[Chicago Sun Times] WASHINGTON – Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration will send the City Council two ordinances on Thursday to seal a 99-year deal to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.
City Hall officials involved in the negotiations with the Obama Presidential Foundation briefed reporters on Tuesday with the actual written legislation not available because it was still being finalized.
One of the ordinances includes the agreements between the foundation and the city, which includes the foundation paying the city $10 for the 99-year pact; the other ordinance clears the legal way to plow under Cornell Drive from 59th Street to Hayes Drive to be reconfigured as green space on the Obama campus. The closing of Cornell has been controversial.
Last May and June, the Chicago Plan Commission and City Council approved the zoning and authorized the Obama development under the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection ordinance.
[SFGate] Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI after becoming a frequent target of criticism from the president, is joining the growing list of ex-government officials to publish Trump-related books.
"The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump" will publish Dec. 4, McCabe's publisher, St. Martin's Press, announced Tuesday. The book will offer McCabe's "candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents, integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution," the publisher said.
"I wrote this book because the president's attacks on me symbolize his destructive effect on the country as a whole," McCabe said in a statement. "He is undermining America's safety and security, and eroding public confidence in its institutions. His attacks on the most crucial institutions of government, and on the professionals who serve within them, should make every American stand up and take notice."
McCabe, who spent 22 years in the FBI, has become something of a lightning rod in the political battles over the FBI and the probe of whether Trump's campaign interfered in the 2016 election.
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Did McCabe get a fat advance check? I'm starting to look at these book deals as a form money laundering.--by: SteveS
Exactly! And paid by people that say that Citizens United v. FEC was the end of a free (pun intended) democracy.
Professionally done, I'd say - I'd expect no less from Grassley.
[Twitchy] - It sounds like Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley has had enough of Christine Blasey Ford and her legal team’s ‐ and the Democrats’ ‐ stalling tactics: (letter from Grassley to Ford's lawyer(s) at the link)
Throughout this mess, Grassley’s conduct has been nothing short of professional and courteous. He and the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have made numerous attempts to contact Ford and her attorneys, have extended her numerous opportunities to tell her story, and have been met with obfuscation at every turn. Playtime is over.
[AceOfSpades] Kavanaugh's Accuser Says She Won't Testify Until The FBI, Which Has Already Declined to Investigate Her Non-Federal-Jurisdiction 37 Year Old Allegations, Completes Its Investigation, Sometime After a Democrat is President
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Breaking:Kavanaugh's Accuser Says She Won't Testify Until The FBI, Which Has Already Declined to Investigate Her Non-Federal-Jurisdiction 37 Year Old Allegations, Completes Its Investigation, Sometime After a Democrat is President
Can't do much with that, might as well go on with the confirmation since the FBI is never going to investigate.
#10
No way in hell does some bimbo who comes out of the woodwork with zero credibility get to demand an FBI investigation. So, if she won't testify, might as well get on with the confirmation.
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#10: With a stripper you pay $100 an hour to see her ass.
With a psych professor, you pay $100 an hour for them to be an ass.
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Wonder will the press describe frequent visitors to strip bars as undocumented gynaecologists?
#18
Same thing with Anita whatshername, Clarence Thomas's accuser.
The allegations were forwarded to the FBI and investigated. The FBI said there was no there there.
A congressional staffer was so agitated over Clarence Thomas, they leaked the allegations without the attached summary of investigation.
The FBI looked at this and said there is no there there and nothing to investigate. the incident exceeds the statue of limitations, the accuser won't be deposed and all of the "witnesses" or supposed co-conspirators have all testified that Kavanaugh wasn't even at the party, much less involved in whatever happened.
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Somehow as a society we need women to make police reports when an incident happens. Even if there is not enough evidence to prosecute a police report at the time would be very helpful in establishing credibility in a he said/she said incident later.
It also might be good top put the police under a microscope on how they handle such reports.
And there should be legal repercussions for false charges.
Do that and things will be cleaned up pretty quickly.
[NBC] Clinton said an anonymous New York Times op-ed was "horrifying" and raised the likelihood that Trump might try a purge of staff he suspects of working against him.
Hillary Clinton predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump will "wholesale fire people" in the White House and become increasingly unaccountable, if Democrats don't check his power by winning a majority of seats in the House or Senate in the November midterm elections.
Clinton made the remarks during the former secretary of state's appearance on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."
"What I worry about, Rachel, is that after this election this president is going to wholesale fire people," Clinton said. " ... And if we [Democrats] don’t have one or both houses of Congress in place he will be even more uncontrollable and unaccountable. He will fire people in the White House, he will fire people in this administration who he thinks are crossing him, questioning him, undermining him."
Clinton, who ran the State Department during part of the Obama administration, said an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times was "horrifying" and raised the likelihood that Trump might try a purge of staff he suspects of working against him.
