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-Lurid Crime Tales-
A Nuremberg-type trial in Wuhan, for the biological Chernobyl unleashed on the people?
[Twitter]


Can't happen if the CCP doesn't allow it. They won't. "Everyone died or can't be located. This is our new staff"
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2020 10:47 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I could imagine a trial in which the CCP produced the villain scientists and they are all uyghur...
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/08/2020 15:46 Comments || Top||

#2  It's America's fault as will be proved beyond any reasonable doubt.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 05/08/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, it is. Our betters used American taxpayer money to buy it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 18:16 Comments || Top||


Here's the video footage of James Comey bragging about setting a perjury trap for Michael Flynn Snake
[Twitter]

Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 || 05/08/2020 09:49 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bill Clinton signs deal to executive produce History Channel docu-series about presidents 'leading through challenging times' and network says he's 'immersed in the personal project'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] How exciting.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...and just like that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ...immersed in the personal project'

another intern, Bubba?
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/08/2020 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  It's an excellent chance for Slick Willie to rewrite some history.
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  presidents 'leading through challenging times'

You know what President it won't be about? President Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ululululu!
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  You know what President it won't be about? President Hillary Rodham Clinton

A Snark for the Ages!
A History Channel doc sounds boring, but I could totally dig a late-night cable series about those relaxing afternoons in the Oval Office.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Through a scrambler, for period authenticity.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7 

This "personal project"?
Posted by: Clem || 05/08/2020 21:08 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
FCC is making rulings outside it's chartered realm.
[Twitter]

They were also insisting that SpaceX, in their current experimental tests on StarShip, could not receive a frequency allocation permit for 150 meter high flight unless they replaced the test raptor engine with a different test raptor engine! WTF does your engine in a test rocket have a damned thing to do with a frequency allocation for a short time over a very short distance?
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2020 10:36 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More experts doing what experts do.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  You can't build an empire with logic.
Posted by: charger || 05/08/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||


Biden says he'll reverse DeVos rule bolstering protections for those accused of campus sexual assault
[THEHILL] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
said Wednesday that if he’s elected president, he will reverse a rule issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos aimed at bolstering protections for students who are accused of sexual assault on university campuses.

In a statement, Biden said the new rule was an effort by the Trump administration to "shame and silence" survivors of sexual assault.

"It’s wrong," Biden said. "And, it will be put to a quick end in January 2021, because as president, I’ll be right where I always have been throughout my career — on the side of survivors, who deserve to have their voices heard, their claims taken seriously and investigated, and their rights upheld."

The new rule issued Wednesday narrows the definition of sexual harassment and requires schools to produce evidence and allow for the cross-examination of students who say they were assaulted.

The rule is meant to ensure that those accused of sexual assault receive due process.

"Too many students have lost access to their education because their school inadequately responded when a student filed a complaint of sexual harassment or sexual assault," DeVos said in a statement. "This new regulation requires schools to act in meaningful ways to support survivors of sexual misconduct, without sacrificing important safeguards to ensure a fair and transparent process. We can and must continue to fight sexual misconduct in our nation's schools, and this rule makes certain that fight continues."

The Trump administration and many conservatives believe that the Title IX rule changes implemented under the Obama-Biden administration robbed students of due process through unregulated campus tribunals that resulted in scores of lawsuits from the accused.

Critics of the B.O. regime rule said the accused operated under an assumption of guilt and were denied basic rights, such as the ability to question the evidence against them or question their accusers.

The Trump campaign gathered a roundup of criticism of Biden’s support for strengthening Title IX regulations in favor of survivors from prominent public intellectuals, such as Andrew Sullivan, Emily Yoffe and Bret Stephens.

The Trump campaign said that Biden is trying to hold students to a different standard than himself. Biden last week denied allegations of sexual assault made by Tara Reade, a former staffer in his Senate office in the early 1990s.

