Even I am surprised at how neglected this story has been by the main-street press. ========= WSJ 12/11/2017 Christopher Wray was supposed to bring a new candor and credibility to the FBI after the James Comey debacle, but the country is still waiting. The director’s testimony Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee suggests he has joined the Justice Department effort to stop the... Read more
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The Definition of Stonewalling
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftObstruction of Justice? – WSJ
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Strassel, US ConstitutionNo one should be surprised that ‘they’ are not giving up easily. ===== WSJ 12/8/2017 K A Strassel Obstruction of Congress The media echo chamber spent the week speculating about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller can or will nab President Trump on obstruction- ofjustice charges. All the while it continues to ignore Washington’s most obvious obstruction— the coordinated effort to thwart congressional... Read more
Prosecutors Gone Wild
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Party Politics, Special CounselWe ignore at our own peril.. ==== By Daniel Henninger WSJ 11/15/2017 American politics has become an endless fox hunt. The hounds’ heads jerked up this week on news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, responding to a request from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, had asked the Justice Department’s career lawyers to look into the possibility of appointing a second special prosecutor,... Read more
Bob Mueller’s Sideshow
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, Russia, The LeftThe main-stream press will not focus on material issues and information. ===== WSJ 10/31/2017 The best way to think of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Monday-morning indictments is as a compliment— backhanded as it may be—to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes. Like the special prosecutor, Mr. Nunes and his committee have been investigating the 2016 presidential campaign. Unlike the special prosecutor,... Read more
The Trump Dossier Dam Is Breaking
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpWSJ- 10/28/2017 ’Tis the season of tossing out nondisclosure agreements. Victims and employees of Harvey Weinstein clamor to be released from their NDAs so they can talk about his abuse. Perkins Coie, the Washington law firm for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign, showed the way by voluntarily releasing Fusion GPS from its duty to remain mum on Democrats who... Read more
The FBI’s Political Meddling
October 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Party Politics, The LeftIf it waddles like a duck; quacks like a duck, then its a duck. = = = = By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Oct. 24, 2017 6:17 p.m. ET Let’s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine. Here’s a story consistent with... Read more
