tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post326530724192510288..comments2024-03-29T03:51:13.883-05:00Comments on Althouse: "President Trump... demanded a congressional inquiry into whether Mr. Obama abused the power of federal law enforcement agencies before the 2016 presidential election."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77231519124193137402017-03-05T19:19:33.913-06:002017-03-05T19:19:33.913-06:00"I don't trust the USSS."
Fever tem...<i>"I don't trust the USSS."<br /><br />Fever temperatures going up and up.</i><br /><br />Says the lefty who doesn't mind if USSS agents get drunk and run into the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/11/politics/drunk-secret-service-agents-white-house/" rel="nofollow"> The White House barriers. </a><br /><br /><i>Two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of President Barack Obama's protective detail, crashed a car into a White House barricade following a late-night party for retiring spokesman Ed Donovan and it's suspected they had been drinking, sources confirmed to CNN.</i><br /><br />Or <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-scandal-colombian-woman-describes-night-of-carousing-with-agents/2012/05/04/gIQAcwyi1T_story.html?utm_term=.f02f639adb0c" rel="nofollow"> partying with hookers </a>when supposed to be providing security.<br /><br /><i>A 24-year-old woman who says she is the prostitute at the center of a Secret Service scandal gave the most complete account yet of her alleged dispute over payment with an agent that led to revelations about nine Secret Service members bringing prostitutes to their rooms on a presidential business trip to Colombia.</i><br /><br />That doesn't bother you a bit. You know what ? It doesn't bother me either as long as it was Obama.<br /><br />Trump has enemies, some of which might be in the government.<br />Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12891016669271752102017-03-05T17:02:45.100-06:002017-03-05T17:02:45.100-06:00"Does anyone really think Loretta Lynch would..."Does anyone really think Loretta Lynch would order a FISA warrant on Trump without Obama's approval ?"<br /><br />Actually, I do. It wouldn't have happened with either GW Bush or Trump, and Crooked Hillary would have personally given the orders, then ordered her AG to arrest anyone who balked at it. Trump, like any good CEO, doesn't like surprises. But Obama had no management training or experience when moving into the White House, and it showed. Most of his cabinet were political hacks who got their positions as payment for supporting him, and were allowed to do what they wanted while in office, including enriching themselves. But his AGs were there to protect him, and everything else was secondary. I believe him when he claimed that he found out what was going on in his Administration on TV. He really was, apparently, that incompetent. <br /><br />One thing that you must remember about Obama is that the only professional training he ever had was as an attorney. One of the things that is strange at first in the practice of law is that you, on occasion, have to tell clients not to tell you things. Or, more commonly, if the clients are not brain dead, you tell them that if you are told X by them, then Y will happen. Often this means telling someone else. Most often this revolves around some ethical obligation that the attorney has to someone else. So, criminal defense attys don't want to hear about how their client killed someone in cold blood. Because, then you can't put on a sel-defense defense, because you know it to be false. In my case, as a patent atty, I have told clients that if they admit to prior art to me, I have to disclose it to the USPTO (and in litigation). Of course, AGs Holder and Lynch are also attys too, so they knew, w/o being warned by Obama, that there were certain things that they couldn't tell him, for his own good, such as the wiretapping of Trump Tower. <br /><br />By the one person who had to know what was going on was AG Lynch. She had to approve all FISA warrant applications. This isn't just because the DoJ lawyers worked for her, but, more importantly,, because FISA requires it, presumably to keep the AG from claiming ignorance, when applications are illegally applied for, issued, and utilized. Bruce Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815293023158025662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19875515953148611322017-03-05T16:19:54.798-06:002017-03-05T16:19:54.798-06:00Comey obstructing justice isn't strange. It ap...<i>Comey obstructing justice isn't strange. It appears to be SOP for him.</i><br /><br />Sorry, wrong thread.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59328592633722819792017-03-05T16:18:55.765-06:002017-03-05T16:18:55.765-06:00Comey obstructing justice isn't strange. It a...Comey obstructing justice isn't strange. It appears to be SOP for him.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54814382507558181062017-03-05T15:42:04.238-06:002017-03-05T15:42:04.238-06:00If this is true, then Barack Milhous Obama is even...If this is true, then Barack Milhous Obama is even worse than Nixon.Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16736461252925227611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21945674164358294162017-03-05T14:50:56.673-06:002017-03-05T14:50:56.673-06:00"I don't trust the USSS."
Fever tem..."I don't trust the USSS."<br /><br />Fever temperatures going up and up.readeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699913625782012426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-56251702406670966022017-03-05T14:46:54.203-06:002017-03-05T14:46:54.203-06:002009 - Obama is the first black president
2017 - ...2009 - Obama is the first black president<br /><br />2017 - Orange is the new blackMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07575021285669012791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44961084784359310272017-03-05T14:45:31.288-06:002017-03-05T14:45:31.288-06:00Let's get this party started.
