Aviator Joe And The New Narrative
The link for the quote: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/14/politics/joe-biden-vibe-shift/index.html
Believe it or not the leftist media is touting Joe Biden's comeback. Yep, that's right, they say he has run into an incredible streak of good fortune. First, the nation was jolted by the back room deal Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin reached on what is ridiculously named the "Inflation Reduction Act." The Bill not only represents a tax increase, but spends Billions on adding 86,000 new IRS agents to ramp up audits on what has to be small business. On the other end the Bill gives generous tax credits to those who can afford electric cars. It also invests in green energy. A big hit with the democrat base, but not really with anyone else. Then we had the abomination at Mar-A-Lago last week. The DOJ obtained an open ended general warrant that allowed them to take anything. Few details and no indictment from the DOJ. There is at this hour the possibility of a heavily redacted look at the affidavit that gave the FBI such Carte blanche. Finally, there is the Jan 6th Committee promising us once again that there will be damning criminal evidence against Donald Trump. Unfortunately, they are going to sit on it until just before the midterm election.
The leftist media must truly believe that the American people will forget their suffering at the hands of Biden & his radical policies and go out and vote on frivolous nonsense like Trump is a criminal or abortion needs to be federal law. According to the media "Aviator Joe" now has the wind at his back. He's on an absolute roll!
The Week:
The Swamp: "A federal judge on Thursday told the Justice Department to prepare a redacted version of the affidavit that undergirded the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago – opening the door to more public information on the probe that preceded the move.
US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on search warrant for the August 8 raid, put off a final decision on whether to put out the document, which media outlets and allies of President Donald Trump were seeking following the extraordinary raid.
He told the government to come back with proposed redactions, after a Justice Department official argued that putting out information on witnesses could hamper future cooperators or endanger those who were providing information."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11124613/Huge-security-outside-federal-courthouse-ahead-decision-unsealing-Mar-Lago-raid-affidavit.html
The failing economy: "Sales of previously owned homes fell nearly 6% in July compared with June, according to a monthly report from the National Association of Realtors.
The sales count declined to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.81 million units, the group added. It is the slowest sales pace since November 2015, with the exception of a brief plunge at the beginning of the Covid pandemic .
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/18/home-sales-fell-nearly-6percent-in-july-as-housing-market-slides-into-a-recession.html
The Iranian threat: "Iran is expanding its proxy warfare beyond its malign activities in the Middle East to another front: American soil.
Individuals working on behalf of the Iranian government have targeted several prominent members of the think tank community through both in-person surveillance and cyber operations, The Dispatch has learned.
At the center of the regime’s campaign is United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), a U.S.-based advocacy group promoting policy to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Sources indicate that Iran’s targets within the organization’s ranks include UANI CEO and former George W. Bush administration official Mark Wallace, former Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Thomas Kaplan, an American billionaire and UANI’s original funder."
https://thedispatch.com/p/iran-targets-diplomats-and-political?triedSigningIn=true
CDC confession: "The Biden administration took steps to mitigate anger among people with disabilities about its response to the disability community this week when Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky met with rights activists Friday.
People with disabilities had been frustrated with the Biden administration’s rollout of the vaccine and its emphasis on keeping schools open. But the anger reached a zenith last week when in an interview with Good Morning America , Dr Walensky cited a study that showed that severe disease among vaccinated people occurred in a small number of people and said “the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 per cent, occurred in people who had at least four, so really these were people who were unwell to begin with.”
“It’s really a gut punch, to see the CDC director speak about our lives like this,” Tory Cross, a senior policy adviser at Be a Hero, told The Independent this week. “But wouldn’t have landed with people if it didn’t reflect the reality that this is how the CDC has really decided to treat us, the CDC has so much decided to let us die instead of being part of utilizing the full power of the federal government to protect not only disabled and chronically ill people and people with comorbidities, but to protect everyone.”
https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-director-apologises-meeting-disability-000542226.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Radical Teacher's Union attacks parents: "A New Jersey teachers union condemned parents who confront school officials at school board meetings as "extremist" in a new advertisement this week.
