Whistleblowers from the FBI have come forward recently: “Fourteen FBI agents have come to our office as whistleblowers, and they are good people,” Jordan revealed to Fox News. “There are lots of good people in the FBI. It’s the top … Continue reading →
Margot Cleveland speculates: NONE of the three criminal statutes used to justify the search require materials to be “classified”… Espionage Act’s plain language does not require material related to “national defense” to be classified. (Preliminary research confirms my reading but … Continue reading →
William Jacobson writes this about the warrant and inventory: The affidavits supporting the warrant have not been unsealed, and it’s unclear whether Trump would have a copy. The inventory does not give any indication what the records were, other than … Continue reading →
Something like this raid would have to have been done with the utmost transparency and documentation, as well as objective observers, if it’s done at all. But none of that was present. Here’s today’s news: FBI agents who searched former … Continue reading →
And doesn’t say much, which is no surprise. The most interesting thing he said – which is also no surprise, although it seemed to contradict the Newsweek story I wrote about earlier today – is that he personally approved the … Continue reading →
Two of Trump’s lawyers were busy giving interviews yesterday. Here they are: It seems that these raids were irregular in a number of ways beyond the obvious fact that the target was an ex-president and leading opponent of the current … Continue reading →
Here’s Andrew C. McCarthy on yesterday’s Mar-A-Largo raid: There’s a game prosecutors play. Let’s say I suspect X committed an armed robbery, but I know X is dealing drugs. So, I write a search-warrant application laying out my overwhelming probable … Continue reading →
William Jacobson thinks the goal is to provoke: This is a provocation. They are trying to get a reaction that allows a further crackdown. See, In Re J6. It’s also a provocation to get Trump to declare his candidacy for … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy is one of those writers who’s sometimes very very good and sometimes not at all good. You never know exactly which McCarthy is going to turn up, except that he tends to be good on anything to … Continue reading →
Not that these sorts of hearings generally matter, but Ted Cruz had quite an exchange today with current FBI director Christoper Wray: Sen. Ted Cruz to FBI Director Wray: “DOJ has become thoroughly politicized. I think this is a problem … Continue reading →
I remember, when the Hunter Biden laptop first came out shortly before the 2020 election, that I had a moment of thinking it might become a big scandal – which it deserved to be. But almost immediately the news was … Continue reading →
More revelations that I predict much of America will ignore or applaud: In the wake of the risible Sussman verdict, it has emerged that for the last ten years, the FBI has maintained a “secure work environment” within the offices … Continue reading →