[Free Beacon] A former intern for outgoing Rep. John Conyers says the Michigan Democrat propositioned her, and when she rebuffed his advances, he brought up a Washington, D.C. intern who had mysteriously disappeared.
Courtney Morse, now 36, told the Washington Post she was a 20-year-old student when she accepted an internship with Conyers' office. One night, he offered to drive her home, and once they arrived, he "wrapped his hand around hers as it rested in her lap, and told her he was interested in a sexual relationship."
Morse reports that when she declined, Conyers suddenly brought up a then-unsolved disappearance of federal intern Chandra Levy. At the time, police believed Levy's disappearance may have been tied to an affair with Democratic Rep. Gary Condit. Condit was ultimately cleared after authorities charged a suspect with the intern's murder.
"He said he had insider information on the case. I don't know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way," she told the Post. "I got out of the car and ran."
Matthew Salomon, a member of the family Levy was staying with at the time, backed up Morse's version of events. He told the Post he approached Conyer's car to confront him, but the congressman drove away.
Conyers announced his immediate retirement Tuesday after the reemergence of multiple accusations of sexual harassment from former staffers. In his speech, Conyers insisted his "legacy can't be compromised or diminished in any way."
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Part of why I think that Fred was wrong to criticize the networks for paying attention to the Chandra Levy case. You're not going to win a war, even against non-technological savages, with a political class who gets its rocks off by offing their cute 20 year old interns. You just get a greater chance of becoming a non-technological savage yourself.
(This computer's seven years old. I don't know where to buy a modern current one that isn't made in a foreign dictatorship).
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(This computer's seven years old. I don't know where to buy a modern current one that isn't made in a foreign dictatorship).
You can't. The closest you can come is building your own from components. Source your motherboard from Taiwan by buying an ASUS MB. Building a computer is not hard and very rewarding.
[MPRNEWS.ORG] A Democratic official who has spoken to Al Franken and key aides says Franken will resign his Minnesota Senate seat on Thursday, the official tells MPR News.
The official spoke to Franken and separately to Franken's staff. A staff member told the official that Franken had gone to his Washington home to discuss his plans with family.
MPR News agreed to withhold the official's name because the official wanted to give Franken the chance to talk about his decision in his own words.
Franken faced a cascade of calls Wednesday from fellow Democrats and other political allies to leave office in response to multiple allegations of sexual harassment.
After MPR News reported the planned resignation, a tweet from Franken's official account said it was "not accurate."
"No final decision has been made and the senator is still talking with his family," the tweet read.
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Franken was denying it (the resignation) around 5:30 yesterday afternoon. I'm hoping Trump shitcans Mueller just to make it an interesting news day later today, and I bet Franken is as well, should he resign, to take some heat off of him.
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And Gov. Dayton will just appoint an even more socialist person in his place. Saw a post over at PowerLine that names a few candidates.
Stuart Smalley wouldn't be resigning if the Gov. was a 'R'.
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And Gov. Dayton will just appoint an even more socialist person in his place
Please note well those who feverishly want to repeal the 17th Amendment. Senators would represent the 'party' not the state. Modify the election process where each sub political district (county or parish) gets one electoral vote. That would represent the state not a major metro area.
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My guess is that Schumer and Pelosi think they can establish a moral equivalence between Franken and Moore. They think their demand for Moore's ouster will have greater force because they were willing to get rid of Franken. One problem with that logic was highlighted by #2 Mullah Richard who notes that Minnesota's governor will appoint an even more radical socialist than Franken to fill the seat while Moore's replacement would most likely be someone who is acceptable to the Deep State. Another problem is that Franken has all but admitted his guilt while Moore continues to issue strong denials of his guilt. That doesn't matter though, because the Deep State is more than willing to abandon the concept of innocent until proven guilty.
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My guess is that Schumer and Pelosi think they can establish a moral equivalence between Franken and Moore
That's exactly why they flipped their support of Franken last week, Abu. Had nothing to do with 'conscience'.
