[Daily Caller] Former FBI attorney Lisa Page will defy a congressional subpoena to appear for a deposition on Wednesday, her lawyer said in a statement.
The House Judiciary and House Oversight & Government Reform Committees issued the subpoena to Page, who has been at the center of controversy over anti-Trump text messages that she exchanged with Peter Strzok, the former deputy chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence division.
Page and Strzok worked on the Hillary Clinton email investigation as well as the probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Strzok is slated to testify in a public hearing before the two congressional committees on Thursday.
Page’s lawyer, Amy Jeffress, said her client has not had enough time to prepare for an interview. She also complained that the committees failed to respond to requests "to explain the scope of the interview."
#6
"Defy? Why, I never!" cried her.
"A lidy would surely demur,
As might her attorney,
For dining... a journey...
Or just for diversion, you cur...
Er... sir."
The author says that not providing documents or failure to testify could eventually lead to a contempt charge which could go before a grand jury. This is probably Kabuki theater since in recent history there have been no consequences. Shucks, I was hoping for a rope or at least tar and feathers.
#9
Fact is, Strozk and Page and others being outed in this escapade will never work in gummint again (Strozk has not been cashiers yet, I know) and unlike the usual DC revolving door, these people are not going to have any juice in private practice.
The idea of them in jail (where they deserve to be) is nice, but personally ruined will be bad enough.
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#10
Will HRC ever be seen wearing an orange pants suit?
#11
Can a normal civilians can just defy a subpoena, congressional or not? Arrest her, use the power Congress has and restore the freaking balance of power to the way it was intended you fools.
[News24] As it fights for survival, the Ingonyama Trust is reportedly taking Parliament to court over recommendations by a high-powered team of experts that it should be dissolved.
The team, the High Level Panel led by former president Kgalema Motlanthe, recommended that Parliament should either amend or repeal the Ingonyama Act from which the trust derives its powers.
A reliable source within the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) told The Witness on Tuesday that the board, which administers tribal land on behalf of King Goodwill Zwelithini, had resolved to initiate legal processes as part of a two-pronged strategy of survival.
#1
Surely some common ground can be found. Mineral rights are important, the surname Oppenheimer has no Bantu origins, the urgent need for the deportation of all remaining white colonials.... just to name a few.
#2
IIRC, the first three goals of the ANC were: (1) Enrich the new leader's private accounts; (2) Drive out the Whites; and (3) Band everybody (non-whites, naturally) into an alliance to suppress the Zulus.
Looks like the infighting just got public, again...
h/t Instapundit
Just kept getting worse. Only hours after Brexit Secretary David Davis tendered his resignation Monday, Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary, piled on with a scathing resignation letter of his own. The cheerio-oh PM tried to hold the line, but then a momentous gauntlet was thrown from the sidelines.
The phrase that springs to mind? "I’m BACK!"
Disgusted by the Prime Minister’s seeming repudiation of every tenet in the original Brexit referendum, Nigel Farage exploded on the airwaves today with his declaration that he would, indeed, return to lead UKIP, and will immediately begin agitating for May’s removal if the betrayals continue.
[DavidWarrenOnline] As everyone in the world must know by now ‐ if not the blesséd souls in paradise, cut off from the meejah ‐ our Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau’s little boy, has been plausibly accused of groping.
Well, at least it was a woman, as the dirty old men used to say.
The incident occurred in anno 2000, at a "music" festival on Canada’s Left Coast, and the "victim" was a local newspaper reporter. (Poor choice!) Her description of the event appeared in the paper, immediately thereafter, in a short "tut-tut" editorial. It became news again when someone dredged it up. I don’t doubt that person had a political motive. (Alas, it wasn’t spotted during the last election campaign.)
The Trudeau lad ‐ still a young man on the make ‐ now says he can’t remember. Or if he can remember, nothing bad happened. Or if something bad happened, it must have been hallucinated, because we should all know that Trudeau is a heroic feminist, who decided at birth that he would never invade anyone’s personal space. (He has been invading mine for several years now.)
We are all chortling.
No need to search for evidence; it is already there in black and white. But even were it hearsay, we have often been told (by little Trudeau himself, among others) that the woman must always be believed. This is the advanced feminist dogma: that only men misbehave, and only men lie. (By contrast, sugar and spice and all things nice: that’s what little girls are made of.)
Innumerable careers have been ended for less, and the Trudeau child was himself instrumental in ending several. His virtue signalling has been stellar ‐ twinkling in the manner of a starry night, across the bowl of a cloudless Prairie sky. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Do I feel sorry for poor Justin? No. Do I wish him political harm? Yes.
It has been suggested that he hasn’t handled the matter with political finesse. But that’s the beauty of it. He can’t. It isn’t possible. He is hoist by his very own personal petard.
Rejoice! Another proof that liberalism destroys itself. It will destroy a lot of other things first, but in the end, it flames out. No abnormality can endure forever.
[Daily Caller] An NBC News reporter tweeted early Tuesday that Justice Anthony Kennedy secretly negotiated the terms of his departure from the U.S. Supreme Court with the Trump administration, citing a single unnamed source.
The reporters pursuing the story, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Frank Thorp, first claimed that the justice quietly conferred with the White House for several months in advance of his retirement, and agreed to step aside once he received assurances that Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be selected as his successor.
Caldwell walked back her initial claim, conceding it "incorrectly implies a transactional nature in Kennedy’s replacement." She then said that Kennedy provided a list of acceptable nominees to the administration, which included Kavanaugh.
#4
There ARE a couple of basic transactions going on here, but none are scandalous. (1) Many die, you shall also. (2) What's the big deal if a sitting SC judge discusses his impending retirement with anyone of his choosing?
[Wash Times] Conservative Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh embarked on a round of courtesy calls Tuesday with key Republican senators who control his Supreme Court nomination, while frustrated Democrats argued for a postponement of the confirmation hearing until special counsel Robert Mueller completes the Russia investigation that they hope could damage President Trump.
A day after Mr. Trump nominated the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court judge to replace retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the nominee made the traditional first visit to Capitol Hill, where he met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican. He was escorted by Vice President Mike Pence and former Sen. Jon Kyl, who will be the nominee’s guide for the confirmation process.
"We’re honored to be able to bring him here to the United States Senate and begin the important work the Senate will do discharging its constitutional duties to consider this good man as the president’s nominee," the vice president told Mr. McConnell.
The confirmation hearing could begin by Aug. 20 as the White House seeks to place Judge Kavanaugh on the high court for the start of its next term in October. Mr. Grassley gave no timeline but promised, "It’s going to be thorough and going to be done right."
"Hopefully, it’s efficient, we get it done quickly," he said.
#7
Then shut down the entire legislative branch as well, right? A 'tainted' President shouldn't have the "moral authority" to sign legislation into law either, right? Until Imperial Censor Mueller issues his report the tainted President can't authorize anything, right?
Madness... Or simple hypocritical blather...
#8
By such Democrat reasoning Hillary should not have been allowed to run for POTUS until her mess was all cleared up. That didn't happen. The Kavanaugh confirmation should go on. (That weasel Schumer can go do nasty things with himself.)
#11
But the Dims hope this dis-traction gets traction, then the 10 (D) Senators in Red states can continue to virtue-signal all the way to re-election.
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#12
They should let Mueller know that he has to pay for everything once the probe goes beyond X day. Bet he'd find a way to wrap things up by X day.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] An NBC News reporter tweeted early Tuesday that Justice Anthony Kennedy secretly negotiated the terms of his departure from the U.S. Supreme Court with the Trump administration, citing a single unnamed source.
