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7/6/2016

AG Lynch: Guess What? I Have Decided To Take The FBI Recommendation After All

Filed under: General — Dana @ 4:12 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Unsurprisingly:

Late this afternoon, I met with FBI Director James Comey and career prosecutors and agents who conducted the investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of State. I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, year-long investigation be closed and that no charges be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation.

I anticipate that at any moment we will see massive waves of Social Justice Warriors from the party of Social Justice, angrily marching on the streets of America in protest that a privileged, white one-percenter and beneficiary of Wall Street, has been allowed to walk even though her “claims” were effectively dismantled and shown to be untrue by the FBI.

–Dana

81 Responses to “AG Lynch: Guess What? I Have Decided To Take The FBI Recommendation After All”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (995455)

  2. Heh.

    And you chuckleheads thought you were still living in America.

    *giggles*

    hunson abedeer (80144e)

  3. Meanwhile, Donald & Newt are over in Ohio singing, “Baby, if you ever wondered; wondered what ever became of me; I’m livin’ on the air in Cinncinati; Cincinnati, won’t you please vote for me…”

    DCSCA (a343d5)

  4. [bit of a glissando here, but not too much, then punch the tonic, then blues intonation, G minor for preference]

    We really meeeaan it.

    [bring it on home, arpeggiate it a bit, then the tonic again, but in a very high register. You’re done. HRC in the most crooked landslide you’ve ever seen in all yer born days. Go home, white people, we stole your country, and we’re KEEPIN it. Andrew Feckin Jackson’s voters from back in the Night of the Living Dead days are gwinna be lighting up the polling stations for HRC like you ain’t never seen. Your country is over with.]

    hunson abedeer (80144e)

  5. Did she talk about golf? I wonder what her handicap is. She looks a bit rotund, it must be difficult for her to keep her eye on the ball.

    ropelight (596f46)

  6. has any Attorney General ever been as thoroughly corrupt and at the same time as morbidly obese as harvardtrash justice chunk Loretta Lynch?

    this is historical

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  7. well this guy was a little heavy set, but his offenses were overblown,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_M._Daugherty#/media/File:Harry_Daugherty,_bw_photo_portrait_1920.jpg

    narciso (732bc0)

  8. I anticipate that at any moment we will see massive waves of Social Justice Warriors from the party of Social Justice, angrily marching on the streets of America in protest that a privileged, white one-percenter and beneficiary of Wall Street, has been allowed to walk even though her “claims” were effectively dismantled and shown to be untrue by the FBI.

    Well, we covered this a little bit yesterday, but I must say I am kind of surprised at the degree of vehement criticism that the Bernie Bros and Babes are expressing towards Her Clintonic Majesty in light of this report. And yes, I am on record suggesting that they will get over it and end up back in the Democrat fold come election time, but I am a little less sure about her ability to unite the party today than I was last week.

    So, wouldn’t you know, Madame Secretary IT Whiz just released a college affordability plan which — surprise, surprise — moves her primary position much farther to the left in order to placate the Sanders supporters. She now wants the government — both federal and state — to fully subsidize the tuition at public universities for any student whose family income is under $125,000. I need to do a post about all of this sometime when we’re back to discussing policy.

    JVW (eabb2a)

  9. harvardtrash Ted by the way was the only senator who didn’t even bother to show up to vote on whether his hefty chunk of fellow harvardtrash was worthy of being the Attorney General

    But when it came time for a vote on her historic nomination to be the first African-American female attorney general, the Texas Republican and 2016 presidential candidate was AWOL. He was the only senator to miss the vote even though he voted earlier in the day on a related procedural motion and delivered a floor speech railing against Lynch’s confirmation.

    Ten Republicans voted for confirmation: Kelly Ayotte, Ron Johnson, Mark Kirk, Rob Portman, Thad Cochran, Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell.

    Mr. Harsanyi nailed it last year I think:

    Republicans Who Voted For Loretta Lynch Voted For The Abuse Of Executive Power

    Can’t argue with that.

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  10. JVW,

    I think we’re all still working our way through the stages of grief.

    No matter, Hillary isn’t one to waste time on trivial stuff like an official FBI investigation. Not when she knows she needs Bernie’s people and knows precisely how to effectively pander to them: FREE, FREE, FREE!

