DL Open Thread: Thurs., Dec. 5, 2019

AG’s Hand-Picked Investigator Dismisses RWNJ Claim That FBI Conspired Against Trump:

The prosecutor handpicked by Attorney General William P. Barr to scrutinize how U.S. agencies investigated President Trump’s 2016 campaign said he could not offer evidence to the Justice Department’s inspector general to support the suspicions of some conservatives that the case was a setup by American intelligence, people familiar with the matter said.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office contacted U.S. Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor Barr personally tapped to lead a separate review of the 2016 probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, the people said. The inspector general also contacted several U.S. intelligence agencies.

  What’s Barr gonna do now? Probably bury the report.

Trump Fatigue Claims D Representative.  A good one, too. Rep. Denny Heck of Washington.  Read his farewell statement.

A Comprehensive View Of The Existential Threat Of Trump.  Very scary, and very much in accord with my own fears.

Judge: Prison Company Using Detainees As Slave Labor.  Immigration detention centers run by GEO and CoreCivic.  Slave labor. America in 2019.

Global Carbon Emissions Hit New High.  To say I’m losing hope is an understatement.

Meyer Deep-Sixes DBOT Scam.  Good. This was Delaware Way insider crap from Day One. Oh, and don’t forget that Mike Ramone was up to his neck in this crap.  Only in an unethical body would his actions not be deemed unethical.

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