JUDICIAL WATCH: New Documents Show FBI Deputy Director McCabe Did Not Recuse Himself from the Clinton Email Scandal Investigation until Week Before Presidential Election.

The news that Clinton used a private email server broke March 2, 2015. Five days later, former Clinton Foundation board member and Democrat party fundraiser, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe met with the McCabes to recruit her for a run for the state Senate. She announced her candidacy on March 12. Soon afterward, McAuliffe-aligned political groups donated nearly $700,000 (40% of the campaign’s total funds) to McCabe’s wife for her campaign. Around that time, Gov. McAuliffe would also come under criminal investigation by the FBI.

An April 29, 2015, document titled “Protocol regarding Potential Conflicts of Interest” sent from the Washington Field Office to various FBI officials – and self-approved by McCabe – indicates that he was “consulting with individuals within the Washington Field Office and [FBI headquarters]” prior to the announcement of his wife’s political campaign:

In March 2015, Dr. Jill McCabe announced her candidacy for Virginia State Senate. Dr. McCabe is the wife of Washington Field Office ADIC Andrew McCabe. Prior to Dr. McCabe’s official announcement, the [assistant director] consulted with individuals within [Washington Field Office] and [FBI headquarters] to identify limitations on his participation in her campaign and to identify areas where Dr. McCabe’s campaign may present potential conflicts of interest for the ADIC in WFO investigations and operations. [Emphasis added]

While this same document advises against McCabe’s involvement in “all public corruption investigations” concerning the state of Virginia during the campaign, no restrictions are advised in his involvement in Virginia cases following the campaign or his involvement with the Clinton email investigation. Also, it advises with respect to other conflicts of interest the Washington Field Office “will assess all other matters on a case-by-case basis,” and provide a “protocol” for their examination, which would be reviewed by a subordinate of McCabe’s, the Chief Division Counsel.

“The FBI is compromised. Mr. McCabe should have been nowhere near the Hillary Clinton investigations,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “That he saw fit to recuse himself only days before the election further demonstrates the FBI’s Clinton email investigation was a sham. No wonder it took a year and a federal lawsuit to get these records. It is well past time for the Justice Department to reopen the Clinton email investigation.”

This whole thing stinks.

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PROFILES IN EFFICIENT TIME MANAGEMENT: Rosie O’Donnell Admits, ‘I Spend 90% Of My Hours Tweeting Hatred’ At Trump.

PUBLISHING BLUES: Teen Vogue Shutters Shortly After Publishing ‘Guide to Anal Sex’ for Teen Girls.

DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ DIDN’T TELL DNC OFFICERS OF HACK: “Schultz, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, did not tell the DNC’s own officers about a breach on its servers for more than a month after learning about it, according to then-DNC officer Donna Brazile…The timing suggests the DNC’s unusual and significant choice to have the private law firm CrowdStrike conduct the investigation into the breach, rather than turn the evidence over to law enforcement, was made without consulting DNC officers. ‘She told [officers] about the hacking only minutes before the Washington Post broke the news,’ Brazile wrote.”

Read the whole thing.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Could Papa John’s become the “official pizza of the alt-right”?

I wonder if the HuffPo will ever acknowledge some of its own mile markers on the road to the alt-right?

FLASHBACK: Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender’s jet much more than previously known.

ED MORRISSEY: Come on, man. “The party that spent sixteen years plotting the Clinton Restoration finds itself horrified by the fact that the DNC became a subsidiary of Bill and Hillary Inc?”

WAYNE CREWS: The Internet of Things wants to know where its 5G is. The reason we don’t have 5G yet is, surprise surprise, federal regulation.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Would Happen If You Became Dark Matter?

RATS LEAVING THE SINKING SS CLINTON: Adriana Cohen: Brazile, Warren say DNC, Clinton worked to sabotage Sanders.

HERE WE GO AGAIN? Dubious Hate Crime at Kansas State University Under Investigation.

KEEP DOUBLING DOWN ON STUPID: Saints in public feud with disabled veteran over anthem protests.

CHANGE: America Fights Back: 1 Million Cord-Cutters Freak Out Cable Industry.

