Brazilian Judicial Coup? Leaked Documents Call Into Question Lula Prosecution.

The prosecution of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva (Lula) is being called into question by leaked documents to The Intercept. Was this a right-wing, judicial coup to prevent Lula from running in the election which Jair Bolsonaro won? The impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff and the jailing of former president da Silva can now be seen in a very different light, as a methodical frontal attack against the Brazilian left by non-democratic means.

Why The Intercept is Reporting on Secret Brazil Archive

Brazil Prosecutors Plotted Against Lula’s Party in 2018 Election

Leak Reveals Ethics Failures in Brazil’s Operation Car Wash

This is why thorough, independent, investigative journalism is so important and this is also why states from Australia, to Brazil, to China, to Russia, to Saudi Arabia, to The USA are doing their utmost to suppress it.

Control of news and publicly available information is one of the main battlefields of the Third World War being fought in our minds and authoritarians are doing everything the can to control what we can know.

Brazil is not the exception, it is becoming the rule.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

Evilroddy said:

The prosecution of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva (Lula) is being called into question by leaked documents to The Intercept. Was this a right-wing, judicial coup to prevent Lula from running in the election which Jair Bolsonaro won? The impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff and the jailing of former president da Silva can now be seen in a very different light, as a methodical frontal attack against the Brazilian left by non-democratic means.

Why The Intercept is Reporting on Secret Brazil Archive

Brazil Prosecutors Plotted Against Lula’s Party in 2018 Election

Leak Reveals Ethics Failures in Brazil’s Operation Car Wash

This is why thorough, independent, investigative journalism is so important and this is also why states from Australia, to Brazil, to China, to Russia, to Saudi Arabia, to The USA are doing their utmost to suppress it.

Control of news and publicly available information is one of the main battlefields of the Third World War being fought in our minds and authoritarians are doing everything the can to control what we can know.

Brazil is not the exception, it is becoming the rule.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

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I'll review the links when I get a chance, but the whole thing stunk from the very beginning.

Here is a video summary of the three articles by Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept speaking on Democracy Now!. There were technical difficulties at the start but after the introduction you can skip the musical interlude and advance to time stamp 4:40 minutes to hear what Greenwald has to say.



Cheers.
Evilroddy.

Evilroddy said:

The prosecution of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva (Lula) is being called into question by leaked documents to The Intercept. Was this a right-wing, judicial coup to prevent Lula from running in the election which Jair Bolsonaro won? The impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff and the jailing of former president da Silva can now be seen in a very different light, as a methodical frontal attack against the Brazilian left by non-democratic means.

Why The Intercept is Reporting on Secret Brazil Archive

Brazil Prosecutors Plotted Against Lula’s Party in 2018 Election

Leak Reveals Ethics Failures in Brazil’s Operation Car Wash

This is why thorough, independent, investigative journalism is so important and this is also why states from Australia, to Brazil, to China, to Russia, to Saudi Arabia, to The USA are doing their utmost to suppress it.

Control of news and publicly available information is one of the main battlefields of the Third World War being fought in our minds and authoritarians are doing everything the can to control what we can know.

Brazil is not the exception, it is becoming the rule.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

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It was done by the Russians, just like Trump's election victory.

BRAZIL’S JUSTICE MINISTER Sergio Moro, while serving as a judge in a corruption case that upended Brazilian politics, took to private chats to mock the defense of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and direct prosecutors’ media strategy, according to newly unearthed chats from an archive obtained by The Intercept Brasil.

The new revelations, which were published in Portuguese by The Intercept Brasil on Friday, have added fuel to a weeklong political firestorm in Brazil. The country’s largest circulation newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, said the reporting suggests that officials “ignored the limits of the law,” while UOL, a news website, said jurists view the revelations as “grave.” The site quoted the head of a national criminal law association saying, “This is unthinkable in any democracy. It’s scary.”

In the newly revealed chats with a senior prosecutor — a member of the team working on the Operation Car Wash corruption case — Moro said, “Maybe, tomorrow, you should prepare a press release” to point out inconsistencies in Lula’s arguments, adding, “The defense already put on their little show.”

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More grist for the mill. The next instalment of The Intercept reporting on misconduct in the former Brazilian president Da Silva's (Lula) prosecution and jailing. It's not looking good for the prosecutors, Judge Moro (now super-justice minister) or the appealate court. Lula, if he survives in prison, may have the last laugh on his former accusers.

