The FBI Claimed it Redacted the Embarrassing Fact of Andrew McCabe Spending <i>$70,000 of Taxpayer Money</i> on a Conference Table Due to "National Security" Concerns

The FBI Claimed it Redacted the Embarrassing Fact of Andrew McCabe Spending $70,000 of Taxpayer Money on a Conference Table Due to "National Security" Concerns

Obviously, we must believe everything the Deep State tells us.

They went to college and carry guns. Ergo, all college-proud Republicans are duty-bound to believe everything they say. (Oh, and also: Tribalism is bad when you do it.)

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired for lying under oath, spent $70,000 in taxpayer dollars on a conference table. The FBI also redacted the conference table’s steep price tag from documents that members of the Senate Judiciary Committee requested, in an apparent attempt to hide it from Congress.
In a letter sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed that the FBI had redacted the cost of the table from a document he and his fellow members of the committee requested to see. Grassley said many of the redactions within the documents made no sense, nor were they made to protect national security secrets.

"Congress, and the public, have a right to know how the Department spends taxpayer money," Grassley wrote. "I am unaware of any legitimate basis on which the cost of a conference table should be redacted. Embarrassment is not a good enough reason. The manner in which some redactions have been used casts doubt on whether the remaining redactions are necessary and defensible."

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:53 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 25, 2018 05:46 PM (7C3D2)

2 Wow. And I read the content.

I'll summon The Others.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 25, 2018 05:46 PM (7C3D2)

3 John Podhoretz just tweeted his disgust at any attacks on the FBI, for he has conceived a great affection and sense of personal gratitude.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 25, 2018 05:47 PM (QEXYi)

4 th?

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 25, 2018 05:47 PM (HbNSs)

5 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 25, 2018 05:47 PM (7C3D2)

6 Look.
In the heat of the moment things were said that we both wish we could un-say.
Things were done that we both wishe weren't.

I redacted things.

You redacted things.

Really. It's all water under the bridge as far as I am concerned.

Posted by: Andrew McCabe at May 25, 2018 05:48 PM (axuXF)

7 casts doubt on whether the remaining redactions are necessary and defensible............you don't say...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2018 05:48 PM (5tSKk)

8 and i read the content too...

WOOT!

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 25, 2018 05:48 PM (HbNSs)

9 Wait to you see how much we spent on x-ray glasses and T-Shirts.

Posted by: Female Body Inspectors at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (gmo/4)

10 it's almost as if there was a pattern, and a culture, of dishonesty at the FBI and DOJ...

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (HbNSs)

11 70k for a table. I hate DC.

Posted by: Monk at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (9acFt)

12 Ace, the last few days you've really given us our money's worth. Thanks and have a great weekend.

Posted by: matty at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (az6F0)

13 Move friggin' DC to Kansas and put them all in mobile classrooms. They can use the same desks and chairs the Army uses.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (neVEe)

14 Look closer at the table...how come it has a volume dial, switches, and plugs into a socket?

Posted by: Orson at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (gYUPt)

15 Wow, remember the days when the left wing media celebrated the Golden Fleece awards and excoriated the pentagon for paying $900.00 for a hammer or a toilet seat or something.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 25, 2018 05:49 PM (nWc4E)

16 Yes, this redaction was self-serving. We admit that. We were embarrassed and took the easy route out. Sorry.

Having said that I hope you can understand everything else we did was truly motivated by national security. And because we hate the President.

Mostly the latter.

And, no!, w won't tell you who does the redacting around here. National security.

Posted by: Rod Rosensteins Secret Redactionist at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (QEXYi)

17 >>70k for a table.

For that kind of money it better come pre wired with a rape button.

Posted by: Matt Lauer at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (axuXF)

18 Maybe McCabe is just a Buffalo Bills fan and needed a self igniting table to jump through?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (ClI4f)

19 Heh.....TGE came in and flipped over that $70K table and then beat them to death with a folding metal chair, in homage of his WWF days.
Metaphorically, of course.
Seriously - $70k for a table? Damned thing made of solid rosewood and bog oak, with a sealskin blottter, or what?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (fA1SL)

20 DC needs to be redacted.

Posted by: Monk at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (9acFt)

21 The FBI Claimed it Redacted the Embarrassing Fact of Andrew McCabe Spending $70,000 of Taxpayer Money on a Conference Table Due to "National Security" Concerns
Posted by: Ace of Spades

But is she seaworthy?

Posted by: Adm. Bill Kristoll at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (f3MDZ)

22 When I worked for lassen college I wondered aloud what happened to the beautiful cherry wood conference table that was in the President's office and nobody ever had an answer for that. Government officials are just plain corrupt. Remember Clinton's stealing the White House furniture on their way out? Same thing here. Check out what this asshat has stolen during his "career". It's not just the
table that is the problem with guys like him.

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:50 PM (9nW2T)

23 A real man would have got an Ikea coffee table, massage recliner, and a fully plumbed bar stocked with some kickass booze for 15,000 and saved the taxpayer 55,000.
Guy is sooooo soylent.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (e1mEI)

24 Yeah, Ace.

Nice Job.

Go ahead and take Monday off, too.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (axuXF)

25 How much did Ben Carson's wife spend on a table that the dems/media freaked out about?

I don't think it was $70,000

Posted by: girldog at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (g5YYQ)

26 I can't think of a single thing you could do with a $70,000 table that couldn't be done better with the equivalent 55,493 cans of Bumblebee brand canned tuna, adjusted for 6% sales tax.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (y87Qq)

27 The conference table should be sold and the difference in price deducted from McCabe's retirement funds.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (mpXpK)

28 How come carriage returns don't make it into the posted comments anymore?? My comment lines are all strung together.
Has pixy been doing some peyote while working on the comment code?
Hahaha.. yeah.. that is hilarious.. pixy actually working on this spaghetti code 1990's style mess of crap..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (5tSKk)

29 Lock these impudent pricks up!

Posted by: Fritz at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (J7XgW)

30 Look it was really $10k for the table. The other $60k was for my teenage Swedish masseuse.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (QEXYi)

31 Heh, guess no one at the EFF BEE LIE has read "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

Posted by: tbodie at May 25, 2018 05:52 PM (+q52R)

32 The conference table should be sold and the difference in price deducted from McCabe's retirement funds.

Posted by: Vic
.........That he now has to wait 20 years to collect! wooohoo!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2018 05:52 PM (5tSKk)

33 and yet there are still those who would let them keep their thumbs.

Posted by: x at May 25, 2018 05:52 PM (nFwvY)

34 Did any Dimbo congressman actually hire this hack so he could play out the string and get his retirement bennies like they said they were gonna?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 25, 2018 05:52 PM (O5Q3r)

35 $70,000? That's crumbs.

Posted by: Nancy with the laughable face at May 25, 2018 05:53 PM (RbV5J)

36 i am having trouble putting on my shocked face. just the tip of the iceburg. imagine the coin mueller has fucked away on his fuckery.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 25, 2018 05:53 PM (KP5rU)

37 If we hadn't splurged we would have been forced to buy an eeevil RUSSIAN table.

Posted by: Andy McCabe at May 25, 2018 05:53 PM (7PQBV)

38 If these ####### think that they can treat us like ####, they can go #### themselves. I can't believe that some FBI ######### can justify ######## activity in the name of ######## ########. I also can't believe that #### ######## recused himself and let ########## determine what the ### will or will not do with respect to ########. Are we ######### or ######? It's time to get our #### and march on ##########. The ### of the ####. Do it!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 25, 2018 05:53 PM (9BLnV)

39 Do you remember how, just a couple of weeks ago, reports were out that Scott Pruitt spend $38,000 on a secure phone communications link that couldn't be tapped? And how horrible, horrible it was to waste SO much money! (on security!)

But watch for Crickets chirping on the news that McCabe bought a $70K table for his office.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2018 05:53 PM (k1TUh)

40
Brazilian rosewood. Ask me how many pygmies died cutting down the tree!

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (gmo/4)

41 WTF does a $70,000 table even look like?

I searched and all I could come up with was a ping-pong table that looked like a stealth aircraft carrier, and an orthopedic surgery table which looked like an S&M accessory.

https://www.meditek.ca/much-orthopedic-surgery-table-cost-overview-fracture-trauma-tables/

Posted by: thatch at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (+p2i/)

42 Weren't the media super concerned about Ben Carson's furniture expenses not too long ago?

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (ANIFC)

43 Henry VIII had his faults. We all have to grant that. But he managed punishments for bureaucratic excess quite well.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (QEXYi)

44 >>>(Oh, and also: Tribalism is bad when you do it.)

