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On Dec 3, 2020, I asked President-elect Biden, about reports that Trump was considering preemptive pardons. He said “it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets, and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice” https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2020-12-03/segment/01
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Dec 3 2020 https://t.co/tF3TbNO9OA
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Rudy Giuliani has suggested the possibility of pardoning himself, claiming he has that authority, though it hasn't been tested in court. This raises concerns about the precedent it sets and how it affects perceptions of justice in the nation. The justice department will operate independently, and I won't dictate their actions or prosecutions. The people I appoint to lead the department will have the autonomy to make decisions on prosecutions. In our administration, we will not adopt a similar approach to pardons.
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Speaker 0: For Rudy Giuliani. He's also floated the idea in private conversations, according to our reporting of possibly pardoning himself, which he insists he has the power to do, though that has never been, litigated. Does this concern you, all these preemptive pardons?
Speaker 1: Well, it's, it concerns me in terms of, what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and injustice. But, look, our justice department is going to operate independently on those issues that, how to respond to any of that. I'm not gonna be telling them what they have to do and don't have to do. I'm not gonna be saying go prosecute a, b, or c. I'm not gonna be telling them that's not the role.
It's not my justice department. It's the people's justice department. So the persons or persons I pick to run that department are gonna be people who are going to have the independent capacity to decide who gets prosecuted, who doesn't. Now in terms of the pardons, you're not gonna see, in our administration that kind of approach to pardons.
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President-elect Joe Biden says he's concerned about reports that President Trump is considering a host of preemptive pardons for his adult children and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as the possibility of one for himself https://cnn.it/36Ebu63 https://t.co/VLJylv8OMV
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CNN: “Mark Zuckerberg says Meta was ‘pressured’ by Biden administration to censor Covid-related content in 2021” https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-biden-censor-covid-2021?cid=ios_app
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta was ‘pressured’ by Biden administration to censor Covid-related content in 2021 | CNN Business
Zuckerberg in his letter to the judiciary committee said the pressure he felt in 2021 was “wrong” and he came to “regret” that his company was not more outspoken.
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A Muslim American leader accused a congresswoman of lying about Hamas committing rapes against civilians. Israeli authorities have started investigating these allegations, but evidence has been difficult to obtain. Witnesses have described the brutal killings and sexual violence inflicted by Hamas during the attacks. Israeli police have found trauma consistent with rape and assault on the bodies of the victims. Women were humiliated, paraded through the streets, and subjected to gender-based violence. Shockingly, there has been little international outrage or acknowledgment of these crimes. The silence from the international community, including the United Nations, is seen as a failure to recognize the suffering of Israeli women and a failure of humanity.
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Speaker 0: The other day, a member of congress sent me a clip from back in her home district where a Muslim American leader was attacking her, accusing her of lying because she had mentioned that Hamas had committed rapes against civilians on October 7th. Of course, it is not a lie. It is an ugly fact, though the rapes have not gotten as much attention as the murders. Israeli authorities have only recently begun their investigations into these atrocities. But sadly, often, the evidence has been lost along with the victims.
A warning. The story we're about to show you contains graphic content, and it assuredly will be disturbing to most viewers. In the aftermath of the October 7th attacks by Hamas, Israel's focus immediately turned to war into identifying the bodies of those slaughtered by Hamas in Israel's largest mass casualty attack. But now Israel is launching an investigation Into allegations of rape and other forms of sexual violence on that deadly day. Israeli police are starting to build rape cases, relying on eyewitness testimony, Video and forensic evidence as well as Hamas interrogations.
Doctor Kochav Elkayam Levy, named chair of the civil commission On October 7th, crimes by Hamas against women and children points to one reason why the investigations have been so difficult.
Speaker 1: We'll never know Everything that has happened to them, we know that most women who were raped and who were sexually assaulted were also murdered. And it will take time even in other atrocities. It takes time until the crimes against women are revealed, until survivors even share their stories.
Speaker 0: Still, CNN found witnesses to the atrocities and their aftermath. Gee, a paramedic in Israel's elite 6 69 special tactics rescue unit, went house to house in Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the sites of the worst massacres. He did not want to be identified on camera.
Speaker 2: While we're storming through those houses, one of the doors, are open. It's a bedroom. I see 2 girls, 2 teenagers. I guess 13 or 14 years old. 1 is lying on the floor, 1 is lying on the bed.
1 on the floor, she's lying on her stomach. Her cameras are pulled down towards her knees and there's a, bullet wound down her, the back side of her neck near her head. And there's a puddle of blood around her her head and there's remains of, of semen on the lower part of her back.
Speaker 0: Gee says the other teenage girl also appeared to have been assaulted.
Speaker 2: There's a bullet wound on the upper part of her chest and there's bruises all over her body. So, you know, there was sort of 2 girls that were just Killed, executed, perhaps, so raped in their own bedroom.
Speaker 0: Israeli police say the bodies at Shura, one of the handful of sites dead bodies are brought for identification, show trauma consistent with rape and assault. Morgue workers say these women did not die peaceful deaths.
Speaker 3: Some of the women came in just with underwear, and the underwear was often bloody. They just some of them had underwear on that was very bloody, And it that was very difficult to see also. We also saw most of the people, the women were were shot at least once in the body, but then they were shot in the head. And they were shot in the head many times. And it often seemed to be gratuitous cruelty, abject cruelty, Because it was seemed to have been done just to mutilate them.
The women we saw were not just killed, they were Cruelly, cruelly mutilated in many parts of their bodies.
Speaker 0: Women's groups say the humiliation women experienced as they were paraded through the street, Thrown on the backs of motorcycles and degraded either before or after they were killed at the festival. That also constitutes gender based violence. Here's what 1 NOVA Festival organizer told us that he saw.
Speaker 4: What we found In the area, on the field outside the safe zone, there is not a doubt about what, our, Girls, went through the terrorists. We found naked women Stripped out without any clothes. Their legs spread out. And, some of them were were butchered.
Speaker 0: Israeli police acknowledge that the investigation is likely to take months. Tuesday, police held a press briefing in which 1 witness said she saw a gang rape. Quote, They bent someone over, and I understood he was raping her. And then he was passing her on to someone else. She was alive.
She stood on her feet, and she was bleeding from her back. I saw that he was pulling her hair. She had long brown hair. I saw him chop off her breast. And then he was throwing it toward the road, tossed it to someone else, and they started playing with it.
I remember seeing another person raping her. And while he was still inside her, he shot her in the head. Another shocking part of all of this to these women and investigators, The absence of international outrage, including a United Nations statement a week after these terrorist attacks that did not mention these accusations at all. As if the rape of Israeli women does not count as rape.
Speaker 1: It's much worse than just, silence or an insult, to us as Israeli women and to our children and to our people. It's, when when they are failing to acknowledge us to acknowledge what happened here, they they are failing humanity.
Speaker 0: Why would it be that the international community and the United Nations would be silent about these crimes. They seem to be vocal about so much else.