Review: Licensed to Lie – Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice by Sidney Powell (Trump Revolution Book 41)
SUMMARY REVIEW
(Trump Revolution Book 41)
Sidney Powell, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice (Sidney Powell, 2014 reprinted 2018)
6 Star – The Long Needed Stake in the Heart of the Department of Injustice and Crooked Judges as Well as Prosecutors Across the USA
Reviewed by Robert David Steele
When this book was first published in 2014 the country was not ready to “hear” what this former prosecutor had to say.
Now, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Russian election interference fabrication by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the clear evidence of treason by then President Barack Obama running through the Department of Justice (DoJ) and across the so-called leadership ranks of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the public is ready to contemplate the reality that across the USA, there are judges and prosecutors who are so corrupt, so venal, so protected from being held accountable, that they will literally lie in every possible way to put people in jail, to sentence people to death, on the basis of both false evidence, and abuse of judicial and prosecutorial discretion.
The author has produced gifted compelling writing that at one point brought me to tears of compassion, at other points tears of outrage.
The book is central to what I think of as the trilogy of crime in government.
At the bottom are crooked cops and incompetent crime lab technicians who lie (and take bribes) to frame people for murder and other crimes. At the bottom are also sheriffs, magistrates, and a mix of doctors, nurses, and elderly care providers who prey on old people – drugging them up, making them wards of the state, and then stealing their estates. And then there are the young and the black, sentenced to prisons that pay kickbacks for each head of cattle delivered.
At the top as Matt Taibbi has documented so well in with Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History which I have reviewed, and in The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap which I have not, are the Deep State and Shadow Government where criminal dealings at the national, state, and local levels are legalized. The most common political crime is the granting of public lands, waivers on pollution, and forgiveness of billions in tax obligations in return for political kickbacks (Baltimore comes to mind as do New York City and San Francisco) to allowing the financialization of the economy, contrived depressions, and the use of the stock market to cheat individual investors at the same time that the agricultural, military, pharmaceutical, prison, and water complexes are allowed to poison us, kill us, drug us, incarcerate us, and poison us again.
