{"id":110308,"date":"2025-03-12T14:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/12\/interim-dc-us-atty-ed-martin-harassing-rep-vindman-now-for-does-it-even-matter\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:02:37","slug":"interim-dc-us-atty-ed-martin-harassing-rep-vindman-now-for-does-it-even-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/12\/interim-dc-us-atty-ed-martin-harassing-rep-vindman-now-for-does-it-even-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim DC US Atty Ed Martin Harassing Rep. Vindman Now For \u2026 Does It Even Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cEagle\u201d Ed Martin strikes again! The Interim US Attorney for DC is really getting the hang of this whole prosecutor thing. Apparently it involves taking tips from internet randos, then sending nasty letters demanding that liberals explain themselves RIGHT NOW, MISTER!<\/p>\n

Martin has already achieved stunning success with Operation Whirlwind<\/a>, his investigation of \u201cthreats\u201d against public officials. He fired off a goobergram to Senator Chuck Schumer five minutes before the statute of limitations on the offending comments expired. Then he hollered at Rep. Robert Garcia for calling Elon Musk a dick. <\/p>\n

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump\u2019s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert Garcia (@robertgarcia.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-02-20T19:55:59.203Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Last week, he got spanked<\/a> on FIRST AMENDMENT HOW DOES IT GO by Dean William Treanor at Georgetown University Law Center.<\/p>\n

He reportedly tried and failed<\/a> to get Main Justice to bite on a grand jury to go after Senator Schumer, so now he\u2019s consoling himself by bothering Rep. Eugene Vindman, who along with his twin brother Alex rose to prominence during President Trump\u2019s first impeachment.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that Martin sent a harassing letter to the Democratic Congressman about a business the brothers ran before \u201cDear Eugene\u201d was elected to represent VA-07. The enterprise was reported breathlessly in October by the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>, and Rep. Vindman has made no secret<\/a> of his involvement with Trident Support, LLC, which\u00a0\u201cfocused on helping bring technology to Ukraine and building capacity in Ukraine so they can win this conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Congressman investigated heinous war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine while working with Georgetown under the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group with the State Department,\u201d Rep. Vindman\u2019s spokesperson Amanda Farnan told the Post. \u201cThis is just a far-right conspiracy theory dreamed up by Putin\u2019s favorite mouthpiece, Tucker Carlson.\u201d<\/p>\n

But far-right conspiracy theories are very much Ed Martin\u2019s bag. The \u201cstop the steal\u201d lawyer is currently investigating his own staff after a purge of prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases, and he recently reposted<\/a> a wholly concocted rumor that Alex Vindman, along with Susan Rice, Antony Blinken, and Victoria Neuland, had secretly advised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to \u201creject Trump\u2019s deal in violation of the Logan Act.\u201d <\/p>\n

As the Post notes, Martin has enlisted an assistant dick-waggler by the name of James \u201cClayton\u201d Cromer, who reached out multiple times to the congressman before being told to back TF off by Rep. Vindman\u2019s counsel Eugene Fidell, \u201csince your inquiry is transparently part and parcel of a pattern of political retaliation against those who played a role in the first of President Trump\u2019s impeachments and\/or who are now engaged in oversight work to hold the executive branch of government accountable for what appears to be unlawful and\/or unconstitutional policies.\u201d Also there\u2019s that whole pesky thing about harassing people who are represented by counsel.<\/p>\n

One more quote from this amazing Post story:<\/p>\n

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The letters are styled as voluntary \u201cletters of inquiry\u201d \u2014 not compulsory legal demands \u2014 and often bear signs of haste such as wrong addresses, typographic errors, or, in Vindman\u2019s case, a failure to state a deadline for a reply, writing instead only, \u201cPlease respond by day, month, date, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So perfesh!<\/p>\n

