Daily Roundup of Weird and Aggravating News
[guest post by JVW]
“ISSUE ONE!” [shouted in the John McLaughin voice]
A Cornell undergraduate is chastened by a professor for wearing cut-off denim shorts at a rehearsal for her thesis presentation (seriously? a rehearsal with faculty present for a senior thesis presentation?), so she strikes back by doing the actual thesis presentation in her underwear. Naturally this is a blow against “the patriarchy,” even though the faculty member who chided her for her earlier appearance would seem to identify as a woman. Note the coverage in the campus newspaper and especially note the comments from the lingerie model/scholar’s peers who can’t understand why my generation is all hung up over appropriate dress in the workplace.
The greatest trick the patriarchy ever pulled was convincing women it was feminist to get naked https://t.co/a7UyEojwKW
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) May 10, 2018
“ISSUE TWO!”
It wouldn’t be a full week without someone in the Administration crapping all over what is otherwise a pretty damn solid week in Trumpland by saying something despicable about an opponent. And that’s followed up by some jackwaggon retired general proving that not everyone who served our country deserves to have his opinions respected when they are pulled straight from his bunghole.
“ISSUE THREE!”
Town & Country magazine found itself apologizing for rescinding an invitation to a charity gala given to Monica Lewinsky once The Big Creep, William Jefferson Clinton, decided that he wanted to attend. You know, I think that at this point in their respective lives Ms. Lewinsky would be a far more interesting dining companion than Mr. Clinton would.
“PREDICTIONS!”
Twitter wars will only get dumber in coming months.
“BYE BYE!”
– JVW
Twitter delenda est.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/10/2018 @ 7:53 pmMeawhile the times wrangled up bel hadj Libyan chiefs wife to defame Gina haspel, they were hoping for Ken but Mail from gitmo is delayed.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 7:57 pmKsm that’s how low the times have gone, remember the library tower.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 7:59 pm“Emails show FBI advised James Comey to consult with Mueller’s office prior to his June 2017 testimony”
—- Judicial Watch
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:00 pmRequired 2 federal FOIA lawsuits to get that info, per Tom Fitton.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:02 pmNothing to see here coronello when Maggie haberman cat coughed up a fireball. Can one forget razorback lecturing a,Bataan death camp survivor colonel Holmes over the futili
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:05 pmThey could have saved a lot of trouble and money by just using Google. This shocking! scandalous! outrageous! revelation was widely reported in the MSM at the time of Comey’s testimony.
For instance, on the CBS News site on June 1, 2017, a full week before the testimony: (emphasis added)
Comey to testify before Congress on Trump interactions June 8
Or Time Magazine, on June 8, 2017: (emphasis added)
Nobody on the Intelligence Committees thought this was even worth asking him about at the time; in fact it had probably been cleared with them in advance.
Yawn.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:34 pmn light of how he repeatedcied about the contents of the memos,it’s a bfd.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:40 pmeveryone hates john mccain
he’s like casey anthony if casey anthony stopped showing up for work but refused to resign because entitlement issues
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:40 pmKim Strassel seems to think the FBI embedded an agent in the Trump campaign. Why, you’d think the FBI thought they were dealing with the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground,
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:42 pmConDave is a cipher.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:43 pmthe dirty dirty men and women of the gestapo fbi they slut themselves across every line of decency
and they keep slutting harder more and more!
chris wray like it like that it make him wanna lick it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:47 pmDisrobed women is not news .
AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:50 pmThere was also this from CNN, on May 31, 2017:
Hilarious that people think an FOIA request makes something widely reported, that everybody knew (and nobody cared about) almost a year ago, into some kind of bombshell.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:51 pmWell pikachu Wray has been in the secret society at least since 2004,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:52 pmMeanwhile a brave woman in new haven gingerly addresses the hijab culture guess what happens next?
Interesting that the TV interviewer instead of the interviewee was the one to apologize for Songbird John McCain. I hope the Lt. General holds out and refuses to apologize himself. Probably too much to hope for, though. But, he is retired, so maybe nobody has enough of a hold on him to make him knuckle under.
Anon Y. Mous (6cc438) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:52 pmNo. Korea released hostages and no evil and dangerous terrorists were given up in exchange.
AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:52 pmhttps://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Screen-Shot-2018-05-10-at-8.25.15-PM.png
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:54 pmnobody should apologize for speaking the truth about John McCain NOBODY
not anybody whole whirl
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:54 pmWray has been in the secret society at least since 2004
for sure his hair’s been in at *least* that long
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:55 pmWell mccain walked out on the wife who stood by him while he was in the laogai after she was maimed in a traffic accident that extraordinary churzpah.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:56 pmIf you don’t change your tone, I’m going to stop occasionally taking you off filter to make you look like a fool.
You have been warned.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:00 pmIssue One.
LOL Well, one could suppose that’s one way of distracting from considering content of her oral. A shirt and tie alone might have been sexier. No doubt Jester could assess, score and add or subtract points from same.
Issue Two.
McCain’s a touchy subject and certainly due some slack cut. Still, he’s brought some of this on to himself by going very public and injected his somewhat bitter musings over his own mortality into the national conversation of late; where he wants his funeral, who he wants to eulogize him and who not to attend- chiefly the current President of the United States. On that last point, a senator and naval aviator should just take the salute from the CiC like a good swabbo. It’s a little egocentric of him. Probably best and more honorable if he’d simply resign, spend his remaining time with his family and follow MacArthur’s lead, let the national memory of him never die and just–fade away. But that doesn’t excuse some young WH staffer from cracking wise; such can be the insensitivity of youth closer to the beginning than the end.
Issue Three.
Dinner with Monica would be for more interesting, indeed; what could be more absorbing, if only as a historical footnote, than watching her lips and tongue at work up close, downing a filet mignon.
Predictions.
Trump won’t talk Kim into returning the USS Pueblo after all.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:04 pmhe never stops gabbing unless it actually came to confronting Obama, then he became a basenghi, meanwhile his black order enforcers Wallace and Schmidt did their dirty work,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:06 pmhich part of the torture of Lloyd buchers crew did you find amusing disco, of course John walker was already leaking the crypto code by that point.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:09 pmAccording to numerous news reports, Comey met directly with Mueller previous to his June 8, 2017, testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sources said that Comey’s opening statement and subsequent testimony were coordinated with Mueller.
At the hearing, Comey revealed that he had intentionally leaked material from a memo allegedly documenting a meeting with President Trump in order to help assure the appointment of a special counsel.
I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
The DOJ and FBI have stated that Comey’s leaks were unauthorized and compared the disclosures to Wikileaks.
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch are the first to reveal that high-ranking FBI officials helped Comey coordinate his testimony with Mueller.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DOJ on January 31, 2018 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00220)). The lawsuit was filed after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 14, 2017 FOIA request seeking:
All records of communications between the FBI and Comey prior to and regarding Comey’s testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on June 8, 2017.
All records of communications between the FBI and Comey relating to an upcoming book to be authored by Comey and published.
All records, including but not limited to forms completed by Comey, relating to the requirement for prepublication review by the FBI of any book to be authored by Comey with the intent to be published or otherwise publicly available.
On May 17, 2017, Comey received notices to appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.
An email chain dated May 18 and 19, 2017, with the subject line “Future testimony” shows then-FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Assistant Director Gregory Brower, Comey and others discussing Comey’s upcoming testimony:
In this chain, on May 18 at 6:30 pm, Comey wrote to Rybicki to confirm that he had accepted the invitation to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) but declined the invitations from the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.
Comey also writes: “Last, would you please tell OGC [Office of the General Counsel] that I would like to be able to review any documents authored by me or on which I am copied that will be produced to SSCI in connection with my testimony and would like the opportunity for that review before I testify?”
An email from a redacted sender, apparently Comey, to Rybicki dated May 19 at 11:49 am reads:
Jim
I just got off a call with Senators Burr and Warner. They would like to have a hearing next Wednesday at which I testify, first in open session and then in closed, if necessary. I asked them not to announce it until I check with FBI/DOJ to see if you want to discuss anything before they do that. I told them I had asked for guidance on any institutional prerogatives and for the opportunity to review any documents FBI has produced that relate to me. I told them I would communicate with them by the end of the day to either ask them to hold announcing the Wednesday hearing or go ahead.
Many thanks.
Jim
On May 19 at 2:10 pm, Rybicki writes back:
Director: We just met to discuss the requests outlined in the two emails below. Before responding the General Counsel has asked me to confirm that you have discussed with the attorneys representing you, and that you are comfortable discussing these issues with us rather than communicating through your counsel.
On May 19 at 3:02 pm, a redacted sender, likely Comey, responds to Rybicki: “Yes and yes.”
Also in this chain, on May 19 at 4:11 pm, Rybicki writes to McCabe, FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich, former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker, Brower, Elizabeth Beers and other redacted names:
Please see a DRAFT response to Director Comey (below). I will hold pending further direction….
Director:
In response to your emails below we have consulted with executive management here, including the General Counsel, and recommend the following:
That your counsel convey any acceptance or declinations to invitations to testify directly to the Committees.
That your counsel consult with Special Counsel Mueller to determine the timing of any such testimony and,
The Office of General Counsel stands ready to discuss with you in consultation with the Department of Justice and the Special Counsel, institutional privileges or prerogatives that may be presented by any such testimony.
“These documents show that James Comey, who was fired by the president, nevertheless had easy, friendly access to the FBI as he prepped his infamous anti-Trump testimony to the Senate,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This collusion led to Comey’s attacking President Trump and misusing FBI records as part of a vendetta against the president.”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-emails-show-fbi-advised-comey-consult-muellers-office-prior-june-2017-testimony/amp/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:16 pm@25.[W]hich part…
Hal Holbrook’s, of course.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:16 pmSeems important that he was no longer an employee of the federal government and yet had easy access to just about everything. I would think that to be highly unusual.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:20 pm“These documents show that James Comey, who was fired by the president, nevertheless had easy, friendly access to the FBI as he prepped his infamous anti-Trump testimony to the Senate,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “This collusion led to Comey’s attacking President Trump and misusing FBI records as part of a vendetta against the president.”
Its the same formula he had followed 13-14 years earlier the high dudgeoen is in his memoir.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:24 pmIn the private sector, if fired, you are relieved of your security badge and escorted off the premises. You don’t have access to documents,etc. In this case, Comey was fired for cause.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:25 pmEleanor Clift: Trump will get Un’s signature on a toothless agreement the old fashioned way – by buying it.
The lady has it right. 🙂
Ed from SFV (291f4c) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:25 pmSince Comey was the former director of the FBI, and his testimony concerned his tenure at the FBI, and he was by all accounts well-liked by the rank-and-file, why is it surprising that these terse and legalistic email exchanges were polite? In fact, the emails are absolutely professional and business-like, without the merest hint of impropriety.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:28 pmWell that was Albright brought home 19 years ago and cliff was nc 17 I’m sure, tell us another alternative in the 70 years of dealing with the hermit kingdom.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:29 pmEd… the day Eleanor Clift gets anything “right” outside of which leg to put her her left Official Bill Clinton Kneepad™ on we’d all better put our affairs in order.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:30 pmCome to your senses, man!!!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:30 pm36 you are missing the obvious point, ConDave. He should not have had access to records. Perhaps you slept thru that class.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:32 pmBut you go ahead… please continue your victory mincing.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:33 pmJust illustrating absurdity with absurdity, Colonel. 😉 I do believe that is part of the end game, though – peace through cash.
Ed from SFV (291f4c) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:35 pmWhat are you talking about? He didn’t have any access to any official records.
He had the equivalent of personal diary entries. They were not official FBI documents, nor were they classified. Perhaps you passed that class by cribbing the answers off someone else’s test.
