We are the drain the swamp people

• Who one’s friends are tells a lot about an FBI Director
• Who teaches the jurists tells a lot about “fair and impartial” at the bench

Quote of the day:

John Brennan:  “I’m just hoping individuals like Chris Wray who is a remarkable public servant will continue to stay strong in this type of abominable, uh, abominable again abuse of authority.”

What better endorsement could an undercover Swamp-dweller get?! What better ‘now we get it’ confirmation could normal Americans get?!

Remember: While the Senate Democrats were attempting mightily to block or reject any President Trump nominee for a vital position in his administration, Chris Wray got the confirmation votes for FBI Director from ALL but 5 Democrat senators.
And it’s paid off for the Democrats…Wray stonewalled, slow-walked, blocked all efforts by GOP congressmen to get documentation of FBI wrongdoing during the Comey tenure.

Judicial indoctrination insures climate outcomes 

“Judges often have to rule on issues that are highly technical, and require very specific understanding of issues beyond just the law. To address that need, among others, famed Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren recommended the creation of an independent research and education body to serve the federal court system, which Congress created in 1967. Since then, the Federal Judicial Center has offered continuing education services for judges, access to independent social scientists and research, and recommendations on how the judiciary can better function.

“In light of the influx of climate change-related cases, the Federal Judicial Center apparently worked with The American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Environmental Law Institute to convene an event to provide judges with an overview of climate change science.”
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If you thought creation of an entity to “offer continuing education services for judges” could have the potential for a lot of mischief , this story would seem to reinforce that notion.

In the same way the radical left has infiltrated America’s entire education system, kindergarten through university, it has weaseled its way into the judicial system…big time!: (“The American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Environmental Law Institute”!!! That’s who is showing judges ‘the way and the light’ on climate change!)

Should be no surprise then, that that once “esteemed, no-nonsense, above reproach federal judge” whose illusions of god-like power is currently on display on the national stage in the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, would be working to spread the “climate change” education service throughout the judiciary.

Reading the Daily Koss article (excerpt above) and the implications, one develops the presumption that judges should not be presumed unbiased, indeed just the opposite.

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Just Facts is a worthy site dedicated to recitation of confirmable facts (with links) and  rigorous analysis. Because of that it does serve to debunk much of what spews from Democrats and what we hear and see in the media.  For good reason it is skeptical of much regarding fear mongering and mob sentiment that gets translated into political policy.

Consider these articles key resources as we argue for rational, truly life saving, cultural affirming policies in response to pandemics and rumors of pandemics.

Immediately below is a clip of an interview where one of the editors at Just Facts explains how his figures (using published studies) are conservative that the current lock down strategy is going to kill seven times more people than it saves.

Here are links to the seminal studies with an excerpt or two.

Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns     

Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world. Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like high blood pressure, digestive disorders, heart conditions, infectious diseases, cancer, and pregnancy complications.

Based on a broad array of scientific data, Just Facts has computed that the anxiety created by reactions to Covid-19—such as stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will destroy at least seven times more years of human life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns to control the spread of the disease. This figure is a bare minimum, and the actual one is likely more than 90 times greater.

Crucial Facts About Covid-19    Updated 5/14/20
Addresses the following:

Likelihood of Exposure

Numbers of Deaths

Years of Lost Life

Death Rates

Transmissibility

Social Media Amplification

Overreactions

The Path Forward

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The very adept, if completely phony, jurist had created, quite cleverly, a pose as a very competent, non-partisan, seeker only of ‘justice’.

Emmet Sullivan conned a lot of people, mostly Republicans, some conservatives, and nearly all “moderates” (otherwise defined as ‘reasonably un- or mis-informed’.

Named to various judicial ‘benches’ by both Republican and Democrat presidents (to his present perch as federal judge by W.J. Clinton), Sullivan concealed his left liberal impulses rather smartly. His decisions, at first glance, often appeared to be reasoned, remarkably humble (for a judge anyway), and without obvious ideological fervor.

His penultimate action in the Ted Stevens case was hailed at the time as true jurisprudence without political scent. He called out the prosecutors for misconduct in the case against a popular GOP senator, threw out their unconscionable conviction, and brought a contempt charge against them.

But beneath all that seemingly justified rage against what many saw as a liberal establishment was the traditional ‘nothing burger’.

