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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Nonbinary Gender Articles of Impeachment Day or Something. “The utter pointlessness of the impeachment charade is what is so frustrating. The Democrats are still upset that their long game with the Mueller report laid an egg and left them with nothing. This pathetic Ukrainian do-over of theirs won’t be given the kindest treatment by history, no matter how infused with righteousness their indignation may seem to them at the moment.”

AND THE PRESS IS BUSY COVERING THAT UP AND DEFENDING IT: Liz Harrington: FISA abuse — Obama’s FBI turned into arm of Hillary Clinton campaign.

NOW OUT FROM MY FRIEND NIKKI GOESER: Stalked And Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me. You’ll see her on some Fox shows talking about it this week.

LIKE JEFFREY EPSTEIN, ART DOESN’T HANG ITSELF: Banana wall vandalized with lipstick at Art Basel. The message was about Jeffrey Epstein.

MEDIA: More people viewed GOP Twitter defense of Trump than Big Three networks.

CHANGE: Firms Withdraw From China On Worsening Business Conditions. “A growing number of companies from Korea and other countries are pulling their production out of China due to worsening business conditions sparked by the prolonged tension between the United States and China coupled with rising operating costs there. They are moving to the ASEAN market as the 10-nation economic bloc with its young population and cheap labor costs has been emerging as the world’s new manufacturing hub replacing the Chinese market.”

REPORT: Hunter Biden’s baby mama Lunden Roberts has demanded he admit that he was employed by the Burisma, how much money he was paid by the Ukrainian company and that he also received money from a Chinese person or entity.

WELL, IN THE SENSE THAT BEING AN OUT YUPPIE GAY IS WHITE PRIVILEGE, MAYBE: Pete Buttigieg’s real ‘black problem’: He has been convicted of white privilege.

I THINK HIS ISSUES WERE BIGGER THAN JUST THIS: Pensacola Naval shooter was ‘infuriated’ after instructor nicknamed him ‘Porn Stash.’

FLASHBACK: An Open Letter from a Military Wife to Obama About Military Property Security. The whole “gun free” bases idea is crazy and needs to be ended.

THE FBI WILL TAKE DECADES TO RECOVER: IG Report: Here Are The 17 Specific ‘Inaccuracies And Omissions’ In The FBI’s FISA Warrants Against Carter Page. And its reputation has been damaged the most among those who were previously its supporters.

WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL: A Trail Of FBI Abuse: The Horowitz report confirms that the bureau deceived FISA judges with the Steele dossier.

The press corps is portraying Monday’s report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as absolution for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but don’t believe it. The report relates a trail of terrible judgment and violations of process that should shock Americans who thought better of their premier law-enforcement agency.

Readers can look at the detailed executive summary and decide for themselves. But our own initial reading confirms the worst of what we feared about the bureau when it was run by James Comey. The FBI corrupted the secret court process for obtaining warrants to spy on former Trump aide Carter Page. And it did so by supplying the court with false information produced by Christopher Steele, an agent of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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How can anyone, most of all civil libertarians, pass this off as no big deal? The absolution is supposedly that Mr. Horowitz concludes that the FBI decision to open a counter-intelligence probe against the Trump campaign in July 2016 “was sufficient to predicate the investigation” under current FBI rules.

Yet Mr. Horowitz also notes that these rules amount to a “low threshold for predication.” John Durham, the U.S. Attorney investigating these matters for Attorney General William Barr, said Monday he disagrees with Mr. Horowitz’s conclusions on predication, albeit without elaboration for now.

Mr. Horowitz confirms what the FBI had already leaked to friendly reporters, which is that the bureau’s alarm in July 2016 was triggered by a conversation that former Trump aide George Papadopoulos had with Australian Alexander Downer. But we learn for the first time that the FBI immediately ramped up its counter-intelligence probe to include four Trump campaign officials: Messrs. Page and Papadopoulos, then campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn.