Speak for yourself, crossdressing ewok. Tribadism ain't bad when I do it.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (/qEW2)

45 In Trump's America, conference tables you.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (fA1SL)

46 But watch for Crickets chirping on the news that McCabe bought a $70K table for his office.

Not mentioned at all on the MSM...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 25, 2018 05:54 PM (O2RFr)

47 You realize they could have pushed a bunch of folding tables together to seat however many they desired but nothing bespokes power than a $70000 table. They aren't their to serve. They're there to rule.

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:55 PM (9nW2T)

48 It's not YOUR money, proles.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 25, 2018 05:55 PM (oVJmc)

49 Come on, Ace, it was the Cone Of Silence table that's why it was so expensive and classified as Confidential!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 25, 2018 05:55 PM (Evws/)

50 The table was probably made out of all the exotic wood that the feds seized from Gibson.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 25, 2018 05:55 PM (9LIpg)

51 Another smear against the brave men and women of the FBI! We should be grateful for their....HEY, ARE THOSE DOUGHNUTS!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at May 25, 2018 05:55 PM (O5Q3r)

52 The table was made out of 100% pure Columbian cocaine.

Posted by: Monk at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (9acFt)

53 Kim Strassel write that the table was probably lacquered in unicorn tears.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (QEXYi)

54 Next thing you know, he'll be springing for $100K shelves.

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (Tyii7)

55 If I had 70k to spend on a table, I'd spend $50 on a table over at Goodwill, $25 for a chair at the Red Cross Secret Seconds Store and $69,925 on a couple of hot chicks to bend over it.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (axuXF)

56 Is McCabes service issued gun and badge engraved, set with diamonds, and gold plated?

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:57 PM (9nW2T)

57 $70,000? That's crumbs.
Posted by: Nancy with the laughable face at May 25, 2018 05:53 PM (RbV5J)

Well, it was just an IKEA desk. But, if the government pays $500 for a hammer, its really nothing to get your panties in a wad about. -Rod Rosenpecker.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 25, 2018 05:57 PM (9BLnV)

58 I find it odd that he himself bought a table or any office equipment for that matter. In any big organization, they have a department that is in charge of buying furniture, computers, etc.

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2018 05:57 PM (ANIFC)

59 Another smear against the brave men and women of the FBI! We should be grateful for their....HEY, ARE THOSE DOUGHNUTS!
Posted by: Bill Kristol

Donuts are on the Fiesta Deck and are restocked every hour, on the hour.
AHOY!

Posted by: Lt. Podhoretz at May 25, 2018 05:57 PM (f3MDZ)

60 A good solid table can save your life.

Posted by: A. Hitler at May 25, 2018 05:58 PM (CPfoe)

61 $70,000? That's crumbs.
That's my...my....my...my...my liquor budget for the month!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at May 25, 2018 05:58 PM (O5Q3r)

62 Scene: in a dimly-lit industrial building, McCabe finds himself shackled to a steel-framed chair. Before him stands TGE, holding a handsaw.
'Andy, the taxpayers are not gonna eat the cost of this yuuge, luxurious conference table - you are. The table, that is.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 25, 2018 05:58 PM (fA1SL)

63 Imperious assholes.

Posted by: navybrat, the trill is gone at May 25, 2018 05:58 PM (w7KSn)

64
When I worked for lassen college I wondered aloud what happened to the
beautiful cherry wood conference table that was in the President's
office and nobody ever had an answer for that. Government officials are
just plain corrupt. Remember Clinton's stealing the White House
furniture on their way out? Same thing here. Check out what this asshat
has stolen during his "career". It's not just the

table that is the problem with guys like him.

Posted by: torabora.............

When I was at the U if Ill, I was in charge of the department's inventory.. what a tedious stupid job this was..
But.. when stuff rolled off of inventory because of its purchased price - example: a Leitz microscope bought in 1935 for $24 no longer had to be counted.
Well.. those items seemed to disappear..
It takes a really nice place on a credenza in someone's office these days.. at least I imagine it does!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2018 05:58 PM (5tSKk)

65 Spend 70k on a conference desk and you are gonna have to spend at least $2k on coasters.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (axuXF)

66 Who did McCabe fuck on that $70000 table?

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (9nW2T)

67
Is this being reported *anywhere* except The Federalist?

I have a feeling it's going to be limited to conservative media, which is infuriating.

Posted by: girldog at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (g5YYQ)

68 55 If I had 70k to spend on a table, I'd spend $50 on a table over at Goodwill, $25 for a chair at the Red Cross Secret Seconds Store and $69,925 on a couple of hot chicks to bend over it.
Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (axuXF)

You could sign 2 hot college girls to a year long contract for 35k to serve you.

Posted by: Monk at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (9acFt)

69 Pffft. When Hillary was First Lady, she'd go through about $40,000 in lamps each week.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (CPfoe)

70 Remember Clinton's stealing the White House furniture on their way out?

Not to mention their pillaging of Air Force One.

Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at May 25, 2018 06:00 PM (Tyii7)

71 Who did McCabe fuck on that $70000 table?
Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (9nW2T)

You and me.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 25, 2018 06:00 PM (9BLnV)

72 We're cops, economy is for little people.

Posted by: Andrew 'Bryant' McCabe at May 25, 2018 06:00 PM (e1mEI)

73 Who did McCabe fuck on that $70000 table?

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (9nW2T)

All of us taxpayers.

Posted by: NC Ref at May 25, 2018 06:00 PM (pAx+1)

74 $70,000? That's crumbs.
That's my...my....my...my...my BOTOX budget for the month!
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at May 25, 2018 05:58 PM (O5Q3r)
=====
Fixed It for Ya

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 25, 2018 06:00 PM (y3aQB)

75 Who did McCabe fuck on that $70000 table?

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (9nW2T)

We the people.

Posted by: Chase at May 25, 2018 06:01 PM (RbV5J)

76 You could sign 2 hot college girls to a year long contract for 35k to serve you.
Posted by: Monk

35K each or do they come in a matched set?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 25, 2018 06:01 PM (f3MDZ)

77 Remember Clinton's stealing the White House furniture on their way out?

Not to mention their pillaging of Air Force One.
Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says... at May 25, 2018 06:00 PM (Tyii7)

Yeah. America's fucking Royalty.

Shitbaggin' grifters.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:01 PM (CPfoe)

78 A good solid table can save cost you your life.
-Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:01 PM (gmo/4)

79 But . . . but . . . but if the people knew we spent $70,000 on a conference table . . . they wouldn't trust us as much . . . and . . . and if they don't trust us as much, they won't cooperate when we investigate bad guys . . . and . . . and that affects national security!
So therefore national security demands that we keep this from the public. For the good of the people.

Posted by: The FBI at May 25, 2018 06:01 PM (G+VT+)

80 >>You could sign 2 hot college girls to a year long contract for 35k to serve you.

And pay $75 out of pocket!?

That actually sounds like a good deal...

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (axuXF)

81 Wow, remember the days when the left wing media celebrated the Golden Fleece awards and excoriated the pentagon for paying $900.00 for a hammer or a toilet seat or something.

I remember when Sixty Minutes did a segment on federal agency budgets where they rented storage space to fill with furniture they bought but had nowhere to put it. The agencies made sure they spent every cent of their budget so they could justify and increase the following year.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (rdl6o)

82 A good solid table can cost you your life.

-Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (gmo/4)

83 68 55 If I had 70k to spend on a table, I'd spend $50 on a table over at Goodwill, $25 for a chair at the Red Cross Secret Seconds Store and $69,925 on a couple of hot chicks to bend over it.
Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (axuXF)

You could sign 2 hot college girls to a year long contract for 35k to serve you.
Posted by: Monk at May 25, 2018 05:59 PM (9acFt)

Or 5 Tijuana Hookers...

Because doing the jobs Americans won't do!

Posted by: Obi Don Quixote at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (NgKpN)

84 For that much money the damn table better be made out of sex organs and alcohol.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (BfOXk)

85 The FBI deserves a nice conference table, only unemployed meth addicts from ghastly and disgusting middle America would object to the cost!

Posted by: Kevin Williamson tatter headed fuck at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (yhf6w)

86 I'll bet poker night felt yuuuge, classy and luxurious.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (CPfoe)

87 Chi town Jerry...they didn't bother with inventory that actually meant anything. . it's California tax money. If they couldn't find something on the list the next list simply didn't reflect its existence.