During Stevens’ trial, Judge Sullivan, himself, rejected a defense effort to get a dismissal for a “Brady” violation (prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence)…and the trial resulted in the wrongful conviction...just in time for Stevens to lose a reelection bid he almost surely would have otherwise won.

Sullivan’s “daring” action against the wrongdoing of the trial prosecutors was too late to do anything for the defeated and later deceased Ted Stevens…the Democrats had rid the senate of their Republican nemesis, and eventually the contempt” charge against the Obama era prosecutors was dropped.

There were other instances in which Sullivan’s “Presto Change-o” act successfully conned both conservatives and liberals into falling for his “straight-up”, “no-nonsense” pose.

But if you’ve followed, even mildly close, Judge Sullivan’s performance in the Flynn Fiasco, and especially his bizarre behavior of the last few days, one would have to conclude that ‘good ol’ Emmet has lost a good bit of his ‘magic act’.

Nothing about his behavior this week has been anything other than “non-sensical”!

His invitation to outside parties to submit “amicus briefs” to help shape his ultimate decision sounds a lot like an almost pitiful cry for help. Poor Emmet, he knows what he wants to do…get Flynn!…but the poor guy needs help figuring out how to do it and still appear to be an ‘upstanding’ member of the bar of Justice.

Emmet Sullivan seems to be auditioning for his next gig..personal assistant to Joe Biden! dlh

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HP, a retired lawyer, including a stint as a prosecutor, endorsed this communication from Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn’s attorney thusly:

Folks, you have to read this Sidney Powell memo to Bathhouse Barry, it will educate and at the same time give you the giggles understanding what a complete idiot Bathhouse is about law while claiming to be a constitutional lawyer, its delicious – she is my law hero.

To: Barack Hussein Obama
From: Sidney Powell
www.SidneyPowell.com

Date: May 12, 2020

Re: Your Failure to Find Precedent for Flynn Dismissal

Regarding the decision of the Department of Justice to dismiss with prejudice the information filed against General Flynn and the concern you expressed in your phone call with alumni: “that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”

Apparently, you need more help than you realize as your statement is entirely false. However it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law you allowed throughout your administration.

First, General Flynn was not charged with perjury—which requires a material false statement made under oath with intent to deceive. 1 A perjury prosecution would have been appropriate and the Rule of Law applied if the Justice Department prosecuted your former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for his multiple lies under oath in a leak investigation.

McCabe lied repeatedly under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector General for the DOJ. He was fully informed of the purpose of the interview and he had had the benefit of counsel. He knew he was in trouble. McCabe even lied about lying—and to his own agents which took their investigation on a “wild-goose-chase” because McCabe was himself the source of the leak they were investigating. Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.

Under the Rule of Law, after declining McCabe’s perjury prosecution, there are no circumstances pursuant to which DOJ could continue to prosecute General Flynn who was not warned, not under oath, had no counsel, and whose statements were not only not recorded, but falsified by the agents.

Second, it would seem your “wingman” Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks of Mr. Holder becoming Attorney General, he had to move to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn—egregious government misconduct by prosecutors who hid evidence and made up purported crimes.

As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President’s National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty— our cherished system of self-government and the right of citizens to choose their President.

Third, the inability of “anybody” in your alumni association to find “anybody who has been charged [with anything] just getting off scot-free” would be laughable were it not so pathetic.

Many of your alum are featured prominently in the non-fiction legal thriller published in 2014: Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. A national best-seller, it focusses on the egregious misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann. While they worked as federal prosecutors on the Enron Task Force—under the purported supervision of Christopher Wray, they destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs; sent four Merrill Lynch executives to prison on an indictment that criminalized an innocent business transaction and hid the evidence that showed they were innocent for six years. Both cases were reversed on appeal for their over-criminalization and misconduct. Indeed, Andersen was reversed by a unanimous Supreme Court.

Fourth, even if your many alumni don’t remember multiple reversals and cases that had to be reversed or dismissed for their own misconduct, we’re guessing Judge Emmet Sullivan will remember tossing the Stevens case. Judge Sullivan is the judicial hero of Licensed to Lie. It is that case and the resulting 500-page report of Henry Schuelke that caused Judge Sullivan to enter the strong Brady order the Mueller prosecutors violated repeatedly in the Flynn prosecution.

