Althouse: At the Orange Latch Café...

June 14, 2018

At the Orange Latch Café...

... don't keep it all locked inside.

(And do some Amazon shopping through the Althouse Portal.)

25 comments:

eric said...: Tomorrow more texts will be revealed.

"Did you plant the evidence for Russian collusion?"

"Yeah, did it yesterday."

Inspector General, "Everything was on the up and up ya'll. Nothing to see here. Move along."; 6/14/18, 9:11 PM
Humperdink said...: I have to chuckle when I hear the phrase "no evidence of bias" regarding the infamous IG report. What. A. Joke.; 6/14/18, 9:23 PM
LincolnTf said...: Sitting with my dog, hearing the waves, can't decide whether to take one more walk to the beach tonight or not. Tomorrow the weekend people arrive, and my private beach gets less private.; 6/14/18, 9:25 PM
Sebastian said...: As a cynical conservative assuming the worst about the deep-state movers and shakers, I struggle against confirmation bias.

Fortunately, the IG report helps me out: the Swamp is much worse than I thought!

The brazen bias, the asinine language, the sense of impunity, the contempt for us deplorables, the lame excuses when confronted--no one would have believed us if we had alleged any of it two years ago.

And all along, the swamp dwellers were eagerly aided and abetted by the MSM.; 6/14/18, 9:41 PM
Big Mike said...: And all along, the swamp dwellers were eagerly accepting favors from the MSM in exchanged for juicy leaks.

FIFY; 6/14/18, 10:07 PM
Mike Sylwester said...: Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller headed the FBI for many years.

During that time, he inculcated throughout the entire institution the main goal of whitewashing the FBI.

He himself always has been the most effective whitewasher, but all of his subordinates are likewise active whitewashers, according to their own abilities.; 6/14/18, 10:12 PM
Trumpit said...: If Trump can pardon himself, then how can we ever lock up a wanton, criminal president like him? Ford pardoned Nixon, so I don't think Trump will be able to pardon himself. A barn with an orange latch is a fitting place to lock him up! He will die from not being able to tweet insults. Throw away the key just in case.; 6/14/18, 10:12 PM
traditionalguy said...: The avalanche of truth will soon wash away the FBI game. It will never come back to heroic status it once hid its corruption behind. They have been Trumped.; 6/14/18, 11:24 PM
Ray - SoCal said...: Amazing charts showing the number of leakers in the fbi.

Seems there are so many they won’t prosecute.

Amazing!!!

The Inspector General Put Together An Insane FBI Leak Chart Upon Finding Rules ‘Widely Ignored’

http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/14/inspector-general-put-together-insane-fbi-leak-chart-upon-finding-rules-widely-ignored/; 6/14/18, 11:31 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I managed to read about 2/3 of the IG report this evening, and quickly scanned through the reast. It is damning in the details. One of the things that is being missed is the part on inappropriate media contacts- those are all certainly being downplayed in the report because they are present subjects of criminal investigations- they literally have to be since such contacts are against department policy and leaks to the media are against the law- it isn't the case that it isn't known that the contacts were officially approved- they weren't, which is exactly what the IG report states.

I was evidently wrong about when Comey learned about the Weiner laptop- he was informed by the Weiner case agent the same day that McCabe learned of it in late September of 2016, so Comey was involved in sitting on the evidence for almost 4 weeks along with McCabe. One other little item I learned- Comey claimed he didn't know Huma Abedin was Weiner wife under questioning. That last part has got to be a lie, but one that one will be able to prove.

I strongly suspect some of the material is being withheld because it is being used in a criminal investigation process- certain people who should have a central role in this report are, at best, mentioned tangentially. Also, many names are redacted, and there is no real excuse for them being redacted unless they are under active criminal investigation or are key cooperating witnesses.; 6/14/18, 11:37 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Given that both Comey and McCabe knew about the laptop, I think the reason they sat on was two-fold- they didn't want it in the news prior to any of the three presidential debates and hoped to hold it out until after the election; and only moved on it when it became clear someone was going to go to the press as a whistleblower.; 6/14/18, 11:40 PM
eddie willers said...: I strongly suspect some of the material is being withheld because it is being used in a criminal investigation process

Haven't you learned yet?