“Biden should cut the malarkey and provide an honest answer to Americans – why shouldn’t he be held to the same standards he spent years imposing on everyone else?” said Trump campaign spokesman Andrew Clark.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey guys and parents of guys who want to go to college: You might want to think about how you vote in November.
Posted by: gorb || 05/08/2020 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to believe this buffoon actually wants to win in November. He was the bastard who created these Kampus Kangaroo courts in the first place.

Does he seriously want their record brought up during the race -- literally hundreds of boys railroaded, with nearly as many successful lawsuits or settlements paid out by the colleges to those plaintiffs who were screwed by these insane star chambers?

Who the hell is advising Plugz these days?
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 1:19 Comments || Top||

#3  He holds no illusion of victory. His candidacy is little more than a well choreographed Kabuki theater, a media screen to protect his son and prove to the world that he (Joe Biden) is medically unfit for testimony or trial.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 1:36 Comments || Top||

#4  He is just a stalking horse for whatever woman the Dems decide to go with.

Hey, I hear Gretchen Whitmer is interested in the position!
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 1:51 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ I'm holding out for Stacey 'Boxcar' Abrams.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 1:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe sure put his finger in it. Again.`
Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2020 2:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Anyone up for a cage match? Stacey has the mass but Gretch kinda has that Bruce Jenner thing going on.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 2:03 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ A topless sumo match? Alright, alright, so the visual is unworthy of the Burg.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 2:18 Comments || Top||

#9  no, Fauxcahontas.
+ Plugz = Dueling Blowhards
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Sexual assault is a crime to be handled by the local DA. The problem for the bigoted intolerant academic community is that it calls for due process (you know the kind they insist for Biden). If you want to hold all of white America responsible for slavery they ended over a hundred and fifty years ago, let's hold all of academia responsible for clear violations of basic civil rights today.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#11  To progressives, the problem with using the DA is that too often, the accused "gets away" with whatever he has been accused of. The advantage of the kangaroo courts is that all it takes is the words of some disgruntled coed to convict the guy.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/08/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#12  In this 2017 article, History prof KC Johnson summarizes the appalling record of Biden & Obama's show trials.

That Biden unleashed this scourge on the nation's youth is reason enough to disqualify him from running for POTUS.

That the man is doubling down on this nightmare policy shows he's lost all contact with reality.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#13  Haha
Can I vote for #6 to be Snark of the day?
Posted by: Jan || 05/08/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#14  Someone should ask Stinky fingers this, "Would you like to be tried using the rules you and Obama want?"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/08/2020 16:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hostages: De Blasio Warns First Responders May Be Laid Off If Bailout Doesn't Come
Call his bluff. Make him do it
[WCBS 880] Mayor Warren Wilhelm Bill de Blasio warned Thursday that New York City may need to lay off first responders if a bailout does not come from Washington, D.C.

During his daily coronavirus press briefing, the mayor said that the city is losing money every day that the shutdown continues and if the federal government doesn’t help, the city will need to begin taking cost cutting measures.

"If it doesn't happen, then we are missing $7.4 billion in revenue, then all options are on the table," de Blasio said.

Police and fire unions, however, did not take the threat well.
REALLY?
United Firefighters Association President Gerard Fitzgerald said it was a slap in the face to hear the mayor say he would be willing to fire first responders who have been essential to fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

"Our firefighters should not have to respond to respond to emergencies, fight fires and fight the fight and the epicenter of this global pandemic and weight unemployment at the same time," Fitzgerald said.

As different sectors of the city's economy gear up for re-opening, the mayor says City Hall has their back.

A total of 10 task forces covering multi-facets of the economy and varies neighborhoods will advise businesses when to reopen and how to keep their employees and customers safe.

Meanwhile, the city has begun to offer 140,000 COVID-19 antibody tests to everyday New Yorkers.