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Clinton said an anonymous New York Times op-ed was "horrifying" and raised the likelihood that Trump might try a purge of staff he suspects of working against him.
Which is not only his right but also his obligation.
#9
From the termagant who thought 70% of America would vote for her and believed it when at 2am Bill would say, “Gee, my stomach is upset, I’m gonna take a walk”.
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Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Donald Trump refuses to be subject to the law. The legitimacy of our elections is in doubt. The president is waging war on the truth. The administration is undermining the national unity that makes democracy possible. And then there's the breathtaking corruption.
11:08 AM · Sep 18, 2018
Recent outpouring of narcissistic projection on Twitter..
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Maybe Hillary's one good idea.--Fire a bunch of people. Here's another one Hillary, prosecute a bunch on people. Why not start before the midterms? Would most likely bring out (and maybe increase) DJT's base.
On top of her McCarthyite smear of Judge Kavanaugh, she’s closely tied to both Chinese and Russian operations in the United States.
To date, only one fairly obscure member of Congress has asked our intel people‐in this case, the FBI--to look into the alarming case of a Chinese agent becoming her office manager and personal chauffeur.
...The Chinese agent is apparently working without annoyance in California. Feinstein is running for reelection. I wonder if he is planning to vote for her.
Banks asked for an investigation and a briefing. That was last month, and I haven’t seen anything since. Have you? Yet the "news" is chock-a-block with thousands of column inches on an unknown event alleged by an unknown woman who claims it happened when she and Judge Kavanaugh were in high school 35-40 years ago.
...This is a good way to measure how little Chinese espionage matters to the nation’s law enforcers and opinion makers. Well, of course, and we all know why: nobody is accusing Trump of colluding with Beijing.
Funny world. So many things are backwards. We have apparently hard evidence of Chinese espionage in the office of the number one senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee‐the FBI told her about it five years ago, and she did nothing (nor did the bureau)‐but nobody seems concerned. Meanwhile, there is no evidence of any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, yet half the world constantly frets about "it."
h/t Instapundit
On Tuesday night, the press added yet another indignity to the family of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. CBS News reporter Kathryn Watson revealed that reporters had besieged the family home of Kavanaugh. The judge's wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, had a very classy response to this situation.
"Per our CBS News cameraman at Kavanaugh's house, his wife handed out cupcakes from Sprinkles to any of the photogs and producers who wanted them," Watson tweeted. Are we sure this guy is not too nice?
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SteveS, the Old Testament sage assumed you deal with, basically (if only because of the fear of public opinion), decent people - you see the problem in the current situation?
#10
I think the typical reason a candidate pulls their name is because they want to spare their families the ongoing harassment. She is saying clearly that the tactic won't get to her. Smart counter-move, and classy to boot.
Yom Kippur. From the Church, a "Gut Yontiff!"
From the posh, princely pals of the Pontiff
Who are planning to fast...
For as long as they last
(keep your eye on that fat putto-goniff!).
[The Hill] Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wouldn't take long.
"I don't think it wouldn't be a lengthy investigation," Clinton told MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."
"I think it could be done in an expeditious manner if they're still trying to have a vote on this nominee, they could postpone for two weeks," she said.
The lawyer for the woman accusing Kavanaugh of attempted sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, said Tuesday that Ford would not testify before the Senate Judiciary committee until the FBI has investigated her claims.
Clinton backed Ford's decision, saying Tuesday, "I think that's a reasonable request."
"The White House could answer it very quickly, by asking the FBI to reopen its background check and to take into account the accusation that has been made and to gather the evidence about what can be known," she explained.
The FBI has previously declined to investigate Ford's allegations against Kavanaugh, in which she says he attempted to sexually assault her at a party in the early 1980s.
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Yes. People miss understanding that the entire point of the statute of limitations is lots of evidence and testimony can be lost over a long time frame.
The fact there is no stature of limitation for murder speaks to the heinousness of the crime, not the practicalities of solving it.
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Yes, they can be done very quickly when the end result is already decided.
#9
Hildabeest has gotten a new found sense of self-righteousness and morality. Wonder where she found that? Oh yes, I recall she lies about everything. Forget-about-it. Are we ever going to see her in an orange muumuu?
#10
The FBI investigation can be done quickly. Something like this:
Professor, when did this alleged crime occur?
Umm, 36 or 37 years ago. Not sure exactly.
Where did it happen?
Not zure.
What federal law was broken?
Well, I guess it was actually a local law.
OK, we're done here.
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Early one Sunday morning back around the time "this" "happened," I was hanging around the lobby of a building in which the FBI was a tenant when a guy showed up at the door demanding to talk to them. Strange, unlikeable character, instantly fileable under "Crank," but he looked to have been well and truly bashed (as he claimed) and recently treated for it. I called upstairs, was pleasantly surprised that they agreed to see him, and sent him up, to unknown effect. Point being, this oddball who looked as if he'd just crawled over from Big Hospital was able to get a sitdown with the FBI practically before he'd sobered up. And... well, for once I won't belabor a point.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said Tuesday that she cannot say whether the sexual assault allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are entirely truthful.
