I had previously ignored this story, but it came up again in a comment by “AesopFan” and I thought I’d delve into it. Here’s the tale as told by John Brennan, who later become director of the CIA under Obama: … Continue reading →
With great clarity, Andrew C. McCarthy just keeps churning out information-packed article after article on what we now are free to call Spygate. I don’t know how he does it, But I’m certainly glad he does. If you have any … Continue reading →
On “Spygate,” informants, sources, and scumbags.
Continue reading →Kimberly Strassel in the WSJ on the real constitutional crisis that’s going on: The Constitution set up Congress to act as a check on the executive branch””and it’s got more than enough cause to do some checking here. Yet the … Continue reading →
It’s rather commonplace to see people on the right mention that the machinations of Comey, Clapper, McCabe, et. al. regarding the investigation of the Trump campaign would never have been revealed to the American people had Hillary Clinton been elected … Continue reading →
The bill passed with bipartisan support, 258-159. The beneficiaries will be smaller banks that claim to have been unduly hampered by the bill: The bill stops far short of unwinding the toughened regulatory regime put in place to prevent the … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley is another writer—a lawyer—whose viewpoints especially interest me because he doesn’t parrot any party line. He’s mostly a libertarian, and as far as I can tell he tends to vote Democratic or libertarian. At any rate, he’s not … Continue reading →
Worth watching:
Continue reading →I spend a lot of time reading the work of other writers on politics. Some of them—probably the vast majority—purport to be objective journalists but write with an obvious bias. What’s so obvious about it? Well, one thing is that … Continue reading →
Unlike Watergate, the current crisis in government/spying/politics doesn’t have a memorable name. But for those of us who lived through Watergate it has a certain resonance with that event as well as major differences, imparting a strange sense of familiarity, … Continue reading →
In a very long article in the NY Times, the newspaper tries to get ahead of the forthcoming IG report by admitting a couple of things, but burying and/or downplaying them. Par for the course. Rather than re-invent the wheel … Continue reading →
Robert Mueller hasn’t exactly been covering himself with glory lately. Among other things: At the arraignment [of the Russian company accused by Mueller of having tried to influence the US election], Concord’s lead counsel, Eric Dubelier, was asked whether he … Continue reading →