They saw that Moore still had a chance to win and would do anything to spike it somehow.
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Al has just tesigned.
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His speech was defiant and unapologetic. He's an asshole
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Per the NYT, he said he would resign "in the coming weeks."
Here's hoping there are a whole lotta weeks coming. As he has always been, Al is such an unmitigated putz that he damages whatever he is affiliated with.
[FoxNews] A senior Justice Department official was demoted this week amid an ongoing investigation into his contacts with the opposition research firm responsible for the anti-Trump "dossier," the department confirmed to Fox News.
Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as "the centerpiece of the attorney general's drug strategy."
Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of "Main Justice."
Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohr's demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the "dossier."
Later, a Justice Department official told Fox News: "It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus‐director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combating transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the attorney general."
Additionally, House investigators have determined that Ohr met shortly after the election with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS – the opposition research firm that hired Steele to compile the dossier with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. By that point, according to published reports, the dossier had been in the hands of the FBI, which exists under the aegis of DOJ, for some five months, and the surveillance on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, had started more than two months prior.
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It is a reasonable strategy to isolate and sequester enemies where they can do little harm. Kind of like the Pacific WWII campaign where some occupied islands were cut off and bypassed.
h/t Instapundit
[DonSurber] Don't feud with Donald Trump. Too many have and wound up worse for wear. I gave 26 examples. No. 27 may be Robert Mueller, who has wasted the last seven months trying to frame President Trump.
Mueller has nothing -- and is losing his reputation.
Trump cannot fire Mueller. That would make him a martyr.
...On July 21, I wrote:
President Trump needs to fire Robert Mueller -- but in a manner in which his enemies in Congress do not turn around and hire the Big Leak back.
Trump has to make Mueller too toxic to touch. The plan is to investigate the investigator. Destroying Mueller is not just a matter of USA internal politics - other world leaders (the grown up ones) are reluctant do deal with POTUS beset by internal problems. And still others, like Pudgy, simply don't understand democracy, and therefore incapable of taking threats from a leader who cannot "deal" with internal opposition, seriously.
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As far as those who seek trouble with The Donald, I can but quote again, 'He's smarter than you, he's luckier than you, and whatever you think is going to happen the exact opposite is what will actually happen.'
#4
If you put enough blood and chum in the water, the sharks go into a feeding frenzy and eat each other. The media and the rest of the lefties are eating each other these days.
Hopefully, this fake news crap will get a lot of stuff out on the table.
If it wasn't for the Mueller investigation witch hunt I don't think a lot of us, including Congress would have heard of Uranium One. And this latest gig with the FBI anti-Trumper has the fact that the Hillary email investigation was a sham.
#5
Judge Napolitano seems to think Mueller is in a good position now to bring Trump down - that the obstruction of justice charge could stick and be impeachable if Trump knew of Flynn's lies to the FBI before he fired Comey, as his recent tweet seemed to indicate. Both branches of the Uniparty want him gone and only need an excuse, plus impeachment does not require the legal rules of evidence be followed.
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If they think Trump is bad, imagine the civil war they get when they do it. There's alot of 'discussion' about 4th generation guerilla warfare, which would mean targeting of politicians and policy makers as well as their lackeys in the agencies as opposed to fighting police and military.
Much as I think government needs to be cut to 5% of it's current size, maybe we need a new department or agency whose sole task it is to investigate and prosecute government officials like Comey and Mueller who abuse their positions. A few of them hung on the white house lawn after their trials for treason might instill the proper attitude toward government employees doing the work they are supposed to do instead of attempting to overthrow the government.
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It seems there other members of Mueller's team that are compromised including Mueller. This low-hanging fruit needs to be picked-off. The team needs to be dismantled as the faked dossier was bought by Hillary and used as a basis for FISA warrants and illegal unmasking and spying.
[Texas Tribune] U.S. Rep. Al Green's effort to push the U.S. House to vote to impeach President Donald Trump quickly died Wednesday under bipartisan criticism for the Houston Democrat's move.
