Preet Bharara to Georgia congressman: You've hit a shocking new low

[spanone]

(CNN)Dear Representative Doug Collins,

You are not my congressman, and while I am ever thankful for that fact, after seeing your performance on Fox News on Wednesday night, I'm not sure you are fit to be anyone's congressman. Specifically, I saw you blithely assert on national television that Democrats "are in love with terrorists. We see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families."

No American is "in love" with terrorists or "mourns" the death of that Iranian general on an airstrip in Baghdad. Many of us do, however, mourn the death of decency, honesty and reason here at home.

I realize that you are a politician and that hyperbolic, hyperpartisan claptrap is the unfortunate fashion of the day. But even allowing for the new normal of nastiness in political rhetoric, your casual slur of countless good Americans hits a new bottom. Americans can, in good faith, differ about the legality or efficacy of killing Soleimani. That doesn't make them unpatriotic or lovers of terrorists. It is hostility to differences of opinion that is un-American.

I understand that politics is a tough racket. I served as a Democratic staffer in the US Senate. I get that terrorism is a threat. I prosecuted terrorists as a United States attorney, working just yards from Ground Zero. I know of the particular evil posed by Qasem Soleimani. My office prosecuted plots orchestrated by him and the Quds Force, including the conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States in 2011.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/09/opinions/doug-collins-remark-crosses-line-preet-bharara/index.html

[alwaysinasnit]

1. This guy would make an admirable Attorney General of the US.

[question everything]

2. He did not get the vacant Senate seat, even though he was Whiny

Donny’s favorite, so he is hitting in all directions.

[coti]

3. Preet is definitely letting their bullshit get to him more than he should.

Trump literally insults gold star families, POWs, and other veterans all the time. And, oh yeah, he's a fucking traitor on top of that who invites other countries to meddle in our elections because he knows he can't win on his own.

[OnDoutside]

4. I agree, Preet has shown remarkable restraint up to this....that's the second type comment in recent

days

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Like many good, usually stoic Americans, Preet's fed up and disgusted.

Not holding my breath, but let's hope a few million Republicans start feeling the same.

For the remainder of this year especially, every Republican lie must be called and exposed in the sunshine somehow - billboards, brief TV spots, mailers, whatever. Most Americans do not like being lied to.

KY.........

[Ilsa]

6. "Many of us do, however, mourn the death of decency, honesty, and reason here at home."

Preet called Collins out on being a chaplain and speaking this way to those with whom he disagrees.