The Politicization of the FBI

By Joe diGenova at Imprimus

Joseph E. diGenova is a founding partner of diGenova & Toensing, LLP. He received his B.A. from the University of Cincinnati and his J.D. from Georgetown University. He has served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Independent Counsel of the United States, Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (the Church Committee).

"Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in the Obama administration, acting under color of law, to exonerate Hillary Clinton of federal crimes and then, if she lost the election, to frame Donald Trump and his campaign for colluding with Russia to steal the presidency. This conduct was not based on mere bias, as has been widely claimed, but rather on deeply felt animus toward Trump and his agenda. 

"In the course of this plot, FBI Director James Comey, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI Deputy Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, Strzok’s paramour and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, FBI General Counsel James Baker, and DOJ senior official Bruce Ohr—perhaps among others—compromised federal law enforcement to such an extent that the American public is losing trust. A recent CBS News poll finds 48 percent of Americans believe that Special Counsel James Mueller’s Trump-Russia collusion probe is “politically motivated,” a stunning conclusion. And 63 percent of polled voters in a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll believe that the FBI withheld vital information from Congress about the Clinton and Russia collusion investigations." . . .  Full article.

The left and gun control

Thomas Lifson: Why the left can't win on gun control

. . . It's mobilizing its tribe – including progressive corporations, Hollywood, and the mainstream media – to not just make policy arguments but also to shame and insult Americans who disagree.  The goal is to make gun ownership culturally toxic.
But shame is weaker than love.  Gun owners who've experienced a threat possess or carry a weapon because they love their families.  Teachers who wish to carry a weapon at school do so because they love the kids under their care.  These folks know that their responsible gun ownership makes their communities and families safer." . . .

David Hogg now a "celebrity student activist".  "FedEx Rejects Boycott By Stoneman Student Tyrant David Hogg, Announces Will Not Drop NRA Member Discounts."   Attaboy, Fedex!

Conservative, pro-gun survivor feels ostracized and ignored by those -- including students and the adults supporting them -- who disagree with his conservative politics.

David Brooks wrote, "progressives are getting better and better at silencing dissenting behavior."

New York State moves to ensure more school shootings  . . . "President Trump is right – the only solution to school shootings is to arm faculty and administrators.  No one can defend your own life, and the lives of people immediately surrounding you, better than you can." . . .

Farrakhan gets a pass on anti-Semitism

Tell us, Mr. Farrakhan, what do you think of Heinrich Himmler?

Newsday (Photos added by TD)

Many progressives look the other way and fail to denounce the minister’s* bigotry.   *Shouldn't this word be "Imam"?

"For the past couple of years, Republican leaders, and Donald Trump in particular, have been plagued by accusations of condoning anti-Semitism in the far-right segments of Trump’s base. But the latest anti-Semitism scandal has erupted among progressive left-wing Democrats — and they aren’t handling it any better than the Trumpists.

Calypso and Kerosene

"On Feb. 25, Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, gave a speech in Chicago in which he repeatedly and venomously assailed the “satanic Jew.” Anti-Jewish invective from Farrakhan is nothing new; the Anti-Defamation League calls him “the leading anti-Semite in America.” He has blamed Jews for the Sept. 11 attacks, apartheid, the slave trade and Hollywood degeneracy.

"What raised some eyebrows is the fact that Tamika Mallory, a co-chair of the Women’s March — the flagship of the anti-Trump resistance — attended the event and posted about it on Instagram.

"This is no isolated incident. Mallory wrote an enthusiastic social media post about Farrakhan’s appearance in Detroit two years ago. And she was involved in organizing his Justice or Else rally in Washington in 2015, along with two Women’s March co-chairs, fellow New Yorkers Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour (who has faced allegations of anti-Semitism)." . . .

CNN’s Jake Tapper Hits Democrats For Refusing To Condemn Farrakhan, “People Want The Association”…  "Just ask Barack Obama."

Socialized Medicine: Almost A Century Of Failure Already

Hot Air

"Progressives plan to make a big push for single-payer health care in the midterms, hoping to force Democrats even harder Left than in the past four Congressional election cycles. They want a Medicare-for-all system that will eclipse private health insurance, similar to what Bernie Sanders laid out in his 2016 Democratic primary campaign. The Center for American Progress has put pressure on current officeholders to take up the cause of single payer, with considerable success; 2020 presidential hopefuls such as Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Kamala Harris have all signed onto Sanders’ latest legislative effort to create the program.

