Speaking of yanking federal(our) money from NPR,

they get a lot more than they let on.


Gee, once again a lot of rich brats decided they know how everyone should be properly controlled, and allowed to live.  Because they're so much smarter than everyone else, and care so much.  


Been said before, but finally going before the Supremes: Jack Smith is not a legal Special Counsel, and what all he's done is illegal.


Speaking of rich brats and 'Higher' Education, a collection of stuff at Insty.  Includes both a bunch of overpaid college brass and screeching rabid howler monkey students who want to destroy things, and the fact that most of America is disgusted by it.

It appears this DC cop lied on sworn statements, and did various other illegal things

And if his lawyers were aware of this, they need to be dealt with, too, say starting with disbarment.
Officer Evans sued Brandon Straka and Roger Stone who was not even at the US Capitol that day along with leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and others.

Brandon Straka released video on Wednesday of Officer Byron Evans admitting he was watching the January 6 protests on a TV in a room in a secure location.

CNN let the cat out of the bag:

And if some politicians who pushed this story were aware, unfortunately the chances of them being held to account are pretty low.

The 'Justice' Department needs to be flushed out

with firehoses.  If these bastards are considered 'exceptional public servants with an unwavering commitment to justice', might as well get rid of everyone(except the ones who belong in cells themselves), make sure all the lawyers are disbarred, and start over.

And they wonder why people don't trust them...

Holy shit. This is awful, and the female responsible, and her friends,

all need to be named.  And her lawyers, if they indeed knew about all this, they should lose their licenses, at the least.

Also, further evidence that the 'METOO' and 'BELIEVE ALL WOMEN' crap of 'accused = guilty' is absolute bullshit.

And this was all ok'd by the asshat Garland illegally appointed Special Counsel

In October 2022, reports surfaced that federal prosecutors felt they had enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden over a false statement related to buying a gun, according to Politico, citing internal communications between Hunter’s legal team and the DOJ. Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark wrote in a 32-page letter to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, arguing that the leak was “illegal,” and any charges brought would violate the Second Amendment and be viewed as a partisan attack.

“President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial,” Clark wrote in the letter obtained by Politico. “This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”
Your client's male parent being put on the stand would not be a 'Constitutional crisis', you lying bastard, just a horrible problem for he and your client.

And then we have this:
The Department of Justice (DOJ)’s original deal with Hunter Biden would not have required him to plead guilty, according to documents obtained by Politico, but was altered after whistleblowers came forward shedding light on the DOJ’s handling of the case.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers sent a draft deal to prosecutors in May that not only included a version of the promise of broad immunity for future charges that appeared in the final deal, but also that their client need not plead guilty — a detail the DOJ initially accepted, Politico reported. DOJ prosecutor Lesley Wolf then sent Hunter’s legal team a list of “must-haves” as part of negotiations, with a guilty plea not included in the list.

But days after IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley publicly stated in an interview with CBS News that the DOJ “slow-walked” the investigation, prosecutors said Hunter Biden would need to plead guilty to the two misdemeanor tax charges, sources told Politico.
You can just imagine how fair and unbiased Weiss would be as a Special Counsel.

"If you defend this guy we don't like, we'll try to get you disbarred!"

Which, as Insty says, probably comes under the heading of a conspiracy to deprive someone of legal counsel, which I think is criminal.  If they're a lawyer, it's definitely unethical and ought to get THEM disbarred.

And, as usual, if they can do it to Trump they can do it to anybody else they're pissy about.

About damn time this started happening

A top FBI lawyer who fabricated evidence in a federal spy warrant against Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page is expected to plead guilty to federal charges brought by U.S. Attorney John Durham. Kevin Clinesmith, who is expected to admit to deliberately fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant application, used to spy on a former campaign affiliate of President Donald Trump, was a top attorney in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and a key agency attorney under fired former FBI Director James Comey.

Step 1: Fire the bastards.

Step 2: Disbar the bastards.
Step 3: Prosecute the bastards.
Step 4:  Yank their immunity so they have to pay damages out of their own damned pockets.

While you're at it, same(minus Step2) for cops caught breaking laws. 

Trust any fed? About anything?

Why should I?
From fiscal year 2002 through fiscal year 2013, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) documented more than 650 infractions, according to a Project On Government Oversight review of data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and from OPR reports.

In the majority of the matters—more than 400—OPR categorized the violations as being at the more severe end of the scale: recklessness or intentional misconduct, as distinct from error or poor judgment.

