As he departed the Justice Department, Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a valedictory address in which he reiterated the main points of his office’s written investigative report. In doing so, he explicitly confirmed what many of us have recognized from the beginning, i.e., that the efforts of his handpicked team of Hillary Clinton acolytes comprised first, last and always a taxpayer funded exercise in political opposition research masquerading as a criminal investigation of Donald Trump. Regarding whether or not the president had obstructed the special counsel’s investigation of possible collusion with the Russians by the Trump campaign, Mueller cited the...
The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony which is scheduled for next week. They apparently think that he will support their claim that the president obstructed Team Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation. Here is my article which was just published on line by The American Spectator in which I outline how the Committee Republicans should cross-examine Mueller. If you want to read the article with reader comments on The American Spectator website click on this link. John Dowd’s Indispensable Work for President Trump | The American...
Historians tell us that in the final days of the Third Reich, as the Red Army surrounded the Berlin Fuhrerbunker, a crazed Adolf Hitler ranted, raved and issued increasingly irrational orders for non-existent Wehrmacht divisions to counterattack and repel the invaders. Even as Germany was being laid waste by the British and American armies advancing from the west and the Russians from the east, Hitler still appeared to believe that victory was within reach. After all, when he had started World War II, world domination by the Nazis had been all but certain. It had to have been inconceivable to...
The Mueller Report is a 448 page-long primal scream of rage by the frustrated Hillary Clinton acolytes who wrote it and who utterly failed in their anointed mission to (a) lure President Trump into a General Flynn-style perjury trap and/or (b) goad him into obstructing their faux investigation of non-existent Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Unable to find any evidence of actual criminality by the president, Team Mueller resorted to dirtying him up as much as possible for the benefit of their mainstream media and Democrat party fan clubs. This extra-prosecutorial exercise in character assassination was undoubtedly good group therapy...
Last week my friends at The American Spectator asked for my reaction to Attorney General Barr’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee in which he said that our federal government had spied on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. I sent them my last blog post (“Justice is Coming”) which I thought was pretty funny but not suitable for such a serious publication as TAS. The editors said that they would be interested in running an enlarged, more analytical version of “Justice is Coming”. So I wrote and submitted an expanded piece. TAS ran the result, set forth below, on...
Today The American Spectator published my analysis of the mainstream media’s canonization of disgraced and discredited former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who this week began hawking his new book in which he is the hero. According to Andy, under his intrepid leadership, your FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation of President Trump who, despite his many moves to thwart Vladmir Putin’s ambitions, may still be a secret Russian agent. Watching McCabe do the fawning, powder puff CBS and NBC interviews moved me to pose a few inconvenient questions along the lines of why should anyone believe anything that this guy...
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...
It’s been a busy time here. Today The American Spectator published my piece refuting the New York Times’ claim that the FBI started investigating President Trump after he fired FBI Director James Comey. Titled The FBI Prostituted Itself, you can link to it at the TAS website here or you can read it below. Also today, the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s website, Philly.com, published my commentary regarding the negative impact of Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax on supermarket sales in the city. You can link to it here or read it below after the TAS article. One Inky reader had a strong reaction...