Watched her new Netflix documentary, and James Comey went after her the same way he did Hillary. What a rotten bastard behind that staid demeanor and very appropriate language and emotional inflection. He seems to have a type - that he hates - blonde, attractive, highly accomplished, not bending the knee to male dominance.

She cannot be a CEO now. Her company suffered horribly once she was no longer at the helm. It's crap. And they threw her in a fed hole when she was imprisoned. Two normally dressed women when she was first incarcerated that she saw when she was on a morning walk, she stopped to say something about how nice the morning was or something and her hand brushed a chain that was at one woman's side. Guess it was attached to keys. She didn't even know they were guards. Tossed her into isolation. Just incredible.

She refused to waste time though while she was there. She ended up mentoring other inmates in starting their own businesses. The woman didn't waste a single minute on burning daylight while she was incarcerated, and she has some words to share on the state of incarceration in our country. I admire her even more than I did before.

Biden Commutes Sentences of 37 Death Row Inmates
December 23, 2024 at 6:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard 60 Comments

"President Biden, citing moral and policy objections to capital punishment, said he was commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates Monday, a move that prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row," the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Biden: "Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss."

But, citing his early experience as a public defender as well as decades in federal office: "I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted."

It appears that destructive intentions such as downgrading or eliminating agencies and programs such as the FBI, SEC and FDIC will need the cover of flashy retribution.

Protective pardons should be granted to a swipe of individuals who may be alleged to have violated any law or regulation in the reporting on, writing about, and/or investigating of,  the insurrection of January 6, 2021, all events leading up to and following such insurrection, including all components of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial  branches of the federal government.

The pardon should "flood the zone" in keeping with the Pardon of January 21, 1977 in which Jimmy Carter granted an unconditional, blanket pardon to hundreds of thousands who may have committed any offense of the Military Service Act from August 4, 1964 to March 28, 1973.   President  Carter intended to put an end to the bad feelings that related to the Viet Nam war.

From Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, dir., 1992):

The Schofield Kid (Jamie Woolvet): "It don't seem real - how he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever. How he's dead - and the other one, too, all on account of pulling a trigger."

Will Munny (Clint Eastwood): "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got - and all he's ever gonna have."

Schofield: "Yeah. Well, I guess they had it coming."

Munny: "We all have it coming, kid."

It was all so shamelessly theatrical, as befitting the city's own tone-deaf Mayor Eric Adams, an inveterate self-promoter who simply shrugged off the irony of his own recent felony indictment on multiple federal corruption charges in the unflappable belief that any publicity is good publicity.

With so many in the general public already inclined to think that deceased UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson somehow had it coming, the sight of the telegenic Luigi Mangione being marched to the courthouse in jumpsuit and chains only further underscored my own feeling that Adams' malevolent dog-and-pony show may yet have the unintended net effect of overkill.

Given Peter G's own insightful analysis of the superfluous federal charges against the defendant, the authorities appear to be collectively doing their damnedest to frame a likely guilty man and give him the bum's rush to the gallows. It's the legal equivalent of a multi-car pile-up on an interstate and something that's almost never a good look, regardless of whatever unseemly angle it's viewed.