10 points for ...Let's get this party started. <br /><br />10 points for every elected official republican or democrat who gets more than 5 years in jail.<br /><br />5 points for every bureaucrat who gets more than a year.<br /><br />Brass ring for jarret or obama. <br /><br />A bag of cheetos if you get Trump.<br /><br />A republic if we are no longer under surveillance for the crime of being citizens.Achilleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04109507896997459818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73130699329609424962017-03-05T14:37:14.529-06:002017-03-05T14:37:14.529-06:00William said:
"In any event, if the purpose o...William said:<br />"In any event, if the purpose of the Russian hacking was to alienate Americans from their leaders and electoral system, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams."<br /><br />That could be true. But I think it more likely that through our media -- both mainstream and social --we have become caught up in a mass hysteria, and without the need for any outside assistance, we are doing a good job of harming ourselves. Laslo, where can I get one of those shit-fans?<br /><br />Obama vs Trump-- just like a WWE match. And we eat it up, don't we? I admit to being guilty. I've been glued to the internet -- and to a much lesser extent -- the TV, since this broke yesterday. (But I don't do social media. It's a distraction and an indulgence-- one I fear I could easily OD on-- that I don't want in my life. )Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11577584676839171856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17488707436015889062017-03-05T14:34:33.857-06:002017-03-05T14:34:33.857-06:00"Trump should know OBAMA NEVER LEFT THE WHITE...<br />"Trump should know OBAMA NEVER LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE! He's in the closet! HE HAS SCISSORS!<br /><br />This is how Trump's mind works. Ignore it. There are more important things to be concerned with."<br />-------------------<br />"And the walls have ears and the eyes in the Jackson painting follow you around the room!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60979910320266085912017-03-05T14:14:49.100-06:002017-03-05T14:14:49.100-06:00"the Koch Brothers had staged a takeover of W..."the Koch Brothers had staged a takeover of Wisconsin"<br /><br />That was Putin I.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-85724706498492096752017-03-05T14:11:53.024-06:002017-03-05T14:11:53.024-06:00Wildswan--
Last year a rather tiresome former frie...Wildswan--<br />Last year a rather tiresome former friend who moves in Council on Foreign Relations circles in New York breathlessly told me that Russ Feingold had appeared at one of their forums and revealed how the Koch Brothers had staged a takeover of Wisconsin, and it had to be undone. I laughed in her face (that was the beginning of the end of a 40 year friendship). I came home and sent Ron Johnson a $1000 contribution. The election I cared most about last November was Johnson v. Feingold. <br />I am really sorry I lost my friend, but that line is what was going out to well-meaning Democrats across the country. Wisconsin is the birthplace of the Progressive movement. It has been a bitter pill to lose control. John Doe was their last line of attack. <br />I am sure they'll be back someday, but in the meantime, on Wisconsin!Amadeus 48 https://www.blogger.com/profile/15907486643353591432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55409544922250096072017-03-05T14:06:43.433-06:002017-03-05T14:06:43.433-06:00Amadeus 48:
Newspapers routinely say 'refute&#...Amadeus 48:<br />Newspapers routinely say 'refute' (prove wrong) when they mean 'rebut' (try to prove wrong), but this is even worse: Obama didn't even rebut the claim, he merely denied it, and did it in such a lawyerly over-parsed way that he might as well have admitted it.Dr Weevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059306888033890029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-80822992724563848322017-03-05T14:01:40.058-06:002017-03-05T14:01:40.058-06:00Power has to be devolved back to the states and to...<i>Power has to be devolved back to the states and to the nation states as much as possible so that no official is seen as "too big to fail." </i><br /><br />This can't be done in four years. Eight may not be enough. I just hope Trump, and Pence, keep personal security close. I don't trust the USSS.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3212021046304553762017-03-05T13:56:42.159-06:002017-03-05T13:56:42.159-06:00The John Doe investigation of Scott Walker and his...The John Doe investigation of Scott Walker and his supporters went on and on in Wisconsin even after nothing turned up. Police caravans pulled into driveways in suburbia at dawn, turned headlights and spotlights on the doors of conservatives, pulled guns and raced for doors, pounded on doors, once inside burst through houses grabbing every computer and family photos, in the course of interviews threatened wives with prison if they said anything to anyone about this raid and asked if they had been told by anyone about similar raids. The NYT and ALCU simply did not care that this was done to conservatives. This was only stopped by the Wisconsin Supreme Court (after years of such abuses) when one conservative lawyer was brave enough to believe in the system and appeal all the way.<br /><br />So I find it easy to suspect that Obama, through Loretta Lynch, continued an investigation long after it was seen as useless. And that he abused the FISA process to wiretap in some way the opposition candidate. And that he allowed national security procedures to be exposed and violated before and after the election. It's all a new type of abuse of power but it is now happening. First it was the IRS, now it's national security. It should all be investigated because that's the only way abuses get corrected. Or, more colorfully, this is how you drain the swamp. <br /><br />And as the swamp drains, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, namely, "national security" routinely used as cover for partisan political advantage by Barack Obama on behalf of Hillary Clinton, comes crawling forth. It's very ugly and will get worse. For, if Democratic party partisans would abuse "national security" to collect data, why would they not abuse "national security" to alter collected data? It feels like sci-fi but it is all now real.