This is unequal at the start. And there's no outside context. I can't emphasize enough how unusual it is to simply have people, you know, confront their accuser with no other evidence other than essentially their own words.
Gertner discusses the imbalance in the hearing process without an investigation or additional witnesses.
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I don't think there's any question that he himself is under investigation for violations of the Espionage Act.
This is just pushing back on the judiciary, and then, when the judiciary does what they don’t want them to do, and the judiciary says this is wrong, trying to delegitimize that decision.
This is power, it seems to me, that is baked into the Constitution and cannot be taken away.
What he is doing and trying to do is lawless from top to bottom, and it would be shocking if judges did not respond.
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