Fifth, your alumni Weissmann and Ruemmler are no strangers to guilty pleas being tossed. At least two guilty pleas they coerced by threats against defendants in Houston had to be thrown out—again for reasons like those here. The defendants “got off scot- free” because—like General Flynn—your alumni had concocted the charges and terrorized them into pleading guilty to “offenses” that were not crimes. Andersen partner David Duncan even testified for the government against Andersen in its trial, but his plea had to be vacated. Enron Broadband defendant Christopher Calger had his plea thrown out also.

Sixth, should further edification be necessary, see Why Innocent People Plead Guilty, written by federal Judge Jed Rakoff (a Clinton appointment) in 2014. Innocent people are forced to plead guilty by abusive prosecutors with painful frequency. The Mueller special counsel operation led by Andrew Weissmann and Weissmann “wannabes” specialize in prosecutorial terrorist tactics repulsive to everything “justice” is supposed to mean and designed to intimidate their targets into pleading guilty and punishing them with the process and financial ruin.

Most important, in truth, General Flynn was honest with the FBI agents. They knew he was—and briefed that to McCabe and others three different times. At McCabe’s directions, Agent Strzok and McCabe’s “Special Counsel” Lisa Page, altered the 302 to create statements Weissmann, Mueller, Van Grack, and Zainab Ahmad could assert were false. Only the FBI agents lied—and falsified documents. The crimes are theirs alone.

Seventh, the federal circuit in which you reside threw out a Section 1001 case for a legal failure much less egregious than those in General Flynn’s case. United States v. Safavian, 528 F.3d 957 (D.C. Cir. 2008). Safavian sought advice from his agency’s ethics board and didn’t give them all the relevant info. The jury convicted him on the theory it was a 1001 violation to conceal the info from the government ethics board. The court disagreed: “As Safavian argues and as the government agrees, there must be a legal duty to disclose in order for there to be a concealment offense in violation of § 1001(a)(1), yet the government failed to identify a legal disclosure duty except by reference to vague standards of conduct for government employees.” General Flynn did not even know he was the subject of an investigation—and in truth, he was not. The only crimes here were by your alumni in the FBI, White House, intelligence community, and DOJ.

These examples are obvious and well-known. Perhaps you will soon find some remarkably good “jailhouse lawyers” to consult for further assistance on your search for precedent.

Finally, your “leaked” comments on the call with your alumni further evinces your extraordinary obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years.

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1 As a “constitutional lawyer,” surely you recall that perjury (or false statements) also require intent to deceive. In Bronston v. United States, 409 U.S. 352 (1973), the Supreme Court reversed a conviction of perjury. In Bronston, the defendant’s answer was a truthful statement, but not directly responsive to the question and ultimately misled federal authorities. The Court determined: “A jury should not be permitted to engage in conjecture whether an unresponsive answer, true and complete on its face, was intended to mislead or divert the examiner; the state of mind of the witness is relevant only to the extent that it bears on whether “he does not believe [his answer] to be true.” To hold otherwise would be to inject a new and confusing element into the adversary testimonial system we know.” Id. at 359. The FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn specifically noted that his answers were true or he believed his answers to be true. Furthermore, General Flynn knew and remarked they had transcripts of his conversations.

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Judge Puts Up Potential Roadblock to Dropping Charge Against Flynn

– Judge Sullivan: “Oh, I’m s-o-o confused! I don’t know what to do! Asks “other” individuals and ‘organizations’ what he should do?

But there is more

JUDGE IN FLYNN CASE TO OPEN UP CASE FOR AMICUS SUBMISSIONS

D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued an order Tuesday indicating that he’ll soon accept “amicus curiae,” or “friend of the court” submissions, in the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn — essentially allowing the court to use an “ask the audience” lifeline in what has already proved to be an unpredictable and chaotic prosecution.

Sullivan’s minute order indicated that an upcoming scheduling order would clarify the parameters of who specifically could submit the amicus briefs, which are submissions by non-parties that claim an interest in the case. Sullivan specifically said he anticipates that “individuals and organizations” will file briefs “for the benefit of the court.”

The move attracted some immediate criticism. The Federalist’s Sean Davis, for example, cautioned that Sullivan was inviting “left-wing lawyers write his final order against Flynn for him.”

In his order, Sullivan quoted his fellow judge on the D.C. District Court, Amy Berman Jackson, who previously admonished the parties in the case of Trump associate Roger Stone that allowing amicus submissions does not mean that the criminal case will become a “free for all.”

Flynn’s case, however, has sometimes seemed like just that. In a fireworks-filled sentencing hearing in December 2018, for example, Sullivan himself appeared open to the idea that Flynn could be charged with a death penalty-eligible offense.

