Archive for 2017
October 26, 2017
IT’S NEVER BEEN MORE NECESSARY: Introducing the Institute For Free Speech.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIALIZES: Democrats, Russians and the FBI: Did the bureau use disinformation to trigger its Trump probe?
It turns out that Russia has sown distrust in the U.S. political system—aided and abetted by the Democratic Party, and perhaps the FBI. This is an about-face from the dominant media narrative of the last year, and it requires a full investigation.
The Washington Post revealed Tuesday that the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee jointly paid for that infamous “dossier” full of Russian disinformation against Donald Trump. They filtered the payments through a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie), which hired the opposition-research hit men at Fusion GPS. Fusion in turn tapped a former British spook, Christopher Steele, to compile the allegations, which are based largely on anonymous, Kremlin-connected sources.
Strip out the middlemen, and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a U.S. presidential candidate. Did someone say “collusion”?
This news is all the more explosive because the DNC and Clinton campaign hid their role, even amid the media furor after BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier in January. Reporters are now saying that Clinton campaign officials lied to them about their role in the dossier. Current DNC Chair Tom Perez and former Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz deny knowing about the dossier arrangement, but someone must have known.
Perhaps this explains why Congressional Democrats have been keen to protect Fusion from answering dossier questions—disrupting hearings, protesting subpoenas and deriding Republican investigators. Two of Fusion’s cofounders invoked their Fifth Amendment rights last week rather than answer House Intelligence Committee questions, and Fusion filed a federal lawsuit on Friday to block committee subpoenas of its bank records.
The more troubling question is whether the FBI played a role, even if inadvertently, in assisting a Russian disinformation campaign. We know the agency possessed the dossier in 2016, and according to media reports it debated paying Mr. Steele to continue his work in the runup to the election. This occurred while former FBI Director James Comey was ramping up his probe into supposed ties between the Trump campaign and Russians.
Two pertinent questions: Did the dossier trigger the FBI probe of the Trump campaign, and did Mr. Comey or his agents use it as evidence to seek wiretapping approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Trump campaign aides?
Perhaps the court should address this. Plus:
All of this also raises questions about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The Fusion news means the FBI’s role in Russia’s election interference must now be investigated—even as the FBI and Justice insist that Mr. Mueller’s probe prevents them from cooperating with Congressional investigators.
Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.
Yes, he should.
THE COMPUTER MODELS ARE CONCLUSIVE! STOP BEING A DENIER! The universe shouldn’t exist, according to science. What are you doing standing around existing? Don’t you believe in science?
HAGFISH SLIME THREADS ARE ALMOST AS STRONG AND LIGHT AS SPIDER SILK BUT COULD PROVE FAR EASIER TO HARVEST IN THE NECESSARY LARGE VOLUMES TO BE PRACTICAL: Slime from this 300 million-year-old creature could create bulletproof body armor.
BAH. THAT’S WHAT THE NEIGHBORS SAY! People argue with neighbors over the pettiest things.
THEY CAN GET UP TO ABOUT 13 POUNDS — THAT’S ABOUT THE SIZE OF A CHIHUAHUA OR JACK RUSSELL TERRIER: But, more importantly, they’re TASTY. Australia’s dog-sized lobsters are going extinct
THREE GUESSES AND THE FIRST TWO DON’T COUNT: Gowdy: Did FBI Rely on a Document That Looks Like the National Enquirer Prepared It?
I LIKE TOM KNIGHTON. TOM KNIGHTON IS A FRIEND OF MINE. BUT I DO BELIEVE HE TYPED “THINKS” WHEN HE MEANT “FEELS”: A Progressive ‘Male’ Thinks ‘Man’ Is a Dirty Word. I don’t believe there was ever any thought involved.
SOUNDS LIKE CHRISSY HAS A PERSONAL FANTASY. MAYBE HE WORKS FOR FUSION GPS? Why Does Chris Matthews Insist on Making Golden Showers Jokes About Trump?!?
YEP, YOU GUESSED IT, IT’S A THREE (3!) SHOCKED FACE NIGHT. I’M STARTING TO FEAR IT WILL FREEZE LIKE THIS: Spin Cycle Begins As The Left Tries To Explain Away Trump Dossier Funding.
AND IN A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT, THE SHOCKED FACE MAKES ITS SECOND APPEARANCE OF THE NIGHT! Emails Show Obama’s DOJ Channeled ‘Slush Fund’ Money To Leftist Orgs.
LEFTIST PRIVILEGE: Ellen DeGeneres Ogles Katy Perry’s Boobies, But That’s Okay.
WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY WANT HUMANITY TO GO EXTINCT, BELIEVE THEM: (Then say: you first.) Rationalizing Extinction.
TO A MORE INNOCENT WORLD, THE UN SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA: I confess that I’m not a hundred percent sure how 100 wolves and a fatted calf voting on what should be for dinner seemed like a good idea, but we have evidence it did, even to rational and smart people. But I think we can say it’s an idea whose time is so far past, it’s starting to smell. It smells of graveyard. The Rubber Hits the Road.
WE OPEN WITH A DISPLAY OF MY SHOCKED FACE: Iran Paving Way to Abandon Nuclear Deal, Fortify Missile Program.
October 25, 2017
THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED, THREATS OF RACIST VIOLENCE WOULD BE COMMON. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! ‘You White Motherf***er!’: Man Charged For Making Threats To Assassinate Trump.
HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW THE PEOPLE WHO GET IN THESE FIGHTS WITH TRUMP USUALLY DON’T COME OUT VERY WELL? NFL commits suicide-by-Trump with politically correct protests.
THE NRA RESPONDS TO CNN: This is a lemon.
WELL: FEC complaint accuses Clinton campaign, DNC of violating campaign finance law with dossier payments. “Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose payments for a dossier on Donald Trump, according to a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. The complaint from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center said the Democrats effectively hid the payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law. By law, campaign and party committees must disclose the reason money is spent and its recipient.”
SHE’S READY FOR THE MARY MCCARTHY/LILLIAN HELLMAN TREATMENT: Elizabeth Warren lied about being sexually harassed.