Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2017-03-13.
Per norma consolidata da duecento anni, i procuratori federali si dimettono al cambio del Presidente degli Stati Uniti.
Quarantasei di essi si sono adesso rifiutati, e di conseguenza il Presidente Trump li ha fatti licenziare.
Insubordinazione gravissima, specie tenendo conto che erano tutti uomini di legge, coloro che avrebbero dovuto far applicare le leggi.
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Dei giudici e dei procuratori federali nominati dall’Amministrazione Obama si può dire di tutto tranne che non siano stati ossequiosi schiavi del passato establishment.
Si può dire di tutto, dall’essersi inventati di sana pianta le accuse, dall’aver vessato con indagini reclamizzate dai media tutti i nemici politici, dall’aver emesso sentenze di condanna al cui confronto quelle dei tribunali nazionalsocialisti e comunisti erano fraterne carezze, ma nessuno potrà mani negare che abbiano sgarrato dall’eseguire gli ordini superiori, ossia quelli di Mr Obama e di Mrs Clinton e del loro santo patrono su questa terra.
Hanno raggiunto sublimi vette nella difficile arte del cortigiano così untuosamente, sgradevolmente ed ipocritamente servile dal finire per essere ben più papista del papa.
Più presenti sui media e nei programmi televisivi delle star dello spettacolo.
Caduti nella polvere della più cocente sconfitta elettorale del secolo i loro numi tutelari, ossia coloro che avallavano politicamente ogni loro operato chiamandolo “giustizia”, questi giudici non erano riusciti a staccarsi dal potere che era stato loro concesso, non tanto per meriti, quanto per appartenenza politica.
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«Federal prosecutors are nominated by the president, generally upon the recommendation of a home-state senator»
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«It is customary but not automatic for US attorneys, responsible for prosecuting federal crimes, to leave their position once a new president is in office»
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«The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has asked for the resignations of 46 US attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration»
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«Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration have been asked to leave “in order to ensure a uniform transition”»
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I giudici ed i procuratori federali degli Stati Uniti sotto la Amministrazione Obama erano diventati le Shultz Staffen, i commissari del popolo, dei liberals democratici. Braccio armato, gruppo di fuoco dei liberals democratici, strumento di una regime di terrore ammantato di umanitarismo. Negatori incalliti e pretervi del diritto alla vita.
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Diventa lecito quindi domandarsi come ciò sia potuto accadere, come sia mai stata possibile una simile forma di prostituzione mentale, etica e morale.
Fëdor Dostoevskij cento e passa anni or sono aveva tratteggiato ad arte un simile processo. Ne riportiamo alcuni brani salienti.
«Non c’è per l’uomo rimasto libero più assidua e più tormentosa cura di quella di cercare un essere dinanzi a cui inchinarsi. Ma l’uomo cerca di inchinarsi a ciò che già è incontestabile, tanto incontestabile, che tutti gli uomini ad un tempo siano disposti a venerarlo universalmente ….
Ma sappi che adesso, proprio oggi, questi uomini sono più che mai convinti di essere perfettamente liberi, e tuttavia ci hanno essi stessi recato la propria libertà, e l’hanno deposta umilmente ai nostri piedi.»
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«Questo costituisce il punto fondamentale di ciò che il vecchio vuole esprimere. “Lo spirito terribile e acuto, lo spirito dell’autodistruzione e della non-esistenza” ….
Non c’è scienza che possa dare loro il pane finché essi rimarranno liberi; ma andrà a finire che essi porteranno la loro libertà ai nostri piedi e ci diranno: ‘Fateci pure vostri schiavi, ma sfamateci.’ ….
Giacché il segreto dell’esistenza umana non è vivere per vivere, ma avere qualcosa per cui vivere. Se l’uomo non ha ben fermo dinanzi a sé il fine per cui vive, egli non accetterà di continuare a vivere e distruggerà se stesso piuttosto che rimanere sulla terra ….
E dal momento che l’uomo non è in grado di rimanere privo di miracoli, egli si sarebbe creato da sé miracoli nuovi, con le proprie forze questa volta, e si sarebbe inginocchiato dinanzi al miracolo del ciarlatano, alla magia della fattucchiera, pur rimanendo cento volte ribelle, eretico e miscredente. ….
Non abbiamo forse amato l’umanità, riconoscendo con tanta umiltà la sua debolezza, alleggerendo con tanto amore il suo fardello e permettendo alla sua debole natura persino di peccare, ma sempre con il nostro consenso? ….
