Smearing The Dead -- DIgby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2026/01/25/smearing-the-dead/

We knew that a number of top prosecutors in the Minneapolis field office resigned rather than follow the order to investigate Renee Good's family, but we didn't have these details:

Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents based in Minnesota to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer's fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions.

After Good was killed on Jan. 7, FBI agents drafted a search warrant to obtain her car to reconstruct the path of bullets that an ICE officer shot into the vehicle. But they were instructed to redraft their warrant and change the subject of the investigation from a civil rights probe to an investigation into a suspected assault on an officer, the people said.

A federal magistrate judge rejected that warrant, noting that Good was already dead and could not be considered a suspect for a warrant.

You cannot make this stuff up.

Last Friday, yet another FBI supervisor resigned:

Meanwhile, Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office who oversees fraud and public corruption cases, resigned in frustration over the handling by Justice Department leadership of the Good shooting investigation and the pivot of the original search warrant subject, according to two of the sources. Mergen is said to be frustrated as well with the Trump administration's decision to treat protesters in Minnesota as possible domestic terrorists and conduct mass arrests of people peaceably protesting, according to two people familiar with her decision. The New York Times reported her departure earlier Friday evening.

After the Pretti murder yesterday, the government reportedly started scouring social media to see if they can smear him the same way they smeared Good. No word if they want to investigate him too. I wouldn't be surprised if they tried it again. Nothing seems to stop them.

[Quiet Em]

1. It's disgusting and it cannot stand

Two respected and beloved members of the Minneapolis community, have been unjustifiably murdered by the con's thugs.

I hope that every member of the Senate knows that all of our eyes are on them. They have the ability to end this and they damn well better put an end to it.

[pfitz59]

2. Todd Blanche was on a Sunday show

He looked terrible and his arguments were weak. My guess Trump read him the riot act "Make this go away!"

[sheshe2]

3. Here he is.

You cannot look at a 10-second video': Todd Blanche takes a page out of 1984, tells viewers to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears

During an interview today on NBC News' "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche implies viewers should reject the evidence of their eyes and ears, insisting that no conclusions can be drawn from the multiple videos of federal agents brutally shooting and murdering Alex Pretti. Blanche even accuses Welker of "gaslighting" the American people for stating her observations of the incident.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/you-cannot-look-at-a-10-second-video-todd-blanche-takes-a-page-out-of-1984-tells-viewers-to-reject-the-evidence-of-their-eyes-and-ears/vi-AA1UVMO2

[young_at_heart]

4. Todd Blanche says we should ignore everything

Why should we listen to him? Doesn't this matter?

[rubbersole]

5. Todd was hoping Ghislane would hook him up.

From her 1,000 girl Roll-a-dex.