[Daily Caller] Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham sent a cryptic message to James Comey on Sunday, hinting at what might be in store for the former FBI director.
It began with a photo Comey tweeted earlier in the day, captioned simply, "So many questions."
Graham, who is currently the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has long promised an investigation into alleged FISA abuse ‐ which he believes may have played a role in the early stages of the Mueller investigation ‐ along with investigations of key players like McCabe and Rosenstein.
In pursuit of those ends, Graham has already requested all FBI and DOJ documents related to investigators’ attempts to verify allegations made in the Steele dossier.
The South Carolina senator’s Sunday tweet appeared to indicate that Comey should also expect to spend some time before the Senate Judiciary committee in the near future.
[Washington Examiner] CNN commentator David Gergen, a White House adviser to four former presidents, shared some advice with President Trump on Sunday after Attorney General William Barr released a summary of findings from the Russia investigation. CNN commentator David Gergen - The Talking Thumb™
Despite special counsel Robert Mueller finding no evidence of collusion between the president's campaign and Russia, Gergen said Trump should take the news in stride and heed the words of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
"It's totally understandable as everyone is saying that they, the Trump people, are celebrating. I understand that. But when the president calls it an illegal takedown, an illegal takedown, that's a vindictive view," Gergen said. "He’d be well advised to remember Churchill, who said ’In victory, magnanimity.’"
#1
...Which tells me that the Other Side is genuinely worried that DJT will go after them now the way they did to him.
Good. Let them look over their shoulders every minute.
Mike
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A good point, Mike. But victory requires the other side to formally surrender. After WWII there were the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, which included long prison sentences for some and death sentences for the most guilty. And of course the Allied armies are still there, now because the key bases are so convenient and we’ve become such good friends. The magnaminity was for the defeated countries, absolutely not their leadership.
And this is the White House advisor to four former presidents, the very best our nation’s elite has to offer?! Wow.
#3
As a counterexample to WWII the Bush administration's magnanimity before victory didn't work out well because it was the functional eqeuivalent of appeasement and submission.
#4
Mr. Wife points out that Churchill’s magnaminity entailed not heaping crippling fines and territory losses on the defeated Central Powers. I think that would be acceptable as well in this case.
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True, a formal surrender is a required precursor to the magnanimity of peace. But let's keep in mind that the precursor to formal surrender is the absolute, crushing destruction of the enemy. As with Pershing, leave one alive to spread the tale to the others.
#11
I find it interesting that somebody at CNN sees this as a victory for Trump. Or is Gergen looking for a new gig?
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Churchill was fighting a declared war with uniformed combatants, not a attempted palace coup. It was an ugly business, but somehow it seems a much more honorable affair.
#13
Gergen has been pontificating on TV for decades and near as I can tell has never had a good idea in all that time.
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Letting it slide is also called impunity. If there are no consequences, it will be tried again, and likely not so half-assed. Then we will need guns to reverse it, not an over-hyped 'investigation'. Indict them, give 'em a fair trail, then hang 'em (at least figuratively).
#16
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways: The greatest things in life are to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet - to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best.
#18
#16 is my vote. They have gone beyond the bounds of ordinary, decent political nastiness, this was pure lust for power, the nation be damned. The need a serious thrashing and a number of visible, political crucifixions (not actual violence mods)!
#19
...ah, come on. "Nail him down" a little known but exotic punishment that has shown remarkable success in deterring recidivism. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[Washington Examiner] Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid condemned former FBI Director James Comey in a weekend interview, saying he didn’t do enough to curtail Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, told radio host John Catsimatidis of 970 AM in New York that he sent a letter to Comey before the election urging him to look into Russia and reports that it was meddling in the election.
"I wrote a letter in August [2016] to the Director of the FBI Comey and said Russia is messing with our elections and you need to do something about that. And by October he had done nothing," Reid said. "We now know he should have done something."
Reid said Comey didn’t get involved because he thought President Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, was going to win. Reid has been a sharp critic of Comey since before the 2016 election and blamed the former FBI director for Clinton’s defeat. Comey was fired by Trump in 2017.
"Now the hindsight from his troops are that he didn’t do it because he thought Hillary would win the election. He therefore thought it would be too political for him to get involved," Reid said.
Special counsel Robert Mueller submitted his final report on election meddling to Attorney General William Barr on Friday. Mueller was appointed within days of Comey’s firing, and Comey later told Congress he leaked memos between he and Trump to try to spur the creation a special counsel investigation.
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Reid is either lying or he's a total idiot or, as I've learned here at the 'Burg, most likely both. I've said it many times: Anybody who knew anything knew all too well about the hacking attempts of China, Russia and a whole host of other countries. Obama had eight years to do something about cyber security and did nothing. Likewise, Bush had eight years and did nothing. That said, none of this is to be construed as defending Comey.
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...he sent a letter to Comey before the election urging him to look into Russia and reports that it was meddling in the election.
And Romney never paid any taxes in ten years - I'll go with 'lying sack of shit' on this one.
#3
Did he do nothing or was there no Russian meddling?
After all the only meddling, the Russian Payoffs to the Clinton foundation for Uranium, were earlier.
#5
The Mueller team sure took a long time to come to this conclusion. Strzok said: "There's no there there" in an email to Page from the gitgo--before there was even a SC. Had they really looked at collusion or conspiracy, they would have looked at Hillary the campaign as well. Now, Mueller is being made out as a hero because he was part of the delaying tactic and thus the cover-up.
[Patch.com] TRENTON, NJ ‐ New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed 19 bills into law, including the so-called "rain tax." The bill, which was dubbed the "rain tax" by opposing Republicans, permits counties, municipalities and certain authorities to establish stormwater utilities and impose related fees and other charges.
Supporters of the bill, S-1073, call it "flood defense," and say it will serve as a long-needed tool to manage flooding and dirty runoff from rainwater.
"Most importantly, it gives communities a way to access new resources in a fair and equitable manner, and invest in related benefits such as additional green space. We urge the governor to sign it," said New Jersey Future's Chris Sturm, who serves as the advocacy group's managing director for policy and water.
#1
I miss a lot about NJ but my goodness they have gone off the rails up there. The family that's still there are becoming increasingly frustrated as they should.
#4
Two hundred some years as a state and this is the first time they ever considered doing anything about rain water? They don't already have gutters and storm drains?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Yes Abu, they have storm drains. Spent much of my childhood retrieving balls that had rolled into the drains while we were playing catch or stick ball in the street.
What they don't have is a new way to steal from the people and increase the graft.
#6
Rain tax is one of the few ways the govt has of getting $ out of charitable, religious and other groups. The govt also gives itself the power to grants exceptions to the tax which provides opportunity for all kinds of things.
That's one reason why it is increasingly popular amount public finance officers.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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