    Dana (995455)

  11. Gangster Government.

    It ain’t over until the fat lady sings. Lynch has becankled herself, and Comey, too, while she was at it.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  12. Here’s an excerpt from Karin McQuillan writing at The American Thinker 7/6/16:

    Why Comey Blinked

    …Unlike the men we honored the day before, on July 4th, who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to defend liberty and the rule of law, FBI Director Comey was not willing to put anything on the line. He wanted us to know Hillary was guilty as hell. But he was not willing to pit the FBI against Obama’s DOJ, so he let the guilty walk free without even at attempt at insisting she be charged.

    Everyone has known from the start Obama would never prosecute Hillary. So Comey looked us in the eye and told us no reasonable prosecutor would take action on the gross negligence and betrayal of our national security that Hillary Clinton ordered as Secretary at State.

    It depends on the meaning of reasonable.

    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/why_comey_blinked.html#ixzz4Dfy4W4cy
    Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

    ropelight (596f46)

  13. nobody

    not even John McCain

    epitomizes failmerican cowardice in all its enduring glory more spectacularly than does this Mr. James Comey

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  14. Am still trying to find a flag with 50 bananas instead of stars.

    mg (31009b)

  15. i think pervy Mitt Romney’s boy Paul Ryan’s lobbying for one with 51 cheese curds

    (part of his Puerto Rico bailout plan)

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  16. Obama, Comey, Lynch, and Hillary! with arms linked, skip gaily across the mall daring a Tea Party member to curse them or use a racial epithet. It’s not a pretty picture.

    The only departure from their standard operating procedure is the timing. Friday, July 1st at 5 pm would seem to be more in keeping with past practices. But maybe they want to rub it in to the feeble Republican majorities in both Houses. I hope John McCain Mitch McConnell are wearing their Depends.

    But this is where we are.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe)

  17. Type American Banana Flag into your search engine. There’s a American flag with a bunch of bananas instead of 50 individual bananas. It might do till you find what you want.

    ropelight (596f46)

  18. A man walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him and says, “What?”

    There used to be a joke behind this sort of thing; there used to be a structure, and a way you could ask yourself “what does the bartender actually say?” and have it be funny, through a sort of cognitive recognition loop. No more.

    Adios, America. Just as a courtesy, where did you leave the suicide note?

    hunson abedeer (80144e)

  19. I like people who weren’t captured indicted. They’re winners. This proves that Obama is a strong leader and that Hillary will be a strong leaders. Go ahead and whine, losers. Nobody cares. lol

    nk (dbc370)

  20. Hillary will be a strong leaders

    nk (dbc370)

  21. You’re fine in Canada, Christoph. Keep your nose out of America’s business.

    nk (dbc370)

  22. Fat Bottom Girls Phat-Headed Churl

    Oh you gonna take it home tonight
    Oh eat pizza make that dress so tight
    Oh you gonna make it all hang out
    Phat-headed churl you took the legal world right down

    Hey she was just a hillbilly wife
    Never knew no wrong from right
    Said she’s named after Edmund Hillary
    Sold her ass and soul to Wall Street
    Some big cankles rest on her feet
    Phat-headed Lynch, you went and let her ass go free

    Hey hey!

    There’s the sound of pounded sand
    Across the water, across the land
    People can’t believe what their own ears have heard (hey)
    Pulled some doodie that’s so vile
    Now they walk that crooked mile
    Time for folks to stand up flip them all the bird

    C’mon!

    Oh you gonna take it home tonight
    Oh eat pizza make that dress so tight
    Oh you gonna make it all hang out
    Phat-headed churl you took the legal world right down

    Hey, listen here
    Now we’ll have a candidate
    He ain’t Cruz but might be fate
    One tough pill but now it’s our reality (I tell you)
    Oh, but I will still find great pleasure
    Turn her out like Man of Leisure
    And b*tch better have my money, yeah YOU! Hillary!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  23. Hey, lighten up, people! This has been the most thorough FBI investigation since Watergate.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  24. has any Attorney General ever been as thoroughly corrupt and at the same time as morbidly obese as harvardtrash justice chunk Loretta Lynch?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell

    OK, maybe he’s just fat.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  25. Most frustrating is that Trump is simply unequipped and unable to capitalize on this scandal. He’s to uniformed, unstudied and just about un-everything else. Can only dream of what Ted Cruz would be doing to Hillary at this point in time, 24/7, if he were the nominee…

    Dana (995455)

  26. yes that’s the most frustrating thing

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  27. To paraphrase Lady Obama: For the first time in my life I’m ashamed of my country.

    Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6)

  28. Trump has a problem marshaling more and two or three facts at the same time. Probably why he tends to just make up stuff and bluster a lot.

    But he fights! Never mind the ammo shortage.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  29. happyfeet,

    Meh.

    Dana (995455)

  30. Saw that one awhile ago. Thanks, ropelight.

    mg (31009b)

  31. I have to go meemees again Dana

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  32. I bet Bill never did Hillary 24/7.

    mg (31009b)

  33. While Hillary is standing there, waiting for a knockout punch, what does Trump do? He praises Saddam Hussein. Doesn’t matter why, the man has UTTERLY NO message discipline. He should be hammering and hammering “this reckless, reckless crook who wants to be President”, but no, he’s praising Saddam Hussein.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/07/06/donald-trump-praises-saddam-hussein-killing-terrorists/86784268/

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  34. It’s a poker game, and the Democrats are playing it well. They want the GOP to have the illusion that Trump has a chance against Hillary until the GOP is fully committed to Trump as the nominee. Until the Republicans are all in, have all their chips in the pot, and have no choice but to play their hand, namely Trump. Then Hillary will show her hand. A full house against a busted flush four-flusher.

    nk (dbc370)

  35. Hey Kevin – So sad mittens did not know a effing thing about Benghazi or he could be president. Candy Crowley biotch slapped your putz.

    mg (31009b)

  36. I wouldn’t follow this argument, but 13 years of rove being a basenghi, hammered the point that iraq was a bad intervention, colin powell certified it, so what lesson was learned by red queen, intervene but leave no troops, let the insurgents sponsored by the gulf states, go all cathar in libya and syria,

    narciso (732bc0)

  37. Hey Kevin – So sad mittens did not know a effing thing about Benghazi or he could be president. Candy Crowley biotch slapped your putz.

    mg, that’s hogwash.

    That was a throwaway line in the 476th paragraph of a forgettable Obama speech which Obama’s people had FED Crowley earlier in the week, so she would back up the President when he sprung his trap. What Romney could not say (and it would not have been true) was that Obama had not mentioned terrorism wrt Benghazi.

    If there was any fault of Romney’s it was not saying “Since you are going to get into our debate, Ms Crowley, how do you know this?” When she admitted that it was because she had been fed the information, her career would have been over.

    But that’s a pretty damn hard thing to expect of anyone, mg.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  38. I’ll tell you the lesson I learned, narciso, if we want to beat the terrorists first we need to beat Hillary!. I no longer can see that happening.

    Rev. Hoagie® (0f4ef6)

  39. So, Trump today goes off and does some useless thing when all the world is waiting for a hammer blow.

    I really don’t think he wants the job, and he’s just going through the motions. I wonder who he plans on blaming.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  40. I’ll tell you the lesson I learned, narciso, if we want to beat the terrorists first we need to beat Hillary!. I no longer can see that happening.

    Not with Trump. If he really wanted to go out on a high note, he should play kingmaker and pick a candidate. He wants Gingrich? Fine, Gingrich. Anyone who can play this game will do. I have no preferences any more, but reiterate that Trump seems unwilling and unable.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  41. the rocket surgeons that put her on the panel, should have committed seppuku, but they are let loose in the world like flying monkeys.

    http://www.newsbusters.org/journalists/candy-crowley?page=0%2C7

    narciso (732bc0)

  42. #36 No Kevin, what Romney should have done is called her a liar … “Candy that is not true. Why are you saying something not true? If that was true Candy then why blame a video many many times over many weeks? Why did Secy of State blame a video? Why did the UN Ambassador blame a video? No Candy you are misleading people. I don’t understand what your motivation is, but the fact is the Administration blamed a video when it was clear this was terrorism in a hot bed of terrorist activity in a Country that just had a revolution fueled by terrorist elements. So if we can’t deal in reality best we let the American people decide by reviewing the Administration actual record online. That will be online for all to see by tomorrow evening at latest.”