The mayor said the first round will start next week with 70,000 New Yorkers. Tests will be done by appointment only using a hotline that will launch Friday, de Blasio said
"My wife, Future Borough President Chirlane Macray™, has burned through most of the ThriveNYC $1B Boodle and needs that bailout for her task force on racial inequity"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 10:25 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday, Billy!
Posted by: Bobby || 05/08/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Will he go so far as to fire the chauffeurs?
Posted by: Matt || 05/08/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Kaiser Wilhelm's losing it. Probably realizes he's going to be charged with manslaughter when this over.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Here is a REVOLUTIONARY idea... all federal legislators and their staffs pay is cut by the national rate of unemployment rate and State legislators have pay cut by state unemployment rate.
Posted by: CC Reader || 05/08/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Garnish their pensions until each state's debt to the federal govt is repaid
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Lex, where do we go to get this started.
Posted by: CC Reader || 05/08/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Who cares? They voted for this.
Posted by: charger || 05/08/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#8  How many of de Blasio's personal staff have been laid off?
Posted by: magpie || 05/08/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Yes. Hipness and white guilt is all they really need.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 16:00 Comments || Top||


BREAKING: House Intel Committee Releases 57 Transcripts from Mueller Investigation ‐ Linked Here ‐ Including: Bannon, Don Jr, Kushner, Lewandowski, Podesta, Hicks, etc.
[GatewayPundit] House Intel Chairman Adam Schiff released the documents after DNI Rick Grenell threatened to release the documents earlier this week.

The committee voted in 2018 to release the damning documents that show NO RUSSIA COLLUSION between the Trump Campaign and Russia.
Adam Schiff was sitting on this exculpatory information. He never released these documents until forced by Acting DNI Rick Grenell to release them by saying "Release them or I will." Schiff, being the weasel he is, went ahead with a baseless impeachment anyway putting the country and Potus through weeks of more bullcrap.
Grenell took a satchel of documents over to the DOJ yesterday as well. Expect more fallout. I like this guy
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 10:12 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As Attorney Sidney Powell said: Sidney Powell: We’re both obviously relieved and gratified that we have an attorney general and other attorneys in the Department of Justice right now with enough integrity to bring the truth to light. And agents who were willing to dig for it before they found it and expose it so the public can see it… Mr. Schiff wouldn’t know the truth if it poked him in one of his bug-eyes! Because General Flynn’s plea was neither knowing or voluntary and both of those things are required for a guilty plea.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Look at Andrew McCabe's testimony. Haven't read through it all - it's 215pp - but beginning w page 21 it becomes clear that the handling of the Steele piece of garbage was a complete clusterfook involving McCain and reporter David Corn (the reporter misspells his name in the transcript as "Korn").

Per McCabe there was no FBI inquiry into who was paying Steele; also no skepticism about the absurd situation in which Steele was feeding nonsense to both McCain and Corn, who in turn was feeding nonsense to the public about evidence in the possession of the FBI - bogus "evidence" that he, McCain and Steele fed to the FBI.

I'm sure it gets worse from there.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Per McCabe there was no FBI inquiry into who was paying Steele

Wasn't Steele on the payroll of the FBI? McCabe must have known this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  IIRC - it was GPS/Perkins Coie on behalf of the Beest's Campaign
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||


#6  Thousands of pages for the MSM to plow through, finding suspicious statements they can make into Russian Collusion.

Maybe it'll keep them occupied and take the focus off the 'deadly coronavirus'.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/08/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||


Schiff on Flynn: 'This dismissal does not exonerate him. But it does incriminate Bill Barr'
Pencilneck liar shakes tiny fists, bugs eyes, stomps tiny feet, and hopefully prepares for bitchslapping
[Wash Examiner] House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff excoriated the Justice Department for dismissing charges against President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

"This dismissal does not exonerate him. But it does incriminate [Attorney General] Bill Barr," the California Democrat said in a tweet Thursday, calling the move indicative of "the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history."

Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his illicit Russian contacts.

His lies do not now become truths.

This dismissal does not exonerate him.

But it does incriminate Bill Barr.

