A Republican DOJ went after the whole Nixon Administration

[edhopper]

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and sent most of then to jail.

And we can't get a Democratic DOJ to even look at TFG and his band of crooks.

There is something happening and I don't like what it is...


Let me just add,
I know it took several years to prosecute the Watergate gang. But we knew they were being prosecuted. NY State and City are taking their time, but we heard about the investigations, subpoenas and Grand Juries the whole way. In this time of a multitude of media sources, we have not heard of any Trump official being subpoena, lawyering up, or investigated.
I remember the disappointment in Fitzpatrick and Mueller, I remember when the Obama Administration decided to "look forward and not back" letting the Bush Administration criminals, war and otherwise, get off.
The silence from the Biden Administration and the DIJ does not engender any hope of these criminals seeing the inside of a court room.
So it would be nice to hear about some movement on the prosecution of the most corrupt Administration, run by the most corrupt family in American History.

[atreides1]

1. Garland is what's happening!!!

He doesn't want to politicize the DOJ...which could be the reason that so many of the insurrectionists are getting low fines, short jail terms and plea deals...theoretically!

[Ocelot II]

2. How do you know the DoJ isn't doing anything?

Criminal investigations normally are not conducted publicly. And don't forget, it took two years following the Watergate break-in to indict Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, et al., as well as to get the "smoking gun" tape released, which finally led to Nixon's resignation.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. They don't they just want to complain

That’s what DU is for, complaining about things we don’t have knowledge of…

[Ocelot II]

5. Reminds me a bit of all those people who aren't epidemiologists or any kind of scientist

griping about Dr. Fauci's advice to wear masks and get vaccinated instead of eating de-worming paste for farm animals.

[Celerity]

22. Or complain about the complainers, all whilst having the same lack of knowledge they do.

[Andy823]

7. It's like deja vu

for me. I could swear this has all happened before during President Obama's two terms. People complaining over and over about how "wrong" he was when they didn't agree with him. Posters spewing doom and gloom and saying "it's all over", no hope, why even bother any more, and of course people with their hair on fire spewing this crap day, after day, after day! I will admit there seems to be a lot more "misinformation" being spread this time around.

Maybe it's just a bad dream.

[edhopper]

9. I still think it was a big mistake

To let the Bush criminals skate.

[Andy823]

12. So do I

But I am willing to give the DOJ the time they need to get it right so the guilty won't get off because of a lack of evidence.

[Effete Snob]

14. And then the Trump administration followed

I’m not sure you made the point you intended to make.

[Effete Snob]

19. Yep - and it ended with Trump being elected

So, sure, if that's where you want to end up, then, yep, we're on the same ride. People complaining about legal inaction during a Democratic administration, which is then followed by an emboldened fascist wrecking crew.

[Hotler]

23. They let Bush/Cheney walk. nt

[Celerity]

21. How do you know they are? Or at least enough and at a sufficient pace? Both sides are just guessing.

[Ocelot II]

25. I don't know what they are doing, nor does anyone else - nor should they.

What I do know is that federal investigations of white-collar crime cases take a long time. It took more than two years just to indict the primary culprits in the Watergate case, and almost three years before they were actually convicted. Complaining that nobody has been indicted after only a few months indicates a lack of understanding of a very complex process.

[stillcool]

4. and the beat goes on...

how about them Yankees.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. There is a certain deja vu miasma going on.

We’ve seen this movie and its 60 remakes. And it’s always We the People who get left on the short end of the stick and in the middle of the stink. The Trumpies are just tools of Crime Inc., the fusion of capital and fascism that has corrupted the planet so horribly and thoroughly. Some of the turds escaped justice after 1945 and have created the current cesspool we find ourselves in.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. Looks like we dodged a bullet by not getting him on the scotus

He would he better than what we have .... maybe

[Stuart G]

10. The show isn't over at all. We are in Act 3..There is much more to come..One or More Acts coming

...So the question is not who will get "Trump Gang" (Yes, someone will get him)

But, Who Where & When the Gang will be Gotten?

....Will it be NY State?, IRS?, or ????

So, Guess Who will decide?.....His name is >> Joe.....??

You don't believe?....Joe will consult with the best brains in the U.S.A. and....then decide the course of action..

[uponit7771]

11. How long did it take the DOJ to go after Nixon Minions? Thx in advance

[Ocelot II]

16. More than two years.

The burglars were busted and charged quickly (the break-in was in June of 1972; they were indicted in
September and tried or pled guilty in January of 1973), but the prosecutions of the big fish - Haldeman, Ehrlichman, etc., occurred in 1974-75. Most of that bunch, who were indicted in March of 1974, went on trial in October of that year, and all but Parkinson were found guilty in January of 1975. Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell exhausted their appeals in 1977. So the whole process took about five years.

[uponit7771]

18. thx !!

[Effete Snob]

13. Yes, but it took years of investigation and preparation

[Xolodno]

15. To be fair...

...Nixon wasn't just hated by Democrats. A lot of Republicans hated him too!

And the DOJ is swamped with insurrectionist cases. Add to that, they learned from the Nixon Administration on how to push your agenda up to the line of breaking the law, but not crossing it. There are no slam duck cases.

[Ocelot II]

17. The other thing that could be a problem is the possibility that

there are still Trumpist moles in the DoJ. Trump and Barr completely gutted the DoJ as happened to most other federal agencies, and Trump installed his stooges, some of whom might still be there. As civil service employees they could be hard to get rid of, and they might still be throwing spanners in the works.

[Patton French]

20. Oh how times have changed..

..and not for the better.

[JHB]

24. Conservatives purged the Republican Party of that type of Republican...

...the ones who had independent moral compasses and didn't simply toe the conservatively-correct party line.

That was decades ago.

[edhopper]

26. True

But we have a Democratic DOJ now, with no excuse not to prosecute the entire Trump Administration.

[edhopper]

27. I have added a rant

to the OP.