    Rodney King's Spirit (e2dd8e)

  43. RKS, because it was not a lie. It was completely true what Obama said. In a speech about Benghazi the day after, in the Rose Garden, he had inserted at the end a boilerplate line about fighting terrorists wherever they might be. Now, he said OTHER things, more often and with much more emphasis, but he had actually suggested that it might be terrorism, which was all he asserted during the debate. CROWLEY, OTOH, knew just what a pissy mean-spirited and mendacious remark it was, and still backed him up. But technically, in a Clintonian sense, Obama had not lied.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  44. Romney’s problem then, if you had watched it, was that he knew he had stepped into a trap, did not know its dimensions (small, as it turned out) and decided not to dig a hole. Armchair quarterbacks may differ on this, having seen 27 replays, but at the moment Romney chose caution; he was up my 5 points and did not want to eff it up.

    It was the hurricane, the press’s constant “just like Katrina, eh, Sally” coverage and Trump’s new friend Christie fellating Obama on the tarmac that killed Romney, not that moment in debate.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  45. Trump’s response would have been “LIAR!!!1!! LIAR!!!!1! “LIAR!!!1!! LIAR!!!!1! “LIAR!!!1!! LIAR!!!!1!”, but then he would have been screaming that from the first question while calling Crowley a fat pig.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  46. The other thing today is Trump is STILL going on about how cool that Star of David thing was. We may finally see someone lose by underestimating the intelligence of the American public, hard as that is.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  47. the main difference was the terrorists came to fight the coalition forces, whereas in libya and increasingly syria, they trained the rebel forces with became the likes of ansar al sharia,

    http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-06/blair-didn-t-lie-his-way-into-iraq-neither-did-bush

    narciso (732bc0)

  48. Trump’s response would have been “LIAR!!!1!! LIAR!!!!1! “LIAR!!!1!! LIAR!!!!1! “LIAR!!!1!! LIAR!!!!1!”, but then he would have been screaming that from the first question while calling Crowley a fat pig.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/6/2016 @ 7:52 pm
    ===============================================

    Okay… what’s the downside of that?

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  49. It was the hurricane, the press’s constant “just like Katrina, eh, Sally” coverage and Trump’s new friend Christie fellating Obama on the tarmac that killed Romney, not that moment in debate.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/6/2016 @ 7:50 pm
    ==================================================

    Betcha dollars to donuts – if you could wrestle them away from him – that Christie wishes he had that to do over. That sank his fat ass.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  50. Kevin M (25bbee) — 7/6/2016 @ 7:03 pm

    If there was any fault of Romney’s it was not saying “Since you are going to get into our debate, Ms Crowley, how do you know this?”

    For that to happen, he wuld have t have confidece that he knew a considerable amount about the subject, so that if there was something he did not know, it wasn’t widely known.

    Romney is also at fault for not understanding this even later. He did not touch Benghazi when Bob Schieffer brought it up in the third debate.

    And the fact of the matter is, Obama had referred to it as terrorism. The position got furtehr away from reality as the week wore on. This was something that Romney never understood.

    And others later, think that when somebody knew something once, they knew it for all future time, so if somebody said anything different later, hey weer lying. But they had “unlearned” it. This was not fake – they really believed it – well Hillary Clinton probably didn’t, but she didn’t want to argue.

    This not arguing with the CIA has been defended as proper by Adam Schiff, the ranking Democat on the House Intelligence Committee and one of the members of teh Benghazi committee.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcripts-october-25-trump-christie-nunes-schiff/

    Page down till…

    [Adam] SCHIFF [D-Calif]: ….The early claims by Ansar al-Sharia responsibility … were very quickly followed with human intelligence, signals intelligence, open source reporting, that there was a protest. It wasn’t until about eight to ten days after the events where we actually got the tapes from the compound that we could see, quite demonstrably on those tapes, that there had been no protests.

    But it was the — the considered judgment, the assessment of the intelligence experts for that week until we got those tapes, that there had been a protest. And that turned out to be wrong.

    ..But to criticize Secretary Clinton for relying on the best of intelligence that we had at the time seemed to be wholly inappropriate. Had she had spoken, frankly, in contradiction of what our intelligence agencies were telling her, that might be something to criticize…

    !!!!

    Who do you side with – the CIA or your own eyes? Adam Schiff was saying Hillary Clinton was right to side with the CIA.

    Too many people are stuck on the false mysthology of what happened here.