In the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history.
‐ Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 7, 2020

In a court filing Thursday, the Justice Department said the "continued prosecution of this case would not serve the interests of justice."

Flynn, who served as Trump's national security adviser for less than a month, pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a Russian diplomat before Trump entered the White House.

Flynn cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election but took a more combative approach after replacing his legal team. His new attorneys aggressively fought the charges against Flynn, who declared his innocence in January and claimed he was set up by the FBI.

Schiff, who led the impeachment investigation against Trump, criticized Trump in March for his "attacks" on the justice system after the commander in chief announced he was "strongly considering" a pardon for Flynn.

"He was an innocent man. He is a great gentleman," Trump said Thursday.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What possible legal basis could that ass use that will not be immediately demolished? How has he not been taken apart by the opposition? Someone needs to take him to court for defamation and lying.
Posted by: Gromp Omairt3113 || 05/08/2020 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  What a disgusting P.O.S. It is difficult not to wish old testament revenge on him rather than justice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Is he on drugs?
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 0:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Time for Trump to pull the plug on the deep state swamp and drain it completely. Trump said he'd take Flynn back into the WH. How about a position of Punisher-In-Chief?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 0:56 Comments || Top||

#5  You mean people WHO DO THEIR JOBS?
Your committee needs an investigation as well you jackass.
Posted by: newc || 05/08/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#6  What a pity duels are outlawed.
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 || 05/08/2020 1:16 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 What a pity duels canes are outlawed.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 1:28 Comments || Top||

#8  How about President Trump making Flynn the head of the FBI?
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 05/08/2020 1:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Now we get to the interesting point. Will the GOP congress members demand Shifty resign? Not a chance in hell.

I for one am going to ask my spineless GOP rep Tom Emmer our local RINO super puss himself resign. That should be an interesting phone call.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2020 2:00 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ I see nothing wrong with a state funeral with caisson, and full pension for his widow. Bitte, das auto wartet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 2:03 Comments || Top||

#11  The problem with doubling down is that, in the vernacular of our time, it's a multiplicative process. Too many applications and the once useful, throw away tactic becomes a de-facto strategy. Does the beady eyed congressman really want to plant his flag and die on this hill with all that's in the public domain?
Posted by: Cesare || 05/08/2020 7:21 Comments || Top||

#12  District 6 eh, Woodrow? Give Tom my regards and tell him not to let the door hit his behind on the way out. I'm sure there's a low-wattage AM radio station where he can peddle his views.
Posted by: WacoInMN || 05/08/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#13  'Will no one rid me of this meddlesome Congressman?'
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2020 8:31 Comments || Top||

#14  He is speaking to the lefty zealots that only read headlines and need a fig-leaf to keep the charade going.

I'm looking forward to folks going through the Schiff intelligence documents released recently. What did you know and how long did you know itMr Schiff?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/08/2020 10:41 Comments || Top||

#15  Because Barr was so fantastic at investigating the largest honey pot pedophile Epstein ring, Obama IRS targeting and Vegas mass murders... Not a fuking tho thing will come of this.

No charges, no Muzzy Obammer deposition, nothing. Treason, child rape and murder are useless information. Done.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||

#16  "This does not exonerate him." "Trump is impeached forever." "The next prexident can reinstate the charges." How long before just being questioned by the authorities results in getting a tattoo on your forehead and a microchip?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||


WH Press Sec Kayleigh McEnany enrages reporters when she beats them brutally at their own game
[BIZPACREVIEW] White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany triggered rage among the media class Wednesday by exposing their known duplicity and hypocrisy.

Hit with a gotcha’ question from Rooters White House correspondent Jeff Mason, she replied by swinging a gotcha’ question right back at him.

"Kayleigh, in a previous life, before you were press secretary, you worked for the campaign. And you made a comment, I believe on Fox, in which you said President Trump will not allow the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
to come to this country. Given what has happened since then, obviously, would you like to take that back?" Mason asked during a briefing.