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (9nW2T)

88 If that son of a bitch ruins the browline glasses look for everyone, fuckin' Words Will Be Had, tell you what.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (y87Qq)

89 >>Check out what this asshat has stolen during his "career". It's not just the table that is the problem with guys like him.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

My other reaction to this was graft. Why on earth would a conference table cost $70K - does it have IT stuff embedded (screens, mics, etc.)?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (W+vEI)

90 How much did the Paris Peace Talks table cost?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (IqV8l)

91 Hey, I needed a table that was sturdy enough to hold the combined weight of Bill Kristol, John Kasich, and John Podhoretz while they danced the full monty for us. Whaddya expect?

Posted by: Andy McCabe at May 25, 2018 06:03 PM (EzdLW)

92 Good thing I missed the Eye-raq thread. Host and horde at their worst, in most cases. But all would be forgiven if people at least advocated a military posture and set of policies logically consistent and morally defensible in terms of their cartoonish take on recent history.

But on-topic, heard Rep. Meadows on the radio coming back from hockey (he actually got in a few words, Hannity was a bit lax). He claims things are coming to a head on the DOJ refusal to share requested info or docs. He also said the next step is contempt resolutions, and then impeachments.

FFS, this would be exactly like DOJ's lame attempt to collar "sanctuary" jurisdictions with the pin-prick of withholding law enforcement grants (which of course turned out not even to be easily applied, good homework there, DOJ) - it merely advertises weakness.

Hmmm, spring-time, back in a place called the US this would be about the time the Commerce/State/Justice appropriations bill would be getting marked up and voted on in committee.

$$$$$$$$$ - do you speak it, muthascratcha? Meadows and company have little excuse to not know that contempt resolutions, and even impeachments, are rightly regarded as lame kabuki.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2018 06:03 PM (QDnY+)

93 McCabe wanted a desk/table like ol' Matt Lauer's, IYKWIM. See that's why it cost 70 G's.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at May 25, 2018 06:03 PM (R5lpX)

94 Do

I

have

carriage

returns

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 25, 2018 06:03 PM (di1hb)

95 Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 05:56 PM (axuXF)

You seem to be quite obsessed with hot young chicks bending over tables. Love life not well at the moment?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:03 PM (vw6r3)

96 Well, now Lisa Page can add "banged on a $70,000 table" to her resume.

Posted by: pookysgirl at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (XKZwp)

97 Ahoy, sailors!

Giving our hardworking law enforcement officers good quality equipment is the mark of a civilized government.

Now meet me on the Lido Deck in an hour for a fascinating ice carving demonstration!

Posted by: Rear Adm. Bill Kristol at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (CPfoe)

98 Sheesh! The table only cost a couple grand. It was the "I'm with her" hand carved, gold leafed logo and the blood of real orphans glaze that jacked up the price.

Posted by: Andrew McCabe at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (pzRC2)

99 Must be SOME table.

Posted by: steevy at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (LiyEm)

100
The conference table was only 500 bucks but it took 3 government contractors 9 months to assemble it

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (10vO4)

101 follow the money. which spawn of which congressional shitheel sold it to him?

Posted by: x at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (nFwvY)

102 >>You seem to be quite obsessed with hot young chicks bending over tables. Love life not well at the moment?

It's dead Jim.

Posted by: garrett at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (axuXF)

103 McCabe wanted a desk/table like ol' Matt Lauer's, IYKWIM. See that's why it cost 70 G's.

It's always the third-party aftermarket that costs the bigly bucks.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (rdl6o)

104 My other reaction to this was graft. Why on earth would a conference table cost $70K - does it have IT stuff embedded (screens, mics, etc.)?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 25, 2018 06:02 PM (W+vEI)

Maybe it has the Cone of Silence.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 25, 2018 06:05 PM (xPJvm)

105 Since that table was made in France even TALKING about this could be a Logan violation. Watch your ass.

Posted by: Sally Yates (Justice grrrrl) at May 25, 2018 06:05 PM (IFmCm)

106 A good solid table can save cost you your life.
-Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
We never knew when we would've had to flip it over and use it for cover if we were attacked by ISIS! Or Al Queda!

Posted by: Andrew McCabe: Ex G-Man at May 25, 2018 06:05 PM (O5Q3r)

107 Must be SOME table.
Posted by: steevy at May 25, 2018 06:04 PM (LiyEm)

Oh, its a NICE table.

Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Table and Ottoman Empire at May 25, 2018 06:05 PM (CPfoe)

108 only a pimp from a cheap d.c. whorehouse would have a $70,000 table.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at May 25, 2018 06:05 PM (KP5rU)

109 I remember when most crooked federal parasites spent the tax payer's ill gotten loot on whores and blow.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 25, 2018 06:06 PM (EoRCO)

110 The manner in which some redactions have been used casts doubt on whether the remaining redactions are necessary and defensible.

Yes, Chuck, now that you've figured that out take a step back and understand that this is the way they ran the whole deal.

Also understand that we the people are as fed up with the whole deal as you are that stupid damn table.

Posted by: gNewt at May 25, 2018 06:06 PM (lDIk/)

111 66 Who did McCabe fuck on that $70000 table?

Posted by: torabora

Us. I didn't even get a reach around.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 25, 2018 06:06 PM (0ogQG)

112 My other reaction to this was graft. Why on earth would a conference table cost $70K - does it have IT stuff embedded (screens, mics, etc.)?
Posted by: Lizzy at May

that is not a lot for a conference table. when you are getting something nice for some place where you entertain your big clients that is not even average.

not that the fbi should need something like that.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:07 PM (MTjB1)

113 How stupid can these ruling class turds actually be?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:07 PM (CPfoe)

114 In other related news, Trump signs executive order making it easier to fire poor performing government workers.

Sad trombone woody.

Posted by: Marcus t at May 25, 2018 06:07 PM (SeyTv)

115 Bought it for $70,000 from Crazy Eddie. His prices are INSANE!

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:07 PM (gmo/4)

116
A $70k table better have an auto-jack feature. And a beer tap. And a button for to open up the laser shark pit.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2018 06:07 PM (r+sAi)

117 Either the redactions go or the people making the redactions go. One or the other.

And way to go a**hole*. You're destroying the country by pulling this stuff. A once great and (presumably) necessary institution is going to force the public to shut it down. Now it's appearing that it's more dangerous to keep it around. The security/liberty pendulum must swing back to the right.

Contempt is the gentlest emotion I have for FBI/IC management right now.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 25, 2018 06:07 PM (H8S+R)

118
How stupid can these ruling class turds actually be?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

They are the rulers and we are the ruled.
Who's stupid?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (IqV8l)

119 Maybe it has the Cone of Silence.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 25, 2018 06:05 PM (xPJvm)

Whenever I hear "Cone of Silence" what I automatically think of the "Cone of Shame" worn by animals after surgery so they don't pull out their stitches. It makes me laugh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (vw6r3)

120 You know how much my conference room table cost?

Posted by: Dr. Evil at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (CPfoe)

121 Has anyone come out with an explanation of why the FBI needed a $70K conference table. I know it was necessary to conceal the price for national security reasons, but how about the purpose of the table. Was it a nice table? Did it swaddle the agents in its warm embrace as they sat around it and came up with their so-inventive ways to protect us all?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (pvjTE)

122 Wonder how much Comey needlessly spent?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (vw6r3)

123 I saw a table in a shop that had a price tag of about $12,000.

However, it was a single large piece of beautiful, polished, petrified wood.

If I had money to waste, I would have bought it.

Alas, I do not have money to waste.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (8iiMU)

124 McCabe was originally pegged to be on Most Expensivest instead of 2 Chainz and Action Bronson. Action Andy has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:09 PM (rdl6o)

125 They are the rulers and we are the ruled.
Who's stupid?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM (IqV8l)

For now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:09 PM (CPfoe)

126 122. * raises hand *
Every. Single. Cent he was ever paid.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 25, 2018 06:09 PM (fA1SL)

127 So let me ask the obvious...how much were the chairs?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2018 06:09 PM (neVEe)

128 And I continue to see not a bit of evidence that Wray or Sessions (or Trump) realize that the FBI, and to a lesser extent DOJ, are towering infernos of public distrust. Zero stewardship going on.

Two of the most important institutions in the country, and they're in free fall with the public they are supposed to serve.