Hours after he stood in front of a nearly empty House chamber to introduce articles of impeachment, Green sat alone in the middle of the chamber as the House voted 364-58 on a "motion to table" the resolution, effectively killing it.
Democratic Texans largely joined their Republican colleagues in supporting the motion to table Green's resolution. Of 36 Texans in the U.S. House, only Lloyd Doggett of Austin, Filemon Vela of Brownsville and Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston, all Democrats, joined Green in voting against the measure to table. U.S. Reps. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, and Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, were among four House members who voted present.
Green’s articles of impeachment accused Trump of committing "high misdemeanors" while in office and asserted he is "unfit to be President." Yet his resolution did not touch on Russia or that country's potential interference in the 2016 elections, the issue that some Democrats have argued could warrant an impeachment vote in the future following the conclusion of an ongoing investigation by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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He got his moment of notoriety. Now go get us sammiches, bitch
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As long as the market is booming it will be very difficult to garner support for an impeachment. Like the rest of us, sleazy politicians have to put there money somewhere. Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs is not really a sound business decision.
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Democratic Texans largely joined their Republican colleagues in supporting the motion to table
In the resurgence of the post Civil War period, the party of the Klan refused to provide the Army funding for nearly a year, till the Apaches hit Texas again, and suddenly them Texas Donks needed to protect their phoney baloney jobs. The Army got funding. Going after Trump would dump the market and hammer businesses that are enjoying a prosperity they haven't seen in over 8 years. Its' the economy stupid.
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Green is grandstanding and engaging in political harassment. Unless the Dems take control of the House or they could get enough Rinos to go along with them, this had zero chance of going anywhere.
Green has had a sexual accusation by a staffer (Lucinda Daniels) in his background. Could be others?
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It's the Fourth Turning, it is a painful transition for good or ill but will be resolved. We have to go through this, and other countries are in the same boat.
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[Daily Caller] The Justice Department is sifting through 10,000 text messages involving the FBI agent who was kicked off of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation for making anti-Trump comments.
Fox News reports that the bureau is reviewing "several months" worth of messages that the agent, Peter Strzok, exchanged with Lisa Page, an FBI attorney with whom he was having an affair.
The Justice Department is searching the texts before turning them over to the House Intelligence Committee, a process which could take "weeks."
The Justice Department’s inspector general discovered over the summer that Strzok and Page exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Clinton text messages last year. After the watchdog informed Mueller’s office, Strzok was "immediately" removed from the Russia investigation, a spokesman for Mueller said over the weekend.
Details of Strzok’s removal were kept secret for months. ABC News reported back in August that Strzok had been demoted from Mueller’s team to the FBI’s human resources division. Attempts to find out the rationale were met by "no comments" from Mueller’s office.
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who was kicked off of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation for making anti-Trump comments
I get the impression that he was "kicked off" for sleeping with a married coworker, not for hating the deplorables' POTUS - which is normal in his circles.
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Well, whenever you decide to compare notes, I already have convictions as do many of OUR Citizens of this Mis-feasance. Or worse.
All that money for a political smoke-screen and yet I have balance sheets and more implicating the FBI heads in scandal after scandal.
It is much more than some journal entries, guys. This is is political corruption golden corral type.
I have half of one party on corrupt all out and another 1/3.
If you could not see this open source or by media reports alone, you are no detective.
Feel free American Public to put this balance sheet together that incriminates the clintons and the rest of that corrupt "government" sauce factory has wrought you.
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Strzok had been demoted from Mueller’s team to the FBI’s human resources division.
HR in D.C.? I'd prefer firing of such employees but as someone here said, that is difficult to do in government. In lieu of firing, how about a different assignment overseas?
