On February 16, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a federal indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies for conspiring to wage “information warfare” by “impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to enable Defendants to interfere with U.S. political processes, including the 2016 presidential election.” The indictment was heralded by the media as a major achievement by Team Mueller. But a few observers questioned whether Mueller truly expected any of the defendants to appear in a U.S. court to answer the charges. Others asked if the indictment was...
The above picture shows my wife’s Uncle Charlie landing on Utah Beach seventy-four years ago today. He is the soldier in the right foreground. He made it off the beach and fought across France and into Germany before the war in Europe ended. Despite being in the thick of the fighting, he survived and returned home to raise a family and live in peace. Like most of his generation of war fighters, Uncle Charlie said very little about his combat experiences. One day, however, over drinks, he quietly reflected that “D-Day in Normandy was the noisiest day of my life....
This morning, out of the blue, I received a request from an editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer for an opinion piece about President Trump withdrawing the White House invitation to the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. It’s just been published online and will be in the print edition tomorrow morning. As you may imagine, Trump’s action has been condemned by one and all in the frenzied Philadelphia media market. Take a look at the post of my article on Philly.com (the Inky’s website). I approve of the president’s actions, and so far half my email traffic from the devoted Inky...
In the early 1970s, when I was a freshly minted Special Attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Justice Department, my fellow newly hired colleagues and I attended a lecture at Main Justice given by John Dowd, a well-regarded veteran prosecutor. His topic was the then little known and almost never used Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Dowd explained in detail the vast sweep of the statute and described the mind-boggling powers that Congress had conferred on us. In those long gone days of limited federal jurisdiction, we had a hard time processing what...
In January 2018, President Trump’s lawyers wrote to Special Counsel Robert Mueller setting forth the reasons why the President is not subject to interrogation by Mueller and his band of Hillary Clinton supporters. Here’s the link. It is long, detailed and well footnoted. Basically it takes the position that Mueller cannot demonstrate a compelling need to interview the President since the information to be obtained by questioning Mr. Trump has already been made available through alternative sources. Trump’s lawyers argue that, under applicable case law, without being able to demonstrate such a compelling need, Mueller cannot compel the President to...
Today Fox News published an opinion piece by my friend Kevin Ferris titled The incredible ceremony honoring ALL who have served — even those veterans with no family to mourn for them. Here’s the opening part: It’s the last Thursday of the month. By 1:30 p.m. on this blue sky April afternoon, the faithful are lining up behind the administration building of the Washington Crossing National Cemetery in Bucks County, Pa. “Here for the ‘Unattended’?” one man asks another. “Unattended” is shorthand for an act of grace on the part of the cemetery’s staff, its volunteers, and hundreds of other...
Three weeks ago I had a stroke. Fortunately, it was a mild one, and I’m fully recovered. But let me share with you the details so that, hopefully, you will have a better idea than I did about what to do if it ever happens to you. My risk factors were almost non-existent. Although for years my diet has been that of an adolescent carnivore, my cholesterol and blood pressure have always been low. I exercise moderately, am slightly overweight, and do not have diabetes or a history of heart disease. I have one definite risk factor which is my...
Pictured above is the 28 foot high bronze sculpture Angel of the Resurrection which stands in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. It portrays Michael the Archangel lifting up a dead soldier from the flames of war. At its base are two inscriptions which read: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY 1941-1945. THAT ALL TRAVELERS HERE MAY REMEMBER THOSE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD WHO DID NOT RETURN FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR. There are four bronze plaques listing the 1,307 names of the dead. The memorial was dedicated in...
Today The American Spectator published my column on the strange coincidences surrounding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal charges against former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos under the title The Papadopoulos Affair: Such a Downer. (The above picture is of former President Bill Clinton and former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer taken in 2006 when they did a deal to funnel Australian tax dollars into the William J. Clinton Foundation.) I do a lot of speculating in the piece, but it raises many questions that should be asked if a responsible adult is ever tasked with investigating what happened to Papadopoulos...
The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) is about to issue its report blowing the lid off the corrupt plan by James Comey’s FBI and Obama’s Justice Department to save Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy by clearing her of criminal responsibility despite overwhelming evidence that she had been grossly negligent in transmitting national security secrets over her private, unsecured email server. It is expected that the OIG will also address to some extent the FBI and Justice Department’s equally corrupt efforts to frame Donald Trump for allegedly colluding with the Russians. This latter area will most likely be covered more...
On January 12, 2017, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) announced that it would examine the following issues: Allegations that Department or FBI policies or procedures were not followed in connection with, or in actions leading up to or related to, FBI Director James Comey’s public announcement on July 5, 2016, clearing Hillary Clinton of criminal responsibility for her grossly negligent mishandling of national security information on her unsecured private email server, and the Director’s letters to Congress on October 28 and November 6, 2016, by which he re-opened and then promptly re-closed the investigation, and that certain underlying...
KIG is again honored to be featured in The American Spectator which published KIG’s last post Dog Catches Car – Now What? under the title Robert Mueller’s Gaping Self-Inflicted Wound. And while you’re on the TAS website, be sure to check out today’s leading article by George Neumayr entitled John Brennan’s ‘Exceptionally Sensitive’ Issue which begins with this trenchant observation: “Under John Brennan, the CIA operated as an opposition research outfit for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It appears from leaked news stories in the British press that Brennan’s oafish spying on Trump began around April 2016, right after Trump’s biggest primary...
On February 16, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a federal indictment of 13 Russian nationals and 3 Russian companies for conspiring to wage “information warfare” by “impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of the United States by dishonest means in order to enable Defendants to interfere with U.S. political processes, including the 2016 presidential election.” According to the indictment, in 2014 the defendants, posing as U.S. persons, contacted American political and social activists on social media sites. Using information derived from these contacts, they structured disinformation operations to be used in the upcoming presidential election. Once the presidential...
Today The American Spectator published KIG’s post Endless Justice and the Murder of Daniel Faulkner under the headline Mumia Abu-Jamal, Back in Motion subtitled The Left’s favorite convicted cop killer launches another appeal in a Philadelphia court. An honor as always and the readers’ comments are as usual very interesting. In addition, be sure to read The Passion of Jordan Peterson in Esquire’s online edition. If you are not familiar with Peterson, search his name on YouTube and take a look. He’s a fascinating, intelligent clinical psychologist and author of the best seller 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos....
The trial evidence was stark and brutal. In the early-morning hours of December 9, 1981, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner conducted a traffic stop in Center City Philadelphia. A scuffle ensued with the driver, one William Cook. After subduing the driver, Faulkner began to search him for weapons. It was then that Cook’s brother, Wesley, approached from behind and shot Faulkner in the back. As Faulkner fell, he managed to shoot — but not incapacitate — Wesley. Then, as the grievously wounded officer lay helpless on the cold pavement, Wesley Cook, also known as Mumia Abu-Jamal, executed him with a close-range shot to...