The Front Page Cover
The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
J. Edgar Comey
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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The Left's Pipeline Problem
The Colonial Pipeline runs 5,500 miles from Houston to New Jersey and carries over 100 million gallons of fuel a day, so it's significant that it recently experienced shutdowns due to both necessary maintenance and accidents. The Colonial Pipeline was completed in the 1960s. Over 60% of the U.S.'s active pipelines were constructed before 1970. Concerns have been growing over the problem of America's aging pipelines and the potential for massive economic and social impact should they fail.
But the building of new pipelines has become increasingly difficult due to vigorous opposition from both landowners and ecofascist groups. Case in point are the recent protests at the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline — a pipeline that finally received the go ahead after years of researching, negotiating and court cases. Environmental extremists and Native American groups have successfully slowed construction with protests that at times have been violent and destructive. On Tuesday, Barack liar-nObama decided to weigh in on the issue, even as his Justice Department has been unwilling to support local law enforcement in dealing with the protesters' lawlessness. liar-nObama suggested, "I think that right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute" the pipeline. Wrong; the Army Corps of engineers already concluded that the current route is the best, but liar-nObama seems to think he knows there is a better possible route.
It's ironic that liar-nObama touts the need to upgrade America's aging infrastructure and yet when that very necessary infrastructure is something that doesn't fit his leftist ideology he either ignores or denounces it. Look at his decision to kill the Keystone Pipeline project.
~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Victor Davis Hanson: "At this point, liar-Clinton has trumped former President Richard Nixon's skullduggery — but without the offset of Nixon's foreign policy accomplishments. Even before the most recent scandals, liar-Clinton's campaign had an eerie resemblance to the Nixon playbook. ... There remains, however, one disconnect. Nixon covered up misdeeds long enough to be re-elected in a 1972 landslide — only later to resign before his looming impeachment, when even his administration flunkies could no longer mask his past misdeeds. Would an elected President liar-Hillary Clinton eventually meet the same fate? This time around, there is not the same sort of investigative reporting that there was in 1973-1974. Much of the media is backing, rather than investigating, liar-Clinton. Does the death of independent journalism ensure that liar-Clinton's hubris will never earn a Nixonian comeuppance — or at least not until after the election?" ~The Patriot Post
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He Said It – liar-Hillary Clinton Guilty Of Treason – Homeland Security Chairman McCaul
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is asked about information obtained by Fox News’ Bret Baier from sources inside the FBI... which have determined that there is a 99% certainty that liar-Hillary Clinton’s unsecured email storage and communications of classified sensitive US Government information were hacked by at least five foreign governments. McCaul says, “She took those devices overseas against the State Department’s wishes, and now we find out, as James Comey told me previously, that it’s very likely that foreign adversary nations got into her ‘private’ server. This is why you have security protocols, to protect classified information.”... http://rickwells.us/hillary-clinton-guilty-treason-homeland-security-chairman-mccaul/
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NYPD Source: Weiner Laptop Has Enough Evidence
“to Put liar-Hillary ... Away for Life”
by Selwyn Duke
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Sex crimes with children, child exploitation, money laundering, perjury, and pay to play, reads the partial list of crimes that, say New York City Police Department sources, could “put liar-Hillary and her crew away for life.”... Shocking evidence of such criminality has been found on ex-congressman Anthony Weiner’s laptop computer, say the sources, which was seized from him by NYC officials investigating his allegedly having sent sexually explicit texts to a 15-year-old girl. Moreover, liar-Hillary Clinton’s “crew” supposedly includes not just close aide and confidante Huma Abedin and her husband, Weiner, but other aides and insiders — and even members of Congress... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/24549-nypd-source-weiner-laptop-has-enough-evidence-to-put-hillary-away-for-life
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America's "Arab Spring"
by Nonie Darwish
by Nonie Darwish
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The goals of U.S. President Barack liar-nObama in the Middle East ended the rule of most of the "secular" Arab leaders in the area... His views may have come, partly at least, from propaganda on why Muslim people supposedly lacked freedom there. liar-nObama appears to have been told that if all these secular dictators could be brought down, a magnificent Arab Spring would blossom. The goals of the Muslim Brotherhood happened to be in tune with liar-nObama's goals in the Middle East. liar-nObama's first major presidential speech took place in Cairo before a large number of Islamic sheikhs and members of the Muslim Brotherhood. They were empowered and given legitimacy by liar-nObama. A scorned Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did not attend; thus, with the blessing of the United States, the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power in Egypt was begun... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9245/america-arab-spring
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FBI Sources: Moving Towards 'Likely an Indictment'
in liar-Clinton Foundation Case
by Tiffany Gabbay
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Fox News' Bret Baier reports that two different sources from inside the FBI say the bureau is pursuing the liar-Clinton Foundation investigation with renewed vigor... and that it is moving towards a "likely indictment" -- that is, of course, "barring some obstruction of justice." Key pieces of information to take away from the reports featured above are that the laptops of liar-Hillary Clinton top aides Cherryl Mills and Heather Samuelson have not been destroyed. In fact, they are currently in the hands of FBI agents in Washington, D.C. ...
