I am so sorry this has happened to him. He did not deserve to be fired.
His book is an extension of his dedication to the USA. It is definitely a "Higher Loyalty" to be an FBI Director. It is my understanding Director Comey was a Republican. Yet, when a time came to enjoy a White House with a Republican President that wasn't available to him because of the unethical behavior the newly elected president and his staff.
I find that profound. While being treated to special times with President Trump, when they were one on one, Director Comey felt guarded and occasionally or more than occasionally violated by the Trump White House.
I sincerely feel bad for him. He is a great American and dedicated to the country for all the right reasons, but, his ability to act to protect the country has been truncated. As a professional, it has to hurt. The entire situation cast upon him by of all people, the president, is outrageous, it has to set precedent and he has to recover from that.
The enormity of the actions of Trump and his staff in regard to the country's well being and safety of the people is highly questionable. This presents a great deal of worry for the country. Trump is playing politics and gaming the country, while Director Comey is sincerely concerned with the country. I am sure he is still concerned about issues facing the country that were not resolved when he was fired. And the way he was fired is outrageous and lacks respect for him and his dedicated service.
I think the introduction of Rudy Guiliani to the Trump legal team is more of the same obnoxious and offensive affront to the country's agencies. The Mueller investigation is about the country. Yet, Guiliani wants to close the investigation in two weeks. Guiliani doesn't even know what Mueller is facing. The exception to that are the recorded public appearances on FOX News. And here we go again with FOX News and it's nexus to Republicans with privileged information. But, Guiliani openly states he has 'juicy news' to be announced in the near future that appeared to be classified at the time.
All I can say is that with so many Trump lawyers involved in scandal and law practices outside the law, one has to wonder what will be found out about Guiliani when he begins to represent Mr. Trump prior to his interview with the Mueller investigation.
"Guiliani fawns over Putin's leadership" (click here)
Needless to say, I have serious doubts about Guiliani's judgment in desiring to shut down a federal investigation into the Russian tampering into the 2016 elections. Guiliani already holds bias about Russia. Perhaps he believes it has superior prostitutes as does Trump and Putin.
Guiliani only extends my worry for the country and does not resolve my concern.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
How corrupt is the Republican Congress? Very corrupt.
The Comeymemos went from Justice to Congress to the Associated Press. It isn't going to change anything, but, the Republicans have to try.
After months of resisting, (click here) the Justice Department has agreed to provide three House committees with copies of several memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, according to a person familiar with the agreement.
The memos are still the memos and the content is still the content, but, the Republicans just had to put them in the mass media for every American to read.
Americans now know where the leaks are, the US Republican Congress.
After months of resisting, (click here) the Justice Department has agreed to provide three House committees with copies of several memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, according to a person familiar with the agreement.
The memos are still the memos and the content is still the content, but, the Republicans just had to put them in the mass media for every American to read.
Americans now know where the leaks are, the US Republican Congress.
Why hasn't Assad provided protection for the UN Inspectors to verify the invalid claims?
April 17, 2018
The Independent: “Middle East Correspondent Robert Fisk in one of the miles of tunnels hacked beneath Douma by prisoners of Syrian rebels.”
The Independent: “Middle East Correspondent Robert Fisk in one of the miles of tunnels hacked beneath Douma by prisoners of Syrian rebels.”
Robert Fisk’s bombshell (click here) first-hand account for the UK Independent runs contrary to nearly every claim circulating in major international press concerning what happened just over week ago on April 7th in an embattled suburb outside Damascus: not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he’s encountered multiple local eyewitnesses who experienced the chaos of that night, but who say the gas attack never happened.
Fisk is the first Western journalist to reach and report from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack widely blamed on Assad’s forces. Writing from Douma in eastern Ghouta, Fisk has interviewed a Syrian doctor who works at the hospital shown in one of the well-known videos which purports to depict victims of a chemical attack...
...Fisk goes on to identify the doctor by name – Dr. Assim Rahaibani – which is notable given the fact that all early reporting from Douma typically relied on “unnamed doctors” and anonymous opposition sources for early claims of a chlorine gas attack ...
The people need humanitarian assistance. This civil war is over. It is time Assad realize the poor conditions the people are living in and end their plight.