Essi tremeranno impotenti dinanzi alla nostra ira, le loro menti diverranno pavide, i loro occhi facili al pianto, come quelli delle donne e dei bambini, ma ad un nostro segno saranno ugualmente pronti a passare all’allegria e al riso, alla gioia spensierata e alle allegre canzoncine infantili. Sì, noi li costringeremo a lavorare, ma nelle ore di riposo noi organizzeremo la loro vita come un gioco di bimbi, con canzoncine, cori, danze innocenti. Oh, noi permetteremo persino che essi commettano peccato – sono creature così deboli e fragili – ed essi ci ameranno come bambini per il fatto che noi permetteremo loro di peccare. Noi diremo loro che qualsiasi peccato sarà espiato a patto che venga compiuto con il nostro permesso»
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C’è ben poco da aggiungere. È la più coerente e profonda spiegazione logica della depravazione dei liberals. Questi ex procuratori federali sono l’apogeo dell’ideologia de
«lo spirito dell’autodistruzione e della non-esistenza»
Sodali, complici e mandanti stanno stracciandosi le vesti.
Senza procuratori e giudici federali ai loro ordini si troveranno disarmati. Molti di loro saranno chiamati a rispondere di ciò che hanno fatto. Come a Norimberga.
→ The New York Times. 2017-03-11. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Says He Was Fired After Refusing to Quit
The call to Preet Bharara’s office from President Trump’s assistant came on Thursday. Would Mr. Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, please call back?
The following day, Mr. Bharara was one of 46 United States attorneys appointed by President Barack Obama asked to resign — and to immediately clean out their offices. The request took many in his office by surprise because, in a meeting in November, Mr. Bharara was asked by the then-president-elect to stay on.
Mr. Bharara refused to resign. On Saturday, he announced on Twitter that he had been fired.
It was unclear whether the president’s call on Thursday was an effort to explain his change of heart about keeping Mr. Bharara or to discuss another matter. The White House would not comment on Saturday.
However, there are protocols governing a president’s direct contact with federal prosecutors. According to two people with knowledge of the events who were not authorized to discuss delicate conversations publicly, Mr. Bharara notified an adviser to the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, that the president had tried to contact him and that he would not respond because of those protocols. Mr. Bharara then called Mr. Trump’s assistant back to say he could not speak with the president, citing the protocols.
Mr. Bharara was a highly public prosecutor who relished the spotlight throughout more than seven years in office. He pursued several high-profile cases involving Wall Street, and he was in the midst of investigating fund-raising by Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, and preparing to try former top aides to the governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo, who are both Democrats. It was not immediately clear how his departure would affect those cases and others that were pending.
Mr. Bharara stayed quiet until Saturday afternoon. Then, on his personal Twitter account, which he set up eight days ago, he wrote: “I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired.” Referring to the Southern District of New York, he continued, “Being the US Attorney in SDNY will forever be the greatest honor of my professional life.”
Peter Carr, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to characterize Mr. Bharara’s departure that way, saying only, “I can confirm that Mr. Bharara is no longer the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.”
All presidents choose their own appointees for United States attorney positions and almost always ask those from their predecessors to leave. But the process under Mr. Trump was unusually abrupt, and it was yet another rocky encounter between the Trump administration and the nation’s law enforcement apparatus.
Mr. Bharara’s job had appeared to be secure. In November, he met at Trump Tower with the president-elect and several of his advisers, including Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, according to two people briefed on that discussion who requested anonymity.
At the meeting, according to those briefed, Mr. Trump asked Mr. Bharara to remain in the job, which Mr. Bharara relayed to reporters and television cameras in the Trump Tower lobby.
Then came the order to resign on Friday, creating what was described as a feeling of whiplash in the prosecutor’s Manhattan office. One person familiar with the views of current prosecutors described an oddly subdued reaction mixed with anxiety as the events unfolded. “You have a sense of how it’s going to end, and it’s not going to end well,” the person said.
But Mr. Bharara, unlike his fellow United States attorneys, publicly refused to leave. He gave no statement citing a policy or legal issue affecting his decision to refuse the resignation order.
It was unclear how many of the 46 holdovers had submitted resignations. Mr. Bharara’s colleague Robert L. Capers, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, announced his resignation Friday.
Two White House officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid offending the president, said the promise to keep Mr. Bharara on was a product of a chaotic transition process and Mr. Trump’s desire at the time to try to work with Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, with whom Mr. Bharara is close. The relationship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Schumer, the Senate minority leader, has since soured.
It was Dana Boente, the acting deputy attorney general, who called Mr. Bharara on Saturday. According to a Justice Department official, Mr. Boente told Mr. Bharara that he was one of the 46 United States attorneys being told to resign.