The information the Justice Department has disclosed is only part of the story. No less significant is what as a matter of policy it keeps from the public.

As a general practice, the Justice Department does not make public the names of attorneys who acted improperly or the defendants whose cases were affected. The result: the Department, its lawyers, and the internal watchdog office itself are insulated from meaningful public scrutiny and accountability.
Screw trusting any of these people.  Some of them are honest, but unless you KNOW one is, why, considering what's come out the last few years, would you trust them?

Nervous? I don't doubt it, and he damn well out to be

Former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted on Friday that he is “nervous” about DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into the conduct of the DOJ and the FBI during the Trump-Russia probe. 

Baker said he is “assuming that they will dig and find stuff” and that “we’ll try to sort it out and see what mistakes were made.” But Baker defended the FBI's actions, including its use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
'mistakes'.  No, when people deliberately lie under oath and all the other crap they did, it was not 'mistakes'.  They think their real mistake was getting caught.

Baker contended that he was “confident in the judgments that I made at the time based on the information that I had available to me.” But he left open the possibility that others may have engaged in wrongdoing, saying, “I’m sure they will find things that I didn’t know at the time and maybe that others didn’t know at the time.” [emphases added]
Translation: "Don't blame ME!"

This is likely to get real amusing as the various rats start turning on each other.

And they claim to wonder why most people think they're corrupt hacks?

Aaron Zebley served previously as Mueller’s chief of staff at the FBI and as a senior counselor in the National Security Division at the Department of Justice. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the National Security and Terrorism Unit in Alexandria, Virginia. 

He is often referred to in the media as Mueller's "right-hand man." 

Also, in 2015 when he was a lawyer, he represented Justin Cooper, the IT staffer who personally set up Hillary Clinton's unsecure server in her Chappaqua home, Fox News' Tucker Carlson revealed on his show Thursday.
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Let this sink in. The same attorney who played a defensive role for Hillary Clinton was tapped by Mueller in June to play an offensive role against Clinton opponent Trump.

But Zebley isn't the only questionable hire. Out of a team of fifteen lawyers, nine of them have donated to Democratic candidates. None of them seem to have Republican leanings.


Mohammed bin Salman better have damn good security people, because with things like this he's got an even bigger bullseye on his back.


Amazing, is it not, what happens when the people in charge of the war actually want to win?

Speaking of crooked bastards,

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh asked the state’s highest court Monday to step in and derail an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s personal lawyers over accusations of destruction of evidence that could eventually lead to them being disbarred. 

Mr. Frosh, a Democrat who was a Clinton supporter in last year’s election, also asked the high court to reseal the case to prevent public view of the proceedings.


More on Professional Journalism:
It’s not exactly breaking news that most journalists lean left. I used to do that myself. I grew up at The New York Times, so I’m familiar with the species. For most of the media, bias grew out of the social revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. Fueled by the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the media jumped on the anti-authority bandwagon writ large. The deal was sealed with Watergate, when journalism was viewed as more trusted than government—and far more exciting and glamorous. Think Robert Redford in All the President’s Men. Ever since, young people became journalists because they wanted to be the next Woodward and Bernstein, find a Deep Throat, and bring down a president. Of course, most of them only wanted to bring down a Republican president. That’s because liberalism is baked into the journalism cake.
And what right-wing activist is saying this?
Michael Goodwin was weaned on Abe Rosenthal’s New York Times, rising to City Hall Bureau Chief before becoming Executive Editor of the Daily News and, now, chief political columnist for the New York Post.

We're supposed to trust ANY of these bastards?

Years later I ran into Mueller, and I told him of my disappointment in being the target of a sting where there was no reason to think that I would knowingly present perjured evidence to a court. Mueller, half-apologetically, told me that he never really thought that I would suborn perjury, but that he had a duty to pursue the lead given to him. (That “lead,” of course, was provided by a fellow that we lawyers, among ourselves, would indelicately refer to as a “scumbag.”)

This experience made me realize that Mueller was capable of believing, at least preliminarily, any tale of criminal wrongdoing and acting upon it, despite the palpable bad character and obviously questionable motivations of his informants and witnesses.
...
The day of the meeting, I walked into the DOJ conference room, where around the table sat a phalanx of FBI agents. My three colleagues joined me. Mueller walked into the room, went to the head of the table, and opened the meeting with this admonition, reconstructed from my vivid and chilling memory: “Gentlemen: Criticism of the Bureau is a non-starter.” (Another lawyer attendee of the meeting remembered Mueller’s words slightly differently: “Prosecutorial misconduct is a non-starter.” Either version makes clear Mueller’s intent – he did not want to hear evidence that either the prosecutors or the FBI agents on the case misbehaved and framed an innocent man.)
"Screw the facts, there will be NOTHING about the Sacred Bureau being involved in misconduct, no matter how much evidence there is."