Judge Sergio Moro Directed Car Wash Prosecutors on Lula Case

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

Evilroddy said:

More grist for the mill. The next instalment of The Intercept reporting on misconduct in the former Brazilian president Da Silva's (Lula) prosecution and jailing. It's not looking good for the prosecutors, Judge Moro (now super-justice minister) or the appealate court. Lula, if he survives in prison, may have the last laugh on his former accusers.

Judge Sergio Moro Directed Car Wash Prosecutors on Lula Case

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Evilroddy.

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I'm glad that all the left is doing in Brazil is fake news and not resorting to terrorism and bank robbing like Dilma Rousseff once did.

Much like the 'Ruzzians are Running our Elections' hoax here in the USA, its doubtful whether any of this, if true, could have been enough to sway the election in Bolsanaro's favor. Opinion polls showed the left losing popularity in Brazil for quite some time, and Bolsanaro swept to power as part of a much bigger, global turn towards right wing politicians, as was experienced in the USA, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary. But there must always be a scapegoat, and if that means buying into CT, then darn it, sign leftists up.

truthatallcost said:

Much like the 'Ruzzians are Running our Elections' hoax here in the USA, its doubtful whether any of this, if true, could have been enough to sway the election in Bolsanaro's favor. Opinion polls showed the left losing popularity in Brazil for quite some time, and Bolsanaro swept to power as part of a much bigger, global turn towards right wing politicians, as was experienced in the USA, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary. But there must always be a scapegoat, and if that means buying into CT, then darn it, sign leftists up.

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Yawn. Massive, systemic and coordinated Russian interference in our elections was established by the Mueller Report.

No matter how mad that makes you, it's not a 'hoax'

Are you sure you understand that word?

SDET said:

I'm glad that all the left is doing in Brazil is fake news and not resorting to terrorism and bank robbing like Dilma Rousseff once did.

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SDET:

The Intercept is publishing the supporting documents with each instalment and according to Greenwald the cache of documents in the possession of the Intercept Brazil is larger than the Snowdon cache. So this is not going away anytime soon and the Brazilian establishment is very badly shaken already. It will get worse and the Bolsonaro Government may fall. Of course given the nature of Jair Bolsonaro, he might just as easily discard any semblance of democracy and the Rule of Law and plunge Brazil back into a modern version of the 1964 junta for another 21 years (since you mentioned Ms. Rousseff's past under the junta). They tortured her then. What might they do to Lula or Greenwald if a new junta rises?

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

Tanngrisnir said:

Yawn. Massive, systemic and coordinated Russian interference in our elections was established by the Mueller Report.

No matter how mad that makes you, it's not a 'hoax'

Are you sure you understand that word?

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Tanngrisnir:

Agreed. Unlike in the USA, in the case of Brazil and Lula the press has a massive trove of documents to thoroughly prove their accusations. I think the only way the Bolsonaro Regime will survive this is by the imposition of authoritarian rule and violence to the Brazilian people and some Brazilian institutions. Fortunately the supporting documents are cached all over the world so the full story will eventually come out.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

Now the centre-right mainstream Brazilian publication "Veja" is partnering with The Intercept Brazil to reveal the extent of the corruption and the political malfeasance behind the "Car Wash" anti-corruption campaign and the fraudulent jailing of former President Da Silva/Lula.

Sergio Moro has announced he will be taking a leave of absence from his office as Minister of "Justice Plus". The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, and his husband a Brazilian Member of Parliament are under financial investigation by Moro's ministry and both men and their children have received death-threats, some of which contain such protected and sensitive personal information that Greenwald suspects the Brazilian state is behind some of the threats.

Lula remains in jail after a Supreme Court tribunal of three judges voted 2 to 1 to keep him locked up despite the revelations about Moro's role in fixing the prosecution of former President Da Silva, but the whole Supreme Court has said it will review its decisions as more revelations become public.

I wonder whether both Lula and Greenwald will survive this legal and corruption fiasco.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

More uncovered alleged corruption by the Brazilian lead prosecutor in the "Car Wash" probe.

https://theintercept.com/2019/07/26/brazil-car-wash-deltan-dallagnol-paid-speaking/

The heat is getting so bad for the Bolsonaro Government that President Bolsonaro has threatened to jail Glenn Greenwald and close down the Brazilian offices of The Intercept.

Bolsonaro's Attacks Show Why Our Reporting Is Vital

Cheers.
Evilroddy.