When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Comey snuck in through the back door
pic.twitter.com/sHf0wxLwuh— Svetlana Lokhova (@RealSLokhova) October 8, 2025
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
In the matter of James Brien Comey Jr., how finds the court? I do not mean a court of law. I mean the tribunal of history.
Granted, we will be hearing from a Virginia court of law about JBC quite soon. On Thursday, Comey became the first former FBI director in history to be indicted by a grand jury for a felony. The charges? Lying to Congress and obstructing justice. (For the legal eagles among you, the statutes in question are USC 18 §1001 and USC 18 §1505.)
Call it karma, irony, or just good old-fashioned just desserts: whatever your literary preference, there is a delicious symmetry in the fact that USC 18 §1001—which prohibits making “any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement” to a government official—was the statute under which Comey tormented and bankrupted General Mike Flynn, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor for a few weeks in 2017.
None Of Your Business
Blacklock’s- Won’t Disclose Gaza Funding
Foreign Minister Anita Anand will not tell Parliament what groups her department is financing in Gaza. Anand invoked “confidentiality” in refusing a request by one MP to detail who has received taxpayers’ aid under a little-known Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
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Blacklock’s- D.E.I. Spending Tops $1.04B
One agency, Prairies Economic Development Canada, said it spent $190.1 million related to diversity, equity and inclusion ventures but could not explain why. “PrairiesCan conducted a search in our grants and contributions management system using the keywords ‘equity,’ ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’” said the Inquiry. “Certain projects were included where diversity, equity and inclusion were referenced but may not be the main focus of the project.”
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Global- PHAC to take over vaccine injury program after Global News investigation
Oxaro had received $50.6 million in taxpayer money; $33.7 million has been spent on administrative costs, while injured Canadians received $16.9 million. Updated Health Canada figures released last week show the company has now received $54.1 million and spent $36.3 million on administration costs, with just $18.1 million paid to injured Canadians
It’s In The Mail
Very good explanation here.
Peter St Onge- Post Office Drops 80%
One Chinese seller estimated to give them a 30% cost advantage. In fact, until recently, you could literally ship from Shanghai to Chicago cheaper than you could ship from Milwaukee to Chicago.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Throwing Gold Bars Off The Other Side Of The Titanic
National Post- Liberal ‘austerity’? Don’t make us laugh
On Wednesday, Carney told reporters that the upcoming fall budget will be “an austerity and investment budget at the same time,” noting that, “We need to rein in spending, we need to find efficiencies … that create the room for these big investments.” The following day, his finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said, “We’re going to spend less so we can invest more.”
“This Time It Will Be Different”
Dan Knight- Smoke, Mirrors, and Cabinet Retreats
François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Finance Minister and longtime Trudeau loyalist, stood before reporters in Toronto this week and delivered what the Liberal Party is calling a message of “fiscal responsibility and ambition.” In reality, it was a carefully rehearsed exercise in political misdirection.
Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Insane Asylum
Andrew Coyne has completely lost it…
By now it should be clear that the subjection of the United States to the dictatorship of Donald Trump is no longer a theoretical possibility or even a distant probability. It is an imminent reality.
It is not here, quite – critics of the President remain at large, the courts are still attempting to enforce the rule of law, the results of the 2026 and 2028 elections have not yet been determined – but the pieces are being put in place at astonishing speed.
To call what is happening a “slide” into authoritarianism, as if it were something anarchic and uncontrolled, would not be apt. It is more like a cementing. Having slipped back into power by the narrowest of margins, Mr. Trump and his acolytes have been steadily expanding from that beachhead, each new power serving as the means to acquire still more.
Often these powers have been acquired illegally, in brazen defiance of the Constitution. But so long as no one holds them to account for it, and so long as the administration refuses to be held to account, they become ratified by convention, or practice, or sheer nerve, the de facto rapidly congealing into the de jure.
…or maybe Andrew is bitter because Conservatives fired his father…
Swamp Creatures
Victor Davis Hanson: What the Media Won’t Tell You About John Bolton FBI Raid
Swamp Creatures
A few days old, but I was on the road and now just catching up.
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, in 2018, Bolton received that classified summary, detailing how Brennan manufactured the Putin-Trump intelligence out of thin air—but Bolton left it untouched, sealed from sight and scrutiny.
and here.
Hint-Try English
Blacklock’s- Tips On How To Talk To USA
The Canadian Embassy in Washington hired a US$2,000-an hour consultant for tips on how to talk to Americans, records show. It followed then-Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s boast that Canadian diplomats had expertise that “goes deep at different levels of American society.”
Signal Group Consulting LLC, a Washington contractor. was hired at US$6,000 plus expenses for three hours’ worth of advice on “interview preparation with a conservative slant,” “right wing message analysis of the Ambassador’s recent TV interviews” and an “explanation of right wing messaging.”
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Kevin Klein- Air Canada strike shows cost of Ottawa’s protectionism
When one or two players dominate an industry, every disruption becomes a national crisis, and the government ends up refereeing instead of letting the market do its job. That’s the bigger problem. We’ve built a country where too many sectors are protected from competition, and Canadians pay the price for it.
Most Corrupt?
Ann Coulter’s a bit upset with President Trump these days. She weighs in with her take on the Epstein files, the Ukraine war and why she wouldn’t want Vivek as President, among many other topics.
Russia, Russia, Russia
Whenever the timing is awkward, assume the timing is intentional;
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has released two emails that are significant not only for their content but for their timing, coming just two days before the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. The emails reveal that in late 2016, then-DNI James Clapper pushed the fraudulent narrative that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC), overriding pointed objections from then-National Security Agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers.
The timing matters because this very narrative — the claim that Russia had hacked the DNC to help President Trump — was used to sabotage the 2018 Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki. Just three days before that meeting, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian nationals on charges of hacking the DNC. The indictment was designed to create political chaos. Mueller knew that the 12 Russians were located in Russia and would never stand trial, meaning he would never need to prove the case. The result of the indictments was exactly what Mueller, his team, and any yet-to-be-identified co-conspirators intended: to sabotage the summit and effectively criminalize diplomacy with Russia.
h/t roaddog
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
To no one’s surprise: A veteran career intelligence officer who spent more than a decade working for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee repeatedly warned the FBI—beginning in 2017—that then-Rep. Adam Schiff had personally approved leaking classified information to smear then-President Donald Trump over the now-debunked Russiagate hoax.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital has learned.
Bondi personally ordered an unnamed federal prosecutor to initiate legal proceedings and the prosecutor is expected to present department evidence to a grand jury, which would allow the department to secure a potential indictment, according to a letter from Bondi reviewed by Fox News Digital and a source familiar with the investigation.
A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment on the report of an investigation but said Bondi is taking the referral from Gabbard “very seriously.” The spokesperson said Bondi believed there is “clear cause for deep concern” and a need for next steps.
America This Week is a good watch today on this, as always. In particular, spend a few minutes with this segment reviewing an Obama interview in December 2016.
Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review, on the Atrocious New York Times
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Chris Selley- What did we get for 100,000 new federal civil servants?
If I were PSAC, I would very much want to highlight the good all those extra public workers did for frontline services. I haven’t seen that; instead they focus mostly on the cuts themselves. So I asked the union for some examples.