Former Senior FBI Agents Pen Open Letter to Director Comey Regarding Hillary's Email Crimes: "The Future of the FBI Rests on This Case"

But our prevaricator in chief says he's seen no evidence of law-breaking!

The Long Island Chapter of Former FBI Agents (who knew there were so many?) writes to Comey in part:

In 1978 a number of agents in the Chapter were directly involved in a sting operation, ABSCAM, a highly publicized investigation of which Judge William Webster said at the outset, "The future of the FBI rests on this case.” Your's and the bureau's challenge today is a far cry from what existed thirty-eight years ago. Similarly, it is the Chapter membership’s opinion that not only does the future of the Bureau but also that of the United States of America rests on the outcome of this crucial case. Decisions must be made on facts alone. Much is at stake here--people's trust in the Bureau for years to come, as well as the Bureau's reputation among our allies, partners, and friends as the greatest law enforcement agency in the world.

In 1973, the public hoped, and expected, that justice would be done in the Watergate case.

No such hope or expectation exists today. Everyone knows the fix is in.

America is broken, probably beyond repair.

America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

Posted by: Ace at 06:10 PM

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Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:13 PM (Dpy/y)

2 Well, at least the FBI seems reluctant to fall on its sword for Hillary.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (GgxVX)

3 3 to go

I hope if (most likely not) the injustice department doesn't indict Hillary the FBI raises such a stink that at least her campaign sinks like the Titanic

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (Dpy/y)

4 I think that basically right.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (0cMkb)

5 No such hope or expectation exists today. Everyone knows the fix is in

Yep. We're a just a big banana stupid republic now. All that's missing is a caudillo with mirrored sunglasses and epaulettes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (8ZskC)

6 Yeah, but Rome could have held on another 100 years if it had emoticons.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (1xUj/)

7 He will wind up resigning when Obama refuses to empanel a GJ.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (vvmPQ)

8 The fraud is baked in.

Posted by: Recipe for Disaster at April 19, 2016 06:15 PM (9O2+e)

9 >>America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

Are you not Entertained?

Posted by: Barackhenaten I at April 19, 2016 06:16 PM (tR4f2)

10 I'm spinning, albeit in a nice cocktail frock.

Posted by: J. Edgar H. at April 19, 2016 06:16 PM (sODuO)

11 It's Stagflation with vomitoriums.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at April 19, 2016 06:16 PM (jR7Wy)

12 There is a big difference between 1973 and today. It was a Republican then.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:16 PM (vvmPQ)

13 The future of law and order in the country, period rests on this case. The future of the justice department on the whole rests on this case. The future of the republic rests on this case.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 06:16 PM (39g3+)

14 Cake Girl wasn't even born in 1973.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (/tuJf)

15 The question isn't whether she broke the law, it's if anybody can be made to care.

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (tR4f2)

16 Former Senior FBI Agents Pen Open Letter to Director Comey Regarding Hillary's Email Crimes: "The Future of the FBI Rests on This Case"

LOL. They might as well resign, now.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (zc3Db)

17 Hillary escaping this will be like the SCOTUS ruling on Obamacare: expected, but still unbelievably devastating when it happens.

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, un-PC colonial badass at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (NOIQH)

18 No such hope or expectation exists today. Everyone knows the fix is in.

America is broken, probably beyond repair.

America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

you know the more you say that the more likely it is to be true.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (vb33c)

19 So for the FBI, its a ticking time bombe?

Posted by: goatexchange at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (Nd4YY)

20 Alas, Cake Girl has been willowed.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM (vvmPQ)

21 It's attacks.

Posted by: John Roberts at April 19, 2016 06:18 PM (sODuO)

22 In 1973, the public hoped, and expected, that justice would be done in the Watergate case.

Watergate was a joke. The Republicans weren't doing anything the Dems hadn't been doing for years.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:18 PM (zc3Db)

23 Well, consider this: what is the most likely full fledged military adventure Obama and/or Hillary would order?
1) On Iran upon finding evidence Iran is building a nuke.
2) On Israel upon Israel finding evidence Iran is building a nuke.
3) On Texas or Utah upon finding evidence that the inhabitants are supporting Israel defending themselves from an Iranian Nuke?

Or 4) On Texas or Utah because some gay person gets upset the state governor didn't bake them a cake.

Posted by: Vanceone at April 19, 2016 06:18 PM (IQzhs)

24
The Future of the FBI Rests on This Case, FAG.

Posted by: Mr. Rourke at April 19, 2016 06:18 PM (YaHGw)

25 No future,
No future,
No future for you.

Posted by: Sex Pistols at April 19, 2016 06:19 PM (43OZ6)

26 Sad state of affairs when the obviously guilty get to walk away.

Who needs the FBI if they can't convict?

Rick Perry needs to add them to his lisf.

Posted by: ugg wigs at April 19, 2016 06:19 PM (ZnIt3)

27 20 Alas, Cake Girl has been willowed.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party
_____

Ace said something about better technology. Like ovens. To bake cakes.

So maybe Ace will put Cake Girl's picture on this post too.

Posted by: Furious George at April 19, 2016 06:19 PM (3GAnN)

28 >>Much is at stake here--people's trust in the Bureau for years to come,
as well as the Bureau's reputation among our allies, partners, and
friends as the greatest law enforcement agency in the world.

