One of the most interesting new disclosures today in the Comey hearing was the admission by former FBI Director James Comey that he intentionally used a “friend” on the Columbia law faculty to leak his memos to the media. Comey says that he did so to force the appointment of a Special Counsel. However, those memos could be viewed as a government record and potential evidence in a criminal investigation.
Notably, Columbia Law School Professor Daniel Richman on a faculty webpage reads that he is “currently an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey.” Richman specializes in criminal law and criminal procedure.
The problem is that Comey’s description of his use of an FBI computer to create memoranda to file suggests that these are arguably government documents. Comey admitted that he thought he raised the issue with his staff and recognized that they might be needed by the Department or Congress. They read like a type of field 302 form, which are core investigatory documents.
The admission of leaking the memos is problematic given the overall controversy involving leakers undermining the Administration. Indeed, it creates a curious scene of a former director leaking material against the President after the President repeatedly asked him to crack down on leakers.
Besides being subject to Nondisclosure Agreements, Comey falls under federal laws governing the disclosure of classified and nonclassified information. Assuming that the memos were not classified (though it seems odd that it would not be classified even on the confidential level), there is 18 U.S.C. § 641 which makes it a crime to steal, sell, or convey “any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof.”
There are also ethical and departmental rules against the use of material to damage a former represented person or individual or firm related to prior representation. The FBI website states:
Dissemination of FBI information is made strictly in accordance with provisions of the Privacy Act; Title 5, United States Code, Section 552a; FBI policy and procedures regarding discretionary release of information in accordance with the Privacy Act; and other applicable federal orders and directives.”
Lawyers generally ask for clients or employers to release information, particularly when it may be detrimental to the firm or the client or someone associated with your prior representation.
By the way, waking up in the middle of the night (as described by Comey) is not generally the best time to decide to leak damaging memos against a sitting president. There are times when coffee and a full night’s sleep (and even conferral with counsel) is recommended. Leaking damaging memos is one of those times. Moreover, if Comey was sure of his right to release the memo, why use a law professor to avoid fingerprints?
I find Comey’s admission to be deeply troubling from a professional and ethical standpoint. Would Director Comey have approved such a rule for FBI agents? Thus, an agent can prepare a memo during office hours on an FBI computer about a meeting related to his service . . . but leak that memo to the media. The Justice Department has long defined what constitutes government documents broadly. It is not clear if Comey had the documents reviewed for classification at the confidential level or confirmed that they would be treated as entirely private property. What is clear is that he did not clear the release of the memos with anyone in the government.
Comey’s statement of a good motivation does not negate the concerns over his chosen means of a leak. Moreover, the timing of the leak most clearly benefited Comey not the cause of a Special Counsel. It was clear at that time that a Special Counsel was likely. More importantly, Comey clearly understood that these memos would be sought. That leads inevitably to the question of both motivation as well as means.
What do you think?
None of this is resolvable. Those who hate Trump are just psychotic enough so that they would convict him of anything or nothing. Those who love Trump are not going to convict him no matter what he does. And there seems to be no middle ground. The ones who hate him are just making up stuff up so the ones who love him are hardening their stance. Which makes the ones who hate Trump even more hysterical and psychotlc. In other words if the left keeps upping the ante on their psychosis this is going to lead to something really bad. The left needs to take a breath and realize that there is a future after Obama and Hillary even though Trump was elected. They really do not want to start something they might not be able to stop.
There is a middle ground. Let the man do the job he was elected to do and history will decide if he was successful at it or not. This endless obstruction by the democrats, media and ic must stop or they will push a large portion of America into a response they will not like.
I agree with your assessment. Good job!
Truth is the tape question is left open. Does he intend to surprise the leftist media to lead them into a trap, with real taping, or just to start another witch hunt ie trap? Trump has the keys to the this machine now, very shrewd.
Everyone (show hosts, talking heads, Congress critters, et al. dolts) gives Trump all kinds of “supposedly good” advice. However, they are all idiotic advice. Remember, when the entire LSM and all other folks stated in my first sentence were wrong. They all said that Trump would never win. The LSM put out nothing but phony election statistics showing Trump was going to lose. They are all so stupid. However, Trump won, so that proves he is smarter than all of those idiots put together. My suggestion is the let Trump be Trump. On all of his predictions and forecasts, he has been correct. He is the smartest genius I have seen in my entire 75-year lifetime. Anyone giving suggestions to Trump on how he should speak, act, and conduct business is wrong and off-the-mark. They want to curtail his tweets. My suggestion to Trump is that the tweets is his trademark and should never change his approach. We know exactly what he wants and how he thinks by sending us unfiltered tweets. Unlike the LSM who puts out nothing but “fake” news, Trump puts out the truth, and I support everything he does. He shall become the greatest POTUS ever.