And there is nothing about any records in those exchanges anyway. The supposed “collusion” consists of the recommendation of the FBI General Counsel that he consult with Mueller on the timing of his testimony to Congress. That’s a double-decker nothingburger.
Your desperation and willingness to grasp at any straw, however absurd, would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:41 pmI fear ConDave has resorted to the patented 8th Grade Mean Gurlz Speak to Teh Hand script.
Sleep tight, ConDave!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:42 pm‘Beginning in August 1968, McCain was subjected to a program of severe torture. He was bound and beaten every two hours; this punishment occurred at the same time that he was suffering from dysentery. Further injuries brought McCain to “the point of suicide,” but his preparations were interrupted by guards. Eventually, McCain made an anti-U.S. propaganda “confession”. He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he later wrote, “I had learned what we all learned over there: every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine.” Many U.S. POWs were tortured and maltreated in order to extract “confessions” and propaganda statements; virtually all of them eventually yielded something to their captors. McCain received two to three beatings weekly because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.’– source, wikipedia
This is the real John McCain, not some fake ‘John Wayne.’ He and his fellow POWs endured the unendurable and did what they had to do to survive. And for that they’ve earned and deserve the respect of the entire nation, no matter how you felt about the war. That includes Trump… and you, too, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:44 pm“Comey also writes: “Last, would you please tell OGC [Office of the General Counsel] that I would like to be able to review any documents authored by me or on which I am copied that will be produced to SSCI in connection with my testimony and would like the opportunity for that review before I testify?”
An email from a redacted sender, apparently Comey, to Rybicki dated May 19 at 11:49 am reads:
Jim
I just got off a call with Senators Burr and Warner. They would like to have a hearing next Wednesday at which I testify, first in open session and then in closed, if necessary. I asked them not to announce it until I check with FBI/DOJ to see if you want to discuss anything before they do that. I told them I had asked for guidance on any institutional prerogatives and for the opportunity to review any documents FBI has produced that relate to me. I told them I would communicate with them by the end of the day to either ask them to hold announcing the Wednesday hearing or go ahead.
Many thanks.
Jim
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:49 pmI posted that last one out of kindness, ConDave. Let me know if you need any other assistance in your search for The Truth.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:51 pmReally did Stockdale denton day thorsness do the same.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:54 pmWhat was the name of that Russian guy that supposedly paid $500,000 to Trump’s lawyer for the NDA with the porn star??
I know it was all over the news last night, but the story seems to have DISAPPEARED.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:58 pmNone of them made the mistake of confusing their status with that of terrorists like tarek zamour who ran the cell that killed sadat, freed by morsi now training a whole new gemeration
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 9:58 pmWhere do you find this stuff, narciso?!?!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:00 pm@44. When the Fox tales off as the crow flies East, foil-wrapped chocolate bars rain down on fields of peanut buttered raisins from the Big Rock Candy Mountain. More Holbrook; you gotta thing going for Hal.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:04 pm39 — Dave you are way out on the limb here.
Comey has admitted that the Trump campaign was the subject of a counter-intelligence investigation going back to the summer of 2016.
Comey has admitted that Trump was a “subject” connected to that investigation, a status he seems to have maintained all through the matter, including after it was passed off to the Special Counsel.
FBI POLICY is that all contacts with a “subject” of an investigation are to be documented in writing.
Comey is lying when he says that the events of the meetings caused him to suddenly feel the need to write down what was said. He always intended to write down his recollection of his meetings with Trump because Trump was a “subject”, and it was necessary to have a record of every meeting by an FBI agent or official with a “Subject.” That’s why his notes were sent to his Chief of Staff, the General Counsel, and the Deputy Director. That’s why he applied a “classification” to them, and requested that the others review the classification level he had assigned.
There is absolutely NO QUESTION that his writings were “FBI records”, and they did not belong to him. He’s engaged in that sophistry because he doesn’t want to admit why he actually took the notes — Trump was a subject, and he treated him like a subject every time they met.
He would also open himself up to potential liability for having removed the records from the office, and taken them home. That’s what Gen. Petraeas pled guilty to.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:05 pmGo IDF Go
mg (9e54f8) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:09 pmVaporize the scum
No. Korea released hostages and no evil and dangerous terrorists were given up in exchange.
AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:52 pm
Not to mention but Obama only traded for a deserter.
AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:09 pmAll entirely above board. They wanted him to testify, under oath, about things that happened while he worked for the FBI, including the contents of the documents he asked to review. And he informed congress of exactly what he would request in order to prepare.
You’re accusing him of nothing more than being responsible in preparing for his sworn testimony.
And you’re nuts if you think there is anything out of the ordinary going on here. As former director, he had to give congress truthful and responsive answers to what they wanted to know, including the contents of official documents he authored or was cc’ed on.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:10 pmOdds and ends, links to foreign newspapers, which come from a few Twitter feeds stuff I’ve read before.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:14 pmSource?
Source?
The particular diary entry that Comey released was his account of a private dinner, which was in no way an official function, and at which no FBI or other business was conducted.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:17 pmAs for (1), that won’t be hard to find — I’ll be back in a few.
As for (2), I’ll put my 23 years as an AUSA, having prosecuted probably 100+ cases with the FBI as the investigating agency, as sufficient to be the “source.”
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:26 pmI miss the good old days of Ayatollahs being passed around the crowd and falling out and then being drug around the neighborhood. Go IDF Go…
mg (9e54f8) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:26 pmNo. Korea released hostages and no evil and dangerous terrorists were given up in exchange.
AZ Bob (9a6ada) — 5/10/2018 @ 8:52 pm
Our Captain boasts of breaking TeeVee ratings at 3 AM for his detainee release show with planes, trains, automobiles and medicals at Walter Reed all paid for by U.S. taxpayers, not North Korea.
He returns something he stole to begin with, gave away nothing of his own in return and wangled a summit with the American president.
Hey Flanders, here’s your weedwacker Homer swiped from you three years ago; now have the Simpsons over for BBQ.
Well played, Kim.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:36 pmGfy dcscahole
mg (9e54f8) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:42 pmCoNDave… he’s a scrapper, eh? Tenacious even when he hasn’’t a leg to stand on… kinda like the black knight in MP and teh Holy Grail, lol.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:46 pm@58. =yawn= deferred; bonar spurs.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 10:52 pmComey said the opposite in June 2017 (emphasis added):
I strongly suspect this is not a matter of opinion, either. An open intelligence investigation of an individual means specific steps have been taken, specific paperwork filed, etc.
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 11:04 pmYou’re the one passed out on the fainting couch over 11-month old “news” that isn’t even news…
Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 11:22 pmGfy delrious dcscahole
mg (9e54f8) — 5/10/2018 @ 11:52 pm@63. =yawn= second deferment; chocolate cream thighs.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/10/2018 @ 11:57 pmSwallow the cream dcscahole.
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:17 am@65. With strawberries! Compliments of our Captain!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:53 am@16. Seems he may have been ‘retired’ again: Fox has apparently decided he will no longer be invited on air to comment.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:13 ammuch more at the link
idiot bush is the gift what keeps on giving that’s for sure (sucky gift)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:25 amSopko complains that the State Department effectively keeps all U.S. personnel in the country trapped in the embassy compound. Thanks to State Department regulations, the 3-mile trip from the Kabul airport to the embassy costs more than a typical round-trip economy flight from D.C. to Kabul.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:54 am62… you keep telling yourself that, ConDave. Smarten up, professor.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:46 amThe Cornell stripper’s thesis was on “media arts”. (The source being Reason, I can’t tell if that’s her major or a major at Cornell.) So she’s looking for a career in the porn industry. No big deal. Not only is it legal these days, it could even make her famous.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:01 amCasey Anthony pays her bills on time. Ask her attorney.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:02 am62… the rest of the story coming out about Mueller and Comey colluding last year before the latter testified to Congress so the former can advise him on how to get his story straight is news, ConDave, no matter how you slice it.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:16 am“A government watchdog group may have finally unearthed evidence of collusion in the Russia investigation — but not on the part of the Trump campaign. The collusion would be on the part of special counsel Robert Mueller and fired FBI director James Comey.
According to new Department of Justice (DOJ) emails obtained by Judicial Watch, Comey — a key witness in the investigation — was advised by FBI officials in May 2017 to consult with Mueller for advice prior to testifying before “any congressional committee” about the investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DOJ.
The emails also show that Comey was advised to seek Mueller’s advice regarding the circumstances surrounding his firing before providing testimony to Congress.
According to numerous news reports, Comey met directly with Mueller previous to his June 8, 2017, testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sources said that Comey’s opening statement and subsequent testimony were coordinated with Mueller.
During that June 8, 2017, hearing, Comey assailed Trump, calling him dishonest, and revealed that he leaked content from his memo to spur the appointment of the special counsel.
I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter,” Comey said at the time. “Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”
Both the DOJ and FBI have stated that Department of Justice leaks were unauthorized and comparable to WikiLeaks’ disclosures.
Comey received notices to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee on May 17, 2017. An email chain started the very next day with the subject line “Future testimony.” On the chain were then-FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Assistant Director Gregory Brower, Comey, and others discussing Comey’s upcoming testimony.
The email chain begins on May 18 at 6:30 pm, with Comey writing to Rybicki to confirm that he had accepted the invitation to testify before the (deep state-friendly) Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) but declined the invitations from the less-friendly Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee…”
Read the whole enchilada: https://pjmedia.com/trending/fbi-advised-comey-to-consult-with-muellers-office-prior-to-june-2017-senate-testimony-emails-show/
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:26 amSo, Dave claims that Comey coordinating his testimony with Mueller isn’t collusion. But would he defend Trump if he was coordinating with Putin?
ropelight (16d5f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:35 amdirty Herr Mueller doing some witness tampering all up in it
the sleazy men and women of the FBI, they don’t play by the rules
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:51 amThat ConDave would even try to tamp down the obvious importance of this new info gleaned from the emails is laughable.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:52 amHe should leave that to Patterico, lol.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:53 amAnd CNN… teh NYT… etc.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:53 amToday’s NYTimes continues to smear Right thinkers (aka the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’).
“In February, Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist who has garnered a cultlike following, asked, in an interview with Vice, “Can men and women work together in the workplace?” To him, the Me Too movement called into question coed offices, a fundamental fact of modern life, because “things are deteriorating very rapidly at the moment in terms of the relationships between men and women.
Having to contend with this question fills me with despair. I would like to say: It’s 2018 and women’s place in public life is not up for debate! But to be honest, I think it is. Trump is president. Everywhere you look, the ugliest and most illiberal ideas are gaining purchase.”
By pointing out the excesses and absurdities of the Me Too movement, Peterson has those excesses projected on himself.
harkin (99ba6b) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:27 amLink for above:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/opinion/intellectual-dark-web-red-pilled.html
harkin (99ba6b) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:28 amSo timewarner spent 710 k last year of lobbyists the largest bloc they Isnt disclose.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:31 amAny insights into just who might have been the FBI’s mole inside the Trump campaign? (And, who might still be in place spying on Trump)
Based on behavior, I’d take a hard look at Jeff Sessions. He sure appears to be in cahoots with Rosenstine, protecting him, allowing him to stonewall congressional subpoenas, and threatening to resign if Rosenstine is fired.
ropelight (16d5f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:47 amSome speculation Stephan halper, some George , the latter was formally interviewed that may have been a debrief.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:52 am“Confidential informant” is a dressed up term for a spy. Who it is isn’t so significant. The fact they have a spy they want to protect speak volumes.
Trump wasn’t supposed to win. Amazing what the FBI/DOJ thinks they can get away with when they’re sure no one’s going to find out.
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:17 amyes yes Mr. narciso
Stefan Halper smells dirtier than hot and horny Lisa Page after the FBI company bbq
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:24 amThe comments about McCain were in extremely poor taste.