The New Jersey chapter of the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in America, posted the short ad on YouTube. The ad flips back and forth between colorful photos of teachers with students and black-and-white photos of parents, arguing that the latter are trying to fuse politics with education."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-teachers-union-condemns-parents-extremist-new-ad
More inner-city violence: "A convicted sex offender who allegedly cold-cocked a man on a Bronx street — leaving him in a coma with brain injuries — was freed without bail Thursday after getting his attempted-murder charges reduced in the unprovoked attack."
https://nypost.com/2022/08/18/sex-offender-accused-of-nearly-killing-man-with-punch-freed-without-bail-after-charges-reduced/
What Have We Learned?
Does anyone remember when former Energy Secretary Steven Chu advocated for the government to spike fuel costs in order to force those dumb, deplorable Americans to quit burning gas and transition to renewable energy? The handlers of Joe Biden have now put that horrible idea into effect. Only a few on the left are honest enough to admit that is what they did. The American Left always wanted unlimited illegal immigration. Biden delivered. The left never liked the American Justice system. Once again, Biden came through for them. Speaking of Justice, we recently realized that the DOJ's story on Trump isn't really adding up. The recent raid on Mar-A-Lago wasn't conducted by the Miami field office, but by the same FBI counter-intelligence division that secretly spied on Trump and his supporters. How many will be left to assume that this is yet another attempt to smear Trump before an election?
This was also the week that reality paid a visit to Liz Cheney. Cheney will now devote herself to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President again. The so-called Conservative Republican would rather have the radical policies of Joe Biden than those of Donald Trump.
Over here it was a week of more of the same. A microcosm of the society at large. The only difference is that instead of a powerful minority view, we have the rare pleasure of dealing with a majority who like the policies of Biden. Last week we had a taste of censorship, which is a reminder of the kind of censorship that social medial will again return to come November. There is no comparison between a foreign government spending $100,000 on Facebook and the kind of sophisticated power play that Molly Ball openly boasted about in Time magazine after the 2020 election.
Cartoon of the Week:
Honorable Mention:
JONATHAN TURLEY:
When Merrick Garland was nominated, many of us thought he was an excellent choice. He had impeccable ethics and a reputation and integrity. He also had a judicial temperament which may not be serving him well in this position. Every time he's faced these political controversies , he's really failed to act, that's the reason I refer to his stature shrinking at the Justice Department. We'd all hoped that he could be that moderating force. And he hasn't been that. Every opportunity he's had just to recognize the concerns of millions of citizens, he's really been absent without leave.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/merrick-garland-failed-act-attorney-general-status-doj-shrinking-jonathan-turley
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Merrick Garland is a disgrace as is the FBI director who should have cleaned up the FBI.
FBI whistleblowers claim that FBI officials have tried to cover for Hunter Biden.
Don't expect Democrats, leftists, or the mainstream media to ever admit it. They are in full denial mode.
Any actions that hurt Trump are acceptable in their books.
the fbi needs to be dismantled and rebuilt, it’s become an extension of the dem party.
prove it
I laid out quite a few things it is known that the fbi is guilty of the other day in a comment to you. Your response didn’t address anything i mentioned. Your response was an insult. It’s clear you’re not here to discuss, you’re hear to bash anybody that doesn’t agree with you. You’re here to call people traitors, you’re here to insinuate many here are racists. Well, johnny, you can fuck off
They seem to think this is the way it should be.
I couldn't agree more
Really?
This is from your USA Today link Vic
The Inspector General, the entity that investigates DOJ and FBI misconduct said that the FBI mistakes in the Trump matter were not based on political bias. Perhaps you need to use your words more carefully.
That's all you have to hold onto.
He didn't find any bias in Strzok saying that he was going to stop Trump?
Let's just say Horowitz was being kind.
Who should we go by, the DOJ inspector general or Townhall, a far right rag?
I guess the FBI made mistakes....that ALWAYS went against Trump./S
Only when you find a phrase you like.
Anyone who denies that the FBI acted with malice is being disingenuous at the very least!
"I laid out quite a few things it is known that the fbi is guilty of the other day in a comment to you. Your response didn’t address anything i mentioned. Your response was an insult. It’s clear you’re not here to discuss, you’re hear to bash anybody that doesn’t agree with you.
Nothing true.
PROJECTION
I deny the FBI "acted with malice" and you cannot prove otherwise on the specifics of this case. It's just more bare assertion on your part.
