[Just the News] The Justice Department's chief watchdog said Thursday he was certain that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied on multiple occasions during an investigation and that the decision to fire him had nothing to do with politics.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz reacted to the Biden administration's decision to restore McCabe's pension years after he was terminated by the DOJ.
Horowitz told Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) that career officials, not political appointees, made the decision to fire McCabe back in 2018 for lying during a leak investigation.
"Mr. McCabe lied both under oath and not under oath on several occasions when he denied at various points certain facts and information, including who was the source of that leak," Horowitz testified.
"We stand by our findings," he added at another point in his testimony.
Asked if there was any pressure from then-President Donald Trump or other political officials that influenced the investigation or termination of McCabe, Horowitz answered: "Absolutely none."
Horowitz said he did not want DOJ or FBI officials to believe that just because McCabe got his pension back that employees can escape punishment for wrongdoing. McCabe just did that.
#1
McCabe's a Munchkin
But He's a Democrat Munchkin
They are 'in power' so
Hey, He's our Munchkin
and WE take care of our Munchkins
So He is untouchable and gets his benefits
no matter what ....
Sue Us, Middle Finger to You and Americans !
[FoxNews] Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., displayed a Hunter Biden painting during Thursday's House Judiciary hearing, asking Attorney General Merrick Garland how it could come close in value to two classical art pieces he also displayed.
The displays served as a lead-up to Buck asking Garland if he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Biden. Garland declined to answer, saying he wouldn't comment on pending investigations. When Buck told him he could comment on appointing a special prosecutor, Garland said he would take Buck's request "under advisement."
Buck showed Garland paintings by Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, costing $700,000 and $500,000, respectively.
"The third painting … is a Hunter Biden," Buck added to laughter. After Garland said he didn't recognize the painting, Buck said that particular painting sold for $500,000.
"Now, you may think that … when Hunter Biden is in such exclusive company that he would have a background in artistic training for example," he said.
"But you would be wrong if you thought that. And you might think that he had some sort of apprenticeship with a world-renowned artist but you would be wrong again if you thought that. Or perhaps that he has been selling his works for years – and again, unfortunately, you would be wrong."
Buck noted that Biden was selling his pieces for as much as $500,000. The New York Post previously reported that the gallery hosting Biden had received $500,000 in coronavirus relief.
As Buck noted, former President Obama's ethics czar expressed concern about the younger Biden's dealings.
"Hunter Biden should cancel this art sale because he knows the prices are based on his dad’s job," said former ethics chief Walter Shaub in July. "Shame on POTUS if he doesn't ask Hunter to stop."
Garland's department has reportedly started investigating Biden's finances.
Emails show that Hunter Biden offered to provide the 'analysis' to Alcoa in 2011, according to a report
Proposed to charge $80,000 for information on 'elite networks associated with oligarch Oleg Deripaska', founder of Russian aluminum giant Rusal, it is claimed
Deripaska is under investigation by federal prosecutors based in Manhattan
FBI agents raided Washington and New York properties linked to his family
#3
Never thought I'd see the day when a Russian thief becomes a man of stolid integrity when compared with our own sick depraved disgusting President & his family
#4
I'm curious to see if the offered analysis was in fact a US govt product, prepared for the Big Guy and then morphed into something Hunters sham company produced. I would be proof of everything we suspect, but I doubt it would ever see the light of day. Somewhere there is a thread to this....
#2
....WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too many Union rice bowls wold be upended if the Guard started to pick up the slack. Plus, transportation units (which is where you'd get the drivers) don't just sit around waiting for things to do; they transport stuff. If they're hauling containers full of Chinese made fidget spinners, they ain't hauling the things the military needs.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
10/22/2021 6:56 Comments ||
Top||
#3
This off-shore container ship anchoring is a bugger. But, let's see.... just permit me if you will, to jot down a list of current shelf shortages items. Just the obvious.
Let's begin with things like automotive chips, children's toys, meds, clothing and shoes, furniture and the like. Perhaps we can soon discover which items really need to be manufactured right here in the United States.
Probably an over simplification of the problem, but I have a simple mind.
#4
So Guard will have to prove vaccinations. 350,000 military have been dishonorably discharged so far. This is a pipe dream. Tractors used are required to be no older than three years to work California docks. Original reason for refusing entry was because Biden didn't want them bringing in Covid. Suppliers I have talked to are saying shortages and prices are only going to get much worse. Don't believe what I have said here. Just watch and see as these things worsen.
I must say here that I spoke to an old timer GP Doctor still active in his practice. Exposure is the key. Natural immunity is the answer. While another FP Doctor says he takes 10 different antibiotics because he is so exposed to people. Difference is the FP Doctor is at least 30 years younger that the other GP Doctor.
#5
Curious thing here that pharmaceuticals seem to be flowing fine. I spoke to a store owner Pharmacist about supply shortages. He has had no problems. That was yesterday. Long lines and hour waits at Pharmacies (CVS) giving appointment jabs however. Hour waits just to pick up prescriptions. That was local CVS. I suspect they want the Politicians cash cow healthy.
#10
$3,800 per container is now $17,000 to ship a container and deliver to its destination due to long supply chain delays because of labor shortages because socialist Biden admin will pay people not to work.
#12
^Perhaps air, McKessen being a big supplier. No inventories to speak of. Next day deliveries. Over 40% profit margin or used to be but could have been as much as 45% but that was years ago. Not lower than 40% for sure.