But there was a kernel of a point there. No matter your military record or your history of public service, at some point, you need to step down. The man is 81 with a brain tumor. Is there no one else who can represent the interests of Arizona in the Senate?
Seems to me that part of “duty” to one’s country is knowing when to retire.
Bored Lawyer (998177) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:28 amWhy doesnt Jeff Sessions just get tapped to head DHS? Its a more graceful move than resigning or being fired from AGOTUS and seems to be well within wheelhouse.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:38 amHe serves a function, urban, nackrabbits like rosenstein prevent him from accomplishing everything so he does what he can.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:41 am“Why doesnt Jeff Sessions just get tapped to head DHS? Its a more graceful move than resigning or being fired from AGOTUS and seems to be well within wheelhouse.”
Interesting. I was thinking something similar myself. There has been a lot of talk about firing Rosenstein. But there is a way to do that without firing him. Appoint a new AG. Rosenstein is the Acting AG because Sessions recused himself from the Mueller investigation. New AG without recusal, Rosenstein is no longer Acting AG. New AG can then take control of Mueller.
(It would have to be someone who is a straight arrow. Not a Giuliani. More like a Michael Mukasey.)
Bored Lawyer (998177) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:50 amDcsca, I guess you have a point that North Korea only gave back our people, but it’s a pretty big upgrade over Obama’s trades. I hope Trump sees the light that North Korea will never be honest about nukes but if it takes a presidential meeting to get only those people’s freedom I’ll give Trump a tally in the win column for this deal.
Dustin (31fc58) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:50 am“No matter your military record or your history of public service, at some point, you need to step down. The man is 81 with a brain tumor. Is there no one else who can represent the interests of Arizona in the Senate?”
Age and brain tumor nuthin, dood campaigned to overturn Obamacare and then did all he could to resist same.
harkin (99ba6b) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:04 am“Confidential informant” is a dressed up term for a spy.
Worse. It’s a term for a snitch selling out for money or to save his own skin from the crime under “investigation” or other crimes he was caught for, and, even worse; an agent provocateur put there to manufacture the crime. Like the guy who provides the silenced guns and hand grenades for an “illegal arms purchase by a felon (actual case). Or the guy who goes around begging people for any old opiates they have lefty over from their prescriptions because he “hurts so bad” and they get arrested for dealing (actual case). Or like the guy who provided the Tsarnaevs with the bombs for the Boston Marathon bombing (we’ll never know for sure because he was killed by the FBI).
Fact is, for the most part, the Famous But Incompetent only solve crimes they manufacture. Don’t exclude the possibility that the only person in the campaign who knowingly and intentionally “colluded” is their “confidential informant” (if that’s what they’re claiming, I’ve really lost track of all the “he said-she said”).
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:06 amIssue 5: 104-year old man flies to switzerland to commit suicide. (he’s not the only one)
His quality f lfe had declined but he was in better shape than George HW Bush or henry Kissinger. he’d belonged to this EXIT group for some time, and had thought of doing thsi for 20 years. he had to stop his part time work as a scientist and his acting. He fell in his apartment about a month ago and was not found for two days and now in a wheelchair. He complained there were things he coiuld not do.
He lived alone but had chilldren and grandchildren. he was an atheist it seems. And wanted his body either to donated to science or burned.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:07 am91… that’s the mature way of thinking about this. Hope for and work toward the best, expect the worst. Eyes wide open going in.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:10 amvapid ass meghan what only has a job cause she got a famous lick lick daddy what voted for obamacare is trying to get other chicks fired now
the fake news is that this lady “mocked” meghan’s coward-ass daddy
which she did not do but Meghan is a huge liar just like her p.o.s. daddy
these people are disgusting
i abjure them
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:10 am88… job, damn straight! Put Sessions there he can occupy himself with border control and his fixation on stamping out the importation of mota and hard drugs…
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:13 am
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:14 amjobulb“My father’s legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years,” she said. “These people? Nothing burgers.”
just putting that here for if you need a giggle
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:14 amAnd Obama’s fit to be tied!
“Iran’s Entrenchment in Syria Set Back Months After Most Extensive Israeli Strike in Decades.”
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:17 amTrade sessions to the rooskies for a fifth of vodka
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:18 amKnock if off about MCain, you guys. All that he’s doing is that he’s not going quietly. He’s not just giving up. He’s going kicking and screaming and spitting in the Devil’s eye. That’s admirable unless you’re some kind of hippie-Buddhist-Taoist-New Ager or something.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:26 amhe’s despicably trying to ennoble this idea of dying in office long past the point where you’re too incapacitated to perform your duties
and this is a garishly entitled narcissistic and elitist idea
he’s not a good man
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:34 amPredictions: 1. Donald Trump will walk away from the summit in Singapore without an agreement. That may be, in fact, part of the reason it was picked – it’s easier to walk away from there than Panmunjom. Then, further negotiations will happen.
2. Iran will not pull out of the nuclear deal.
3. The new Malaysian government may reveal some facts about Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
4. Israel will destroy Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria and may bomb Damascus before Iran can start a blitz. It may wind up preventing an Assad victory.
5. Banking sanctions will be imposed on Iran that may involve European countries.
6. Nothing will happen with DACA, in spite of a discharge petition unless the courts say it is defunct and even then Trump may veto a bill. At some point immigration will become the number one political issue, eclipsing all others, biut not before North Korea de-nuclearizes.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:44 am61. Dave (445e97) — 5/10/2018 @ 11:04 pm
Also true of a closed counter-intelligence investigation.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:47 amMcCain doesn’t get to crap all over people and then get immunity from blow-back because he’s dying of cancer.
If the family doesn’t want crass remarks, tell McCain to retire – or at the very least get him to shut up. But no McCain had to “Settle scores” by attacking Trump, disinviting him from the funeral, dissing Palin, attacking the current CIA nomineee, etc. – IOW acting just like McCain always has.
Nor is his record as a POW immune from criticism, since his supporter insist on dredging up his 45 year old “Heroism” at every opportunity.
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:55 amPeople make tasteless remarks in PRIVATE all the time. That’s their right. The true villain in this story is jerk who leaked it to the press – 2 hours after the WH official made her comment.
We don’t even know the context.
I don’t know why Trump’s WH can’t stop leaking. Fire ’em.
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:58 am“Iran will not pull out of the nuclear deal.”
Nor will France or Germany. They are making too much money helping the regime remain in power.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:06 amThe conext was something about the confirmation vote on Gina Haspel for CIA Director. McCain had come out against her confirmation because she wouldn’t agree it was immoral, even it was legal.
The official mujt hvve said not to worry about him. It no doubt was misrepresented in some way.
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Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:10 amwell they’ve been repeating that mistake since the 70, when siemens and framatome set up their nuclear program, under the shah,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:12 amI can think of a bunch of other government policies with more claim to being immoral I wonder if other people up for confirmation will be assked about that.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2018/05/08/ag-jeff-sessions-vows-separate-kids-parents-border/591924002/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/what-it-takes-to-get-asylum-us.html
They have to fear for their own life for the right reason
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:13 amthat is standard practice, sammeh, it was only abandoned under Obama,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:19 amThis just in… ConDave was admitted to the hospital late last night, as after going out on a limb, he employed a Husqvarna chainsaw and proceeded to get off of the limb in an unconventional manner.
Silly man.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:21 amAnd Gina Haspel should not be Director of Central Intelligence. A Director’s job is to keep mad dogs like her in check. Or in their cages until it’s time to sic’em on an enemy of America. Making her the director would be like putting the executioner in charge of the prison.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:26 amthat was a Saudi paper, btw coronello:
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1264116/egypt-sinai-terrorists-received-training-isis-camps-syria
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:27 am113… when ConDave is released from care and returns, be sure to look for signs of a head injury. Yes, I know, it may be difficult to discern in his case, but we must do our “due diligence”…
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:32 amshe’s Irene kennedy, mitch rapp doesn’t show himself, so is making ksm more acquainted with water, worse than a drone strike that takes out an 18 year whelp hanging around an al banna,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:37 amAnyone else suspect Sessions is the FBI Informer in the Trump campaign?
LOL!
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:43 am“All that he’s doing is that he’s not going quietly. He’s not just giving up. He’s going kicking and screaming and spitting in the Devil’s eye. That’s admirable unless you’re some kind of hippie-Buddhist-Taoist-New Ager or something.”
It’s not admirable when you are doing it on the public’s account and trashing other people.
Pope Benedict, whatever else you think of him, did a public service by retiring. At some point, the responsibilities are too much someone of that age. What is nobler, hanging on despite increasing enfeeblement and causing your institution damage, or retiring and letting a younger man take over?
How about FDR? By 1945 he had one foot in the grave. Look at the pictures. Yet he hung on, and let Stalin walk all over him at Yalta.
Bored Lawyer (998177) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:45 amwe should be more generous, than the dems were to strom Thurmond Shirley, then everyone slobbered over klansman byrd,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:49 amI like Pope Benedict. And I think that people over 65 should not even be allowed to vote. And I don’t think the White House lady said anything bad. McCain is dying and maybe it will be his replacement who will be voting on Haspel when her nomination comes up for a vote. And I thought McCain is way off base about what he supposedly wrote about Sarah Palin. Still ….
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:52 am115… thx, narciso!
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:56 am121… and what good did marrying the rich blonde with a liquor distributorship do him in the end?
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:59 amAnother example: compare the Queens of Great Britain and the Netherlands. Queen Elizabeth has hung on long past her ability to do the job. Queen Beatrix, OTOH, abdicated in 2013.
Bored Lawyer (998177) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:59 amHe’s been a pill since 2000, but may he RIP
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:01 amthat’s what he did in 2008 through Wallace and Schmidt, the jones memo, Romney hired the man who wrote it, strom was on Normandy if memory serves, but they needed that vote,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:05 amsay we reschedule for another month,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia/russia-after-netanyahu-visit-backs-off-syria-s-300-missile-supplies-idUSKBN1IC0SW
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:35 am@91. Thing is, Dustin, we know the character of this pork chop; he kills his own people/family, literally steals people and anything else he can grab; lies like a rug and spent decades developing a nuclear capability. And lately been ‘consulting’ w/China personally on this as well. Internal politics aside, we all want our president to be successful and taking any step toward peace is worth a try but NorK and China are not our pals and none of us want to see an American president get played and snookered by them– even for a short term win. So far in this, Kim’s essentially given up nothing.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:08 pm“Ms. Lewinsky would be a far more interesting dining companion” That triggers so very many dirty jokes in the mind of this wretched sinner. Read the Starr report to learn what’s in her diet. Hint: the least nasty thing on the menu is “gingko blojoba.” No, not kidding.
gp (0c542c) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:10 pm“everyone hates john mccain” Can’t bring myself to hate the guy.
Cornell performance art: no problem with the body, but could not approve of her scholarly work, being in a garbage field of study as it is. Nevertheless, I see a bright future for her in the academy, in some BS sinecure, perhaps an inclusivity commissar, getting paid more than I ever did as an engineer.
gp (0c542c) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:23 pm@87. See #23; issue 2.
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@99. Does Meagan remember if John played drums or bass guitar with the Keating Five, Mr. Feet?
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:25 pmgp, that particular aspect of her thesis improves once out of the NY snow belt and if one has to compete with wi-girls on the dating scene.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:30 pm“that particular aspect of her thesis improves” Stop, stop! I’m getting a dissertation boner. The worst ones last more than 4 hours.
gp (0c542c) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:32 pmMeghan’s deluded with some severe damn daddy issues Chelsea is positively aglow with mental health next to this chick
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:37 pmCan’t bring myself to hate the guy.
don’t give up I support the effort
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:37 pmPlaying ‘Sarah Sez’…
Q.- ‘Do you have the view that all negative stories about the President are fake?’
