At the hearings, the boys all said they’d try not to do that again. The reason for entrapment was to get a lever on him to be an informant on another guy in a survivalist/neo nazi group. Turns out the guy he was to spy on was an informant for another agency. The boys all agreed that better interagency commo would be a good idea and they’d get around to it.
There were two murderers. Horiuchi, the fibbie sniper, killed Mrs. Weaver. Sammy, the kid, was killed in a surprise encounter with the surveilling marshalls. They met while Sammy and a Weaver friend were out hunting. The marshalls killed Sammy’s dog–cop perk and it’s not even taxable–and there was a firefight. Sammy and a marshall were killed. I don’t know what the marshalls thought, but getting one of their guys killed to help in a fraudulent arrest was not popular, I suppose. Now, if none of their guys had been killed, the fraudulent arrest would have looked just super, I guess.
But at least nobody got shot by some clown doing a back flip.

“It might be tough to win” is not a reason to refuse to charge. The letter to McCabe’s attys reflect’s Comey’s earlier decision not to charge Clinton: The “totality of the circumstances” means I might not win. That is rank cowardice, confirming what I’ve feared would be the outcome: Either no indictments or only a Scapegoat or two. (Cough*Paige*cough*Storzyk*cough) No McCabe indictment = no Comey, no Clapper, no Brennen, etc etc ad nauseum.

Koresh and his camarilla had done plenty wrong. The question at hand was whether or not it was the sort of wrong that was supposed to interest federal law enforcement and to what degree they could have avoided bloodshed by using different tactics and strategy. The odious Janet Reno prevented a proper post-mortem with the connivance of the President.

Shortly before that fiasco, the FBI sent a small army to arrest an obnoxious eccentric named Randy Weaver for failure to appear for a court date. The court date in question concerned a weapons charge (selling a sawed-off shotgun to an agent provacateur). The FBI agent who killed Weaver’s wife and 11 year old son received no punishment.

Writing on the Waco disaster 26 years ago, Leon Wieseltier offered this judgment about the Koresh cult, “They’re losers, but they’re not the sort of losers the media take an interest in”. Hence, expendables.

Among other things, they knew the Right Sort of People could be counted on to dehumanize the victims. About a month ago, a very nice lady at our church said, stoutly, “But they were a cult!”, which, to her view, justifies the whole thing.

Point is, this is the DoJ. Nothing they do, no matter how obviously unjust, should cause any surprise.

The movie “Richard Jewell”–everybody should see it if only to make a statement–came down hard on the local fibbies. As it should. But they left out Louis Freeh’s direct interference.

The equality-before-the-law side.

The presumed-innocent side.

The decency side.

The sane side.

Yes, I realize that the war’s heating up and that the physical violence by the haters against Trump, and his supporters, is getting worse (as, realizing profoundly the deep, dark hole in which they’ve dug themselves, they’re getting more and more desperate—and since it’s impossible to keep that carefully cultivated hate bottled up, or get it back in the tube if you prefer, the violence will also heat up against fellow Democrats whom the haters don’t like or support.

But one has to keep sane. Vigilant, committed but measured. Prepared, always ready but never hysterical. Which is probably the most difficult, the most horrendous aspect of this enormity—this orgy of hate and lies—that the Democratic Party has foisted upon this nation.

(While in the background lurks—more like “rages”—the pandemic…. Could it be that the end-of-timers are getting a wee excited?…. Huxley, we’re getting truly cinematic here!)

People’s opinions change. Eyes are opened.

Both of the above are (along with others) indispensable in keeping us informed of the treachery that has been unleashed against the country, its Constitution, its laws and its mores, all of which have been systematically trampled and mutilated by the Obama administration together with the Democratic Party in its current malevolent, destructive and fundamentally insane incarnation.

As such, they have become indispensable to the country’s defense.

(FWIW, regarding McCarthy’s “sad sack” comment, I believe it has been misunderstood. He’s acknowledging that there are two tiers of justice: one for the connected anti-Trump hotshots in high places (and their foot soldiers, carriers of water and hewers of wood), and one for their targets, their unfortunate, set up, framed victims (i.e., Flynn, Page, Manafort, Stone, Papadopolous, etc.—and ultimately Trump himself—all victimized, without due process, without recourse; and judged by a hysterical “mob” fed on lies, innuendo, slander and the theatrical promotion of hate for Trump and those who dare support him). If McCarthy had called those targets “deplorables” it would—or should—have been understood as irony. Instead, he’s calling those victims “sad sacks” precisely because they’ve been victimized—I don’t think it’s too OTT to say “brutalized”—by a STASI-like DOJ/Obama/Clinton/Media machine. He’s NOT AT ALL making a value judgement regarding their personalities, backgrounds, judgement, abilities, wealth or class. They have been done wrong. And he, along with Dershowitz, is doing his darnedest to expose the evildoers and their crimes. Once again, FWIW…)

When there are two systems of justice tensions will build until the tipping point is reached. This will not end well.

Twice.

It’s the only way to be sure.