Friday, December 14, 2018

Mueller team refuses to hand over documents Judge Sullivan ordered in Flynn case


The ball is in the Judge's court now.  It is possible that he could toss the case.  If that happens, and if it is tossed with extreme prejudice, I will be very gratified.

If it is not, well, it may be par for the course.




Don Surber: Shut the government down




Don Surber: Shut the government down: Face it, we deplorables would love to see the federal government shut down for a month or so. A battle for funding the wall is as good an ex...


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I think Trump will do it.  But can the Democrats hold out?  Perhaps they think they can, so we will see.

At any rate, look who loses every day when the government isn't funded.  It is the left wing.  If this was carried all the way through to the next election, the government would be forced to shrink enough that it may even cause there to be a balanced budget.

If that happened, maybe the demonstration that the government could live within its means could be established as fact.

I have supported an aggressive move like this for a long time.  I am hoping that Trump won't let us down and will do it.


Obligatory, 12.13.18

Updated,

12.14.18:

Got slammed again.  I am proceeding much more carefully today, while I try to pinpoint where all the data is going.

12.13.18:

An explanation for the lite posting of the last couple days:  it is a data spike for some reason.  I got slammed for about a half gig of data for a reason unknown, and because of that, I had to stand down a bit.

Blogging should be somewhat normal, unless I get slammed again.


Thursday, December 13, 2018

Don Surber: Flynn case shows FBI lied


Don Surber: Flynn case shows FBI lied: Bungling Bob Mueller is an epithet well-earned over the decades in a career marked by incompetence wrapped in fealty to the right people. I ...

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Did the FBI lie, and the "rule of law" die?

Could resist the turn of phrase.




Wednesday, December 12, 2018

At the very least, Comey is biased

Considering what former FBI Director James Comey said recently, he seems
to have taken sides against POTUS Trump.

Does this not seem like bias?  It does to me, and may explain why he
decided to take the Flynn conversation with POTUS, and his firing, as
he did.

Let's take the Flynn first.  Given his own description of events, could
it be said that if it were Hillary saying the exact same thing, would
he have reacted the same way?  Would it not be reasonable to rephrase
what POTUS Trump said about letting Flynn go, as a means of making
sure that is what Trump meant?  If Hillary had said the exact same
thing, and if she were POTUS, would he have done things the same way?

For instance, could he have asked Trump: "Do you mean that I should
let Flynn go?"  If Trump had said "yes", then he could mention that
it could be construed as obstruction of justice, and given that info,
would he like to rephrase what he said?

He certainly gave Hillary the benefit of the doubt when the law didn't
require it.  Even if the law doesn't require it in Trump's case, it
would seem that he would at least show as much courtesy toward Trump
as he did towards Hillary.  Since that appears to be the case here,
does it not seem that he was biased against Trump?

Since he didn't open an obstruction case against Trump, could it be
that he was trying to get back at Trump for firing him, then?

Clearly, Comey wants to interpret Trump's words as obstruction in the
Flynn case, and his firing seems to be motivating him as well.  He
says his firing may have been motivated by obstruction as well.  If
Comey believed that Trump was obstructing justice, why did he not
open an obstruction case as did then Deputy McCabe?

There are other reasons to consider Comey biased.  He seems to have
paid much attention to detail when he signed off on the FISA warrant,
which is supposed to be verified.  In his own words, several months
after fact, he said that the Steele Dossier was "salacious and
unverified".  McCabe said without the Steele Dossier, there would
not have been a FISA warrant.  If no FISA warrant, then there would
be no Mueller.  Therefore, Comey seeks to have a special prosecutor
named after POTUS Trump fires him, but not before.  His lack of
attention to detail was another way in which he shows bias against
Trump, and he might well have known that it could lead to a special
prosecutor being named, and that is what he was after when he leaked
that info to the press just after he was fired.

Why not show more attention to detail?  Would he not have done the
same for Hillary?  He seems to go out of his way to help Hillary,
even if his efforts were not appreciated, he clearly believed that
he was helping her.  Why not show the same courtesy to Trump, unless
he biased against him?







Monday, December 10, 2018

Obligatory, 12.9.18-- James Comey

Updated,

12.10.18:

Sharyl Attkisson has an article worth reading.  It goes into detail, with some analysis and background.  Well done.





18:09:

Just finished reading this thing, or as much as the thing would let me read.

Some quick observations:


  • Nobody seems to be nailing down the fact that the Wikileaks emails were hacked or leaked.  Rather, it seems to be assumed that they were hacked.  Otherwise, why do all this?  It has long been my contention that the hacking claim has not ever been established.
  • Secondly, the Dems seem to be moving the goal posts.  It was about "collusion".  If that fails, the it will be about obstruction of justice.  I predicted this at the beginning of the Mueller appointment.
  • Thirdly, Comey keeps saying that POTUS Trump asked him to drop investigation of Flynn.  Nobody pressed him on this, but it should have been pressed a bit harder.  Did POTUS actually ASK him that, or was it more of a hint?  The way the story gets told, Comey portrays it as asking, but another interpretation could be made.
  • Comey didn't initiate an obstruction of justice investigation based upon the now alleged Flynn conversation.  If he felt so strongly about it then, why didn't he begin one?
  • Comey is so sure that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election, but he cannot name the predicate event that initiated the investigation.  His testimony is evasive in front of GOP questions, but effusive in the front of the Democrats.
  • I get the impression that Comey is the biggest incompetent I have ever seen, or the biggest liar.  He seems to know little, but acts as if he knows a lot.  Either he is lying about it, or he is a great big doofus.




15:43:

Most of today has been spent reading the James Comey testimony in Congress last week.

It is over 200 pages, and it is quite time consuming to read it all.

Perhaps I will comment upon it.  Don't know yet.

For now, I will make no comment until I have read it all, and maybe some other stuff besides.

That is all.