Mr. Bharara, the official said, replied that that was in conflict with Mr. Trump asking him to stay on. Mr. Boente reiterated that Mr. Bharara was being asked to resign, and Mr. Bharara said that he was interpreting that as being fired. Mr. Boente then said again that the department was asking him to step down, according to the official.
Mr. Bharara’s office is overseeing the case against the former aides to Mr. Cuomo and the inquiry into fund-raising by Mr. de Blasio, who has been a target of Mr. Trump’s ire as he has positioned himself as a vocal opponent of the president’s on the left.
His office is also overseeing an investigation into whether Fox News, which is owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, failed to properly alert shareholders of settlements with female employees who had accused the channel’s former chief, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment.
The investigation of Mr. de Blasio’s campaign fund-raising has been going on for about a year and is examining whether the mayor or his aides traded beneficial city action for political donations. Mr. de Blasio was interviewed recently by prosecutors who appeared to be in the final stages of determining whether to seek charges in the matter. Mr. de Blasio’s press secretary has said that the mayor has cooperated with Mr. Bharara’s inquiry and that he and his staff had “acted appropriately and well within the law.”
White House officials have said little about the timing of the mass push for resignations, other than insisting it had not been a response to a call for a purge on Fox News, where one host, Sean Hannity, urged the president to clean house at the Justice Department.
Phil Singer, a former aide to Mr. Schumer and a Democratic strategist, called it “absurd” to suggest that Mr. Bharara’s firing had been meant to punish Mr. Schumer. He noted that any investigation involving Trump Tower would fall within the purview of Mr. Bharara’s office.
The Southern District of New York, which Mr. Bharara has overseen since 2009, encompasses Manhattan, Mr. Trump’s home before he was elected president, as well as the Bronx, Westchester County and other counties north of New York City.
The Thursday afternoon phone call from the Oval Office was a curious sidelight to the fast-moving events. Mr. Trump’s assistant asked the prosecutor to return the call. Before doing so, Mr. Bharara called Mr. Sessions’s chief of staff, Jody Hunt, to alert the Justice Department to the call and express concern about contacts between presidents and federal prosecutors.
Aides to Mr. Trump did not respond to three emails seeking comment about the nature of Mr. Trump’s call to Mr. Bharara.
→ Ansa. 2017-03-11. Procuratore Ny, sono stato licenziato
NEW YORK, 11 MAR – “Non mi sono dimesso. Poco fa sono stato licenziato”. Lo afferma il procuratore di Manhattan, Preet Bharara, su Twitter. Bharara aveva annunciato che non si sarebbe dimesso come richiesto dal Dipartimento di Giustizia ai procuratori dell’era Obama.
→ The Guardian. 2017-03-11. Jeff Sessions asks dozens of US attorneys appointed by Obama to resign
It is customary but not automatic for US attorneys, responsible for prosecuting federal crimes, to leave their position once a new president is in office.
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The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has asked for the resignations of 46 US attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the justice department said on Friday.
Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration have been asked to leave “in order to ensure a uniform transition”, a justice department spokeswoman, Sarah Isgur Flores, said.
“Until the new US attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our US attorney’s offices will continue the great work of the department in investigating, prosecuting and deterring the most violent offenders,” she said in a statement.
The dismissal includes Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan who had been asked by Trump to stay on in November. Bharara had a name for himself in pursuing New York politicians in corruption cases as well as Wall Street executives accused of wrongdoing.
After his meeting in late November, the Obama appointee told reporters,“We had a good meeting. I said I would absolutely consider staying on. I agreed to stay on.” Bharara’s office is currently probing top New York Democrats in investigations linked to both governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio.
Only two prosecutors were held over. Dana Boente, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and acting deputy attorney general, and Rod Rosenstein, the US attorney for Maryland who been nominated to fill the role of deputy to Sessions. Rosenstein was appointed by Bush and held his post throughout the Obama administration.
“The president called Dana Boente and Rod Rosenstein tonight to inform them that he has declined to accept their resignation, and they will remain in their current positions,” spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement.
It is customary, though not automatic, for the country’s 93 US attorneys to leave their positions once a new president is in office. The Obama administration allowed political appointees of President George W Bush to serve until their replacements had been nominated and confirmed.
Federal prosecutors are nominated by the president, generally upon the recommendation of a home-state senator.
attorneys are responsible for prosecuting federal crimes in the territories they oversee. They report to justice department leadership in Washington, and their priorities are expected to be in line with those of the attorney general.
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