    The truth is like this:

    The disinformation by the terrorists or their alllies or sponsers had bene intended to remain secret and convimnce only the people at the top levels of the U.S. government so they wouldn’t go looking for who had planned the attack in Benghazi. But at the White House, once they “learned” it, Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor were anxious to get the true “facts” out.

    Nobody would have lied about this in public, because if they knew it was terrorism, they would also know that the claim the attack in Benghazi was spontaneous would not fly. And it did not. It didn’t last a day. There was instant skepticism of what Susan Rice said.

    Only people privy to SOOPER SEKRIT intelligence, and who relied on that to the exclusion of more public information could believe it was spontaneous and probably sparked by a video.

    Sammy Finkelman (88f52d)

  51. Getting hung up on the meaning of “is” or our present obsession over whether Obama lied should have taught everyone a lesson. The intention in a debate is to communicate, and as sorry as Trump is, he’s been more effective than Romney ever was, even if he wandered around what should have been the focus of his remarks today. We can only hope that Trump can improve his use his aggression and self confidence to frame a consistent and simple message. If he doesn’t, he’ll spiral down. It might take two flushes, but he’ll be gone.

    Getting back to Obama lying, in a broader sense, everything Obama says is a lie if you look into the matter deeply enough. The fact that he is completely disengaged from reality doesn’t excuse him from the need to describe reality truthfully, as impossible as that might be. The only time he isn’t lying is when he is repeating the RINO attacks on his administration, but even there he’s suggesting that those truths are lies. Which is just another form of lying.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe)

  52. BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 7/6/2016 @ 8:23 pm

    everything Obama says is a lie if you look into the matter deeply enough.

    For instance, he seems to have forgotten about Henry Clay.

    Sammy Finkelman (88f52d)

  53. I think I get it. Compromise requires an understanding of the other guy’s proposal. Obama is incapable of that understanding which eliminates the possibility of compromise. The RINOs seem to like this way of doing business as it frees them from any responsibilities other than campaigning to get reelected. So Obama will never be remembered as the “Great Compromiser”. It’s just as well, given the state of the Republican Party.

    BobStewartatHome (a52abe)

  54. his version of compromise ‘I won’ reminds of the petulant beings, trevayne and q, on the first two star war series,

    narciso (732bc0)

  55. “One of the many extraordinary things about this present political crisis is the reality that the Democratic establishment is lockstep behind a woman who has unquestionably failed the public in multiple, consequential ways – yet they believe she’s somehow triumphant because she’s not actually facing a criminal trial.”

    — David French

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  56. give it up, Kevin M. Mittens was a dunce and now he is a useless pos. He could not think fast enough to dismantle obama or crowley.Pathetic.

    mg (31009b)

  57. Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/6/2016 @ 9:38 pm

    Damnit, Colonel, but you tread heavily, but rightly.

    felipe (408c5f)

  58. To wit, they believe, but do we?

    felipe (408c5f)

  59. Nt in Clinon, stupid, but in our …

    felipe (408c5f)

  60. narciso (732bc0) — 7/6/2016 @ 8:59 pm

    My friend, you have jumped the shark. wipe off the spittle.

    felipe (408c5f)

  61. #59 Damnit, my keyboard, sux! “not clinton” – but you knew that.

    felipe (408c5f)

  62. Oh, spite!

    felipe (408c5f)

  63. Forgive me, for I am slow of …

    felipe (408c5f)

  64. study.

    Insomnia affects me, only? No, silly. I will to another task, take.

    felipe (408c5f)

  65. no dumbslut democrat like a california democrat

    A local California government destroyed a geological marvel, without even knowing it.

    For years, geologists, science classes, and “geopilgrims” ventured to a split in a sidewalk curb in Hayward, California. Two sections of sidewalk have been slowing drifting askew for several decades, creating a striking visual portrayal of something geologists call creep.

    But now it is gone. The city of Hayward removed the offset curb, which lies at an intersection, to make way for a wheelchair accessible ramp.

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  66. unemployed tatted-up fat chicks pls to apply

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  67. Just remember when Hillary is sworn in and you didn’t vote for Trump, you’re the problem.

    cedarhill (b72470)

  68. 24. I could imagine Cruz cleaning up. However, one indication of Trump’s distaste for Cruz (and eliminating that needle-in-haystack chance of a Trump-Cruz ticket) was the heave-ho Bob Corker got in the veepstakes yesterday (he said he was removing himslelf, but..). In his response to a CNN reporter, his voice delivery sounded a lot like the younger of his 2 Texas peers.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb)

  69. This is really so simple

    ALL prosecutors working under AG Lynch are “reasonable”.