And their response is to continue with their ludicrous bad faith behavior - even as it is revealed over and over and over again (like the "OMG national security!!!! eleventy!!!" spaz-out on the Nunes memo ...... followed by ..... the revelation only of how likely unlawful and outrageous the FISA process was in the case under consideration).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2018 06:09 PM (QDnY+)

129 The national security angle here is that if the Russians knew we were stupid enough to allow G-men to have $70k tables, they would invade immediately.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (CPfoe)

130 Well you know that respect for the institution of the FIB, is so important to our dem(ocrat)ocracy, that the right wingers would pounce on how much the FIB-ers paid for a conference table (and Strozk's VIP trip to London), and invite dishonor on the FIB this jeopardizing the Rule of Law (enforcement).

So you see, to keep the right from pouncing and trying to shame the FIB, is vital to our national security.

Posted by: Axeman at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (JhE5a)

131 Is that really all Grassley has the power to do - continually write strongly worded letters to these asshats?

Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (EzdLW)

132 I bought my own private ball washer.

Posted by: Lewis Black at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (gmo/4)

133 70k would buy a coupla guillotines.

Posted by: BluesFish at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (5iPef)

134 That table costs 5k more than my special ordered "hot dogs" to the White House for a weekend.

Posted by: It's Barry! at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (9acFt)

135 But what about that science denying bastard Scott Pruitt?! Or or that Uncle Tom Ben Carson?!!?!?!?
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: thathalfrican - OG LoG - Broke Minds Think Alike at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (IYHxL)

136 28 How come carriage returns don't make it into the posted comments anymore?? My comment lines are all strung together.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (5tSKk)

++++

Neener.

Neener.

Neener.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 25, 2018 06:11 PM (pvjTE)

137 Is that really all Grassley has the power to do - continually write strongly worded letters to these asshats?
Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:10 PM (EzdLW)

To be fair, Trey Gowdy has a list of very pointed questions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:11 PM (CPfoe)

138 127
So let me ask the obvious...how much were the chairs?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2018 06:09 PM (neVEe)

Because chairs are extra, you know.
Like floor mats for the car.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 25, 2018 06:11 PM (8iiMU)

139

Trump should have McCabe waterboarded on the table

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:12 PM (10vO4)

140 But for the fine Corinthian leathered chairs in the strategy room, we never would have won Gulf War I. They held many a secret.

Posted by: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at May 25, 2018 06:12 PM (H8S+R)

141 Criminy, that is what I have paid in FedTax in the past 8 years.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 25, 2018 06:12 PM (e1mEI)

142 All carriage sales are FINAL

Posted by: Crazy Hakkim's Table and Ottoman Empire at May 25, 2018 06:12 PM (CPfoe)

143 Oversight is now the new bitch seat.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:12 PM (rdl6o)

144 If you remove the tag from underneath that table, you are violating federal law.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (8iiMU)

145 McCabe played the STEAL card so STEAL his thumb or he won't stop

Posted by: x at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (nFwvY)

146 The base price of the table was reasonable but they just HAD to get the undercoating.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (CPfoe)

147 The table was used FBI HQ Wednesday Night Arm Wrestling

Posted by: Comey 3:16 at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (Ln5Lb)

148 Sorry, if previously mentioned, but per Page's texts (from which this info was gleaned), McCabe wanted ANOTHER table bc this one didn't fit his office.

Posted by: Ever at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (OLS0m)

149 6 Look.
In the heat of the moment things were said that we both wish we could un-say.
Things were done that we both wishe weren't.

I redacted things.

You redacted things.

Really. It's all water under the bridge as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: Andrew McCabe at May 25, 2018 05:48 PM (axuXF)

I got yer 6, brother!

Posted by: Morgan Freeman at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (DIosY)

150 How the hell does a conference table even cost 70 grand in the first place?

Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (EzdLW)

151 How much did Ben Carson's wife spend on a table that the dems/media freaked out about?

I don't think it was $70,000
Posted by: girldog at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (g5YYQ)

If she was spending Ben Carson's money, why should I care? Now, if she's like Mrs. Cop, she just happened to have forgotten her purse while shopping, so Ben had to buy it because it was on sale: "Look at all the money I saved!"

Now, spending $70K on the tax payers' dime is a different matter.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (5Yee7)

152
The table is a pittance in terms of the damage the deep state is doing to the country, but it is a pretty big indicator of their absolute arrogance.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (r+sAi)

153 Maybe it has the Cone of Silence.
------
WHAT?

Posted by: andycanuck at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (Evws/)

154 The Federal Bureau of Overpriced Furniture

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (CPfoe)

155 This table would have paid for three months of the Ace of Spades Pornhub account. Easy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (NVmJr)

156 @Chi-Town Jerry

Just a guess, but you are running Firefox (or a derivative like Pale Moon) and you allow Javascript at the HQ.

You can fix your problem by one of the following:
- change browsers
- block javascript at this site
- Strip out formatting using something like notepad and paste that in

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (pvjTE)

157 145. I gotta say - the more I learn, the more I see the appeal of thumb-collecting.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (fA1SL)

158 Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at May 25, 2018 06:12 PM (e1mEI)

Well you should feel good. You did your civic duty to make sure that table was purchased.
*salutes*

Posted by: thathalfrican - OG LoG - Broke Minds Think Alike at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (IYHxL)

159 How the hell does a conference table even cost 70 grand in the first place?
Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (EzdLW)

"We're from the federal government and we're here to buy a nice table."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:15 PM (CPfoe)

160 How the hell does a conference table even cost 70 grand in the first place?

It's made from illegal rain forest tree wood. Ask Gibson how that works.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:15 PM (rdl6o)

161 Hands: "Is that really all Grassley has the power to do - continually write strongly worded letters to these asshats?"

If he wants action, he can help the House and start slashing budgets and salaries. Force the transfer of more responsibility to the furniture which has more integrity and sensibility.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 25, 2018 06:15 PM (H8S+R)

162 Wonder how much Comey needlessly spent?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM

Since it's Comey, I suppose all of it was needless.

Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:16 PM (EzdLW)

163 Criminy, that is what I have paid in FedTax in the past 8 years.

Well, uhhhh, thank you?

Posted by: Andrew McCabe at May 25, 2018 06:16 PM (NVmJr)

164 The Federal Bureau of Overpriced Furniture
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:14 PM (CPfoe)

There's one of those out past the Grand Ledge exit on 96. They've been "going out of business" for like 25 years.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:16 PM (y87Qq)

165 Can the Government just make me the top official at some agency?. I have had the same antique wooden dining room table my parents got in the 1960's. I've also had the same kitchen table for about 30 years. Neither cost $70,000 dollars

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:17 PM (vw6r3)

166 It's not all bad news. We got the cigars, wet bar, and stripper pole on sale, so there's that.

Posted by: Andrew McCabe at May 25, 2018 06:17 PM (pzRC2)

167 70k for a conference table..wow..wonder what kind of bells and whistles it comes with?

Posted by: IC at May 25, 2018 06:17 PM (PEJUg)

168 Can the Government just make me the top official at some agency?. I have had the same antique wooden dining room table my parents got in the 1960's. I've also had the same kitchen table for about 30 years. Neither cost $70,000 dollars
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:17 PM

Pretty much the same here. Plus our kitchen needs to be remodeled. I am only asking for $40,000!

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 25, 2018 06:18 PM (3c1uO)

169 I've also had the same kitchen table for about 30 years.

You bought a kitchen table when you were negative one?

Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2018 06:18 PM (+lOpA)

170 70k$, piffle, how many villagers died carving it?

Posted by: Mallory Archer at May 25, 2018 06:18 PM (FhXTo)

171
Just think how much Mueller is wasting right now. I bet he got himself some pretty furniture too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2018 06:18 PM (r+sAi)

172 Wonder how much Comey needlessly spent?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM
=====

Since it's Comey, I suppose all of it was needless.
=========

Comey described his as an alter

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee drinker at May 25, 2018 06:18 PM (NVmJr)

173 Trump should have McCabe waterboarded on the table
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May

maybe there is enough wood there for a scaffolding.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:19 PM (MTjB1)

174 Must be one of them smart tables.

Posted by: Chicken Human Hybrid at May 25, 2018 06:19 PM (UdKB7)

175 Rich Evans from RLM asked if they couldn't just use a folding chable....

Posted by: steevy at May 25, 2018 06:19 PM (LiyEm)

176 But it was a Beautiful and Bountious TABLEAU and the meetings around it were SUPERB....money well,spent. note punctuation Horde @ corgis.

