Astral Codex Ten

Justice Department

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Justice Department

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Justice Department is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 03, 2023 and September 11, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “administration uses the courts and Justice Department to go after their enemies”; “they also are under fire from the Justice Department”; “they also are under fire from the Justice Department for spreading Russian propaganda”. It most often appears alongside FBI, France, Supreme Court.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: August 03, 2023
  • Last seen: September 11, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Dictator Book Club: Putin
August 03, 2023 · Original source
Reading this has made me seek out concerns about the FBI more, which led me to articles like Why We Can’t Trust The FBI and FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users. I absolutely believe the FBI is spreading fear of terrorism for their own gain, often crosses the line between monitoring extremists and entrapping/provoking them, and is part of the general censorship apparatus. But even their enemies don’t accuse them of the tiniest fraction of what Putin and his security services were doing. I’ve also been trying to pay more attention to ways that the administration uses the courts and Justice Department to go after their enemies; although this is a time-honored dictatorship tactic, I think the allegations against Trump are mostly fair and there aren’t a lot of other, unfair ones I know about. I do think it’s a valid question whether, even if the allegations against Trump are fair, we ought not to make them, as part of a norm of making it hard to investigate enemies of the regime. But I’m not sure there has ever been such a norm - the investigations of Nixon and Clinton went further, on less serious charges.
Inline links: Why We Can’t Trust The FBI, FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users
Highlights From The Comments On Last Week's Model Cities Post
September 11, 2023 · Original source
Wildly, they also are under fire from the Justice Department for spreading Russian propaganda in exchange for payments from a Russian influencer, who has since been arrested by the FBI and was allegedly bankrolling Hammer City.