2/21/2025 Kash Patel was confirmed as the new director of the FBI barely yesterday. Mostly, opposition focused on his slavish support of Trump's revenge agenda and his "enemies list". This is the executor of Trump's rule-by-fear strategy. He is also sort of a crackpot and a believer in and a supporter of Q conspiracy theories. God help the rule of law ethic..justice without fear or favor. Scroll down to continue.
"Fear and favor" as a bully's tool; "fools and cowards" for those who succumb. These phrases for the ages were included in cry outs for the basic value of integrity that arose from the demand by Trump officials to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York. It appeared to prosecutors to be a political tit-for-tat offer from the Trump DOJ to drop the charges if he helps them with mass deportations. This happens as the Trump Department of Justice guts its public integrity unit, opening the door further to Trump's sanctioned corrupt administration.
"You will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." That phrase may go down in history as describing a person of integrity standing on principle in the face of pressure to do wrong. Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten wrote that in his resignation letter when he was ordered to stop the prosecution of Mayor Adams of New York for what he saw as a political tit-for-tat.
In objecting to the same demand that the Federal prosecutor drop the Adams prosecution, federal prosecutor Danielle Sassoon wrote the newly installed US Attorney General Pam Bondi in a letter that later was accepted as her resignation letter: She used the term that the unjustified demand she drops the prosecution against Mayor Adams was against her principle of executing the law " without fear or favor " Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated - The New York Times Demanding that she drop the case against Mayor Adams, she wrote that it
"raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts."
"You will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." That phrase may go down in history as describing a person of integrity standing on principle in the face of pressure to do wrong. Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten wrote that in his resignation letter when he was ordered to stop the prosecution of Mayor Adams of New York for what he saw as a political tit-for-tat.
In context per the Sotten letter:
"...Any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."
Fear and favor: per AI Google: It was a publisher who coined the phrase “without fear or favor.” That publisher was Adolph Ochs, who promised readers when he acquired The New York Times in 1896, that it would be his “earnest aim to … give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved.”May 3, 2004
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