The Failed State of the USA

 James Comey.

 Before I start please read some of the articles on northern america in friday's Around the Traps ( 26/9/25).

Some points in no particular order.

• I have yet to see any lawyer of repute to say this case is other than quite weak
• One charge was not allowed by the grand Jury
• Two were but only by a vote of 14 out of 23
• A grand jury indicts on a low order not on beyond reasonable doubt
• NO current career prosecutors were at the court just two political operatives
• Bill Barr did not prosecute because of a lack of evidence. ( Yes that is how long this goes back.)
• The Inspector General investigated this and found nothing wrong
• The current career  prosecutors have sent a statement to the latest acting prosecutor saying there is a lack of evidence to prosecute.
• Special counsel John Durham looked at this and he did not prosecute
• anonymous sources in a legal sense does not mean phoning up a journalist and backgrounding them
• Lawyers can be disbarred for  indicting someone without much of a case of finding them guilty
• There is very little 'meat' in the indictment. Compared to what Jack Smith gave everybody in his two indictments of Trump it is startling.

All in all it looks weak and very much open to both selective and vindictive prosecution. Moreover Comey's team should go for a speedy trial which would put enormous pressure on the prosecution team which has to come up to speed on this matter. The government needs to find someone to do the case for a start.

Tom Homan

I think we can all be confident that if Homan was innocent of bribery the video would have been released ( or leaked) straight away. As it is we will never be able to view it because it obviously looks bad for Homan.

ICE

I am confused why everyone on all sides cannot see the forest for the trees in this latest shooting. ICE agents are masked , have no identification, never show any arrest warrants, use violent methods to get people, frequently are outside Immigration courts so only get low hanging fruit not murderers and rapists and have been shown to lie in an attempt to charge people.

Does no-one think all these actions will provoke violence particularly when a country is clearly heading down an autocratic path and people think the democratic way will not work.

One thing that stands out like a shag on a rock. The Supreme court has enabled all of this with the disgraceful decision on the US President being immune from prosecution. This new law which was created out of nothing showed the Supreme court is captured. Neither the  lower courts or courts of appeal appear to be. The Lisa Cook decision will confirm to my mind this completely.