Trump really wants to do some good, start by firing every lawyer

in the DoJ who took part in this.
At the time of the May 2016 order, Hanen noted that the DOJ “has now admitted making statements that clearly did not match the facts. It has admitted that the lawyers who made these statements had knowledge of the truth when they made these misstatements.” The DOJ provided only the explanation that its lawyers “lost focus” or that the “fact[s] receded in memory or awareness.” He opined that the misrepresentations were made on “multiple occasions” and started at “the very first hearing this Court held.” He said he was mislead both in writing and in statements made in open court. 
...
Hanen called the government’s conduct “intentionally deceptive” and ordered U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to file a comprehensive plan “to prevent this unethical conduct from ever occurring again.” He added, Lynch must make sure that “Justice Department trial lawyers tell the truth—the entire truth.” He also barred the DOJ lawyers who had appeared in the case from ever appearing before his court again.
If you or I did this, it'd be called perjury, and we'd face jail.  These bastards should be disbarred(if the Bar Assoc. actually cares about honesty), and fired.  Preferably prosecuted as well.

Yes, I've posted on this before; it still pisses me off.

Janet Reno is dead

Maybe she'll face the judgement she deserves now.  Maybe by some of her victims setting her on fire.

When a judge looks over your 'investigation' and asks 'Where's the kangaroo?',

you know your investigation was crap, and you're full of shit.


Hey, NEA members, how's it feel knowing your union doesn't give a damn what you think?


Wonder how the actual lawmen in the EffingBI feel about how things are going?

And because I'm sick to death of all this(not helped by being actually sick), a point from Whiteboard on barrel cleaning:

The son and wife are visiting,

so go read something else for a day or two.

One thing:
According to documents released by the FBI on Monday, it is possible that classified information on Clinton’s server was compromised by longtime family associate Sidney Blumenthal and that information could have found its way onto a Romanian server.

“The search uncovered hundreds of files that the witness believed to be from Sidney Blumenthal’s server on a server in Romania,” reported LawNewz’s Chris White, citing FBI documents. “These files included Microsoft Word, Excel, and other documents, but no emails. Blumenthal’s email account was breached by the Romanian hacker Guccifer.”
I think it safe to say that that hack Blumenthal not only didn't have clearance, but had no legal reason or ability whatever to have access to that information.  And if the EffingBI and DoJ doesn't actually INVESTIGATE this, this we can(if we didn't already) consider them so corrupt and compromised that they should be ignored.

After they're flogged and fired, of course.

Good, this is what should happen to corrupt prosecutors

Prosecutors who intentionally withhold or falsify evidence could be charged with a felony under a new bill winding through the state Legislature.
The proposal by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez, D-San Fernando, comes as prosecutors in Orange County face accusations that they’ve routinely misused jailhouse informants and withheld information from defense attorneys.
Lots of butthurt is being heard from who you'd expect
Opposing the measure is the 500-member union representing Orange County lawyers, including deputy district attorneys, public defenders and county counsel. The group’s board on Tuesday voted 8-3 to oppose the bill.
...
“There are already safeguards in place to deal with the things the bill is trying to address,” Guirguis said. “There’s no evidence there’s an explosion of intentional violations.”
Yeah?  Really?  How're those safeguards working?
But the problem of prosecutorial misconduct predates Orange County’s snitch controversy. A 2010 study by Santa Clara University School of Law looked at misconduct statewide, concluding: “Courts fail to report prosecutorial misconduct (despite having a statutory obligation to do so), prosecutors deny that it occurred, and the California State Bar almost never disciplines it...The problem is critical.”
Sounds like your 'safeguards' aren't working, jackass.  Of course, the same thing will be a problem with this: judges who don't want to actually whack another lawyer with real penalties, and prosecutors who don't want to be held to the law they're supposed to uphold.

Yeah, but it's a village for journalists, so

there may be a plan here.
As reporters and cameramen start to arrive ahead of the opening ceremony next month, a community of descendants of runaway slaves, known as a quilombo, has said the site of the Barra Media Village 3, close to the Olympic Park, was built on land where their ancestors were buried – and which they consider sacred.
...
“One Sunday morning a chainsaw came and devastated everything including century-old trees,” Almeida said. “I regard the ground as sacred because it is where my ancestors were buried.”
There is the temptation toward "Dammit, you should've waited until they'd arrived!  THEN start yelling, and if journalists start disappearing..."