Bare assertion, arguing from the one to the many, presenting false dichotomies, projection, etc. are all part and parcel of your writing and debating techniques. More disingenuous tactics from a rapidly turning fascistic reactionary right that supports bald faced lying and cheating on a monumental scale.
But, credit where credit is due, you have convinced me that there are actually evil people out there who are willing to say and do anything to wrest the reigns of power out of a duly elected government to install a fascistic state where freedoms are granted, they are not guaranteed, by the government.
Not all of the FBI 's mistakes were against DJT. Think of Comey's announcement that he had reopened the email case.
After he staged that sham investigation of her e-mail served so he could get her off the hook?
The reason he was forced to re-open it was because Andy McCabe had postponed the investigation into then newly discovered Clinton e-mails on Weiner's laptop. Comey feared that there might be something damning in there and it wouldn't look good for the FBI after a Clinton victory. It might just look like the FBI had been politicized!!!
I remember when the lefties on here said nobody would dare fool around with a FISA application.
It wasn't a sham and she wasn't charged. Why didn't Sessions or Barr do Trump's
bidding and lock her up? The reason is obvious to those not consumed in tribalism.
Agreed. He did his job, albeit clumsily.
I remember when reasonable people of all persuasions said nobody would dare fool with a FISA application.
In the end a low level FBI lawyer was lightly punished for removing a meaningless sentence from an official document. A crime. Yes. But he is still working in D.C. as a lawyer.
Two of the four FISAs were ruled invalid.
Was Carter harmed? Hard to prove a what if when you're already a multimillionaire. He has made much lemonade out these lemons, gained much notoriety. Donald Trump is the living proof that there is no such thing as BAD publicity.
I hope he settles out of court because my friends at the FBI don't deserve to be punished for trying to protect us from Russia.
Surveillance laws are a muddy mess.
As far as I am concerned, if you travel outside of the USA, surveillance should be automatic.
He was illegally spied on by the government. That's the very definition of harm.
He has made much lemonade out these lemons,
So you believe parents who successfully sue for millions over their child's death death didn't suffer any harm. They made millions!
, if you travel outside of the USA, surveillance should be automatic.
Big Brother agrees! fuck civil liberties!
Meaningless? It allowed the FBI to violate an individuals civil rights and to spy on the President. What about all the penalties people right here on NT told us were associated with lying on a FISA application? Remember they told us that the FBI director would have to sign it, which he did?
A crime. Yes.
Evidently only for J Edgar Hoover.
But he is still working in D.C. as a lawyer.
Liberal justice.
Two of the four FISAs were ruled invalid.
All were based on the lie.
Was Carter harmed?
His Civil Rights were violated and his reputation destroyed.
I hope he settles out of court because my friends at the FBI don't deserve to be punished for trying to protect us from Russia.
Your friends at the FBI?
Surveillance laws are a muddy mess.
The law is clear. The FBI has been gaming the system for years.
As far as I am concerned, if you travel outside of the USA, surveillance should be automatic.
As far as I am concerned, the American people should be using the same tactics as the left.
And all that has what to do with this case? Nothing. But it is clear that any person or organization who attempts to make sure that justice is done will, by default, face the outlandish conspiracy theories of a serial liar and his deluded and brainwashed brethren, always seeking special treatment because they cannot impose their twisted and myopic schemes without the bending and breaking of precedent and law.
The FBI are tasked with going after criminals and Trump is a serial criminal.
The track record is always relevant and based on the recent past, Trump has a much better track record for accuracy when it comes to government accusations against him than the government does.
I call bullshit on that statement. Trump has been and is pushing the big lie and any conspiracy theories that might help turn the less discerning into a bobble head.
You, on the other hand, apparently believe all the magats and willingly bobble along, repeating the lies like some mantra, believing that if you just say it enough times it will become, like the magical faeries, real....
Bullshit, even Donald Trump knows that bad press can lead to millions of dollars in sympathy. Tough for a multimillionaire to prove in court or the court of public opinion.
Who would ever know who Carter Page was outside of a limited number of oil executives and futures traders? No one. The FBI made him a conservative media darling, and much richer.
“Trump has a much better track record for accuracy…”
In what world is that statement relevant?
The sooner one realizes his truth is antithetical to reality, the sooner one realizes they have been duped.
According to the women of Fox...
Still no indictment!