“I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offense,” Sullivan said during that hearing. He added that Flynn’s allegedly unregistered work with Turkey “arguably” had undermined “everything this flag over here stands for.”

The judge wants some help from his posse 

Flynn’s defense team files motion against the delay 

In response to Judge Emmet Sullivan announcing a delay in Flynn ruling to allow third party amicus briefs to be filed with the court, Michael Flynn’s defense counsel files a motion in opposition.

In opposition to the delay Attorney Sidney Powell notes Judge Sullivan’s earlier ruling of December 20, 2017, disallowing amicus briefs in this case.

Precedent, he don’t need no stinking precedent

Supreme Court Ruled Unanimously Last Week Against Improper Use of Amicus Briefs; Relevant for Flynn Case

Sullivan as judge and prosecutor

Misconstruing himself as the attorney for the government 

The statute Sullivan cited, 18 U.S.C. § 401, reads as follows:

A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as —
(1)Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
(2)Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions;
(3)Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.

Criminal Procedure Rule 42 deals with criminal contempt proceedings. It requires, in part, that criminal contempt “be prosecuted by an attorney for the government, unless the interest of justice requires the appointment of another attorney.”
The rule also contains an escape hatch for the judge in the event the government refuses. “If the government declines the request, the court must appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt.”

Never mind that the government has moved that prosecution and punishment was improper so now Sullivan is “prosecutor shopping”  — he’s going to get his man no matter what.   The problem as we see it is that the rule does not apply – Flynn’s charged offense was not against the judge but some FBI interviewers, and at that his plea was coerced.  If someone connected to this case is to be charged with contempt of court it ought to be Obama, certain of his underlings, including in the FBI,  and hizhonor for his contempt of justice.

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• Can anyone continue to charitably believe “their hearts are in the right place”
• At best, as long as we are speaking anatomically, their heads are up their asses
• Too many Republican governors are practicing political CYA when they are misjudging the political aspects to their political detriment
• Those governors can no longer use the cover that they are “doing” science, they are doing politics, practicing poor science and poor politics
• “As soon as possible” is yesterday and NOW

From Richard McCarty writing at the Daily Torch (Americans for Limited Government)

Sen. Tim Scott is right, it’s time to stop moving the goalposts and reopen America now

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is right. On Tuesday, he noted that “we didn’t set out to keep quarantines in place until we found a safe and effective vaccine. That would take too long… We are too often presented with a false dichotomy — either saving our economy or saving lives… We’ve seen the goalposts around flattening the curve move, and I think that’s unfortunate, because… businesses have collapsed, mental and physical health have declined, depths of despair escalate, educational outcomes nosedive, as we wait in our living rooms praying for some good news around therapies and around vaccines.”

Of course, Scott is not the only one who has noted the damage caused by the shutdown; small business owners across the country have been warning of the impacts of the shutdown for weeks and urging policymakers to reopen the economy, with more than 30 million jobs lost and counting.

Here is what just a few of these business owners had to say about their own situations and the shutdown.

Phil Green is the owner of Rapid Repair Pro, a home repair contractor, in Maryville, Illinois, and stated: “The shutdown… is beginning to have an impact on my business. My pipeline of work is dwindling. I expect within a few weeks, I’ll be pretty much totally out of work. If this continues through May, I really stand a chance of losing everything I’ve worked for for the past 25 years, and it’s just not gonna go well. So I realize this is bad for everyone, not just me, but we really need to get back to work.”

Brett Denton is the owner of Kvell Fitness and Nutriition, a fitness facility in Boise, Idaho and said: “We have seen a significant drop in our membership rate. Obviously, people aren’t coming into the facility… Our clients could have done virtual [training] long before this… COVID-19 shutdown… happened, and they come to us because we are an in-person facility. We offer coaching; we offer community; we offer accountability. We offer things that you can’t get virtually… On top of that, we’re having people terminate [their memberships] because they’re scared… First of all, a lot of them are unemployed. Second, they don’t know how long they’re gonna be unemployed. They’re holding on to everything because of fear.”

Denton added, “And so if this happens for too much longer, we’re going to really be struggling — to the point of probably needing to shut the doors and find something else to do. And if we shut the doors, that is six people plus some contractors who are gonna be out of work and trying to find work elsewhere. And then, of course, all of the other businesses that we pay to support us: marketing companies, software companies, etc. And so we really need to get the economy back moving again in one way or the other. I care about people deeply, and so I understand that this is a hard decision to make for everybody. But I know that the economy is going to cause major issues for me personally, and for our business, and for our clients, and for our employees, if we don’t figure out some way to get back into business even if it’s a modified approach.”

