A 60-year-old former FBI analyst will spend seven long days in jail for illegally spying on a citizen he disagreed with. All in an effort to protect left-wing prosecutor Robert Mueller from bad press.
This is your FBI, and this is a whitewash. The maximum sentence for spying on a citizen is one year.
So that needs to change. Make it 10 years and no more seven-day vacations. This sentence makes the offender a hero to his FBI friends. Now, people who would want to be involved in politics will know for sure they can have their emails accessed at any time.
“Addressing U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, Tolson said he accessed Mr. Burkman’s email account without permission in an attempt to stop the lobbyist from smearing Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the special counsel’s investigation into the 2016 U.S. presidential election, multiple outlets at the sentencing hearing reported.”
And who is Judge Leonie Brinkema?
She is an activist, leftist judge. She stopped, with questionable authority, the President’s efforts to stop immigration from terrorist-supporting countries. Because everyone deserves US Constitutional rights. No matter Congress passed such a law in 1952.
And with the case of the recent resistance impeachment, Judge Brinkema can read President Trump’s mind:
“It was, Brinkema wrote, quoting earlier opinions, the court’s job to adjudicate when a government action “is alleged to conflict with the Constitution,” and it has been “at least since Marbury v. Madison”—that is, since a case that the Supreme Court decided in 1803.
“There is no interest more weighty than a bona fide national security concern,” Brinkema added.
But good faith was not necessarily what all this was looking like to Brinkema. She wasn’t trying to get a seat in the Situation Room to analyze intelligence and make a national-security judgment (although she, like the Ninth Circuit judges, reminded the government that there were mechanisms that would allow it to show her classified information). But she was entitled to ask “whether the EO was animated by national security concerns at all.” The question, that is, was whether Trump was being honest about what he was doing and why, or whether he was invoking national security as a cover for bigotry.
Brinkema quoted a Supreme Court opinion to make the point that the courts could look behind the excuses the President offered on a given day, and explore his true motives, “in those unusual cases where the claim was an apparent sham.” The entire country finds itself in an unusual case: A President, selling one sham after the other, without explanations or shame.
Lucky for us Brinkema’s pals in the Ninth Circuit have been neutered by new trump appointments.
Unlucky for American citizens Judge Brinkema doesn’t recognize spying when she is confronted with it in her kangaroo court.
More on Brinkema.
A year here, a year there, next thing you know – she is a Federal Judge
Career History
TITLE
COMPANY
TENURE
Judge
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
10/1993–PRESENT
Magistrate Judge
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
01/1985–12/1993
Attorney
Private Practice
01/1984–12/1985
Instructor
Northern VA Crim Justice Acad
01/1984–12/1985
Trial Attorney
United States Department of Justice
01/1983–12/1984
Assistant US Attorney
United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia
01/1977–12/1983
Trial Attorney
United States Department of Justice
01/1976–12/1977