Knowledge is Good

The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General today issued the following notice: “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2018 DOJ OIG Announces Initiation of Review Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today that, in response to requests from the Attorney General and Members of Congress, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will initiate a review that will examine the Justice Department’s and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) compliance with legal requirements, and with applicable DOJ and FBI policies and procedures, in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relating to a certain […]

According to NBC News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team recently began asking witnesses “pointed questions” about whether Donald Trump was aware that the Democratic National Committee’s emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their “strategic release” during the presidential campaign. NBC states that the “line of questioning suggests the special counsel, who is tasked with examining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, is looking into possible coordination between WikiLeaks and Trump associates in disseminating the emails, which U.S. intelligence officials say were stolen by […]

Here’s former FBI Special Agent Robyn Gritz on Fox News discussing her hostile work environment created in part by recently fired Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Take a look and decide if she looks credible. I think she is. Note that she says McCabe lied about her. The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended that McCabe be fired for lying to investigators about his leak of information to the media. In his Washington Post op-ed, McCabe claimed that his incorrect answers to investigators had been inadvertent and due to confusion. But recall that McCabe had sent FBI agents to conduct a […]

KIG is honored to have its blog post about David Hogg of March for Our Lives offered as a Special Report in today’s The American Spectator. Here’s the link. Take a look. The readers comments are most interesting.

When the Obama administration was still in office, many gun stores across America featured a picture of the President with the caption “Gun Salesman of the Year”. And, in fact, while Barack Obama worked to “fundamentally transform America” which he deemed to be populated by too many “bitter clingers” to religion and guns, firearms sales reached record annual levels as the nation’s 90 million law abiding gun owners rightfully anticipated a renewed government effort to restrict their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Since Donald Trump’s election, however, gun sales have slumped. In a disappointing turn of events […]

Today’s The American Spectator features my article about Robyn Gritz, the female FBI Special Agent who was the first person in government brave enough to stand up to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Although readers of this blog will recognize much of the content, the Spectator article presents new material and a new marshaling of the emerging facts about McCabe and   his abuse of power.  

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has at long last fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Better late than never. Citing the investigation by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and “a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe” by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, Sessions terminated the former Deputy Director two days before his government pension vested. In his statement, Sessions stated that “Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions. “The FBI […]

If the Washington Post can be believed, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of purported collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia has entered The Twilight Zone. According to the Post, Mueller is investigating Erik Prince, former Navy SEAL and founder of the private security firm Blackwater. Based entirely on anonymous sources, the Post reports that in January 2017, nine days before Trump’s inauguration, Prince met with officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at a hotel in the Seychelles islands. While there Prince had a “backchannel” meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, a – wait for it – Russian. Originally, the Post […]

According to NBC News, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team recently began asking witnesses “pointed questions” about whether Donald Trump was aware that the Democratic National Committee’s emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their “strategic release” during the presidential campaign. NBC states that the “line of questioning suggests the special counsel, who is tasked with examining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, is looking into possible coordination between WikiLeaks and Trump associates in disseminating the emails, which U.S. intelligence officials say were stolen by […]

I had a wide range of investigative and prosecutorial duties as a special attorney with the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the Department of Justice in the 1970s. From trying cases in court and conducting grand jury investigations, to visiting crime scenes, developing confidential informants, and taking to the streets to locate and interrogate witnesses, I was privileged to work closely with the FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS and state and local police agencies. I also prepared numerous applications for court-ordered electronic surveillance and monitored the wiretap and bugging operations that followed. If we wanted authorization to plant a listening […]

In the late 1950s, when I was entering early adolescence, I became an amateur radio operator. It was like joining a very large audio-visual club whose geekiness was on steroids. Along with knowledge of electronics and Morse code, being a total techno-weirdo was an absolute pre-requisite. The world back then seemed to be a much larger place, and communicating with foreign countries via the short-wave spectrum was a challenging and random proposition. So it was fun and exciting to communicate by code or voice with hams in remote parts of the planet. At least at first. Unfortunately, the conversations were […]

In 1953, when I was a nine year old growing up in Georgia, I saw an ad in the back of Popular Mechanics or some similar magazine by Golden State Arms, a mail order firearms dealer in California. It announced the sale of surplus Russian Moisin-Nagant 7.62 mm bolt-action rifles with fifty rounds of ammunition for just $9.99 each. Wow! The rifle shown in the tiny ad looked cool, and the price was right. So, after robbing my piggy bank and without parental consultation, I sent a postal money order to California and waited. A month later, a Railway Express […]