As Valentine’s Day approaches, it occurs to me that all of us should be grateful that Special Agent Peter Strzok, former second-in-command of FBI counterintelligence, got the on-the-job hots for FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Driven by urges the intensity of which they probably hadn’t felt since late adolescence, the eager paramours produced a most revealing and totally unsecure mountain of text messages. The latest tranche of their online correspondence provides a damning timeline regarding the FBI’s reaction to the discovery of Hillary Clinton’s classified emails on the laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner a/k/a Carlos Danger, the online pedo-perv married to...

Way back in 1972, 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 days of limited federal jurisdiction, we had a hard time processing what Dowd was...

Here’s a gem from The Onion, the humor magazine, that neatly sums up the opposition to releasing the Nunes memorandum. The Onion jokes that its release could undermine faith in massive, unaccountable secret government agencies. In this parody, FBI Director Wray warns that “it was essential that mutual trust exist between the American people and the vast, mysterious cabal given free rein to use any tactics necessary to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens or subvert religious and political groups.”  Very funny and well worth a look. When a humor magazine sums up your argument better than you can, it should...

  When veteran civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner sought the Democrat nomination for District Attorney of Philadelphia, he reportedly had the financial backing of progressive billionaire George Soros. Krasner, who has sued the Philadelphia Police Department approximately 75 times, seemed an unlikely candidate. But a $1.2 million contribution from Soros made Krasner unbeatable. Never before had a candidate for District Attorney had this much cash to take care of the ward leaders, the advertising and all the other expenses of a traditionally low voter turn out race. Krasner won the Democrat primary (the only poltical contest that counts in Philadelphia)...

  In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, I warn the President of the dangers in freely submitting to an interrogation by Team Mueller. All the television legal experts seem to agree that Trump must undergo questioning by the special counsel. Other commentators characterize Mueller as a square shooter. For the reasons set forth in my op-ed, I beg to differ and warn against the perjury trap that is being set. On the plus side, Team Mueller will have a monumentally difficult time trying to translate Trump’s word salad syntax into an indictable form of perjury.   Share this:LinkedInTumblrRedditEmailTelegramPrintPinterestTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading...