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Dozens of former US Department of Justice attorneys have now gone on record to describe the unprecedented corruption of federal law enforcement taking place during Donald Trump’s second term.
In a lengthy story published on Sunday by the New York Times,
the former DOJ attorneys described rampant politicization of prosecutions,
directives to dig up evidence on Trump’s political foes,
and orders to drop investigations into potential terrorist plots and white-collar crime…

@blaise@mastodon.cloud
2025-10-17 19:26:02

Me: OK, I sent the memo. I think I've mastered organization-speak. I used it liberally.
Colleague, reading memo: Holy shit! Jesus, man, you can't use that many buzzwords in one sentence! Did you have your common-sense removed?
Me: Nah, you learn to just suspend it, and let the looney flow; It's actually kinda fun! I wonder if that's why managers do it in the first place....

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2025-10-15 18:02:31

...normally that won’t be the case, even when the person seems nearly totally to blame (and that isn’t even a very common situation) normally there are obvious weaknesses in the system that put them in the place to fail and will likely put anyone else in the same place in the future.