[KC Star] WASHINGTON - Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning in the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.
The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed "dirty trickster," is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller and provides the most detail to date about how Trump campaign associates were aware in the summer of 2016 that emails had been stolen from the Hillary Clinton campaign and wanted them released. It alleges that unnamed senior Trump campaign officials contacted Stone to ask when the stolen emails might be disclosed.
The indictment does not charge Stone with conspiring with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website that published the emails, or with the Russian officers Mueller says hacked them. Instead, it accuses him of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to WikiLeaks' release. Some of those false statements were made to the House intelligence committee, according to the indictment.
The indictment lays out in detail Stone's conversations about stolen Democratic emails posted by WikiLeaks in the weeks before Trump, a Republican, beat Clinton. Mueller's office has said those emails, belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, were hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
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Stone has always been sleazy. Again, though, this is a process charge, not a Russia Russia Russia crime. Mueller is grasping at straws because they've come up empty and once the Senate starts digging into teh dossier/FISA crap they'll look like teh partisan shills they are
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and once the Senate starts digging into teh dossier/FISA crap
#5
Pre-dawn raid with a SWAT team seems a bit heavy-handed for white-collar crime. Makes for good theater, though. Pity only CNN was tipped off. I wonder how that works?
#12
The law that created the special counsel ought to be repealed. The office of special counsel is being used as a political instrument of retaliation, usurption of presidential power, a roadblock, and vindictiveness. If there are high crimes and misdemeanors, let Congress address these through the impeachment laws.
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There is something wrong in a country where the media obsesses over a group of Catholic school boys and constantly hammers DJT 24/7 over everything. But at the same time no outrage about the serious wrongdoing of the previous administration. Not a peep about the Clintons, Brennan, Clapper, Rice, Holder, Lerner, Jarret, Obama, Fusion GPS, Clinton Foundation, F&F, etc.--Not even process crimes. No real investigations, just phony investigations about those around Trump and grinned-up process crimes. It is a national disgrace. Things have been broken for awhile. Maybe Trump can get some things fixed but the Swamp has been spreading for a long time.
#4
Not getting enough clicks? Maybe that's what happens when you squander your credibility with fake news.
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Huffpo was purchased in 2011 by AOL/TW for $100M plus. It was worth closer to zero then and is still worth close to zero.
It gets some money from advertising but pays its content providers very little. Management probably loots several million a year but the books are jumbled because of AOL is part of Verizon.
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I'm convinced liberals can't tell the difference between opinion and fact anyway.
[Daily Beast] The last time he was on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, Michael Moore said that that only way to stop President Donald Trump would be to "put our bodies on the line." On Thursday night, he had issued a new challenge, this one to the 800,000 federal workers who are either furloughed or working without pay during the government shutdown.
"Any sane person‐even if they're for the wall‐knows this is crazy that we're in month two of this," the director of Fahrenheit 11/9 said. "Nobody should be working without pay."
Asked by Colbert how this whole thing will end, Moore said there’s an "easy way" to end it. "Federal workers, don't go to work without pay," he said. "And we, the people, we shouldn't be supporting anything that requires someone who's not paid working for us." He went on to urge all Americans to stop taking flights and delay filing their tax paperwork to the IRS until the government reopens.
"Consult a lawyer first, don’t listen to him," Colbert warned viewers.
From there, the host moved on to the news that Trump may once again be on the verge of declaring a national emergency to secure funding for his wall. This idea did not sit well with Moore.
"Listen, if he declares a national emergency, this man is out of control," Moore said. "This is our country. We are a democracy, we're a free society. If this were any other country, if it were Turkey or the Philippines or Russia, and they had an election and the ruler's party somehow lost half their legislative branch like he did in November and then that ruler declared a month later, I'm shutting down the government, what would we call that if it were another country doing that?"
#1
Sounds like a call for a States Convention to me. I'm pretty sure 2/3rd to 3/4rds of the 'small' states would like to address the over centralization of power in the Swamp and among 10 or so major metro areas in this country.
[Wash Examiner] Senators see a opening for legislation to eliminate unexpected massive medical bills after President Trump enthusiastically endorsed the idea this week, raising the possibility of bipartisan work on a topic marked in recent years by bitter divisiveness.