Jason Kothenbeutel is the owner of Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists in St. Paul, Minnesota, and said: “[The] government shutdown has affected us a great deal… Fortunately we are [an] essential business so we can stay operational, to some degree, but we are [a] business that serves mostly commercial accounts. Their business is down significantly; and because their business is down, my business is down… Our business is roughly down by about 60 percent right now. I’m afraid it’ll go a little lower than that as we move forward…. It is, in my opinion, imperative that we get moving on opening the economy back up as soon as possible. I’m afraid if we go much longer in this, business is only going to slide more, and it’s going to be extremely difficult to keep people employed. It’s going to be extremely difficult to pay our expenses.”

Americans for Limited Government has launched ReopenAmericaNow.org to allow citizens to contact their state governors and legislatures and urge them to reopen the economy before it’s too late.

Every day that the economy is shut down, more damage is done to mental health, to personal finances, and to small businesses barely hanging on — not to mention the fiscal situation of all levels of government. Given the precarious finances of many governments, they cannot afford to allow their citizens to be ground down into poverty, which would make it impossible for them to pay their taxes. For these and other reasons, policymakers must heed the calls of small business owners and reopen the economy as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, the pandemic is working and not just “Blue” states.  The long term sequelae is economic and it is death dealing, possibly of a country, unless Republicans with Trump can pull it together to Make America Great Again, again.       V’PAC

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Better Than A Vaccine (?); Democrats Have Solution to COVID-19; Do Away With “Voter ID”!

Why should anybody have to prove who they are in order to vote in a US election?

“Self-certify” your identity? Sure, why not..?

What’s this “citizenship” nonsense?

Why can’t Iran, Mexican, Chinese, Russian citizens vote in our elections? And what’s wrong with 12 year olds voting?

And the mail-in voting thing? Why not? It would make it much easier for a citizen of a foreign country to cast his ballot!

And you really thought that Putin wanted Trump to win?! It’s Democrats who want Vladimir to have an absentee ballot.        dlh

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DEMOCRATS’ CORONAVIRUS BILL WOULD ELIMINATE STATES’ VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS     (excerpt*)

By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Tucked inside House Democrats’ new coronavirus bill is language that would create a loophole in states’ voter ID requirements, allowing people to cast ballots without having to prove who they are.

While the crux of the bill, revealed Tuesday, is a massive injection of taxpayer aid for states, localities and federal agencies dealing with the virus, Democrats also tackled some of their long-standing political goals.

One section of the bill would require states to allow at least 15 days of in-person early voting before Election Day this year, and to also allow voting by mail for any reason, overriding states that have more limited policies.

The new bill would also require that absentee ballots be counted if they arrive up to 10 days after Election Day.

And the legislation says that states that require voter IDs to cast a ballot must allow voters to meet the requirement by self-certifying to their own identity.

The National Conference of State Legislatures says 36 states have some voter ID requirement. About a half dozen of those are “strict” photo ID laws, requiring someone who wants to cast a ballot without photo ID to return with proof within three days for their ballot to be counted.

*pic not part of original

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Handlers plan to keep him content while they implement ‘his” grand ideas

It’s one thing to have a fool for a president…but when it’s a dangerously seriously mentally impaired, old fool who has probably never made a good decision in his 40 “good” years in government, this country would have a problem!

A glimpse of what the N Y Magazine thinks are some of Biden’s Ideas if he were to win the presidency should scare the hell out of every American…and the entire Free World!

The likelihood that the addled candidate, ‘Sleepy Joe’, would last only a few months in the Oval Office before the men in white coats carry him out provides little comfort when we see some of the people he’s considering as his running mate.

Excerpts from an article in the magazine include SOME of Joe’ s “ideas”. We noted some in bold face below:

Joe Biden Is Planning An FDR-Size Presidency

“… after not just four years of Trump but almost a full year of death and suffering. The pandemic is breaking the country much more deeply than the Great Recession did, Biden believes, and will require a much bigger response. No miraculous rebound is coming in the next six months.”