The bureau quickly moved to a full-scale investigation it called Crossfire Hurricane. The FBI’s justification, as related to Mr. Horowitz, is that the risk of Russian disruption of the 2016 election was too great to ignore.

Yet the bureau never told anyone in the Trump campaign, or even Donald Trump, whom or what it was investigating so he could reduce the danger or distance himself from those advisers. The FBI was investigating the campaign but wouldn’t tell the candidate who would soon be elected.

The FBI abuses escalated when it was presented with the now infamous Steele dossier. Mr. Steele was hired by Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, the oppo-research outfit hired by a law firm for the Clinton campaign. Mr. Horowitz confirms that the FBI then used the Steele dossier to trigger its application to the FISA court to spy on Mr. Page.

It was a put-up job from the beginning. It’s also interesting to watch the CIA hanging the FBI out to dry.

JUST ONE MORE CUP: Harvard researchers say this is the exact amount of coffee you should drink to stay healthy.

BECAUSE THE PRESS AND THE FBI ARE ON THE SAME TEAM, AND IT’S NOT AMERICA’S. The IG Report Is a Huge Blow to the FBI’s Credibility. Why Is It Being Treated Like Vindication? “The IG report is a chronicle of massive government wrongdoing.”

Related: Horowitz report is damning for the FBI and unsettling for the rest of us.

UPDATE:

JULIE KELLY: Obama and Biden: Three Scandals, One Day. The Russian collusion hoax, Burisma, and the disastrous Afghanistan war just blew up in their self-proclaimed “scandal-free” faces.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSOR STEPHEN PRESSER: Why Trump’s Impeachment Is Unconstitutional.

IN THIS PIECE ABOUT THE “CRUELTY” of setting up a fake university to nab visa fraudsters, one word is never mentioned: Obama, under whose presidency this was set up.

UH-HUH: China claims everyone in Xinjiang camps has ‘graduated.’

But Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities from the region say their family members continue to be arbitrarily detained in camps and prisons.

Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang’s Uighur governor, made the remarks during a press briefing as part of a strident propaganda campaign launched following U.S. Congress’ approval last week of the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act.

“When the lives of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang were seriously threatened by terrorism, the U.S. turned a deaf ear,” Zakir said at a press briefing. “On the contrary, now that Xinjiang society is steadily developing and people of all ethnicities are living and working in peace, the U.S. feels uneasy, and attacks and smears Xinjiang.”

The U.S. legislation condemns the mass detentions of an estimated more than 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and others.

It isn’t that Communists lie, which is a given. It’s that they lie so obviously and badly.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, DIVERSITY-AND-INCLUSION EDITION: Yale Prof Estimates Faculty Political Diversity at ‘0%’; Pressure to join the “herd groupthink” in New Haven.

According to computer science professor David Gelernter ‘76, faculty political diversity at Yale is low: “0%,” he wrote in an email. He added that while there are a “few conservatives, including prominent ones,” their numbers are not high enough to have a significant impact on campus culture.

Readers might assume that Mr. Gelernter, an occasional contributor to the Journal, is poking fun at the school’s overwhelming leftism rather than expressing mathematical precision. But via email, another Yale faculty member who chooses to remain anonymous tells this column, “I agree with the calculation.”

A third Yale faculty member, a self-described liberal, says the faculty is “moving further to the left” and has become increasingly intolerant of conservative viewpoints. This faculty member, who also requests anonymity, says that some faculty bias is subconscious: “They think people who agree with them are smarter than people who disagree with them.” This professor adds: “Universities are moving away from the search for truth” in favor of a search for “social justice.”

This is similar to the critique offered by former Yale Law School dean Anthony Kronman, another liberal who’s been mugged by “progressive” reality. In July this column noted his analysis of how ideology is “killing” important conversations on campus.

Yale today is a disgrace, and Peter Salovey — probably Yale’s worst president ever — has played a major role in allowing and encouraging it to reach such a state.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Real Target of New York’s Attempt to Ban ‘Assault-Style’ Nerf Guns Is Masculinity.