the hypocrisies of the empire are on display daily;

In yesterday’s sentencing hearing for Roger Stone, a friend and former advisor to President Trump, federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson misspoke. According to the New York Times, prior to sentencing Stone to serve 3 years in jail for various offenses, including lying under oath to Congress, Jackson stated:

In government inquiries, “the truth still exists. The truth still matters.” Otherwise, she said, “everyone loses.”

What she should have said is that it is only in some government inquiries that the truth still exists and still matters.

Given that Jackson served in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., for six years, surely she is familiar with the case of James R. Clapper, Jr., the former director of national intelligence.........https://www.fff.org/2020/02/21/truth-matters-to-the-government-sometimes/