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Kash Patel, the staffer who wrote the Nunes memo, is shocker a fucking moron:
Patel was issued a rare order of ineptitude in 2016 by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, who faulted the lawyers handling of the prosecution of Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, who was accused of trying to support ISIS.
If the pretentious lawyers from main justice knew what they were doing or had the humility to ask for help from the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, Hughes wrote, it would not have taken three days, seven telephone calls, three voicemail messages and one snippy electronic message for them to indirectly ask the court for assistance in ordering a transcript.
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The judge admonished Patel from the bench after he arrived in court, shortly after a flight, without proper attire.
Youre not a member of the trial team, Hughes said. Its been going on for a month or so and you havent been here, have you?
And where is your tie? the judge said. Where is your suit?
Hughes then demanded Patels passport to prove hed just arrived from an overseas flight, and he asked why he had been chosen to participate if there were other prosecutors nearby in the U.S. Attorneys office.
What is the utility to me and to the people of America to have you fly down here at their expense, eat at their expense and stay at their expense when there are plenty of capable people over there, in this room plus over there? Hughes said. Youre just one more nonessential employee from Washington.
You dont add a bit of value, do you? the judge added
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2018/02/02/ancient-and-sacred-order-of-ineptitude/
Iggo
(47,558 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)Low bar.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)I was thinking of preliminary hearings back in my jumpsuit-wearing days. You never wanted to go after the guy who just pissed off the judge.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)ouch, that has to smart. Butt hurt much?
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)underpants
(182,824 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)but with his reputation, its shocking anyone would trust him, or anything he did.
I've practiced law for 41 years and been in court thousands of time. I've never seen a judge this mad nor heard of anything like this. He was so pitch perfect I thought it was a "girl" judge.