A.- ‘No.’
“Never mind what I told you. I’m telling you!” – Captain Morton [James Cagney] ‘Mister Roberts’ 1955
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:47 pmpeople make up a TON of crap about President Trump
it’s shameful and it says a lot more about them than it does about our president
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:53 pmI remain a fan of John McCain, son and grandson of admirals, Navy aviator and POW. John McCain the politician has always been a grumpy old man, and no one can possibly claim to be surprised that he will remain a grumpy old man until his final breath. I credit him with excellent intentions and abysmal judgment and execution. Upon his passing I will mourn John McCain, Navy aviator and POW.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:53 pmAnd McCain’s autobiography beat the hell out of Obama’s ghost-written fiction.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 12:56 pmHaiku, are you now reduced to nothing but silly ad hominems?
You’ve turned into happyfeet with better punctuation.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:02 pm@ Bored Lawyer: Your analysis is right, but I can’t think of anyone who’d fit the description who would take the job (meaning: work for Trump) and who could be confirmed by the Senate. In fact, I suspect if Trump fired Sessions or Sessions resigned — thereby making Rosenstein Acting AG for Everything, not just for the Mueller investigation — Rosenstein would likely remain in that position at least until after the mid-terms, and quite possibly for the balance of Trump’s term.
Mukasey is a patriot, and he had the job already from 2007-2009 (with an easy act to follow, as it were, in Berto Gonzales, the worse example of Dubya’s loyalty-over-competence inclinations), but he’s also 76 and shows it. Like the rest of us, he’s watched how Trump has “rewarded” Sessions’ early support and consistent loyalty. I doubt Trump could ever talk him into the job, because he’d only take it if Trump persuaded him that Trump would actually listen to his advice. And Mukasey’s smart enough to know better than to believe that, even if Trump said it.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:09 pmyou called me happyfeet!
snoopy dance snoopy dance
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:11 pm@142.LOLOLOL alert the guard towers, Mr. Feet- somebody has jumped the wall into West Berlin!
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:17 pmThat Sadler still has her WH gig aftr cracking wise exposes either the impotence or the mindset of CoS Kelly.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:31 pmWhite House: AT&T’s Cohen payment shows Trump can’t be bought.
No, actually it shows that Trump won’t stay bought.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:34 pmthere’s no reason for her to lose her job over wholly condign stuff said in private
Meghan just wants her fired cause Meghan never has to find her own jobs
daddy does that for her so she doesn’t understand what it means to call for someone to be fired
she’s as stupid and clueless as she is mean and arogant
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:34 pmhere is an extra r for arrogant
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:34 pm140… that was for ConDave, who asked for it, popinjay, er, Beldar…
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:37 pmI’m joking, of course. No one but Cohen was bribed, and he can’t deliver. If AT&T wanted Trump to instruct his DoJ to let its acquisition of Time-Warner go through, they certainly knew paying Cohen a mere few hundred grand wouldn’t be remotely sufficient. On the other hand, if they’d promised that post-acquisition, AT&T would liquidate Time-Warner’s CNN division, firing all its employees and selling all its physical assets and IP (those old videos of Wolf Blitzer in the Gulf War have value!) to the highest bidder, the merger would have sailed through.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:39 pmMcCain’s not “spitting in the devil’s eye” or heeding the advice:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
He’s just being John McCain – egoistical Asshole and New York Times suck-up.
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:41 pmif you let everybody and their dog use it why do you need a key
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:45 pm“In addition, DOJ sources told NBC News AT&T offered selling CNN during a meeting on Monday regarding the proposed merger. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division “flatly rejected it” because it would not solve potential anti-competition issues. Justice Department officials told NBC News there are multiple ways to solve issues regarding the AT&T-Time Warner deal, but selling CNN would not resolve concerns.“
There’s another one of those mysterious leaks – although it’s bullschiff – that have happened.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:47 pmI remember reading months ago that was one of DOJ’s asks when their request for either Turner or Directv to be sold got no takers.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:49 pmpeople make up a TON of crap about President Trump
it’s shameful and it says a lot more about them than it does about our president
Yep. You might want to send that thought to John Barron.
Kishnevi (d7d2b1) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:49 pmHaiku, I said liquidated with its employees fired. Merely handing the existing CNN to another corporate owner wouldn’t meet Trump’s goals.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:01 pm152. happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 1:45 pm
So that two people don’t try to go into the bathroom at one time.
The old policy actually was: Only customers can use the bathroom BUT, a store maqnager has discretion to let other people in.
There was no way to apply such a policy impartially.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:06 pmHappyfeet posted the quote. How do you figure into this, Beldar?
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:10 pmIn many places they would kick out people who weren’t customers. In other places, mainly in cities, managers let anyone stay. They’d had bad publicity from not letting elderly Chinese people continue to meet.
A New York City policeman is suing Starbucks, claiming he got injured because they let homelss people stay and gave them free food. They’re not supposed to hand out discarded food either according to Starbucks HQ, but I guess they can make exceptions.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/04/26/nypd-sergeant-sues-starbucks/
He said he should have come earlier. He felt cheated because now he got something he wouldn’t eat.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:11 pmAT&T fired the executive who hired Michael Cohen.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/11/att-exec-forced-out-over-600k-payment-to-trumps-lawyer/
Mark Simone says theer are/were people surroundinbg Hillary Clinton (like Podesta) and George W Bush who made money off of them but with Trump the on;y wass Michael Cohen. Not Jared Kushner he had too much money and so most of Trump’s friends.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:14 pm124. In Malaysia, the king has a 5-year term and theer is a rotation among chiefs.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:15 pmBut the newly elected Prime Minister is 92. he retired years ago, and had been accused of being something of adictator. he said his greates mistake wa snaming the person who got defeated as his successor.
It is acoalition with all his old enemies.
The districts are gerrymandered, but the oppositon won anyway.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:20 pm160. There was only person who could profit by claiming closeness to Trump.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:21 pm@99. “My father’s legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years,” she [Meghan McCain] said. “These people? Nothing burgers.”
Meghan, Meghan, Meghan. With a controversially ‘maverick’ reputation, this is how you ‘trump’ it and get ‘talked about’ for hundreds and hundreds of years, darlin’:
“I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away”. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good Bye.” – Douglas MacArthur
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:26 pm158… that was unkind of me, Beldar, I see your comment 149 now. Yes, I’m sure he’d prefer liquidation.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:38 pmCongressional oversight makes Comey “grimace”.
“[Nunes] is affirmatively acting in a fashion that some of us judged Edward Snowden very harshly for, right, for behaving in a fashion that puts at risk intelligence sources and methods…when being told by senior levels of the Justice Department,” said Wittes, who operates Lawfare, a blog Brookings hosts.
“I can’t understand it,” said Comey, who appeared to grimace at the mention of Nunes’ name. “I’m sure there is some story he tells himself that tries to make sense of it all, but I can’t explain it.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/11/comey-nunes-snowden/
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:44 pmWhen it becomes a disease… https://pjmedia.com/trending/this-is-resist-trump-haters-love-ayatollahs-instagram-pic-of-fire-and-fury/
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:45 pmCNN delenda est, Haiku.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:53 pm1. If Comey wanted to reveal the memo, he should have done it openly. This is not “ethics professor” land, not Naval Academy honor code land, not POW honor land, to sneak stuff out rather than openly publishing it.
2. Dave, Comey is an equivacator. A Clintonian word parser. Dealing with people like this is tedious because they have to be pinned down. It is the opposite of honesty. It is literally an honor code violation, because there is “intent do deceive”. And it’s less manly than an open lie. Weasel.
Anonymous (1448ff) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:56 pmThere was another Comey moment that showed me the man’s character. When asked about decision not to do inform Congress (for oversight) about the Trump Campaign wiretaps, he blamed it on a subordinate. But this was a SUPER high profile investigation. He OWNS that decision whether or not a subordinate originated it. He could have countermanded it. But his FIRST reaction is to pass it off. This is evasive.
It’s a minor thing, but it shows me the man. Would not want to serve in combat with a coward like that. Wouldn’t want to be in business. Wouldn’t want him on my high school football team. Wouldn’t want to have a son grow up like that.
Maybe DC is so full of gutless weasels like this that they find it normal. Maybe it is something about lawyers. Lightweights who think they are smart. They’re not. They are game playing liars.
Anonymous (1448ff) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:02 pmAnyone notice how lawyers cant handle the truth?
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:31 pmPaul Ryan ma
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:35 pmPaul Ryan makes the old speaker look brilliant.
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:36 pmSuch a louse.
“My father’s legacy is going to be talked about for hundreds and hundreds of years,”
What Legacy?
McCain’s has been irrelevant ever since 2008. Just one senate vote out of a hundred. Before then, he lost to Obama, and stabbing Bush in the back from 2001-2008.
He was constantly in the news because the NYT/WaPo loved hearing him push Amnesty, Wars, and bash his fellow Republicans.
But he accomplished almost nothing. He was never in the Senate leadership. And no one under 50 gives a rap about his POW experience, despite everyone talking about it daily.
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:44 pmI would say he was infamous since 2008, ymmv it is curious hecis connected to Deripasha klimnik akhmetshin Milan,
if at&t cannot block a merger with 17 million in disbursement, really Quinn should pack it in.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:06 pm“COMEY: Yes, and I didn’t give him the briefing on the whole Steele dossier. My assignment was to brief him on a small part of it that was salacious and personal, and my sense was… I didn’t get a sense that he knew about those.”
So, Jim, did you have a sense about his knowledge of the parts you DIDN’T brief him on?
Is this kind of prevarication and excuse-making normal for lawyers? If it were a JO on a ship talking to the skipper like this, he’d get his ass reamed. The whole culture is against it. And Comey will be an ethics professor? Hope he’s not instructing a child of mine. I want kids who say “I threw your damned palm trees over the side…and what’s this ‘no liberty'”. Not who juggle and wiggle like cowards.
Anonymous (d41cee) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:08 pm@146. Our Captain will get the bigger and better last word, Mr. Feet; John, like his father, will have a naval warship named after him one day but it’s all but certain there will be a multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier in the future named the USS Donald J. Trump, to launch and land naval aviators just like McCain.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:36 pmIs anything the mouse and the pewter network turn out real:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/05/11/shocker-2-of-big-3-evening-newscasts-took-a-pass-on-this-big-trump-related-story/
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:49 pmso sick of everything being about john mccain he’s not even socially relevant to america
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:50 pmHe has fewer infections and infestations than Stormy Daniels and that’s even after five years in a jungle prison camp.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:56 pmMuch like Donald glover is doing everything to make me not go to add solo:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5719043/Trump-KNEW-claims-ex-New-York-State-attorney-general-Eric-Schneiderman-abusing-women.html
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:57 pmIt’s going to be a race between exposing the spy embedded by the FBI in the Trump Campaign and Mueller’s attempts to put Trump under indictment, which is the only way Mueller and the “Resistance” will force Trump out.
Just imagine what we’d know by now if the DOJ hadn’t slow-walked everything. Things are beginning to come to a point where those who cover for those individuals involved in all of this canNOT be sheltered any longer and those most culpable for this will be exposed.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:57 pmThere’s NOTHING WRONG with that, narciso! The man, Gleason, is trying to protect his clients from whatever exposure incompetent blabbermouth Cohen opened them up to. Read the whole article, not the clickbait spin.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:02 pmstormy’s a vat of disease and funguses
her pimp really has his work cut out (she smells funny)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:07 pmSomeone knew about schneiderman, six years ago, this ‘two bit crook and greenmailer’ was allowed to continue his depredations six years ago.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:14 pmhis depredations were all with completely willing albeit low self-esteem “victims” what enjoyed the perks of his status immensely
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:18 pmYes, and they’re trying to innuendo that on Cohen and Trump, which even I, #NoFanOfTrump, think is bogus. Like they could clean out the sewer which New York (snorfle) law enforcement.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:18 pmConsidering weinateins victim had to be protected by the svu unit against vances office.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:23 pmSo Schneiderman picks up a masochist at the leather bar and brings her home. They hop into bed and she turns to him and says “Hurt me!” And he smiles evilly and says: “No!”
