n the 1991 hit movie “Silence of the Lambs,” Clarice Starling (Jody Foster) follows her investigative instincts to a serial killer’s house to save a kidnap victim. With no back-up and overmatched by an adversary with tactical night vision, she overcomes her terror to hunt Buffalo Bill alone in total darkness. In 2019, on the […]
he mob streams past a “private property” sign conspicuously mounted on the gate enclosing a private community along the private street, Portland Place, in St. Louis. About 100 feet away, a barefoot Mark McCloskey emerges from the first house on the right. The privately owned sidewalk to the mayor’s house passes right by the McCloskey […]
ith no police or security within sight, Mark and Patricia McCloskey stood with their backs to their house wielding a small pistol and an AR-15. The “peaceful protest” featured a screaming scrum of hundreds smashing down the gate to a privately-owned neighborhood as they poured onto the privately-owned street just a few feet from the […]
throng of hoodies and tattoos storm the stairway leading to city hall. The shrinking gap between them and the riot police contracts until the moment of confrontation. Fear ripples across the line of uniforms. Emboldened, the mob surges another step. The uniformed officers take a knee and bow their heads. A disheveled mayor surrenders, offering […]
he first objective of a coup, uprising, insurrection, or revolution is to gain control of critical infrastructure. Plotters study maps of the capital to chart routes to television stations, military bases, and universities. They take precautions to prevent the military from intervening to protect the government. They move fast before popular resistance to the coup […]
ull up a chair. Our great civic father, Mitt Romney, graciously has offered to instruct America on racism. We mere ordinary Americans (racists) need the benefit of Romney’s superior wisdom, lest we succumb to our own warped natures and opinions. Worth somewhere around $250 million, the senator from Utah (by way of La Jolla, California) […]
n Friday June 12, 2020, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held a telephonic hearing on a petition for a writ of mandamus filed by Michael Flynn to seek an order forcing District Judge Emmet Sulivan to accept the government’s motion to dismiss. During the hearing, Judge Robert Wilkins revealed his impression of […]
ecently, Attorney General William Barr met with Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier in a surprisingly candid and wide-ranging interview during which he confirmed many of my observations about the FBI and Justice Department’s attempt to interfere with the 2016 election and the peaceful transfer of power from the Obama to the Trump Administrations. Although Barr […]
hile they were supposed to be on patrol to protect our nation’s capital from looters, a large group from the FBI’s Washington field office encountered a mob. Wearing their FBI insignia, sidearms, and tactical vests, they bent their knees in servitude to the movement sweeping the country and grasping at the levers of American power. […]
magine being in a poker game with the former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. If you lay a heavy bet on a hand he knows to be weak, a condescending grin will connect one ear to the other. You can easily tell when he thinks you’re stupid because he expresses contempt with his signature giggle […]
n November 8, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a young Polish-German Jewish man, shot German diplomat Ernst Vom Rath, the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris. The Nazi propaganda that followed blamed all Jews for Grynszpan’s attack. German news outlets, already under the spell of Nazi propaganda, willingly spread emotional and incendiary accounts with the […]
udge Emmet Sullivan on Monday responded to Michael Flynn’s request for an order from the court of appeals to force him to dismiss the case against President Trump’s former national security advisor. In the 46-page brief filed on Sullivan’s behalf, one fact stands out above the others, a stunning bombshell: the judge has not shown that […]
n the bowels of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a middle-aged bureaucrat with a clipboard and a hardhat pilots an electric cart past a row of gigantic printing machines as sheets of $100 bills blur through the rollers. He reaches a neatly-arranged cube of $100 bills looking for a Post-it note he placed earlier […]
nly “little people” go to jail for not paying taxes, notorious New York socialite Leona Helmsley is said to have quipped before being prosecuted for tax evasion. Helmsley wasn’t wrong, she just misjudged her status. Had she been an assistant U.S. attorney, she might have been right. Once again, the Department of Justice has protected […]
uthor Robert Fulghum once wrote, “All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.” In the exceedingly complex tale of the Michael Flynn prosecution, […]
n Tuesday May 19, 2020, Sidney Powell, the attorney for President Trump’s former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, filed a petition for a “writ of mandamus” with the D.C. Circuit of the Court of Appeals. The petition seeks, “a Writ of Mandamus ordering the district court to (1) grant the Government’s Motion to Dismiss with […]
he Atlantic recently produced a perfect example of how the news media corrupts the term “rule of law.” The prosecution of General Michael Flynn has always been a nakedly political chess move in the greater game to obstruct or reverse the peaceful transfer of power following the 2016 election. As I wrote before, “In the […]
told you so. In 2018, I wrote: “How long will the investigation into the 2016 cyber-intrusion into the Democratic National Committee servers remain open and ongoing? Perhaps forever. Because that’s how long the Department of Justice needs to thwart congressional oversight of the embarrassing details of the dubious origins of the investigation.” Of the many […]
ow that the Justice Department belatedly has admitted that the entire investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was a sham, it is time to turn to the bigger picture. On August 2, 2017, acting attorney general (for all matters involving the Trump-Russia collusion hoax) Rod Rosenstein signed a memorandum expanding the jurisdiction of […]
ditor’s note: The following is a letter of complaint to the D.C. Court of Appeals’ Board on Professional Responsibility, alleging federal prosecutor Brandon Van Grack violated several rules of professional conduct in making the government’s case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The Justice Department on Thursday dropped all charges against Flynn, who had […]