Lucy is NEVER gonna let Charlie Brown kick that ball!; 6/14/18, 11:47 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I was writing a longer post on the text messages between agents 1 and 5 (unnamed in the report, and this probably because they are being investigated actively), but am tired, so went to find the best written article on the subject. Eric Felten at The Weekly Standard had it in more detail than I was planning to.

Basically it comes down to this- the agents on the Clinton case literally knew that the investigation was bogus and that the outcome was already decided before any work had been done. Now, this nothing anyone with an IQ above body temperature didn't already know, but the cynicism of, especially, Agent 1 nails it down- this was coming from someone who was an admitted Clinton supporter.; 6/15/18, 12:03 AM
Yancey Ward said...: And just to give you a taste of this, I will excerpt part of it below- while reading this, keep in mind how people like George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn were treated in similar circumstances:

FBI Employee: “boom…how did the [witness] go”

Agent 1: “Awesome. Lied his ass off. Went from never inside the scif [sensitive compartmented information facility] at res, to looked in when it was being constructed, to remove the trash twice, to troubleshot the secure fax with HRC a couple times, to everytime there was a secure fax i did it with HRC. Ridic,”

FBI Employee: “would be funny if he was the only guy charged n this deal”

Agent 1: “I know. For 1001. Even if he said the truth and didnt have a clearance when handling the secure fax — aint noone gonna do s--t”

The person being described was Hillary's personal IT guy who didn't have the proper security clearances to work on Clinton's server, regardless of whether or not the server was legal in the first place. Agent 1 literally knows the guy lied in his interview and also knew that the lying was not going to be followed up on by anyone.; 6/15/18, 12:07 AM
Yancey Ward said...: And one last thing before I turn in for the night- the text couplet between Page and Strzok where Page asks Strzok directly "He isn't going to become president" has been in the public domain since last Fall, but Strzok's reply was redacted. Strzok's reply was "No, we'll stop it."

Now, why do you think that text was redacted that way for over 8 months?; 6/15/18, 12:23 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Oh, and you should go read Strzok's explanations for "No, we'll stop it" and the bit about "the insurance policy". They are simply hilarious.; 6/15/18, 12:25 AM
chickelit said...: The orange lache estoppes foreign intruders.; 6/15/18, 12:36 AM
jaydub said...: I think many are underselling an obvious contributing factor for the non-investigation of the Clinton email scandal, that being Comey, as well as Obama and likely half the DOJ/FBI hierarchy, were also using commercial email accounts to circumvent federal records collection. So, it's also extremely likely that Comey and others were also passing classified or privileged information in exactly the same manner as Clinton, save the personal server. How likely is it that Clinton and her staff targets not only knew that but also had such messages in their possession?; 6/15/18, 12:42 AM
WK said...: Rosenstein seems to be fulfilling his role to the intended effect. But we have yet to hear much from Guildencrantz.....; 6/15/18, 1:43 AM
Theranter said...: Yancey, did you catch the part where they say "servers" -- plural!-- when referring to the things they inspected of H Clinton's?

I thought she 'only' had one. Or am I mistaken?; 6/15/18, 1:59 AM
JPS said...: " aint noone gonna do s--t”

Strange. It's almost as though they thought a fix of some sort was already in.; 6/15/18, 3:35 AM
rehajm said...: Question: commercial email wouldn’t be subject to bleach bit treatment, at least not without cooperation from the company’s techies. Even then they would leave tracks of where, when the deletions happened, no?; 6/15/18, 5:15 AM
Jim at said...: Great pic.; 6/15/18, 1:36 PM
Saint Croix said...: Out: Ashley Madison ad on Althouse.

In: Planned Parenthood ad on Althouse.

Save Roe!

It's almost like there is some unseen soap opera that is happening in the Althouse ad column.

"Let's have a spicy sex affair and cheat on our spouses. What could go wrong?"

"Oh shit! We better kill the baby and start wearing pink T-shirts."; 6/15/18, 4:32 PM
Rusty said...: Ah. Another Rusty cafe.
Rusry Latch was my porn name.; 6/15/18, 4:43 PM