Well, at least they letter-writers are trying to keep it that way, instead of giving in to cynicism....

Posted by: Hannah Dustin, un-PC colonial badass at April 19, 2016 06:20 PM (NOIQH)

29 Hillary should be swinging in a Gibbet for what she did in Libya.
The fact that she isn't being frog marched into a blacked out SUV is a mockery of our Republic.

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2016 06:20 PM (tR4f2)

30 Can't touch this!

Posted by: Ready For M.C. Hillary!!11!! at April 19, 2016 06:20 PM (Dwehj)

31 They say the fish rots from the head down, but if Hillz is elected there should be some serious crotchal odorage also.

Poor Huma.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 19, 2016 06:20 PM (8ZskC)

32 This case is too big not to prosecute.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2016 06:20 PM (13dPG)

33 Much is at stake here--people's trust in the Bureau for years to come,

Do they think that anyone with a brain trusts the FBI right now? Too funny.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:21 PM (zc3Db)

34
Isn't FBI Armenian for FAG?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 19, 2016 06:21 PM (0cMkb)

35 Imperial Rome's biggest problem was that the lions ate up all their prophets.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 19, 2016 06:21 PM (NeFrd)

36 "The future of the FBI rests on this case."

Unless they WANT to be considered a joke for the rest of their existence.

Posted by: tu3031 at April 19, 2016 06:21 PM (8WyYX)

37 >>This case is too big not to prosecute.

And yet.....Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Lois Lerner, etc.

So MANY things have been yuuuge scandals and Obama manages to make them disappear.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 19, 2016 06:22 PM (NOIQH)

38 "The future of the republic rests on this case."

It's not looking good for the ol' Republic.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 19, 2016 06:22 PM (LA7Cm)

39 My faith in the FBI is minimal, surpassing only my faith in the DOJ.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 19, 2016 06:22 PM (Nwg0u)

40 Bring back Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 19, 2016 06:23 PM (8ZskC)

41 29 Hillary should be swinging in a Gibbet for what she did in Libya.
The fact that she isn't being frog marched into a blacked out SUV is a mockery of our Republic.
Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2016 06:20 PM (tR4f2)

No, she'll just cackle and cough her way into the White House. Gloomy is our future. I can't see anyway out of this.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 19, 2016 06:23 PM (CFc5L)

42 I thought the purpose of the FBI was to shoot innocent peeps and their families to Kingdom Come

Posted by: Zombie Randy Weaver at April 19, 2016 06:23 PM (43OZ6)

43 The future's so dim you don't gotta wear shades.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 19, 2016 06:24 PM (k4M/B)

44 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Ready For M.C. Hillary!!11!! at April 19, 2016 06:24 PM (Dwehj)

45

America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.
Hillary in a toga party is cruel punishment for our lust over cake girl.

Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2016 06:24 PM (DL2i+)

46 Unless they WANT to be considered a joke for the rest of their existence.
Posted by: tu3031 at April 19, 2016 06:21 PM (8WyYX)

Funny, like a clown? Were we joke to you, comrade?

Posted by: The KGB at April 19, 2016 06:24 PM (8ZskC)

47 So this is the Republic's Rubicon? Or Waterloo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2016 06:24 PM (13dPG)

48 *** unavailable for comment ***

Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at April 19, 2016 06:24 PM (12kBq)

49 the same holds true for that traitor Bowe Bergdhal..

the Army HAS to prosecute him, or they'll never be able to charge anyone with AWOL, etc, and have it stick.

Posted by: redc1c4 at April 19, 2016 06:25 PM (zSLwO)

50 >>Hillary in a toga party is cruel punishment for our lust over cake girl.

Have you seen my Downward Dog?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Yoga Pants at April 19, 2016 06:25 PM (tR4f2)

51 of course the weather is worse

global warming duh

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 19, 2016 06:25 PM (Cq0oW)

52 Let's try this again. Miss me yet?

Posted by: Zombie J. Edgar at April 19, 2016 06:25 PM (Dwehj)

53 Rubicon, Waterloo happens later after the shooting starts

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:26 PM (Dpy/y)

54 "America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather."

Rome was more advanced, at least in the eyes of liberals. In ancient Rome you could kill your child legally until it reached the age of four.

So, superior parental rights in old Rome.

Source: "Life In Ancient Rome", F. R. Cowell.

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:26 PM (3myMJ)

55 Not a hint of corruption in the Obama Administration!

Posted by: David Brooks, NY Times hand puppet at April 19, 2016 06:26 PM (RFeQD)

56 I remember how once upon a time it was funny that Algore took campaign cash from Chinese monks. How we laughed and laughed.

These days nobody in our government talks about limiting China.

And if Hillory is elected, they will own the President of the United Fascist State.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 19, 2016 06:26 PM (TOk1P)

57 Unlike imperial Rome, we have no horse in the senate -- just Secretary of State!

Posted by: wooga at April 19, 2016 06:27 PM (QqNMc)

58 "Name's Friday, Joe Friday. My beat is DC where the worst criminals congregate."

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 19, 2016 06:27 PM (13dPG)

59 Shouldn't it be the futures so dim you need a miners hat?

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:27 PM (Dpy/y)

60 dunno, ace, about that Imperial Rome comparison.

