[American Thinker] James Comey's memoir, pompously titled A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, set for release on April 17, is out from the reviewer class, and all but one seems to have missed the bombshell in it: that Comey neglected to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her refusal to properly handle the nation's top secrets through her illegal private bathtub server, and exposed those secrets to our nation's enemies, because he thought she would win the 2016 election. Some Boy Scout, as he and his allies portray him.
Quite a few of the reviewers focus on Comey's descriptive powers, something that could make anyone look negative if the view is biased enough, which Comey's is. He natters on about Trump's hand size, the bags under his eyes, his tie being too long, and other stylistics that mark Comey as a vain little man obsessed with looks, little different from David Brooks and his fascination with the crease of President Obama's pant legs. Sounds about par for a preening fop, which I guess Comey is. I didn't know there were guys who did this.
There also is focus on he-said, she-said exchanges, which, given Comey's penchant for lying, raises questions as to the accuracy of the supposed recollections. Supposedly, Gen. John Kelly was all broken up about Comey's firing. Well, maybe ‐ he's a swamp thing, after all, and he's said to be a nice person, very empathetic, but who knows?
Then there are the pointless anecdotes, which the Daily Wire rightly classifies as "nothingburgers." Are we supposed to be surprised that President Trump didn't like the "pee tape" about himself, in a dossier put together by his enemies and their Kremlin "sources"? Or to think it unnatural that President Trump wouldn't want his wife to believe it? It all seems natural and predictable. Comey just wants to bring private business to the fore to embarrass Trump. Comey is again being Comey.
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because he thought she would win the 2016 election.
...Him and a few thousand other swamp dwellers. I suspect the (comparative) quiet we're seeing on the book is because the MSM and the Left definitely don't want anybody to really pick up on that.
Mike
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Comey was hedging his bets? He didn't give a damn that she was completely dirty? Maybe he like living.
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Comey could orchestrate the whitewash 'exoneration' of the newly enthroned President Hillary. Win-Win. He gets points for moral rectitude and she gets absolution from such an exemplar of virtue.
...Excuse me while I go get some mouthwash after saying that.
[PRESSTV] A top GOP fundraiser and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , Elliott Broidy, has resigned after a report that the president's personal attorney arranged a $1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model who claimed Broidy had impregnated her.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, arranged the payments to the woman on behalf of Broidy in late 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing the people familiar with the matter.
Following the report, Broidy stepped down from his post as deputy national finance chairman of Republican National Committee (RNC), the organization in charge of fundraising and developing the Republican Party platform.
The Los Angeles-based investor, who helped raise millions of dollars for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, issued a statement, admitting that he "had a consensual relationship" with the woman.
"It is unfortunate that this personal matter between two consenting adults is the subject of national discussion just because of Michael Cohen’s involvement," Broidy said.
"At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me that she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult period."
Broidy would be at least the second senior committee figure this year to resign after former RNC finance chairman Steve Wynn stepped down in January amid employees' accusations of sexual misconduct.
Cohen himself has been under the spotlight over a $130,000 payment he made to a porn-star aimed at preventing her from publicly discussing an affair she claims to have had with Trump.
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Part of the continuing war on Republicans by the FBI. This info came from the Gestapo raid on Cohen's office. Look for more FBI leaks to the detriment of the GOP.
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Rank and file Republicans seem to have little affection for sleazebags, at least when they have a choice, so once a fundraiser is revealed as such, his fundraising effectiveness goes way down, so out he goes.
[DailyMail] He has money and his product is widely used, but Hillary Clinton recently demonstrated that the presidency cannot be acquired by merely spending absurd amounts of money.
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There's that, and not all skill sets are transferable. I'm not a fan of Zuck, but why on earth would he want to be a politician (aside from bossing other people around, which he can do just fine at Facebook)?
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That 'crash & burn' is NOTHING; the guy Howie's interviewing in this Youtube video, a) is a huge asshole and b) a former client of mine (arrested in Belmont, MA for domestic abuse / assault). I dropped him after a year or so because he's such an asshole. This one's off the scale, worth the 11 minutes.
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The guy is running for Senate against Fauxcahontas Warren. That's a literal toss up. About all one can say for that race is that Shiva Ayyadurai is a real Indian--a lose-lose choice.
People like Zuck want to boss more than people around at work. They want to boss people and all of society around 24/7 AND have the soldiers to enforce it all.
After all they want to be God but don't quite have the skills.
The Browndoggle gets the attention it deserves: a costly untenable plan built on lies to voters
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] California's high-speed rail project is facing an audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation's as costs continue to climb.
The inspector general's audit, announced Thursday, will examine the Federal Railroad Administration's oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.
It comes as the plan to bring travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours faces growing scrutiny.