“Biden will presumably.. (be)..developing a detailed map of what will be necessary come Inauguration Day. Long before the pandemic, he described a range of actions he’d take on day one, from rejoining the Paris climate agreement to signing executive orders on ethics, and he cited other matters, like passing the Equality Act for LGBTQ protections, as top priorities. Already his recovery ambitions have grown to include plans that would flex the muscles of big government harder than any program in recent history. To date, the federal government has spent more than $2 trillion on the coronavirus stimulus — nearly three times what it approved in 2009. Biden wants more spending. “A hell of a lot bigger,” he’s said, “whatever it takes.” He has argued that, even if you’re inclined to worry about the deficit, massive public investment is the only thing capable of growing the economy enough “so the deficit doesn’t eat you alive.” He has talked about funding immense green enterprises and larger backstop proposals from cities and states and sending more relief checks to families. He has urged immediate increases in virus and serology testing, proposing the implementation of a Pandemic Testing Board in the style of FDR’s War Production Board and has called for investments in an “Apollo-like moonshot” for a vaccine and treatment. And he floated both the creation of a 100,000-plus worker Public Health Jobs Corps and the doubling of the number of OSHA investigators to protect employees amid the pandemic. If he were president now, he said in March, he would demand paid emergency sick leave for anyone in need and mandate that no one would have to pay for coronavirus testing or treatment. As the crisis deepened, he said he would forgive federal student-loan debt — $10,000 per person, minimum — and add $200 a month to Social Security checks.

This is all only what he believes should be done now before he even ascends to the presidency; by then, he thinks, the country could be in a much darker hole than it is today, presumably requiring even more federal investment and intervention. David Kessler, who led the Food and Drug Administration under both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and has been speaking with Biden regularly about the crisis, recently told me the former vice-president “understands that until we have a vaccine or a therapeutic entity that can be used as a preventative, the virus is still going to be with us and that we’re going to constantly be putting out mini-epidemics.” Biden, he said, “has a very considerable grasp of what a realistic future holds.” He paused. “It is not rose colored.”

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Among others, strange pursed lips condition in DC prevented blowing the whistle

In some permutations the condition is known as lying through your teeth

Trey Gowdy admits ‘mistake’ in defending FBI during Russia investigation  

Anthony Leonardi at Washington Examiner (excerpt)  (bold our emphasis)

Trey Gowdy backpedaled his defense of the FBI during the Russian investigation after Fox News host Tucker Carlson confronted him about the matter.

The former South Carolina congressman said on Monday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight that he was mistaken to trust the FBI and Justice Department while special counsel Robert Mueller was conducting his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Carlson played Gowdy a clip of his own 2018 remarks in which he said, “As of now, I think Chris Wray and Rod Rosenstein are stunned whenever people think Trump is the target of their investigation … I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.”

Carlson then asked if he still maintains that position, and Gowdy responded in the negative, claiming he reneged the opinion three weeks after making the statement.

“I went over to the Department of Justice. I sat there for four hours. That’s when I saw that Peter Strzok actually initiated and approved Crossfire Hurricane. That’s when I saw the exculpatory information on George Papadopoulos. That’s when I saw, for the very first time, that it was the Trump campaign mentioned in that predicate document,” he said.

“My mistake was relying on the word of the FBI and the DOJ and not insisting on the documents,” he added.

In April 2019, Mueller released his long-awaited report on Russian election interference, which did not find evidence of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. The investigation did, however, find substantial evidence that Russian actors actively attempted to influence the election.

Gowdy said congressional reports intended to ascertain Russia’s activities during the 2016 election validate Mueller’s conclusion about the country’s attempts, adding that he still believes the investigation was “not a witch hunt.”  …

The extent, the cost, the hype, the extreme collateral damage — BUT IT WAS NOT A WITCH HUNT!!!??? with the FBI consumed with finding something even if they had to make it up???!!!

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How prophetic has V’pac been over the years?  (Rumors that we have bleached all bad calls cannot be proven) 

Not to worry, the more we pat ourselves on the back, the strain goes away

Now if only more would realize our prescience and insight, oh,  and link us on Facebook and Twitter or like us here or something

Comey Told Congress He Didn’t Know If Flynn Lied To The FBI; Transcript

Our question is: “What is taking the distinguished, “no-non-sense” judge, Emmett Sullivan so long to make up his mind whether to dismiss the case against Flynn?”
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Here’s dlh from Veritaspac on “no-Non-Sense” judges from October 27, 2014:

Walton, Sullivan, Roberts: the Three Amigos of “no-nonsense” justice

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