SIGNS OF LIFE AT REED COLLEGE: Activists are disrupting lectures to protest “white supremacy,” but many students are taking steps to stop them.

This school year, students are ditching anonymity and standing up to RAR in public—and almost all of them are freshmen of color. The turning point was the derailment of the Hum lecture on August 28, the first day of classes. As the Humanities 110 program chair, Elizabeth Drumm, introduced a panel presentation, three RAR leaders took to the stage and ignored her objections. Drumm canceled the lecture—a first since the boycott. Using a panelist’s mic, a leader told the freshmen that “[our] work is just as important as the work of the faculty, so we were going to introduce ourselves as well.”

The pushback from freshmen first came over Facebook. “To interrupt a lecture in a classroom setting is in serious violation of academic freedom and is just unthoughtful and wrong,” wrote a student from China named Sicheng, who distributed a letter of dissent against RAR. Another student, Isabel, ridiculed the group for its “unsolicited emotional theater.”

“Unsolicited emotional theater.” I like that. Plus:

Two days later, a video circulated showing freshmen in the lecture hall admonishing protesters. When a few professors get into a heated exchange with RAR leaders, an African American freshman in the front row stands up and raises his arms: “This is a classroom! This is not the place! Right now we are trying to learn! We’re the freshman students!” The room erupts with applause.

I caught up with that student, whose name is Pax. “This is a weird year to be a freshman,” he sighed. Pax is very mild-mannered, so I asked what made him snap into action that morning. “It felt like both sides [RAR and faculty] weren’t paying attention to the freshmen class, as it being our class,” he replied. “They started yelling over the freshmen. It was very much like we weren’t people to them—that we were just a body to use.”

Next I met the student who shot the video. A sophomore from India, he serves as a mentor for international students. (He asked not to be identified by name.) “A lot of them told me how disappointed they were—that they traveled such a long distance to come to this school, and worked so hard to get to this school, and their first lecture was canceled,” he said. He also recalled the mood last year for many students of color like himself: “There was very much a standard opinion you had to have [about RAR], otherwise people would look at you funny, and some people would say stuff to you—a lot of people were called ‘race traitors.’”

Political Correctness is just another form of privileged Western bullying.

FASTER, PLEASE: New System for Treating Colorectal Cancer Can Lead to Complete Cure.

WEIRD HOW CRAPPING ALL OVER YOUR CUSTOMERS DOESN’T WORK: NFL’s Litany of Excuses Runs Out After Ratings Fall for Second Year.

CBO ON FIGHTING “CLIMATE CHANGE” IN THE VULNERABLE ZONES: “The federal government should make coastal residents bear more of the financial risks for living there, the office said.”

It’s time to tax the Blue Zones!

JOURNALISM: Howie Carr: Mother Jones backrubber pushed Trump golden showers dossier.

SHUT DOWN FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. FOR THE CHILDREN! We’re Building A Dystopia Just To Make People Click On Ads.

NANCY PELOSI: While Black Lives Matter, ‘White Lies Matter.’

PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS CORRECT: ELECTIONS DO HAVE CONSEQUENCES. A week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of www.dnainfo.com and Gothamist voted to join a union. On Thursday, they lost their jobs, as Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade who owned the sites, shut them down. The owner’s logic is unfathomable to the denizens of the People’s Republic of Zabar’s:

“DNAinfo is, at the end of the day, a business, and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure.”

**DISCLOSURE** I was a member of The Newspaper Guild for many years when I worked at Time Inc., but those were in flush times when the First Amendment was basically a license to print money.

LID BLOG: Immigrant Population Hits Record High And Growing Too Fast. “In July 2016 the immigrant population (foreign-born immigrants both legal and illegal) hit a record high of 43.7 million, by September of 2017 that number had climbed to a likely 45.6 million and there is no end in sight to the rising number. The rate of immigration into American is too high.”

This would be less of a problem if assimilation hadn’t been sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism. But even then, a nation would struggle mightily to maintain its cultural identity when one out of seven people is foreign-born.

ANOTHER BRICK FROM THE WALL: House Votes To Abolish Obamacare Board That Conservatives Called A ‘Death Panel.’