Stay tuned!
How many morons are there on the right? That will be the number .
Trump wasn't spied on.
No? Garland refused to even appoint a Master to go through the documents before the FBI looked through lawyer/client documents.
The Jan 6 committee will resume in a few more weeks. It will only get worse for Trump, and since Eric Trump declared yesterday that there is no more Republican Party, it is now the Trump Party according to Eric, the stank of Trumps misbehavior will rub off on the entire GOP. There is a price to be paid eventually for being lackeys to an unAmerican traitor.
When have things ever gotten better for Trump? Its actually a good question. He was able to use executive orders to promote certain right wing causes while he was president, but for him personally it has been all downhill since election day 2016. As the book title says, Everything Trump Touches Dies.
To try and influence the midterms. A fool's errand.
and since Eric Trump declared yesterday that there is no more Republican Party,
Nope, no more establishment, globalist pro migrant Republican Party. Good riddance.
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"Biden Energy secretary admits US not ready for widespread electric vehicle push, says billions in upgrades to power grid needed"
No shit?
No shit. Gonna take a substantial amount of investment to make sure electric vehicles have the needed places to charge. This stuff doesn't happen overnight or with the flip of a switch.
Ya! It's so moronic to think otherwise .
"Politicization of the FBI began under Obama, says Rep. Beth Van Duyne."
https:// bit.ly/3Ten8e4
"Oops! I Did It Again: Media repeats Russia collusion mistakes"
We saw this movie before, didn't we?
"Complaint: Racine, Wisconsin Broke Election Law By Sending Voting Van To Democrat Strongholds"
How else were they going to overcome 73.6 Million votes?
With 80 million votes?
If you have some evidence that people voted who were not registered to vote, spit it out.
By the way, a survey of Georgia voting in 2020 showed definitively why Trump lost that state. Thousands of Republican voters voted for all the other Republican candidates but didnt put the check mark next to Trumps name on the ballot, leaving that line blank.
You don't understand? Or do you? Election officials used a truck to get out democrat voters.
Aren't election officials supposed to be non-partisan?
Did they not give rides to anyone who was independent or Republican or going to vote for someone besides the democratic candidate?
Or did they say, "Do you need a ride to the polls? "
Wouldn't it have been easier to read the article?
Here:
"According to a report by WILL, Racine purchased an absentee voting van using funds it received in 2020 from the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) — a Mark Zuckerberg-funded left-wing nonprofit — in anticipation of the 2022 elections. Leading up to the Aug. 9, 2022, primary, the voting van visited 21 designated locations around the city “distributing and collecting ballots at each over the 14-day period of in-person absentee voting prior to Election Day.”
"But as the report states, the absentee voting van was assigned to wards that vote at a higher percentage for Democrats, thereby conferring an advantage to the Democratic Party in direct violation of Wisconsin state law. Furthermore, the law states that absentee voting sites must “be located as near as practicable to the office of the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners.” The WILL report found that Racine did not follow this statute in choosing the voting van’s designated locations."
Funny how the far-right Federalist doesn't mention chronic gerrymandering.
From the Report:
So, they don't care if these voters happen to not have the mobility to vote, to poor and working all of the time, or any other reason. tough goobers.
This is more important (From the report conclusion):
So, it didn't matter till the actual votes were counted and the results just happened to be against Republicans....
So what is the punishment?
Who pays?
Which votes are to be thrown out?
Is there actually a penalty in the statute?
Wisconsin Legislature: 6.855
I am surprised at The Federalist, did they not realize that Trump won Racine?
In other words, since Trump won anyway, we should let the Zuckerberg gang off the hook?
“Racine’s use of mobile voting sites violates clear directives in state law on the collection of absentee ballots at alternative sites. WEC must make clear that Racine is violating the law and ensure that clerks across the state understand what is, and is not permitted in Wisconsin law,” WILL Deputy Counsel Anthony LoCoco said in a press release .
Additionally, state law stipulates that if the city uses alternative voting sites, then “no function related to voting and return of absentee ballots that is to be conducted at the alternate site may be conducted in the office of the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners.” However, for two weeks leading up to the Aug. 9 primary, early absentee voting also took place at the city clerk’s office at Racine’s city hall.