The empire included the Levant (I know it's true, I've seen the ruins there).

So - weather in the US may be worse in ..... NYC, for example. But not San Diego.

If you're gonna go with that sort of comparison, I'd say "and worse architecture". Or, "worse bread and circuses." Those are pretty solid.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 19, 2016 06:27 PM (QDnY+)

61 My friends, we have nothing to fear with Barack Obama in the White House

Posted by: John McCain at April 19, 2016 06:27 PM (12kBq)

62 I'd have had binders full of cankles on this broad by now.

Posted by: Zombie J. Edgar at April 19, 2016 06:28 PM (Dwehj)

63
So this is the Republic's Rubicon? Or Waterloo?

Posted by: Anna Puma

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
This is the Republic's menstrual cramps.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....tortured American at April 19, 2016 06:28 PM (RFeQD)

64 If nothing happens to Hillary (which I think is likely) then it would be clear to everyone--Left and Right--that government agencies exist solely to protect the Left.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 19, 2016 06:28 PM (AroJD)

65 America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

Rome had better roads and water.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:28 PM (zc3Db)

66 Zombie Nixon continues to roll in his grave.

On a lighter note:

Katshit got testy with a Financial Times reporter yesterday. Hilarity ensued:

Katshit: "Republicans want someone who can win in the Fall"

Reporter: "If you've only won Ohio..."

Katshit; "Can I finish?" he said, cutting off the reporter.

Reporter: "If you answer the question."

Katshit: "I'm answering the question the way that I want to answer it. You want to answer it?"

Katshit then grabs the reporter's voice recorder and said "Here, let me ask you a question. What do you think?"

What a maroon.

Posted by: Cheri at April 19, 2016 06:29 PM (oiNtH)

67 "dunno, ace, about that Imperial Rome comparison."

How about this:

America is Nicaragua, with better cable, and fewer mosquitos.

Posted by: Qoheleth at April 19, 2016 06:29 PM (iIzG7)

68 I wonder if there's a picture somewhere of Hillary! in yoga pants? Since we'll never see her in an orange jumpsuit.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 19, 2016 06:29 PM (FsuaD)

69 America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

=========
But we still get the orgies, right??

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 06:29 PM (iQIUe)

70 You asked for miracles?
I give you the F...B...I....

Posted by: Zombie Alan Rickman at April 19, 2016 06:29 PM (QqNMc)

71
In 1978 a number of agents in the Chapter were directly involved in a sting operation, ABSCAM, a highly publicized investigation of which Judge William Webster said at the outset, "The future of the FBI rests on this case.

Trust me, hold out for more cash.

Posted by: Zombie John Murtha at April 19, 2016 06:30 PM (o98Jz)

72 Rome would have lasted a lot longer if they would have given the Gauls jobs, housing, oh and health care.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:30 PM (Dpy/y)

73 America is Nicaragua, with better cable, and fewer mosquitos.

And seemingly unlimited EBT.

Posted by: Zombie J. Edgar at April 19, 2016 06:30 PM (Dwehj)

74
"Life In Ancient Rome",

Ah hey ma ma ma

Life in a northern town.

Ah hey ma ma ma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5uxQElYu68

Posted by: Mr. Rourke at April 19, 2016 06:31 PM (YaHGw)

75 America: Venezuela with toilet paper?

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:31 PM (3myMJ)

76 "You asked for miracles? I give you the F...B...I...."

That brought a tear to my eye.

Posted by: Qoheleth at April 19, 2016 06:31 PM (iIzG7)

77 This might be too off in the deep weeds but --speaking of Watergate.

Hillary cut her teeth on Watergate--she was one of the junior researchers--fetchers, whatever.

Nixon did the tapes--probably out of paranoia, but that wasn't unfounded because the Dems stole the Kennedy election from him via Daley corruption in Chicago, and LBJ in Texas.

Fast forward to Hillary as Obama's Secretary of State. It is obvious that she and Robert Gates were going to be the fall guys for anything that went haywire in the area of foreign policy--which covers most of what a President can be singularly responsible for--and therefore held accountable.
Hillary decided to protect herself with her own records --a private server, but also used it to collect evidence that would be impermeable to the Obama Administration.

IOW--she has the goods on him and nothing much is going to happen. Scarier possibility, any foreign entity that hacked "the records" has the goods on both of them also.

Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:31 PM (mcm0N)

78 If Hildabeast looses NY, that could be the signal she's cooked so might as well pull the life line.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:32 PM (Dpy/y)

79
Katshit then grabs the reporter's voice recorder and said "Here, let me ask you a question. What do you think?"

What a maroon.
Posted by: Cheri

But he's the only one who can win!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 19, 2016 06:32 PM (k4M/B)

80
The last time John Katshit won a delegate we were teenagers singing Ah hey-o ma-ma-ma in our cars.

Posted by: Mr. Rourke at April 19, 2016 06:32 PM (YaHGw)

81 America: Cuba with newer cars?

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:33 PM (3myMJ)

82 Cake Girl wasn't even born in 1973.

I don't think she was born in 1993

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 06:33 PM (39g3+)

83 America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

dunno bout dat boss.

The gladius and the imperial legions who wheeled them were pretty much the tippy top of technology. Roman military engineering is still consider the definitive.