McEnany responded by arguing her Feb. 25th comments were taken out of context and listing off examples of the left-wing mainstream establishment media complex making glaringly false predictions about the coronavirus and its impact on American society.

"Well, first let me note, I was asked a question on Fox Business about the president’s travel restrictions," she said. "I noted what was the intent behind those travel restrictions, which is, we will not see the coronavirus come here. We will not see terrorism come here, referring to an earlier set of travel restrictions. I guess I would turn the question back on the media and ask similar questions."

She then turned to giving the media a dose of their own medicine.

"Does Vox want to take back that they proclaim that the coronavirus would not be a deadly pandemic? Does the Washington Post want to take back that they told Americans to, ’get a grip, the flu is bigger than the coronavirus?’ Does the Washington Post, likewise, want to take back that, ’Our brains are causing us to exaggerate the threat of the Coronavirus?'"

"Does the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

want to take back that, ’Fear of the virus may be spreading faster than the virus itself?’ Does NPR want to take back that the flu was a much bigger threat than the Coronavirus? And finally, once again, the Washington Post. Would they like to take back that the government should not respond aggressively to the virus? I’ll leave you with those questions and maybe you’ll have some answers in a few days?"

McEnany walked off after thanking the press for their time, provoking one unnamed news hound into yelling, "You were prepared for that!"
THAT was awesome
Given how often modern "journalists" fail at their duties, it didn’t come as a shocker that they would take offense to someone being prepared for their job.
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That was glorious! Our press is such a pack of jackals. I say that with both contempt and sorrow because our nation needs a working press.

Any idea who the chump asking the question was?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I love this woman.

Alinsky the $hit out of these maroons.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  She is definitely a firecracker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#4  provoking one unnamed news hound into yelling, "You were prepared for that!"

As if they don't huddle to come up with these questions beforehand. Maybe they're jealous that she is already making them look like cub scouts at their own game.

I await their answers at the next press conference.

Posted by: gorb || 05/08/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 - Rooters White House correspondent Jeff Mason
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 1:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Ah, thanks.
Man, I'm so old I remember when Rooters was an actual news agency.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 1:59 Comments || Top||

#7  I trust Trump's given her the green light to wreck these bastards every time she's out there.
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#8  A perfect example of why years of FREE INTERNSHIP required to be a TV newsperson. FREE as in needing a SUGAR DADDY until you finally might get paid something...
SHOULD BE AS ILLEGAL AS HELL!

Ask yourself... who were the SUGAR DADDIES for each media goon.

Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#9  provoking one unnamed news hound into yelling, "You were prepared for that!"

Being prepared to answer questions is literally her job description.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Well-prepared and well-executed.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/08/2020 13:46 Comments || Top||

#11  I watched that. It was EPIC.

As they she was 'having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent".
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/08/2020 22:59 Comments || Top||


Obama knew details of wiretapped Flynn phone calls, surprising top DOJ official, declassified docs show
Uh huh...now HOW could that have happened?
[FoxNews] President Obama was aware of the details of then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn's intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently shocking then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to documents released Thursday as exhibits to the government's motion to dismiss the Flynn case.

Obama's unexpectedly intimate knowledge of the details of Flynn's calls raised eyebrows because of his own history with Flynn. Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was "not a fan," according to multiple officials. Obama fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.

On January 5, 2017, Yates attended an Oval Office meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, according to the newly declassified documents. They were discussing Russian election interference, along with national security adviser Susan Rice and other members of the national security council.

After the briefing, Obama asked Yates and Comey to "stay behind," and said he had "learned of the information about Flynn" and his conversation with Russia's ambassador about sanctions. Obama "specified that he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information."

At that point, the documents say, "Yates had no idea what the President was talking about, but figured it out based on the conversation. Yates recalled Comey mentioning the Logan Act. ..."

The Logan Act is an obscure statute that has never been successfully used in a criminal prosecution; enacted in 1799 in an era before telephones, it was intended to prevent individuals from falsely claiming to represent the United States government abroad. In its motion to dismiss Flynn's case on Thursday, the DOJ noted that the law was an unserious dead letter.

