The attorneys involved with the propaganda need to be investigated.

DoD and DOJ Emails Support Investigations

The DoD emails list legal counsel working with the President and Department of Defense. The DoD information warfare guides include information warfare planning cells. These cells are teams of DoD employees, and include legal counsel, supporting the President’s information warfare.

The US Attorney firing emails show a pattern of deception and manipulation. GOP-connected legal counsels have sworn in affidavits they are aware of political intimidation of the judicial branch.

Nuremberg: Attorney Involvement With Illegal Warfare

Nuremberg adjudicated war crimes against legal counsel who refused to enforce the laws of war, or who drafted memos which Hitler used to wage illegal warfare. The US Attorneys have turned a blind eye to illegal warfare.

Some counsels have issued incomplete denials about their connection with the President’s propaganda, information warfare, and intimidation. Some are arguing over whether they had a genuine belief, a distraction from the lack of evidence of an imminent threat.

Some legal counsels have written editorials making excuses for illegal activity. Some communications officers have used legal counsel comments to argue for unlawful activity and ignore declassification standards. Some US Attorneys have made comments about defendants which are not protected as exceptions under the prosecutor standards of conduct.

Some former US government legal counsels have asserted they had “beliefs” about specific Presidential programs, but those beliefs do not appear credible restatements of what counsel was thinking.

Propaganda: Attorney Misrepresentations In Violation of Attorney Standards of Conduct?

The ethics standards are more than guides for attorneys. They are a showing to the public of what the public should reasonably expect of counsel. In some jurisdictions, attorneys are sanctioned if they make misrepresentations. Attorneys are also prohibited from releasing through others statements counsel is otherwise prohibited from making. Attorneys who are not meeting these professional standards should not be commanding high fees for unprofessional conduct.

Some in the media are relieved McClellan finally spoke. Whether McClellan did or did not write his book has no bearing on whether DOJ OPR had an ongoing responsibility to review attorney compliance with ethics obligations. In light of the McClellan disclosures and the DoD emails, the public needs an accounting of the United States government-connected legal counsel.

Are US government-connected legal counsel meeting their ethics obligations under the Attorney standards of conduct; or do the DoD emails and McClellan disclosures suggest a wider pattern of attorney disregard for attorney standards of conduct.

How are the political candidates being used by legal counsel to issue misleading statements to affect oversight and war crimes adjudication?

It’s a shame American lawyers cannot be trusted to police their own. The United States government has failed to adequately sanction legal counsel for their complicity with this propaganda.

Please urge Member of Congress, DOJ OPR, DOJ IG, and your state attorney disciplinary boards to investigate.