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I watched Wray being interviewed by the House Oversight Committee. One thing that frosts me is how much officials claim they can't reveal something because it's the subject of an ongoing investigation, it's classified or that it's under review by an Inspector General. A great disservice is being done to the American people. That disservice is that we are being kept in the dark about things we should know about to make "informed" decisions and to be able to participate in the political process. Another reason is to provide citizen oversight to ensure an uncorrupted process. Secrecy should only be invoked under unusual conditions such where life might be endangered, developing policy might be threatened, technical secrets might be divulged or a few other unusual situations. Transparency works to make better government; not worse government.
[ChicagoBusiness.com] American democracy is fragile, and unless care is taken it could follow the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
It’s funny — my mother, who grew up under the Nazis in Gremany and Holland, is so unworried about this possibility that she still has not registered to vote since she moved to the retirement home near me, though she used to vote religiously.
Mixed in with many softer comments, that was the somewhat jaw-dropping bottom line of Barack Obama last night as, in a Q&A session before the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicagoan who used to be president dropped a bit of red meat to a hometown crowd that likely is a lot closer to him than the man whose name never was mentioned: President Donald Trump.
Obama's comments came after a series of playful questions from moderator and Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson‐in the great Batman vs. Superman debate, for instance, we learned Obama sides with Batman‐before she eventually asked him what he's learned as a world citizen of sorts.
One thing he's learned is that "things don't happen internationally if we don't put our shoulder to the wheel," Obama said, speaking of the U.S. "No other country has the experience and bandwidth and ideals. . . .If the U.S. doesn't do it, it's not going to happen."
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Obama moved from that to talking about a nativist mistrust and unease that has swept around the world. He argued that such things as the speed of technical change and the uneven impact of globalization have come too quickly to be absorbed in many cultures, bringing strange new things and people to areas in which "people didn't (used to) challenge your assumptions." As a result, "nothing feels solid," he said. "Sadly, there's something in us that looks for simple answers when we're agitated."
Still, the U.S. has survived tough times before and will again, he noted, particularly mentioning the days of communist fighter Joseph McCarthy and former President Richard Nixon. But one reason the country survived is because it had a free press to ask questions, Obama added. Though he has problems with the media just like Trump has had, "what I understood was the principle that the free press was vital."
The danger is "grow(ing) complacent," Obama said. "We have to tend to this garden of democracy or else things could fall apart quickly."
That's what happened in Germany in the 1930s, which despite the democracy of the Weimar Republic and centuries of high-level cultural and scientific achievements, Adolph Hitler rose to dominate, Obama noted. "Sixty million people died. . . .So, you've got to pay attention. And vote."
Obama said his greatest "regret and disappointment" was the failure to enact tighter controls on gun possession. Though the issue resonates in far different ways with different parts of the population, "something is broke," Obama said, his own voice breaking, as he talked about 6-year-old girls shot to death at Sandy Hook, girls not too different in age from his own daughters.
But the rejection of his proposed gun laws, so beautiful in his eyes, is exactly an expression of that democracy. The vast majority of voters simply don’t buy what President Obama was selling.
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Shut up Obama, you democratic Socialist NAZI.
NAZI.
The biggest piece of shit communist to take America.
NAZI.
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...that was the somewhat jaw-dropping bottom line of Barack Obama
While I don't speak for everyone here, I don't think a single one of us think this is a jaw-dropping line from Obama. It's been his M.O. all of his adult life. The only thing that surprises me is that he waited so long to say it - I would have expected it after a few months.
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"Sixty million people died. . . .So, you've got to pay attention. And vote."
While I'm no hard-core WWII buff, weren't Germany and Japan the major Axis powers in that war (I'll ignore the Wops for now)? It's like he's trying to lay 60 million deaths solely on Adolf Hitler.
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My mother-in-law who was a Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied Poland during WWII was worried about the similarities between the Obama admin. and Nazi Germany. Hasn't said much about the Trump admin. but I think she voted for him.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[MPRNEWS.ORG] A Democratic official who has spoken to Al Franken and key aides says Franken will resign his Minnesota Senate seat on Thursday, the official tells MPR News.
