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> It's the same with Glenn Greenwald, who Taibbi is now allied with. Greenwald equated Michael Flynn's plea deal with the plight of poor folks being forced int
by ethagnawl 6y ago
> It's the same with Glenn Greenwald, who Taibbi is now allied with.
Greenwald equated Michael Flynn's plea deal with the plight of poor folks being forced into bad deals by disinterested public defenders/overextended court systems on a recent episode of The Intercepted podcast. I no longer recognize the person I used to look forward to seeing as a guest on Democracy Now.
- readams 6y agoMuch has been made in the media that he plead guilty so therefore there could be no possibility that his prosecution was unfair, unreasonable or political. But we know that many people plead guilty for reasons other than guilt. Facing a biased judge and prosecutors out for blood is certainly one of them. Fighting in such a case, even if you're right, is very risky. You may gain a sense of schadenfreude that even one of the formerly powerful could be forced into that same grim calculus faced by a poor person railroaded by the system. But this is not justice in either case.