The Skeptical Bureaucrat
From deep inside the foundations of our Republic's capital city
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Leave Us to Our Free Election (Pericles, Prince of Tyre: II,iv)
As The Trumpening Gets Closer, Hillary Sees Hitler Yet Again
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Harry Dunn Sequel Review: Slow Pacing, Terrible PR, Doom Production
Both public and press seem fundamentally bored with our Agent Double O Aspergers, despite how the tabloid build-up of this case featured endless repetition of the terms 'intelligence soldier,' secret services, Official Secrets Act, SAS, and much more of an equally lurid appeal.
Have the West Mercia Police lost all appreciation of the desperado they have taken in? I hope they're keeping him under constant observation in their most Mission Impossible type escape-proof cell, because I shudder to think what capabilities an 'intelligence solider' from the Texas National Guard could bring to bear on a rinky-dink police lock-up. (Check out the original movie in the Rambo franchise if you want details.)
By the way, how unusual is it for the U.S. to agree to the extradition of a citizen to the UK for criminal prosecution? Not unusual in the least, it turns out. In fact, with the sole exception of the immune diplomat in the Harry Dunn case, the U.S. has approved every single extradition request from the UK.
You can find this statement in the record of a question period in Parliament from 2020:
"Since the [current extradition] treaty came into force [in 2007], the United States has never refused to extradite somebody sought by the U.K."
That sounds definitive. So then, you might wonder, why does the Dunn family's spokesman and brain trust keep saying the opposite? From the Daily Mirror's story:
He said: “We all know America is highly reluctant to extradite nationals and we have had to move heaven and Earth to make that happen. It is a minor miracle to see the defendant back in our jurisdiction.”
That's easy. Because telling self-aggrandizing lies is what he does. Expect plenty more.
Another quote from the Daily Mirror, this one from a prosecutor in the case, is just as self-aggrandizing if not exactly a lie.
Prosecutor Kate Leonard said: “We worked closely with the US to ensure our extradition request was expedited.”Really? Lets look at the timeline of key events. The crash occurred in July, 2023. The American driver skipped a UK court appearance and became a fugitive in December 2023. He was taken into custody in the U.S. on an extradition warrant in July 2024, and a leisurely ten weeks after that, in October 2024, he was picked up by West Mercia Police and returned to the U.K. His next court appearance is scheduled for November 2024.
Monday, September 30, 2024
Hillary Is No Stranger To Paranoid Conspiracy Mongering
“I anticipate there will be a full-court press in October,” she said. “The digital airwaves will be filled. And why does that matter? Because the press that is pro-Trump anyway — oftentimes stories are put on digitally that then are picked up by, let’s say, at Fox and others. And then those stories are stories, so the mainstream press reports on them, and so that story then takes on a life of its own.”Readers who were around during the Clinton Administration may recall that Hillary was exactly as paranoid then about unseen media influencers as she is now.
In a 1995 internal memo, President Bill Clinton’s White House Counsel’s Office offered an in-depth analysis of the right-wing media mill that Hillary Clinton had dubbed the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Portions of the report, which was reported on by the Wall Street Journal and other outlets at the time, were included in a new trove of documents released to the public by the Clinton presidential library on Friday.
The report traced the evolution of various Clinton scandals, such as Whitewater and the Gennifer Flowers affair allegations, from their origins at conservative think tanks or in British tabloids, until the point in which they entered the mainstream news ecosystem. Making matters even more complicated was new technology, the report explained: “[E]vidence exists that Republican staffers surf the internet, interacting with extremists in order to exchange the ideas and information.” The administration even had a name for the process: “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce.”You can read the whole crazy memo here.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Feds Indict NYC Mayor Who Accepted Too Much Turkish Delight
Saturday, September 21, 2024
David Bowie's Top 100 Books -
Thursday, September 19, 2024
She's Looked at Policing Speech From Both Sides Now
I really have looked at life and love "from both sides now."
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 16, 2024
Read an exclusive excerpt from my new memoir on @cbsnews.https://t.co/Snyq1QGEGa
Posts and posts of dis info
Mocking memes and hurty mots
And Trumpy GIFs from right-wing bros
I’ve looked at X that way
But now they only break the law
They need indictments, gags galore!
So many things I would have done
But civil rights got in my way