Weather? Try the citizens of Pompeii...

Posted by: havildar major at April 19, 2016 06:33 PM (hQNwa)

84 -she has the goods on him

any e-mails are felony evidence irregardless of content or classification.

Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2016 06:34 PM (DL2i+)

85 78 If Hildabeast looses NY, that could be the signal she's cooked so might as well pull the life line.
Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:32 PM (Dpy/y)

Bernie will not be allowed to reach a first ballot majority...

Open convention!!!! yeah baby!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 19, 2016 06:34 PM (12kBq)

86 Expect an FBI criminal referral to AG Lynch: "As shown in the attached report, our investigation has developed sufficient credible evidence to convict ___, ___ and ___ of the following crimes." Lynch has prosecutorial discretion, but Comey's report will assuredly leak.

This may be what the Obamans want: to drive Hillary out of the race with a leaked criminal referral while still holding an indictment over her head.

Big Known Unknown is whether public corruption charges get included or not. You could make this a RICO case targeting the Foundation as bribery is a predicate offense.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 19, 2016 06:34 PM (r1fLd)

87 Well. Alrighty then. What do we do about it?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 19, 2016 06:35 PM (rxjJk)

88 I'm one lucky sumbitch.

Posted by: Cake Ryan at April 19, 2016 06:35 PM (Dwehj)

89 77 Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:31 PM (mcm0N)

Yeah, she was on the Watergate panel as a lawyer for a short period. She was kicked off by a DEMOCRAT for unethical behavior.

a little "secret" the MFM seems to ignore.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:35 PM (vvmPQ)

90 Everybody knows I want to slit my wrists after Leonard knocked that one out.

Posted by: Fritz at April 19, 2016 06:35 PM (+E2Y7)

91 Wow does that song get --bad.

Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:36 PM (mcm0N)

92 America is just 1920's Peruvia now, with better yodeling and fewer bearded women.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 19, 2016 06:36 PM (NeFrd)

93 75 America: Venezuela with toilet paper?
Posted by: Meremortal
___________

Too many brands of toilet paper!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at April 19, 2016 06:36 PM (3GAnN)

94 77
Yup

Posted by: Clarney at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (dgO4h)

95 Not a smidgen of wrongdoing here. Move along!

Posted by: Loretta Lynch at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (JO9+V)

96 "looses" --> "loses"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (oKE6c)

97 89 77 Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:31 PM (mcm0N)

Yeah, she was on the Watergate panel as a lawyer for a short period. She was kicked off by a DEMOCRAT for unethical behavior.

a little "secret" the MFM seems to ignore.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:35 PM (vvmPQ)

*********

Oh---holy crap. Vic--I did not know that. Wow.

Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (mcm0N)

98 All joking aside (and there's some pretty good joking going on, as expected), I really do wonder if this would be a major thread in the garment starting to unravel.

The recklessness, the criminality, the brazenness in this case are so great, the subject matter here so weighty, that one really does wonder what the effects will be if lawlessness prevails.

And don't forget - the unbelievable security violations almost have their equal in the financial corruption of the SecState's office, something without precedent (or even remotely comparable analogue) in US history.

And unlike some of the other things, which require at least some background and focus to understand (SCOTUS derailment, lawless executive, fiscal insanity), these crimes and cover-ups are as easy to comprehend as they are outrageous.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (QDnY+)

99 75 America: Venezuela with toilet paper

So far.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (oKE6c)

100 fewer bearded women.

A great tragedy.

Posted by: Gimli at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (DL2i+)

101 Too many brands of toilet paper!

Y'all will be wiping your butts with chicken feathers. And like it.

Posted by: Colonel Bernie Sanders at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (Dwehj)

102 not so sure about cake girl.

seems like she is not so keen on proposals and did not even get asked to prom. so maybe there is more than the pics show.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (vb33c)

103 Somehow the socialists as soon as they get in power f up the toilet paper supplies, I don't know how but it's a given

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (Dpy/y)

104 The Future of the FBI Rests on This Case

The future of the FBI is not good...

Posted by: The Federal Bureau of Hats at April 19, 2016 06:39 PM (vBeA5)

105 Don't forget that the brilliant and accomplished Hillary flunked the District of Columbia bar exam.

Posted by: Furious George at April 19, 2016 06:39 PM (3GAnN)

106 102
not so sure about cake girl.

seems like she is not so keen on proposals and did not even get asked to prom. so maybe there is more than the pics show.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (vb33c)

Maybe she has a Mooch-sized ass?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 19, 2016 06:39 PM (FsuaD)

107 Maybe it's probably the beer talking, but I think things like this - former FBI agents publicly rallying around the need for the FBI to maintain their integrity - may well result in that actually happening, thus averting the horrific societal crisis that would result if Cankles is exonerated when she so clearly is guilty.

Or something.

Posted by: Dirty Randy at April 19, 2016 06:39 PM (nhHPu)

108 89
It's know. Nobody cares. We've been taught not to. DOE
Thank you Richard

Posted by: Clarney at April 19, 2016 06:39 PM (dgO4h)

109 Hillary - She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 19, 2016 06:40 PM (k4M/B)

110 And unlike some of the other things, which require at least some background and focus to understand (SCOTUS derailment, lawless executive, fiscal insanity), these crimes and cover-ups are as easy to comprehend as they are outrageous.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 19, 2016 06:37 PM (QDnY+)

Sadly, most Americans could not care less about this. And the Vichy Republicans and courts are scared shitless to do anything about it. All told, they all wish this would just go away, and it will. This all will just disintegrate into the aether ...