Key senators indicated on Thursday that they hope to work in the coming months across party lines and with Trump to address the problem of patients facing astonishingly high bills after being administered pricey medications or receiving care from doctors outside their networks. The lawmakers have been stymied in writing legislation related to other areas in healthcare, such as stabilizing Obamacare's exchanges or working to insure people who currently lack coverage.
"It will be a priority in our efforts to try to reduce healthcare costs," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. "People go to the emergency room and they suddenly are surprised a few weeks later with a bill for $3,000 for an out-of-network doctor. We don't want that to happen to anyone."
Alexander has met with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to discuss the problem and said that he expected the Senate would address it in "the next several months."
He also met with the top Democrat on the HELP Committee, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., of the Finance Committee. Lawmakers recognized that surprise medical bills were "an obvious candidate for that kind of bipartisan cooperation," he said.
Leading the charge on authoring bipartisan legislation is Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. A physician, Cassidy has frequently discussed the ways in which helping patients has influenced his policy positions.
During the last Congress, senators introduced a bipartisan draft legislation to tackle the issue. The plan would have barred doctors and hospitals from billing a patient for the remainder of a bill that the insurance company didn't pay when the patient was treated outside of his health insurance network and instead would have had the provider seek payment from the insurer. Another portion of the proposal would obligate hospitals to notify emergency department patients once they are stabilized that they may get high charges if the facility is outside of their network, giving them the option to get treatment elsewhere.
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Way to destroy hospitals, guys. Or they will stop treating ER patients who are not in their networks. Either way, the poor and unconnected will start dying in noticeable numbers.
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A large problem are the PARE docs, (Pathologist, Anesthesiologists, Radiology and ER. They don't join networks. I had a surgery Tuesday, am a Risk Management major have done network negotiations, PHOs, etc and I failed to see if the anesthesiologist was in network
[NR] Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday blocked a Republican bill that would pay the Coast Guard without ending the ongoing partial government shutdown.
Republican Senator John Kennedy, who attempted to move the legislation forward, refused Schumer’s request to add provisions reopening the federal government because, he said, such a bill would not be signed by President Trump.
"It will be a futile, useless exercise. Now, we can go through it if you want to. You can spend all day trying to teach a goat how to climb a tree, but you’re better off hiring a squirrel," said Kennedy.
Around 42,000 Coast Guard members are currently working without pay. Members of the other branches of the military have not been affected by the shutdown, but the Coast Guard is funded separately through the Department of Homeland Security.
The shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, is now in its 34th day, and is poised to deprive around 800,000 federal workers of a second consecutive paycheck. Elsewhere on Thursday, two separate bills designed to break the impasse and reopen the government failed in the Senate.
[BigLeaguePolitics] In 2015, Kamala Harris’ attorney general’s office made the unprecedented decision to release California’s Electronic Interceptions Report as a "locked" PDF not available to members of the public, according to documents obtained by Big League Politics.
An April 23, 2015 letter on Kamala Harris’ official attorney general stationery denied Lacambra’s firm’s request to see the report.
A deputy attorney general [The Lineup(?)]
wrote on Harris’ behalf:
"Since that time, our Office has changed its security protocol regarding reports and other documents that are made available electronically to members of the public on our public web site. Now, all such reports and documents appearing on our public website are only made available to members of the public in a locked PDF format. We have made this change in orderto better protect the security and integrity of the data in our public records.
Unfortunately, given our new procedure, we are unable to provide you with an electric copy of the 2014 Electronic Interception report in a Microsoft Word format. We apologize for any inconvenience that this new change may cause for you."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s persistence eventually led to the publication of the 2015 report, but problems persisted.
The report was incomprehensible in the sense that Riverside County wiretap reports did not correspond to the wiretap order numbers, and were not in correct sequential order like other counties, according to a source.
The Riverside County wiretaps had identifying numbers in the report starting at over 1,000, even though there were not more than 1,000 wiretaps from that county in 2014 or 2015, making it impossible to trace or identify some of the wiretaps, including in the case of Lacambra’s client, the retired California Highway Patrol officer. That officer’s issued wiretap number does not correspond with any of the numbers indexed in the report. The glint of a long knife?
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"Impeach! Special Prosecutor! We MUST ..." (listens to aide) "We must support our fellow Democrat against these baseless accusations by sexists accusers..."
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ A splintered Senate voted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 35-day partial government shutdown, but the twin setbacks prompted a burst of bipartisan talks aimed at temporarily halting the longest-ever closure of federal agencies and the damage it’s inflicting around the country.
