Either that, or some crucial bit of evidence that they just can’t seem to get.
You know: “but for the laptop/surveillance footage/manifesto/anonymous whistle blower, we’d blow this whole thing wide open!”
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I feel bad for Epps. Last I saw they had to abandon their property and were living on the move in an RV because of crazed maga rage.
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Well, if nothing else, he’s met the “damages” element of defamation.
While I hope he takes FOX for all he can get, I don’t generally have that much pity for him - it’s very much a lie down with dogs situation.
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Anyone can file a lawsuit. It means nothing by itself.
In the case of anything with political implications involving the FBI/DOJ etc., I would not be surprised if the lawsuit is part of a state-supported lawfare effort. The message from the DOJ would be settle with Epps or else face prosecution. Here is one example statute:
**50§421. c Disclosure of information by persons in course of pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents
Whoever, in the course of a pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents and with reason to believe that such activities would impair or impede the foreign intelligence activities of the United States, discloses any information that identifies an individual as a covert agent to any individual not authorized to receive classified information, knowing that the information disclosed so identifies such individual and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual’s classified intelligence relationship to the United States, shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
50 USC § 421 (2011) Protection of identities of certain United States undercover intelligence officers, agents... :: Title 50 - War and National Defense :: 2011 US Code :: US Codes and Statutes :: US Law :: Justia
Other possibilities would be to prosecute Fox News journalists and commentators as unregistered foreign agents, a new favorite tool in subverting the Bill of Rights. The idea is to follow the Putin playbook in eliminating dissent:
Foreign funding for civil society organizations is prohibited. Amendments to the law on “foreign agents” as of June 29 allow authorities to so label those individuals and organizations who receive unspecified “influence or pressure” from foreign actors, and not necessarily of a monetary nature. Furthermore, relatives may be labeled a “person affiliated with a foreign agent.” Russia: Nations in Transit 2023 Country Report | Freedom House
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The FBI has conducted similar campaigns in the past. Here is a description of revelations from the Church Committee about FBI activities during the Vietnam War:
Infiltration: Agents and informers did not merely spy on political activists. Their main purpose was to discredit, disrupt and negatively redirect action. Their very presence served to undermine trust and scare off potential supporters. The FBI and police exploited this fear to smear genuine activists as agents. . .
Harassment via the legal system: The FBI and police abused the legal system to harass dissidents and make them appear to be criminals. Officers of the law gave perjured testimony and presented fabricated evidence as a pretext for false arrests and wrongful imprisonment. They discriminatorily enforced tax laws and other government regulations and used conspicuous surveillance, “investigative” interviews, and grand jury subpoenas in an effort to intimidate activists and silence their supporters.[73][75]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
There is no doubt that there were feds there. There is however no proof that they started it nor is there evidence that he was one of them
My gosh where is this school of debating?
I’d be concerned it there WEREN’T feds there- given the obvious precursors that we all (anyone on Twitter) observed.
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Asking valid questions is not defamation. The suit is merely another distraction for the MSM to spend ink and pixels on so they can ignore investigative work on real issues that would bleed Democrat support into November 2024.
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You should read the complaint.
Why feel sorry for someone who was encouraging people to storm the Capital building?
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Can you post it? I can’t find it.
Yes. On the other hand, the murder-by-fire-extinguisher hoax was used to create the false narrative about a “deadly insurrection” that has resulted in mass arrests and defendants being sent to prison for years without trial.
Officer Sicknick died of natural causes, a stroke. Even a quick inspection of his body should have been sufficient to show that there was no evidence of injuries associated with a deadly beating with a fire extinguisher.
The hoax was created and supported by federal officials and their friends in the media. The cremated remains of Officer Sicknick were laid in state in the Capitol, and the hoax was cited as evidence by the prosecution in the second impeachment trial.
No one has lost their job. No one has faced prosecution for their role in creating and perpetuating the hoax.
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Pretty difficult to be defamed by videos of calling for Capitol trespass and then not being prosecuted like literally everyone else.
I think the more media this gets the better.
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Oh…well then…I’ll just eat what’s being fed and totally ignore what I saw him do and heard him say that’s all recorded on video.
Why hasn’t he been treated the exact same way as our corrupt government…who lied about murders…paraded coffins around the capitol…telling the world this officer was murdered by Trump supporters?
This corrupt mirage created by the corrupt DC establishment needs to be fully exposed so that all of my sheoplized fellow Americans can stop regurgibleating their garbage!
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That’s not the defamation so cool.
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…and that’s small potatoes vs why it is he hasn’t been treated the same. Here…lemme help.
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The minute we hear about sheople and regurgibleating I know we’re right over the target and the desperate deflections have begun because reality is to be avoided at all costs for maga.
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