Posted by: saf at May 25, 2018 06:19 PM (5IHGB)

177 Scrunt of the day
As weve been saying all along, under Greg Abbotts failed leadership, property taxes are unpredictable and burdensome for Texans everywhere, including Sheriff Lupe Valdez. Sheriff Valdez has an agreement with the counties to payoff 2017 property taxes and plans to do so entirely in the coming months.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:19 PM (JFO2v)

178 Honey, you know that new gun I bought. Well I didn't want to tell you the cost of it, due to concerns for national security.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 25, 2018 06:19 PM (3c1uO)

179 This is Page's text about the table: No way to change the room. The table alone was 70k. (You can't repeat that.) No, instead it means we now have to get a small conference table for his actual office, so that he can actually have a meeting that is intimate.

Posted by: Ever at May 25, 2018 06:20 PM (OLS0m)

180 McCabe's net worth is $11 million dollars. He's got expensive tastes.

Posted by: James Comey at May 25, 2018 06:21 PM (pzRC2)

181 Why is this so difficult to understand? Whomever was responsible for putting the redaction on the $70,000 table gets canned in a very visible and heartless manner. The message is then sent to the other cute ones in the employ of the FBI so that they know that it won't be tolerated.

Instead, no repercussions sends a very different message. An incorrect and unacceptable one.

Posted by: Orson at May 25, 2018 06:21 PM (gYUPt)

182 Remember when leftists questioned the government? They are just like NeverTrumper cucks.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 25, 2018 06:21 PM (Y9uH4)

183 The Feds knew they were getting a good deal because every time there is an inflatable gorilla balloon in front of a furniture store, you know the prices are good!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2018 06:22 PM (neVEe)

184 Whenever I hear "Cone of Silence" what I automatically think of the "Cone of Shame" worn by animals after surgery so they don't pull out their stitches. It makes me laugh.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:08 PM

I do not like the Cone of Shame.

Posted by: Dug at May 25, 2018 06:22 PM (7C3D2)

185
Good thing I missed the Eye-raq thread. Host and horde at their worst, in most cases.

check Marcus T

Posted by: DaveA at May 25, 2018 06:22 PM (FhXTo)

186 This is Page's text about the table: No way to change the room. The table alone was 70k. (You can't repeat that.) No, instead it means we now have to get a small conference table for his actual office, so that he can actually have a meeting that is intimate.

Just how hard would it have been for Page to whip out a measuring tape and MEASURE HIS FUCKING OFFICE before he ordered a $70k table?

Dumb question when the tax money flows like water, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:22 PM (CPfoe)

187 You bought a kitchen table when you were negative one?Posted by: eleven at May 25, 2018 06:18 PM (+lOpA)

LOL. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 25, 2018 06:23 PM (vw6r3)

188 The Feds knew they were getting a good deal because every time there is an inflatable gorilla balloon in front of a furniture store, you know the prices are good!
Posted by: Diogenes at May

hey, trying to drink the coffee, not spray it on the keyboard.

try to put the funny follows trigger warning up next time ok?

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:23 PM (MTjB1)

189 Plus, they got Kohles cash, so they saved even more!

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:23 PM (gmo/4)

190 what if I told you about a table that didn't need coasters, was mostly bombproof, had remote doorlock buttons, a wet bar, and was the perfect height for bending things over? how much would you pay?

Posted by: x at May 25, 2018 06:23 PM (nFwvY)

191
Give me six 2 X 4's and I'll build him a table for $70.

If its a govt contract, I'll have to add my govt overcharge overhead fee for $50,000 and a $5,000 kick back fee, but still cheaper!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (r+sAi)

192 Andy should've just sent himself an email stating that he wants total transparency and . . . absolved!

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (rdl6o)

193 Plus, they got Kohles cash, so they saved even more!

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:23 PM (gmo/4)

They would have been crazy NOT to buy it!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (CPfoe)

194

EM POP TARTS FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Màxie Waters' Hair at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (6kxie)

195 Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Completely

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (SjImc)

196 Two of the most important institutions in the country, and they're in free fall with the public they are supposed to serve.

It's not the bottom til you stop digging.

Posted by: DaveA at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (FhXTo)

197 It's like the Tesla of desks. 200 miles on a charge!

Posted by: Human Chicken Hybrid at May 25, 2018 06:25 PM (UdKB7)

198 Next thing you know, he'll be springing for $100K shelves.
Posted by: That deplorable guy who always says

Ace! Cowboy up!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 25, 2018 06:25 PM (3oX+R)

199
Just how hard would it have been for Page to whip out a measuring tape and MEASURE HIS FUCKING OFFICE before he ordered a $70k table?

Because he'd have to buy a $10,000 tape measure first

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:25 PM (10vO4)

200 200th?

From IKEA.

Posted by: anon at May 25, 2018 06:25 PM (Roy2Z)

201 $70,000 for a Conference Table? Hell yes. It has the Cone of Silence.You think those things come included for free?

Posted by: Gunslinger at May 25, 2018 06:25 PM (R2gO3)

202 You can't make this shit up!
National security or FIB security when the taxpayers rip them limb from limb?
Of course, asking for a friend.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2018 06:26 PM (pw+jk)

203 "what if I told you about a table that didn't need coasters, was mostly bombproof, had remote doorlock buttons, a wet bar, and was the perfect height for bending things over? how much would you pay?"

Does it come with a rape button? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Matt Lauer at May 25, 2018 06:26 PM (pzRC2)

204 We seem to have tried to put 10 lbs of crazy in a 2 lb bag.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2018 06:26 PM (vpyVq)

205 I'll bet you that table was purchased from a business with personal connections to McCabe or his staff. What did he spend on the other shit in his office?

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 06:26 PM (9nW2T)

206 The Feds knew they were getting a good deal because every time there is
an inflatable gorilla balloon in front of a furniture store, you know
the prices are good!

Nah. What you really want is one of those dancing bogalooo epileptic things that they use at the used car lots! That's a sign that tells you "quality merchandise inside"!

Posted by: tu3031 at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (O5Q3r)

207 192 Andy should've just sent himself an email stating that he wants total transparency and . . . absolved!
Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (rdl6o)

The old Jan 5 I was there and nothing bad happened email.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (JFO2v)

208 Maybe the table's been rigged with expensive electronic listening devices.

Posted by: Debra Marie Heine at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (iioJj)

209 The table was originally $10,000, so they had to haggle a bit.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (9LIpg)

210 Plus, they got Kohles cash, so they saved even more!

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:23 PM (gmo/4)

They would have been crazy NOT to buy it!!!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM (CPfoe)

Heh...So you guys are married, too?

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (5Yee7)

211 Whomever was responsible for putting the redaction on the $70,000 table gets canned in a very visible and heartless manner.
Posted by: Orson at May 25, 2018 06:21 PM (gYUPt)

Ideally according to the time and pressure processing guidelines specified by the USDA, otherwise it could be dangerous.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (y87Qq)

212 150
How the hell does a conference table even cost 70 grand in the first place?

Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:13 PM (EzdLW)

Ha. A quick search on Herman Miller's website lists up to $8500 for their most expensive conference table.
Steelcase is about $1300.
For Haworth, it looks like a 6.1m x 5.1m (holy shit!) executive table has a list price of $17,971.
Go figure.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (8iiMU)

213 DaveA, caught that, pretty good, and also saw your pre-emptive bail-out. As noted, I'll just maintain my olympian forebearance and continue to avert my eyes as needed.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (QDnY+)

214 Mattress Mack to the rescue!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:28 PM (7LY+6)

215 CONE OF WHAT???

Posted by: andycanuck at May 25, 2018 06:28 PM (Evws/)

216 I'll bet you that table was purchased from a business with personal connections to McCabe or his staff. What did he spend on the other shit in his office?

Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 06:26 PM

Not to mention Fusion GPS...and some Rooskie who planted the listening devices into the legs.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 25, 2018 06:28 PM (neVEe)

217 I gave it up on that very same conference table.

Posted by: Andy M. at May 25, 2018 06:28 PM (sXefu)

218 Just how hard would it have been for Page to whip
out a measuring tape and MEASURE HIS FUCKING OFFICE before he ordered a
$70k table?

Because he'd have to buy a $10,000 tape measure first

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:25 PM (10vO4)
Plus, with the requisition paperwork, it would take 6-months to receive the tape measure and the table salesman said the $70,000 sales price was only good for that day. So, there was no time to measure!

Posted by: Archer at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (gmo/4)

219
Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Completely
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM

Related: Samantha Power unmasks citizens completely

Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (EzdLW)

220 What does a 70K table look like? Mahogany with gold inlay? Maybe some platinum?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (vpyVq)

221 Maybe the desk is made from 100 percent recycled material. Smart phones, hard drives, laptops, and such.
That stuff is expensive to grind up and repurpose.

