December 15, 2019

Predication Is for Chumps: The Sorry Lesson Linking Crossfire Hurricane to Robert Hanssen

At approximately 8 PM on Sunday, February 18, 2001, there was a knock on my front door. At the time I was a Special Agent (SA) with the FBI, so imagine my shock when I opened the door and found the two top officials in the Division on my doorstep....

December 28, 2018

The Upside for Conservatives in 2019

There are, I believe, positive developments -- even reasons for cautious good cheer – as 2019 faces conservatives, even as the assault on our constitutional order continues (and I use this phrase advisedly). The most obvious positive result ...

December 22, 2018

Judge Sullivan's Challenge

Despite the fact that Judge Emmet Sullivan totally shot himself in the foot with his absurd speculation regarding the possibility of General Michael Flynn being charged with treason, it does appear that he remains focused not only on the misconduct (...

December 18, 2018

The FBI's Flynn Interview Was Not Legitimate

As the slow-motion drama of the Michael Flynn prosecution winds slowly toward sentencing today, it has become increasingly clear that the conservative commentariat feels conflicted. On the one hand, they can't approve of what appear to be lies on...

December 18, 2018

Now released FBI Form 302 of interview with Flynn does not help Mueller's case

Subsequent to writing my article today, "The FBI's Flynn Interview Was Not Legitimate," I had the opportunity to read the now released "original" FD-302 that agents Strzok and Pientka wrote after their interview with...

December 16, 2018

Mueller's ‘Enterprise’ Witch Hunt

The guidelines that govern FBI investigations are the key to understanding the Deep State's assault on the Trump administration. The FBI's Crossfire Hurricane case is a sort of "umbrella" investigation, one that subsumes investigati...

December 3, 2018

Crossfire Hurricane: The Theory Of The Case

For those of us who try to follow developments in the Russia Hoax, it's easy to get bogged down in the details and lose sight of the big picture: what I call the "theory of the case." Every investigation needs a guiding theory, even a h...

November 26, 2018

Is The Deep State Feeling The Heat?

Bad as it may have been, the worst of the Russia Hoax was not the abuse of the FISA electronic surveillance regime for political purposes. Nor is the worst even the patent involvement of our intelligence agencies -- and in particular the FBI and CIA ...

November 8, 2018

Could Papadopoulos Blow the Russia Hoax Wide Open?

Dan Bongino recently conducted a fascinating interview with George Papadopoulos. The most convenient way to digest the interview is at Jeff Carlson's blog, which has a link to the interview on Bongino's radio show as well as a full trans...

November 8, 2018

After Sessions, whither the Russia hoax witch hunt?

I had barely finished digesting the Midterm election news yesterday morning and begun wondering how the new lay of the land might affect the Russia Hoax when events began unfolding. President Trump has never been mistaken for someone who dithers when...

October 12, 2018

Now we know what Strzok meant in that 'insurance policy' text to Page

See also: The Russia Hoax As Contingency Plan It turns out that John Podesta didn't just pull the Russia Hoax out of thin air right after the election.  It was a key part of a contingency plan that was already in place.  Wh...

October 12, 2018

The Russia Hoax As Contingency Plan

See also: Now we know what Strzok meant in that ‘insurance policy’ text to Page Remember, back in August, 2016, when Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were obsessively texting one another? One exchange went something like, well, exactly...

October 10, 2018

Trump, Declassification, and Leverage

There's a reason why President Trump has not unilaterally declassified the documents exposing perfidy against him: leverage.  As the whole Russia hoax is beginning to come into some sort of global perspective – quite literally, as...

October 10, 2018

It's James Baker's turn to throw Rosenstein under a bus

John Solomon is reporting that, according to James Baker in his recent House testimony, that business about Rosenstein maybe wearing a wire against Trump was no joke – or at least not from the perspective of the FBI. Baker told lawmakers h...

October 7, 2018

Kavanaugh confirmation battle boomerang: the GOP establishment and the Russia Hoax

The political fallout from the Kavanaugh nomination is still being sorted out.  Additional fallout from this entire episode may be manifested in a new willingness -- dare I say resolve? -- on the part of even establishment GOP types to take...

September 5, 2018

Why Was Andrew Weissmann Kept 'in the Loop' by Bruce Ohr?

A week ago, August 27th, Bruce Ohr, the demoted former Associate Deputy Attorney General, testified before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees. Among the newsworthy items that emerged, a few stand out. One of course is that his wife Ne...

September 4, 2018

Will the Media Turn against Pope Francis?

The huge sex scandal engulfing Pope Francis and the Catholic Church creates a dilemma for American news media. On the one hand, sex sells, and the Catholic Church has been an object of criticism by generations of the secular leftists that dominate jo...

August 16, 2018

Just How Reliable Was Christopher Steele?

The famous "dossier" on Donald Trump – supposedly compiled by British ex-MI6 spook Christopher Steele, acting as a contractor for Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS, themselves contractors for the Hillary Clinton campaign – "sala...

August 10, 2018

Rudy's shot across Mueller's bow

President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has fired a clear warning shot across the bow of Special Prosecutor (SC) Robert Mueller in an appearance on the Sean Hannity Show. Giuliani warned that Mueller's case against the Presid...

July 25, 2018

The Big Picture on the Carter Page FISA

With all the discussion of the FISA warrants, we must avoid missing the forest for the trees.  Since the release last Saturday of the (highly redacted) FISA application that targeted Carter Page, and the subsequent three renewal application...

June 18, 2018

A Guide to Spygate

The FBI is many things to many people, but seen from the inside where I spent my career as an FBI agent, most of all it is a bureaucracy. The evident abuses of the vast investigatory powers of the Bureau to surveil the campaign of Donald Trump has le...

March 28, 2018

Bigshot Catholic Cardinal May Be Signaling Catholics' Drift from Democrats

Last Thursday Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York penned an essay in the Wall Street Journal.  The title of the essay, and its subtitle, tells you pretty much all you need to know if you don't subscribe: "The Democrats Abandon Catho...

October 19, 2009

Could Chicago be this bad?

This story has to be read to be believed: Twelve dead and helicopter downed as Rio de Janeiro drug gangs go to war;"Host city of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics shaken by violence as warlords battle for control of the cocaine trade."...

October 19, 2009

Senator Gregg: path to 'banana republic'

In an interview with CNN's John King, Senator Judd Gregg stated that Federal deficit figures "mean we're basically on the path to a banana-republic-type of financial situation in this country."  But the line I liked best was: "Thi...

September 30, 2009

Lula faces criticism in Brazil over Honduras role

Reuters is carrying an article that notes that Brazilian President Lula is facing growing criticism for the role he has played in the Zelaya controversy in Honduras, having allowed Zelaya to take refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.  ...

September 23, 2009

The Catholic Bishops and ACORN

This is a good news/bad news story. First the good news: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) cut off all funding to ACORN at some point in 2008, after revelations of the embezzlement of nearly $1 million dollars by the brother of Wade ...

September 6, 2009

ObamaCare and Catholic social teaching

The 9/2/09 issue of the Wall Street Journal, in its Notable and Quotable feature,  calls attention to an important article that Roman Catholic Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa, published in his diocesan newspaper on the subject of h...

July 30, 2007

We need hearings on Justice Breyer's conduct

Bravo to Clarice Feldman for pointing up the hypocrisy behind Justice Breyer's complaints about his colleagues to members of the Judiciary Committee.  One minor quibble.  The article ends:The Judiciary Committee and American people deserve ...