Feinstein told reporters that Ford, a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, "is a woman that has been, I think, profoundly impacted, on this ... I can't say that everything is truthful," according to Fox News senior producer Chad Pergram.
Pergram tweeted Feinstein's comments, citing his colleague Connor Marley.
#3
I'm sorry Senator. While you were away powdering your nose, I sneezed on your stuffed olives. If you remove them, the rest of the martini should be fine.
.... just called in saying he seems to remember that the same woman who lodged the sexual assault complaint against Kavanaugh made the same charge against Neil Gorsuch when he was being confirmed. Elliot immediately did a quick check of his files and, voila!, she had!
Not exactly the same thing. It is indicative, but - even were you to bring incontrovertible evidence that Kristy hooked her way through high school and routinely sleeps with patients, it would have zero effect.
[Daily Caller] Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina questioned who financed the polygraph test that Christine Blasey Ford reportedly took to corroborate her allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
"If Ms. Ford really did not want to come forward, never intended to come forward, never planned to come forward, why did she pay for a polygraph in August?" Graham asked Monday on Fox News’s "Hannity." "And why did she hire a lawyer in August if she never intended to do what she’s doing?"
"And who paid for it?" Graham continued. Who or what agency conducted the polygraph? Questions and answers? What were the questions? What were the answers ?
#3
Feinstein and Attorney Katz are both aware of the jurisdictional and statute of limitations issues tying the FBI's hands and are using them as a lame excuse to wiggle Prof. Ford out from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This is so blatantly obvious that it's insulting to anyone with knowledge of the law and the FBI's investigative limitations. In layman's term , this case is dead except for the testimony of Kavanaugh and Ford.
#4
Lindz worries me when he occasionally veers toward rationalism. I know it won't last and when the pendulum swings the other way there will be no physics involved.
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Kavangh did not pay for it or it would be the only thing on the news and Internet so why investigate?
#6
Why would Ford take a polygraph if this thing were not planned some time ago. Anticipation that people would question her veracity? The timing was done to do maximum damage. People in the street (or diners) interviews would indicate that people get what's going on, that it is all political.
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BTW: sociopaths can easily fool polygraphs; that's why they're not admissible.
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I wonder about polygraphs, I mean who administered it, what witnesses. How easy would it be to get a friendly test administrator and toss results and pretend it never happened if the results are unsatisfactory?
#13
Well, Ford's attorney is Debra Katz, a Washington D.C. lawyer and the vice chair of the board of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). And who funds POGO? Soro's Open Society Foundation, among others. Smoke. Fire. Some assembly.
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#13 - that's a Chuck Berry song and he's singing it, not Neville
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Huh. I can hear Aaron singing "If you don't know me by now..." but I'm not seeing it on YT. Oh well.
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1. Debra Katz, who is currently representing Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Brett Kavanugh of committing sexual assault 36 years ago is a major donor to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the DNC, according to public records.
2. Ralph Blasey III, Christine Ford’s brother was formerly employed at the D.C. offices of Baker & Hostetler LLP. That’s the same firm that made payments over over half a million dollars to Fusion GPS for the Crooked-Hillary-funded phony dossier.
3. Debra Katz is Vice Chair of the Project on Government Oversight, which is funded by George Soros and his leftist-extremist Open Society Foundation.
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I had a poligraqh when I was in my early 20s, very shy back then. I was so nervous I failed it before they asked the first question. They said "You are So Quilty!".
[Breitbart] Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward warned that revealing the sources for his book Fear: Trump in the White House "might get somebody killed" during a Monday interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal.
Woodward was asked ‐ via a question posed on Twitter ‐ about a possible subpoena of his notes and recording from special counsel Robert Mueller or the Justice Department:
I obviously hope it doesn’t happen, and I expect it not to happen, simply because I deal with lots of very sensitive national security issues and debates. I’ve done this for now 47 years and in nine presidencies ‐ and tried to provide as much information in the book, but not going so far as to disclose sources and methods to harm operations essential to the security of this country or that might get somebody killed or get some source blown.
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Wasn't he saying last week he had tapes of the quotes that are being denied? Now revealing his sources might get someone killed?
Why doesn't he retire.
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Maybe he is just hyping his book to sell more copies. I'd worry more about the left than the conservative side. They are the ones who are violence prone.
#5
A convenient excuse. If they're so afraid, why did they even talk to Woodward? I mean, would any rational person who fears for his or her life entrust such secrets with an old hack like Woodward?