<br /><br />Power has to be devolved back to the states and to the nation states as much as possible so that no official is seen as "too big to fail." That's today's challenge, I think.wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30330242884730054262017-03-05T13:55:19.006-06:002017-03-05T13:55:19.006-06:00@ARM This certainly does make your distaste for th...@ARM This certainly does make your distaste for the "surveillance state" completely understandable. The one thing - of many - that I take away from all this leaking intelligence is that domestic "intelligence gathering' is completely out of control. Snowden may have been a traitor, he may also have been right. (I can't believe I wrote that!)khesanh0802https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792377924992548208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-9216762868791101492017-03-05T13:54:56.794-06:002017-03-05T13:54:56.794-06:00Rcocean-- I also loved all the stooge headlines th...Rcocean-- I also loved all the stooge headlines that Obama "refuted" the claim. No he didn't. His spokesman denied the claim. They didn't refute anything. <br /><br />If these people were trying to look biased against Trump, they couldn't do better. Amadeus 48 https://www.blogger.com/profile/15907486643353591432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14217613395491420592017-03-05T13:50:09.849-06:002017-03-05T13:50:09.849-06:00Matt (and Stephen King)--Like those Russians perma...Matt (and Stephen King)--Like those Russians permanently installed in the personal residence of the White House, I presume. <br /><br />Self-awareness is so rare it should be a superpower. Amadeus 48 https://www.blogger.com/profile/15907486643353591432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20839726298225756592017-03-05T13:47:05.552-06:002017-03-05T13:47:05.552-06:00MSM double standard:
1) Did Trump collude with Ru...MSM double standard:<br /><br />1) Did Trump collude with Russians? Trump says no, but he might be lying. We demand proof Trump is innocent. Even if evidence is shaky, Press/Congress must still investigate. <br /><br />2) Did Obama wiretap Trump? Obama says no. Case closed. Give us proof Trump that Obama ordered it or STFU!rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83252021054649371452017-03-05T13:40:04.518-06:002017-03-05T13:40:04.518-06:00Retweeted Stephen King (@StephenKing):
Trump shoul...Retweeted Stephen King (@StephenKing):<br />Trump should know OBAMA NEVER LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE! He's in the closet! HE HAS SCISSORS!<br /><br />This is how Trump's mind works. Ignore it. There are more important things to be concerned with.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04977662030208589392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48119874257608349142017-03-05T13:06:38.389-06:002017-03-05T13:06:38.389-06:00readering knows a lot about fever swamps. Inside d...readering knows a lot about fever swamps. Inside dope.Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14971245693563809612017-03-05T12:52:32.909-06:002017-03-05T12:52:32.909-06:00Amadeus 48 -
Well said! I should be so articulate...Amadeus 48 - <br />Well said! I should be so articulate.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17458101374765711206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17243552584894759822017-03-05T12:47:35.897-06:002017-03-05T12:47:35.897-06:00Fever swamps indeed . . . .Fever swamps indeed . . . .readeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699913625782012426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82144213015751795822017-03-05T12:38:39.806-06:002017-03-05T12:38:39.806-06:00readering--I am afraid you are behind the class. H...readering--I am afraid you are behind the class. Here's a bit of tutoring:<br />Remember when the FBI guy told Priebus that they had not found anything? Did you see Trey Gowdy sitting in the catbird seat on Martha McCallem on Thursday after the meeting with Comey? Have you seen Adam Schiff crying that Comey didn't tell them anything after sitting through the same meeting Gowdy was at? Right now the Dems are hoping, praying that something will turn up, because there is nothing there now. <br />So Trump, thinking that the Dems were getting off too light, dropped the dime on Team Obama. What is this all about? It's about a bunch of stuff (the FISA requests) that had been lightly reported here in the US because it didn't turn up anything. But Trump, appealing to emotional truth, asked, "What the hell are these clowns doing thinking they can evesdrop on my campaign? Nixon got chased out for that!"<br />Our stooge press didn't even think about the implications of what they had reported.<br />Steve Bannon has said some very cutting but sadly accurate things about our media: they are lazy, stupid, and disgustingly partisan stooges of the Democratic Party. They are not even close to the end of their travails with this administration.<br />And the really sad thing is, if you read Ben Rhodes's interview in the Atlantic, Team Obama knew the same things that Bannon said and bragged about how they had played the press.<br />I am glad that Althouse is willing to read the New York Times so I don't have to.Amadeus 48 https://www.blogger.com/profile/15907486643353591432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59178933356413955292017-03-05T12:34:31.478-06:002017-03-05T12:34:31.478-06:00Correction to my first comment above :
Obama and ...Correction to my first comment above :<br /><br />Obama and his DOJ are desperate to create an atmosphere in which their possibly illegal action to bug a US citizen -- even worse, the opposition candidate in a very contentious election year-- on flimsy grounds. <br /><br />should read:<br /><br />Obama and his former DOJ operatives are desperate to create an atmosphere which justifies their possibly illegal action to bug a US citizen -- even worse, the opposition candidate in a very contentious election year-- on flimsy grounds.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11577584676839171856noreply@blogger.com