I HAVE THE BEST TAKE!!! Comey just released this letter to distract from FBI's colossal fuck-up of the Malheur case!
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Replying to @emptywheel
Mind you, I don't believe this. But DAMN is that a great take.
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Replying to @emptywheel
That is pretty plausible. How the hell did those guys get acquitted?
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Replying to @NSlayton
Partly bc DOJ usually gets away w/overcharging "terrorists" so they did here w/hubris.
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Replying to @emptywheel @NSlayton
And possibly (others' hypo) bc FBI had 15 (FIFTEEN) informants onsite making it hard to isolate the crimes of the not-FBI people.
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Replying to @emptywheel
That's the main argument I've heard re: this, and the only plausible one.
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Replying to @NSlayton
If I ever break away from the clusterfuck here on Twitter will compare it to Hutaree case, which ended for similar reasons.
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