From Turley's blog
[JonathanTurley] Last night, many of us responded to the statement of Leon Panetta, former CIA Director in the Obama Administration, that he "has no regrets" about signing the now infamous letter of 51 former intelligence officials suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. Even more unsettling were his comments that he believes it could still be Russian disinformation. It turns out that even with American intelligence, the media, and Hunter Biden himself acknowledging authenticity, it can still be Russian disinformation. Panetta has become the personification of the economic theory of path dependence. No matter how much countervailing evidence is presented to Panetta, he still refuses to accept the authenticity of the laptop.
In his interview on "Special Report," Panetta was asked by Bret Baier if he had any regrets about signing the letter, which was then used by Joe Biden in the debate to avoid answering questions about influence peddling by his family (and a virtual blackout of coverage before the election).
Panetta insisted that he had no regrets and then added that he has seen no intelligence that would make him change his mind.
[Real Clear Wire] In 1988, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith authored "The Power Game: How Washington Works." It was a fascinating, if unflattering, portrait of the nation’s capital that not only has proven prescient, but remains relevant today.
Having arrived in Washington in 1962, Smith charted what he called "stunning transformations" in the previous two and a half decades. These ranged from "the new congressional assertiveness" engendered by Richard Nixon’s resignation and the revolt by young members against the seniority system, to how the utter supremacy of television had warped the system and produced "a new generation of video politicians whose medium was the tube rather than the political clubhouse."
These words were written, mind you, when Matt Gaetz was seven years old — and two years before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born. But the most significant change Smith documented was the stunning proliferation of lobbyists, hangers-on, and congressional aides.
Many of these aides were not just career politicians, but men and women who’d never had any other career other than politics. One of the subjects highlighted in Smith’s book had worked on Capitol Hill as a staffer, only to run for Congress. He won. His quip to Smith upon reaching Congress as a back-bencher (lightly paraphrased) was that "never has one individual so willingly given up so much power."
Sen. Robert Menendez is a poster boy for this new ethos. He ran for student body president in high school and won, and never really stopped angling for office. While still in college, he served as an aide to the mayor of Union City, N.J. At 20, he was elected to the local school board. A few years later, he ran against the mayor he worked for. Menendez lost that first campaign, but won the rematch in 1986. The following year, he ran and won a seat in the state legislature, and in a sign of the avaricious nature that would later get him indicted, he kept the mayor’s office (and salary) serving in both posts at once.
[NYPOST] House Republicans are moving to introduce legislation to block the United States from accepting any new Paleostinian refugees who may emerge from the current crisis in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response.... You mean we have enough Rashida Tlaibs?
Experts told The Post that more than a million such refugees could be created as Israel continues its bombardment of the Hamas ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -controlled enclave, one of those most densely populated regions in the world.
Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) and Andy Ogles (R-TN) told Breitbart News they planned to imminently introduce the "Guaranteeing Aggressors Zero Admission Act" or the GAZA Act in order to prevent the Biden administration from granting visas to any holder of a Paleostinian passport.
The bill would also prevent the Department of Homeland Security from allowing Paleostinians into the United States through the agency’s parole program.
"We can’t let President Biden abuse our parole and visa rules to bring unvetted Paleostinians into American communities the way he did with thousands of unvetted Afghans," Tiffany said in a posting to X Saturday.
Yes, yes, we know they are coming.
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Nonsense. Their place in Egypt (from which their grandparents came to Mandate terrritories). Given that Egypt's economy cannot last another year without Saudi/American handouts, El Sisi better geek. Also, Egypt could use all the EU money currently going to Gaza.
#4
Egypt would do fine. it seems to me. They’re enjoying relative peace after defeating — or just killing off — Al Qaeda/ISIS and several violent Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) offshoots taking revenge after the Brotherhood was driven out of office. And while Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are connected to both Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda/ISIS in the Sinai, they aren’t embedded with the local population.
#11
Enough! The utter stupidity of a meaningless bill to block certain types from legal entry is like locking the business entrance and leaving the warehouse loading platform doors open all night with the lights on, and party favors and a buffet spread for the people coming in!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Real Clear Wire] In 1988, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith authored "The Power Game: How Washington Works." It was a fascinating, if unflattering, portrait of the nation’s capital that not only has proven prescient, but remains relevant today. 
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
