SUMMARY REVIEW
(Trump Revolution Book 41)
Sidney Powell, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice (Sidney Powell, 2014 reprinted 2018)
6 Star – The Long Needed Stake in the Heart of the Department of Injustice and Crooked Judges as Well as Prosecutors Across the USA
When this book was first published in 2014 the country was not ready to “hear” what this former prosecutor had to say.
Now, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Russian election interference fabrication by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the clear evidence of treason by then President Barack Obama running through the Department of Justice (DoJ) and across the so-called leadership ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the public is ready to contemplate the reality that across the USA, there are judges and prosecutors who are so corrupt, so venal, so protected from being held accountable, that they will literally lie in every possible way to put people in jail, to sentence people to death, on the basis of both false evidence, and abuse of judicial and prosecutorial discretion.
The author has produced gifted compelling writing that at one point brought me to tears of compassion, at other points tears of outrage.
The book is central to what I think of as the trilogy of crime in government.
At the bottom are crooked cops and incompetent crime lab technicians who lie (and take bribes) to frame people for murder and other crimes. At the bottom are also sheriffs, magistrates, and a mix of doctors, nurses, and elderly care providers who prey on old people – drugging them up, making them wards of the state, and then stealing their estates. And then there are the young and the black, sentenced to prisons that pay kickbacks for each head of cattle delivered.
At the top as Matt Taibbi has documented so well in with Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History which I have reviewed, and in The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap which I have not, are the Deep State and Shadow Government where criminal dealings at the national, state, and local levels are legalized. The most common political crime is the granting of public lands, waivers on pollution, and forgiveness of billions in tax obligations in return for political kickbacks (Baltimore comes to mind as do New York City and San Francisco) to allowing the financialization of the economy, contrived depressions, and the use of the stock market to cheat individual investors at the same time that the agricultural, military, pharmaceutical, prison, and water complexes are allowed to poison us, kill us, drug us, incarcerate us, and poison us again.
This book is centered between the two. This book does for judges and prosecutors charged with nurturing public justice, what Joaquim Hagopian’s free online book, Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy, and the Deep State, does for all of the pedophiles in high places – including Presidents, major media anchors and other celebrities, scientists, and – yes, judges and high-profile lawyers. That story is yet to be told because the Mossad, the CIA, and the FBI are central to that story and use blackmail and intimidation to prevent the story being told by the mainstream media, at the same time that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and CIA control social media censorship. I am the only one who has published a proper outline of the Jeffrey Epstein case, in summary form at Nine Veils of Evil and fuller form at my master post that is regularly updated.
We live in a cheating culture, by design. We have been dumbed down and drugged up by design. We the People, whose natural rights are supposed to be inalienable and who created a government to serve us, are now treated as subjects and targets by individuals completely lacking in ethics who are allowed to treat us as cockroaches (cop parlance taught by the Israelis), deplorables (political parlance per Hillary Clinton), and disposables (Wall Street thrives on “exploding” the individual client).
Before I summarize this book by former prosecutor and (I hope) future Supreme Court Justice Sidney Powell, let me just deepen the context within which her book matters – the context provided by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
George Will, in The Conservative Sensibility (Hachette Books, 2019), which I have reviewed, is deeply erudite and persuasive in articulating how we have lost our way – the Constitution has been trashed, the Executive has expanded and run amok with executive regulation and taxation not authorized by Congress, the Legislature has abdicated its responsibilities (he avoids calling them out for being the whores of the Deep State that they are), and the Judiciary has been too deferential to the Executive as well as the Legislature in allowing pervasive crimes against the public to be legalized.
It is in the context of George Will’s call for a more activist judiciary that Sidney Powell’s book matters. Not only do we need most desperately an engaged judiciary protecting the public from legalized crime, but we need for that judiciary – including prosecutors and the law enforcement people they rely on for evidence and testimony – to be honest.
I will start my summary where the author ends:
01 Every prosecutor and judge who acted with malice and is guilty of professional misconduct – all of them reported to their respective professional oversight bodies – is free, has never been charged, and went on to lucrative assignments in either the White House (under President Barack Obama, himself a person of interest in the Russian witchhunt based on falsified evidence) or to law firms I would not hire knowing what I know now. All of the perpetrators of the government crimes methodically described in this book enjoyed – and continue to enjoy – impunity.
02 All of the cases they brought have been over-turned by higher courts but only after years of effort and with some improbable good fortune, the receipt of “Brady” materials – exculpatory material – that was concealed in the first place. Sadly, people died, people spent years in prison, because of the professional misconduct of both judges and prosecutors. The Attorneys General under Obama, in my view, are the single greatest point of failure. They should have known – they almost certainly did know – that they were overseeing a network of prosecutorial criminality.
It is worth listing the most serious types of prosecutorial misconduct below, with the observation that today Sidney Powell is the attorney for General Mike Flynn, a man I know and admire, and he appears to have suffered from many of these explicitly proscribed misbehaviors:
Charging a suspect with more offenses than is warranted
Withholding or delaying the release of exculpatory evidence
Deliberately mishandling, mistreating, or destroying evidence
Allowing witnesses they know or should know are not truthful to testify
Pressuring defense witnesses not to testify (including intimidation and lying to that end)
Relying on fraudulent forensics experts
During plea negotiations, overstating the strength of evidence
Making statements to the media designed to arouse public indignation
Making improver or misleading statements to the jury
Failing to report misconduct when it is discovered
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