Last night I was in a rush to post about the general nature of Trump’s win on the Special Master—as you’ll recall, the 25 words or less version is that Judge Aileen Cannon rejected DoJ’s request that she stay her decision to appoint a Special Master. Having rejected DoJ’s motion, Cannon went ahead and appointed as Special Master a senior federal judge, Raymond Dearie. As we noted last night (via tweets by Jonathan Turley) the Reagan appointed Dearie is by way of being a victim of FBI criminality, in that he signed off on the 4th FISA on Carter Page (the 3rd renewal), which contained the false statements/altered document by former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith—who is nevertheless currently a lawyer in good standing in DC, despite his felony conviction for lying to the FISA court. Given that background, Dearie may well be inclined to hold the DoJ/FBI feet to the fire.
I just caught this article at John Solomon's Just The News site. Looks like some respected people, including some retired senior FBI officials, are waking up to the FBI's tilted playing field and all the headlines it has garnered the past few months.
One additional thing must be mentioned. These people are clearly out of control. The optics of this raid, and those of businessmen just going for something to eat, are terrible. At the very least by this time we should all have heard that Trump was barely stopped from selling Washington, DC similar to what Benedict Arnold was in the process of doing to West Point. They want the American public to get enraged by a dispute over old documents, and some variance of opinions as to jurisdiction? Even the rabid base must be by now turned off by these constant cries of 'wolf' and 'this time we got him.'
None of this makes the DOJ/FBI look good. Far from it. If they think indicting Trump is going to be their October surprise, it may be a surprise they weren't anticipating where those who thought about staying home will now show up to voice their displeasure at our corrupt administrative state.
I just caught this article at John Solomon's Just The News site. Looks like some respected people, including some retired senior FBI officials, are waking up to the FBI's tilted playing field and all the headlines it has garnered the past few months.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/calls-grow-among-prominent-figures-create-new-church-committee-probe-fbi-abuses
One additional thing must be mentioned. These people are clearly out of control. The optics of this raid, and those of businessmen just going for something to eat, are terrible. At the very least by this time we should all have heard that Trump was barely stopped from selling Washington, DC similar to what Benedict Arnold was in the process of doing to West Point. They want the American public to get enraged by a dispute over old documents, and some variance of opinions as to jurisdiction? Even the rabid base must be by now turned off by these constant cries of 'wolf' and 'this time we got him.'
None of this makes the DOJ/FBI look good. Far from it. If they think indicting Trump is going to be their October surprise, it may be a surprise they weren't anticipating where those who thought about staying home will now show up to voice their displeasure at our corrupt administrative state.