“It’s always an accident…
and it’s always low-level employees.”
Continue reading →Category Archives: Law
The “it’s Ruemmler’s fault” narrative continues apace
White House Counsel Ruemmler was just protecting the president, says the WaPo: But they agreed that it would be best not to share it with President Obama until the independent audit was completed and made public, in part to protect … Continue reading →
Words, knives, guns
It’s hard to find words to describe yesterday’s murder of a soldier by machete-wielding Islamic terrorists in Woolwich (a part of greater London) who hacked him to death, so I’ll just let this article do the talking: Witnesses told how … Continue reading →
Issa asserts…
…that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights. Hmmm. Much more here. Discussion of the law here, and in the comments thereafter.
Continue reading →Lerner takes the Fifth
In a move that was absolutely no surprise at all, the IRS’s Lois Lerner took the Fifth today. What does it mean?: It’s doubtful that any prosecution of Lerner could be based on her disgraceful conduct in allowing the targeting … Continue reading →
Pigs fly: Eugene Robinson is angry at the Obama administration
This is encouraging. Not because Eugene Robinson is so important, but because he has been one of the most consistent and stalwart of the president’s defenders. I cannot recall a single instance in which he has done anything but carry … Continue reading →
I guess…
…leaks are okay if they further the Obama cause.
Continue reading →Who was minding the DOJ store?
Nobody seems to have been at home at the Department of Justice when the AP subpoenas were issued. Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
Continue reading →The Boston marathon: not the Tsarnaev brothers’ first murder?
Holder recused himself…
…from the decision about the AP phone records, but he can’t remember when. Or how. And he didn’t do it in writing, which is exceedingly odd (meaning “suspicious”). Will Holder finally get his well-deserved place under that bus? And if … Continue reading →
Ariel Castro and the monsters among us
Jack Dunphy has a piece at PJ about Ariel Castro and how ordinary he must have seemed to his neighbors and acquaintances, and how it would have been very difficult to perceive the evil that lurked within. Although I understand … Continue reading →
Ariel Castro: what a guy—too bad the police didn’t know it
I was watching CNN last night, and learned some more things about the gothic horror show that was Ariel Castro: his deceased ex-wife Grimilda Figueroa had filed very serious physical abuse charges against him, allegations of violent and multiple beatings … Continue reading →