Posted by: Hybrid Human Chicken at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (UdKB7)

222 Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man:

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

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (rdl6o)

223 209 The table was originally $10,000, so they had to haggle a bit.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 25, 2018 06:27 PM (9LIpg)

Govt haggling

I can fix that hip for 100 bux
I can fix that hip for 10k bux

Ok you are higher you win

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:30 PM (JFO2v)

224 I recall stories years and years ago about how the classifying thing was out of control. That was back when the media bothered to report actual things about government instead of their Muh rayciss/sexist/homophobia narratives.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 25, 2018 06:30 PM (4ErVI)

225 business with personal connections to McCabe or his staff. "

It's D.C...
Everyone does stuff with their staff...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:30 PM (7LY+6)

226 Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Completely
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM

*cough*

Posted by: George Washington at May 25, 2018 06:30 PM (vpyVq)

227 Maybe it was a contest to see which bureaucrat could spend the most money on a single unnecessary office item.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at May 25, 2018 06:31 PM (rdl6o)

228 Maybe the desk is made from 100 percent recycled material. Smart phones, hard drives, laptops, and such.
That stuff is expensive to grind up and repurpose.
Posted by: Hybrid Human Chicken at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (UdKB7)

-----------------------------

Not only that but the desk is durable AND edible. The drawers can be used as bowls and re-used or eaten like a taco bowl shell.

Posted by: Undocumented at May 25, 2018 06:31 PM (iQKgg)

229 5k$ for the little choo-choo set to drive memos and donuts around the top.
The other 60K$ they just wasted.

Posted by: DaveA at May 25, 2018 06:31 PM (FhXTo)

230 a good woodworker could probably make a nice coffin out of it

Posted by: x at May 25, 2018 06:31 PM (nFwvY)

231 It's a lounging conference table that comes with a thick pillowtop and side bolsters for those special conferences.

Posted by: gNewt at May 25, 2018 06:31 PM (lDIk/)

232 It's the Cadillac of tables. You can fit four dead bodies in the trunk.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:31 PM (CPfoe)

233 Whomever was responsible for putting the redaction on the $70,000 table gets canned in a very visible and heartless manner.
Posted by: Orson at May

yep. you have to make the willing accomplices suffer for their treachery.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:32 PM (MTjB1)

234
How did they keep Page fromgnawing on the legs?

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:32 PM (10vO4)

235 Soon enough, the 'need' to defend Trump by recklessly divulging the secret cost of a conference table will pass. Then, you'll stand in the wreckage of your own reputation and ask yourself, "Was it worth it?" The answer will be as clear then as it should be clear now. It's not, and it never was.

Posted by: David French at May 25, 2018 06:32 PM (DuAZ5)

236
When is the last time the FBI was audited or forced to show their hand? Never?

They are in full blown cover up mode from A to B.

There must be soo so much to hide.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 25, 2018 06:32 PM (fceHP)

237 You don't have a legitimate secret spy program if you don't have a $70k conference table.

That's like putting regular-guy condoms on a Magnum penis.

Posted by: Fritz at May 25, 2018 06:32 PM (J7XgW)

238 Literally impossible. Name the vendor who received the check.

Posted by: Tonic Dog at May 25, 2018 06:33 PM (gWaRo)

239 Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Completely
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:24 PM

*cough*
Posted by: George Washington at May 25, 2018 06:30 PM (vpyVq)

Hey, you guys are plagiarizing ME

Posted by: Lord Acton at May 25, 2018 06:33 PM (5Yee7)

240 This is why Hillary Clinton went outside normal channels to buy a server and set it up in her bathroom. She saved taxpayers at least $1,000,000. That is why the FBI shut down the investigation. Her savings would have shamed them. That is the real story here.

Posted by: Undocumented at May 25, 2018 06:33 PM (iQKgg)

241
Maybe the table came with free lap dances on friday nights.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (r+sAi)

242 Why did I buy a $70,000 conference table?

Because the $140,000 one I ordered is on back order and not scheduled to arrive for six months.

Posted by: Andrew McCabe at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (pzRC2)

243 220 What does a 70K table look like? Mahogany with gold inlay? Maybe some platinum?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2018 06:29 PM (vpyVq)

Tom Wolfe wrote about this in bonfire of the vanities. There was a new dining table ordered for the penthouse and he goes on for 5 pages about what it took to get the table. The vein are in your local driver license offices, the courthouse, the statehouse, and DC. Who TF cares what if Bozos wife uses rolls of 100s for a tampon? It anit your money. Bhussein spent more money than ever spent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (JFO2v)

244 thick pillowtop and side bolsters "

So a racing table?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (7LY+6)

245 It has been my luck to be in a bank but leaving it twice.
Once I did not know about but one where the guy was two behind me in line. I was with my 79 year old mother and my wife at a bank (building) I've used, at that time, for 22 years.

Guy was doing the worst case of Pee-Pee dance I had ever seen. I gave him some slack because I was in line at that bank and had to go too. The manager let me use the head. Sooooooo.. ..

I tell the guy "If you got to go the manager will let you use the restroom." he declined my offer but kept up the 70s disco no hands used Pee-Pee dancing. Like I said old mother, so the guy is holding up the bank as we walk out the back door. Had no idea. Got mom into the car a few minutes later and left.

The FIB chick that gave us the low down and final statement was pretty good looking and "appeared" a good person. That idea of a FIB person NOT BEING A STASSI is G-O-N-E.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (pw+jk)

246
How did they keep Page from gnawing on the legs? She was Strzok down repeatedly!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (nWc4E)

247 Their Pledge budget must be completely out of control.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (CPfoe)

248 Well off to the log cabin in the woods to unplug. Have a blessed Memorial Day.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 25, 2018 06:35 PM (3c1uO)

249 These people are a power unto themselves. The only that's going to end that are helicopter rides

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 25, 2018 06:35 PM (SiINZ)

250 Trump should step in and fire the person(s) making that redaction. I would looove to see who steps in and says, "Bad idea, Mr. President. And the optics would surely hurt the politics of the act."

Talk about a Swamp-Draining Spectacular... this is it!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 25, 2018 06:35 PM (H8S+R)

251 thick pillowtop and side bolsters "

So a racing table?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (7LY+6)

Five-point harness.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:35 PM (y87Qq)

252 Literally impossible. Name the vendor who received the check."

Who but W.B. Mason?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:35 PM (7LY+6)

253 My fucking house didnt cost 70,000

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (gn+j9)

254 Tom Wolfe wrote about this in bonfire of the vanities. There was a new dining table ordered for the penthouse and he goes on for 5 pages about what it took to get the table. The vein are in your local driver license offices, the courthouse, the statehouse, and DC. Who TF cares what if Bozos wife uses rolls of 100s for a tampon? It anit your money. Bhussein spent more money than ever spent.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:34 PM (JFO2v)

Granted, I am just wondering what it looks like. Maybe old growth sequoia/redwood?

Posted by: George Washington at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (vpyVq)

255 Well off to the log cabin in the woods to unplug. Have a blessed Memorial Day.
Posted by: Minnfidel at May 25, 2018 06:35 PM (3c1uO)

Sounds lovely. Have a nice visit. Drive safe.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (y87Qq)

256 I think they just needed to find a new hiding place for the Book of Secrets, since everybody who watched National Treasure 2 know that it was in the Resolute Desk.

That extra money paid for extra security, to keep the golden Aztec Temple beneath Mt. Rushmore under wraps.

Posted by: Axeman at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (JhE5a)

257 205 I'll bet you that table was purchased from a business with personal connections to McCabe or his staff. What did he spend on the other shit in his office?
Posted by: torabora at May 25, 2018 06:26 PM (9nW2T)

___________________________

I think you put a few minutes aside to bring Herman Miller before the committee and have him bring his financial records to track that $70k. Good grief..you can buy two quality cars with that money...you can buy a Tesla S series for $70k. And according to an NBC story (not about this) you can buy a 3 bedroom house in Syracuse, NY.

Posted by: Orson at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (gYUPt)

258 Five-point harness.
Posted by: hogmartin at May

lol

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (MTjB1)

259 Five-point harness."

Keeps 'em in place.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:37 PM (7LY+6)

260 Off, Noble sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2018 06:37 PM (vpyVq)

261
In fairness you can't have British spies coming over for a conference on how to throw an American election and expect them to sit at a lousy $5,000 conference table.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:37 PM (10vO4)

262 Trump shook the hand of every Naval Academe Officer!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:37 PM (JFO2v)

263 My fucking house didnt cost 70,000
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May

is that what you guys call a pool house in wisconsin?

