[SARA] Special Counsel Robert Mueller released his highly redacted and anticipated memo Tuesday, recommending a lenient sentence for former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and no jail time. The memo noted that "the defendant’s substantial assistance and other consideration" was the reason Mueller recommended the lenient sentence for the retired Army three-star general.
The six-page memo went on to state that ’a sentence at the low end of the guideline range, including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration ‐ is appropriate and warranted."
According to the memo, Flynn sat for 19 interviews with the Special Counsel but the Mueller memo didn’t disclose what "substantial" information the former short-term National Security Advisor provided to the Department of Justice.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC, who has been at the forefront of Congressional investigations into the FBI’s handling of the Russia probe, told this reporter late Tuesday that it’s what’s not in Mueller’s recommendations that reveal "they didn’t have anything in the sentencing guidelines that show Flynn colluded with Russia."
"It took nearly two years for Robert Mueller to come to the same conclusion that President Trump got to several months after Flynn was charged ‐ that Flynn is a good man and didn’t collude," said Meadows. Meadows noted that the term "substantial cooperation" is a legal phrase that is necessary to include in the sentencing recommendation "in order to get a reduced sentence from the court."
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when the Mueller team turned the screws to Flynn and his family and with the cost of defending himself prohibitive, he chose the course of least resistance
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IOW, Mueller spent the last 18 months spinning his wheels, wasting taxpayer money, feeding the media empty calories and making a monumental fool of himself.
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IOW, Mueller spent the last 18 months spinning his wheels, wasting taxpayer money, feeding the media empty calories and making a monumental fool of himself.
The Clinton's, DWS, the Awan Bros, Comey, MI6, Strzok-Page, and others needed valuable recovery time. Mueller and the media happily assisted.
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"It took nearly two years for Robert Mueller to come to the same conclusion that President Trump got to several months after Flynn was charged ‐ that Flynn is a good man and didn’t collude,"
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Abu, according to Google, there is no statute of limitations for treason.
On the other hand, the Constitutionan defines treason as levying war against the United States, adhering to their enemies, or giving aid and comfort to their enemies. Forget treason as a charge.
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Seems things are winding down, does anyone know when Mueller will drop his report?
[Business Insider] *French President Emmanuel Macron rebuked US President Donald Trump last month for putting the interests of US citizens above demonstrating moral values. *Three weeks later, Paris was set ablaze by thousands of working-class protesters who objected to Macron promoting an environmentally friendly fuel tax. *Macron is about half as popular in France as Trump is in the US. Macron has set himself up as the enemy of nationalist leaders across Europe, but they're more popular than him. *The Trump administration on Tuesday called for European countries to ditch the leadership of the United Nations and the European Union and instead to join the US in putting the interests of their own citizens first. *As Macron backpedals on his high-minded fuel tax without appeasing the protesters, it looks as if Trump is having the last laugh.
French President Emmanuel Macron stood at the Arc de Triomphe last month and rebuked President Donald Trump's "America First" policy at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
It was a move that, by all accounts, infuriated Trump.
Trump went home from Paris being roundly mocked for the wide perception that he had let rainfall keep him from honoring fallen soldiers, and he fumed at Macron on Twitter. Actually, the Secret Service determined it was too risky for the chopper ride, but he should've overriden that
But three weeks later protesters stormed the monument in central Paris in a massive, violent riot that saw it defaced with slogans calling for Macron's resignation and leaving the statue of Marianne, the symbol of France's revolution, with its face smashed in.
"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism," Macron said on November 11. "Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first, who cares about the others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it great and what is essential: its moral values." *sniff*
His remarks were widely seen as a slap in the face to Trump. But they fell on deaf ears, even among his countrymen.
France's lower and middle classes in the intervening weeks launched a massive mobilization that saw 36,000 marching in colors in the street.
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Macron is a brain dead empty suit. There is no satisfaction in beating him, just filthy residue from having wrestled at all.
h/t Instapundit
Online Jewish magazine Forward acknowledges that there has been a string of attacks against Jews in Brooklyn, but are those attacks really about anti-Semitism? Our guess would be yes, but apparently, we’re wrong.
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Forward, as its name implies, is a leftist rag with Jewish content.
It is a battleground with some columnists being apologists for the BLM, BDS and other anti Semite infested movements and some columnists criticizing those movements
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[Washington Examiner] The late President George H.W. Bush’s funeral service and related ceremonies could cost American taxpayers around a half-billion dollars in lost productivity and wages for federal workers and other expenses.
Bush, who passed away on Nov. 30 at age 94, will be laid to rest on Thursday at his presidential library in College Station, Texas.
Following tradition for presidential funerals, the federal government shut down on Wednesday and the 41st president’s casket was transported across the country on Air Force One for a public viewing in Washington, D.C.
The paid holiday for federal workers ‐ including Congress and the U.S. Postal Service ‐ could cost taxpayers upwards of $450 million, according to estimates.
A 2008 analysis by the National Taxpayers Union found that federal holidays cost taxpayers around $450 million per day in holiday pay and lost labor. That figure is based on 2004 U.S. economic data. The figure is not adjusted for inflation, and federal salaries and the federal workforce have grown since then, making it almost certain the estimate is low.
Presidential funerals ‐ which take years of government planning ‐ are traditionally expensive affairs.
Taxpayers paid $423 million for federal workers to take the day off for former President Ronald Reagan’s funeral in 2004, according to a UPI report.
For Bush, President Trump authorized the modified Boeing 747 that serves as Air Force One to fly from Washington to Houston this week to pick up Bush’s casket and bring it to the Capitol for a public viewing in the Rotunda.
The presidential plane, which also carried former President George W. Bush and other Bush relatives, made a return flight to Houston on Wednesday. Flight costs for the two round-trip Air Force One trips between Houston and Washington, D.C. ‐ which runs at more than $200,000 per hour ‐ could add up to at least $2 million in travel expenses.
The use of Air Force One is in line with previous presidential funerals. In 2004, George W. Bush authorized the plane to transport Reagan’s casket.
Other ceremonial flourishes for George H.W. Bush, such as a 21-plane military flyover honoring the late president’s service in the Navy during World War II, could tack on another $126,000.
These estimates don’t include other likely costs that will be difficult to assess until after the funeral ‐ such as increased security and Secret Service protection for the high-profile political attendees in Washington, D.C., and Texas.
It also doesn’t include nebulous costs, such as opportunity losses at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, which both closed shop on Wednesday to honor the late president. The shutdown of the U.S. Postal Service during the busy holiday season could also impact American businesses that rely on its services.
Bush funeral - not a problem, per MSM
Obama travel - not a problem, per MSM
Trump travel - a problem, per MSM
Medicare for all (every dime you have) - not a problem, per MSM
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Different but related: Has Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Industry balanced out costs to the Republic of Kennedy Assassination?
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"lost productivity for federal workers"
Ummmm
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If Leonard Nemoy had been a lifelong government worker of the elite caste when he died, they would have placed his body on ice, sent it aboard the Enterprise, and sailed around the world at flank warp speed.
Marking the day, remembering an era, I get that. This adoration, out wailing the previous adoration, I find embarrassing. Especially for that late merely senator who was for whatever reason akin Liam Neeson being picked as an action hero, had set the bar of wailing.
Public viewing? I hear some sort of whistlestop tour? Leave the man some dignity.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[SARA] Special Counsel Robert Mueller released his highly redacted and anticipated memo Tuesday, recommending a lenient sentence for former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and no jail time. The memo noted that "the defendant’s substantial assistance and other consideration" was the reason Mueller recommended the lenient sentence for the retired Army three-star general.
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