias and Eisen get their just desserts!
Prosecute them all!
Now it's time for them to hire attorneys.
Maybe they'll experience some personal ruin like they mercilessly inflicted on their political enemies.
As I noted on NR site, Trump’s re-election is not the revenge I or many of his supporters demand. We want vengence. Here’s the difference:
noun
Infliction of punishment in return for a wrong committed; retribution.
Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution;
Trump is treating this like you killed his dog. Never kill a man's dog.
These lawyers are the worst and what’s good for the geese is, “you know the thing…” If it takes resources to defend themselves that alone would be a good outcome. As with autopen, this is masterclass trolling. Lovin it!
Well, he almost did get killed. I can’t imagine what their (Vance) families must go through. Some of these people have no boundaries nor ethical thoughts. Just hate! Imagine having someone follow you all the way because you’re driving a Tesla, just to call you a fucking racist. It’s sick
John Wick.
He should.
Sound advice. Look what happened to those guys Mahky Mahk took out in Shooter.
I will settle for perp walks and justice
https://youtu.be/xu0p6CtioZk?si=UxcNKRSiCElSrED8
Yes, nemesis. But progressive prosciutto may not sell.
As Michael Kinsley said long ago about D.C., "the scandal isn't what is illegal, it is what is legal." Lefties abuse the legal system with lawfare using hyper-partisan judges that should never have been confirmed, and then when tables are turned and they begin to be held accountable they complain of "payback," as if that were somehow unjustified. Lawfare is so devastating to its targets, even if totally innocent, that it is an injustice that needs to be stopped. A word to Weissman, Smith, et. al. "What goes around comes around." Except what is coming around will be fully justified, whereas what they did wasn't.
Love the reference to the great M. Kinsley!
Only fair to hold Trump to the same standard. Or are you saying that his illegal deportations are actually legal despite judges' decisions to the contrary? Are the judges wrong or bribed or what?
How is it "lawfare" to prosecute traitors who fomented a riot to overturn a free and fair election?
I legitimately hope Trump is able to nail these people and anyone, whether R or D or red state or blue state, who has been doing this type of thing. I'm so sick of it all. If he can do it AND get his revenge, that's just a cherry on top.
Great analysis and reporting.
The bad guys always think that when the good guys dodge the bullet they'll be too thankful for escaping the danger that they won't want to counter attack. Trump is different. I think we should know that by now. Drag every one of them under the waves so they can never do this again. To anyone.
It helps that he, himself, is not a good guy.
I certainly agree that actual good-guys need to get over the whole "Disney Hero" ideal ("grab my hand and let me rescue you so you can immediately betray me!") - fortunately, I could name a few indicators that indeed we have.
Do what? Prosecute traitors who tried to overturn a free and fair election?
I'm sensing a theme in your comments...
As the Bush DOJ of the Enron Task Force Weissman dragged the outside accounting firm of Arthur Anderson so far down the rabbit hole with his "all or nothing" twisted legal maneuvers the firm wound up in a jury trial for obstruction of justice as the accounting firm for Enron, although it was an outside accounting practice it was still found guilty by Weissman's use of his unscrupulous charges. Of course, its CPA license was surrendered, it went bankrupt and 85,000 people lost their jobs. He twisted the law so far that he was overturned by SCOTUS 9-0 and in the end it was known as "Weissman's law" which was described as being identical to what would be used in a third world show trial.
Not surprisingly, that same year Robert Mueller as FBI Director named Weissman to be Special Counsel to the Director. Six years later, made him General Counsel for the FBI. And, of course he pops up again as Mueller's shadow investigator who ran the Russian collusion hoax for over 2 years. He certainly wrote the report that Mueller read at the hearing where Mueller clearly had no idea what the report said or in fact, what was going on at all.
So, 23 years later, we hope the 85,000 people who got the Weissman treatment get an opportunity to see Weissman get his own time (a long, long time) in the crosshairs of the justice system, since if anyone needs revenge served cold, it is the employees of Arthur Anderson.
Why these lawyers weren't disbarred was always my wonder . . .
OMG.
It's just like I've always said: 'Never trust a Bush-Appointee!'
As the bard said, “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” I am 100% behind President Trump metaphorically killing off these corrupt legal rats by prosecuting them with righteous vigor to the fullest extent of the law, and executing strong justice upon them. They need to pay for their crimes against the Republic. An epic legal curb stomping, and a purging of our corrupted judicial system is very much in order.
Agreed.
Trump will be fine.
We The People need to be made whole.
Do you consider prosecuting traitors who fomented a riot to overturn a free and fair election a crime against the Republic? What crime is it? Can you find it in Title 18 of the US Code for me?
"Free and fair." You've been watching too much globalist TV.