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The FBI don’t need no steenking rules.
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Lawfare: admitting you were wrong
The Horowitz Report dealt a blow to Lawfare: …[T]he ‘Lawfare’ blog…[is] a site that’s placed itself at the center of the operation to legitimize and push Trump-Russia conspiracy theories throughout the Trump presidency. Their specialty has been to claim the … Continue reading →
Scott Johnson of Powerline makes a good point about the MSM and Russiagate
Here it is, on the topic of the fact that media reports were almost uniformly wrong about Russiagate, the Nunes vs. Schiff memo, the Steele dossier’s reliability, and so much else: If reporters were burned, they should be angry, and … Continue reading →
Comey: What did I know? I was just the FBI director [Part 2]
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] In the following, I’m discussing the Chris Wallace interview of James Comey that occurred last Sunday. Here’s the transcript, and here’s the video.] During the video, Wallace confronts Comey with the fact that … Continue reading →
Another Horowitz hearing, overshadowed by impeachment theater
Yesterday Horowitz testified again, and said much the same thing as before: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was blunt in trying to get to the bottom of what happened during Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. “Were they … Continue reading →
The FISA court comes out of the closet
Or the woodwork. Or the shadows. Or wherever they usually hide and do their secretive business. Ever since the FISA application abuse by the FBI surfaced – and I’m talking about long before the Horowitz report, back during the days … Continue reading →
Bad news for General Flynn
It seems to me that General Flynn got bad tactical advice from the lawyers handling his appeal. This is the result: Judge Sullivan had all but invited Flynn to withdraw his plea. He was accordingly unimpressed by the merits of … Continue reading →
If I were still a Democrat and I listened to Comey’s interview yesterday with Chris Wallace, what would I think?
I plan to fisk James Comey’s interview with Chris Wallace later today or perhaps tomorrow, but right now I want to say something else about it. I couldn’t actually watch Comey or listen to the whole interview. That’s probably a … Continue reading →
The speedy news cycle and the Horowitz Report
Have you noticed how fast the news cycle goes? Purposely so, with stories the press wants to bury but can’t quite bring itself to totally ignore. Such as the Horowitz Report and Horowitz’s testimony. The MSM and the Democrats focused … Continue reading →
A little stroll down memory lane on the MSM and the dossier
[Hat tip: Ace.] SUPERCUT — Media to Americans: Of course the Trump dossier is true! pic.twitter.com/R2uOijnMeJ — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 13, 2019 How many of these people will ever apologize and/or correct? I rarely watch their shows so I … Continue reading →
Political theater, political meat: impeachment vs. Horowitz
There are two big competing political dramas going on at the moment. One is the impeachment effort. I’m tempted to put the word “impeachment” in scare quotes, because the grounds are absurdly weak. But since a very real impeachment might … Continue reading →
Remember the Schiff memo vs. the Nunes memo?
Remember back in the early days of 2018 when there was the clash of the dueling memos on Russiagate and the role of the FBI and the FISA court applications? The Nunes memo was criticized by Democrats even before it … Continue reading →