“and I support everything he does”
Yeah, except Syria. Echoes the “idiotic advice” – or something worse.
NYT’s New Syria-Sarin Report Challenged
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/07/nyts-new-syria-sarin-report-challenged/
T. Postol (MIT) assessment of apr2017 CW release
https://twitter.com/beezelkailen/status/852586449568493568
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Assessment of the White House Report on Syria Chemical Attack – apr 2017
drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Vs2rjE9TdwR2F3NFFVWDExMnc/view
Qatar, Turkey, Saudi, Israel are ALL in on the plan to destruct Syria.
I have all the URL links, incl. MSM nobody notices.
Gas pipeline war, anti-Kurd & Zionism. The bedfellows are strange.
I’m certain that the democrats will extend to Pres. Trump all the freedom and cooperation that the Republicans gave President Obama.
Oppositional parties oppose. That’s what they do in theory. Of course the Republicans opposed everything Obama offered to the detriment of the country. And Obama was a right wing politician.
Trump is a disgrace. His ‘platform’ is racist tax cuts for the Rich Wing of the party. He’s the velvet painting of Elvis hanging over your plastic covered couch.
LOL! Spoken like a true, die-hard lefty.
Only a right wing authoritarian, like yourself, would be blind to Obama’s treatment by republicans. While simultaneously calling for a chance for Trump to flourish. Yeah, b/c a known con-man needs a break. And the democrats will certainly help Trump destroy the environment, American jobs, and other Americans with his McCarthy-esque shell games.
Do you feel better about yourself now that you’ve accounted for Trump and your victimization at the hands of lethal, effete liberals?
On second thought, don’t answer that. You bore.
Like all the wonderful cooperation the Democrats gave Bush after they took over congress in 06?
I seem to recall that the Dems were the only ones who voted for the raft of legislation that Bush pushed after the financial crisis and subsequent recession. His own party were obstructing that effort. It’s a good thing the Dems were a majority at the time else those policies would not have passed.
It was because of all of the spendthrift spending that G.W. Bush did like a drunken sailor, the Repugnant Party left me, and I became a “Strict Constructionist” Constitutional Conservative. Things in our country has gone to pot in the eight years of the Obungler. We must help President Trump turn things around or it is all over for the USA as we know it.
You are a racist, leftist subversive. You are the kind of lemmings of the Obungler that are ruining our great country.
All you Libttarddss better get a medical checkup.
That Communisticus Malefactum parasite from Mars has been eating holes in yer brains for WAY too long.
Do yourself a favor.
One of the symptoms is obsessing on personages and how one’s yer daddy and the other is that boogey man under your bed when you were 4 yrs old. The other is “projection” – ascribing your delusions as real actions by the boogeyman.
Grow up, have the courage to call the doctor, or just go home.
Leftists are the true authoritarians preferring the rights of the collective over the rights of the individual.
It isn’t the right that wants a nanny-state to control all aspects of our lives…it’s the left.
Leftist philosophies resulted in over 100 million deaths in the past century.
Communism and Fascism are both forms of socialism. Fascism may be to the right of communism, but it remains left of center.
Obama was the less vetoed President in history, over 90% of news? Reported by our media? Are anti Trump, Obama, just the opposite 10% negative. Obama oversaw the weakest recovery in American history! He also created more debt than all previous presidents combined! Less Americans employed now than when he took office, more Americans on welfare, more on food stamps, more under the poverty line, put your rose colored glasses on and call his 8 years a step foward, history will not!
The Obungler was and will always be the worst POTUS in U.S. history, particularly if he should succeed in accomplishing what his hidden government is attempting to do right before our eyes. You see the results of his efforts occurring all around us every day throughout the USA. He must be stopped or we are through as a free country.
Donald J. Trump is the greatest President we’ve had in recent history. He will go down as a champion who saved America from ruin.
You are so right, Claudia! Don’t give up the fight or our country will be trashed by those who are actively working to do her harm.
Obama should have been under investigation repeatedly. But clearly you never read anything you might disagree with. He should definitely be investigated for spying, which we know to be true.
And I think he will be. Unless the McCain “please love me media/Democrats!” style of GOP prevail…
Astute observation.
You want astute? I can do dat. Here’s youz astute thing…
FBI Files Document Communism in Valerie Jarrett’s Family
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/06/communism-in-jarretts-family/
Gotham,…
I think a lot of these questions/ accusations hanging in the air are resolvable.
At some point, the investigations by Mueller and Congress will probably reach some conclusions.
But I think we’re a year or two away from any investigation(s) wrapping up.
In the meantime, there will be millions, maybe billions of words commenting on and speculating about every aspect of the investigations and every twist and turn of events.
Rumor is that Mueller will be complete with his investigation in three months. That indicates that they already believe that Trump is innocent of the Democrat claims of Trump-Russia collusion. Only if they come up with findings that rise to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors” will the investigation go up to a year or two. That’s my take on it.
Dr. Bob,….
I’d be surprized if Mueller wraps it up that fast.
Just based on past investigations involving multiple subjects ( Flynn, Manafort, Page, Stone, maybe Podesta if they go outside of the Trump camp), these investigations seem to drag on and on.
Hope you’re right….if Mueller can complete the investigation that fast, it eliminates a big distraction.
What did the Russians do to effect our election? Did they leak top secret documents? Or did they expose the fact that HRC had her own private server, containing top secret documents, that she destroyed over 30k documents, isn’t that what got Nixon in trouble, destroying evidence? Covering up a crime? I’d say destroying government documents a crime, asange, wiki leaks released evidence of HRC crimes unlike our media which reported this classified report, POTUS HAS TWO SCOOPS OF ICECREAM AND GIVES OTHERS ONLY ONE!
“What did the Russians do to effect our election? Did they leak top secret documents? Or did they expose the fact that HRC had her own private server, containing top secret documents, that she destroyed over 30k documents, isn’t that what got Nixon in trouble, destroying evidence? Covering up a crime? I’d say destroying government documents a crime, asange, wiki leaks released evidence of HRC crimes unlike our media which reported this classified report, POTUS HAS TWO SCOOPS OF ICECREAM AND GIVES OTHERS ONLY ONE!”
The Ruskies is the big boogeyman of the left, Lib-Dems, DNC, the LSM, RINOs, Hollyweirds, and the RNC Establishment. They get everyone focused on Russia while the terrorists are killing thousands people all over the world. It’s called “look at this shiny object” as they pick your pockets. The Ruskies did not affect our election. What affected our elections are the criminal DNC (remember Bernie Sanders got derailed by the DNC?), George Soros, and the Deep State criminals. The Lib-Dems committed voter fraud to get the 3-million vote advantage that HRC had over DJT. However, our brilliant forefathers created the Electoral College to thwart crooked parties like the Demonrat Party and keep them from hijacking our country. DJT won the electoral college vote. That’s why he is the POTUS. The liberal left cannot tolerate that loss and are attempting to destroy DJT.
The Ruskies did not leak top secret documents. However, HRC leaked top secret documents through her illegal server. The Ruskies, Chinese, Iran, North Korea et al. hacked HRC’s rogue server and got a lot of highly classified information from it. HRC should be dealt with the same way Tricky Dick Nixon was treated and forced to resign. However, because of the corrupt DNC and Demonrat Party, she got a pass. They are also aided by the corrupt LSM, George Soros, the Deep State traitors, along with the idiotic RNC, RINOs, and sell-out Repugnants.
Thank goodness for true American patriots like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. If they did not blow the whistle on the corrupt Obungler administration and DNC practices, we would never know of the crooked tricks the NSA, CIA, FBI, Deep State, LSM et al. are pulling on “We the People.”
Hey, I like the way you think, man.
No wonder they call you Doc.
But that Syria thing… big sin.
I’m afraid Trumpolini will have to pay for that. It worries me.
Indicates he’s not curious.
The “gas attack” was a false-flag.
Keep in mind, investigation into Russian collusion started a year ago.
Mueller is only realistically reviewing evidence currently in possesion or which may become available during his audit of existing intelligence.
Until someone is charged he really will not have much power to compel anyone to testify with his investigation who has not already been interviewed.
Now, if new streams of investigation up, perhaps, but so far there is not much meat on the bone.
My thought is that Mueller, having already heard Comey’s story, would never have allowed him to be questioned, under oath, in a public and uncontrolled(by Mueller) venue if he believed their was ANY possibility of an obstruction of justice charge based on Comey’s dealings with Trump. I don’t know if Mueller’s investigation will end so quickly, but my sense is that if Trump can just remain quiet and not do anything to rock the boat, he is in the clear legally. Of course, knowing Trump, that may not be possible!
The beauty of Trump’s success is that he is and always will be a counter-puncher. Everything he does is counter to what the LSM say, what the TV pundits say, what the Lib-Dems say, what the RINOs say…yet he has always been right and have surfaced as the victor. He has people so baffled and confused that they cannot stand Trump. He is the most non-traditional of all non-traditionalists.