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[American Thinker] President Trump has ordered the declassification of documents related to the questionable FISA warrants on how the FBI got authorization to surveil Trump aide Carter Page. The howls from both the Democrats and the national security community can now be heard from orbit. It just goes to show how badly it needed to be done.
According to Fox News:
President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of several key documents related to the FBI investigation of Russian actions during the 2016 presidential election, including 21 pages of an application for a renewed surveillance warrant against former campaign aide Carter Page, and text messages from disgraced FBI figures Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Following that, we got reportage like this:
Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Trump's "selective release of materials he believes are helpful to his defense team and thinks will advance a false narrative" is a "clear abuse of power," and based on his conversations with federal law enforcement officials, the FBI and Justice Department see the release of these unredacted documents as "a red line that must not be crossed as they may compromise sources and methods."
...and this:
David Kris, former chief of the Justice Department's national security division and founder of the Culper Partners consulting firm, said Mr. Trump's action was "especially unprecedented" because he was overruling subordinates who had provided a redacted version of the surveillance application to Congress and because the order pertained to a continuing investigation of which Mr. Trump is a subject.
...and this:
Democrats on Monday contended that the declassification order was another salvo in a partisan battle being waged to protect Mr. Trump and discredit an investigation that has already resulted in guilty pleas or convictions of his former campaign chairman, his former national security adviser and several others involved in his campaign or his business.
"President Trump, in a clear abuse of power, has decided to intervene in a pending law enforcement investigation by ordering the selective release of materials he believes are helpful to his defense team and thinks will advance a false narrative," said Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
So we're seeing quite an alarm from both the Deep State and the Democrats over declassifying just why the FBI took up the case of spying on Carter Page dating from October 2016; got three FISA court extensions (read this from Thomas Lifson yesterday about why those extensions are so problematic); and yielded absolutely zero charges, let alone convictions, against Page their target ‐ just surveillance, surveillance, surveillance...which just happened to be a convenient thing for an administration all in for unmasking Trump officials during campaign 2016 based on that FISA warrant ‐ which previous reports say was premised on Democratic opposition research contained within the Steele dossier and nothing else.
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Trump can't "imperil the very existence of civilization" by releasing documents that they have already been (illegally!) selectively leaking to the Press... Right...
Note: 'leaking' is. A. Criminal. Act.
#9
I have seen no such Presidential order. No such order appears on the White House website, or on the DOJ website. As far as I can tell, there has been no such order. POUTUS did issue a couple of Tweets - and maybe made some Press remarks. Q has dropped a few crumbs. And FOX News made its announcement. But - it is all made up. There is no such order. Or - can anyone refute my observation? I want to see the order.
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All there is to substantiate an order is a Press Secretary announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-34/
[PJ] Out of all the departments in the federal government, my favorite is probably the U.S. Department of State. In addition to lying to everybody constantly about the stuff they're doing all over the globe, a few years ago they took the time to lie about little ol' me personally. Back in 2010, a State Department employee operating a State Department SUV made an illegal left turn on a D.C. street and crippled me for life. And as if that weren't bad enough, then the State Department lied about it.
They actually blamed me for what they did to me. They said I was jaywalking, which wasn't true. They said I collided with the vehicle, which is insane on the face of it. They just made up a bunch of stuff about the incident, without ever talking to me about it. And as far as I know, every person involved in the whole debacle -- from State Department security agent Mike McGuinn, who struck me and shattered my knee, to the State Department lawyers who looked me in the eye and lied to me -- is still employed by the federal government. The State Department threw me a little money for my inconvenience, and then they all went on their way.
No accountability. That's how government works. I'd always suspected it, but now I know it from personal experience.
So I must admit to a certain measure of schadenfreude at the following news from Project Veritas:
Today, Project Veritas released the first installment in an undercover video investigation series unmasking the deep state. This video features a State Department employee, Stuart Karaffa, engaged in radical socialist political activity on the taxpayer’s dime, while advocating for resistance to official government policies. In addition to being a State Department employee Stuart Karaffa is also a ranking member of the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America (Metro DC DSA.)
Metro DC DSA is a socialist group that works to advance progressive causes in the metropolitan DC area.
Oh my. That doesn't sound like something a federal employee is supposed to be doing on the taxpayer's dime, does it?
And of course, the report comes complete with the delicious hidden camera footage we've come to expect from James O'Keefe:
#3
They give hardship pay for places like Nome or the South Pole. No, make him the "Liaison for Poultry Imports/Border Inspections" in NE Montana on the US-Canadian Border. ...And make him stay on the border or lose all his benefits.
#4
18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
I'd say a 'liberal' interpretation of said citations could be something with more sting than being fired.
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.
[SFGate] Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI after becoming a frequent target of criticism from the president, is joining the growing list of ex-government officials to publish Trump-related books.
[Daily Caller] Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina questioned who financed the polygraph test that Christine Blasey Ford reportedly took to corroborate her allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