Also released as an exhibit Thursday was a head-turning 2-page document outlining why the FBI opened its counterintelligence probe into Flynn in August 2016. The FBI offered only three reasons: that Flynn was "cited as an adviser to the Trump team on foreign policy issues February 2016; he has ties to various state-affiliated entities of the Russian Federation, as reported by open source information; and he traveled to Russia in December 2015, as reported by open source information."
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ??
"[Zero] specified that he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information."

WTF? So Zero "did not want additional information" even though he was "seeking additional information"??

What does that mean, in simple coherent English?

Also: what's going on with the weird fishing lure-like phrase, "treating Flynn differently" ... from January 5, with Trump's inauguration just two weeks away?

What does "treating him differently" mean here?

This comes off like a wink and a nod that Zero had no interest in Flynn per se, or in policy re sanctions, but was keen on signaling his approval of a plot to entrap Flynn and turn him against the real quarry, which was always Trump.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Surprising top DOJ Official

Very worrisome that we might have anyone in the DoJ that simple minded and naive. All evidence has pointed to Soetoro's full knowledge and complicity for years.

The first entitlement president shall not fail or be found guilty of malfeasance! It simply cannot be so.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Page wrote to Strzok in September, 2016 about prepping FBI Director James Comey on talking points for an update he was planning to give Obama that said: “potus wants to know everything we’re doing.”
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 || 05/08/2020 1:04 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ busted.

Bigger by far than Watergate.
Disgusting.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#5  BTW, hat tip to whomever posted that excellent graphic. It would appear the puppet is being schooled by the shadow president.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#6  What does that mean, in simple coherent English?

It means he knew that he shouldn't have been told that, that whomever told him that shouldn't have known it, and whomever authorized it shouldn't have authorized it. And that he should be acting to correct the whole situation. But that would have been against his globalist interests, so to cover as much of his a$$ as he could, he just left it at that.
Posted by: gorb || 05/08/2020 1:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Zero is at the center of this conspiracy. He needs to be indicted.
We simply have to re-elect Trump and get to the bottom of this. It's surreal. Our democracy's at stake.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 1:14 Comments || Top||

#8  He surprised others when he let on he knew about it.

Demobcrats.
Posted by: newc || 05/08/2020 1:28 Comments || Top||

#9  #5 - twas' me :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 1:48 Comments || Top||

#10  He looks extremely nervous in that photo.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 1:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Being in a room with that psycho one should be nervous.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#12  "I never said do that, just that it might be interesting if somebody did."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#13  All about prepping the "Wherever he heard it, it wadn't from me" defense.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#14  Because Barr POS was so fantastic at investigating the largest honey pot pedophile Epstein ring, Obama IRS targeting and Vegas mass murders... Not 1 fuking thing will come of this.

No charges, no Muzzy Obammer deposition, nothing. Treason, child rape and murder, Clinton international bribery are useless information. End of story.

Fire all FBI-DOJ management, sentences for treason or surrender. I'm done with this fraud show! Barr has no shame.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2020 11:27 Comments || Top||

#15  Calm down Woody. Revenge is a dish best served cold. I figure you will be right if by early October nothing hits the fan. However, dealing with people who know how to play the game, I'd wait till just before the election for the maximum effect on election day. Not only to motivate your side but to also demoralize and demonize the other. Trump knows how to play the media, forcing them to cover things they don't want to. If you do it now, it will be old news by November. They'll have months to bury the bodies and move the gullible to other entertainment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/08/2020 20:41 Comments || Top||

#16  Woody's right. Nothing's going to happen, especially from an AG who believes Epstein committed suicide. Come on, Barr. GTFOH
Posted by: Clem || 05/08/2020 20:44 Comments || Top||

#17  With P2K. The news cycle these days is measured in nanoseconds.
Best to keep our powder dry.
Patience, gents. Nov. 3's not far off.
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 21:01 Comments || Top||

#18  and if Durham, Barr, et al, come through? Will you be apologizing? I doubt it. Give them a chance. Miss Lindsay even got called out by Maria B the other day.

