[NPR] New information has emerged in recent days about a sexual assault allegation against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, made by Tara Reade, a former staff assistant in Biden's Senate office. For the first time, someone has gone on the record to say that Reade detailed the allegation to her decades ago in the same way Reade is describing it now.
A former neighbor of Reade's named Lynda LaCasse told NPR on Wednesday about a conversation the two had approximately 25 years ago regarding the alleged assault. The revelation, first reported by Business Insider, comes with increasing pressure on Democrats to respond, as well as calls from Republicans for the accusation to be examined more openly.
LaCasse said she remembers stepping outside her home in California to sneak a cigarette away from her kids sometime in 1995 or early 1996, when she was joined by Reade on her front stoop. They were emotional, discussing custody issues and violence, and she recalls Reade then mentioning Joe Biden, a man she was not particularly familiar with at the time.
"I do remember her telling me that Joe Biden had put her up against a wall and had put his hands up her skirt and had put his fingers inside her," LaCasse said.
Reade, as detailed in a previous NPR report, has accused Biden of pinning her up against a wall in the hallway of a Capitol Hill building and penetrating her vagina with his fingers in the spring of 1993.
The Biden campaign denies the alleged incident, as do longtime Biden staffers whom Reade worked for at the time.
The Biden campaign did not specifically respond to the latest developments, but pointed NPR to its previous statement, which said that the alleged incident "absolutely did not happen." Biden has not addressed the accusation himself.
And no doubt non-Jewish middle-to-upper-middle-class Democratic women as well.
[IsraelTimes] Revelations pose a serious challenge to Jewish feminists who are desperate to oust Trump in November, but also don’t want to be dismissive of the accusations. Petards are uncomfortable things to be hoisted by — kind of like a super wedgie.
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WashPost today had editorial calling for Sundown Joe the Wonder Veep to respond to Qs about the incident and order his records opened.
Of course Joe can barely remember what office he is seeking or the difference between his wife and his sister so any "I deny doing it" is essentially meaningless.
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A search of the lady’s name reveals more coverage in the mainstream sites recently. Heavy.com did one of their Five Fast Facts, which includes a video excerpt of the 1993 Larry King Show her mother had called.
NPR is running fast to get ahead of the parade in this one — I suspect a calculation that it needs to become old news long before November, or their voters will stay home altogether with catastrophic effects on House and Senate races.
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He won't respond because he's not going to be the nominee. He's just keeping the chair warm until the convention, when he'll pull out for health reasons.
Given the cognitive decline, its hard to believe he'll make it to then.
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The decision to cancel the NY dem primary meant no delegates were assigned. If under the guise of WhuFlu other state dem primaries are canceled SloJoe would arrive with no lock on the first ballot. Then the free for all begins...
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NPR is running fast to get ahead of the parade in this one — I suspect a calculation that it needs to become old news long before November,
Indeed. An alternative explanation is that NPR is actually doing journalism - an explanation I consider preposterous given their daily hair-on-fire hysteria of the last 3 years.
Go to the top of the page and start reading the Flynn related links. It seems the dam has burst at FBI/DoJ and the whole set of surpressed records of a set up and political persecution by senior FBI management, and a coverup even now, is breaking. It is claimed that former FBI Senior Counsel Baker has flipped, and Priestap was confused when the first Flynn interview found nothing and the case agent was closing the file (Crossfire Razor, and the "7th floor" wanted Flynn re-interviewed to entrap him at all costs. If even half of this can be confirmed, this is bigger than anything since Watergate...
[Arutz 7] - US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire on Thursday. "I'm not taking responsibility for Newson & Whitmer", sorta thing?
The curve is flattened, the crest is passed. People know about social distancing, hand washing, and the benefits of wearing some sort of mask now, and can whip up a mask out of a cloth napkin or old t-shirt if needed — we no longer require a federal government order. It’s all about local hotspots now — a matter for state and local governments to respond to the local situation.
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As the economy restarts, this will provide new work for the members of the psychological counseling / psychiatric profession who did all that good work caring for those who were mentally scarred by Trump's election. They can help those having a sad over the loss of their lock-down binky.
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...of Palestinian and Syrian Christian heritage who quit the Republican party in 2019 in a fit of NeverTrumper pique. There are questions about China connections...
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Rep. Justin Amash Launches Exploratory Committee For Presidential Run. https://t.co/Pomx5xguA1
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"I'm not going to vote for Trump. I'm not going to accept gerbilism is dying. I'm not going to accept you should be allowed to live like an adult, making your own decisions..." The people saying these sorts of things were not going to vote for Trump anyway. No loss...
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Odd that' he's a former GOP Senator. How is it the GOP didn't just love this fellow?
#13
Flake is a never Trumper, always was. He is a POS. Who cares what he thinks or says. When some has been POS get in front of the mic, I shut it off.
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No Clem, I'm sarcastically pointing out that he is out of step with the rest of the party despite his claims. I suspect internal polling suggesting as much is why he didn't run for re-election.
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Maybe Jeff Flake and Pierre Delecto can hold a seance to get their brownie points from McCain.
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can hold a seance to get their brownie points from McCain
(Hot looking demon secretary in Hell) "McCain? He's being cornholed by a demon with a barbed cock the size of a telephone pole right now. Would you like to leave a message?"
