McCabe is leaving the FBI
Competing narratives as to why. Lots of “competing narratives” around these days. [NOTE: Also, how about this narrative?]
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FBI, DOJ: Lost and found
Those texts from Strzok and Page that had gotten lost? They’ve been found!: Here’s how: In a letter sent to congressional committees, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said his office “succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages … Continue reading →
Another must-read from Andrew C. McCarthy
Andrew C. McCarthy is the most consistently readable, thorough, and clear writer on the topic of all the current government investigations going on, and recent ones in the past as well. I’ve cited him many times, and here I go … Continue reading →
The dog keeps eating the FBI’s homework
Reminds me of the famous Rose Mary Woods stretch: The FBI is either abysmally incompetent (“fools”) or in full-fledged CYA mode in order to hide its own wrongdoing (“knaves”). I vote “aye” on the latter. But either way, we’re in … Continue reading →
Margaret Atwood: feminist vs. feminist
Margaret Atwood, feminist icon, has gotten into trouble. It’s part of what I’ve come to see as a generational war between certain older feminists who still hold to quaint old-fashioned notions such as due process, and certain younger ones who … Continue reading →
How far will a psychopathic liar go? The case of Sharee Miller
How far will a psychopathic liar go? Very far. In a discussion yesterday about the ways in which unscrupulous people can be willing to lie, I was reminded of the story of Sharee Miller. If this were a movie it … Continue reading →
On Jeff Sessions, Congress, and marijuana law
I’m basically with National Review on this: Under Article II, the executive is obliged to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” and, under federal law, marijuana remains prohibited. Using prosecutorial discretion as a smokescreen for nullification is not … Continue reading →
Was the Steele dossier the FBI’s “insurance policy”?
That’s the question asked by Andrew C. McCarthy, who so far has written the most consistently insightful and in-depth articles on the subject of the investigations of Trump by various government agencies. It’s another of those “read the whole thing … Continue reading →
Obama, Hezbollah enabler
Politico has issued an in-depth report on how the Obama administration put the kibosh on a task force against Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s cocaine operation, as part of its efforts to make a nuclear deal with the Iranians. It’s a complex story, … Continue reading →
Cornhead and McCarthy on Strzok and company: the FISA warrant is key
Commenter “Cornhead” (aka lawyer Dave Begley) often comments here. He also has an intermittent blog, and is a very prolific commenter and sometime poster at Powerline. You may remember that during the 2015-2016 campaign he took on the exceptionally daunting … Continue reading →
Strzok/Page and the myth of objectivity
From what I’ve seen of the coverage of the Strzok/Page texts, the whole story is already being successfully minimized. The reaction of everyone but some of those on the right appears to be “So what? There’s no proof they did … Continue reading →
The Strzok/Page texts make it clear that these two people were fully capable of an objective assessment of all things Trump and Clinton
Not. Not. NOT. I’m not sure what I expected—I expected something pretty bad, because otherwise the two would not have been removed, and it would not have been kept so hush-hush. But it’s still quite something to read what Strzok … Continue reading →