The people with the traditional way of thinking including all of the establishment folks on both sides of the aisle have always predicted Trump losing. However, he has prevailed in every instance, and he will continue to prevail and continue to baffle all of his enemies and opposers.
People sell DJT short. He knows how to win. He is a winner and will always prevail when dealing with traditional fighters. Everyone out there who oppose Trump always feel and act like they know better than Trump does. If they were as smart or smarter than he is, they would be POTUS instead of Trump.
Trump shall result as being the best POTUS in U.S. history. That is why I fear for his safety. However, God is on his side.
Where everyone worthwhile sees Trump as a disjointed child…Obama contrarian, racist, far right economics, you see a genius ‘counterpuncher.’ I suppose one could conclude that an obvious contrarian is a ‘counterpuncher’, but that is howlingly sycophantic and execrable.
Keep up the great work Hop Sing.
“Where everyone worthwhile sees………..”
LOL Apparently you think only those that agree with your bias is “worthwhile”.
What a dumb self serving statement. No wonder you are having such difficulty with the truth.
We cannot improve the idiots in this country. They are now part of the Deep State traitors attempting to destroy America and take over as totalitarian crooks.
Your last sentence proves that you are a racist and xenophobe. You and the Deep State folks are going down, bunky!
Racists like you don’t even know the difference between a Japanese and Chinese. Hop Sing is Chinese. I am a Japanese of American Ancestry (AJA). You and your hero totalitarian POTUS FDR believe in incarcerating all those other than you people. The FEMA Camps are waiting for you, Xenophobe and Racist.
I agree with you DR. I pray for Predident Trump everyday because as good a man as VP Pence is and some of the others no one can stand up to these ppl like Trump can and will. He doesn’t care what ppl say or think he is going to do what he feels is tight and good for America. History will prove that he will end up being one of the best presidents every. I never thought we would have a worst president then Carter but Obama proved me wrong.
Amen, brother! We must all join together to defeat the Obungler and his subversive group that is spreading like wildfire throughout the United States. Eventually, they will go the way of Nicolae Ceausescu.
“So True”
I was not fond of President Obama, but I accepted him as my president, prayed for him, and voted for my choice in the next election. May God bless President Trump and his family; may He guide him in all the decision he is called to make. It is good for all of us to follow God’s Word below:
1 Timothy 2:1-3
1. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 .For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Amen, sister!
Exactly. If there was a “there there” Mueller just gave Trump’s defense a gold mine.
But they both know there is not. Likewise, it indicates that the case against Flynn is a sideshoe at best, and probably going nowhere or not worth the effort.
Whether Trump’s numerous offenses rise to the level of a high crime or high misdemeanor is decided by the Congressional House and not Team Mueller.
Correct. No chance it will happen.
Nice analysis! What I see is about 50 years of continuous Republican/Conservative presidents or until the Left wises up and moves to the center of the political spectrum. Then, they will get back to normalcy and will become attractive again for another presidential win. Of course, if the Republicans/Conservatives get cocky and start becoming corrupt as are the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives, then, that 50 years will not be realized. As of now, Dr. Michael Savage is right when he says, “Liberalism is a mental disorder.” Some day, that statement may appear in psychology books.
50-year electoral predictions like these are bold. The more you get trained to think about them, the more you’re taught to think you don’t know what you’re doing. There’s the electoral college, technological change, the death of older demographic blocks, economic fluctuations, the decline or rise of different kinds of religious affiliations, immigration, the children of immigrants, recessions and depressions, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and much more. One wonders what Woodrow Wilson would have made of the 1964 Voting Rights Act, or Karl Rove of the 2012 presidential election! Perhaps Dr. Uda you could’ve imagined fifty or even twenty years ago that so many of your friends, neighbors, relatives and others would continue supporting gay marriage whether you like it or not–to the point that conservative are getting swamped on this issue? “Liberalism” is a set of political points of view, as is “conservatism.” They’re not a “mental disorders.” Though here I’ll make a prediction easy to bet on: Savage’s quote won’t appear in psychology books except as an example what the kind of claim one can’t make in any sort of basic research in psychology. “Conservatism” isn’t a mental disorder either.
LOL! What you wrote is a mass of confusion. Are you the James Synder that I know? Let me know, please.
No, and you misspelled my name. There’s not a single point you responded to here, for example, about the difficulty of predictions, among the rest. And there’s no Michael Savage quote making it into a psych textbook. These are silly claims.
As for the substantive points: You need to show how there’s even any evidence whatsoever that there’s a fifty-year conservative thing going on when these kinds of predications are widely known, in politics, to be ridiculous. The left and the right and others will keep on needing to wise up.
