[The Federalist] On May 1, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke at the Newseum, a Washington DC-area museum that features journalism-related exhibits. Laura Jarrett from CNN posed the following question: "As you think about the importance of separation of powers on Law Day here, any reaction to news that certain members of the House Freedom Caucus have talked about drafting Articles of Impeachment despite your best efforts to comply with their document requests?"
Rosenstein had to pause to laugh before he could move on to answering the question.
"They can’t even resist leaking their own drafts," he said, then paused again as the entire audience joined his continued guffawing at Congress. After he collected himself, he provided a condescending and irrelevant lecture on the requirement that the Department of Justice sign documents that accuse people of wrongdoing. Moving on to yet another non-sequitur, Rosenstein then explained that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application is a request for a warrant that requires a supporting affidavit signed by a career law enforcement officer.
Rosenstein then mocked Congress, saying he doesn’t have anything to say about drafts of impeachment articles that "nobody has the courage to put their name on and that they leak in that way." He then said "There have been people making threats against me privately and publicly for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted. We are going to do what’s required by the rule of law and any kind of threats that anyone makes are not going to affect the way we do our job."
[American Thinker] As we read, Senator McCain is saying goodbye to old friends, from former vice president Joseph Biden to others. Well actually, it was just Joe, Barack and Harry Reid.
He is also saying that he should have chosen Senator Joseph Lieberman over Governor Sarah Palin in 2008:
For the record, I was not in favor of Governor Palin in 2008. Yes, Palin sparked our side and was a great campaigner. But her lack of experience was obvious. At the same time, she was not the reason that McCain lost. I've asked that she not attend.
The race was a dead heat around the first debate, but Senator McCain fell victim to that banking crisis in the last weeks of the campaign. In other words, the spread between McCain and Obama grew after the banking crisis broke in the news.
It did not help that the media were in the tank for Senator Obama.
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Inexperienced == did not sell her soul to Soros and the gang
Sometimes I wonder if McCain ever wanted to win or if he was just a ringer thrown in by the Democrats and the media. Remember how the media fawned over him until he won the nomination then they did a complete 180 and he was evil incarnate? Palin wasn't supposed to generate the massive amount of support she did so he, and his staff, had to mess up her campaign (which they did). Ok gotta go adjust my tinfoil hat...
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Maverick... When you get down to it a 'loose cannon' is just a massive Pain In The Ass in the long run. His flirtation with the MSM as their 'Go To Guy' for barbs against Bush, and now Trump, made laughable his shock when they turned on him when he ran in 2008.
Go away. If you had any civic responsibility you would have recognized your health issues in 2016. Instead you dragged your petulant act into an unnecessary curtain call. Just go away.
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@18 - TRUE! Lindsay hasn't given any public interviews, because without Maverick there to give him his lines and position (prone) papers...he doesn't know what to say.
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For some reason I'm recalling Franco's death watch (interminable) and the great old post-croak SNL line - "In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!"
[Wash Times] U.S. intelligence agencies’ far-reaching conclusion that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to specifically help Donald Trump was flawed by "tradecraft failings," says a House report.
The conclusion was written by the CIA then under the direction of Obama loyalist John O. Brennan.
The report said the CIA’s Putin-Trump analysis violated standards for analyzing intelligence products and noted that one guideline is to "be independent of political considerations."
It said the CIA’s draft section on Mr. Putin’s intentions lacked vigorous internal debate because it was restricted to an "unusually constrained review" by other agencies.
The findings are contained in the Republican majority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigation into 2016 Russian election meddling.
The intelligence agencies’ January 2017 Putin-Trump conclusion produced wide-ranging political ramifications.
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I'm happy to entertain both hypotheses simultaneously. After all, one must account for a bombed-out Chinese embassy and overlooking the fall of the fUSSR as well as this current attempt to overthrow America.
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"Looks like rain this afternoon, Bob." -- had to have happened at some point in CIA history.
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When the CIA sold their souls to technology and said field work was a thing of the past and they could do everything they needed with a spy satellite and computers...that's when they went to hell in a hand basket.
I think the CIA has been driven by a paradigm for a long time. How else can you explain the failure to see the festering failure of the USSR?
How else could you explain the dirty trick Tenet played on Bush and Powell about WMD and the contorted follow up that called stockpiles of nerve agent "insecticide"? Or the convoys of trucks going to Syria?
The CIA has screwed the pooch almost every where they've gone.
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How else could you explain the dirty trick Tenet played on Bush and Powell about WMD and the contorted follow up that called stockpiles of nerve agent "insecticide"? Or the convoys of trucks going to Syria?
The confident puppet master looks on (left in the foto), occasionally glancing at his copy of Powell's notes, an approving smile.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[The Federalist] On May 1, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke at the Newseum, a Washington DC-area museum that features journalism-related exhibits. Laura Jarrett from CNN posed the following question: "As you think about the importance of separation of powers on Law Day here, any reaction to news that certain members of the House Freedom Caucus have talked about drafting Articles of Impeachment despite your best efforts to comply with their document requests?"
