Powell's Story In A Nut Shell.

 

I have finally finished Sidney Powell's: "Licensed To Lie."

There is no doubt Powell is a brilliant lawyer and any client, who could afford to hire her, would be admirably served.

As for her "authoring," you would have to be a lawyer to both enjoy and understand what she wrote because it was written for attorneys, gifted ones at that and that falls beyond my scope/grasp.

I did understand her final and concluding point, however. She validated my cynical suspicion. We have a highly politicized legal/justice system, that is, all too often, as corrupt as the defendants it seeks to incarcerate.  America's judicial and justice system is obviously peopled by humans and therein lies the problem.  Humans are flawed and when a light is shined on them, as Powell has,  their ability to do wrong becomes brighter and increasingly evident and this goes for judges and  DOJ attorneys, FBI investigators - the entire lot.

The power of the government and the resources it can bring to bear demands the government bend over backwards to provide evidence in its possession that would help exonerate those they pursue. God forbid government gum shoes like Weissmann and his ilk adhere to the Department's own specific rules, the moral principles set forth by the Bar Association and the basic decency one should expect from a fellow human.  When winning, at all costs, high profile cases drives one's approach to attaining higher and higher positions becomes one's goal everything will go to hell and that is what Powell was up against in the defense of one client.  

In her own words, Powell believes those involved in our justice system  need a culture change, ie. prosecutors must seek justice over headlines. She notes our founding fathers looked to the justice system as a check on the executive branch which dealt with  prosecutions and on the legislative branch which made the laws.

We also know justice delayed is justice denied. When government, acting through it's operatives purposely delays, it can crush those seeking justice.

That is her story in a nut shell.

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