Cory Doctorow on Nostr: It was a canny trap. As the proud, victorious DOJ lawyers thrust their arms into the ...
It was a canny trap. As the proud, victorious DOJ lawyers thrust their arms into the air, Kantor quoted James Comey, who did the same thing on his first day on the job as DA for the Southern District of New York: "You people are the chickenshit club." A federal prosecutor who never loses a case is a prosecutor who only goes after easy targets, and leave the worst offenders (who can mount a serious defense) unscathed.
3/
Published at
2024-08-07 13:24:39Event JSON
{
"id": "cf068f021d51c512b7bb56637b14998476365c7970e87c3f606def4fcb254434",
"pubkey": "21856daf84c2e4e505290eb25e3083b0545b8c03ea97b89831117cff09fadf0d",
"created_at": 1723037079,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"e4ddffa98c8860d20e489cd82fe08ac0d531743d4cb41503cb175363e861e11c",
"wss://relay.mostr.pub",
"reply"
],
[
"content-warning",
"Long thread/3"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic/statuses/112920958068670097",
"activitypub"
]
],
"content": "It was a canny trap. As the proud, victorious DOJ lawyers thrust their arms into the air, Kantor quoted James Comey, who did the same thing on his first day on the job as DA for the Southern District of New York: \"You people are the chickenshit club.\" A federal prosecutor who never loses a case is a prosecutor who only goes after easy targets, and leave the worst offenders (who can mount a serious defense) unscathed.\n\n3/",
"sig": "dff18746f0de045eddb257b35b63d742440aec433aeab806d80daee3d0ff129655d6c978e1d9b77c35990771804459d4f9c78c8fe01bb9b5b8b201de127f02dd"
}
