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Grim Chieftain (2,051 posts)

Watched Colbert last night and cried through most of it

That dear, sweet funny man lost his job for telling the truth about Trump. Is there nothing good that evil bastard hasn't destroyed? I'll be watching tonight's final episode with a box of Kleenex and a glass of Jameson.

BTW - after tonight, CBS is off limits in our house. Done.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221251841

A federal prosecutor in the office that helped handle Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case regarding his investigation into Donald Trump was charged Wednesday for allegedly illegally emailing herself a copy of the materials disguised as cake recipes.

The department announced the indicted prosecutor as Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a managing assistant U.S. attorney of the Fort Pierce branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Lineberger has been charged with two counts of theft of government money or property; the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations; and with the concealment, removal or mutilation of public records.

The charges against Lineberger were filed in the Northern District of Florida. She pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.

The department, in announcing the charges, said that in separate instances in late 2025, Lineberger altered the electronic file names of government records that she received in her official capacity "to conceal" her unauthorized electronic transmission of the records to personal email accounts belonging to her "without being detected."

The altered government records included a document that included parts of internal DOJ electronic messages, an internal DOJ memorandum and a DOJ report related to a criminal prosecution that had been court-ordered to remain under seal and prohibited from distribution or disclosure outside of the department, the DOJ also said.

Lineberger allegedly attempted to conceal her actions by saving electronic copies of the government records in question under misleading file names such as "chocolate cake recipe" and "Bundt cake recipe" before emailing the documents to her personal email accounts.

From Galindo's "Issues" webpage, https://www.maureenforuscongress.com/issues :

Some of her stances are non-specific feel-good . As can seen sampled above, Galindo is very Prog.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas seized the opportunity of the May 8 Fatah Conference to demand $5 billion from Israel because he doesn’t have enough money to reward terrorists. Coincidentally, Abbas has spent over $5 billion on pay-for-slay in the last 15 years.

Yes, Abbas really is demanding tax and customs revenue from the Israelis, the very people he has made it his life mission to wipe off the face of the Earth, so that he can pay the terrorists who kill Israelis.

I recently wrote about Abbas whining that he was low on funds for “prisoners,” i.e., captured jihadis, and his fellow jihad-supporting PA bureaucrats. Research institute Palestinian Media Watch reacted to my piece on X by posting, “It's ironic that Mahmoud Abbas is demanding $5 Billion when you consider he spent $5.2 Billion on Pay-for-Slay since 2011! Perhaps he should reconsider his investment strategy.”
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Palestinian Media Watch has been tracking pay-for-slay payouts since 2011. Significantly, the PA tried to pretend last year that it had stopped its pay-for-slay program. Again, this was part of the taqiyya needed to convince the Americans that the PA actually was interested in ceasing hostilities with Israel, which, in fact, it will never do. Yasser Arafat, mentor of Abbas and protege of Hitler’s ally the Grand Mufti, invented the Palestinian people for the express purpose of claiming all Israeli land.

And of course, the PA never did stop the payments to terrorists and their families. Abbas openly griped about Israel not handing over $5 billion for that express purpose. If America or other Western nations send more money to Gaza, Abbas will simply use whatever cash he can get his hands on for pay-for-slay.