In the first serious exchange in weeks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., quickly called Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to his office Thursday to explore potential next steps for solving the vitriolic stalemate. Senators from both sides floated a plan to reopen agencies for three weeks and pay hundreds of thousands of beleaguered federal workers while bargainers hunt for a deal.
At the White House, President Donald Trump told reporters he’d support "a reasonable agreement." He suggested he’d also want a "prorated down payment" for his long-sought border wall with Mexico but didn’t describe the term. He said he has "other alternatives" for getting wall funding, an apparent reference to his disputed claim that he could declare a national emergency and fund the wall’s construction using other programs in the federal budget.
"At least we’re talking about it. That’s better than it was before," McConnell told reporters in one of the most encouraging statements heard since the shutdown began Dec. 22.
[WCPO] The family of 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann, having already contracted Kentucky’s largest public relations firm to help repair his image after a viral incident outside the Lincoln Memorial, on Thursday hired a Georgia attorney known for aggressive libel and slander suits against media organizations.
L. Lin Wood, nicknamed "attorney for the damned" by former CBS anchor Dan Rather ...a former ancherperson, the man who put the BS in CBS News. In 2004 he put on a news story that highlighted dissatisfaction with Lt. George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. This was almost casually--but gleefully--debunked by the Blogosphere at large. Rather's face was rubbed in journalistic mud, four of his staff were fired, and within a short time his 43-year (about the same length as Muammar Qadaffi's) career had settled to the bottom... , visited the Sandmann family earlier in the day, according to a news release from Sandmann family attorney Todd McMurtry.
"He is committed to bringing justice to 16-year-old Nick Sandmann and his family," McMurtry wrote.
That justice might be green and made of 75 percent cotton.
Wood "often (seeks) eye-popping damages for those he believes have been libeled or slandered in the press," according to a 2011 Washington Post article about his defense of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain ...the personable but seemingly horny former Godfather's Pizza CEO who coulda been a contenda... . (Cain had been facing accusations of sexual harassment that derailed his campaign.)
Other notable clients include the family of JonBenet Ramsey, who were suspects in the child pageant queen’s murder, and Richard Jewell, a Centennial Olympic Park guard misidentified as having bombed his workplace in 1996.
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Time to overturn the separate 'public' and 'private' definitions for libel and treat all Americans equal. There is no license to grant immunities to corporations who ignore quality control of their product that they dump on the public.
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P2K, they did not ignore quality control. This was not a "snap judgement" hastily made before all the facts were in. WAPO and a number of other media outlets deliberately and maliciously lied. They knew better but they did it anyway. They crossed a line by lying about innocent minors for partisan political purposes. I was happy to hear that Jeff Bezos will lose half of his fortune to his soon-to-be ex-wife. Now I hope he loses another significant chunk. Mr. Sandmann could well become this country's newest and youngest billionaire.
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But here's another aspect to this story: By attacking Catholic school kids who participated in a pro-life march, the MSM attacked the Catholic Church. If the Pope, cardinals and bishops remain silent they will betray their church and all of their parishioners. They need to speak out loudly and clearly on behalf of the Covington kids and they should also contribute to the legal fund.
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So, it appears that the Catholic bishop of Lexington, Ky has already betrayed his parishioners. How can you claim to represent Jesus when you falsely accuse your fellow Christians of racism as they are being fed to the lions?
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[DailyWire] BLUF: The headline for the article, clearly meant to suggest the school is anti-gay, reads: "Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation ’not surprised’ by D.C. controversy." This headline actually makes the tweet look more accurate.
Others, including Federalist contributor Chad Felix Greene (who also happens to be gay), quickly noted how misleading the story was, as the student was not banned for speaking because he was gay. "He submitted the speech too late and it was too political for the venue," Greene wrote.
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"Why Covington students?" Because they supported Donald Trump by wearing MAGA hats and T-shirts. These students are being bullied by the left and used.
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.
[KC Star] WASHINGTON - Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning in the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.
...a former ancherperson, the man who put the BS in CBS News. In 2004 he put on a news story that highlighted dissatisfaction with Lt. George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. This was almost casually--but gleefully--debunked by the Blogosphere at large. Rather's face was rubbed in journalistic mud, four of his staff were fired, and within a short time his 43-year (about the same length as Muammar Qadaffi's) career had settled to the bottom...