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"Former Arizona GOP Senator Jeff Flake: ‘I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump'" No surprise there, Jeffie. And you're aptly named.
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‘I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump’
Well, neither am I, but I don't go bragging about it.
So, what attracted you most to voting for Biden? His gropey hands, his sniffy nose or his promise to make Fauci the head of Homeland Security?
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I’d think that not being an American citizen would be enough to keep g(r)omgoru out of our poll stations, despite having strong opinions on the subject. ;-)
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[Fox News] Explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday show that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing then-national security adviser Michael Flynn in the White House in January 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
The handwritten notes -- written by the FBI's former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap after a meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Fox News is told -- further suggested that agents planned in the alternative to get Flynn "to admit to breaking the Logan Act."
The Logan Act is an obscure statute that has never been used in a criminal prosecution; enacted in 1799, it was intended to prevent individuals from falsely claiming to represent the United States abroad in an era before telephones.
"What is our goal?" one of the notes read. "Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"
"If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ + have them decide," another note read. Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called the document's implications "chilling."
The memo appears to weigh the pros and cons of pursuing those different paths. "I don't see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him," one note reads. Flynn did not ultimately admit to wrongdoing in the interview.
The document indicates that the White House was monitoring the situation: "If we're seen as playing games, WH will be furious."
The bombshell materials strongly suggested the agents weren't truly concerned about Flynn's intercepted contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, except as a pretext. Former President 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.
The Justice Department turned over the documents just this week, even though a February 2018 standing order in the case required the government to turn over any exculpatory materials in its possession that pertained to Flynn. Fox News is told even more exculpatory documents are forthcoming, as Attorney General Bill Barr continues to oversee the DOJ's investigation into the handling of the Flynn case.
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Flynn previously charged that top FBI officials, including McCabe, pressed him not to have the White House counsel present during the questioning with two agents that led to his guilty plea on a single charge of lying to federal authorities. Flynn was not ultimately charged with any Logan Act violation.
One of Flynn's interviewing agents was Peter Strzok, who has since been fired from the bureau after his anti-Trump text messages came to light.
Flynn has withdrawn his guilty plea and has been seeking exoneration, saying the FBI engaged in "egregious misconduct." Flynn, who has said more recently that he did not lie to the FBI, pleaded guilty in late 2017 as mounting legal fees pushed him to sell his home.
Flynn has since obtained new counsel -- and his old attorneys, it emerged this week, then failed to turn over thousands of documents to his new lawyer, Sidney Powell. Powell has maintained that Flynn's old lawyers at Covington & Burling had conflicts of interest and were otherwise ineffective, including by not focusing on Strzok's evident bias.
Strzok wasn't the only top FBI official who apparently bent the rules in targeting Flynn. Comey admitted in 2018 that the fateful Flynn interview at the White House didn't follow protocol, and came at his direction. He said it was not "something I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more... organized administration."
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I'm going to guess the rank n file agents in the field are nauseated, but they understand the Seat of Government crowd can ruin them on a moment's notice.
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Comey needs to go to jail. An example needs to be set and that's as good a place to start as any.
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When "Turnpike Phantom" spree killer John Wesley Wable's sentence was carried out, he was delivered by PA State Police to the front entrance of Rockview Penitentiary in Centre County, PA and taken directly to the electic chair. Something like that would be a start.
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#1 Is it just me, or does this entire business of "lying to FBI is a crime" is custom made for abuse?
Not just you, g. Part of the grand US prosecutorial tradition of nailing people on "process" crimes unrelated to the original charge(s).
In the US generally, s.t. like 95% of prosecutions end in a plea bargain. This "process crime" BS is surely a factor in attaining such an absurdly high rate of pleas.
Between Powell and JW, the DS flopsweat has to be dehydrating
[Judicial Watch] Judicial Watch released 143 pages of new records today from the U.S. Department of Defense, showing extensive communications between the Pentagon's Director of the Office of Net Assessment James Baker and Washington Post reporter David Ignatius.
Lawyers for Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn alleged in a November 1, 2019, court filing that Baker "is believed to be the person who illegally leaked" to Ignatius the transcripts of Flynn's December 29, 2016, telephone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. The Washington Post published Ignatius' account of the calls on January 12, 2017, setting in motion a chain of events that lead to Flynn's February 13, 2017, firing as National Security Advisor and subsequent prosecution for making false statements to the FBI about the calls. U.S. Attorney John Durham is reportedly investigating the leak of information targeting Flynn.
Citing "the government's bad faith, vindictiveness and breach of the plea agreement," in January 2020 Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, moved to withdraw Flynn's 2017 guilty plea during the Mueller investigation. Flynn claims he felt forced to plead guilty "when his son was threatened with prosecution and he exhausted his financial resources." Last week, prosecutors provided Flynn's defense team with documentation of this threat, according to additional papers Flynn's lawyers filed April 24, 2020, in support of the motion to withdraw.
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The same guy: 2017-12-01 by Ken Berwitz:
Do you know who James H. Baker is?
Maybe you do and maybe you don’t. But it is an excellent bet that Adam Lovinger does, along with several Democrat-connected contractors. From Richard Pollock’s article at dailycaller.com:
The Pentagon’s Inspector General has launched an investigation into charges that James H. Baker, director of the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment, is retaliating against a whistleblower who warned of “rigged” contracts to outside consultants...
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