December 2019 1136

 

Indonesia: Police Arrest Teacher for Molesting Children, Using Quran to Swear Them to Secrecy

Police in Malang regency, East Java, identified the suspect by his initials CH, accusing him of molesting 18 boys between grades seven and eight after summoning them to the school counseling office. “In one month, at least one to three students became his molestation victims,” Malang Regency Police Chief Yade Setiawan Ujung told reporters on […]

 

Chris Wray: Calling FBI the ‘Deep State’ Is an Insult to Our Workforce

Wray’s remark was part of an interview with ABC News on the Justice Department’s inspector general report. A partial transcript is as follows:  PIERRE THOMAS: As far as you know, based on the findings in the inspector general report, is the FBI — was it part of some Deep State? CHRISTOPHER WRAY: I think that’s the […]

 

Donald Trump: IG Report Shows FBI ‘Caught Red-Handed’

“This was an overthrow of government, this was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it and they got caught,” Trump said. “They got caught red-handed.” The president spoke to reporters at the White House during a roundtable meeting on freedom of education. The report was received with mixed results from […]

 

Jim Jordan: ‘Deeply Troubling’ that FBI Spied on Trump Campaign

The Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general (IG) released his report, which found that the FBI had an authorized “purpose” to investigate the 2016 Trump campaign; however, the agency committed a series of wrongdoings in the process. The IG report found that the FBI made “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the agency’s applications to surveil […]

 

IG Report Confirms No FISA Warrant On Carter Page Without Steele Dossier

The much awaited Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) report, conducted by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, was released today. It finds that the FBI would not have had enough claimed evidence to secretly surveil former Trump aide Carter Page, and thus the Trump 2016 campaign, without using a “dossier” of opposition research funded by the Hillary […]

 

DOJ IG Report Slams Bruce Ohr’s Failure To Report Repeated Interactions With Steele

The long-anticipated report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released Monday criticized department attorney Bruce Ohr at length for failing to report repeated contacts with former British spy Christopher Steele. Steele, the author of the debunked Steele dossier that was used to justify a federal investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign, met with […]

 

FBI Knew The Steele Dossier Was Highly Dubious As Early As January 2017, But Still Relied On It For FISA Renewals

According to the just-released Department of Justice Inspector General’s report, the FBI knew as early as January 2017 that the reporting contained in the “Steele Dossier,” authored by former FBI informant and once-British spy Christopher Steele, was highly questionable, if not pure junk. The dossier contained a heap of entirely sensational, unverified allegations against President […]

 

Horowitz report: Sufficient predicate for Crossfire Hurricane — but probably not the Page FISA warrant;More: Ordering audit of all FBI FISA warrant processes; Rips Ohr; Update: Durham dissents?

As most media outlets previewed, the inspector general report from Michael Horowitz doesn’t accuse the FBI or Department of Justice of running a political hit on Donald Trump — but that’s not saying there aren’t bombshells within it. After noting the low threshold provided by Department of Justice policies for a predicate to start a […]

 

Elizabeth Warren Discloses $1.9 Million Made from Private Legal Work, Including Corporate Clients

Warren revealed that she made $1.9 million from past legal work as part of her ongoing beef over transparency with Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D). The Massachusetts senator’s campaign originally released a comprehensive list of Warren’s legal work in May but updated the list over the weekend to “include compensation for that work wherever possible.” Her […]

 

A dating app to screen out inherited diseases?

A really weird story from the field of science (?) came out of a Sixty Minutes segment on CBS that was making the rounds this weekend. It dealt with Harvard geneticist George Church. He’s working on a project that proposes to “make humans immune to all viruses, eliminate genetic diseases and reverse the aging process.” […]