A business plan released in March shows the state does not have the roughly $30 billion needed to complete the first phase of the project between the Central Valley and San Francisco. The entire project, meanwhile, is expected to cost $77 billion. State auditors are also conducting a review.
The authority's new chief executive has pledged more transparency about the project's troubles.
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...Popcorn, anyone?
That and Moonbeam allowing the Cali NG to go to the border suggests that people there might be reconsidering their attitudes.
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If the audit finds egregious irregularities, claw back. Then watch the same pols who called tax cuts "crumbs" start talking about how paying back the misused funds is a "burden on the taxpayer." Bwahahahahahahahaha...
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You talk about train wrecks...
Lemme guess, the grant was awarded by the Obama administration?
I wanna know exactly what ties the contractors have with Moonbeam and other powerful California pols.
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the feedgrant was meant to entice private partners, all of which know it's a loser moneypit without Fed/State subsidies - which the ballot measure disallows
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Who's going to do the Auditing? Fianstien, Boxer, and Pelosi Auditors Limited?
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] As James Comey steps with both his left feet right into his Oscar Wilde moment, another player in the preening emotional drama that is the Mueller investigation has also taken the stage. Starring in the role of Drama Queen today is none other than Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the man to whom all roads lead in the current mess. Forget the weepy, creepy Jim Comey -- if this were a Hercule Poirot story, the Belgian dandy would even now be waxing the tips of his moustaches and getting ready to enter the drawing room at Main Justice, his j'accuse at the ready.
Consider this news -- or should I say, strategic pre-emptive leak:
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has struck a stoic and righteous tone in private conversations he has had this week about the fate of his job as President Donald Trump has launched public criticism against him and considered firing him, according to three sources who have spoken to Rosenstein.
...Recall that it was Rosenstein who wrote the memo that president Trump cited when he fired Comey back in May. It was Rosenstein who stepped up to run the "Russian collusion" investigation after new attorney general Jeff Sessions foolishly succumbed to the Democrat-Media Complex's hysteria over Hillary Clinton's shocking loss and recused himself. It was Rosenstein who authorized the appointment of the special counsel and gave him an open-ended mandate, after Comey deliberately leaked his own memos, via a cut-out, to the New York Times in order to provoke just such an action. And it was Rosenstein who signed off on the misleading FISA warrants that currently have the FBI and the Justice Department in hot water with Congress.
In other words, Rosenstein is the man at the center of this whole mess. And now, anonymously, he's singing like a canary to his pals in the media in order to hold onto his job by publicly fretting that he's about to lose it.
...Comey's tears and "out of body" experiences, Rosenstein's midnight pleas for help -- who are these people? They more closely resemble a gaggle of emotional high-school girls from Mean Girls than grown men overseeing two of the federal government's most important institutions. They sure can dish it out, but taking it is for the plebs?
Whether Rosenstein stage-managed the whole Trump investigation from the start, or is simply a hapless hostage to fortune, it doesn't really matter -- he owns this kluge and ought to pay a price for it. At a time when the world is in greater turmoil than usual and the attention of the president is demanded by far more important issues than Hillary Clinton's continued hurt feelings, do we really have the luxury to care about non-existent "collusion," an aging porn prima donna's lust for the spotlight, and the demolition of the attorney-client privilege in search of a crime that -- even should one be found -- antedates Trump's political career?
The Constitution has a couple of mechanisms for removing a president, neither of which involves the legal system. The first is impeachment, which the Democrats will no doubt attempt should they retake the House of Representatives this fall (although there is next to no chance the Senate, which will stay in GOP hands, would convict and remove him). The second is the election of 2020.
No amount of tears is going to change that. But seeing people like this get the stick is pleasant for a pleb like me
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
[The Hill] Former CIA Director John Brennan on Friday went after President Trump over his attacks on former FBI Director James Comey, tweeting that Trump’s "kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey."
"As the greatest Nation history has known, we have the opportunity to emerge from this nightmare stronger & more committed to ensuring a better life for all Americans, including those you have so tragically deceived," Brennan tweeted at Trump.
A kakistocracy is a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.
Brennan has been a regular critic of Trump, warning last month that lawmakers who protect him will face "a reckoning."
If anything, his criticisms have become more pronounced in the last few months.
Trump lashed out at Comey in a pair of tweets early Friday, calling him a "leaker & liar" and an "untruthful slime ball."
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Brennan is a pain in the derriere. He just doesn't know when to get off the stage. "Kakistocracy"; something of which Brennan is an expert. Brennan, the same guy who spied on the Senate really got ticked when someone hacked his email. An example of the law of karma in action.
[Bus Insider] Top Republican leaders demanded the Justice Department "immediately" release former FBI director James Comey's memos containing his account of conversations he had with President Donald Trump.