#13
Offshoring manufacturing base because of low per unit cost even after transportation was the key factor in the rush to China. CUrrency manipulation by the CHinese kept the game going until our capital investment in factories and production facilities was complete and domestic equivalents were closed. Now, a few decades later, poof, the per unit cost is far, far, greater than a domestic version, but the sunk cost of capital investment makes re-industrialization inside the US risky if democrats and marxists remain in power frequently. So, we have become a client state to the Middle Kingdom. This is how the long game is played folks, and our leaders are either complicit through corruption, or just sophomoric thinkers, ignorant and unable to see that this has been planned and developed by China and its allies here.
#14
Coupla points:
First, the TEU boxes have to be unloaded from the ships and stacked.
Then they get moved and sorted by forktruck into other stacks. Sometimes 1&2 get telescoped into one op, but that slows down ship unloading.
Third step, if it's local (less than say, 300 miles) it goes on a truck. There's a new Cal choke point here.
Alternately, and maybe also, for long range they have to be loaded on rail. In Cal, this is also a choke.
Meanwhile, the ships have to be reloaded with empty boxes to go back. The drop yards are full, and they're starting to park them on the streets. No kidding.
It ain't over by a long shot. Minimum 6 mos to clear this cluster.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/22/2021 16:33 Comments ||
Top||
#15
Also, Is the NatGd gonna drive the cranes?
Because that's the key link in this chain. One guy has to move (lift) one box at a time. And due to the overhead reduction in the system, there's not much in the way of spare crate operators. They don't train 'em, because they don't want them.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
10/22/2021 16:42 Comments ||
Top||
"Here's a simple plan that @POTUS and @GavinNewsom partnered with the private sector, labor, truckers, and everyone else in the chain must implement TODAY to overwhelm the bottleneck and create yard space at the ports so we can operate again.
1) Executive order effective immediately overriding the zoning rules in Long Beach and Los Angeles to allow truck yards to store empty containers up to six high instead of the current limit of 2. Make it temporary for ~120 days.
This will free up tens of thousands of chassis that right now are just storing containers on wheels. Those chassis can immediately be taken to the ports to haul away the containers
2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.
3) Create a new temporary container yard at a large (need 500+ acres) piece of government land adjacent to an inland rail head within 100 miles of the port complex.
4) Force the railroads to haul all containers to this new site, turn around and come back. No more 1500 mile train journeys to Dallas. We're doing 100 mile shuttles, turning around and doing it again. Truckers will go to this site to get containers instead of the port.
5) Bring in barges and small container ships and start hauling containers out of long beach to other smaller ports that aren't backed up. "
#17
^ This is exactly the kind of focused, logistical plan that OrangeMan could have organized and driven to successful conclusion (cf the lightning-speed vaccine development in 2020).
It's folly to expect President Magoo and Governor Brylcream to drive this anywhere but into a ditch.
[REDSTATE] Rep. Liz Cheney ...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as Republican royalty. A staunch Never Trumper, Liz supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Publicans dumped her from her leadership position in May 2021. Refusing to admit that she had trashed her own career, Cheney has said that she intends to be the leader... in a fight to help to restore our party and that she may be interested in a future presidential run.... (RINO-WY) claimed during the anti-Trump/Democrat Jan. 6 Committee proceedings that President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... exercising his executive privilege indicated that he was "personally involved" in planning the riot.
As we previously reported, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just nuked Cheney over that, pointing out that no one cares what Cheney has to say, which is certainly true, especially when she goes all-in with the Democrats.
But Cheney’s assertion also shows that she doesn’t care about basic rights and privileges established by our system. She’s actually saying that exercising one’s rights is an indication that someone is guilty, a very upending of those rights. And she has no evidence to back this up. It also shows what a joke the committee is — a completely biased effort. Some protecting of norms there, Liz.
As my colleague Mike Miller observed, Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The nincompoop who dumped Afghanistan. The copier doesdn't exist that could reelect him.... not fighting to protect that right is an indication, as well, of how political he is. He shouldn’t get to argue away President Donald Trump’s right.
Now, why if you are innocent would you still exercise these rights? Gee, I don’t know, maybe because we’ve seen what Democrats have done with the effort to attack Trump, actually spreading lies about Russia collusion. We know that anything, even something innocent, would be spun. The whole purpose of this isn’t truth — it’s about trying to attack Trump and keep him from running again.
But the whole argument also fails based on the information that we already know. As we previously reported, Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops to be available for Jan. 6 two days before. Why would he do that if he were personally involved in some kind of greater organized attack? That doesn’t even make any sense. Of course, on that day, he had urged people to act peacefully.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/22/2021 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Liz needs to take up sailing
That way it will come as no surprise
when she becomes an anchor ⚓
when the rope slips around her ankle
and she goes "GLUB" for the last time.
#2
A passing whale will swallow her up and spit her aground to remove her from the ocean due to acoustic noise she emits. Whales broadcast vast distances and her disruptive noise masks their efforts to communicate around the world.
#3
She is a daddies girl and is just repaying Trump for his comments about daddy! To hell with what she was elected to do! I a: sorry, but Trump caused his own problems and caused the ballot fraud.
Posted by: Da Cooky ||
10/22/2021 11:50 Comments ||
Top||
#4
She’s actually saying that exercising one’s rights is an indication that someone is guilty, a very upending of those rights.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Faux Republican hereditary congresswoman-for-life from Wyoming. She has been described as 
