Notices by Mark Hall (bobapril@c.im)

@mjf_pro @peteriskrisjanis @Teri_Kanefield A successful and healthy democracy depends on an informed electorate. Our justice system is the way we have developed to determine the truth in questions of fact, criminality, and so forth. That makes it a quite appropriate place to put our hope. I want it to work faster and more efficiently than it has, faster than Ms. Kanefield wants to believe is reasonable, fast enough to reach those conclusions BEFORE the next Presidential election. That's a far cry from making it "someone else's problem.

@mjf_pro @Teri_Kanefield That seems overly dismissive and demeaning. How about "fix it NOW before the bastard gets back in office and pardons himself"?

@mjf_pro @Teri_Kanefield A "top-down AND bottom-up" strategy for the investigation was proposed by DoJ prosecutors and rejected by Garland and other top DoJ officials. That expanded investigation would have been faster, without breaking our rule of law. It *might* have been less effective in the end, or it might not - but it was certainly a legal option without falling into dictatorial territory.

@Moon @carnage4life No, it's a time-saving cognitive shortcut. We can't possibly parse out the true motivations and philosophical bent of everyone we meet - so when such an easy and accurate tool for weeding some of them out is offered, it only makes sense to use it.