There is no question that many of the lead investigators in the Clinton email case and the Trump/Russia case were deeply opinionated, with strongly emotional attitudes towards the main people involved. Those opinions went in one direction only: virulently anti-Trump, … Continue reading →
So now that I’ve struggled through the post I just wrote and published, I see we finally have Andrew C. McCarthy’s take on IG Horowitz’s report on the Clinton email investigation. And he—with his much greater knowledge of law, and … Continue reading →
Commenter Richard Saunders puts it succinctly: …[T]he IG report…didn’t say there was no political bias; it said there was no documentary or testimonial evidence of political bias. I hate to be lawyerly, but that’s not the same thing as there … Continue reading →
Manafort’s bail has been revoked: Paul Manafort was sent to jail Friday by a federal judge who said she couldn’t turn a blind eye to claims that he attempted to tamper with witnesses, adding pressure on President Donald Trump’s former … Continue reading →
A sampler: High-ranking FBI agents are under a separate investigation for "improperly receiving benefits from reporters" including the things that get politicians imprisoned, such as "tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events." … Continue reading →
…until the Clinton Foundation is given the same treatment as this. See also this at Legal Insurrection.
Continue reading →Another aspect of the IG report released today concerns the behavior of the FBI—in particular, certain agents—in dealing with the Clinton email investigation: The bureau also said it accepts findings “that certain text messages, instant messages and statements, along with … Continue reading →
…and it’s 568 pages long. Who’s going to read that? Not even bloggers like me, unless they’re gluttons for punishment or unusually OCD. So we’ll have to rely on summaries, reports, social media, pundits, and the like. I eagerly await … Continue reading →
Today there’s been a big flurry of coverage of the report that Michael Cohen (remember him? Trump’s attorney and “fixer”?) will be cooperating with Mueller, since Cohen is about to part company with his lawyers. My first reaction was: I’d … Continue reading →
Like Paul Mirengoff, you may think that Trump’s latest offer to the NFL players is absurd, a circus, and bizarre: I understood from the beginning that the Trump presidency would be a circus, but I didn’t expect a sideshow this … Continue reading →
Mueller has now charged him with obstruction of justice: The new charges ”” the first public ones against Kilimnik ”” track with allegations Mueller’s team leveled earlier this week that Manafort and an associate tried to influence the testimony of … Continue reading →
That’s the subtitle of an article in Foreign Policy. It describes traditional but still-existent customs of many Amazon tribes in Brazil that dictate killing handicapped children and even those one might define as transgendered, and a controversy in Brazil over … Continue reading →