Maybe we really do have a Department of Justice that’s serious about reforming itself. Attorney General William Barr deserves applause for this one.
Here’s the latest news, spotted on Conservative Treehouse:
DOJ Appears to Block Manafort Transfer to Rikers Island…
An interesting and moderately positive development in the ongoing fiasco surrounding the prosecution of Paul Manafort. According to the New York Times, Attorney General William Barr’s top deputy, Jeffrey Rosen, sent a letter to New York state prosecutors saying Main Justice was monitoring the planned transfer of Mr. Manafort.
Following the DOJ letter, the decision to transfer Manafort to Rikers Island was reversed.
Now, Manafort is not a guy anyone needs to feel much sympathy for for being in a federal prison, given that he committed crimes on his tax reportage that most of us would never think of doing.
But the Deep State has shown itself to be far, far more vile than Manafort ever was. The Deep-Staters’ move to ship Manafort to Rikers was one of literally trying to torture him or even kill him by using the appalling conditions on Rikers Island as leverage to force him to cooperate with them on Getting Trump. […]
