Part II: Political corruption and cronyism at DOJ by William Barr

Following the op-eds by Mary McCord and Jonathan Kravis, more than 2000 (now 2300) former Justice Department officials have signed onto a  letter calling for Attorney General William Barr to resign over what they describe as his improper intervention in the criminal case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. More than 2K former … Read more

Part I: Political corruption and cronyism at DOJ by William Barr

Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department from 2016 to 2017, in a recent op-ed in the New York Times wrote, Bill Barr Twisted My Words in Dropping the Flynn Case. Here’s the Truth. At the direction of Attorney General Bill Barr, the Justice Department last week moved … Read more

Déjà vu: Trump administration is ‘cooking’ intelligence to politicize the intelligence agencies

Donald Trump has spent four years promoting a “deep state” conspiracy theory with which to undermine the U.S. intelligence agencies and the state department. He has removed virtually all of the career service personnel who led those agencies, out of retaliation for their having investigated his campaign’s numerous interactions with Russian operatives in the 2016 … Read more

Even the conservative National Review says Martha McSally is ‘foolish’

Andrew McCarthy at the National Review is having none of Arizona’s appointed, not elected Senator Martha McSally following the GOP’s playbook of blaming China for the Trump administration’s abject failure of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic. The Foolish GOP Proposal to Open China to American Lawsuits over COVID-19: Some terrible ideas never go away, especially ideas that … Read more