Absolutely Malpractice and Incompetence, or Worse

[Offthemat]

The FBI is still hiding their corruption. 
 

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/08/01/deception_by_redaction_how_the_fbi_tried_to_hide_the_full_extent_of_fisa_abuses_using_fake_news_in_the_washington_post_969200.html

[Offthemat]

A short read of Andrew McCarthy’s piece in National Review.  Hat tip: Powerline. 
 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/the-biden-brand-racket.php

 

THE “BIDEN BRAND” RACKET

Andrew McCarthy’s weekly NRO column eludcidates “The ‘Biden brand’ racket.” It is educational and biting. He deserves a Pulitzer Prize for commentary of this quality week after week. The only problem is that it is kept behind NRO’s paywall.

Somebody really ought to arrange with NRO to let McCarthy’s columns run free. As the kid says in A Thousand Clowns, “And that’s my opinion from the blue, blue sky.”

What the heck is the “Biden brand”? McCarthy invokes his professional experience: “Such a nice word, brand. Not what we federal prosecutors in the Organized Crime Unit called it back in the Eighties. We were more inclined to say extortion. Or racketeering — say, running a protection racket, as in, ‘Nice business you have here, be a shame if anyone shut it down.’”

Referring to a work somewhat better known than A Thousand Clowns, McCarthy writes:

Pols like Joe Biden and their hangers-on — like Archer, his son Hunter’s partner in slime — don’t like to think of their “brand” as extortion. They’re more in the mold of Don Corleone’s equally ruthless but more progressive son, Michael, who swore that any year now the family business would become “completely legitimate.” In such “completely legitimate” businesses, the muscle to do extortion is the family’s “brand.” The brand’s stock-in-trade is “influence,” an aura of intimidation to which beleaguered businesses — including foreign “partners” connected to corrupt and anti-American regimes — buy “access.” That’s what they expect will protect them from the metastasizing peril of, yes, “regulation.”

If you doubt that, you can skip the 140 pages of Archer’s recent House Oversight Committee testimony and just watch the twelve-minute clip of his extraordinary interview with Tucker Carlson. These two contemporaries, who spent their formative years inside the Beltway, agree without hesitation that “the business of Washington is selling access.”

The twelve-minute clip is below. It is posted as part 1 of a two-part interview. Part 2 of the interview is over an hour long and is also available on the site formerly known as Twitter.

 

[Ban Basketball]

Defund the FBI (police)!

[Scouts Honor]

why can't it be all 3

[Scouts Honor]

australia is starting on its path to china.

china has a credit score system, which if you do some research is pretty nasty. (we are well on our path to that type of thing ourselves)

but australia is starting to try to go cashless.

talk about disenfranchising people

[Offthemat]

2 hours ago, Scouts Honor said:

australia is starting on its path to china.

china has a credit score system, which if you do some research is pretty nasty. (we are well on our path to that type of thing ourselves)

but australia is starting to try to go cashless.

talk about disenfranchising people

After all the trouble they had with lockdowns?

[Offthemat]

4 hours ago, Ban Basketball said:

Defund the FBI (police)!

Restructure and reform. 

[Plasmodium]

Best way to reform the FBI is to appoint a Democrat as director.

[Scouts Honor]

LOL