Reason/Jacob Sullum 12/25
Commentary: While as an audio guy I'm sure the "sound mine" must be an interesting visit, this level of legalistic incompetence is, and should be here, the stuff of sanctions and/or disbarment. Blatant abuse of the legal system. Why then does it not surprise me that Sidney (really- "Sidney"?) Powell can't spell the word mind. Brings one to wonder if she's also misspelling the name "Cindy".
I mean I go to the Sound Mine quite often but I usually come out of it with music.
Thanks to Johnlaw whose thread led me to this story.
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>> "I want to alert the public and let the world know the truth about the corruption, manipulation, and lies being committed by a conspiracy of people and companies intent upon betraying the honest people of the United States and their legally constituted institutions and fundamental rights as citizens," says a redacted affidavit from an unnamed individual who claims to have served on "the national security guard detail" for Venezuela's president. "This conspiracy began more than a decade ago in Venezuela and has spread to countries all over the world. It is a conspiracy to wrongfully gain and keep power and wealth. It involves political leaders, powerful companies, and other persons whose purpose is to gain and keep power by changing the free will of the people and subverting the proper course of governing."
An affidavit from Ana Mercedes Díaz Cardozo, a naturalized U.S. citizen who says she was "a career official for 25 years at the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela," includes a nearly identical passage. Díaz also describes herself as "an adult of the sound mine," while the anonymous Venezuelan affiant uses a similarly mistaken phrase, saying, "I am an adult of sound mine."
Dominion Voting Systems, one of the companies that Powell has implicated in the purported plot to steal the election, notes the similarities between the two Venezuelan affiants' descriptions of their motivations in a December 16 letter demanding that Powell retract her accusations and threatening a defamation lawsuit if she doesn't. Dominion says the fact that the two affiants used almost exactly the same language proves that "those witnesses did not each write their declarations independently" and strongly suggests that the "allegations of a decade-old international conspiracy were written or edited by you or your team—not by the witnesses themselves." The repetition of the "sound mine" error likewise suggests collaboration.
The Dominion letter also notes that another anonymous witness Powell has used in court, codenamed "Spyder" (sometimes "Spider") and identified by The Washington Post as Army veteran Joshua Merritt, has admitted he never worked in military intelligence, although Powell called him a "Military Intelligence expert" and his declaration described him as a former "electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence."
... Dominion notes several other striking errors in witness statements used by Powell. Navid Keshavarz-Nia, presented as a cybersecurity expert, famously placed "Edison County" in Michigan, where no such jurisdiction exists. Russell Ramsland, a cybersecurity analyst and former Republican congressional candidate, discussed locations in Minnesota while alleging fraud in Michigan. Ramsland also claimed that voter turnout in Detroit was an impossible 139 percent and that turnout in North Muskegon was an even more improbable 782 percent, which he presented as clear evidence of fraud. "In reality," Dominion says, "the turnout in those places was 50.88% and 78.11%, respectively." <<
Commentary: While as an audio guy I'm sure the "sound mine" must be an interesting visit, this level of legalistic incompetence is, and should be here, the stuff of sanctions and/or disbarment. Blatant abuse of the legal system. Why then does it not surprise me that Sidney (really- "Sidney"?) Powell can't spell the word mind. Brings one to wonder if she's also misspelling the name "Cindy".
I mean I go to the Sound Mine quite often but I usually come out of it with music.
Thanks to Johnlaw whose thread led me to this story.
Related: Twitter-fired Cybersecurity Chief Krebs Sues Rump campaign, diGenova, Newsmax after Receiving Threats
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