I agree with you: Show us some f*&king results
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 23:53 Comments || Top||


Michelle Obama: Having kids was a "concession" that cost "my aspirations and dreams"
Bye Big Mike!
[DISRN h/t Insty] In her newly released Netflix documentary "Becoming," former first lady Michelle Obama described having children as a "concession" that cost her "aspirations and dreams"

"My relationship with Barack was all about our partnership. If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was confident that I was going to be his equal.

The thing that really changed it was the birth of our children. I wasn't really ready for that. That really made it harder.

Something had to give ‐ and it was my aspirations and dreams. I made that concession not because he said ‘you have to quit your job,' but it felt like, ‘I can't do all of this so I have to tone down my aspirations, I have to dial it back.'"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not the Bee. No sympathy here Big Mike for your difficult, arranged but chosen life. You sound as hollow and souless as Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  What a crock of egesta. GTFOH, Michelmagne
Posted by: Clem || 05/08/2020 0:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Big Narcissist
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 0:39 Comments || Top||

#4  A comment only a witless moron would make.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2020 0:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Note that this is all part of Zero's $68 MILLION sweetheart deal to "produce" shite documentaries for a tech company whose entire rickety business model depends upon favorable regulation by political appointees in Washington at the FCC.

NFLX got its money's worth, sure.

Most corrupt era since the Robber Barons
Posted by: Lex || 05/08/2020 1:05 Comments || Top||

#6  He's bashing motherhood. How very Dhimicrapic.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2020 1:43 Comments || Top||

#7  What did you expect when you chose to marry a Muslim?
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 05/08/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Think of how much more she could have earned stolen in no-show jobs if not for having to raise the whelps deal with nannies.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 8:14 Comments || Top||

#9  oh, poor babay. You coulda been Oprah...um, no, she has a personality not a soulless ego.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/08/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#10  M. Murcek beat me to ot:

Something had to give ‐ and it was my aspirations and dreams. I made that concession not because he said ‘you have to quit your job,'

Yes - the phony baloney $300K / yr. job that you didn't get on your own at Univ. of Chicago Medical Center. Not to mention how badly and permanently you just insulted and stomped on your two kids just for a fucking soundbite. Reprehensible barely begins to describe this wookie, er, woman.
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2020 8:45 Comments || Top||

#11  "woman"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#12  A comment only a witless moron would make.

Or someone who really wanted to make sure they weren’t forced into the VP slot.
Posted by: KBK || 05/08/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#13  At one point there were rumors that the kids were acquired when the politics required them. DNA relationship testing might have been interesting or have squashed rumors....
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#14  Wow.

Cover for one of her girls is all I have here.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/08/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Malia and Sasha now have a new nickname: "Hey, Concession, what's up?' (or however kids talk these days.)
Posted by: Matt || 05/08/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Gee, thanks Mom!
Posted by: Sasha and Malia || 05/08/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#17  I didn't think this was biologically possible.
Posted by: charger || 05/08/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#18  It's as unpossible as Barry fathering them
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#19  Biology, nothing! It's all in the paperwork.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||

#20  (S)He could have been Mike-oynce...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#21  She should have had some of them abortions her ideology loves so much.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/08/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||

#22  Being in America, a land she was never proud of, is a concession.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/08/2020 21:40 Comments || Top||


Adam Schiff may be the biggest loser of Russia probe declassification
[Just the News] Review of Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman's public statements finds many contradicted, some linked to Russian disinformation.
Also don't make Sydney come over there:
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is not enough bad that could happen to this S.O.B. He is a traitor.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Absolute garbage can maggot this scoundrel is.
Posted by: Clem || 05/08/2020 0:29 Comments || Top||


Sources say Russia probe transcripts affirm officials came up empty on collusion: 'Schiff is in panic mode'
[FOXNEWS] Earlier this week, House Republicans sought over 6,000 pages of transcripts pertaining to interviews conducted by the committee in 2017 and 2018, after the panel in September 2018 voted on a bipartisan basis to approve their public release.