"Before they start creating new single-payer systems, though, perhaps they should fix the broken single-payer systems already in place. The scandals at the Veterans Administration get plenty of coverage, especially given that the VA locks veterans into its own providers and forces them to pay retail for any outside medical care. But a report on the other major system, the Indian Health Service (IHS), shows much worse performance and for a longer period of time, The Hill reports:" . . .

But you assured us gay marriage would not lead to legalized bestiality

Don Surber  "Eric Zorn chuckled at the worries of we mere mortals last August.

" 'Somehow, people are not yet marrying their pets," Zorn wrote in the Chicago Tribune.

"More than 16 years after the Netherlands became the first nation to legalize same-sex marriage, more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in the United States, bestiality remains illegal."

"Canada would like a word with Mister Zorn.

" 'Sex acts with animals are legal in Canada, so long as there is no penetration involved, according to a surprise ruling issued by the Supreme Court," the Independent reported.

" 'The determination stemmed from a case involving a British Columbia man convicted of 13 counts sexually assaulting his stepdaughters, including one count of bestiality. But the man, identified only as DLW, was acquitted of the bestiality count with the new ruling."

"This was a 7-1 ruling, meaning Canada has only one sane Supreme Court justice.

"We barely have five." . . .

So thankful we did not get her

Trump’s Generals Are Too Valuable to Be Dismissed

The real challenge for the generals has been how to warn enemies and reassure friends that past global provocations against U.S. interests will now be deterred — but without a major war.

Victor Davis Hanson

To fire any one of the three would be a disaster for the White House.

. . . "Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, Trump’s national-security adviser, is occasionally rumored to be a robotic PowerPoint wonk and hawkish interventionist who soon might be terminated. 

"Secretary of Defense General James Mattis is purportedly too much the centrist Democrat, and embarrassed by Trump’s antics and therefore might be leaving. 

"Of course, few cabinet or White House appointees ever serve throughout an entire administration. Burnout is natural. Lucrative private-sector job offers multiply monthly. Normal people do not enjoy living inside the Beltway. 

" Barack Obama had four defense secretaries, three national-security advisers, and five chiefs of staff. That is about par for a presidential tenure covering eight years. 

"But the problem with all these rumors of departing generals is not just that they are likely false and shopworn. They also make no sense because the three generals have been radically successful. In just a year, they have markedly enhanced U.S. national security as well as the image of the Trump administration itself. 

"The media, which are mostly anti-Trump, have always been schizophrenic in the coverage of the three generals. Some media outlets initially echoed old worries about too many Pentagon tentacles or the militarization of the executive branch. They forgot that generals, both active and retired, have long held administration jobs. General Colin Powell, for instance, served four different presidents, starting with his tenure as national-security adviser under Ronald Reagan. " . . .

General Kelly gets testy with Kamala Harris

Gen ( Mad Dog ) Mattis's reply to CNN's Wolf Blitzer

H.R. McMaster lead US tanks against Iraqi Republican Guard at 73 Easting.

Kimmel ATTACKS VP Pence’s Christian Faith At Oscars, Gets NASTY Surprise Backstage

Mad World News  . . . "Americans also had some choice words for Kimmel about his Pence joke. “Jimmy Kimmel says Hollywood makes films to upset Mike Pence. I can’t decide what’s more pathetic, making movies that nobody watches to get the Trump administration’s attention, or admitting to it,” tweeted Alana Mastrangelo.

Jimmy Kimmel says Hollywood makes films to upset Mike Pence. I can't decide what's more pathetic, making movies that nobody watches to get the Trump administration's attention, or admitting to it.— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) March 5, 2018

"“The statement is indicative of the goals of Hollywood, to use film as a propaganda tool of leftist ideology and philosophies,” responded Twitter user “Socialism Sux,” summing up how Hollywood uses these sick films, hoping to make our culture anti-Christian.

The statement is indicative of the goals of Hollywood, to use film as a propaganda tool of leftist ideology and philosophies— SocialismSux (@shipwreck_10304) March 5, 2018

"Sage Antone tweeted, “Correct. They no longer make movies for audiences. However, unlike the applauding seals in the audience, your children are safe around Mike Pence.” Now, there is some wisdom. If a homosexual pedophile movie is lauded as one of the best of 2018, maybe it’s Hollywood who is the problem in our society, not guns and not the NRA.