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/fbi-sources-moving-towards-likely-indictment-clinton-foundation-case
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Higher Prices, Less Choice
by Joel Zinberg
{usnews.com} ~ This Nov. 8 as all Americans elect the president, Californians will be voting on Proposition 61, the California Drug Price Relief Act... Prop 61 will prohibit the state government from paying more for any prescription drug than the lowest price paid by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the same drug. Proponents, including Bernie Sanders, claim this will lower prices for Californians and start a nationwide movement to reign in drug prices. Recent polls indicate it will pass easily. That would be a shame, since it is not clear how or if it can work and will likely result in higher prices and less choice for Californians. The VA negotiates the lowest drug prices in the nation. How much would California save if it could match VA prices? California's nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office acknowledges no one knows – the VA does not disclose its prices and it is uncertain whether public disclosure could be required. How would California implement the measure?... http://www.usnews.com/opinion/policy-dose/articles/2016-11-03/californias-prop-61-would-raise-costs-and-limit-access-to-necessary-drugs?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=110416
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J. Edgar Comey
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ I had intended to use this final column before the presidential election to explain at length why I cannot vote for either liar-Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump and plan to vote for Gary Johnson for president. In a nutshell, big government is our biggest problem. It thrives on more debt, more taxes, more regulations, more war, a secretive deep state and less personal freedom. Both liar-Clinton and Trump would grow the government. Only Johnson would shrink it.
One of the most dangerous tendencies of big government is the generation of a police state -- wherein laws, rules and procedures are primarily written and can often be bent to aid law enforcement when it is encroaching on our personal freedoms. We saw a terrifying example of that last week when FBI Director James Comey behaved as if he were his most infamous predecessor, J. Edgar Hoover.
Here is the back story.
Late last week, in an effort to redeem himself from the consequences of having ignored a mountain of evidence of guilt against former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton last summer, Comey told Congress in a cryptic letter that the FBI would resume investigating her emails based upon the belief that more of them may be located in the laptop of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Weiner is the alleged sexual predator who remains the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, one of liar-Clinton's closest aides. Abedin backed up all her emails onto the laptop that she and her husband shared.
At the time he sent his Friday letter, Comey had not yet seen the contents of the Weiner laptop because the search warrant authorizing FBI agents to access its contents was not signed until Sunday. If he saw something incriminating before he wrote his letter, he saw it unlawfully; yet his duty was to bring what he saw to the Department of Justice, for which he works, not to hint about it publicly to Congress.
Comey's progress report to Congress is prohibited by the internal regulations of the DOJ and the FBI -- and by the canons of legal ethics that regulate lawyers. Comey had no obligation to send the letter at any time; moreover, sending it last week was a direct violation of DOJ and FBI rules that prohibit all public announcements about candidates for public office within 60 days of Election Day.
Comey told FBI staffers early this week that he sent the letter because he felt duty-bound to members of a congressional committee to whom he had given a promise that he would keep them informed of the status of the email investigation. That was a troublesome promise because its compliance violated other duties imposed upon Comey. Worse than making a promise and not keeping it is making a promise that should not be kept.
The genesis of all this was Comey's unprecedented news conference on July 5, at which he announced that no charges would be filed against liar-Clinton because no prosecutor would take the case. That was not an announcement for him to make. The FBI's job is to gather facts and present them to the DOJ, not to make legal evaluations. He made his announcement when he did to head off the behavior of some of his agents who were seeking liar-Clinton's medical records, unlawfully, from the National Security Agency to ascertain the gravity of her head injury -- an injury she posited during her FBI interrogation as the reason for her professed memory loss.
I have argued that Comey's July 5 decision was dead wrong; there is a mountain of evidence with which to indict and convict liar-Clinton on espionage charges. Yet it should have been presented to a grand jury -- it was not -- rather than at a news conference. The July 5 announcement was bizarre in that it not only exonerated liar-Clinton but also described the quantity and quality of the evidence against her. This insulted the agents who worked on the case and produced the lowest collective FBI morale since Watergate. If Comey sent his Friday letter to address the problems he caused by his July 5 announcement, he did the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.
