Years ago, a tough, brave federal prosecutor named John Doar, who later would put a toe tag on Richard Nixon's presidency, faced a conundrum. Several Mississippi men murdered three civil rights workers and local prosecutors declined to charge them with murder. So Doar mounted a case against them for violating the civil rights of the three victims, hauled them into federal court, and sent them to prison for a very long time. That was then, this is Kash Patel. From The New York Times:
The prosecutor, Joseph H. Thompson, wrote in an email to colleagues that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that specializes in investigating police shootings, would team up with the FBI to determine whether the shooting had been justified and lawful or had violated Ms. Good’s civil rights.But later that week, as FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s SUV, they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the FBI director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation—by using a warrant obtained on that basis—would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.
Good god. Not only is this unconscionable on its face, it has virtually destroyed the federal prosecutor's office in Minneapolis.
Several of the career federal prosecutors in Minnesota, including Mr. Thompson, balked at the new approach, which they viewed as legally dubious and incendiary in a state where anger over a federal immigration crackdown was already boiling over. Mr. Thompson and five others left the office in protest, setting off a broader wave of resignations that has left Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office severely understaffed and in crisis. Officials have not said whether they ultimately obtained a new warrant to search the vehicle.From an office of about 25 criminal litigators, gone are the top prosecutors who had overseen a sprawling, yearslong investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs, which the White House months ago cited as a reason for the immigration crackdown in the state. The departures also have drained the U.S. attorney’s office as it prepares complex cases, including trials in the fatal attack on a Minnesota state lawmaker and in a terrorism case, and investigations into fentanyl trafficking.
In other words, investigations into all of the administration's alleged priorities—the Minnesota fraud case, the fentanyl peril—have been crippled so that president's intemperate blathering can maintain its non-existent credibility. These really are the mole people.
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