Glenn Greenwald Thinks Abiding By Treaty Requirements Is A Deep State Conspiracy But Maybe It's Not
https://popehat.substack.com/p/is-following-an-extradition-treaty
Is Following An Extradition Treaty An Elaborate Political Conspiracy?

No. No it is not. That's Just Wrong, Glenn.

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@Popehat i need someone to write an explainer as to what happened to that guy. and Taibbi. jfc.
@blogdiva @Popehat
He’s the same he always was. I even bought his first book when he cosplayed a liberal anti-Bush truth teller, but I never could finish it; the inflated self regard was already too dense for my blood. He jumped at the Kremlin trough with Tucker.
@sjuvonen @Popehat always have to remind myself he is part of the cadre of lawyers responsible for the post-Skokie corrupt interpretation of free speech.
How To End Up Serving The Right âť§ Current Affairs

<p>Journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are known for exposing the crimes of the police, the military, and Wall Street. But they also spout dangerous conservative hyperbole about The Left. What’s going on? </p>

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@blogdiva @Popehat I came here to say that exact same thing. WTF happened to him? He was once a respected journalist.
@Popehat 👏 👏 For this line about SBF: "the answer to the question 'how bad could it be, being raised by two Stanford professors?'"

@daisyj @Popehat Yep, as always Ken has a gift for turns of phrase.

Ah, Stanford, that model of honesty and probity.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/us/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resigns/index.html

(And if I’m not mistaken, SBF’s dad appears to have been directly involved in some of the financial hijinks.)

@michaelgemar @daisyj @Popehat let's not be too hard on Ken's alma mater here ;)

@pyperkub @michaelgemar @daisyj @Popehat I blame the hyphens.

(Proper spelling is Stan-Ford.)

@Popehat Ken, clearly the Biden administration *asked* the Bahamas Foreign Minister to exclude the campaign finance charges in the warrant, notwithstanding the fact the admin *included* them in the first place. The senile old man is playing 8-dimensional chess—and also the legal establishment, apparently. 🤣
@realityczar @Popehat It’s like the human who defeated the Go-playing supercomputer by intentionally making subpar moves. Biden’s dementia is his strength because it’s impossible to prepare for.

@Popehat Great article. I found a pretty big error though:

> Glenn’s point is dumb. Since Glenn is absolutely not dumb [...]

@Popehat I'm going with bad faith. It has long felt to me that he feels like he should have been invited to the full-time cushy opinion piece clique (edit - as a "reward" for the Snowden reporting), and when he wasn't, he behaved like an excluded high-schooler.
@Popehat Glenn is a cartoonish oaf, and not even the fun kind.
@Popehat I went to Wikipedia to confirm his status as a "former lawyer." I think we may have accidentally discovered a reason why he's a former lawyer.
@Popehat classic g greenwald. Shallow, narrow, omitting, highly convenient to the illiberals.. zero objectivity.

“Glenn’s ridicule here is dishonest or, at least, willfully ignorant.”

@Popehat I often wonder if the MAGA-leaning pundits and cognoscenti are actually that high on their own supply, or if they’re willfully misinterpreting literally everything, all of the time. It’s so confounding, when there’s actually good, legitimate points to be made at times.

@Popehat Greenwald is a shite and tool of the far right. Mostly a tool...
@Popehat I somewhat resent you reminding me that Glenn Greenwald exists.

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I just wanted to check that I've understood - the extradition rule here specifically binds the US on what it can prosecute him for once he's been degreased and set in front of a judge.

So there's no possible way the US can introduce this charge post-extradition, right? It's considered outside of scope for good unless a similar charge can be bought on unrelated evidence after the fact? It's basically on a scout's honor basis and if the US were to renege they would risk forfeiting future extraditions? Sorry for oversimplifying, I'm just making sure I've understood the principle.

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The Rye In My Tea Party have gone full Centauri Republic.
“We have treaties!”
“Bah! Words on a page.”
@Popehat Greenwald's... odd these days it seems.
@Popehat "Glenn Greenwald Thinks" - yeah, we can pretty much stop here tbh.
@Popehat I think this gives GG too much credit, but the only other note I have is that, with regards to the draconian sentence, it's not clear to me that it's in the public interest for SBF to ever get out of prison