If I misspelled your name, how do you spell “James Snyder”?
I quote: “Are you the James Synder that I know?” No, and that, spelling wrong, is beside the point. Spelling belatedly right is beside the point too.
Still no evidence you know what you’re talking about when it comes to long-term political predictions, or short-term ones, medium-term ones, any predictions. Not one word. You don’t know how hard they’re to make.
“50 years of continuous Republican/Conservative presidents or until the Left wises up and moves to the center of the political spectrum.” That’s another quote. No one who works on this stuff, and it’s hard, takes this seriously. How could you even work on predicting something so vague? Intuition and friends?
You sound like an idiot. The Snyder I know is a genius.
You sound like a schizophrenic. No one with your listed credentials could also be such a bigoted, narrow-minded insulting troll. It must be your other personality showing up here.
Who is the troll, exactly?
The anger wells deep in you.
LOL! She’s a typical Lib-Dem whose thoughts and actions are off the charts. That is why “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
And you are a racist, bigot who hates America. Traitors like you are destroying the USA.
James Snyder asks: “One wonders what Woodrow Wilson would have made of the 1964 Voting Rights Act, or Karl Rove of the 2012 presidential election!”
1. Woodrow Wilson would have strongly opposed the 1964 Voting Rights Act. Wilson was a virulent racist who resegregated the military and refused contact with any Black (in his day, “Colored”) person.
2. Karl Rove is still convinced Obama did not win in 2012. He may be right. If only legitimate votes were counted…
It isn’t that conservatives are huge supporters of gay marriage.
Rather, they are huge supporters of individual rights, something the socialist “my way or the highway” Left cannot claim.
The Left uses the gay issue for political advantage.
The Right believes it is an individual issue, and, despite many of them disagreeing with that lifestyle choice, they believe government has no right to get involved. Live and let live.
Conservatives also understand our Constitution well enough to know that government has been given no right to demand anyone must accept a gay lifestyle on a moral basis.
Government has no right to interfere with individual beliefs of morality, one way or the other.
Government only has an obligation to assure those who choose a gay lifestyle are treated fairly and without prejudice by public institutions.
Karl Rove is a blithering idiot.
Dr. Bob… Succinct and spot-on accurate!
Oh yes we do. Bring it!! If you think only right wingers are armed and ready to use them you are sadly mistaken. I think you will find a majority will not side with traitors who would sell out their country to the Russians. Make your move and let’s find out!
You are hysterical, kenny. Name a traitor who has sold out to the Russians.
The Russians ran wild when Obama was in charge. And he whispered to them that he would be even more flexible when he got re-elected. He bent over real good. I bet you can’t find any Trump person who has done more for the Russians.
Good assessment.
Are you suggesting an armed battle between right and left wingers disaffected from the world’s strongest military–not to mention all kinds of local and state municipal law enforcement folk? With no popular support for much more than peace, stability, better jobs, no chaos, and other predictable things, from dems, repubs, bernieites, Ted Cruz fans, and the folk who stay out of politics? Does either of these small revolution-ready sides have any sense how many people have absolutely no concern for their armed fantasies–except for them to go away?
LOL!
LOL!
I agree totally with what you say. I live in Europe and from over here we’re in a state of incredulousness. It seems unbelievably childish that so much time is devoted to the hatred of one man, even with the risk of creating WW3 as result! It seems the hatred is blinding the democrats to the point of self extinction as they can’t see the terrible wars and troubles elsewhere.
Excellent assessment!
I have just got back from Europe, and, yes, there’s a lot of incredulity. Just in the opposite direction suggested in this post. The one most common question I got from Europeans was whether we could really take our president seriously. The one things most Europeans I know kept on asking is how someone who just can’t stop speaking in contradictions keeps doing so, often straight-out lying, or simply falling into strange confusions.
Here, at any rate, it isn’t just hatred of one man. It’s a wonder at the fact that he’s our president and alienating so efficiently traditional allies, and saying such bizarre things, speaking of walls, weirdly selective and and yet straightforwardly articulated Muslim travel bans, hiring the bizarrely discriminatory Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who’s bent on taking us to yet another world-record incarceration rate. I’m not even particularly liberal at least by European standards.
Above all, what Europeans don’t understand about what goes on domestically here is that the policies are so bad. Healthcare, Prison Policy, Immigration Policy, Bank Deregulation Once Again, Much More. I voted against GW Bush Sr., but Trump is something new. I think Merkel, Macron, Brits (whoever prevails), and so forth know: We have a weak and unserious president.