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:37 PM (MTjB1)

264 Rum... Been in a bank that was robbed twice.

I think I better get more into the moment

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (pw+jk)

265 you can buy a Tesla S series for $70k. "

Seriously? Tesla again?

Heh

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (7LY+6)

266 off topic, this was at Zero Hedge about two hours ago:
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed has ordered that all government contracts cease being awarded to German companies as an aggressive punitive measure for Germany's plan to stick by the Iran nuclear deal.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (KxbBq)

267 My fucking house didnt cost 70,000
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (gn+j9)

Well yeah, but you have a separate house just for fucking. Some of us only have the one.

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (y87Qq)

268 People, pure budgeting. If you don't spend it you don't get more next year . Go shopping, guys.

That's how you get a 70k table.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (und0g)

269 It should be a felony to make redactions without a legal basis, loss of job and pension, banned from any government employment.

Posted by: Mr Black at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (4Szfi)

270 Unless your table has the ability to drop insubordinates into a fire pit, you wasted that money.

Posted by: Dr. Evil at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (RbV5J)

271 Granted, I am just wondering what it looks like. Maybe old growth sequoia/redwood?

Panda ivory surface with genuine manatee hide padding on the corners.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (CPfoe)

272 http://bit.ly/2KUqyOY
+++++
Praying Medic Vid on Q

Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (y3aQB)

273 $70,000? I bet it was even uncomfortable to fuck on. But perfect for fucking the American People on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:39 PM (SjImc)

274 maybe he bought that clawfoot table that was made for some redcoat general that was on antique roadshow?

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:39 PM (MTjB1)

275 I've built entire executive conference rooms fitted out with state of the art video and communication teleconferencing systems for less than 70k.
70k for a conference table alone is, shall we say, gougey!

These people need to have their necks stretched from a quick drop.

Posted by: Kreplach at May 25, 2018 06:40 PM (UfMVm)

276 271 Granted, I am just wondering what it looks like. Maybe old growth sequoia/redwood?

Panda ivory surface with genuine manatee hide padding on the corners.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 25, 2018 06:38 PM (CPfoe)

Oooo, sounds classy. But you need the Baby Seal eyes for that true touch of class.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2018 06:40 PM (vpyVq)

277 That's like putting regular-guy condoms on a Magnum penis."

Ahem.

Posted by: Magnum, P.I. at May 25, 2018 06:40 PM (7LY+6)

278 I had a guy offer me $70,000 for a table I had once, and I said "really, you're gonna give me $70,000 for this?" and he said "well not exactly, but I will trade you these two $35,000 lawn chairs for it."

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 25, 2018 06:40 PM (k1TUh)

279 You see the feds haggled that down from $120,000. So that equals a $50,000 surplus.

When you think about it there is just nowhere to cut the federal budget.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2018 06:41 PM (pw+jk)

280 Granted, I am just wondering what it looks like. Maybe old growth sequoia/redwood?

Posted by: George Washington at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (vpyVq)

Maple Leaf Oak

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:41 PM (JFO2v)

281 Hillary Clinton declared that there was a crisis in our democracy in a speech on Friday as she received a medal from Harvard University for her service to the country.

Well she should know, she caused it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:41 PM (SjImc)

282 I bet it was even uncomfortable"

Rising Sun, anyone?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:41 PM (7LY+6)

283
Even Strozk knew it offensive and he was in a conspiracy to throw an election.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 25, 2018 06:42 PM (r+sAi)

284 "One common voice" demands "justice, not politics."

https://youtu.be/2r-CpKv2pa8

https://youtu.be/bil86EvHmaQ

Posted by: The Business at May 25, 2018 06:42 PM (UiRxW)

285 279 You see the feds haggled that down from $120,000. So that equals a $50,000 surplus.

When you think about it there is just nowhere to cut the federal budget.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2018 06:41 PM (pw+jk)

My Old Man said son when your wife says she saved you 500 buck on a couch just ask for the money!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:42 PM (JFO2v)

286 there is always a crisis in our democracy when the Democrats lose.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2018 06:42 PM (KxbBq)

287 I've built entire executive conference rooms fitted out with state of the art video and communication teleconferencing systems for less than 70k.
70k for a conference table alone is, shall we say, gougey!
Posted by: Kreplach at May 25, 2018 06:40 PM (UfMVm)

I don't think the point was to have a really nice conference table with all the little gadget pods and plugs and nice shiny wood, it was to spend $70,000 on a table because
1. fuck you
2. see #1

Posted by: hogmartin at May 25, 2018 06:42 PM (y87Qq)

288

It was probably a pool table. It's not like they are doing anything important these days.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 25, 2018 06:43 PM (fceHP)

289 $70K?
If I don't walk in and do funny good time in my shorts, no way.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 25, 2018 06:43 PM (pw+jk)

290 My fucking house didnt cost 70,000
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 25, 2018 06:36 PM (gn+j9)
---
Well most of us here can't afford a fucking house, we just have to use our bedrooms, your highness!

Posted by: Axeman at May 25, 2018 06:43 PM (JhE5a)

291 In the wake of the NFLs announcement that it has adopted a policy of fining teams and personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem, dozens of protesters gathered outside the leagues New York headquarters.

Fridays demonstration was reportedly organized by the NAACP, the Justice League of New York City, the National Action Network and the Womens March.

Jesus look at the left wing line up? LOL communist SOBs one and all

Pick your side

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:43 PM (SjImc)

292 maybe they needed to make sure the table didn't have any Russian listening devices.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2018 06:44 PM (KxbBq)

293 277 That's like putting regular-guy condoms on a Magnum penis."

Ahem.
Posted by: Magnum, P.I. at May 25, 2018 06:40 PM (7LY+6)

You can put 38s in a 357 but not 357 in a 38

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:44 PM (JFO2v)

294
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed has ordered that all government contracts cease being awarded to German companies as an aggressive punitive measure for Germany's plan to stick by the Iran nuclear deal.

Saudis love their German built yachts. Lurssen can't be happy

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 25, 2018 06:44 PM (10vO4)

295 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed has ordered that all government contracts cease being awarded to German companies as an aggressive punitive measure for Germany's plan to stick by the Iran nuclear deal.

-------------------------------

Guess he's not dead after all.

Posted by: Undocumented at May 25, 2018 06:45 PM (iQKgg)

296 A guy who goes by "Rex" on the twatters has an interesting bit of speculation - that Obama used extraordinary authority that exists under the FISA law for warrantless surveillance, requiring no prior court approval, for emergency situations. He speculates *this* might be the Ultimate Secret that DOJ and FBI are so clumsily trying to protect.

Since HPSCI and Senate Judiciary are focused on finding the origins of the counter-intel operation, it might explain things. But given that 1) it will eventually be found out, and 2) it's on Obama and his gang of idiots - it doesn't make a lot of sense that the current crew would extend themselves to protect it.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2018 06:45 PM (QDnY+)

297 there is always a crisis in our democracy when the Democrats lose."

Along with higher gas prices in the summer and the homeless.

Go figure

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:45 PM (7LY+6)

298

http://www.11ravens.com/shop/poseidon-billiards

made in the USA

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 25, 2018 06:46 PM (fceHP)

299 if Obama is charged with anything, Al Sharpton will go on a hunger strike.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2018 06:46 PM (KxbBq)

300 286 there is always a crisis in our democracy when the Democrats lose.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2018 06:42 PM (KxbBq)

Cause democracy is 2 wolves, 3 coyotes, and a honey badger voting against 3 sheep and 9 YO Brownie.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:46 PM (JFO2v)

301 To be fair, the $70,000 table had cool pistols mounted under the top in front of McCabe's seat.

Posted by: Miklos, value-conscious table shopper at May 25, 2018 06:47 PM (zCyNd)

302 So what does pudgy Bill Kristol have to say about this?

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 25, 2018 06:47 PM (eAMlh)

303 299 if Obama is charged with anything, Al Sharpton will go on a hunger strike.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 25, 2018 06:46 PM (KxbBq)

Resist we mulch
Rewind we mifl
Retard we much

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:48 PM (JFO2v)

304 $70k isn't a bad deal for a conference table if it's 600 feet long.

Posted by: Weasel at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (p9m3t)

305
So what does pudgy Bill Kristol have to say about this?
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 25, 2018 06:47 PM

Ahoy!

Posted by: Irving Kristol's mediocre son at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (EzdLW)

306 297 there is always a crisis in our democracy when the Democrats lose."

Along with higher gas prices in the summer and the homeless.