Other watchdog groups have raised concerns about Racine’s use of the mobile voting van and its potential for fraud and abuse. The Election Transparency Initiative tweeted , “Is casting a ballot on the side of the road and in parking lots—just like ordering lunch—a recipe for fraud, abuse & mismanagement?”
Humpty Dumpty had a big fall!
"Sex between men driving monkeypox spread, not skin contact, studies show"
We kind of knew that, didn't we?
Then you haven't a thing to worry about.
Of course, it can spread through contact with any bodily fluid, bedding touching the rash itself...
The first cases of children getting monkeypox are starting to be confirmed in the US.
Heard on NPR that it used to be a disease of children who would bring critters in from the wild.
Let's see how much transparency we get.
Yikes, NT is turning into a coffee table picture book. Cartoon was a hoot of disinformation!
PROVE IT
That would be a waste of time, you disagree with any source that does not trumpet your claims. But what the hell:
from your link
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day! I've got this bridge for sale.....interested.?
Sure, as soon as you show me photos of armed IRS agents showing up at regular taxpayer's doors. Hey I'll even buy all the bridges if they show up at yours.
Keep the fear alive!
Never said anything about "Armed Agents" but, it would surprise me. Do you really think they are going to hire 87k customer service and computer tech?
Over a 10 year period? Yes! 52,000 are expected to retire or leave in the next 6 years and the current workforce is give or take 79,000. BTW, any of my comments were based on the ubiquitous Branco cartoon, whether or not you said anything about armed agents in the middle of a thread is evasive nonsense.
From your article.
The 87,000 figure does exist, buried within a May 2021 Treasury Department report when the Biden administration was pushing a bigger spending bill with the same $80 billion IRS funding. The report estimated the money could fund 86,852 full-time hires through 2031.
But the actual net staff increase would be far lower, as the IRS expects over 50,000 employees to retire over the next five years alone, said Natasha Sarin, Treasury counselor for tax policy and administration.
That is still an extra 37,000 agents!
Why would the IRS need more agents when revenue is at an all time high? Why would they be the only entity that needs to hire more people with advances in technology? Corporations are moving to less people with technology advances. Thankfully the IRS is a part of big government that has no spending limit; and answers only to itself.
The problem I have with the explanation that this is to replace retiring employees is that these are government positions. The position is funded by fiscal year. So if a person leaves a position by retiring or quitting, the position itself as well as the funding for that position does not disappear. The position and funding is used to hire the replacement person into that slot. Even if inflation forces the IRS to raise starting / hiring wages to offset so that they need to eliminate 20% of the vacant positions in order to pool funding, that still leaves 41,600 positions funded and available over that 6 year period. So I don't believe the talking point that the 87k new hires are just to replace those retiring or quitting.
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The warranted search and seizure of top-secret documents from the Mango Mussolini is not an example of political swamps. It is the exact opposite, the burning down of the political swamp the prior administration created.
What utter horse shit. The economy is strong, a drop of 6% in home sales after a period of unprecedented sales was expected and is a symptom of higher interest rates and inflation actually going down and not just leveling off.
The Iranian threat has been there for decades. Just because they are monitoring groups set on keeping them from gaining weapons does not mean this is somehow Bidens fault.
The CDC confession was about the CDC doing an internal review and admitting to many mistakes made since early 2020. What you link is a completely different issue about the CDC citing a study that showed much higher morbidity rates for those "unwell to begin with" that some senior policy adviser at some group called 'Be a Hero' apparently felt insulted the disabled. What does that have to do with Biden? Absolutely nothing, but clearly whiny bitter bitching conservatives blame anything and everything negative on Biden reflexively in order to defend and deflect for their Tangerine Tyrant.
A teacher's union "posted the short ad on YouTube" that "flips back and forth between colorful photos of teachers with students and black-and-white photos of parents" "arguing that the latter are trying to fuse politics with education". OH NO! So 'Radical'!! A teachers union showing photo evidence of the difference between irate parents bringing their politics into the school district and the teachers that are simply trying to do their best at educating children. Anyone who thinks this is 'radical' has their heads shoved up the backside of the right-wing alternative universe. And how is this Bidens fault?
What does the case of a man who had been convicted of sex crimes 27 years ago who now is arrested for punching a man in the street and a DA deciding to reduce the charges from attempted murder to assault and harassment and is on 'supervised release' have to do with Joe Biden?