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:40 pm179.so sick of everything being about john mccain he’s not even socially relevant to america
Compassion, Mr. Feet; he is sick, too.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:40 pmHaiku, I have never read anyone who was so certain of himself with so damned little basis for it.
So let’s repeat the process from the other day: What’s your evidence for claiming that Mueller is part of the “Resistance”? I’m unaware of any. Educate us all, please.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:41 pmTo be clear: I’m not saying whether he is or isn’t part of the “Resistance.” I don’t know if he does or doesn’t “want” to indict Trump. I am claiming that I follow the press reports at least as closely as you do, and I haven’t seen any proof that he is. So:
What’s your evidence? Other than it seems that way to you, that’s what they all say at Conservative Treehouse, and “GFY Beldar”?
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:46 pm186.his depredations were all with completely willing albeit low self-esteem “victims” what enjoyed the perks of his status immensely
And his safe word was ‘Bogie,’ Mr. Feet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76s0SF47xw
“When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.” – Sam Spade [Humphrey Bogart] ‘The Maltese Falcon’ 1941
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 5:48 pmAnd yet you believe he is other competent (the anthrax investigation) or honorable (Boston and bcci)
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:03 pmHold on now, Beldar, my mama taught me to never pick a fight with a man who dyes his eyebrows.
I’m saying keep an eye on developments. Nothing is for certain, but if there was an FBI embed in Trump’s campaign, do you think Comey wouldn’t know that? I don’t. And if Comey knew it, what’s the likelihood of Mueller not knowing that? Not much. When political campaigns -especially national – are being conducted, I’m told that they are to be careful, tread lightly, and this has been anything but. When the shock of Trump’s exceedingly unexpected win wore off, the ginning up of this Russian Collusion horseschiff commenced, the phony reasons for Sessions refusal kicked in, Devin Nunes was sidelined for 6 months, all sorts of strange things began happening. If all of this doesn’t smell odd to you – and this is just the tip of the iceberg, there’s so much more, I don’t know what to say to you… other than buy stock in Orville Reddenbacher and get ready for the schiff to hit the fan.
“The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source’s name, the news so far holds some stunning implications.
Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation. In a Thursday press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan bluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’s request for details on this secret source was “wholly appropriate,” “completely within the scope” of the committee’s long-running FBI investigation, and “something that probably should have been answered a while ago.” Translation: The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.
House investigators nonetheless sniffed out a name, and Mr. Nunes in recent weeks issued a letter and a subpoena demanding more details. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s response was to double down—accusing the House of “extortion” and delivering a speech in which he claimed that “declining to open the FBI’s files to review” is a constitutional “duty.” Justice asked the White House to back its stonewall. And it even began spinning that daddy of all superspook arguments—that revealing any detail about this particular asset could result in “loss of human lives.”
This is desperation, and it strongly suggests that whatever is in these files is going to prove very uncomfortable to the FBI.
The bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the Washington Post’s unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes’s request deals with a “top secret intelligence source” of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe. When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.
This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly “unmasked” Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.
Which would lead to another big question for the FBI: When? The bureau has been doggedly sticking with its story that a tip in July 2016 about the drunken ramblings of George Papadopoulos launched its counterintelligence probe. Still, the players in this affair—the FBI, former Director Jim Comey, the Steele dossier authors—have been suspiciously vague on the key moments leading up to that launch date. When precisely was the Steele dossier delivered to the FBI? When precisely did the Papadopoulos information come in?
And to the point, when precisely was this human source operating? Because if it was prior to that infamous Papadopoulos tip, then the FBI isn’t being straight.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-that-fbi-source-1525992611?redirect=amp&ns=prod/accounts-wsj
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:11 pm@ narciso (#194): I understand your opinion; I don’t share it. It’s not evidence, and it doesn’t answer the question: What evidence is there that Mueller is part of the “Resistance”?
Anticipating a common argument: If you say, “He’s staffed his office with Democrats,” my response is: Where’s your proof he knew they were Democrats when he hired them?
Here’s what the DoJ regs say about participation in partisan politics:
Given these regs, do you think a special counsel could poll his prospective staff and demand that they reveal, perhaps subject to penalties of perjury, whom they’ve voted for since reaching age 18? Are ticket-splitters eligible to serve? Is this like committees in Congress, where the party in power is entitled to one more member than the opposition? The whole notion that you get to select your own prosecutor based on his party affiliation is one of the stupidest memes that Trump and Trump Nation have ever indulged themselves in.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:12 pmLink for #196.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:13 pmI’m told that they [law enforcement] are to be careful, tread lightly, and this has been anything but
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:13 pmAre you claiming that WSJ piece you quoted from and linked is proof that Mueller’s part of the “Resistance”? Can you be more specific? That quote doesn’t mention his name.
I can provide you with an affidavit from my barber about my eyebrows, if I’m who you were referring to. I assure you they’re un-dyed — on my word as a man named “Dyer,” an ancient an honorable guild that still owns the swans on the River Thames.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:16 pmI didnt raise his hiring this time Beldar, although it resembles Archibald Cox, St. Paul ’30, firing squad.
https://splash247.com/nobu-su-hot-water-us-violating-iran-sanctions/
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:19 pmWorking backwards this is the other side of ronans scoops,
Just like the IRS network that persecuted the tea party, who is being naive here.?
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:21 pmTell ya what: If you catch Mueller handing out “Kamala Harris ’20” flyers, take a photo and send up a flare.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:24 pm199… like I said, if this all looks kosher to you… well, there it will lay. Kim Strassel is a helluva reporter and let the chips fall where they may.
Colonel Haiku (a7e08c) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:28 pmSo comey lied about the substance of the memos, Mueller wrote his notes on the bedside meeting after it happened,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:32 pm196 — Beldar, all the people Mueller tapped were well known to him. He mentored many of them during the Clinton Admin — remember, he left DOJ when Clinton came into office, but in 2 years he was back in DOJ.
Others were mentors of his mentees — boys and girls who came into DOJ at the beginning of the Obama Administration.
You can go through them one by one, and see the associations.
The most critical is that Andrew Weissman was brought to the FBI by Mueller, and Andrew Weissman was picked by Mueller to be his Senior Deputy on the SC team. Most of the people picked by Mueller have a connection to Weissman through the Enron task force.
Their politics were not a secret to anyone in DOJ that knew them.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:38 pmIt’s not gonna be Kamala Harris…and on the other side in 24, perhaps not Mary Fallin.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:41 pmAre we in a mass delusion, or did this man actually exist? The media seems to have erased him and his misdeeds from history.
Patricia (3363ec) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:54 pmThat’s because he has not been in a position to raise our taxes or send our young men to a foreign land to be killed for more than eighteen years, Patricia.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:03 pmhalf of Mueller’s gestapos worked at the same law firm he did
big-ass Democrat law firm all up in it
and Mueller’s dyke wife is horny now call 1 900
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:07 pmYou’re really giving my blocking script a workout, happyfeet. To put it bluntly, you’re harshing my mellow.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:11 pmit’s cause of i have the sincere sentiments
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:13 pmYes we know his overweening respect for women, serious
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:15 pmY though it looks like this fellow schneiderman makes spitzer look respectable.
@ swc: Do you think Mueller picked his team based on their politics?
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:17 pmNow pointing out, that wilmer Pickering has represented Deutsche bank (say what) player in the labor bid rigging scheme, Qatari investors in Barclays bank, all sorts of interesting connections
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:18 pmSee I don’t need invective to make my argument.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:23 pm213 – I think he wanted a team that would have no reluctance to take on a sitting President. When it’s a GOP incumbent, that’s easier to find among Dems. And vice-versa.
Shipwreckedcrew (47c5ae) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:28 pmit says the roundup is daily but there’s no roundup today just yesterday i want some doritos
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:30 pmThat’s true, narciso, and I appreciate you for it.
Haiku, we can agree to agree that we have differences of opinion about what’s kosher. I’m just warning you for future reference, though, that I’m very vain about my eyebrows, which collectively comprise the only hair I have that didn’t start turning gray at age 40. I confess that the occasional brow that’s gray, I pluck. And for the rest, better that it turned gray than if it had turned loose.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:30 pm@ swc (#216): That’s not completely responsive, but close enough in context.
Weissman left few friends behind in Houston.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:34 pmSo thank you, I meant to say, in #219.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:35 pm#1: It’s a trap!
trap
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:35 pmA pre-op transwoman who is both passable and hot. The kind that, when you find she’s packing heat, you just don’t care.
How was I supposed to know she was a trap? Well, of course I banged her. She was hot.
#transwoman#transgender#sexy#genderbender#penis
Urban Dictionary
He has fewer infections and infestations than Stormy Daniels and that’s even after five years in a jungle prison camp.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:56 pm
You can’t renounce your country while eating a bag of d’s.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:38 pmHow about in Chicago, where Arthur Anderson used to stand.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:39 pmThat’s because he has not been in a position to…send our young men to a foreign land to be killed for more than eighteen years, Patricia.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:03 pm
A ******* sexist as well.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:41 pm@203
Kim Strassel isn’t a reporter, she’s a columnist.
Davethulhu (7e7722) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:42 pmI can provide you with an affidavit from my barber about my eyebrows, if I’m who you were referring to. I assure you they’re un-dyed — on my word as a man named “Dyer,” an ancient an honorable guild that still owns the swans on the River Thames.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 6:16 pm
Too bad Led Zeppelin didn’t name a song about you.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:43 pmShe does more research than these so called reporters who just follow press releases.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:46 pmAnyone else suspect Sessions is the FBI Informer in the Trump campaign?
LOL!
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:43 am
He’s what they call a sleeper.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:49 pm‘I don’t get involved with pimps’: Rudy Giuliani escalates battle with Stormy Daniels’ lawyer.
(Cue nk to say: Yeah, only their johns! #rimshot #NoThat’sAKindOfDrumRoll #NofanofTrump #NoThat’sNot’No.1FanOfTrump’)
So I guess that means Team Trump is likely to join in Cohen’s objection to Avenatti’s as-yet-unfiled application to appear pro hac vice in the SDNY — on grounds, essentially, that Avenatti is a very bad boy who shouldn’t be permitted to show his face inside the bar of the Southern District, even provisionally.
Judge Kimba Wood has ordered today that if Avennati wants to participate in the status conference scheduled for May 24, he must file his pro hac vice application before May 17. His motion to intervene on behalf of Stormy is still pending, per an earlier agreement through which Cohen’s lawyers, Trump’s lawyers, The Trump Organization’s lawyers, and Avenatti all asked Judge Wood to hold that motion to intervene pending further discussions among them.
Opposed motions to appear pro hac vice are about as common as hen’s teeth, but Avenatti would be the first to tell you that he’s exceptional! uncommon! and brilliant! (But only in a con-man sort of way. I’ve written before about how much con men enjoy putting one over on other con men, a la “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.”)
PS: Since her name appeared in the press about this case, triggering my recollections of her from the early 1990s, I’ve been walking around, humming and singing to myself, “If you knew Kimba/Like I know Kimba ….” Which is pure conceit; I barely know her, but I know she knows her privilege law.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:49 pmAlso worth your while from that set of documents on PACER that I’ve helpfully downloaded and hosted for your entertainment: A letter-brief from one Michael J. London of Taiwan, asking Judge Wood to “issue a bench warrant for the arrest of the FBI agents who conducted the operation and force them to return the documents.”