But perhaps the gravest of Comey's violations is that of the constitutional guarantee of due process. The essence of due process is notice and fairness. How exquisitely unfair of Comey to say, in effect, "We have something that warrants investigation of you, yet we don't know its significance, so we can't say what it is." This is reminiscent of Franz Kafka's "The Trial," in which the lead character is being pursued for a year on unnamed charges, against which he cannot defend himself.
In his play "A Man for All Seasons," Robert Bolt shows Sir Thomas More arguing with William Roper, a colleague, who suggests that government lawbreaking can be justified for the greater good, particularly if the target is the devil which Trump has called liar-Clinton. More demolishes that argument in a few now iconic lines: "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you -- where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast -- man's laws, not God's -- and if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."
To my friends who have rejoiced in James Comey's letter, please take warning that, as More accurately predicted, the tables can be turned. If there is any moral lesson in all this, it is that the history of human freedom consists of paying careful attention to constitutional guarantees and legal protections, no matter the reputation of the accused.
One of the most dangerous tendencies of big government is the generation of a police state -- wherein laws, rules and procedures are primarily written and can often be bent to aid law enforcement when it is encroaching on our personal freedoms. We saw a terrifying example of that last week when FBI Director James Comey behaved as if he were his most infamous predecessor, J. Edgar Hoover.
Here is the back story.
Late last week, in an effort to redeem himself from the consequences of having ignored a mountain of evidence of guilt against former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton last summer, Comey told Congress in a cryptic letter that the FBI would resume investigating her emails based upon the belief that more of them may be located in the laptop of disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner. Weiner is the alleged sexual predator who remains the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, one of liar-Clinton's closest aides. Abedin backed up all her emails onto the laptop that she and her husband shared.
At the time he sent his Friday letter, Comey had not yet seen the contents of the Weiner laptop because the search warrant authorizing FBI agents to access its contents was not signed until Sunday. If he saw something incriminating before he wrote his letter, he saw it unlawfully; yet his duty was to bring what he saw to the Department of Justice, for which he works, not to hint about it publicly to Congress.
Comey's progress report to Congress is prohibited by the internal regulations of the DOJ and the FBI -- and by the canons of legal ethics that regulate lawyers. Comey had no obligation to send the letter at any time; moreover, sending it last week was a direct violation of DOJ and FBI rules that prohibit all public announcements about candidates for public office within 60 days of Election Day.
Comey told FBI staffers early this week that he sent the letter because he felt duty-bound to members of a congressional committee to whom he had given a promise that he would keep them informed of the status of the email investigation. That was a troublesome promise because its compliance violated other duties imposed upon Comey. Worse than making a promise and not keeping it is making a promise that should not be kept.
The genesis of all this was Comey's unprecedented news conference on July 5, at which he announced that no charges would be filed against liar-Clinton because no prosecutor would take the case. That was not an announcement for him to make. The FBI's job is to gather facts and present them to the DOJ, not to make legal evaluations. He made his announcement when he did to head off the behavior of some of his agents who were seeking liar-Clinton's medical records, unlawfully, from the National Security Agency to ascertain the gravity of her head injury -- an injury she posited during her FBI interrogation as the reason for her professed memory loss.
I have argued that Comey's July 5 decision was dead wrong; there is a mountain of evidence with which to indict and convict liar-Clinton on espionage charges. Yet it should have been presented to a grand jury -- it was not -- rather than at a news conference. The July 5 announcement was bizarre in that it not only exonerated liar-Clinton but also described the quantity and quality of the evidence against her. This insulted the agents who worked on the case and produced the lowest collective FBI morale since Watergate. If Comey sent his Friday letter to address the problems he caused by his July 5 announcement, he did the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.
But perhaps the gravest of Comey's violations is that of the constitutional guarantee of due process. The essence of due process is notice and fairness. How exquisitely unfair of Comey to say, in effect, "We have something that warrants investigation of you, yet we don't know its significance, so we can't say what it is." This is reminiscent of Franz Kafka's "The Trial," in which the lead character is being pursued for a year on unnamed charges, against which he cannot defend himself.
In his play "A Man for All Seasons," Robert Bolt shows Sir Thomas More arguing with William Roper, a colleague, who suggests that government lawbreaking can be justified for the greater good, particularly if the target is the devil which Trump has called liar-Clinton. More demolishes that argument in a few now iconic lines: "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you -- where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast -- man's laws, not God's -- and if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."
To my friends who have rejoiced in James Comey's letter, please take warning that, as More accurately predicted, the tables can be turned. If there is any moral lesson in all this, it is that the history of human freedom consists of paying careful attention to constitutional guarantees and legal protections, no matter the reputation of the accused.
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