You sound like the typical, far-out lefty. You amaze me on how ignorant you can be about Europe and America.
Europeans get their “news” about America from The NY Times, The Washington Post, and Gannett’s Leftist fishwrapper, USA Today.
And you expect them to have an objective view of Trump and the American political scene?
Those who do have an objective view (and there are many… you can find them in the Brexit vote), do NOT share the view of “the usual suspects” identified above.
“The left needs to take a breath”
There is no way the left is going to take a breath. They hate Trump, if not for his policies, then for the simple fact that he beat their anointed (Hillary).
The following is what the left is doing these days. I just received it today from a friend.
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I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” – (OFA).
OFA – 30,000 strong working to disrupt everything that our current president is trying to do. This goes against our Democracy, it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If this is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws? If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.
It is explained below. Do your part: read it and at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy! Article from the New York Post – If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!
The ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to an organization called Organizing for Action (OFA). OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.
OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change. Issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform. OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows: “Organizing is the building block of everything great we’ve accomplished. Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities – and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2016 and beyond.”
OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it’s the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic – AMERICA
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president “will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.” Sperry writes that the ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the incoming administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate OFA has 32,525 volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office near the White House.
Think about how this work – for example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; violence follows – all emanating from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.
If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.
Obama is and always has been bad news for the country. Community organizers do not make good presidents and he’s no leader and no patriot, that’s for sure. As an ex-president, he is flitting around meeting with Angela Merkel in Germany, Prince Harry in England, PM Justin Trudeau in Canada, Silicon Valley execs, billionaires like Oprah and Sir Richard Branson, and who knows who else. He’s keeping up his useful idiots connections with all his celebrity mouth pieces while he builds his army of agitators. Obama is a menace to the country, to democracy and to the rule of law.
Someone will take care of him and put him in his place.
If Comey was in Cal. When fired, then a question arises: Were his notes taken on paper he had in his possession? If not, then why did anyone other than the Justice Department have access to them?
Regarding the notes, the talking heads had spoken of his inclination to take notes, hence they might be considered evidence. Comey had denied taking notes with previous administrations even though he had admitted to having a troubled conversation with Lynch, so unless these notes were made on a government computer, they are very suspicious.
Did anyone else notice McCain’s almost senile questioning at the hearing? This hearing was too important to have wasted 5 minutes.
Lastly, I urge those who are pro Trump to call their DC representatives and insist they back this president.
McCain is a totally wasted nutcase.
Groaning Garbage Barge of U.S. Affairs
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB66lIUWsAAlTEK.jpg
Mr. Turley asks “What do you think?”.
Jonny boy, I think we’re only most way through the Prologue. This shitshow is getting good ‘n psycopathic.
Libtard Today magazine, featuring Comey
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB67pluXcAAyA4m.jpg
LOL! This photo is hilarious! The artist should have reduced Comey’s head a bit before photoshopping it onto the persons physique so it would look more proportional. However, I will settle for a bigger head than what should be shown. LOL!
Glad you enjoyed it. We aim to please.
It’s from zerohedge.com by the famous cartooner banzai7.
Cuchulaine,..
Where’s the halo?
LOL!
Ian seems to be Comey replying to every negative assessment of himself.
To be honest, the Democrats want the current administration to be mired in all of these ancillary issues. It will keep the administration from honoring its promises.
Just like Ford had to pardon Nixon to stop the circus Trump needs to just pardon Flynn.
Flynn has spent his life in service to this country.
Clinton was a train wreck!
For President Trump to pardon Flynn, he must first be charged with a crime, arrested, tried, and found guilty. Then, Trump can pardon him. Why would a person only accused of a crime need to be pardoned? He is not in jail and walks the street freely as you and I do.
Ford pardoned tricky before any action was taken. He hadn’t waited to be impeached and (honorably, sort of) resigned his position as president.
I think the poster was wrong thinking that it was in the interest of the republic to pardon tricky before a trial. That was another missed opportunity to bring the global elite’s presence and influence into the public eye,
It would have caused another fuss for sure, but it would have gone a very long way to educate a (willfully) ignorant populace on the depth of influence people who control the CFR have over our elected officials.
Hi Will,
You are precisely correct on Ford pardoning Tricky after he resigned and Ford was sworn in. You are a genius!
There was talk of Obama pardoning Hillary. However, he didn’t pardon her because everyone thought she was going to be the POTUS, and there’s bad blood between the Clintons and Obamas. Now that Hillary lost and Obama didn’t pardon her, she is at very high risk at being brought to justice under AG Sessions. Of course, that would drag Obama, Holder, Lynch, and all of their cronies into the fray when one of them break and spill the beans for immunity. It will become a feeding frenzy when we start identifying all of the Deep State folks who are attempting to destroy the Trump administration. Should be very interesting to see everything unfold.
