© Samira Bouaou/The Epoch TimesSidney Powell, author of the bestseller "Licensed to Lie" and lead counsel in more than 500 appeals in the Fifth Circuit, in Washington on May 30, 2019.
Back in 2014, I worked freelance for a public relations firm in New York City. It was there that I met an unusual woman. I didn't know many lawyers or Texans, but I knew better than to chalk up her qualities to either her profession or her home.
It's rare that I encounter someone who I'm afraid to argue with, because of her sheer brain power and towering personal rectitude. But this was such a person.This woman had quite a career behind her. An evangelical Christian, she'd been a federal prosecutor —
and quit, outraged at the corruption she saw among her colleagues. She did more than quit. Horrified by prosecutors
hiding exculpatory evidence and targeting the innocent because of their personal politics, she became a defense attorney, to help people fight the feds.
She Gave Up Everything to Expose Abusive ProsecutorsBut that wasn't enough. At a huge financial sacrifice, she took time off from her practice to write a book. And self-publish it. And hire a public relations firm to get it out to people, when media ignored it. That book,
Licensed to Lie, is absolutely chilling. It shows innocent Americans, even a U.S. Senator such as Ted Stevens of Alaska, unable to defend themselves against prosecutors with vendettas. It recounts how innocent companies, like accounting firm Arthur Anderson, can be broken by biased and dishonest federal prosecutors, and left in ruins. A real-life legal horror story, the book was too disturbing for me to read it through to the end.
And its author was Sidney Powell, whom I used to go to lunch with in midtown Manhattan. In retrospect, I feel privileged. I knew she was a powerhouse, but I little suspected what an historic role she would someday play.
When I saw that she was representing General Mike Flynn, I knew one thing for sure — that he was innocent.
Comment: The nature of Powell's allegations is a bit greyer than either side admits. Some claims are probably true (e.g. relating to massive election fraud involving the vote machines), others not so much (e.g. details like those from the Venezuelan whistleblower - but even then, some
WikiLeaks docs at least show that they aren't a brand new fabrication - questions over Dominion's ties with Venezuela have been around since at least 2006). Some will probably be impossible to verify, like "Hammer and Scorecard," and perhaps the "German Scytl server" stories. Due to "national security", she can probably get away with making some of these claims, even if they are untrue, because the truth - or falsity - of them can and will never be revealed. And as long as Powell does not focus on the Venezuelan's claims to the extent that the Democrats focused on Steele's dodgy dossier - and risk a similar fallout if his credibility is thrown into question - she'll probably be fine on that front. The only real advantage of repeating his claims is to exploit the American climate of "foreign interference" hysteria prompted by the Dems' Russiagate.
All that said, it seems that Powell is making the claims she is making because she believes them. Whether they turn out to be true - in whole or in part - remains to be seen, of course. But we wouldn't put money on Dominion going after her. Even if some of her accusation against them could be false, they seem dirty enough to want to avoid any lawsuit in which the actual truth might come to light.
Comment: While the comparison to fighting Nazis in this context may seem over-the-top on the surface, in some ways it would appear to be quite valid. For those aware of the draconian nature of the lockdowns, given the actual facts about the virus, and the eventual policy of mandatory vaccination (which will likely contain many dangerous substances and DNA-degrading features), not to mention the finer of control in the form of chips that will be included in the same - the comparison to the policies of the Pathocratic Nazi regime seem pretty apt.
Unfortunately though, there are those who do not understand this perspective, and who have been 'weaponized' to - in fact - call the truth-tellers Nazis. Nothing too surprising in the age of Orwellian double speak.
Antifa has been an exemplary example of such a weaponized force as demonstrated in this counter protest: