If you wanted to calumniate a political enemy but shield the smear from scrutiny, then any accusation including the words “nuclear” and “secrets” likely would accomplish those twin aims. Neither press nor public will ever gain access to the documents…
Monday’s shocking images of police sirens blaring outside Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s magnificent Palm Beach, Florida, estate, will not soon be forgotten. Much has already been said and written about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago that precipitated those sirens:…
It’s quite remarkable to watch a once revered and legendary organization metaphorically slit its own throat in public. But that’s exactly what happened when the FBI raided President Donald Trump’s Florida home purportedly to retrieve official Trump administration documents. The…
Republican Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said that the FBI seized his cellphone on Tuesday while he was traveling with his family. According to Perry, a trio of FBI agents approached him with a warrant and demanded that he hand…
Mark the date 8/8. The American Republic became a Banana Republic on Monday in the eyes of many conservatives in the same way many liberals imagined the nation averting such a fate on 1/6. The Federal Bureau of Investigation raided…
The Michael Sussmann trial has shed light on the partisan clown show James Comey ran at the FBI. The trial so far is not an indictment of the FBI’s little fish — the nonpartisan agents in the trenches who suspected…
This is another in a series of articles about Watergate people and events as the 50th anniversary of that scandal unfolds. April 7, 1972, is not seen as significant in Watergate lore, but it may be the most important “action-forcing”…
Webster’s dictionary defines “Potemkin village” as “an impressive façade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition.” So it is that the adjective “Potemkin” is used to characterize any artifice contrived to deceive others into thinking that things are…
Opposition research conducted by the government? What a terrifying thought. The very idea that those in power would somehow become so sure of themselves and their right to power that they would direct government agents to conduct research against political…
“From the FBI’s unprecedented counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, to state defiance of the president’s federal immigration law, to media partisanship, to the drive-by character assassination of Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the president’s foes have thrown aside…