Sincerely,
Bob Uda
” It will keep the administration from honoring its promises. ”
Actually the administration is very capable of not honoring its promises all by itself. It does not need any help from the Dems on that point.
Agree.
Wikileaks’ twitter account featured this article:
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/873339107199660032
though they incorrectly listed our host’s employer.
Darren, …
I’ve read that JT is of “Washington University” as well as “Georgetown”.
He really gets around.
It looks like James Comey created, but certainly used his memos not to cover himself, but to get Donald Trump impeached on grounds of obstruction without ever having to say so. That is manipulative and not just being a straight arrow.
I’m a Bernie fan and am opposed to pretty much everything Donald Trump stands for, but he is our elected president. He should be removed only with another election, or impeachment over something very serious. Anything else would be detrimental to our democracy. All the leaks this year did not happen to help the country but to embarrass the President, insofar he had not embarrassed himself already. If the Deep State really exists, the last 12 months would be a good example of how it manifests itself.
Comey is one of the pillars of the Deep State.
If you are a true Bernie fan, why were you and your fellow travelers outraged when Hillary and the DNC cheated to defeat Bernie? It would be something that I would be fighting even today if I were a Bernie fan.
I should have written, “…why were you and your fellow travelers NOT outraged when Hillary….?” Sorry about that oversight.
There is a lawsuit against the DNC for fraud. Trust me Dr. Bob – we Bernieorbusters are livid.
Okay, now, you are real human beings. I don’t know how the DNC can get away with it. They killed one of their staffers (Seth Rich) when he sent some of their damning emails to WikiLeaks. That party is a criminal, corrupt, totalitarian organization.
Comey’s supporters like him so much he could shoot someone on fifth avenue in broad daylight and they’d still believe him over Trump. And more people love Comey than Trump. I’m sure the people of London know which side to take. Trump is the weakest president in my lifetime, much weaker than Bush
Ian,…
Ironically, Comey’s support has soared after Trump fired him.
He was “about as popular as cholera” with both Democrats and Republicans before Trump fired him.
Now, the guy who “cost Hillary the election” has found enthusiastic supporters among the Democrats.
I totally disagree with your assessment. Apparently, you have been listening to the LSM too much. Comey is in deep trouble.
“Comey is a menace to the rule of law….”
oh hell yeah.
On Hillary (who Comey let skate….again) “She place national security at risk and she did it with contempt.”
And… ‘this issue isn’t over.’
Oh yeah….bring it.
Seriously, if we the people didn’t have Judicial Watch to do the work Congress is ‘supposed’ to be doing, then where would we be?
well I think we can all agree that Comey will never be prosecuted for any of the alleged crimes being discussed. We disagree as to why. Option 1: he’ll never be prosecuted because we have a functioning justice system and you can’t prosecute someone like him if he hasn’t actually violated the law. Option 2: he’ll never be prosecuted because we don’t have a functioning justice system and you can’t prosecute someone like him even if he did break the law. If it’s more the latter than the former, then it’s sad that Trump can’t do anything about it. Even from the White House he is as helpless as the rest of us. If it’s more the former than the latter, then it’s awesome that Trump can’t do anything about it. Either way, the point is clear: Trump may be president, but he’s weak. He’s not draining the swamp, he’s being consumed by it
The Senate is demanding the leaked memo from Dan Richman by the “end of the day”:
https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=BB5CFEF1-A8B7-4A4A-9551-8BDBBB1A400A
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/873313765651083264
Comey Served at the Pleasure of Himself
Excerpt from the article:
“How many other memos did Comey leak to the New York Times? None of the fawning, drippy senators were going to ask him that. Comey is clearly responsible for the leaks to the Times after Trump’s infamous tweets about Obamagate.
But Comey, you understand, had his scruples: he made sure not to leak the news that Trump himself was not under investigation for colluding with the Russians. That was not to get out.
Let’s cut through the nonsense: Comey, not Trump, is the villain in this idiotic saga. In all of his heavy-breathing hints and leaks, Comey let people think that the president was under investigation. The scandal is not that a guilty president asked the FBI director to treat him as innocent, but that an innocent president was treated as guilty by an FBI director drunk on his own rectitude.
….If one can fault Trump for anything in the firing of Comey, it is that he didn’t do it sooner.”
https://spectator.org/comey-served-at-the-pleasure-of-himself/
All I can say is EXACTLY!