After careful but swift consideration, Judge Wood wrote on the bottom of the letter: “The Court lacks the authority to grant the requested relief. 4-30-18, So ordered, N.Y.N.Y., /s/ Kimba M. Wood, U.S.D.J.”
Apparently there is a Trumpkin chapter in Taiwan, then.
Also, here’s the current docket sheet if you’re interested.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:56 pmAnyone else suspect Sessions is the FBI Informer in the Trump campaign?
LOL!
rcocean (1a839e) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:43 am
No sane person. But with 330 million people in the United States, the Bell Curve pretty much guarantees a number of nutcases larger than the prison population.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:59 pmNow, the 10-year veteran is suing Starbucks. He says for more than a year he repeatedly warned managers that handing out free food and drinks to emotionally disturbed people in the store could be dangerous.
He says he even offered to help set up a different method for helping the hungry…
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:11 pm
Top of the Muffin to ya! Time to take a ride to Fist City .
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:59 pm“I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away”. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good Bye.” – Douglas MacArthur
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 2:26 pm
Do you or Mr John Hitchcock know about this:
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:13 pmWashington Post
Opposing a motion to appear pro hac vice, by an attorney who is in good standing in his original jurisdiction and who meets the trial attorney requirements for the particular court (in NDIL it’s two jury trials), is as much harassment of the judge as it is of the attorney and judges don’t like that. But Cohen does not strike me like the kind of guy who knows his way to the courthouse let alone around a courtroom.
His motion to oppose Avenatti’s motion to intervene sounds meritorious to me, though. I see no way that Stormy has standing and, more importantly, these are highly confidential proceedings involving the results of a search warrant executed on an attorney and they should be limited to the government and to Cohen and any of his clients asserting privilege.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:15 pmAnyone notice how lawyers cant handle the truth?
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:31 pm
It burns them like Holy Water.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:16 pmPerusing that You Tube feed took me to “You’re the Reason our kids are ugly”. Paquita La Del Barrio and her “mother nature was cruel to you” shtick got nothing on that ditty.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:18 pmHere’s the signature block on the government’s response opposing Manafort’s motion to dismiss the D.C. superseding indictment:
I know the DoJ is super-finicky about these signature blocks and the pecking orders they reveal. That Weismann was the subordinate who e-signed on Mueller’s behalf is significant, as I understand such things from a far distance.
I included the phone number in case hatefulfeet wants to leave some voicemail messages over the weekend about Mueller’s wife, a la #209.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:18 pmTrump and Stormy played lawyers on TV, mr nk.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:19 pmAnyone notice how lawyers cant handle the truth?
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 3:31 pm
It burns them like Holy Water.
You wish. We decide what The Truth is and we enforce our decision with sheriffs, marshals, wage garnishments, property attachments, and jails when necessary.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:19 pm@ Pin (#235): Lawyers are like the witches in the Wizard of Oz. Some you want to be very nice to because they’re friendly and magical and might show you how you can get yourself home. Others you want to drop a house on top of.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:20 pm@146. Our Captain will get the bigger and better last word, Mr. Feet; John, like his father, will have a naval warship named after him one day but it’s all but certain there will be a multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier in the future named the USS Donald J. Trump, to launch and land naval aviators just like McCain.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/11/2018 @ 4:36 pm
Will President Harris send that carrier to Mexico?
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:24 pmI included the phone number in case hatefulfeet wants to leave some voicemail messages over the weekend about Mueller’s wife, a la #209.
I would strongly advise using a burner phone.
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:26 pmYou wish. We decide what The Truth is and we enforce our decision with sheriffs, marshals, wage garnishments, property attachments, and jails when necessary.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:19 pm
IOW it’s exactly like Holy Water, sacraments, canon, vestments and SkyDragon Sotomayer.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:27 pm@ Pin (#235): Lawyers are like the witches in the Wizard of Oz. Some you want to be very nice to because they’re friendly and magical and might show you how you can get yourself home. Others you want to drop a house on top of.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:20 pm
Some are stable, like C4, and some are sensitive like nitroglycerin and mr nk lol.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:32 pmI know that General MacArthur is extremely highly revered in the Philippines, who are very proud of the highway they named after him.
John Hitchcock (05d3ed) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:33 pmKim Strassel isn’t a reporter, she’s a columnist.
Davethulhu (7e7722) — 5/11/2018 @ 7:42 pm
A fifth columnist!
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:33 pmAh were going to try civility one of these days:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/296582/
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:33 pmI know that but leaving general wainwright behind is troublesome.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:35 pm@ nk (#234): Yeah, the pro hac vice thing really is a slap-fight (or as we’d more likely say in Texas, a p*ssing match) among counsel. But as best I can tell from the docket sheet, Stormy’s motion to intervene was only made orally by Avenatti at the hearing in Judge Wood’s court on April 26. There’s no written motion in the file on PACER, perhaps because no coherent written motion could be written without running badly afoul of Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 (yes, this is a civil case, thus frivolous pleadings are sanctionable). I’m at a loss as to why either Trump or the government are even willing to discuss it with Avennati.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:35 pmFor once I agree with random viking (#242). And throw away the burner phone after you use it! Apparently that mutt Cohen had 16 or so of them seized when they executed on the search warrants.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:39 pmYes he should have destroyed them like Hillary, no harm no foul.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:44 pmEuropean ranch flavor
https://www.axios.com/hungary-czech-romania-block-eu-statement-against-embassy-move-jerusalem-6b85f6bb-8861-4dab-8473-e542196d1368.html
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:45 pm237 — it means that Weissman is lead counsel on that case, and had final say on the brief. The only attorneys who are supposed to be listed are attorneys who have filed a notice of appearance, or who have made a physical appearance in Court in the case.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:49 pmI don’t even know where to buy a burner phone. I have bought prepaid phones, for guests visiting me from overseas, whose own phones did not work or cost too much to use over here, and I had to give the same identifying information as I did for my own billable phone in order to activate them. I suppose I could find a homeless person to do a straw purchase for me but that’s just one more witness against me.
Nah, better use a code, a dead letter drop, and have important conversations in a car you just rented while driving on the highway at 55 mph. You can get a U-Haul F-150 for $31/day plus mileage just by walking in up here.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:51 pm@ nk: I was admitted to appear pro hac vice before U.S. District Judge James B. Zagel in NDIL, way back in 2003. I thoroughly investigated the judge’s idiosyncrasies, and sought guidance for my motion both from local counsel and directly from the court staff, to avoid the indignities associated with screwing up that application. It was promptly granted, and I enjoyed both of the occasions on which I appeared and argued before Judge Zagel: We persuaded him that our Texas-based client had serious personal jurisdiction defenses in a huge multi-party antitrust case, and held up merits discovery with jurisdictional discovery for over a year — at the end of which the plaintiff gave up, which I’m sure pleased him as much as it pleased us.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:53 pmI don’t think there is any way she lets Avenatti into the case PHV. In fact, I don’t think she’s going to allow Stormy Daniels to remain in the case as an intervenor. She has no interest in the outcome here.
shipwreckedcrew (56b591) — 5/11/2018 @ 8:54 pmCohen’s burner phones may turn into smoking gun phones.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:00 pmMy first federal court appearance was on a motion for leave to file my appearance pro hac vice, as well. My application for licensure in that District was still pending. I attached a letter of good standing from Illinois. I can still hear the judge saying when I presented my motion: “I can’t see the Plaintiff objecting to that.”
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:02 pmYes, why would someone who was labeled in an official document like mccain turned the dossier into, be suspicious of govt agents.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:06 pmMessers Beldar and nk,
The pinnacle of truth and beauty, prove me wrong:
Aura Polonaise and Badinerie
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:14 pmNo argument, Pin. Very lovely.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:26 pmWonderful pin,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:46 pmYes.
nk (dbc370) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:47 pmBeldar, your silly attempts to whitewash Mueller’s gang of assassins would be laughable if you were actually being sincere. But, that’s not the case, is it?
You’re just parroting typical shyster lawyer arguments to obfuscate the facts and avoid admitting Mueller and his handpicked thugs don’t give a damn what unethical tactics or perverted legalities it takes to get Trump, just so long as they get him.
ropelight (a97e0c) — 5/11/2018 @ 9:55 pmWe like to think on balance prosecutors are honorable even though Conrad black ted Stevens bob McDonnell and Tom delay would say otherwise.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:13 pm“The Iran deal is one of the last props to fall in the Potemkin presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. As the Mueller “investigation” collapses, Stormy Daniels blows her way out to sea, and even CNN comes to realize that Trump will be president at least until January 2021, the first explicitly anti-American presidential administration in history has been unmasked. Expect more, and worse, to follow. A great reckoning is at hand.”
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:49 pmropelight, you’re a consistent joy in my life. You never disappoint.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:50 pmhttps://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/tumblr_p8ftjwVTNg1t0xcrio1_540.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:52 pmhttps://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/besttrade.jpg
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:53 pmI’m actually trying to parse that (#264), ropelight.
Okay, so IF I were sincere (which you believe I’m not), then my attempts would be laughable.
But since I’m not sincere, are my attempts therefore not laughable? Or are they even more laughable?
If I’m merely parroting “typical shyster lawyer arguments,” does that mean that you’ve acquitted me of being a typical shyster lawyer myself? I assure you, dear ropelight, that I make up all of my own typical shyster lawyer arguments, I don’t parrot anyone else’s.
But you’ve got me dead cold to rights: Yes, Mueller phoned me last night to confirm that he and his thugs really don’t give a damn et cetera, but he threatened me with prosecution if I admit to you that he told me that. I’m so desperate to avoid that, I started parroting, I guess.
Thanks again for the grins. You’re still leaning a little too much on that thesaurus, but it’s always a pleasure trying to puzzle you out when you’ve put so much effort into crafting an insult.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 10:59 pmAs for the word “whitewash”: I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Beldar (fa637a) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:03 pmNot even remotely analogous. That you can’t see this is mind-boggling.
Comey was testifying as former director of the FBI, and was going to be asked about an ongoing investigation in which the FBI was playing an central role. As such, it would have been routine to clear what he planned to say publicly about the investigation with the lead investigator, in this case Mueller.
It was universally understood, and reported at the time, that this was going to be done, because it was normal, common-sense procedure. His congressional testimony was even scheduled in such a way as to allow him to do it beforehand. It may have even been required for him to clear what he said (in the same way that he had to get the FBI lawyers to sign off on the fact that his book wasn’t revealing any information he was obliged to keep confidential).
It’s a double-decker nothingburger, with a side of who gives a crap…
Dave (445e97) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:40 pmCharacterized by superior moral authority, eh Dave.
mg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:54 pmmg (9e54f8) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:54 pm
Squirrel!
Dave (445e97) — 5/11/2018 @ 11:58 pmWorm
mg (9e54f8) — 5/12/2018 @ 12:19 amI bet you guys would like to know What Etruscan Sounded Like.
Pinandpuller (1b72b5) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:05 am“It was universally understood, and reported at the time, that this was going to be done, because it was normal, common-sense procedure. His congressional testimony was even scheduled in such a way as to allow him to do it beforehand. It may have even been required for him to clear what he said (in the same way that he had to get the FBI lawyers to sign off on the fact that his book wasn’t revealing any information he was obliged to keep confidential).
It’s a double-decker nothingburger, with a side of who gives a crap…”
Universally? That is laughable. In some quarters, yes. But that’s true of nearly everything.
How can a guy who doesn’t understand what constitutes a record, who apparently doesn’t know what record retention means, who doesn’t get that a fired employee – fired with cause – has no business rooting through documents in an attempt to make sure he gets his story straight when the same courtesy would never be extended to another subject in similar circumstances, i.e., in the hot seat be expected to understand much of anything having to do with the real world?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:09 amThe world of “what ifs”, the world of academia.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:12 am“ As such, it would have been routine to clear what he planned to say publicly about the investigation with the lead investigator, in this case Mueller.”