    Therefore, no reasonable prosecutor would take this case.

    Got it?

    Pts (ce7fc3)

  70. felipe (408c5f) — 7/7/2016 @ 12:37 am

    Damnit, my keyboard, sux!

    It’s not just the keyboard. Sometimes software, or overloaded software, or an e-mail web site, may be throwing some characters you type into the bit bucket.

    Sammy Finkelman (88f52d)

  71. Corker architect of the rhodes roadshow reacharound, and one of the amnesty vehicles.

    narciso (732bc0)

  72. Apalachin Meeting November 14, 1957 Sky Harbor Airport Meeting June 27, 2016

    “There is no Mafia, no organized crime”

    — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover James Comey

    Colonel Haiku (f125a7)

  73. BECAUSE THIS IS AMERICA

    Police say when they asked O’Meara to take a preliminary breathalyzer test, he responded “that he would take a preliminary go [expletive] yourself test.”

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  74. Andrew Feckin Jackson’s voters from back in the Night of the Living Dead days are gwinna be lighting up the polling stations for HRC

    You need to find a different comparison. The real voters for the real Andrew Jackson would be lining up for Trump.

    Trump is a very pale echo of AJ. Meaning without the competence, without the experience, and most of all without the integrity and sense of honor Jackson had.

    kishnevi (ec71b1)

  75. Just remember when Hillary is sworn in and you didn’t vote for Trump, you’re the problem.

    cedarhill (b72470) — 7/7/2016 @ 4:53 am

    No. Trump is the problem. He is a lousy candidate. You can brow beat me all you want. And, here’s the deal. I don’t want Hitlery! to be President. But there’s just not enough of me.

    Steve57 (ecac13)

  76. Just remember when Hillary is sworn in and you didn’t vote for Trump, you’re the problem.

    Just remember when Hillary is sworn in and you voted for Trump in the primaries, you’re the problem.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  77. #76, Kevin, you’ve got your head so far up your ass you couldn’t see daylight at noon. Cruz couldn’t beat Trump in the primaries and you can’t stand being exposed for spewing wrongheaded nonsense for months on end. And, here we are 2 weeks away from the GOP Convention and you’re still making excuses and trying to blame Trump (and his supporters) for your candidate’s failure to gain the trust of American voters.

    ropelight (596f46)

  78. Way back when Patterico first announced he couldn’t bring himself to vote for Trump no matter what, I asked if he’d change his mind if Ted Cruz was on the ticket as VP. Patterico said no, not even then.

    So, how about you? If Cruz joined Trump would you vote for the GOP ticket?

    ropelight (596f46)

  79. 72. J. Edgar Hoover said there was no organized crime, most likely because some moles for the Outfit were working for him, till about Applachin in 1957.

    Then he began secretly bugging them, under the legal theory, that that was all right, as long as it as not used as evidence in court, but used to prervent crime or disrupt their plans. It was however, used in a case, which organized crime appealed, and the Supreme Court ruled in Katz v. United States 389 U.S. 347 (1967) that the the Fourth Amendment did apply to eavesdropping, reversing, at least in part Olmstead v. United States, 277 U. S. 438, and Goldman v. United States, 316 U. S. 129. In 1968 Congress passed a law setting up more or less the current eavesdropping rules – that it could be done with search warrant but could not be done at all without a warrant except for foreign intelligence or maybe even that needed a warrant, albeit a special kind of one.

    Katz v. United States was the second significant Supreme Court victory for organized crime. The first was Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), 389 U.S. 347 (1967) which extended the exclusionary rule from the federal government to the states. It had been the federal rule since Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914)

    Harry J. Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, however, had always accepted the existence of organized crime. That was one way the FBN differed from the FBI.

    Anslinger has now become very obscure. Clinton’s DEA had a page dedicated to him, with only his picture and years of tenure, not even his birth and death dates. Just the picture, and Bush II’s DEA website made only a tiny mention of him, as of 2005 (from a Wikipedia talk page comment)

    Sammy Finkelman (88f52d)

  80. Ropelight – I think Newt Gingrich would be a much better choice for vice president.

    Sammy Finkelman (88f52d)


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