D.C. U.S. attorney targets Ukraine whistleblower Rep. Vindman<\/a> [WaPo]<\/p>\n

The post Interim DC US Atty Ed Martin Harassing Rep. Vindman Now For \u2026 Does It Even Matter?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEagle\u201d Ed Martin strikes again! The Interim US Attorney for DC is really getting the hang of this whole prosecutor thing. Apparently it involves taking tips from internet randos, then sending nasty letters demanding that liberals explain themselves RIGHT NOW, MISTER!<\/p>\n

Martin has already achieved stunning success with Operation Whirlwind<\/a>, his investigation of \u201cthreats\u201d against public officials. He fired off a goobergram to Senator Chuck Schumer five minutes before the statute of limitations on the offending comments expired. Then he hollered at Rep. Robert Garcia for calling Elon Musk a dick. <\/p>\n

Last week, he got spanked<\/a> on FIRST AMENDMENT HOW DOES IT GO by Dean William Treanor at Georgetown University Law Center.<\/p>\n

He reportedly tried and failed<\/a> to get Main Justice to bite on a grand jury to go after Senator Schumer, so now he\u2019s consoling himself by bothering Rep. Eugene Vindman, who along with his twin brother Alex rose to prominence during President Trump\u2019s first impeachment.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> reports that Martin sent a harassing letter to the Democratic Congressman about a business the brothers ran before \u201cDear Eugene\u201d was elected to represent VA-07. The enterprise was reported breathlessly in October by the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>, and Rep. Vindman has made no secret<\/a> of his involvement with Trident Support, LLC, which\u00a0\u201cfocused on helping bring technology to Ukraine and building capacity in Ukraine so they can win this conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Congressman investigated heinous war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine while working with Georgetown under the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group with the State Department,\u201d Rep. Vindman\u2019s spokesperson Amanda Farnan told the Post. \u201cThis is just a far-right conspiracy theory dreamed up by Putin\u2019s favorite mouthpiece, Tucker Carlson.\u201d<\/p>\n

But far-right conspiracy theories are very much Ed Martin\u2019s bag. The \u201cstop the steal\u201d lawyer is currently investigating his own staff after a purge of prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases, and he recently reposted<\/a> a wholly concocted rumor that Alex Vindman, along with Susan Rice, Antony Blinken, and Victoria Neuland, had secretly advised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to \u201creject Trump\u2019s deal in violation of the Logan Act.\u201d <\/p>\n

As the Post notes, Martin has enlisted an assistant dick-waggler by the name of James \u201cClayton\u201d Cromer, who reached out multiple times to the congressman before being told to back TF off by Rep. Vindman\u2019s counsel Eugene Fidell, \u201csince your inquiry is transparently part and parcel of a pattern of political retaliation against those who played a role in the first of President Trump\u2019s impeachments and\/or who are now engaged in oversight work to hold the executive branch of government accountable for what appears to be unlawful and\/or unconstitutional policies.\u201d Also there\u2019s that whole pesky thing about harassing people who are represented by counsel.<\/p>\n

One more quote from this amazing Post story:<\/p>\n

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The letters are styled as voluntary \u201cletters of inquiry\u201d \u2014 not compulsory legal demands \u2014 and often bear signs of haste such as wrong addresses, typographic errors, or, in Vindman\u2019s case, a failure to state a deadline for a reply, writing instead only, \u201cPlease respond by day, month, date, 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So perfesh!<\/p>\n

D.C. U.S. attorney targets Ukraine whistleblower Rep. Vindman<\/a> [WaPo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEagle\u201d Ed Martin strikes again! The Interim US Attorney for DC is really getting the hang of this whole prosecutor thing. Apparently it involves taking tips from internet randos, then sending nasty letters demanding that liberals explain themselves RIGHT NOW, MISTER! Martin has already achieved stunning success with Operation Whirlwind, his investigation of \u201cthreats\u201d against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/facepalm-fear-shame-embarrassed-embarrassment-face-to-palm-620x414-XgtJFo.jpeg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}