a catalog – “A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable corruption.” — Tristan Justice: Think The FBI Deserves The Benefit Of The Doubt? Think Again
What the ? – “it’s the same guys doing it now as the ones who cooked up the earlier string of Russia hoaxes. … This rather gives the impression that there’s some kind of Inspector Javert operation going on directed at President Trump, with a Wile E. Coyote effect.” — Monica Showalter: Is the FBI even doing counterintelligence cases any more? – American Thinker — “Someone in Congress, perhaps Sen. Ted Cruz, needs to start asking Director Christopher Wray why his agency isn’t producing a whole lot, if anything, for the counterintelligence job it’s paid for.”
Victim report – “testifies to a congressional hearing about the depths to which the FBI has sunk in its attempts to discredit one of its most effective critics.” — Thomas Lifson: Sharyl Attkisson reveals how low the FBI will go – American Thinker
Here’s the receipts – “The Fourth Amendment protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government” — Mack Cogburn: New: Intel Officials Leak About What FBI Was Looking For In Trump Raid And It’s Not Looking Good
Another case gone sour – “In a case with a direct bearing on the search warrant issued on Mar A Lago, the March 22, 2021 FBI raid on a private safe deposit box operator in Beverly Hills, California just got even dodgier, according to court documents released by a different federal judge than issued the warrant.” — Thomas Lifson: FBI affidavit misled a magistrate judge on a search warrant in plot to seize and forfeit contents of safety deposit boxes – American Thinker — “I think that it is fair to say at this point that the FBI does not deserve the benefit of the doubt for any serach warrant applications they have issued, and that full disclosure of affidavits they have filed is mandatory, given the proven, calculated misbehavior the Bureau has engaged in.”
the best of the best? – “Former FBI agent Robert Cessario was charged with corrupt destruction of record in an official proceeding in connection to the trial of former Arkansas Republican state Sen. Jon Woods, local media reported.” — Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times: Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty To Destroying Evidence | ZeroHedge
historical perspective – “One of the major causes leading up to the American Revolution was the “general warrant.” This was a search warrant that was completely open-ended, allowing the British government official to search anything, anywhere, at any time.” — Andrea Widburg: Trump plans to take legal action against the DOJ and FBI – American Thinker — “Leftists have always resented the Constitution, and now they’re open in their disdain, so it’s valid to ask if they’ll say that Trump’s case is so extraordinary that the Constitution just can’t apply to him.”
law professors strut their stuff – “Apart from its sheer stupidity, we see here another example of the pervasive bad faith with which the Left operates. Frankly, it would be more honest and no less lawless to advocate taking over the U.S. Army, mobilizing tanks and howitzers and staging an old-fashioned coup, in order to install the Democratic Party permanently in power.” — John Hinderaker: Down With the Constitution! | Power Line — “I am not really surprised that a Yale Law School professor could write something as ridiculous as the Times op-ed. Yale Law School has always been rather goofy. But for a Harvard Law professor to sink to this depth reflects a dizzying decline in academic standards.”
power play – “The government is continuing its highly “successful” campaign to identify and convict any person that can conceivably be tied in any way to the Capitol Hill riot on January 6th of last year.” — Jazz Shaw: More Jan 6 people convicted of “parading” – HotAir — “Just as a periodic reminder, there has yet to be a single prosecution I could find of any of the people who were setting fire to federal court buildings and police cruisers during the BLM riots that unfolded during the summer of love. These sentences for the rioters would be shocking under any other circumstances. But the reality is that we now live in an era of selective enforcement of the law and unequal sentencing for similar or identical crimes. It’s the politicization of the justice system and it’s being done right before your eyes.”
Take your heroines where you can find them – “None of the big law firms in town which puff up their public service donating time — for example, to defend Guantanamo Bay detainees — have to my knowledge volunteered to help these people. So it was a welcome surprise to see one young public defender do her job.” — Clarice Feldman: D.C. Lawyer of the Year: Natasha Taylor-Smith – American Thinker — “Lazy if not partisan judges, lawyers neglecting their duty, the bar which mouths fancy platitudes ignoring its special responsibility to the justice system by volunteering its services, an FBI mired in corruption, the Speaker of the House sitting on relevant, probably exonerating evidence, and one young woman alone acts for justice. Bravo!”
smear campaign – “Did the Inquirer cover the event fairly? Of course not!” — Lynne Lechter: Dr. Oz and the false flag crudité caper – American Thinker
patterns of bias – “Those costly errors will distort congressional representation and the Electoral College.” — Hans von Spakovsky: Census Bureau Admits Overcounting 7 Blue States, Just 1 Red State — “Congress needs to use its oversight authority to investigate and determine why these errors happened, particularly since they didn’t occur in the 2010 census. Lawmakers should then make the changes necessary to ensure this does not happen again.”
controlling the vote – “This bill, by far the most expansive piece of election legislation put forward by Democrats, passed the House along party lines but failed in the Senate after Manchin refused to lend it his support.” — Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times: Oversight Democrats Demand Federal Intervention Against ‘Election Misinformation’ | ZeroHedge
case study for the IRS expansion – “My former colleague’s apprehensions were obviously unfounded. But the fact that the thought that he may have been persecuted because of his political beliefs demonstrates that small-d democratic values on the ground are gradually eroding” — Rajan Laad: Was it IRS intimidation or just an ‘error’? – American Thinker — “The Democrats have created a climate of fear and have effectively criminalized political opposition. They certainly benefit if people hesitate to donate or support the party challenging them.”
Peer pressure and bullies – “Pathetic. There was nothing—not a single thing—wrong with Prof. Sweet’s article, and he knows it. His craven capitulation to a twitter mob tells you all you need to know about the cowardly character of most academics today, especially moderate liberal academics. They deserve their fate. History departments that behave this way deserve to lose all their students, and have their departments disbanded.” — Steven Hayward: Update: ‘Is History History?’ Answer: Sadly, Yes | Power Line
culture definition in music – “In its classic 40-year period, the songbook, essentially the hundreds of thousands of compositions that survived, was kept alive, in different ways of interpretation, by big swing bands, small combos, singers, and crooners.” — Michael Curtis: The American Melody Lingers On – American Thinker