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When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal

Drain The Swamp 30 Comments

BUMPED FOR UPDATE: The report is public, can be accessed here.

New developments.. An FBI attorney who worked on the special counsel’s Russia investigation until earlier this year sent anti-Trump text messages to a colleague, including one exclaiming: “Viva le Resistance.”

Fox News:  The Justice Department inspector general referred five FBI employees for investigation into whether their politically-charged and “hostile” text messages and instant messages violated FBI code, according to the damning inspector general report released Thursday.

Original post continues below… scroll down for further finds from the report.

IG Report findings begin to trickle out…

Former FBI Director James Comey “deviated” from FBI and Justice Department procedures in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the law enforcement agencies’ image of impartiality even though he wasn’t motivated by political bias, the department’s watchdog found in a highly anticipated report.

 

“While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey’s part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report’s conclusions, which were obtained Thursday by Bloomberg News.

 

Horowitz’s report examined actions taken by top officials before the 2016 election, including the handling of the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state. The investigation expanded to touch on an array of politically sensitive decisions by officials including Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Nothing that readers of this site won’t already know, but we’re not most people.  I’ll expand on this post as updates (and the official release) come in.

I recommend you watch this Twitter account, as well. (sorry, corrected with link).

Related:  The Silencing of the Inspectors General.

Update:

FBI agent Peter Strzok assured his mistress and colleague Lisa Page that they would stop Donald Trump from winning the presidency in a text message, a new report from the DOJ inspector general finds per Bloomberg News White House Correspondent Jennifer Jacobs.

 

“Several FBI employees Who played critical roles in the investigation sent political messages,” the report reads, according to Jacobs.

 

“(Trump’s) not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page wrote to Strzok, Bloomberg reports.

 

“No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it,” Strzok reportedly replied

 

More.

Art Of The Fail

Shiny Pony 27 Comments

Italy won’t ratify EU free-trade deal with Canada says new farm minister…

“We will not ratify the free-trade treaty with Canada because it protects only a small part of our PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) and PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) products,” Centinaio told the newspaper.

 

“Doubts over this agreement are shared by many of my European colleagues.” In the 28-member European Union, Italy has the most food products with PDO and PGI labels, including Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and Prosciutto di Parma ham

Cheese, again.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult Unsettled Science Y2Kyoto 21 Comments

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry explains her conversion to skeptic as she is set to debate Michael Mann…

The 1992 UN Climate Change treaty was signed by 190 countries before the balance of scientific evidence suggested even a discernible human influence on global climate. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was implemented before we had any confidence that most of the warming was caused by humans. There was tremendous political pressure on the IPCC scientists to present findings that would support these treaties, which resulted in a manufactured consensus.

Asteroid, Take Us Now

Moonbats 40 Comments

A Newfoundland judge has declared a polyamorous trio of one woman and two men all legal parents of the child the woman gave birth to last year. The decision appears to be the first of its kind in Canada.  […]

 

The three adults went to court after the Newfoundland Ministry of Service refused to list them all as parents because the province’s Vital Statistics Act allows for the names of only two parents on a child’s birth certificate.

 

Fowler ruled having three parents was in the child’s best interests.

We Are All Treaty Chihuahuas

Chief Big Screen TV 26 Comments

A “suspected Indian status scam”.

When Louis Côté became suspicious of a Toronto-based laboratory that tests people’s DNA to determine their ancestry, he decided to try an experiment by submitting a sample from his girlfriend’s dog for analysis.

 

According to the results, Côté shares more than a friendship with Snoopy the chihuahua; they share the exact same Indigenous ancestry.

 

“I thought it was a joke,” Côté said. “The company is fooling people … the tests are no good.”

As opposed to the one run out of Ottawa.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Self Driving Roadkill 27 Comments

Minor glitches.

I’m in the UK. My software update (2018.21.9) completed this morning. 2018 Model S 100D.

 

On an ‘A’ road drive today in dry, clear weather using Autopilot on a stretch of straight, clear, flat well marked road at 40mph the car suddenly and for no apparent reason tried to swerve off the road sharply, I had to grab the wheel (my hands always rest lightly on the wheel while AP is engaged) quickly to get the car back on track. This happened twice 45 minutes apart in similar conditions.

 

There was no break in the white lines and no apparent reason for it to do this.

Y2Kyoto: Moonbats

Moonbats Science 36 Comments

You know what this means, of course.

The presence of astronauts on the moon caused an unexpected warming of its subsurface temperatures for a period of time in the 1970s, a new study has found after delving into “lost” tapes from the Apollo missions.

 

In 1971 and 1972, NASA deployed sensors on the moon during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in an effort to measure the moon’s surface and subsurface temperatures — a project dubbed the heat flow experiment.

 

Data was collected and beamed back down to Earth until 1977, where scientists were baffled by the gradual warming of the moon’s surface being read by the sensors.

It means a “moonbat tax” is on  the horizon.

 

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