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After Sassoon, two more officials have resigned rather than dropping charges against Adams. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/top-federal-pros

After Sassoon, two more officials have resigned rather than dropping charges against Adams. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/top-federal-prosecutor-ny-resigns-told-drop-adams-charges-rcna192030 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/top-fede... John Keller, the acting head of the Public Integrity Section and Kevin Driscoll, the acting head of the department's Criminal Division. Keep in mind that "acting head" means they were recently chosen for the positions by the Trump administration, but they are still refusing to comply.

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago
Honestly, it reads like an episode of "Wire" script. Something is clearly going on behind the scenes and we get to speculate on the actual reasons for every single piece of this. I have zero idea what is really going on, but I am reasonably certain some of the details will be out.
- TheAlchemist 2y ago
  What's going on, is that Trump / Musk are trying to take over the US governement, either for their own profit or on behalf China or Russia. Anybody who believes they act in good faith is delusional. PS. I know it's this comment is not up to HN standards, but we've seen this movie play in other, less powerfull countries, and it doesn't bode well. While I'm not a US citizen, unfortunately the US has (not for long) such an outsized impact on the world, that we will all be impacted by what's going on. That's why I think that HN should stop censoring these articles, so that people working for Musk companies, which are plenty on HN, can see what's up and what people think about it. And I don't buy the argument that politics should not be part of workplace. We're way way past normal politics at this point.
  - palmotea 2y ago
    > either for their own profit or on behalf China or Russia. It's delusional to think either of them are agents of anyone but themselves. They don't have the motive or the discipline. That's no to say they won't be useful to those countries (e.g. Musk plan to use unvetted twenty-somethings to backdoor the entire federal government must have foreign spy chiefs jumping for joy)
    - A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago
      << It's delusional to think either of them are agents of anyone but themselves. It is hard to understate this. I had odd conversations with both sides ( I am in a weird spot, because since I come from the old country, two party US system is edit: not internalized as a good way to describe leanings ) of US political spectrum and somehow both sides tend to miss it or rationalize it away ( edited ). If we agree that Trump/Musk represent some sort of threat to the system, then it is not because of conviction or some deep held belief they hold. What they believe is just what happens to benefit them at a time. That is almost the entirety of their positions. That, honestly, is the part that should be a concern. Everything else is just posturing.
- anigbrowl 2y ago
  Very much so. Sassoon's resignation letter describes the Acting Attorney General (prior to Pam Bondi's recent confirmation) as objecting to a DoJ lawyer taking notes in the meeting with Adams' lawyers, and demanding those notes be handed over when exiting the meeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g for those who don't get the reference
anigbrowl 2y ago
Three other DoJ attorneys under Keller have resigned as well. I can't think of any parallel since the Nixon administration.

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago

Honestly, it reads like an episode of "Wire" script. Something is clearly going on behind the scenes and we get to speculate on the actual reasons for every single piece of this. I have zero idea what is really going on, but I am reasonably certain some of the details will be out.

TheAlchemist 2y ago
What's going on, is that Trump / Musk are trying to take over the US governement, either for their own profit or on behalf China or Russia. Anybody who believes they act in good faith is delusional. PS. I know it's this comment is not up to HN standards, but we've seen this movie play in other, less powerfull countries, and it doesn't bode well. While I'm not a US citizen, unfortunately the US has (not for long) such an outsized impact on the world, that we will all be impacted by what's going on. That's why I think that HN should stop censoring these articles, so that people working for Musk companies, which are plenty on HN, can see what's up and what people think about it. And I don't buy the argument that politics should not be part of workplace. We're way way past normal politics at this point.
- palmotea 2y ago
  > either for their own profit or on behalf China or Russia. It's delusional to think either of them are agents of anyone but themselves. They don't have the motive or the discipline. That's no to say they won't be useful to those countries (e.g. Musk plan to use unvetted twenty-somethings to backdoor the entire federal government must have foreign spy chiefs jumping for joy)
  - A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 2y ago
    << It's delusional to think either of them are agents of anyone but themselves. It is hard to understate this. I had odd conversations with both sides ( I am in a weird spot, because since I come from the old country, two party US system is edit: not internalized as a good way to describe leanings ) of US political spectrum and somehow both sides tend to miss it or rationalize it away ( edited ). If we agree that Trump/Musk represent some sort of threat to the system, then it is not because of conviction or some deep held belief they hold. What they believe is just what happens to benefit them at a time. That is almost the entirety of their positions. That, honestly, is the part that should be a concern. Everything else is just posturing.
anigbrowl 2y ago
Very much so. Sassoon's resignation letter describes the Acting Attorney General (prior to Pam Bondi's recent confirmation) as objecting to a DoJ lawyer taking notes in the meeting with Adams' lawyers, and demanding those notes be handed over when exiting the meeting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g for those who don't get the reference

anigbrowl 2y ago

Three other DoJ attorneys under Keller have resigned as well. I can't think of any parallel since the Nixon administration.