Nice job digging this up. Not to be contrarian, nor to boost Patel’s probably spurious or exaggerated allegations about Gilbert’s corruption, but your reporting doesn’t exactly refute them. He could be right about her…and as a public defender, his courtroom advocacy for the guy was just him doing his job.
There’s no indication Gilbert didn’t screw up, that I’m aware of. And just doing their job never redeems Democratic work along these lines, so maybe we’ll see whether the GOP agrees!
Being a public defender probably approached the only noble and ethical action he's taken in his life. Though it is newsworthy I suppose that he defended someone whose people have suffered 70 years of apartheid and 13 months of genocide, coming into conflict with Biden's and Trump's goal of slaughtering every person left in Palestine.
That's the irony here, to me. What part of that federal public defender still wants to address the kind of prosecutorial overreach and misdeeds that he no doubt knew about? Or is the FBI-dismantling purely a project of Trump loyalism at this point? Seems worth discussing at the hearing...
Nice job digging this up. Not to be contrarian, nor to boost Patel’s probably spurious or exaggerated allegations about Gilbert’s corruption, but your reporting doesn’t exactly refute them. He could be right about her…and as a public defender, his courtroom advocacy for the guy was just him doing his job.
There’s no indication Gilbert didn’t screw up, that I’m aware of. And just doing their job never redeems Democratic work along these lines, so maybe we’ll see whether the GOP agrees!
Oh yes, if the smear fits…let him wear it! And with a name like Kash Patel…gotta be sus.
Being a public defender probably approached the only noble and ethical action he's taken in his life. Though it is newsworthy I suppose that he defended someone whose people have suffered 70 years of apartheid and 13 months of genocide, coming into conflict with Biden's and Trump's goal of slaughtering every person left in Palestine.
That's the irony here, to me. What part of that federal public defender still wants to address the kind of prosecutorial overreach and misdeeds that he no doubt knew about? Or is the FBI-dismantling purely a project of Trump loyalism at this point? Seems worth discussing at the hearing...
Yeah, Patel is a real hero.
He’s as much a hero as you are an expert at reading comprehension.