With apologies to Mandy Patinkin, let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. 1. They’re poking the bear. It isn’t wise to poke the bear. In his 1937 book A History of Political Theory, George Sabine collected the…
Friday’s news brought the welcome report that U.S. Attorney John Durham, investigating possibly illegal misconduct by the FBI and CIA against the Trump campaign, is focusing on the FBI’s illegal acts in prosecuting President Trump’s first national security adviser, Gen….
The headline in the Hill read this way: FBI official discussed trying to get Flynn to lie in interview, ‘get him fired,’ notes show The story, as reported by John Bowden, says this: A handwritten note penned by an FBI…
It almost feels like May, and that means it almost feels like normal life might begin to return. In celebration, here is a virus-free Five Quick Things. 1. Joey Fingers finally begins to get his due (not really) All of…
Not too long ago, I was privileged to represent a former big city police officer who had been charged with raping two young women of questionable virtue. He had met one of them through an online site where, among other…
Much has been made as to whether the Mueller Report’s declining to charge anyone else with substantive criminal conduct, and the subsequent decision by A-G Barr & Deputy A-G Rosenstein declining to pursue obstruction of justice charges, collectively constitute an…
While much has been written about the entrapment of Michael Flynn by the ethically challenged Andrew McCabe and his accomplice Peter Strzok, little discussion has been devoted to the constitutionally dubious federal law under which he was charged. Most commentators…
Long ago, when my three wonderful daughters were in grade school, they regularly conversed over the telephone with a rather unique life coach. They called him “Uncle Al.” He was, in fact, a member of the Mafia and one of…
Now that the Mueller and related New York State sentencing memos are in for Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort — and with rumors increasingly circulating that the Mueller Investigation that was supposed to look into collusion between the 2016 Trump…