HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Former Temple Dean Faces Criminal Charges For Submitting False Data To Inflate U.S. News Ranking.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Everything Democrats Say About Georgia Election Law Is a Lie. “Speaking of absurdity, the Democrats’ reign of error when it comes to what actually constitutes election integrity continues to rage on incoherently. This isn’t really new territory for the Democrats — they’ve been lying about Republicans and voting for years. However, as with all things during the President Puppet era, their lies are getting bigger and louder now.”

THE FBI HAS CONSISTENTLY UNDERPERFORMED FOR THE ENTIRE 21ST CENTURY: Howie Carr: FBI whiffs again on Colorado mass shooting suspect.

So now it turns out that the FBI knew all about the accused Boulder shooter, but paid no attention to the obvious warning signs until police say the rabidly anti-American immigrant from Syria murdered 10 U.S. citizens in the supermarket.

“The suspect’s identity,” the New York Times reported, “was known to the FBI because he was linked to another individual under investigation by the bureau, according to law enforcement officials.”

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

The Famous But Incompetent FBI likewise knew all about accused shooter Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa’s fellow Muslim immigrants who committed mass murder, like the Tsarnaev brothers — but did nothing until those welfare-collecting “asylees” blew up the Boston Marathon.

The FBI also had early warnings about the Muslim terrorists who shot up the gay nightclub in Orlando, the Christmas party in San Bernardino, Fort Hood, the cartoon-drawing contest in Texas … and yet the G-men sat on their soft hands until scores of Americans were murdered in cold blood.

But it’s not only foreign Muslim terrorists the FBI can’t be bothered lugging. It’s domestic killers as well.

For instance, in 2018 the FBI’s national tip line got a 13-minute-long earful from the aunt of the Parkland High shooter Nikolas Cruz — but did nothing until 17 people were gunned down.

Remember serial killer Gary Sampson? Before he murdered three innocent men in 2001, he called the FBI office in Boston from a pay phone in Abington and offered to turn himself in on some unsolved bank robberies.

But it was a Friday afternoon, so the FBI “disconnected” his call and didn’t bother to pick him up. The next day, Sampson started his two-state carjacking murder spree.

It’s not an impressive track record.

9/11 Flashback: “Though not really funny, there’s a certain Keystone Kops angle to the Moussaoui investigation, too, as Congressional investigators have discovered. FBI investigators misunderstood the law, and were thus too slow to search Moussaoui even though the evidence in their possession was more than sufficient. The bureaucratic resistance to searching Moussaoui was so great that field agents in Minnesota wondered — before Sept. 11 — if Usama bin Laden had a mole in Bureau headquarters.”

Related:

There’s a quiet scandal at the heart of Sept. 11; one that for different reasons neither the government nor the privacy lobby really wants to talk about. It’s this: For two and a half weeks before the attacks, the U.S. government knew the names of two hijackers. It knew they were al-Qaida killers and that they were already in the United States. In fact, the two were living openly under their own names, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. They used those names for financial transactions, flight school, to earn frequent flier miles, and to procure a California identity card.

Despite this paper trail, and despite having two and a half weeks to follow the scent, the FBI couldn’t locate either man—at least not until Sept. 11, when they flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.

Too busy playing politics, then and now.

SAY ANYTHING: Chris Wallace Falsely Claims New Georgia Law Bans Drinking Water While In Line For Voting.

The Fox News program doubled down on the false claim, publishing text from the bill that explicitly prohibits voters from being given food or drink in line after an on-air fact-check by Republican strategist Josh Holmes during its end-of-show panel.

The network’s post omitted key provisions of the law that provide exceptions to “poll officers” to give voters refreshments as long as they are not provided by political interest groups.

Previously: Chris Wallace on Biden speech: This was best inaugural address I’ve ever heard.

JEN PSAKI SAYS EVERYTHING IS GOING SMOOTHLY: U.S. News Issues THIRD Version Of Law School Rankings In Advance Of Their Public Release On Tuesday (12:01AM ET). “This change affected the overall ranking of 35 law schools, including 9 law schools in the Top 30.”

If a .25% change in the metric for the “ratio of credit-bearing hours of instruction provided by law librarians to full-time equivalent law students” can do that, it tells you how close the schools are to one another, and thus how trivial the difference in the rankings is, and thus how little the rankings really mean.

#STOPASIANHATE: Seattle social-justice activist charged over anti-Asian hate attacks: A Black Lives Matter activist and fervent Democrat Party supporter is accused of committing anti-Asian hate crimes in Seattle.

AN OPEN LETTER TO TOM FRIEDMAN FROM THE U.A.E.: “Practically nothing of what you have advised and predicted for the Middle East in the last 30 years has ever happened. You have always written the wrong things for the wrong reasons.”

Harsh, but eminently fair.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: ‘Whatever You Do, We’re Coming’: Coyotes Heckle Senators at the Border.

AS ALWAYS ON SUNDAYS ON MY BLOG, I HAVE A POST PROMOTING (MOSTLY) INDIE WRITERS:  Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

And yes, there is work on substitutes for Amazon (multiple.) But for now, for indie ebooks that’s where the biggest market is.  And fortunately ebooks are nowhere near Amazon’s biggest money maker, so we don’t feel that bad. While knowing we have to change, soonest.

HE’S NOT WRONG: Lindsey Graham: Jen Psaki sounds like Baghdad Bob talking about the border crisis.

SOMEONE REALLY NEEDS TO ASK HIM IF MASKS SHOULD BE WORN IN BATHHOUSES:  Some things to keep in mind about Dr. Fauci…

And if you don’t know what I’m talking about look up how this chapeu de derriere managed to make the AIDS crisis a hundred times worse by doing all the wrong things all of the time and promising a vaccine that never came.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS:  Media Stokes Fear of Mass Shootings With Misleading Info.

WHAT? AGAIN?  Suez Canal ship crisis threatens to unleash worldwide toilet paper shortage.

THIS IS NEWS?  China Weaponizes Social Justice Warriors and Black Lives Matter In Covert War Against the U.S.

BUT DISASTER IS STILL OPEN:  The AP steps up to help flailing Biden admin, tells staffers not to use the word “crisis” when writing about the border crisis.

And how about invasion? Can we still use invasion?

BUTT-GIGI IS AN ECONOMIC KILLER, PERIOD:  Buttigieg’s Mileage Tax Idea Is Economic Killer.

IS THIS MORE OR LESS IMPORTANT THAN COMBAT ACCORDIONS?  Diversity and Inclusion Officer Hired For Special Forces.

NAH. AS FAR AS MY CITY GOES? LEFTIST MAYOR AND GOVERNOR DID FOR IT:  Carjacking and Shootings are Destroying Cities.

HOWEVER, IT’S SUPER CONVENIENT FOR WHEN WE SEND HER TO CUBA FOR GOOD:   CNN Is Super Sad That Kamala Is Still “Living Out Of Suitcases”.

YEAH, HE DOES SOUND LIKE HE’S BOGGARTING THE OXACAN DITCH WEED:  Fauci Makes COVID Pronouncements From On High.

IT’S NOT JUST THAT NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING FOR SURE: Throne of Lies.

It’s that those things we think we know often just ain’t so.

FASTER, PLEASE: Ever Given in the Suez Canal now afloat: Everything you need to know. “It’s a pivotal moment of progress, but the saga isn’t over quite yet. The Ever Given is longer than a skyscraper is tall, and more importantly is longer than the canal is wide. It’ll need to be moved around — a tough task — before the 300-plus ships stuck in the canal bottleneck can gain passage.”