The Letter of the Lawyer 0
Joe Patrice parses an electronic epistle that Matthew Whitaker’s wife wrote in protest of a Slate article questioning the legitimacy of Whitaker’s position as “acting” Attorney-General. Here’s a bit; the italicized parts are from her email.
Are you hoping that all future appointees’ qualifications are to have sat at a desk and pushed paper around for 30 years?
Like a committed career government servant instead of a political grandstander? Is this supposed to sound like a bad thing?
It is a small comfort to me that the people who will want to work with him in the future are, let’s hope, really unlikely readers of Slate and similar publications.
Yes, we live in a world of media silos and thankfully for Whitaker the people who will want to work with him are too busy watching Alex Jones.
This is only a partial parsing; follow the link for the full treatment.
