[American Thinker] Ali Watkins, it seems, wasn't the only one.
The still-employed New York Times reporter set a new low bar in swamp journalism by sleeping with her sources, in her case Senate intelligence staffer James Wolfe, who got a two-month jail sentence for leaks to her, but in her case, ended only in her reassignment to the Times' New York City desk.
It's still going on, and a new case of it signals it's apparently widespread practice in the mainstream media. As well as nearly everywhere else.
Now we have a less-politically prominent official, 30-year-old Defense Intelligence Agency bureaucrat Henry Kyle Frese, who's in the news for pleading guilty to leaking big classified secrets surrounding the defense capabilities of North Korea and China to his lover-reporter, CNBC national security correspondent Amanda Macias, and then, at her request, to her good pal NBC national security correspondent Courtney Kube. Court documents show that he had 630 phone calls and at least 57 text messages with Macias, and 34 phone calls and 151 text messages with Kube. The two women were both Trump haters based on their Twitter posts, slanting their coverage to make the president look bad through the use of classified secrets as if to contradict him, leaving him unable to use Twitter to either trick our enemies or else dismiss the reports. They took the eight top-secret reports Frese leaked to do that, and then boosted each other publicly on Twitter while communicating privately through its messaging system.
Here's the lovelorn trio of Macias, Frese and Kube, from their social media presence:
[Washington Examiner] The federal judge presiding over Roger Stone's case turned down the Trump associate's attempt to disqualify her.
U.S. Judge Amy Berman Jackson argued Sunday evening that there is no legal basis as to why she should recuse herself from the case after Stone filed a motion on Friday requesting that she be removed from the case for alleged bias.
Stone, who also asked for a retrial, raised concerns about the judge's partiality, pointing out that Jackson praised the jurors in his trial for their "integrity." The judge, however, shredded Stone's argument in her six-page filing, saying that her "general comment that 'jurors' served with integrity" did not "purport to, and did not address" Stone's new trial request.
"There is no rule and no case law that would justify the recusal of a judge for bias simply because he or she says something about an issue on the docket, on the record, at some point before a reply has been filed, or before a hearing ‐ which may or may not be required in the Court's discretion ‐ has concluded," she wrote.
She added, "If parties could move to disqualify every judge who furrows his brow at one side or the other before ruling, the entire court system would come to a standstill."
Jackson further defended herself by noting that she insured fairness throughout the case, including when Stone himself shared a threatening post about her on Instagram.
If the Trunks take the House in November, she could be the shot across the bow of the politicized judiciary. Long over due signal to the American aristocracy.
[Geller Report] This week The Daily Mail reported that a Somali community leader in Minnesota confirmed that Ilhan Omar married her own brother to defraud US immigration.
In response to this Ilhan Omar retweeted an anti-Semitic screed at her critics.
The article blames "Pro-Israel Zionists" and Jewish reporter David Steinberg for the reporting on Ilhan’s marriage to her brother.
When you have the law on your side, pound the law. When you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. And when you have neither law nor facts, pound the table. The poor dear is reduced to pounding the table. It will be very interesting, when the authorities look closely at her situation, to see how many other instances of visa fraud her family indulged in — I’ve seen it claimed that several of her immediate family are not actually immediate, and some may not be family.
Victory Girls via Instapundit
Who saw this coming? Far left MSNBC pundits shed liberal tears after Bernie Sanders took the Nevada caucus. This seems counter-intuitive, I know, but apparently Bernie was not the droid they were looking for.
There has been bad blood between Sanders and MSNBC before, with Sanders accusing the network of unfair coverage. In fact, Bernie supposedly complained about it to network president Phil Griffin. So when Bernie won the caucus and took the top of the Democratic heap, liberal tears flowed copiously on the floors of the station.
Chris Matthews went Godwin Lite and compared Bernie’s victory to the Nazis overrunning the Maginot Line in 1940. Whereupon David Harsanyi of The Federalist offered a more accurate analogy:
". . . a far better analogy is to say Sanders has stormed the Democratic Party like the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace."
Matthews went on to wonder if it would be better for Democrats if Sanders lost the upcoming election.
"I mean, he takes it over, he sets the direction of the future of the party ‐ maybe they’d rather wait four years and put in a Democrat that they like."
Plus, Joy Reid sounded desperate and really shed those liberal tears, because she fears not only losing the Presidency but down ballot races as well.
It’s like the lightbulb went off in her head, and she just discovered that a lot of Democrats don’t like their party elite, either. Just like many disaffected Republican voters in 2016, right?
#1
Come on this is just false. MSDNC is not far left. They are corporate Democrats. Sanders is far left. Sigh. Dumb people don't even understand basic facts about politics.
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#2
..yeah, right. We're talking velocity not the end state difference between them.
#3
Dumb people don't even understand basic facts about politics.
Uh huh. Self awareness much?
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#4
(1) Presidents win re-election
(2) After two terms the other party takes the Executive
These are not laws but tend to be true with the exception of Carter getting one term and Reagan getting three.
If they hold true it is much better for the nation if the Socialist wing of the Democrats gets humiliatingly crushed against Trump. If the Dems steal the nomination from Sanders on behalf of Bloomberg and he loses bad to Trump the Socialists will be positioned well for 2024 when the incumbency advantage is gone, Bernie and Warren with all their commie love negatives will be too old, and the horrors of socialism will be that much easier for the young to ignore.
#5
Seriously? The MSDNC wing of the Democrats aren't socialist. They have more in common with the 1990s Russian oligarchs. Moreover they are globalists and would happily start wars all over the planet.
Sanders is the socialist wing. These are basic facts, people.
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Facts are that the Donks have been slowly turning up the heat on the frog in the pot for decades and now their socialists just want to got full flame on the stove. That is the fact. It's all been about the centralization and concentration of power for them all. Speed is the only difference.