In a letter addressed to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, Republican chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee, Oversight and Government Reform, and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, requested both unclassified and classified versions of Comey's memos on Friday.
"There is no legal basis for withholding these materials from Congress," the letter signed by Reps. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, and Devin Nunes of California said.
The memos, written by Comey during his tenure as FBI director, contained his account of interactions with Trump. The memos became a subject of controversy after becoming evidence for a potential obstruction of justice case against Trump, after he allegedly suggested the FBI drop the investigation into his national security adviser, Mike Flynn.
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Why would Comey's after-the-meeting memos carry any weight? He is less than forthright. He was most likely taking notes for his novel--A Higher Loyalty.
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It may not be the actual content, but rather the 'Comey reported' existence of the (US Gov't property) memos, which have in all probability, been destroyed by Comey.
This was urgent enough to post late Friday afternoon, breaking the Nothing After 2:00 p.m. rule. But it is also important enough to roll over so we can have a full day of discussion Saturday. Enjoy, dear Readers!
—trailing wife for the moderators
First few paragraphs of the report:
I. Introduction and Summary of Findings
This misconduct report addresses the accuracy of statements made by then-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) and the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning the disclosure of certain law enforcement sensitive information to reporter Devlin Barrett that was published online in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on October 30, 2016, in an article entitled "FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe." A print version of the article was published in the WSJ on Monday, October 31, 2016, in an article entitled "FBI, Justice Feud in Clinton Probe."
This investigation was initially opened by INSD to determine whether the information published by the WSJ in the October 30 article was an unauthorized leak and, if so, who was the source of the leak. On August 31, 2017, the OIG opened an investigation of McCabe following INSD’s referral of its matter to the OIG after INSD became concerned that McCabe may have lacked candor when questioned by INSD agents about his role in the disclosure to the WSJ. Shortly before that INSD referral, as part of its ongoing Review of Allegations Regarding Various Actions by the Department and the FBI in Advance of the 2016 Election, the OIG identified FBI text messages by McCabe’s then-Special Counsel ("Special Counsel") that reflected that she and the then-Assistant Director for Public Affairs ("AD/OPA") had been in contact with Barrett on October 27 and 28, 2016, and the OIG began to review the involvement of McCabe, Special Counsel, and AD/OPA in the disclosure of information to the WSJ in connection with the October 30 article.
In addition to addressing whether McCabe lacked candor, the OIG’s misconduct investigation addressed whether any FBI or Department of Justice policies were violated in disclosing non-public FBI information to the WSJ.
The OIG’s misconduct investigation included reviewing all of the INSD investigative materials as well as numerous additional documents, e-mails, text messages, and OIG interview transcripts. The OIG interviewed numerous witnesses, including McCabe, Special Counsel, former FBI Director James Comey, and others.
As detailed below, we found that in late October 2016, McCabe authorized Special Counsel and AD/OPA to discuss with Barrett issues related to the FBI’s Clinton Foundation investigation (CF Investigation). In particular, McCabe authorized Special Counsel and AD/OPA to disclose to Barrett the contents of a telephone call that had occurred on August 12, 2016, between McCabe and the then-Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General ("PADAG"). Among the purposes of the disclosure was to rebut a narrative that had been developing following a story in the WSJ on October 23, 2016, that questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing FBI investigations involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and claimed that McCabe had ordered the termination of the CF Investigation due to Department of Justice pressure. The disclosure to the WSJ effectively confirmed the existence of the CF Investigation, which then-FBI Director Comey had 2 previously refused to do. The account of the August 12 McCabe-PADAG call, and other information regarding the handling of the CF Investigation, was included in the October 30 WSJ article.
We found that, in a conversation with then-Director Comey shortly after the WSJ article was published, McCabe lacked candor when he told Comey, or made statements that led Comey to believe, that McCabe had not authorized the disclosure and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5 (Lack of Candor ‐ No Oath).
We also found that on May 9, 2017, when questioned under oath by FBI agents from INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor ‐ Under Oath) Continues
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Where will things go from here? Are the indictments going to start rolling? The report shows that Hillary was protected against criminality by the FBI and Obumble.
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.
[American Thinker] James Comey's memoir, pompously titled A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, set for release on April 17, is out from the reviewer class, and all but one seems to have missed the bombshell in it: that Comey neglected to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her refusal to properly handle the nation's top secrets through her illegal private bathtub server, and exposed those secrets to our nation's enemies, because he thought she would win the 2016 election. Some Boy Scout, as he and his allies portray him.
[DailyMail] 
[The Hill] Former CIA Director John Brennan on Friday went after President Trump over his attacks on former FBI Director James Comey, tweeting that Trump’s "kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey."
