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Thursday, June 9, 2022

5 Questions That Must Answered Before The J6 Committee Begins Its Theatrical Production

Don’t expect answers from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Jan. 6 Committee weaponized to operate as a political witch hunt.

he House Committee on Jan. 6 will launch its dramatic summer hearings tonight in a prime time show trial produced by a former ABC News executive as desperate Democrats aim to shift the narrative ahead of the midterms.

The nine members of the Select Committee appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will introduce the panel’s findings and question a pair of witnesses while presenting graphic footage of the riot to a nationwide audience. Every cable network, except Fox News, will broadcast the proceedings in an arrangement sought by the partisan probe to elevate the evening’s drama shining light on a three-hour riot that happened more than 18 months ago.

Absent from the panel asking questions, however, will be any Republicans appointed by GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after Pelosi took the self-proclaimed “unprecedented” step of barring Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, from the probe. Instead, Pelosi hand-picked the most vocal pair of NeverTrump House members to serve in their place, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who serves as vice chair and was disowned by her own party.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik told reporters on a press call Tuesday the prohibition on minority-appointed members for the first time in congressional history renders the Select Committee illegitimate, as it was established in violation of House rules.

“This Committee is not about seeking the truth,” Stefanik said. Meanwhile, the committee established to probe the Capitol riot declares Pelosi’s own culpability off-limits in pursuit of prosecution against political dissidents. Former Donald Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro was the first to be indicted by the Justice Department last week based on committee conduct.

But before the Select Committee continues with a national soap opera for the cameras, here are five questions that must be answered:

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #456

They want him to cower and apologize. He didn't do that...

Armed man outside Kavanaugh’s home charged with attempted murder after confessing motive

The armed man who was arrested in the middle of the night on Wednesday near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s private home has been charged with attempt to murder a United States Supreme Court Justice, a Department of Justice affidavit revealed.

According to the document, U.S. Deputy Marshals saw Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, exit a taxi outside of Kavanaugh’s Maryland residence at approximately 1:05 a.m. on June 8.

Roske was dressed in all black clothing and was carrying a backpack and suitcase, which investigators later determine contained “a black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, paper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crow bar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items.”

After exiting the taxi, Roske looked at the two Marshals and then began walking down the street. Shortly thereafter, police received a call from a man identifying himself as Roske who “informed the call taker that he was having suicidal thoughts and had a firearm in...

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Accountability: Simone Biles, 89 others sue FBI for $1B over bungled Nassar probe

A group representing 90 young women — including U.S. Olympic team gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman — filed federal tort claims against the FBI on Wednesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages for the bureau’s mishandling of its investigation into sexual abuse by former U.S. Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar.

The majority of the claimants say Nassar abused them after his abuse was reported to the FBI in 2015, during a yearlong period in which no meaningful investigative action was taken and Nassar continued to sexually abuse young women and children. Many are athletes who were associated with the USA Gymnastics program or with Michigan State University, where Nassar maintained a clinic.

The Justice Department announced just before the Memorial Day weekend that the individual FBI agents whom the inspector general identified as responsible for the failure of the investigation — and for subsequent attempts to mislead investigators for the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General — would not face charges.

That in itself caused considerable outrage on Capitol Hill. The inspector general that first probed the FBI’s response to allegations of sexual abuse by Nassar concluded not just that the investigators bungled the probe but that they then lied about their actions to investigators. That it itself is a criminal offense, which raised questions about why the DoJ declined to pursue the matter further:

The Justice Department’s Criminal Division initiated a new review of the agents in October, just months after the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General found the pair had failed to address claims by gymnasts that Nassar had sexually abused them “with the urgency that the allegations required.”

The report further suggested that the two agents lied to investigators to “make it appear that they had been diligent in responding to the sexual abuse allegations.” …

“This decision is infuriating. FBI agents who knew of Larry Nassar’s abuse, did nothing, and then lied about it will face no legal consequences for their actions,” Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., said in a joint statement.

“Our frustrations are compounded by the fact that the Department has provided no public explanation for this decision,” they added. “As we have noted before, the Justice Manual authorizes a case-closing letter explaining the Department’s decision-making in similar situations, especially where law enforcement officers are accused of misconduct or criminal behavior. This case certainly qualifies for such treatment.”

Put simply, this decision is a disgrace. It smacks of a continuing cover-up in the DoJ in the Nassar case, or at the very least a desire to prevent accountability for failures. One has to wonder whether the fact that this failure took place under the Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch-era FBI — and the James Comey FBI, for that matter — has something to do with the Merrick Garland-Joe Biden era DoJ’s reluctance to hold people accountable for it.

If Biles et al can’t get accountability through the DoJ, they naturally want to turn to the judiciary for satisfaction. But will it work? The statute under which this lawsuit will proceed may...