In multiple posts here, e.g., here, I have pointed to plausible deniability as probably the most important defense that a white collar criminal has in keeping his/her free from prosecution and their corrupt asses out of jail. My guess is that plausible deniability shields about $2.5 trillion/year in economic crime from ever being prosecuted, much less imposing criminal or civil liability on the lawbreakers and criminals. About $1.2 trillion of that comes from tax cheating alone.
The New York Times writes on how the morally rotted, corrupt, fascist Attorney General, Bill Barr, used his “Department of Justice” and plausible deniability to shield his morally rotted boss, the corrupt, fascist ex-president. Barr shielded the rotter from liability for multiple obstruction of justice felonies. Those felonies were described in great detail in the Mueller Report that was made public on April 18, 2019. To any sane neutral observer, there was no question that the ex-president committed multiple felonies. But as we all know, Barr and his corrupted “Department of Justice” were neither sane nor neutral.
The Biden administration released a Trump-era memorandum on Wednesday that provided the most detailed look yet at the Justice Department’s legal reasoning for proclaiming that President Donald J. Trump could not be charged with obstruction of justice over his efforts to impede the Russia investigation.
The March 2019 memo, delivered to the attorney general at the time, William P. Barr, concluded that none of Mr. Trump’s actions chronicled in the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III — from firing his F.B.I. director to pressuring the White House counsel to recant his testimony to prosecutors — could be shown beyond a reasonable doubt to be criminal acts.
Many of these actions, two senior Justice Department officials wrote, should be interpreted by an inference that Mr. Trump “reasonably believed” the investigations were impeding his government agenda, meaning he lacked the corrupt intent necessary to prosecute him for obstruction.
The Justice Department under both the Trump and the Biden administrations fought unsuccessfully in court to avoid releasing the full text of the memo, which was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
There it is. The highlighted part gets right to the point. Prosecutors cite a lack of intent. That is plausible deniability in action shielding yet another felon from prosecution.
What is deeply disappointing here, to say the least, is that Biden doesn’t understand. He actively worked to illegally keep the DoJ memo hidden from the public. The court forced his hand, not his own sense of justice, and not the sense of justice that Merrick Garland is supposed to have. Those two nincompoops are screwing us and betraying democracy.
T**** did not “reasonably believe the investigations were impeding his government agenda.” That lie is pure bullshit. T**** knew exactly what laws he was breaking. He did it knowingly. That betrayal of the the law and the American people was standard operating procedure for T**** and his thug co-conspirators, like the treasonous Bill Barr.
America desperately needs a new political party that is seriously dedicated to enhancing, defending and vindicating what little is left of the rule of law in American politics. American politics includes (i) the rule of law, and (ii) federal tax policy and its enforcement.
The status quo “rule of law” for rich and powerful elites is far too weak, rotted and corrupt to be taken seriously. But it’s a deadly threat, not a sick joke.
Truth, hyperbole or a lie?
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