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:40 PM (zc3Db)

111 President Trump will put an end to this bullshit.

Posted by: blaster at April 19, 2016 06:40 PM (2Ocf1)

112 57 Unlike imperial Rome, we have no horse in the senate -- just Secretary of State!

Posted by: wooga at April 19, 2016 06:27 PM (QqNMc)
______

I feel ignored.

Posted by: Senator Patty Murray at April 19, 2016 06:40 PM (ieU0D)

113 Most likely they always put a crony in charge of all toilet paper production and never running anything more than a university class.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:40 PM (Dpy/y)

114 Don't forget that the brilliant and accomplished Hillary flunked the District of Columbia bar exam.

That was a vast right-wing conspiracy.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at April 19, 2016 06:40 PM (Dwehj)

115 103
Somehow the socialists as soon as they get in power f up the toilet paper supplies, I don't know how but it's a given

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (Dpy/y)

My lib M-I-L buys the cheapest, thinnest toilet paper she can find. I mean, wtf?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 19, 2016 06:41 PM (FsuaD)

116 >>Maybe she has a Mooch-sized ass?

Bonus : That's just somewhere to rest your glass of milk.

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2016 06:41 PM (tR4f2)

117 84 -she has the goods on him

any e-mails are felony evidence irregardless of content or classification.
Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2016 06:34 PM (DL2i+)

********

Right, I get your point but it could simply be information that the Obama Administration does not want made public--that ruins his "legacy". That would be enough for them to circle the wagons around the whole mess --possibly.

Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (mcm0N)

118 I really do wonder if this would be a major thread in the garment starting to unravel.

I don't think you're overstating things. We've weathered worse, but then we were better people then.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (39g3+)

119 The laws don't apply to our supposed leaders and elites , they don't apply to me . Maybe that is the agenda ,but someday some poor grunt will catch hell , I hope he understands why .
A bunch of rich people
convincing poor people to vote for the rich people by telling the poor
people that other rich people are the reason they're poor."

Posted by: rufusrastasjohnsonbrown at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (RGckL)

120
My lib M-I-L buys the cheapest, thinnest toilet paper she can find. I mean, wtf?
Posted by: Jane D'oh

I go for the 3 ply. You only wipe once.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (k4M/B)

121 My lib M-I-L buys the cheapest, thinnest toilet paper she can find. I mean, wtf?

She's saving the Klingon planet.

Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (Dwehj)

122 seems like she is not so keen on proposals and did not even get asked to prom. so maybe there is more than the pics show.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (vb33c)

Maybe, but she doesn't look like a porker in her face. More likely everybody figured she'd go off in the first round, and didn't want to take the ego hit of getting rejected to no purpose.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:43 PM (oKE6c)

123 In before "Brazil with nukes"...

which would totally make for a great metal band name, btw.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2016 06:44 PM (OcD4G)

124 I go for the 3 ply. You only wipe once.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (k4M/B)
Eco-criminal!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at April 19, 2016 06:44 PM (oKE6c)

125 *cackles in Noo Yawk accent*

Just a reminder, youse guys:

30+ million illegal invaders with pre-completed ballots

A Vast Left-Wing Media/Techie/Academia covering & obfuscating for me

My GOPe friends setting up an appropriate softball candidate for me to face

*hums Hail To The Chief to self*

Fear the Vag.

Vote the Vag!

Vag 2016!

Posted by: Shrillary's Vagina at April 19, 2016 06:44 PM (0nM5K)

126 > America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

I'm in the middle of the History of Rome podcast series and I agree with Ace's statement.

Posted by: ArthurK at April 19, 2016 06:44 PM (h53OH)

127 Between this and the SJW tyrants.... yeah....

I'm about to check out.

After all, if tptb don't follow the law, why should I?

Posted by: Jacob's Step Stool at April 19, 2016 06:45 PM (sqs5K)

128 115,
Your mil is a Sheryl Crowe aficionado?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 06:45 PM (C9pBZ)

129 Yes, the fix is in.

The FBI is now taking part in failure theater just as did congressional panels who were ostensibly interviewing her last year.

That this letter had to be written is testament to that fact.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2016 06:45 PM (uxpLH)

130 almost have their equal in the financial corruption of the SecState's office, something without precedent (or even remotely comparable analogue) in US history.

********

Maybe that's where they can get her. If --they stay tightly focused on only Hillary and The Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:45 PM (mcm0N)

131 107 Maybe it's probably the beer talking, but I think things like this - former FBI agents publicly rallying around the need for the FBI to maintain their integrity - may well result in that actually happening, thus averting the horrific societal crisis that would result if Cankles is exonerated when she so clearly is guilty.

Or something.
Posted by: Dirty Randy at April 19, 2016 06:39 PM

Former FBI agents that already have their pensions.

Posted by: Golfman at April 19, 2016 06:45 PM (48QDY)

132 98
I think the stupid has been messaged too deeply into the muscle and mind of America

Posted by: Clarney at April 19, 2016 06:46 PM (dgO4h)

133 Hillary will skate and Trump or Cruz will have to prosecute her fat ass.

Fuck her.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 19, 2016 06:46 PM (AM3fZ)

134 >>America is just Imperial Rome now with better technology and worse weather.

Hillary is just Cake Girl with pure evil and a shit load of fried food and donuts.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2016 06:46 PM (/tuJf)

135 I feel ignored.

Posted by: Senator Patty Murray

He said "horse," not "horse's ass"

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 06:46 PM (39g3+)

136 126,
I've often recommended Gibbon's history here.
It's a bit frightening...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 06:47 PM (C9pBZ)

137 Hillary is just Cake Girl with pure evil and a shit load of fried food and donuts.

And worse genetics. And a crappy attitude.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 06:47 PM (39g3+)

138 Maybe, but she doesn't look like a porker in her face. More likely everybody figured she'd go off in the first round, and didn't want to take the ego hit of getting rejected to no purpose.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:43 PM (oKE6c)

yeah, that is not how prom works.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:47 PM (vb33c)

139 137 Hillary is just Cake Girl with pure evil and a shit load of fried food and donuts.
And worse genetics. And a crappy attitude.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 19, 2016 06:47 PM (39g3+)

And more than a dash of chipmunk DNA thrown in for good measure.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:47 PM (oKE6c)

140 Right, I get your point but it could simply be information that the Obama Administration does not want made public--that ruins his "legacy". That would be enough for them to circle the wagons around the whole mess --possibly.
Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 19, 2016 06:42 PM (mcm0N)

You rubes think this is about Obama.

Ha!

Posted by: Darrell Issa at April 19, 2016 06:48 PM (48QDY)

141 yeah, that is not how prom works.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:47 PM (vb33c)
Really? I never went to high school.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:48 PM (oKE6c)

142 I've often recommended Gibbon's history here.
It's a bit frightening...

Posted by: Anon a mouse

Have you actually read it?

It's over 120,000 pages. I'm on vol. 2.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2016 06:49 PM (OcD4G)

143 I'm watching the S2E1 Fear the Walking Dead, kind of wishing the zombies would find a submarine and learn how to use it and the torpedoes that come with it.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:49 PM (Dpy/y)

144 Hey, watch it denigrating fried food and doughnuts.
Around here that's called "breakfast"

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 06:49 PM (C9pBZ)

145 Gibbons are just a poor man's Lemur.

Posted by: garrett at April 19, 2016 06:50 PM (tR4f2)

146 "She was kicked off by a DEMOCRAT for unethical behavior."

How does one manage to get in that kind of trouble as a junior staffer on the investigation committee for the murder of a President?

What the hell did she do?

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:50 PM (3myMJ)

147 Off worthless, headline-grabbing, do nothing sock.

Posted by: Golfman at April 19, 2016 06:50 PM (48QDY)

148 Cake Girl wasn't even born in 1973.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2016 06:17 PM
..........Feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (m6oW5)

149 What the hell did she do?

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:50 PM (3myMJ)

I think she withheld evidence and, perhaps, fabricated some. Something along those lines.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (zc3Db)

150 Really? I never went to high school.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 06:48 PM (oKE6c)

well, none of the hot girls were missing on prom night.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (vb33c)

151 err, 12,000 pages that is..

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (OcD4G)

152 Hillary has shit on o. o tells slow Joe not to run but he will take care of him in the future. Lordy, Biden is named the head of the o library, cause we all know Joe ain't gonna be the head of some think tank.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (S9VD9)

153 The gladius and the imperial legions who wheeled them were pretty much
the tippy top of technology. Roman military engineering is still
consider the definitive.

The gladius was actually a copy of a Hispanio-Celtic sword (gladius hispaniensis). The rOmans aslo copied the Celtic shields, armor (chain mail), helmets, and possibly their iron javelins, though these items were subsequently modified over the years. The Celts were actually better ironworkers than were the Romans, and I think it was the Gaulish swordsmiths in the later empire that introduced patternwelding and longer blades to the legions (the later Roman spathae were NOT an example of the Romans copying the barbarians, contra generations of writers, but the opposite - a new Roman design introduced to meet new needs c. 250 AD and copied by the barbarians).

Just had to say that.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 19, 2016 06:52 PM (bZ7mE)

154 Elton John gets the orgies. You get porn. Unless you're in Utah.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at April 19, 2016 06:52 PM (f1A8c)

155

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 19, 2016 06:52 PM (bZ7mE)

156 You rubes think this is about Obama.

Ha!

Posted by: Darrell Issa

The if everyone is guilty no one gets prosecuted theory?
Doesn't work when the nuns paddle every boy in the grade school.

Posted by: Gimli at April 19, 2016 06:52 PM (DL2i+)

157 What the hell did she do?

Posted by: Meremortal

I think it had something to do with falsifying evidence.

Posted by: Jacob's Step Stool at April 19, 2016 06:52 PM (sqs5K)

158 nood

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:53 PM (vvmPQ)

159 err, 12,000 pages that is..

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (OcD4G)

You were still closer than Barky was on his estimate of the dead in the Kansas tornado ... by two orders of magnitude! Barky claimed that 10,000 were killed when the actual number was 12.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:53 PM (zc3Db)

160
I'm suffering from Falcon 9 withdrawal...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 06:53 PM (iQIUe)

161 Gibbons are just a poor man's Lemur.

Lemurs? Lemurs are pimps.