Absolutely nothing in this tired whiny screed of bullshit Biden blaming. The claim that someone Biden intentionally spiked US gas prices in an effort to push green energy is laughable conspiracy theory hog wash.
Just more utter horse shit without a lick of evidence, just brainless right wing conservative conspiracy theorist drivel. Just because Democrats treat undocumented immigrants as human instead of trash like Republicans want to treat them does not mean Democrats wanted "unlimited illegal immigration". That's simply ludicrous.
This entire seed is just piss and vinegar from right wing conservatives doing their best to cover for their Dear Leader who is under investigation from all directions with his CFO pleading guilty, dozens of top-secret documents being seized and his likely criminal role in the January 6th attempted insurrection being meticulously revealed. Trump fans and those with their heads shoved up his ass are clearly worried which is why they are SO fucking desperate to change the conversation to any attack on Biden.
We've already had one individual pretend that Peter Strzok never said that he was going to stop Trump?
And another told us that if we didn't stand behind this FBI that we were against the blue.
I'd say that this entire seed was spot on!
Did he? Did he 'get him'? Did Strozk fake any evidence or use some other illegal means to 'get him'? I really couldn't give a fuck about what he said in a text to his girlfriend, dipshit conservatives trying to use that as some "gotcha" when it appears everything Strozk did was actually by the book other than the "appearance" of bias due to the texts found. He wasn't fired, he was suspended for 60 days because of the texts, nothing wrong with his work was ever found.
And yes, those choosing not to stand by the FBI are standing against the blue and the law and are gutless partisan whiners who blame an organization made up of fallible people for making a handful of mistakes in an investigation that WAS fucking warranted and was not solely based on the Steele dossier.
If the FBI was corrupt and was just an arm of the Democrats or some fantasy 'deep state', there wouldn't be any texts from Strzok hinting at bias, Trump would have been arrested and indicted and convicted. Trying to believe that they are some shadow organization controlling the puppet strings of Washington and planting evidence and making fraudulent investigations is so fucking insane, it's not even worth addressing. You have to be completely out of your fucking mind to believe that kind of horse shit conspiracy theory nonsense.
Ya! The republicans are just so the party of Law and Order.
Internal FBI documents unsealed Thursday indicate that Peter Strzok -- the now-disgraced anti-Trump former head of FBI counterintelligence -- ordered the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn to remain open even after it was slated to be closed due to a lack of so-called "derogatory" information.
The materials surfaced just a day after explosive FBI communications revealed that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing Flynn in the White House on January 24, 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
WASHINGTON – Kevin Clinesmith, the former FBI lawyer who altered an email during the Russia investigation that was used to justify the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, was sentenced to one-year probation on Friday.
Clinesmith, who worked for the FBI for four years, pleaded guilty last summer to falsifying the communication during the early stages of the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and possible ties to the Trump campaign.
The document was altered to show that Page was "not a source" for the CIA, even though the original message from the CIA indicated otherwise. The CIA had earlier told investigators in a memo that Page was an "operational contact" for the agency from 2008 to 2013 and provided information about his contacts with Russian intelligence officers.
The Department of Justice will not prosecute former FBI director James Comey for leaking memos detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump.
According an Office of the Inspector General report released Thursday, Comey violated DOJ and FBI policies, as well as the FBI's employment agreement, by keeping copies of four of his memos in a personal safe and asking a law professor friend to make one memo public after Trump fired him in May 2017.
"The responsibility to protect sensitive law enforcement information falls in large part to the employees of the FBI who have access to it through their daily duties," Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote in his report.
FBI Director James Comey said his office is not recommending prosecutors bring charges against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information in connection with private email servers while secretary of state.
“Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case,” Comey said Tuesday.
Addressing inevitable complaints about the investigation, Comey — a Republican — emphasized that “this investigation was done honestly, competently and independently.”
Have you been living under a rock?
Contemporary 'republicans' appear to be operating under a single rule: Fear Sells! Their language is soaked in it.
Seeing that this is a picture book, just one example of literally 1000s or are you either too young or too old to remember:
I did, but hey flag it as off-topic. @!@
Bush was Hitler too.
Brsides claiming Romney would put black people in chains, they also targeted the wonkish Romney/Ryan with ads of grandmothers literally being pushed over cliffs to their deaths.
