What she said. Now it’s what FBI Director James Comey is claiming.
There’s an opportunity to feed that monster of a bias, that confirmation bias, all the time. So it accelerates that fractionalizing of our society, and it makes it much harder for people like me, like you, like the people in here, to speak reason to folks about our institutions.
Because of course. Or, the Left is projecting again.
This spreadsheet, via Grim’s Hall, speaks for itself (right click and Open in New Tab to get access to a larger image).
Recall that Governor Terry McAuliffe (D, VA) granted en masse a restoral of the right to vote to some 200,000 convicted felons, and the Virginia Supreme Court said Virginia law didn’t allow that: any such restoral had to come only after individual, case by case evaluation of each felon separately from any other felons.
McAuliffe replied that he “cannot accept” the ruling. He called it a “political decision” that “reminded” him of Bush v Gore and that the justices were “scared” of the legislature. He has since acted on his defiance by restoring rights to some 13,000 felons who had already registered to vote when the state Supreme Court’s decision invalidated his executive order.
McAuliffe also is insisting that he’ll restore the vote to the remaining 200,000 before he’s out of the Governor’s mansion.
In addition to that contempt of—and for—Virginia’s Supreme Court, his charge that the Supremes were scared is nothing but an FDR-esque effort to intimidate those Justices to rule more…suitably…in future.
The Wall Street Journal put it succinctly at the above link:
McAuliffe has nullified the Virginia Constitution’s guidelines on felon voting simply because he dislikes those rules.
And
At stake is whether an executive can first rewrite the law in defiance of the legislature and then do what he wants anyway in defiance of a court.
This is the risk we run from a Clinton extension in 2017 of the Democrats’ rule over our nation.
…that Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton intends to continue and to extend further.
Recall then-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama’s (IL) remark about millions of honest Americans—in front of an audience of 1%-ers in San Francisco:
And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Here’s Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton about millions of honest Americans—in front of an audience of 1%-ers, this time in New York:
[Y]ou could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the “Basket of Deplorables.”
Right? The racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it….
Now, some of those folks—they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
In fact, she’s not even waiting until she’s in office to extend this Party policy of character assassination and demeaning of anyone—millions of us—who don’t support her or her Democratic Party.
This is what the Democratic Party thinks of honest Americans today. Imagine how a Democratic Party that continues to rule over America in 2017 will treat us.
Recall that, of some 13 unsecured devices like Blackberries and iPads that Democratic Party Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used, along with her unsecured private email server, to conduct official and classified official State Department business, none of those 13 devices can be found. Not a single one of them. Two of those cell phones were “destroyed” with a hammer or by being broken into two pieces.
In addition to those…disappearances…a computer specialist employed by Platte River Networks, which was itself employed by Clinton to manage her email network, deleted emails that all the players involved, from Clinton and her immediate staff—Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills—on down through Platte River to and including the computer specialist, knew were under Congressional subpoena and order to preserve. Now this:
The Department of Justice reportedly gave immunity to a computer expert who deleted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails during its investigation into her private email server despite being ordered by Congress to keep them.
Understand that granting immunity, even by the Obama/Lynch DoJ, isn’t by itself a bad thing: immunity often is granted to an individual who might otherwise come under criminal investigation himself in order to get the immunized person to talk freely in the capacity of a witness to larger wrong-doing. I’ll come back to this point.
The New York Times has identified the immunized person of interest here as Paul Combetta. The NYT went on to say
Republicans have called for the department to investigate the deletions, but the immunity deal with the specialist, Paul Combetta, makes it unlikely that the request will go far.
The NYT, sadly, is probably right, but for reasons wholly unrelated to immunity. Such immunity also is occasionally granted in order to be able to compel the immunized person to answer investigator questions. Voluntarily, or involuntarily, Combetta certainly can answer investigator questions, even can give testimony at open trial. The immunization only protects him from prosecution based on what he says; it does not seal his lips.
That the FBI has at least many of those emails that had been deleted (unsuccessfully, as is beginning to be apparent) is clear from many of the FBI’s lately releases. That the FBI is as aware of the Congressional order as everyone else involved also is obvious.
Comey’s decision to not proceed on his own initiative is a whitewash. It’s every law enforcement officer’s duty to investigate criminal activity when he sees it; he doesn’t have to await a complaint from outside the agency to start, as Comey ludicrously told Senator Jason Chaffetz (R, UT).
But this is part and parcel of the Obama/Lynch DoJ’s and the Comey FBI’s whitewash of the whole Clinton email security failure. In the one case, they’re protecting one of their own, and in the other case, he’s protecting one of their own.
And so the NYT likely is right.
Comey’s crocodile tears in his internal, ‘twarn’t me” memo to his agents notwithstanding.