Posted by: A Monotonous Langur at April 19, 2016 06:54 PM (8ZskC)

162 It won't matter to the lib faithful. Most won't admit it publically much less to a political foe. But they know in the recess of their feeble minds that she's a crooked scrunt. She's a bastard, but she's their bastard. She could go on live T.V. and club a baby seal and they'd still vote for her. And why should Hilda believe this time will be any different. They own DC and have been slithering out of shit since the earth cooled.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 19, 2016 06:54 PM (m6oW5)

163 biden is financially secure, no need for obama to provide for him. he has his pension plus the income from renting out his guest house to the secret service guys guarding him.

if everything goes south for obama he will be staying in a pritzker hotel.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:55 PM (vb33c)

164 Iustitia weeps

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2016 06:55 PM (9mTYi)

165 I wrote here months ago I heard Ed Randell say Uncle Joe wasn't getting in the race if Hillary was still in.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2016 06:55 PM (Dpy/y)

166 "64 If nothing happens to Hillary (which I think is likely) then it would be clear to everyone--Left and Right--that government agencies exist solely to protect the Left."

--------

That ship is called USS Lois Lerner and it sailed some time ago.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2016 06:55 PM (uxpLH)

167 Weft, I'm looking to dig into the "Everyman's" edition (2010).

Need to set aside a few weeks. Say 90 or so...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 06:56 PM (C9pBZ)

168 At least we'll have Muslim Rape Gangs to keep us company.

Posted by: Needs to Know at April 19, 2016 06:56 PM (N7G17)

169 146 How does one manage to get in that kind of trouble
as a junior staffer on the investigation committee for the murder of a
President?

What the hell did she do?

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:50 PM (3myMJ)

That was the Watergate committee.

http://tinyurl.com/kshbbwb

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 19, 2016 06:57 PM (vvmPQ)

170 "Hillary decided to protect herself with her own records --a private server, but also used it to collect evidence that would be impermeable to the Obama Administration.

IOW--she has the goods on him and nothing much is going to happen. Scarier possibility, any foreign entity that hacked "the records" has the goods on both of them also."

----------

Let's speculate, shall we: Which regime has recently and inexplicably been given a gift of nuclear weapons?

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2016 06:58 PM (uxpLH)

171 Government agencies exist to protect other government agencies, nothing more these days.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 19, 2016 06:58 PM (C9pBZ)

172 The general scratches his belly and thinks
His pay is good but his officers stink
Guerrilla girl, hard and sweet
A military man would love to meet

The President looks in the mirror and speaks
His shirts are clean but his country reeks
Unpaid bills
In Afghanistan hills

Bombs away
But we're okay
Bombs away
In old Bombay

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at April 19, 2016 06:59 PM (Cq0oW)

173 "82 Cake Girl wasn't even born in 1973.

I don't think she was born in 1993"

-------

There are brides in Islamic countries that were not born even in 2003.

Posted by: Decaf at April 19, 2016 07:00 PM (uxpLH)

174 160
I'm suffering from Falcon 9 withdrawal...
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 06:53 PM (iQIUe)

Have you seen these? The first is a brief clip from a NASA tour bus whose passengers got a unique treat, and the second is a longer video of today's events.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC3Szb5raXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCv31VFk1Lg

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 07:02 PM (sdi6R)

175 Grey Fox 153:

Could you point me to the source material for your info on Celtic weaponry? I'd like to know more. Thanks.

Posted by: Wenda (sic) at April 19, 2016 07:03 PM (pZEKq)

176 #10***I am here feeling the same pain tonight as you. It is her turn so the hell with all of you?! She is lying crooked Hackles.
Great song for this post Ace, and I say Alleluia!

Posted by: Prinacat at April 19, 2016 07:06 PM (Og26C)

177 osted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 07:02 PM (sdi6R)

=============
Thanks!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 07:07 PM (iQIUe)

178 well, none of the hot girls were missing on prom night.

Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (vb33c)
recxpkasivqoflwugtydhzn
Which letters are missing? It's pretty hard to notice the absence of something.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 19, 2016 07:09 PM (oKE6c)

179 Oh, I thought it was the Warren Commission. Emily Litella moment.

Still weird applied to Watergate and I wonder who was pulling the strings.

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 07:10 PM (3myMJ)

180 177
Thanks!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 19, 2016 07:07 PM (iQIUe)

The cool thing is that while the Saturn V and Shuttle required a specially-built crawler to travel on a specially-built road from the VAB to the pad, Falcon 9 is designed to be transported on public highways. That's why it's so skinny relative to its height.