Go figure
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:45 PM (7LY+6)

I think we have about 60 regional blends of petrol. The EPA has created this.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (JFO2v)

307 Yo Maxine!

Gotta borrow back my wig, baby!

Posted by: Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (zCyNd)

308 guy who goes by "Rex" on the twatters has an interesting bit of speculation - that Obama used extraordinary authority that exists under the FISA law for warrantless surveillance, requiring no prior court approval, for emergency situations. He speculates *this* might be the Ultimate Secret that DOJ and FBI are so clumsily trying to protect.

Since HPSCI and Senate Judiciary are focused on finding the origins of the counter-intel operation, it might explain things. But given that 1) it will eventually be found out, and 2) it's on Obama and his gang of idiots - it doesn't make a lot of sense that the current crew would extend themselves to protect it.
Posted by: rhomboid at May

well, if that does exist and if obama really did misuse it and if the fbi, doj, whoever has been trying to hide the abuse it is going to have to go.

suck it.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (MTjB1)

309 Cause democracy is 2 wolves, 3 coyotes, and a honey badger voting against 3 sheep and 9 YO Brownie.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:46 PM (JFO2v)
--
It's also short for democratocracy.

Posted by: Axeman at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (JhE5a)

310 Ok, this pool table starts at $62K before customization.

Too gaudy for my tastes- no built in beer cozy?

https://tinyurl.com/y9dr6ckc

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 25, 2018 06:50 PM (vpyVq)

311 Lurssen can't be happy"

They can build you a 70K table, no problem!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:50 PM (7LY+6)

312 Resist we mulch
Rewind we mifl
Retard we much
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:48 PM (JFO2v)

That's the new opening song to monday night football right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 25, 2018 06:50 PM (SjImc)

313 blackjack, poker tables

that would make more sense, gambling with taxpayer dollars

http://www.11ravens.com/shop-2/

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 25, 2018 06:50 PM (fceHP)

314 Of course the cost of the table was Nt. Security otherwise the revolting peasants might have asked questions.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 25, 2018 06:50 PM (und0g)

315
$70k isn't a bad deal for a conference table if it's 600 feet long.
Posted by: Weasel at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM

That could hold 16 boned hog rolls!

Posted by: Meat Master Carl Switzer at May 25, 2018 06:51 PM (EzdLW)

316 307 Yo Maxine!

Gotta borrow back my wig, baby!
Posted by: Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (zCyNd)

Extensions are a constitutional right.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:51 PM (JFO2v)

317 if Obama is charged with anything, Al Sharpton will go on a hunger strike.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken

sharpton and his wife are low rent, low rent versions of the underhills. she has any indication he is in trouble she will shove him down the stairs faster than obama would jump in line at reggie's gloryhole.

Posted by: yankeefifth at May 25, 2018 06:51 PM (MTjB1)

318 do I spy a NOOD?

Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:51 PM (EzdLW)

319 I think we have about 60 regional blends of petrol"

This year's changover cracked the 30 mark. 2 seasons means past the 60 mark.

Just bizarre.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 25, 2018 06:52 PM (7LY+6)

320 Yo Maxine!

Gotta borrow back my wig, baby!
Posted by: Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton at May 25, 2018 06:49 PM (zCyNd)
---
Try to hang on, Maxine.

Posted by: Donald Fagen at May 25, 2018 06:52 PM (JhE5a)

321 Since HPSCI and Senate Judiciary are focused on finding the origins of the counter-intel operation, it might explain things. But given that 1) it will eventually be found out, and 2) it's on Obama and his gang of idiots - it doesn't make a lot of sense that the current crew would extend themselves to protect it.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 25, 2018 06:45 PM (QDnY+)

They're probably trying to hide that the domestic spying with sketchy warrants with manufactured probable cause pre-dates Pres. Obama.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 25, 2018 06:52 PM (5Yee7)

322 I got one of them fancy billiard tables with the cup holders.

Never seen a billiard myself, but they must be good sized critters.

They shoot 'em at night, or so Jethro tells me.

Posted by: Jed Clampett at May 25, 2018 06:52 PM (zCyNd)

323

heh

b*tching at Trump's spending on furniture

One of Trump's more extravagant furnishing purchases has been a custom conference table from the Kittinger Company that cost a whopping $13,000.

over at Bustle.com (Whom I have never heard of)

Trump's White House Furniture Is Costing Taxpayers An Arm and A Leg

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 25, 2018 06:54 PM (fceHP)

324 >>The national security angle here is that if the Russians knew we were stupid enough to allow G-men to have $70k tables, they would invade immediately.

"Stupid Americans, more focused on HQ décor than stopping us!"
--- Putin

Isn't there a maxim about organizations who build their luxe dream HQ's will soon go out of business?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 25, 2018 06:55 PM (W+vEI)

325 It's not that someone didn't want Congress to know the exorbitant cost. Someone was afraid of the rank and file agents finding out. Not good for morale and for opinions about what librrties management takes.

Posted by: Gref at May 25, 2018 06:55 PM (k44vV)

326 do I spy a NOOD?
Posted by: Hands at May 25, 2018 06:51 PM (EzdLW)
---
You inform a NOOD. Spying is gauche.

Posted by: Miss James Clapper Manners at May 25, 2018 06:55 PM (JhE5a)

327 Resist we mulch
Rewind we mifl
Retard we much
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 25, 2018 06:48 PM (JFO2v)

Resist the milf?

It's more fun to give in

Posted by: josephistan at May 25, 2018 06:56 PM (ANIFC)

328 Y'all is all interlopers!

Posted by: Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton at May 25, 2018 06:58 PM (zCyNd)

329 I don't think it's possible to spend 70k on a table, seriously. That's a Tesla Model S. I searched for "expensive table" and most of them were exquisitely carved and like $35,000. Its probably $7000.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at May 25, 2018 07:09 PM (e44Qj)

330 It was a SPY table!

You can drive it underwater!

Q is the one who added all the extras!

Also it was from IKEA, and at least $20,000 was for assembly!

Posted by: the aesthetically aware Mr. McCabe at May 25, 2018 07:17 PM (zCyNd)

331 Since Trump is taking $1 salary, I care not what he spends on the White House.

Posted by: Texican ette at May 25, 2018 07:22 PM (oUgTX)

332 If this news is true, I see it as a test. Either you put up with it or they'll take their business elsewhere, to someone who will. Who is ever going to say no to them after this? This is just a way for them to find out who their "true friends" are.
And they probably keep grudges. Any politician who so much as notices this piece of information, let alone makes disparaging comments, may run into some embarrassing disclosures during the next election campaign .
Comey for president!

Posted by: PG at May 25, 2018 07:24 PM (XOnuY)

333 296 rhomboid, I saw that. It seems like a stretch. But no doubt that whatever it is they're trying to hide, it's become visible enough that they're desperately hiding something, and enough people are going after it, that It's eventually going to come out. I think in the end McCabe is going to go John Dean to save his own ass and finger Comey and Lynch. Lynch will skate because she's a twofer, and Clapper and Brennan have built in enough plausible deniability that they'll weasel out of criminal charges. Comey is going to be the sacrifice to appease the masses, a role he will relish to the sanctimonious end. There will be a commission to reform the Executive branch's independence with the NSA toys and more oversight from Congress and the FISC. No one is ever going to ask Susan Rice why she wrote the CYA memo on January 20, 2017.

btw, wrt the thread that won't be named, enough said.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 25, 2018 07:29 PM (Ms9Gm)

334 I found a table for $35k, right here on the net. It features a real RR turbine fan. Lots of Ti.

Posted by: Burger Chef at May 25, 2018 08:11 PM (RuIsu)

335 testing

Posted by: ibguy at May 25, 2018 09:31 PM (vUcdz)

336 testing

Posted by: ibguy at May 25, 2018 09:31 PM (vUcdz)

337 So where are the Lefty and cuckservative a$$soles who were howling about Scott Pruitt's furniture bill?

Posted by: SDN at May 26, 2018 07:31 AM (uq/Nn)

338 "Has pixy been doing some peyote while working on the comment code?
Hahaha.. yeah.. that is hilarious.. pixy actually working on this spaghetti code 1990's style mess of crap..
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 25, 2018 05:51 PM (5tSKk)"

Yeah, well, I work in IT, and if a resume claiming this site showed up for my evaluation, it would hit the trash so fast it would make a sonic boom. This site, and ESPECIALLY its' commenting capabilities, sucks like a black hole.

Posted by: SDN at May 26, 2018 07:35 AM (uq/Nn)

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