Thursday, March 31, 2022

DOING SOMETHING

 

Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. Not just because he and Mrs. Meadows seem to be inveterate committers of voter fraud, or his text conversations with Mrs. Virginia Thomas, but especially because he was clearly one of the people using one of those burner phones during the seven hours when the official White House phone logs went dark on January 6. Photo by Patrick Semansky/AP via NPR (which has the voter fraud story if you need a link for that).

Redhand writes,

the failure fault line runs directly through Merrick Garland's office. It's hard not to feel despair when the chief individual charged with combating criminality threatening our own Government lacks the courage to do his job. I believe the news that Justice Dept. expands Jan. 6 probe to look at rally prep, financing about as much as I do the Putin regime's claims that they are curtailing military activities around Kiev.

Actually, for me, that's one of the few bright and hopeful spots, and that WaPo story is one of the reasons, though I think they got the story wrong when they suggested that the development (subpoenas to White House officials who contributed to planning the January 6 rally) is some kind of new and surprising development. Especially because I predicted it a couple of months ago, around the time of the arrest of Stewart Rhodes and the other Oath Keeper defendants.

That's when I learned that there was a special grand jury working all the January 6 cases, methodically working its way up the chain up from Viking Boy in the Wagnerian headdress to somebody senior enough that he didn't enter the Capitol himself but rather directed it, by phone, from outside.

There was no indication that the grand jury was disbanding, or getting dismissed—the one thing entirely clear about it was that it was remarkably good at keeping its progress out of the public eye, and so was the Justice Department using it, and in any case I thought it seemed obvious that they were going to keep on doing the same thing until they got at the least to Flynn, Jones, Giuliani, Eastman, and Stone, and hopefully figures inside the government like Meadows and the abominable freshmen congressmembers.

Sure enough, a couple of months later, Washington Post is talking about the very same grand jury;

In the past two months, a federal grand jury in Washington has issued subpoena requests to some officials in former president Donald Trump’s orbit who assisted in planning, funding and executing the Jan. 6 rally, said the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

It really looks like it's going according to plan. I don't think it's a coincidence that this very rare leak arrives at the very same time as Meadows's criminal involvement starts to come into focus (partly through the efforts of the House committee doing its own more public investigation).

And I'm not the only one.


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