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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1451635)	4/11/2024 6:01:04 PM
From: Bill	2 Recommendations Recommended By D.Austin longz Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577178

The president has the power to declassify anything. The VP does not. I can't believe you are so ignorant you don't know that.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1451635)	4/11/2024 6:16:27 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577178

Tenshitsyou declares the US Court system is the place to find "justice". There is NO politicization in the Courts. Berkeley Prosecutors Cut Probation Deal For Scientist Who Tried To Kill Colleague Thursday, Apr 11, 2024 - 11:00 AM Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have been a criminal defense attorney for my entire career, but there is a case out of Berkeley, California that is a real head scratcher... [url=][/url] David Xu was the chief metallurgist for a company called Berkeley Engineering and Research (BEAR) and was caught on tape trying to poison a colleague. His actions are blamed for not only causing harm to Rong Yuan, but her parents. After spending only 10 days in jail, Alameda County prosecutors and a judge signed off on a probation deal in the case. Xu was arrested back in 2019 after Yuan became suspicious that her illness (which she thought might be cancer) might be related to a water bottle that she used at work. When her parents used the bottle to cook, they also became ill. She set up a spy camera at work and caught David Xu tampering with the water bottle. It was tested and found to contain “extraordinarily high levels of cadmium, a poisonous heavy metal.” That seems a pretty strong case for two counts of poisoning and an attempted murder prosecution. Yet, the prosecutors dropped the attempted murder charge and accepted a plea on the two poisoning counts. Then a probation officer recommended no jail time. The officer wrote that “The defendant is highly educated and living at home with his wife and children. He is employed and earning a stable income. Although this matter represents the first and only offense, it was serious in nature and could have resulted in death or serious illness of the victims…. It is the hopes of this deputy that the defendant will take advantage of this second chance and can satisfactorily complete this probation.” Even on the two poisoning counts, one would expect some jail time. This man hurt three people and could have killed a colleague. Yet, Alameda County DA Pamela Price signed off on letting Xu spend less than two weeks in jail for his crimes. [url=][/url] It is not clear what it takes to get actual jail time in Alameda County under Price. The San Francisco Chronicle was unable to get sentencing data from her office and Price is the subject of a recall campaign over her lax enforcement record.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1451635)	4/11/2024 6:20:21 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577178

Because anyone who declares the Court system run by lefties is "out to get"trump must be in the Q... Note the "impartial" DOJ is covering up for Fanni.... 'Swag, Computers, And Travel': Fani In Hot Seat Again After DOJ Uncovers 'Inconsistencies' With $480K Grant by Tyler Durden Thursday, Apr 11, 2024 - 11:20 AM The Justice Department has uncovered "inconsistencies" in a $480,000 federal grant used by Fulton County DA Fani Willis, two years after she fired a whistleblower who warned against misusing it to pay for "swag," computers, and travel. [url=][/url] According to the Washington Free Beacon, the grant is riddled with reporting discrepancies from Willis' office. "During our review of the award to respond to this inquiry, we have noticed some inconsistencies in what Fulton County has reported to [the Federal Subaward Reporting System] and we are working with them to update their reporting accordingly," a DOJ spox told the outlet on Friday. No further details were provided regarding the $488,000 grant - which was intended for the creation of a Center for Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention in Atlanta. While the grant ended in September of last year, the center was never opened. Jim Jordan In early February, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed Willis for records related to the grant, as well as whistleblower allegations made by fired staffer Amanda Timpson, who was listed as the grant director until Willis fired her in January 2022. Jordan threatened to hold Willis in contempt of Congress on March 14 after the district attorney responded to his subpoena with a "narrow set of documents" that had nothing to do with Timpson’s whistleblower allegations. Willis wrote in response that Jordan’s demands were "unreasonable and uncustomary" and suggested his investigation was an effort to derail her election interference case against former president Donald Trump. -Free Beacon According to Timpson, she was demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide, Michael Cuffee, from using part of the $488,000 grant to pay for "swag," computers and travel. "He wanted to do things with grants that were impossible, and I kept telling him, like, 'We can't do that,'" Timpson wrote Willis in a Nov. 19, 2021 meeting. "He told everybody … 'We're going to get MacBooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.' I said, 'You cannot do that, it's a very, very specific grant.'" "I respect that is your assessment," Willis replied. "And I'm not saying that your assessment is wrong." Willis later apologized to Timpson and said that Cuffee had "failed" her administration - yet less than two months later, Timpson was abruptly fired and escorted out of her office by seven armed investigators, according to Timpson. After she filed a wrongful termination whistleblower complaint, Willis' office said in a statement that Timpson was a "holdover from the prior administration" who was fired due to her "failure to meet the standards of the new administration." According to the Free Beacon: Fulton County records show that Willis’s office transferred $88,900 from the federal gang prevention grant to the Offender Alumni Association. But the group’s administrative director, Toni Barnett, told the Free Beacon that she had no idea why the county was reporting making those payments to her group in 2022 and 2023. "I have no idea where that information is coming from," Barnett told the outlet on March 15. "I have no idea why you’re calling or where you’re getting that information from. You need to go to that government resource and you need to let that validate whatever you want to say or print. Because I don’t know what you’re talking about." Read the rest of the report here...