Democrats demand William Barr recuse himself from Ukraine ‘matters’
According to this story the Democrats are taking a page right out of the Russia investigation playbook–which went nowhere and cost millions of dollars–and are demanding William Barr recuse himself from all things Ukraine. Here is more:
“Impartial enforcement of the law is essential to give the American public confidence in the Justice Department’s work. Your personal connection to these matters creates the appearance of a conflict of interest and gives rise to questions about whether the Department is being used to advance the president’s personal interests,” the letter states.
“We request that you recuse yourself and identify the appropriate official who will be responsible for these matters. We also request that you confirm whether you consulted Department ethics officials regarding recusal and provide copies of any ethics guidance that Justice Department officials have provided in connection with these matters,” it adds.
Did you notice the same thing that I noticed? The letter does not claim William Barr has any type of conflict of interest, it just claims that there is the “appearance” of a conflict of interest. That is quite a difference isn’t it? Now we are supposed to judge and act on looks?
It is interesting to note this comes a day after we learned William Barr’s Spygate investigation is now a criminal investigation, it gives the appearance that the Democrats might be afraid of where it leads. (See what I did there?)
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Move over Ukraine, Joe Biden has a Romania problem
It looks like Joe Biden’s alleged influence peddling in the Ukraine problem is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to his dealings in foreign nations. According to this story Joe Biden’s son might have been up to some shady work in Romania as well. Here is more:
In the final year of the Obama administration, an American lawyer traveled to Romania to meet with a businessman accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal.
Care to guess who that American lawyer was…
The businessman was Gabriel “Puiu” Popoviciu, a wealthy Romanian real estate tycoon. The lawyer brought in to advise him was Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden’s work for Popoviciu in 2016 went unreported at the time, but Joe Biden’s involvement in Romania was very much public. The vice president was among the leading voices pushing the government to crack down on corruption.
“We don’t know what [Hunter Biden] was paid or what he was paid for but it does raise questions of whether this Romanian individual facing criminal charges was actually paying for a connection to the American vice president,” said Kathleen Clark, a Washington University law professor who specializes in government ethics.
Do you find it as interesting as I do that this meeting went unreported? You know what this means as well as I do. It is only a matter of time before a “whistleblower” comes out with the details of a nefarious conversation between Donald Trump and a Romanian official…
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Sunday, October 20th open thread: ‘Rainbow in the Dark’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Here is Dio performing “Rainbow in the Dark” live in 1983:
Inspector General report on FISA abuses delayed again
Let me show you my shocked face. The Inspector General report on the alleged FISA abuses which led to the Russia investigation, which was supposed to come out in May before being delayed until September and beyond, was finally due to be released at the end of this week but, alas, it has been delayed again.
And according to this story the delay has to do with some infighting over what is going to be redacted. There is always an excuse and this is just the latest one. The only question I have at this point is, what is going to be the excuse the deep state uses at the end of the month when we learn about another delay?
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ABC caught pretending gun range video was Syria bombing the Kurds
It has been interesting to watch the anti-war Democrats of the Obama era morph into war-mongers since Donald Trump became the President in 2016. The latest example of this came in the wake of the President’s announcement he was pulling a few dozen troops out of Syria.
In an effort to show how wrong Donald Trump was in pulling out of Syria, ABC ran a piece about how Syria was attacking the Kurds because the United States had abandoned them. The story was completed by a video in the background showing the devastating bombing. Or at least that was what ABC wanted its viewers to believe because it turns out that video was not from Syria at all, in fact the video turned out to be two years old and it was taken at a gun range in Kentucky. ABC has removed the video and apologized, here is more:
ABC News on Monday removed a video which the network presented as Turkish military forces attacking Kurdish fighters in northern Syria — amid reports that the footage may, in fact, be from a U.S. gun demonstration.
The footage, which ABC News purported was of an attack on the border town of Tal Abyad, was aired Sunday on World NewsTonight and Good Morning America on Monday morning. However, a comparison by Gizmodo shows the video was captured at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky back in 2017.
“[I]t’s clear that the videos are the same,” said the website.
[W]e’ve taken down video that aired on World News Tonight Sunday and Good Morning America this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error,” a press representative for the network said.
First of all, this was not an “error” and in the second place it did not “appear to be from Syria.” The truth is that this was done on purpose and the network wanted it to appear as if this was from Syria. This video is two years old and ABC had it hanging around their studios, they had to have known it was not new video and it was not being fed from Syria but they used it anyway because they had propaganda to present to the American people.
This shows you how low the left will go to promote its agenda, they have no scruples and this is a prime example of why so many people no longer trust the mainstream media.
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