The examples are endless.
Democrats can top them with the world ending....
As was Bill. How far back do you want to go?
Lyndon LaRouche? The guy who 'evolved' from the far left to the far right? Too funny.
I should have warned them. I'm like DeSantis....I hit back!
Snert!
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Now, now ... DeSantis is playing the neo-cult like a Hamelin piper.
The new abnormal cult of 45
With an Xbox? Or are you on META?
Ouch
Well, the media is trying to spin a dead cat bounce. This won't end well after the election.
Merrick Garland has stepped on the Jan. 6th committee (a.k.a. the Liz Cheney show). Garland has done what seemed impossible; shifted the narrative away from Trump. Now the country is arguing over defending or defunding the FBI. And the nagging question is who is in charge? It's not Biden; he can't be bothered. It's not the House committee since they've already admitted they can't do anything. Garland is only stone walling. The only way out of this mess is to indict and prosecute Trump. So, who's going to make that call?
Build Back Better has shrunk to less than a quarter of its size as the Inflation Reduction Act. The IRA (how, Biden Irish) replaces existing EV credits with new, improved EV credits (the same with a different name). The IRA invests in Chinese manufacturing of solar panels and wind turbines. The IRA allows Medicare to negotiate the price of certain drugs (yet to be announced by big pharma). Most importantly for Democrats, the IRA increases taxes and militarizes the Infernal Revenue Service. The IRS is becoming as independent as the DOJ.
Foreign affairs is off the news cycle. At least until the election is over. The war in Ukraine has become a little shop of horrors; feed me, feed me! Pelosi's toddler diplomacy has awakened the sleeping dragon. Business-as-usual immigration is causing cognitive dissonance in liberal strongholds; NIMBY liberalism at its finest. Trump's diplomacy in the Middle East is paying dividends so Biden has to kick the Iranian dog (whistling through the graveyard).
Yep, the post-election roundup will cause that Maytag to fall apart. Dead cats can only bounce so high. Republicans look to fare well. And the nagging question won't go away. Who is really in charge?
I pay no mind to those who say it is the deep state responsible for the new abnormal cult of 45 and his criminal enterprise.
We found out long ago that you do not pay mind to much of anything.
The NYT is still willing to carry water for "Aviator Joe". Hilarious article!
superdude brought his COVID germs....gross
“I wonder why ?”
Wow.
So Biden, in his insidious plot to control the uncontrollable is to infect his ‘adversaries’ with the colloquial ‘poison pen’ ?
Wow.
“Inane idiocy.” ~Tex…
She wasn't there to tell him what to do.
Superdude Aviator Joe always coughs into his hand and then spreads his Covid germs onto others' hands. Gross is correct! Doctor Jill hasn't been able to teach him how to cough into his elbow.
I saw that! Cough into right hand, pick up pen with same hand, shake Manchin's hand, give Manchin infected pen. Way to Go, Aviator Joe!
Indeed ItIs!!!!!!!!!
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Jealousy is not a good look
Thank you for your comment. While I agree that jealousy is negative behavior, had you read the NYT article that I linked, you would have learned that the author never mentioned "jealousy".
She does, however, discuss the fact that Biden's current use of aviator glasses is a mimicry of Tom Cruise's use of them in his summer blockbuster movie - perhaps in hopes of re-charging his flailing presidential approval ratings from both the left and right.
Then she is ignorant of history. Since Biden has had a lifetime fashion affinity for
aviator jackets and glasses spanning 60 years. Might as well accuse Biden of
mimicry of JFK, FDR or George Bush, an actual aviator.
Joe Biden’s Aviators Have an Almost 60-Year History—And a Little Bit of Baggage | Vanity Fair
Exactly, it was only those five student deferments and one final medical one, asthma, not bone spurs, that kept Joe from being a naval aviator.
Well, that and he had to turn down the appointment to the Naval Academy because he thought Roger Staubach was probably a better football player than he was and that there wouldn't be enough room on the football team for two legends at the same time. People don't give him enough credit for admitting that he wasn't quite as good a football player as an NFL hall of famer. He's very humble.
And I thought his bio had him graduating from the University of Delaware in 1965, before going to Law School in Syracuse. Maybe he thought the Naval Academy was a law school.