A day later, acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell notified Rep. Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
, D-Calif., that the redaction and declassification process was complete, and that the records were ready for release, putting the ball in Schiff’s court.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So all the transcripts say there was no evidence of collusion--essentially what Mueller said and the DOJ IG said and you still pushed the phony impeachment. Moreover, this was all known right from the beginning. There should never have been a Mueller investigation witch hunt.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Every word from every crap weasel would be sufficient to put them all up against the wall in any Marxist paradise.

Just look at that "front man's" locution about POTUS.

Despicable, each and everyone.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/08/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Schifferbrains won't panic until Bubba visits him in his jail cell.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/08/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||


House panel investigating virus response is stuffed with anti-Trump militants
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
oversight panel assembled by House Democrats is being dismissed as the same old attempt to get President Trump, following the failure of impeachment or the Trump-Russia investigation to end his presidency.

House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump should tell this committee to go F&%$ themselves. They no longer have a shred of integrity, honesty, decency or credibility.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/08/2020 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  For the moment, we'll ignore the fact that this gang couldn't investigate breakfast. Now, I've never managed a pandemic, but don't you usually wait until it's over to do the after action report and figure who screwed the pooch and who was a rock star?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Enjoying the whining as Trump tells CDC "Bend over, I'll drive..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2020 14:24 Comments || Top||


Biden: Gender confirmation surgery is ‘medically necessary'
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
said sex-change surgery is medically necessary for transgender people while pushing for changes that would require insurers to cover such procedures.

The former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee made the assertion during a Wednesday virtual event with the Human Rights Campaign. He received a question on how he would ensure gay and transgender people have access to affordable healthcare.

"As president, I'm going to protect and build on Obamacare
...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
with a public option. That's the fastest way to get to universal coverage. Reverse Trump's actions and restore Obamacare protections for LGBTQ Americans. And cover PrEP [pre-exposure prophylaxis] so that people at high risk of getting HIV and AIDS, HIV/AIDS, do have — don't have to choose between covering their rent and staying alive," he said.

Biden then made a point about surgery for transgender people.

"And make sure insurance companies treat gender confirmation surgery as a medical necessary, which it is," Biden said.

He noted that the Affordable Care Act prevented insurers from charging individuals more based on sexual orientation.

"Trump has been trying to gut these protections since he took office," Biden said. "Anyone involved in patient care, from the board of directors to a receptionist in charge of scheduling, could put their beliefs above your healthcare."

Biden's campaign plan for helping gay and transgender people states that he aims to "ensure coverage for comprehensive care for LGBTQ+ Americans," including by "covering care related to transitioning — including gender confirmation surgery."

The Human Rights Campaign, a leading organization pushing for expanding gay and transgender rights, endorsed Biden on Wednesday, which marked the eight-year anniversary of Biden coming out in support of same-sex marriage before former President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
did in a Meet the Press interview.

"His dedication to advancing LGBTQ equality, even when it was unpopular to do so, has pushed our country and our movement forward," Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David said in a statement.

Posted by: Fred || 05/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rather extreme, but I guess, a sex change op is one way for Joe to get out the sexual harassment and assault allegations. "It was just us girls."
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 || 05/08/2020 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  "And make sure insurance companies treat gender confirmation surgery as a medical necessary, which it is,"

Joe: Nice to meet you! Before we continue the conversation, I am afraid it is necessary for me to confirm your gender.
Posted by: Beau || 05/08/2020 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  gender confirmation surgery

Guessing he's already had his.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2020 2:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Speaking of which, has he considered sending young Hoover off to the vet's for the weekend? From what can be gathered he's already made an over abundant contribution to the gene pool.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/08/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||



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