Correct. They no longer make movies for audiences. However, unlike the applauding seals in the audience, your children are safe around Mike Pence.— Sage Antone (@AntoneSage) March 5, 2018

"Don't Dare Sit with Us if You Want to Live"

Gatestone Institute

Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2017

"They get paid for every Coptic Christian girl they bring in. In some cases, police provide the kidnappers with drugs they seize. The drugs are then given to the girls to weaken their resistance... I even know of cases in which police offered helped to beat up the girls to make them recite the Islamic creed." — World Watch Monitor, Egypt; September 14, 2017.

"On September 14, a court sentenced a Christian man to death for "blasphemy" against the prophet of Islam. Nadeem James, a 27-year-old father of two, was originally arrested in July 2016, after a Muslim angry with him for personal reasons falsely accused James, who is illiterate, of texting a poem deemed "blasphemous" of Muhammad. — Pakistan.

"School textbooks taught her that "it was the Christians who wanted to plunder the lands and the riches of the Muslim world" and Turks merely responded by "defend[ing] what was rightfully theirs." (In reality, modern day Turkey consists of territory that was Christian for more than a thousand years before it was conquered by Turks in the name of jihad.) "Everything is used to make the Christians look like villains," she said, adding, "It's the same all through Muslim countries." — Turkey.

Raymond Ibrahim is the author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (published by Regnery with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).

About that ICE Raid the Oakland Mayor Interrupted...

Cortney O'Brien  . . . She shared the notice with the intent to "protect" citizens, not frighten them, she wrote.

"Oakland is safer when we share information, encourage community awareness, and care for our neighbors."

"It turns out the community is much "safer" having been swept by ICE, as a sizable number of the people the agents arrested in the San Francisco Bay Area had violent criminal records. 

Of those 232, 180 “were either convicted criminals, had been issued a final order of removal and failed to depart the United States, or had been previously removed” from the country and had come back illegally.Another 115 “had prior felony convictions for serious or violent offenses.” (Fox News)

"Those convictions include aggravated assault, murder, a hit and run, lewd acts with a minor, burglary, cruelty toward a child, indecent exposure, domestic violence, drug trafficking, battery, sex offenses and false imprisonment, an ICE spokesperson told Fox." . . .

EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Conservative Parkland Massacre Survivor the Media Has Largely Ignored

Townhall

. . . "I ask[ed] him why he thinks that's the case. "I don't know," he says, hesitantly. "Maybe because I don't use inflammatory language.  I speak calmly and logically without much emotion. I don't necessarily make the very best headline."  He's politely referring to some of his more "famous" peers' propensity to launch provocative and partisan attacks, such as repeated assertions that people who disagree with their political or policy preferences "don't care" about dead children, or have 'blood on their hands.'  But Kashuv knows that the disparate treatment he's lived isn't merely attributable to stylistic differences; he's convinced that the substance of his views is what has diminished his appeal to many activists and journalists." . . . 

In case you didn't watch the Academy Awards....

The grand irony is that Kimmel and the Hollywood cohort no doubt think they are helping matters, ultra-virtuous warriors and deep thinkers, living monuments to the beatitudes of liberal progressivism – and that can only be good, because they are good, and they know they're good because they care.  

And the award for Most Insufferable Virtue-Signaling goes to...  . . . "So we are asked to engorge a banquet of self-aggrandizement from an endless conga line of over-lauded thespians, so deep into their method-acting role as, apparently, the wisest of the wise that they have actually come to believe it, utterly incapable of recognizing themselves for what they really are: politicized hacks whose happenstance has found them in the klieg lights, in front of a microphone, bent on convincing the world that people who disagree with them are, let's face it, no damn good." . . .

The best and worst moments of the Oscars  "Obviously, this year’s Academy Awards were never going to match last year’s utter disaster. But did the ceremony have to be so utterly boring? By the end of the nearly four-hour ordeal, it was a challenge to stay awake. Can’t wait to see how far the ratings plummeted from last year’s 32.9 million. Still, a few moments stood out." . . .

Oscars Early Ratings Tank, Show Sinks 16 Percent From Last Year

Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel Takes Shots at Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Fox News  "Well, that didn't take long. 
"Right off the bat, host Jimmy Kimmel took shots at Donald Trump during the opening of the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, including about the president tweeting from a gold toilet." 

Oscars: Celebrities Push Gun Control Surrounded by a Wall of 500 Armed Officers

". . . The Academy Awards allows the American people to enjoy seeing the most number of stars in one place without having to donate to the Democratic Party."    Comedian Argus Hamilton