From GFZ, on the Democrats trying to blame Indiana for the violent crime in Chicago:
The Obama administration fully admits that it doesn’t bother to prosecute these types of crimes.  For all the call by Democrats for universal background checks, the one thing that they don’t seem to discuss is how the Federal Government doesn’t actually punish people who violate current federal background check laws.
Apparently enforcing the law against criminals who want to break the law is just too much work.  It is much easier to criminalize more common behaviors and bust the law abiding citizens who accidentally violate the law and then claim victory for “doing something.”


Federal Professionals.
Now, the TSA's summer may be getting even worse: According to a recent report from the House Homeland Security Commission entitled "Misconduct at TSA Threatens the Security of the Flying Public", nearly half of the TSA’s 60,000 employees have been cited for misconduct in recent years.

The bad news doesn't stop there. Citations have increased 28.5 percent from 2013 to 2015, and in 2015, the average U.S. airport received 58 complaints each year—more than one a week. (Unsurprisingly, some of the nation's largest and busiest airports—Los Angeles International Airport, Newark International Airport, and Boston Logan International Airport—saw the highest rates of misconduct.) The complaints can come from frustrated passengers, sure, but also from fellow TSA employees and other government workers.

Perhaps even worse? The outcomes of these misconduct allegations.


Another attack in Germany.


You've got two choices: the idiot AG had no idea what all she decided to ban(with, from I can tell, zero legal authority), or she knew and wanted to ban as much as possible.

I see lawsuits in the future.  Possibly impeachment.

Reason #48 to get rid of the EPA:

the corruption and secrecy.
Two committees consisting entirely of EPA officials meet behind closed doors twice annually to decide how the agency spends those funds on highly polluted – and often dangerous – Superfund sites. All reports to and from the groups, as well as the minutes of their meetings and all other details, are kept behind closed doors.

“The National Risk-Based Priority Panel and the Superfund Special Accounts Senior Management Committee engage in pre-decisional deliberations which are internal to the agency and not open to the public,” an EPA spokeswoman who requested anonymity told The DCNF.


Damn.  Just the description is painful.


Yes, Gunwalker(and all the OTHER operations that don't get talked about) are still paying dividends.  If you consider piles of bodies a dividend.
The deadly-but-forgotten government gun-running scandal known as “Fast and Furious” has lain dormant for years, thanks to White House stonewalling and media compliance. But newly uncovered e-mails have reopened the case, exposing the anatomy of a coverup by an administration that promised to be the most transparent in history.

“At least 20 other deaths or violent crimes have been linked to Fast and Furious-trafficked guns.”

A federal judge has forced the release of more than 20,000 pages of emails and memos previously locked up under President Obama’s phony executive-privilege claim. A preliminary review shows top Obama officials deliberately obstructing congressional probes into the border gun-running operation.
And nobody is surprised.  And Democrats will still call it a 'fake controversy and scandal.'  And the bodies will continue to pile up.  And AG Lynch(Holder II) won't do a damn thing about it.

Of course, she's busy dealing with her crooked lawyers,
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen denounced their conduct as "unseemly and unprofessional." Their lies, the judge noted, conned the 26 plaintiff states that were suing to stop the executive action, into "foregoing a request for a temporary restraining order."

Judge Hanen witheringly noted that he did not have the power to disbar the lowlife lawyers, and it is an astounding rebuke that he would mention that possibility. But he did "revoke the pro hac vice status of out-of-state lawyers who act unethically in court," meaning that the attorneys in question will no longer have privileges to practice law before courts in the state of Texas.
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Only a month ago, an appellate court judge in the Sixth Circuit similarly excoriated Justice Department attorneys for unethically dragging out the discovery process in another lawsuit, in which they were defending the Internal Revenue Service. In that case, the judge criticized the lawyers' "studied obstruction," and repeated use of transparently bogus arguments to drag their feet in the lower courts.

Judge Raymond Ketheledge wrote pointedly that "lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws ... in a manner worthy of the Department's name. The conduct of the IRS's attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition."
who she inherited from Holder & Obama.  Anybody believe she'll actually try to clean this up?

Which brings me back to two questions that are very damned serious:
Why should we trust any of these people about ANYTHING?
and
If they don't have to obey the law, why should we?

And if the morons in Sodom on the Potomac, and the 'elites' in major cities don't think this is a real problem, they're in for a very nasty surprise.