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Jul 22, 2018 12 tweets 5 min read Read on X
The #Podcasters3 don’t have a law degree between much less Nat Sec law experience and it shows. If they would like to have a debate w/ me and say @AndrewCMcCarthy and @KurtSchlichter we could perhaps make a dent in their collective ignorance regarding assertion v evidence. 1
Until then they can carry on not understanding that the files released do not support a FISA warrant against Page, but that the redacted portions might, though if those portions did, it would be hard to see why the Obama DOJ both padded and misled the FISC re provenance of 2
Steele Dossier. The Catholic Church has a doctrine of “invincible ignorance” —catholic.com/magazine/print…— which may pardon them here. They r burdened by a presidency that, w/ it’s #FantasyLeagueForeignPolicy, is summarized by references to “leading from behind,” red line, Libya, 3
Egypt, Syrian genocide, 60+ NORK nukes, Crimea, + sequestration. It is easier to string together assertions mixed with snarling personal attacks than explain how this five star collapse of American leadership culminating in transfer of a billion in small bills to Iran w/ #JCPOA 4
justifies a ticket to see the trio of echo chamber conductors avoiding the legacy in which they share. The silent ruins of Syria alone one would think sufficient to humble them all. The president I worked 4 defeated the USSR, + did so despite the domestic + European opposition 5
of a left that at least had the excuse of not understanding that appeasement was not the only option against a threatening, terror-exporting regime. I don’t know if they teach Cold War history at Holy Cross, Kenyon and Williams but you wouldn’t know it from these 3. Those 6
institutions apparently don’t teach logic or argument either. Somehow Tommy picked up the term Magna Carta which is a start. Only 800 years 2go towards historical literacy. The best news is that an IG report is coming on the FISA warrant. The IG will have had the opportunity to 7
review the redacted portions and render findings which I’ll accept and given my position won’t embarrass me but may perhaps embarrass those attempting to distort the release yesterday into a victory of some sort. The echo chamber won’t work this time or then. Nor will snark or 8
invective or any other cheap trick like “the ‘80s called.” They can’t outrun the record they assisted in compiling. And, to borrow from Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, they can’t put in what God and the FBI left out —namely evidence other than #SteeleDossier. If it’s there, IG 9
will exonerate the warrant applicants. If it’s not, the IG will let us know. The conclusory “logic,” feigned outrage, preening and amusing condescension of the #Podcasters3 isn’t going to end even if IG name checks them. There isn’t any audience on the left for admissions 10
against interest —another term certain to confuse them. But their almost frenzied effort to puff the warrant and pre-empt the serious review of its flaws tells anyone with eyes to read or ears to hear to look forward to the IG report. Here’s @charlie_savage story: 11
nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/… Read it closely for any indication that released documents provided evidence other than Steele Dossier. Evidence. Not assertions.

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Oct 6, 2018
I invite and welcome @sbg1 on my show almost weekly because she’s a smart, I formed, funnily liberal, but her conclusion in this piece —“For his part, Kavanaugh will take a seat on the Supreme Court forever shadowed by allegations that few will believe fully disproved”— is wrong.
In a nation of 330 million a few percent will always talk about the allegation as though it met the minimum standard @SenatorCollins described, but there will be no shadow as that will be a distinctly #BlueBubble point of view. @SenatorCollins spoke for the fair minded and the
reasonable, not those bent by ideology, and insisted that accusations must meet the “more likely than not” standard we live our lives by every day. The noise from the left, indeed the screaming of the mob, hates that standard, but it saved #JudgeKavanaugh and his reputation is
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1. What follows are my show notes from first 2 hours of this AM’s show. 26 callers, all first time callers, all women. We screen out only drunk/crazy people. ALL of them want #JudgeKavanaugh confirmed. Many furious at his treatment:
Meredith in LA✅
Lucy in New York✅
2. Connie in San Antonio✅
Debbie in Dallas✅
Margaret in Hawaii✅
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Kim in Illinois ✅ truck driver 7 kids widow
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3. Jan in St Pete’s ✅
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Oct 4, 2018
It will keep falling because Americans are fundamentally decent and fair minded, #JudgeKavanaugh obviously qualified, he and his family tortured because the left demanded it, and the process so transparently deceptive. I hope his daughters and wife can come to forgive the Ds.
Of course I am assuming his conformation based on early, whispered assessments that —as expected— Dr. Ford’s account could not be corroborated. But the nomination could still fail and, if so, the GOP’s majorities and perhaps the party will be shattered for years. Because of the
manipulation of a woman who wanted only to be anonymous, who could have remained anonymous, and because of the unleashing of the worst McCarthyism since McCarthyism. It is a sober lesson on the frailty of due process and the rule of law that this is even close.
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Good morning. Today's show is a replay of the high and low points of yesterday's hearing on #JudgeKavabnaugh, from the high points of his opening statement and @LindseyGrahamSC to @SenBlumenthal mangling "falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," Senator Spatracus w/ a focus on choice
facing Senate, and the hope that all 51 @SenateGOP --aware of @JoeManchinWV rule: "There has to be more than just an allegation"-- will vote to confirm #JudgeKavanaugh, defend his honor, his family's reputation, future nominees and the reputation of the Senate. First full Senate
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The senators involved in this charade and ambush have set for themselves, their children and grandchildren the inevitable trap —“Didn’t you/your father/mother/grandparent vote against #JudgeKavabaugh based on a mere allegation and one much rebutted. And
you are asking us for fair play?” Decency, ethics faith will protect many of them but not all people are decent as we have seen in this process. Some scheme to destroy. This is ammunition in the slander wars, a playbook, and it will haunt those who don’t reject it loudly.
When @LindseyGrahamSC invoked Justices Kagan and Sotomayor he was sending up a flare that those days are over if this works. It’s going to burn down the remaining courtesies of the Senate. Beginning with the next nominee —if #JudgeKavanaugh isn’t confined— who will move in
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Judge Garland is a fine man, as Judge Kavanaugh has testified. @senatemajldr, using majority, declared #NoHearingsNoVotes, pursuant to the “Biden Rule” and the people voted. The smearing and politics of personal destruction never directed at him, or Justices Kagan/Sotomayor. And
lest you forget, though I doubt you do, the maneuver of nominee blockade was invented by then Judiciary Chair Leavy in 2001-2002, and of judicial filibuster by Leahy and Minority Leader Reid in 2003-2005, until threat of nuclear option by Leader First brought about “Gang of 14.”
When Harry Reid deployed #TheReidRule —that rules of a continuing body could be changed by simple majority— Harry Reid brought down all remaining guardrails and made judges simple majority votes. Now @senatemajldr should —if smears against #JudgeKavanaugh work— use #TheReidRule
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