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19 Sep 2018, 7:19 am
The phrase..spread beyond the limits of the minstrel performance, and when a scapegoat was alluded to, it was in the name of ‘Patsy Bolivar’..the one who is always blamed for everything.My favorite "patsy" quote is — "Patsy" being a nickname for Patti/Patty — something Patti Smith sang about Patty Hearst:And I was standin' there in front of that flagWith a car bomb between my legsYou know, I felt so free of death beyond meI felt so free, the… [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 3:43 am by SHG
She demanded an F.B.I. investigation instead, which would not only serve to delay the confirmation vote for Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps until after the midterm elections when the Democrats could possibly gain a majority in the Senate and pull off a Merrick Garland of their own, but offered the best possibility of making something real out of claims that were not going to stick. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 6:19 pm by Elie Mystal
People are already saying that the F.B.I. can add nothing to the story, which is just one of the many dumb takes I've heard this hour. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 6:04 pm
But if you don’t want the hearing to be just a ‘he said, she said’ affair, an independent investigation, a background check by the F.B.I., is essential.... [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 4:59 am
Does the status "former F.B.I. agent" convey professionalism and aloofness from partisanship? [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 3:44 am by SHG
Ford’s husband and her therapist — an F.B.I. investigation followed by hearings wouldn’t take very long. [read post]
1 Sep 2018, 10:30 am by Jen Patja Howell
” The newspaper speculates that this may be because of the political environment in the United States, an environment in which the president tweets about the intelligence community and the Steele dossier, and the House Intelligence Committee goes after human sources and outs them: “[O]fficials also raised the possibility that the outing of an F.B.I. informant under scrutiny by the House intelligence committee—an examination encouraged by President… [read post]
20 Aug 2018, 6:46 am by Joy Yusi
They'll be back Monday Manafort judge says he has received threatsJudge Bars Statements Made by Guantánamo Detainees During F.B.I. [read post]
Family members of eight of the Sandy Hook victims, plus an F.B.I. agent who was a first responder at the shooting, have filed a total of three defamation lawsuits against Jones. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 11:52 am by Victoria Clark
” The timing of the President’s tweet is striking given the New York Times report last week that the special counsel is now looking at “tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the former F.B.I. director James B. [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 7:36 am
" ("'I always dreamed I’d spend my retirement surrounded by my grandchildren, telling them that the F.B.I. were fascist pigs,' Carol Foyler, a former hippie who lives in Santa Cruz, said. 'That dream has been shot to hell.'"). [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 10:34 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Mueller III, is scrutinizing tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the former F.B.I. director James B. [read post]
  The F.B.I. learned of Carpenter’s involvement from his confederates who gave the FBI Carpenter’s cell phone number. [read post]
24 Jun 2018, 6:42 am
Yet many Trump voters said that they no longer had the patience or interest to listen to what they see as another hysterical outburst by Democrats, Republican “Never Trumpers” and the media....For many Republicans, the audio of children sobbing at a migrant detention center barely registered, because these voters don’t pay attention to the left-leaning and mainstream media that have covered the family separation crisis far more than their preferred channel, Fox News....Others said… [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 8:50 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Says Comey Was Insubordinate in Clinton Inquiry: “The former F.B.I. director James B. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 9:00 am by Josh Blackman
” The Supreme Court, Savage writes, has upheld certain limits on the president’s ability to fire certain officers, but has not considered “whether statutes outlawing obstruction of justice implicitly constitute such a [permissible] limit on when a president can fire an F.B.I. director. [read post]
4 Jun 2018, 11:12 am by Sandy Levinson
Is it unconstitutional for Congress to criminalize tax evasion (or even more certainly, lying to an F.B.I. agent as was done by Martha Stewart)? [read post]