As if Comey, himself, was not a central part of the investigation, had no role in it. LOL.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:14 am“It’s been more than two months since the chairman of a major Senate oversight committee sent a pointed request for information about the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation to the Department of Justice (DOJ), but the agency still hasn’t responded to the lawmaker’s inquiry.
The March 1, 2018, letter from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asked eight questions about DOJ’s handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation shortly before and after the 2016 presidential election. The specific focus was on decision-making process after the discovery that a laptop owned by Anthony Weiner, who was then married to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, contained potentially classified e-mails to and from former secretary of state Clinton.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter told The Federalist that Rosenstein has yet to respond to Johnson’s inquiry. In his letter, Johnson requested a response by March 15, 2018….
DOJ’s refusal to respond to congressional oversight requests has become a disturbing pattern. The federal law enforcement agency regularly ignores requests, slow-walks them, or demands unnecessary redactions unrelated to privacy or national security matters. Rosenstein recently accused lawmakers of extortion after they threatened to take action against him if he continued to defy congressional requests for information about agency activities.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/10/two-months-later-doj-still-hasnt-responded-to-top-senate-investigator/#.WvXCh0nlBc0.twitter
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:31 amDave, 7 and 14:
Yes, the coordination with Mueller was public. What is news is knowing that the fired Director was being advised by still-serving executives at the FBI such as the CoS.
http://www.worldtribune.com/fbi-advised-comey-to-coordinate-with-mueller-before-senate-testimony/
“In a press release on May 10, Judicial Watch revealed an email chain dated May 18 and 19, 2017, with the subject line “Future testimony” that shows then-FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Assistant Director Gregory Brower, Comey and others discussing Comey’s upcoming testimony.”
“The emails obtained by Judicial Watch are the first to reveal that high-ranking FBI officials helped Comey coordinate his June 8, 2017 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee with Mueller.”
However, the coordination with Mueller was public:
“Several news outlets had reported that Comey’s opening statement and subsequent testimony before the committee were coordinated with Mueller.”
Anonymous (d41cee) — 5/12/2018 @ 2:40 am@241.Will President Harris send that carrier to Mexico?
The real question: will there be any goldbricking aboard or just a lot of brass, PP.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 5/12/2018 @ 3:48 amOld Texan sez…
“Trump, was just a joke, never happen, what the hell is he doing filing for the office of President. Then it was Trump, the easy target, the man the left would love for the opposition, what a joke. Then is was Trump, the Mad Tweeter, funny beyond funny and one hell of a fun target and greatest talk show target, ever.
Then he got the nomination of the Repubs and the Dems knew they had it made, in the shade. A few Bumps and Lumps in the throat for some as he started turning out crowds in flyover land but really who’s to worry about that because the USA of was going to have the first woman p resident, following the first black (1/2) president so no need to really be concerned because the whole world was watching and waiting to Crown the First Woman President.
I told some friend who were so damned excited about the First Woman President, professional female friends that there might be a lot of regular conservative people who don’t answer phones and respond to polls and they told me I was nuts because we were going to have the Smartest Woman in the Country elected to be the First Woman President and the clown man would take down his tent and leave town.
And then the impossible, to them, happened and the Smartest Woman in the Country lost on November evening to the man who could never win. So, how to fix it, even old Republicans, especially those who knew their roles and how to play their parts thought, he will be gone in a month or two, he really doesn’t want the job, he has no background for the job, and the sooner we all get together and run him off the sooner we will settle for Pence to play this charade out and then elect a good insider who knows how the world really works, how to sail along smoothly and not make waves.
And then…… the stock market did not crash, the Trump kept on tweeting….. every day there was (inside information) that he had no idea what he was doing and nobody really liked him and he should just go home.
And then…. Trump started actually doing things, the rumors did not run him off, he made and corrected mistakes and George Bushes statement at the inauguration made even more sense when he said, “This is some crazy sh*t.”
No one but Trump could do all the stuff that he has done to undo what the 1/2 white guy did which was unprecedented with regulations and deals. I have no idea how long the current deal maker will be in office but he did make changes and looking at the stock market today, America is Great.”
http://www.neoneocon.com/2018/05/11/the-trump-bump/#comment-2385507
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 4:01 amWhile I was at the ranch:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/the-week-in-pictures-thank-god-its-saturday-edition.php
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 5:34 amNext thing you’ll tell me stark rechnolofies doesn’t exist either:
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 5:53 amhttps://mobile.twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/995175385959620614
282, if Michael Savage was right, a lot of babies made also, to say nothing of the urban dictionary version of trap-ing.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 5:57 amHe sounds so sincere:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-is-the-single-greatest-political-leader-of-our-time/2018/05/11/f7d33e22-5553-11e8-abd8-265bd07a9859_story.html?utm_term=.61f933c3fcf0&noredirect=on
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:05 amIt’s not Michael Savage. It’s the Navy’s own statistics. http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/01/exclusive-deployed-us-navy-has-a-pregnancy-problem-and-its-getting-worse/
Why do you think the involuntarily-celibate-in-civilian-life-because-the’re-unattractive join the Navy if not for their turn in the barrel with horny young men out at sea for months?
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:09 amSo when there were warning just this sort of thing would happen
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/a-cynical-moan-about-leaving-the-iran-deal.php
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:18 amSwarthy gals just wanna have fu-un…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:19 amThe three naval traditions: Rum, sodomy, and the lash. They took the SM (lash) off the ships and moved it to Gitmo, but they don’t even have to turn a blind eye to the sodomy (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) anymore.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:37 amThey come back in the morning light
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:44 amTeh Captain says when you gonna live your life right
Oh captain, sir, we’re not the fortunate ones
And girls they wanna have fun
Swarthy girls just want to have fun
Just grey cats in the middle of the night
Give good as they get and never put up a fight
They’re put away wet after many a run
These girls they wanna have fun
Swarthy girls just want to have
That’s all they really want
Some fun
When their Navy day is done
Oh girls, they wanna have fun
Swarthy girls just wanna have fun (girls and boys wanna have fun, girls wanna have)
Some boys take a plain Navy girl
And hide her away from the rest of the world
But nk be the one to give her a run
He knows girls they wanna have fun
Swarthy girls just wanna have fun
In pre Vat. II catholicism, nuns and priests were encouraged (at varying degrees of intensity) to get it on – convent or seminary, and the gay man was told to take it to the monastery.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:45 amFrom my view in Great Lakes land, the unattractive girl has the same good odds as she would in a college engineering program. The Navy became the magnet school of the armed forces during the Middle East war period.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:50 am“As death flutters around the back-yard deck of Senator John McCain, it’s sad to read reports that the scrappy Sandcutter regrets picking Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate and wishes he had instead picked Senator Jos. Lieberman. The only person diminished by this kind of talk is Senator McCain himself, and the heroic Arizonan deserves better.
Not that we lack for love of Mr. Lieberman. The Sun was the first newspaper to sketch the rationale for Mr. McCain to bring in Mr. Lieberman as his running mate. That was in an enthusiastic editorial called “The Logic of Lieberman.” We issued it shortly after Mr. Lieberman delivered at the Commentary dinner a speech that left us with the view that as a running mate he’d be “fabulous.”
That was in May 2008. In August, Mr. McCain turned to Mrs. Palin. We were thrilled with that choice, too, calling it a “brilliant pick.” We’ve never abandoned that opinion (nor, until the latest reports, had Mr. McCain). As the campaign faltered, our view was that it was because of the kinds of errors that could be laid only to the candidate at the top of the ticket.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:56 amFor that last one https://www.nysun.com/editorials/senator-mccains-regrets/90261/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:57 amYou betcha coronello,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:03 amYou seem to have a prejudice against dark women, Haiku, and it makes me wonder. White, European-descended people go to the beach and tanning salons. Among the dark races, many pride themselves on being lighter-skinned than their fellows, and look for light-skinned mates. Hmm.
But, thankfully, it’s not invariable. More share Byron’s sentiment:
Click on it, to hear it sung.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:10 am299… no,nk, I gots me one. But she ain’t “swarthy”. You, unfortunately, let it slip a few years ago how attractive you found Huma Abedin-Weiner to be. She be swarthy.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:21 am“People don’t feel sorry for us; you don’t get that empathy. People think you’re beautiful, you’re thin, you’re rich, you’re photographed on the red carpet, and you get stuck in this category.”
— Huma Mahmood Abedin-Weiner
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:33 amShe indulged in more than little category error there
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheDCPolitics/status/995136811419631616
Priyanka chopra (shame trump broke their shoe) Sarah shahi
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:39 amWhatever. De gustibus etc. At least I won’t have to worry about you bird-dogging me with Huma.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:51 am“You, unfortunately, let it slip a few years ago how attractive you found Huma Abedin-Weiner to be.”
gp (0c542c) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:08 amMe too.
So much for that:
https://www.weeklystandard.com/jenna-lifhits/u-s-european-powers-could-clash-over-reimposition-of-iran-sanctions
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:13 amhttp://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/mccain-sharp-brush-off-candidate-shortness-shriver-shocks-observers-article-1.875102
She was pregnant and he turned around And yelled at her
EPWJ (bc595c) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:36 am^304, That would be a dramatic reset of the RISK board, but that depends how many Muslim Colin Powells there are in those militaries.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:38 amI Need a HeroThey Need a MuellerWhere have all teh Feeb men gone
And why are they all now so Gump?
Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight this President Trump?
Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Late at night they toss and they turn
And they dream of what they need
They need a Mueller
Their hopes are all on Mueller ’til the end of the fight
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta get Trump wrapped up tight
They need a Mueller
They’re holding out for Mueller ’til he makes his case
Don’t hafta be real
But it’s gotta be soon
And he’s sure gotta keep a straight face
Keep a straight face
Sometime ‘round November
Back in twenty sixteen
Teh rending of garments
Teh gnashing of teeth started earnestly
Colludin’ with teh Russkies employin’ Christopher Steele
They woke up Devin Nunes and then teh schiff got real
They need a Mueller
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:39 amTheir hopes are all on Mueller ’til the end of the fight
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta get Trump wrapped up tight
They need a Mueller
They’re holding out for Mueller ’til he makes his case
Don’t hafta be real
But it’s gotta be soon
And he’s sure gotta keep a straight face
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Well, we were walking down this very narrow area in order to give the speech of the night of Super Tuesday, and she jumped out in front of my wife and bumped into my daughter and yelled, how do you feel? And I said, please, please, let us alone, I think is somewhat along the line. I did say please.
I just thought that it was not appropriate the way that she approached it.
But look, I’m sure that Ms. Shriver was trying to do her job, and I hope she understood that I was trying to go down at a very difficult moment. And I obviously didn’t — hope she appreciated I didn’t appreciate one of my children being bumped into.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KING: You bumped into him?
SHRIVER: I didn’t, but I appreciate his understanding that I was doing my job.
KING: You didn’t bump into anybody?
SHRIVER: I didn’t bump into anybody. And — but I understand that that was a difficult night for him, and I was there doing my job. I was at the end of a corridor, where, you know, the senator and his family came walking down. So I didn’t jump out from a bush or I didn’t jump out from a wall and go, woo, look, here I am.
I have great sensitivity for that experience of what he was going through that night. I’ve been there. My dad ran for vice president and lost in a very big humiliation landslide. My dad ran for president and lost. And I can tell you what those nights — both of those nights felt like, like they happened to me yesterday. So I know what those nights are like.
But I’m also there doing a job. I’m assigned to cover that night, that candidate. And — but I have no — you know, I think a lot of people made a huge deal out of that incident.