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 07:11 PM (sdi6R)

181 Is " I'd rather be pillaging here?"

Just an fyi that I answered your comment about FTWD on my blog

Posted by: @votermom at April 19, 2016 07:14 PM (nbrY/)

182 Here's an older clip to illustrate my #180. It was doing 60 on I-95:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK8FSTHYLOo

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 07:15 PM (sdi6R)

183 That's why it's so skinny relative to its height.

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 07:11 PM (sdi6R)

I just now watched the vid of the landing on the drone ship. I'm now a fan. That was awe inspiring watching that landing.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. FTL soon please! at April 19, 2016 07:15 PM (WVsWD)

184 The FBI, those are the guys that are here to protect the Muslim Brotherhood, right?

Posted by: navybrat at April 19, 2016 07:17 PM (8QGte)

185 183
I just now watched the vid of the landing on the drone ship. I'm now a fan. That was awe inspiring watching that landing.
Posted by: Tim in Illinois. FTL soon please! at April 19, 2016 07:15 PM (WVsWD)

First of all, I can't believe you just now saw that for the first time. I watched the launch and landing live, and was holding my breath the whole time.

Secondly, not to take anything away from Apollo, but the Lunar Module was a small spacecraft designed to land on the Moon, in an airless environment with 1/6 Earth's gravity. It had two human pilots to guide it to a flat landing spot away from craters and boulders.

The Falcon 9 first stage is about 150 feet tall and has to land in full Earth gravity. Both it and the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship are entirely automated. The Falcon 9 has to cope with wind (That's why it came down at an angle--it was fighting the wind in order to stay on course), and the ASDS has to maintain a precise position while coping with waves.

The rocket and the ship do not communicate with each other. The rocket is programmed to land on a precise spot, and the ship has to be at that exact spot.

Somebody described it as like hitting a postage stamp with a bullet from a mile away, except that the bullet has to stop on the stamp and not go through it.

This could not have been done 50 years ago. The computing power didn't exist.

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2016 07:29 PM (sdi6R)

186 Just the fact that we're even having this discussion about the FBI and their investigation shows how far we've gone down the road to lawlessness. And to be honest I hate Hillary less than I do those supporters of her's - who live all around us - who say they're perfectly ok with this.
And those very same people would be shrieking for blood in the streets if this were a Republican.
The Tree of Liberty is dead.

Posted by: LGoPs at April 19, 2016 07:38 PM (t8gnY)

187 seems like she is not so keen on proposals and did not even get asked to prom. so maybe there is more than the pics show.
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 19, 2016 06:38 PM (vb33c)

Maybe, but she doesn't look like a porker in her face. More likely everybody figured she'd go off in the first round, and didn't want to take the ego hit of getting rejected to no purpose.
Posted by: Jay Guevara

She went to the prom... she writes "they" just went. It being assumed that they would go, so no need for a formal invitation.

Posted by: AmeriDan at April 19, 2016 07:53 PM (cq3QL)

188 If she walks, anyone convicted would have a case of unequal treatment under the law or whatever the term is. This case could effectively eliminate the crime of treason. What a great country it would be with no traitors. What a legacy.

Posted by: Dirks strewn at April 19, 2016 08:13 PM (QdAXQ)

189 Quit whinning and do something. That song sucks.

Posted by: jacke at April 19, 2016 08:30 PM (i8Shl)

190 My lib M-I-L buys the cheapest, thinnest toilet paper she can find. I mean, wtf?

I have seen that brand at Costco. John Wayne toilet paper ... wont take shit off of nobody!

Posted by: Paladin at April 19, 2016 08:34 PM (r6vt4)

191 Great empires like Rome and Babylon did not fall. They crumbled.

Next!

Posted by: Valiant at April 19, 2016 09:19 PM (3MiF8)

192 Don Henley did a good cover of that Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows":

http://tinyurl.com/j5946yh

Posted by: ShainS at April 19, 2016 09:27 PM (a6Ff7)

193 Ace, I agree with your Rome comment. I have thought for some time now that America is dead. What I'm still trying to figure out: is there any advantage to being aware of this? Or, would ignorance be bliss?

Posted by: Tired Mom at April 19, 2016 10:47 PM (VqWZX)

194
What the hell did she do?

Posted by: Meremortal at April 19, 2016 06:50 PM (3myMJ)

I think she withheld evidence and, perhaps, fabricated some. Something along those lines.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 19, 2016 06:51 PM (zc3Db)
--------------------

She didn't falsify evidence; she tried to maneuver so that Richard Nixon would be deprived of counsel (a Constitutional right, that thing).

Posted by: iforgot at April 19, 2016 10:48 PM (5o5ek)

195 If half of the people in Government service, yes we actually are supposed to serve the citizens of this great nation, had the moral and ethical compass of Director Comey we would not be in this situation.

Posted by: Mad hatter at April 19, 2016 10:57 PM (xCLaT)

196
I really do wonder if this would be a major thread in the garment starting to unravel.

Yes. There's no good outcome possible for the election: If Hillary is not indicted, the agents will resign and raise a stink. Hillary will be tainted and will have to answer all the charges anyway in the court of public opinion, and Obama will look like an idiot or accomplice.

If Hillary is indicted, who the hell will the candidate be? Will she withdraw or just tough it out? And her boss Obama will again look like an idiot or accomplice.

And all of this throws the GOP nom into chaos. Will the establishment blow up when either Trump is nominated or Cruz finagles his way to nomination? Karl Rove must be planning something; whatever it is, there will be blood.

Posted by: PJ at April 20, 2016 12:34 AM (cHuNI)

197 What does a patriot call a list of those who acted to cover for Hillary's illegal actions?

Targets.

Posted by: American Citizen at April 20, 2016 04:21 PM (UsCnO)

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