#8
Democrats are three factions:
* Socialists = Sanders
* Corrupt opportunists = Clintons
* Affirmative Actions = Obamas
There is a lot of overlap between some of them but I think the three are currently fighting for control. The US is better off if the Socialists are destroyed and the Earth salted beneath their feet. Same with the Affirmative Action folks but less so, for now.
#9
You're trying to tell us that Baraq Obama is not a socialist? When he advocated redistribution of wealth? What is that if not socialism? And ObamaCare was nothing but a compromise because he knew he couldn't get single payer. Socialism. Communism. P2K has it right. The only difference is how high and how fast they want to turn up the heat on that frog.
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#10
More like State Capitalism. Obama has done more to help a tiny handful of powerful banks and powerful health insurance company bloodsuckers to consolidate control of their industries than any president in the modern era.
We see more industry concentration today than at any time since the days of Morgan and Rockefeller.
Finance, Tech, Healthcare... Obama consolidated industry control on behalf of the DNC's moneybags. Not socialist in the slightest.
Faux-socialism in the economic sphere, combined with with identity-politics Kulturkampf policies, lawfare, decrees and DoJ mischief in the socio-cultural sphere.
#12
When you are consumed with hate, you are vulnerable. The left was so consumed with their hate for Trump they threw out anyone that wanted to work with him and every moderate that had remotely like values. This left the door wide open for someone like Sanders, and AOC, and.... They are reaping what they have sewn. So long to the democrat party, and welcome in the new Democratic Socialist Party, soon to be the People Communist party.
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#13
Ah, purity test are half the fun. The other half being the gulags and such.
What a lot of these advocates today do not comprehend is that the overlap, that is for them.
One day Joaquin Phoenix is the darling of Capital District, next he is purged for disparaging Native Americans by voicing in Brother Bear, or his performance of Jesus was too likable. It can be avoided by tacking left, and left, and left, but one day his will have completed his transition surgery and wearing his sparkle kilt on the red carpet with xmblt's domestic partner talking about how his now grown cow not only have legal rights, but is the inheritor of his estate, he will discover there is no further left to go.
#14
rj's got it - Clinton opportunists are the least bad of the Democrat options. Sort of like sleazy Trump is (by far) the least bad of Republican options. How did we get from George Washington to here?
#15
A lot of the DNC and Dem hierarchy don't seem to want Bernie. They must figure he is not controllable. I think an investigation is called for to see if he has Russian links.
There was always fraud and corruption. And as the demos was expanded the portion that had an expensive classical education naturally made up a smaller part of the total.
#18
On the question of Obama being a socialist or not, I'd say he probably is but is smart enough to know the nation isn't ready yet. He laid groundwork but never pushed it too far that he lost the rubes in his party.
[IsraelTimes] Vermont senator says pro-Israel confab allows ’leaders’ to speak who ’oppose basic Paleostinian rights’; AIPAC blasts statement, says he is ’insulting his very own colleagues’.
The Corbynization of the Democratic Party proceeds apace.
#3
Diversity for thee but not for me. The ADL, the organization which advocates for mass immigration changes tone when it comes to Israel.
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Those Icky Juice, Herb?
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Diversity for thee but not for me
Being a 'global citizen' you're obviously opposed to majoritarian democracy or the concept of sovereignty. Israel, while not a theocratic state, does not have separation of church and state. They seek to retain their principally jewish ethos. I fully support that, my own countrymen wish for a strong hindu ethos. Only global Leftists want amalgamated societies, and attack polities that protect their majority from dilution.
[MSN] Richard Grenell’s tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official may be short-lived, but he wasted no time this week starting to shape his team of advisers, ousting his office’s No. 2 official ‐ a longtime intelligence officer ‐ and bringing in an expert on Trump conspiracy theories to help lead the agency, according to officials.
It’s MSN, dear Reader. They can’t help it.
Mr. Grenell has also requested the intelligence behind the classified briefing last week before the House Intelligence Committee where officials told politicians that Russia was interfering in November’s presidential election and that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia favored President Trump’s re-election. The briefing later prompted Mr. Trump’s anger as he complained that Democrats would use it against him.
Joseph Maguire, the former acting director of national intelligence, and his deputy, Andrew P. Hallman, resigned on Friday. Mr. Grenell told Mr. Hallman, popular in the office’s Liberty Crossing headquarters, that his service was no longer needed, according to two officials. Mr. Hallman, who has worked in the office or at the C.I.A. for three decades, expressed confidence in his colleagues in a statement but also referred to the "uncertainties that come with change."
Indeed.
One of his first hires was Kashyap Patel, a senior National Security Council staff member and former key aide to Representative Devin Nunes, Republican of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Mr. Patel will have a mandate to "clean house," CBS News reported, citing a person close to the matter.
Mr. Patel was best known as the lead author of a politically charged memo two years ago that accused F.B.I. and Justice Department leaders of abusing their surveillance powers to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser. The memo was widely criticized as misleading, though an inspector general later found other problems with aspects of the surveillance.
Let us pause to admire the delicacy of that statement before going on.
Working with Mr. Nunes, Mr. Patel began what they called Objective Medusa to examine the F.B.I.’s investigation into whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign conspired with Russia’s election interference in 2016.
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.
[American Thinker] Ali Watkins, it seems, wasn't the only one.
[Washington Examiner] The federal judge presiding over Roger Stone's case turned down the Trump associate's attempt to disqualify her.
[MSN] Richard Grenell’s tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official may be short-lived, but he wasted no time this week starting to shape his team of advisers, ousting his office’s No. 2 official ‐ a longtime intelligence officer ‐ and bringing in an expert on Trump conspiracy theories to help lead the agency, according to officials.