KING: They sure did. SHRIVER: They did. And I think that that’s because there had been so much discussion about his supposed temper. But I had no hard feelings toward him and I was glad…
KING: Was he ill-tempered toward you?
SHRIVER: Well, I think he wasn’t happy about it. But I don’t — I don’t judge him on that. I don’t think he’s — you know, it’s not the first time I’ve been yelled at by somebody and I doubt it will be the last. And I hope and I — you know, he’s gone on, on other shows and said, you know, that he understood that I was doing my job, and I respected that. And I have great respect for him and what he’s trying to do and what he went out to do.
And so I have no hard feelings, and I hope it’s mutual.
KING: Case closed.
SHRIVER: Case closed.
What had happened is mscain yelled at and bumped hard a pregnant Maria Shriver
EPWJ (bc595c) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:43 amHe shoulda built a wall
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:48 amA reminder, and further re professional chicken little dave johnson
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2018/05/the-irs-scandal-day-1831-the-five-year-anniversary.html
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:48 amWhat had happened is mscain yelled at and bumped hard a pregnant Maria Shriver
The cad! But that’s nowhere near as bad as not giving Baby Donnie the lollipop he wants. Mean, mean John McCain.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:53 amI wonder how long Cadet Bone Spurs would have lasted in a North Vietnamese prison camp. But all we might ever know about his Vietnam “service” is how long he “lasted” servicing the women he thought were landmines. Since you want to bring up the past.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 9:01 amAs opposed to ski instructor Howard dean of waterboy Joe Biden,
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 9:06 amColonel, your contributions on this thread illustrate your unique talents and reveal some of the best insights offered here. Plus, you often do it in verse. I’m impreszed, my compliments.
ropelight (d36b60) — 5/12/2018 @ 9:08 amTo my eyes, McCain has often acted out irrationally and out of ego – the very same things I am expecting of DJT. Each have a perverted concept of “duty.” Accepting responsibility for actions taken? Hahahahahahaha
I honor McCain’s trials as a POW. Anyone who won’t is not worth the air they intake.
However, his record as a pol, and his latest round of evening scores against perceived enemies merits censure. That he is reaping denunciations for his latest intemperate remarks (these being a hallmark of most of his life) is wholly appropriate. Also, his continued refusal to resign his office is unforgivable.
Ed from SFV (7422a8) — 5/12/2018 @ 9:28 amWhy thanks, Ropelight!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 9:29 amRight back atcha
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 9:29 amHe’d have been fine. Defectors were well treated.
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 10:44 amTim McVeigh served in Desert Storm and was honorably discharged. Most here didn’t. I guess he’s a better man.
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/12/2018 @ 11:29 amOf course Benedict Arnold at the battle of saratoga:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/more-mueller-mania.php
narciso (552502) — 5/12/2018 @ 11:37 amMcCarthy seems to think it’s Papadopoulos.
From painstaking research, Nunes and committee staff believe they have identified such a spy. When they demanded information about this person — whose name remains unknown to the public — the Justice Department’s response was not “No, you’re wrong, there was no spying.” It was first to bloviate that the department would not be “extorted” (Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s unusual understanding of what is more commonly known as congressional oversight) and then to claim that providing the information sought by the committee would risk “potential loss of human lives, damage to relationships with valued international partners, compromise of ongoing criminal investigations, and interference with intelligence activities.”
By now, Nunes has learned that if he is catching flak, he is over the target.
Drip, drip, drip….
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/did-fbi-have-spy-in-trump-presidential-campaign/
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/12/2018 @ 12:03 pmthe filth-dirty men and women of the disgraced FBI did far more interference on the 2016 election than Putin ever dreamed of doing
and everybody knows it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 5/12/2018 @ 12:10 pmYes but we already know his nAme so we think it’s Ray clines son in law haper who was the handler
narciso (364166) — 5/12/2018 @ 12:14 pmHe’d have been fine. Defectors were well treated.
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 10:44 am
Draft Dodgers were embraced by academia. In A BIG Way. Of course, the same held true for SDS, teh Black Guerrilla Army, Weather Underground and other terrorist organizations.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 12:54 pmWell they got their priorities:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/958633/european-union-catalan-independence-referendum-spanish-police-violence
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:26 pmLogan act, paging the Logan act:
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:28 pmhttp://powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/obama-staffers-try-to-undermine-u-s-foreign-policy.php
So if any elected or appointed federal official boards an international flight, do they get a tailor-made “Aviso sobre Logan Act” with their respective visa application card.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:37 pmNote the status of these officials, they could have messed up the middle east more of they tried.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 1:52 pmNo longer news:
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/995393238197506049?p=v
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 2:08 pmThis is what I was referring to:
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 2:33 pmhttps://mobile.twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/865542638316814339
Narciso, I skipped the Catalan story and read the one where the Legs Norte and the 5 star might coalition…thats like the full R and the white Bernie bros joining forces here.
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 3:28 pmThis could have set off a Ranch false alarm: http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/angry-hamburgers-riot-after-team-relegated-for-first-ti-1825980187
urbanleftbehind (7e2245) — 5/12/2018 @ 3:47 pmSo?
Planting a mole is a standard tactic used to monitor extremist organizations.
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 4:43 pmPlanting a mole is a standard tactic used to monitor extremist organizations.
Extremist organization, noun: any political campaign Dave doesn’t like.
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/12/2018 @ 5:16 pmTo me, the Ohr spouse situation smells to high heaven. Putting a wife of a senior FBI exec into a PR firm for a few select months while you have this bizarre private/public partnership of the FBI (and even NSA) and Democratic campaign spying on the Republican campaign.
Oh…and they weren’t even up front about the Clinton campaign connection. Had to drag that out late in the process and Comey was evasive and dishonest when asked who commissioned the dossier (‘Oh..I think it was the Republicans.)
Anonymous (d41cee) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:19 pmI think Dave was being tongue in cheek. Planting a mole in a political campaign should get everybody who had a hand in it fired, and Congress impeaching them and barring them from ever holding another government job.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:26 pmWell it’s mostly squirrel neither nader happened or downer were in any way in the campaign but they put out crumbs to who were like page and papadopolous they used cut its like mitsud to make it,seem legit
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:42 pmI was being tongue in cheek, because I think the whole thing is just another desperate red herring cooked up to stoke faux outrage among cultists and divert attention from the guilt of Trump and his comrades by slandering law enforcement.
But I don’t see why the Black Panthers, Antifa, Nazis, KKK, etc should be immune to normal undercover police work simply by virtue of calling themselves a political organization or campaign.
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:53 pmIf a campaign is going to openly seek aid from the spy agencies of a hostile foreign dictatorship, they damn well better keep looking over their shoulder, AFAIC.
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 6:57 pmOddly the bureAu did think the transfer of 20% of out uranium was worth the candle.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:01 pmDave was being dead serious until taken to task.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:03 pmNo issues with a plant or an employee fired for cause (James Comey) having access to records that were germane to his upcoming grilling.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:07 pmAt some point we need to stop trading freedom for security, Dave.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:08 pmRe those two wombats Simon and stevenson, I only l0know the first because he wrote the age of sacred terror, a long agreed aimed at w, which they followed up with the next attack, which never came
You might recognize what I believe is the ending of Kerr’s last book, Greeks bearing gifts where gunther runs into max mertin the German insurer who held the lives of many Greeks in his hands as with the infamous alois brunner who did some of his worst work in thessalonika yet somehow was allowed to escape and flee to Egypt with the oermussion ofvthe German govt
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:21 pmSorry Syria but he was training the first generation of Syrian security, who ended up training the likes of the head of black September. Meanwhile he was supervising the missile program against Israel (he’s the real villain of the odessa files, not maximilian shells)
narciso (d1f714) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:26 pmIf a campaign is going to openly seek aid from the spy agencies of a hostile foreign dictatorship, they damn well better keep looking over their shoulder, AFAIC.
Well, there you have it. Dave wants the Clinton campaign investigated. Welcome to our side Dave. We have pie, too.
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/12/2018 @ 7:47 pmFreedom to live under a government beholden to Vladimir Putin is not freedom.
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:01 pmFreedom to live under a government beholden to Vladimir Putin is not freedom.
And you wonder why I sneer at self-styled libertarians. It is only cocktail party conversation.
nk (dbc370) — 5/12/2018 @ 8:35 pmSo, rather than defending our sovereignty, should we dispense with the facade of holding elections entirely and simply have an auction where countries like Russia and China can bid to put their choice of candidate into each office?
Would that suffice to defend the honor of libertarianism?
Dave (445e97) — 5/12/2018 @ 10:13 pmMoron.
mg (9e54f8) — 5/12/2018 @ 11:22 pm#323, narciso, your mention of Ray Cline (RIP) woke me up. So, possible mole, Stefan Halper, is the son-in-law of one of the CIA’s longtime top agents, and an accomplished operative in his own right.
We could be looking at a sacrificial goat sent to draw attention away from a deep cover asset still in place. It’s called a modified limited hangout, it’s one of the CIA’s goto maneuvers when investigators get too close.
It usually works because the complaint lapdog media obsesses over the decoy and floods the public forum to drown out or ridicule any competing revelations
ropelight (84b658) — 5/13/2018 @ 12:37 amI dunno about the auction part, but if the outgoing regime (can you say Obama?) can use government assets to sabotage the campaign of the opposition party in order to put in his chosen successor, then the f’king election is a f’king facade, like in Russia, and like in China, and like in every other sh!thole and banana republic.
nk (dbc370) — 5/13/2018 @ 3:09 amPrediksi Hongkong
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:00 amPrediksi HK
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:03 amPrediksi Singapura
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:04 amPrediksi SGP
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:04 amBocoran Hongkong
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:05 amBocoran HK
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:05 amBocoran Singapura
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:05 amBocoran SGP
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:05 amSyair HK
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:06 amSyair sgp
BANDAR (878ac4) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:06 amNothing like bahasa spam in the morning.
Yes you’ve been chasing squirrel for a hear and a half.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:39 amThe black cube is not what it appears either
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/the_election_collusion_was_between_our_intelligence_community_and_britain.html
narciso (d1f714) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:42 amIts a kobiyashi Mary world
https://nypost.com/2018/05/12/trumps-chaotic-style-is-starting-to-make-sense/
narciso (d1f714) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:45 amHe want actually an operator he was mostly a midlevel staffer who ended up at foggy bottom, but he has some finance experience, that didn’t turn out terribly well.
narciso (d1f714) — 5/13/2018 @ 5:56 amSo, rather than defending our sovereignty, should we dispense with the facade of holding elections entirely and simply have an auction where countries like Russia and China can bid to put their choice of candidate into each office?
The facade is ‘one person, one vote’. Enact Voter ID laws, the Dems will howl tho, losing all those illegal votes.
harkin (99ba6b) — 5/13/2018 @ 9:28 amThis is the company that was sanctioned:
http://e.forbes.co.il/behind-closed-doors-first-peek-into-the-israeli-company-that-captivates-global-interest/
narciso (59f18e) — 5/13/2018 @ 9:37 amDave’s hatred of Putin stops at his admiration of Putinesque tactics.
random viking (6a54c2) — 5/13/2018 @ 9:45 amIt’s the faculty lounge mentality…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/13/2018 @ 10:44 am“Twitter wars will only get dumber in coming months.”
Brings to mind the expression: ‘Fish in a barrel.’
Is there such a thing as peak dumbness? Or perhaps we need a term for Marianas Trench levels of dumbness since it’s kinda hard to attribute increasing levels of stupidity to something associated with altitude and heights. Seems more like sinking than rising to me. In any case, I think the levels will only get worse in the weeks and months ahead.
Bill M (906260) — 5/13/2018 @ 9:15 pm