Comey is a bottom-feeding scumbag. He has no integrity. I can see why President Trump wanted to fire him and ultimately did after giving him a chance to prove himself worthy and loyal to the people and country. Comey is an unfit, incompetent political hack and traitor, not a law-abiding law enforcement officer. A special counsel should be established to investigate Comey and all of his nefarious past dealings. He has a very checkered background. I have a seven-page report on his shenanigans over the years. If anyone desires a copy, send me a request at RobertTUda1@gmail.com and learn more about this weasel. Thank goodness he has been fired and is no longer at the FBI serving as the self-serving HEAD LEAKER. He should be in prison for corruption and criminal activities.
Maybe he should be in prison and maybe if we had a man in the White House he would. But Trump has been totally humiliated by his enemies and is now helpless. Those hoping for justice will have to wait until 2020 I suppose.
Having perused your own history, I can only conclude that you possess absolutely zero qualifications to make your statement.
No wonder you hang out here.
You’re absolutely right! I hang out with idiots like you just to find out how stupid our dumbed-down citizenry are these days in our PC society.
Totally Uda. You keep calling that guy an idiot! And you can keep calling me a jerk too! These insults are much better than the derivatives of displacement stuff
LOL! You’re a good man!
Well, I hope you are not given to melancholia, or depression. Because believe me, as one of the smart ones here, there are some pretty dumb people around. I mean, Hillary got 66 million votes, and Obama was elected TWICE.
But I think it is not just here. Europeans keep voting for the liberal parties, even as they are getting squashed by 18 wheelers, and carved up with machetes.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
LOL! I agree with you. Squeeky Fromm, aren’t you the woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford? I read a few years ago that you were released to live a normal life. However, I don’t know if you will get back to normalcy participating on these blogs! LOL! 😉
No, that was a different one. She spelled her name differently than me, ala SqueAky FrommE. That is also why I put “Girl Reporter” after my name, sooo people won’t run screaming in panic and terror.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
LOL! I won’t run screaming from you. You sound tame enough. 😉
Comey should have been fired just on the incompet ice that he admittedly failed in keeping Russians at bay during his tenure.
Yes, Yes, Yes!!! I don’t understand how anyone would believe anything Comey says. After the House Hearing on Russia, Gowdy, Chaffetz, & Rubio tripped up Comey to the point his explanations didn’t make sense. Then there was yesterday’s hearing that exposed Comey for the narcissistic snake he is! Would you mind if I shared your comment about Comey, it is most informative? Thank you, Mr Uda!
No problem. All of my books, papers, articles, thoughts, and blogs are free for anyone to use or pass on. Just give proper credit is all I ask. Good luck!
It’s truly fascinating how many new contributors have weighed in on this discussion. I’m intrigued by what I presume are attorneys at odds with the legal perils Comey may or may not be facing. This really does confirm how the law has been turned into a weapon. I can see now that the attorney class are the ideological warriors of the administrative state. To be fair, I see there are legitimate rule of law comments and that’s really what is important. For those of you working the USC to defend an ideology and not the constitution…I pray you are leaving a trail to be unemployable in public service.
When Trump leaves office he should start a law school where young lawyers can be taught to defend the Constitution rather than ideology. Someone should anyway. Too bad Trump is such a helpless bozo
Ian, you are the third derivative of displacement with respect to time:
o First derivative of displacement with respect to time = velocity
o Second derivative of displacement with respect to time = acceleration
o Third derivative of displacement with respect to time = jerk
I understand you are calling me a jerk because I called the president a helpless bozo. But I don’t understand the stuff about derivatives of displacement. I prefer simple name-calling to math jargon so maybe next time you can be more concise
LOL! At least your are man enough to admit your ignorance in math. For that admission, I like you even if you are way out on your answers…just as I can be on my answers. Press on! 😉
Ian, the doc just was surprised by your courtly response, so he didn’t get the part about “more concise”.
Allow me.
Yer an idiot.
Is that concise enuf??
LOL!
Bozo? He’s in the White House isn’t he? Where’s Crooked HilLIARy? Or maybe you want to be President? Where’s your healthcare bill? Or infrastructure proposal? If everyone would cooperate and DO THE JOBS THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO instead of hollering “RUSSIA!” at every shadow, or “IMPEACH!” over every smelly fart, maybe President Trump could FINALLY do the job HE was elected to do.
LOL! Totally agree with your assessment.
People on both the left and right always want to have a boogie man to hate. Russia fits that role for them. That keeps their world in balance. While being distracted by Russia, we are being killed by ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, and all Islamists. They can do whatever suits their fancy.