No. of Recommendations: 15
Wish we had a real DOJ that fought crime instead of this ridiculous group simply serving Trump's desires for revenge.
Judge Throws Out Charges Against Former F.B.I. Officials
The magistrate judge, Zia Faruqui, said the case was a rushed, political prosecution ordered by the White House intended to affect the midterm elections.
Obviously.
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Judge Faruqui excoriated the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for how it handled the case, admonishing prosecutors for trying to avoid some of the fundamental checks and balances of the criminal justice system. At the same time, he apologized directly to Ms. Floris and Mr. Benavides for having been “dragged through the process” of being charged by the same federal government they had admirably served for decades.
“I am deeply troubled by what happened here in the case,” Judge Faruqui said. “What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization.”
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From the outset, the case against Ms. Floris and Mr. Benavides was a particularly bitter one, embodying a battle that has raged for nearly two years between the F.B.I.’s current leadership and the scores of agents who have been purged from the bureau because of their supposed disloyalty to Mr. Trump.
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That rancor was on full display in court on Monday as several former F.B.I. agents fired by the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, showed up to cheer the dismissal of the case. Among those in the gallery were Brian Driscoll, the former acting director of the F.B.I.; Dave Sundberg, the former agent in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office; and Steven Jensen, another longtime F.B.I. leader.
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But during his speech, Judge Faruqui dismantled almost every aspect of the government’s case. He pointed out that most of the false statements the two defendants were charged with making were not actually false, that none of the false statements were made knowingly and that none of them had any material effect on the congressional investigation which they were called upon to assist.
