By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 01:41:11 | Updated at 2024-11-18 03:49:47
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DOJ and FBI officials reach out to lawyers as potential Trump revenge prosecutions loom
NBC ^ | 11/17/24 | David Rohde and Ken Dilanian
Posted on 11/17/2024 5:32:17 PM PST by CFW
Multiple current and former senior Justice Department and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration, according to three people with knowledge of their deliberations.
Following Trump’s decisive election victory, many Justice Department officials and career staffers were already nervous about the possibility that they would be targeted by Trump loyalists, particularly members of Congress. But the selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand Trump ally who was the subject of a recent FBI investigation, to lead the department has sharply increased the sense of alarm, the sources said.
“Everything we did was aboveboard,” said a former senior FBI official who has started contacting lawyers because he expects to be prosecuted himself. “But this is a different world.”
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of becoming even more of a target, doesn’t believe any attempt to prosecute him will be successful. Judges and juries have the power to throw out cases or find defendants innocent if they deem prosecutions to be baseless.
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It's not retribution they should be worried about, but Justice.
No wonder they are lawyering up. With the almost impossible task of totally deleting electronic records and communications (and with Elon Musk on Trump's team), many in several government agencies are facing justice.
1 posted on 11/17/2024 5:32:17 PM PST by CFW
To: CFW
Filthy hypocrites!
Biden is the one who did revenge prosecutions.
2 posted on 11/17/2024 5:34:16 PM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
To: CFW
Why would they fear a fair trial?
3 posted on 11/17/2024 5:36:07 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
To: CFW
Exactly. “Nobody is above the law” yada yada. This is simple justice for lying under oath, falsifying FISA warrants, lying to Congress, and wrongfully prosecuting people.
4 posted on 11/17/2024 5:36:22 PM PST by oldplayer
To: CFW
Put out word immediately that those lawyers will also be gone after. That’s what they did to Trump & Co., after all.
To: CFW; Carriage Hill
“Everything we did was aboveboard,”
Trump need to establish The Department of Thuggee to deal with these piles of dogsqueeze.
6 posted on 11/17/2024 5:36:31 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
Why would they fear a fair trial?
If they are innocent why would they think they would be facing a trial?
7 posted on 11/17/2024 5:37:00 PM PST by tsowellfan (What if Maduro does not accept them? Gitmo?)
To: CFW
Ken Dilanian, CIA stooge at the Nothing But Cr@p network...
8 posted on 11/17/2024 5:37:52 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: CFW
The power of the DoJ is its unlimited funds and its successes are due primarily to the inability of targets to be able to afford a sustained defense. Even if the retribution is simply draining the wealth of these bad actors, it will have been well worth effort.
9 posted on 11/17/2024 5:38:29 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
To: CFW
Too bad, so sad, you TURKEYS.
10 posted on 11/17/2024 5:38:59 PM PST by Paladin2
To: I want the USA back
I’m hopin’ they get to burnin’ the “judges”. Those bass turds have made it so an American CANNOT get a fair shake in ANY court in this craphole third world country. Especially if the damn “judge” is a foreign sweat hog like the majority of them are.
11 posted on 11/17/2024 5:39:00 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Go Brandon! FCS (Schumer))
To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
Define aboveboard in the Garland DOJ.
12 posted on 11/17/2024 5:39:10 PM PST by chopperk (air)
To: All
People need to understand that the true punishment of people facing things like this are legal fees.
Trump could never have survived the onslaught had he not been so rich.
Now with these others, who are not rich, they will be scrambling very hard to make the claim that their actions within their duties mean the government must indemnify them for legal fees.
IT IS THAT WHICH MUST BE COUNTERED. No DC court is going to convict them of anything so it is impoverishing them that must be the goal, and that means no reimbursement must be allowed.
They will be maneuvering hard on this matter for the next 2 months.
13 posted on 11/17/2024 5:40:01 PM PST by Owen
To: CFW
14 posted on 11/17/2024 5:40:27 PM PST by TigersEye (If you voted for Kamala you're a squirrel murdering communist!)
To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
Why would they fear a fair trial?
I don’t think they’re afraid of a ‘fair’ trial, but the process leading to their acquittals by the D.C. juries.
15 posted on 11/17/2024 5:40:41 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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