Comments on: McCarthy vs. Dershowitz on the Mar-A-Largo fishing expedition

By: avi

avi — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 02:49:11 +0000

McCarthy was not good on Russiagate. He was one of the last people to acknowledge it was a hoax , after convicting Trump after each daily fake news report.

By: mikesixes

mikesixes — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 23:01:29 +0000

If the DOJ’s legitimacy “hinges on the public’s acceptance of it as a non-partisan law-enforcer” it has no legitimacy. People on the right don’t accept it as a non-partisan law enforcer. Democrats don’t even want it to be a non-partisan law enforcer, and are satisfied that it is not. Does anybody believe that McCarthy (a former fed himself, isn’t he?) is really that naive? I believe that he, like the rest of the National Review crew, is just spinning for the establishment. He’s trying to tamp down the right’s outrage over this naked fascist bullshit, doing his bit to preserve the feudal status quo.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:53:29 +0000

Here’s one opinion on just when the FBI started veering off the tracks:
“Former FBI Agent Says Agency’s Political Bias Started Under Mueller”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mueller-fbi-political/2022/08/10/id/1082567/

By: Alan Colbo

Alan Colbo — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:32:21 +0000

I had a TS/SCI/SBI clearance. As President, Trump had plenary authority to have any document declassified. Even if it wasn’t restamped at the time, that’s immaterial. That’s built-in reasonable doubt toward any case regarding mishandling. And it isn’t the intelligence community concerned- it’s the National Archives. This is all a massive screw-up perpetrated by the clowns in the administration.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:16:16 +0000

A big problem here is that Democratic appointees to the bench are the FBI’s collaborators in these matters. So are the public defenders now and again.

By: om

om — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:50:46 +0000

Mike K:

The Epstein effect. Oops, cameras stopped working. Again. Funny that.

I’d heard that the US Capitol building had some cameras inside and on on Jan. 6, 2021. Funny that, too.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:42:40 +0000

A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have ‘planted stuff’ because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.

I have read in the last few days that security cameras in the estate were turned off by the FBI. This stinks to high heaven.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:47:50 +0000

The FBI, as has been said before likely by me, has two classes of agents. One class didn’t resign after the Waco massacre. The other class applied for employment after the Waco massacre.
Thus, 100% of fibbies have no problem with the Waco massacre.

By: PA+Cat

PA+Cat — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:44:47 +0000

Kris– The rot goes even further back: the FBI investigated the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (for supposed Nazi connections) during their trips to the United States during WWII when the Duke was governor general of the Bahamas. Archived official FBI documents here, in PDF format:

https://archive.org/details/DukeAndDuchessOfWindsor/windsor1a/mode/2up

If you want the same story with a lot more social gossip and garnish, here’s “Palm Beach Confidential: The Windsors and the FBI (1940-1942)”:

https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/palm-beach-confidential-the-windsors-and-the-fbi-1940-1942/

Lots of photos, including J. Edgar himself with his “companion” Clyde Tolson: sample caption: “The FBI’s top enforcer, Clyde Tolson, left, and its supreme director, J. Edgar Hoover, right, the nation’s stellar crimefighting couple, crossed paths with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the world’s iconic lovers, at Palm Beach and Miami during the early 1940s. During that same period, Tolson and Hoover often shared a cabana on Miami Beach.” Scroll down for a 1937 photo of Hoover wearing shorts and a fetching pair of strapped sandals while playing backgammon with Tolson.

I wonder how today’s FBI celebrates Pride Month.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:16:31 +0000

@Bauxite on August 10, 2022 at 8:20 am
” I think McCarthy tells us that the rot at the DOJ and FBI is a relatively recent phenomenon.”

Whitey Bulger
Ruby Ridge
Branch Davidians

25-30 Years back is not ‘relatively recent’ It is a full generation / career time frame.