..."This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks–and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There’s even a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I track him down in the very same clinic, cheerfully tells me that the “gas” videotape which horrified the world– despite all the doubters–is perfectly genuine.
War stories, however, have a habit of growing darker. For the same 58-year old senior Syrian doctor then adds something profoundly uncomfortable: the patients, he says, were overcome not by gas but by oxygen starvation in the rubbish-filled tunnels and basements in which they lived, on a night of wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm...."
President Assad and whattever forces are in the area need to provide protections for the inspectors and there has to be humanitarian assistance for these people. They are dying under hideous circumstances resulting from the war. It is in Assad's favor to provide access and aid.
April 17, 2018
By John Sharman and Samuel Osborne
A UN security team (click here) came under fire in Syria while doing reconnaissance for inspectors to visit sites of a suspected chemical weapons attack, and officials said it was no longer clear when the inspectors would be able to go in.
The inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in Syria to investigate an April 7 incident in which Western countries and rescue workers say scores of civilians were gassed to death by government forces.
OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü said the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) had decided to carry out reconnaissance at two sites in the town of Douma before the inspectors would visit them.
“On arrival at site one, a large crowd gathered and the advice provided by the UNDSS was that the reconnaissance team should withdraw,” he told a meeting at the watchdog’s headquarters in remarks it later released. “At site two, the team came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated. The reconnaissance team returned to Damascus.”...
Symptoms of Asphyxiation (click here)
...Breathing Difficulty
The hallmark sign of a person undergoing asphyxiation is an inability to breathe normally. This may manifest as wheezing, clutching at the throat, agitation or loss of consciousness. Often, an afflicted person will turn blue from lack of oxygen and will gasp for breath but be unable to get air. If you see someone who is unable to breathe, call medical professionals immediately.
Foam
Following asphyxiation, a characteristic foam may form in the airways, according to ENotes. This occurs when lung mucus mixes with air in the trachea as the victim unsuccessfully attempts to breathe. This foam can be found in the lungs or the throat and is typical in cases of drowning....
...Fisk goes on to identify the doctor by name – Dr. Assim Rahaibani – which is notable given the fact that all early reporting from Douma typically relied on “unnamed doctors” and anonymous opposition sources for early claims of a chlorine gas attack ...
The people need humanitarian assistance. This civil war is over. It is time Assad realize the poor conditions the people are living in and end their plight.
..."This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks–and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There’s even a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I track him down in the very same clinic, cheerfully tells me that the “gas” videotape which horrified the world– despite all the doubters–is perfectly genuine.
War stories, however, have a habit of growing darker. For the same 58-year old senior Syrian doctor then adds something profoundly uncomfortable: the patients, he says, were overcome not by gas but by oxygen starvation in the rubbish-filled tunnels and basements in which they lived, on a night of wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm...."
President Assad and whattever forces are in the area need to provide protections for the inspectors and there has to be humanitarian assistance for these people. They are dying under hideous circumstances resulting from the war. It is in Assad's favor to provide access and aid.
April 17, 2018
By John Sharman and Samuel Osborne
A UN security team (click here) came under fire in Syria while doing reconnaissance for inspectors to visit sites of a suspected chemical weapons attack, and officials said it was no longer clear when the inspectors would be able to go in.
The inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in Syria to investigate an April 7 incident in which Western countries and rescue workers say scores of civilians were gassed to death by government forces.
OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü said the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) had decided to carry out reconnaissance at two sites in the town of Douma before the inspectors would visit them.
“On arrival at site one, a large crowd gathered and the advice provided by the UNDSS was that the reconnaissance team should withdraw,” he told a meeting at the watchdog’s headquarters in remarks it later released. “At site two, the team came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated. The reconnaissance team returned to Damascus.”...
Symptoms of Asphyxiation (click here)
...Breathing Difficulty
The hallmark sign of a person undergoing asphyxiation is an inability to breathe normally. This may manifest as wheezing, clutching at the throat, agitation or loss of consciousness. Often, an afflicted person will turn blue from lack of oxygen and will gasp for breath but be unable to get air. If you see someone who is unable to breathe, call medical professionals immediately.
Foam
Following asphyxiation, a characteristic foam may form in the airways, according to ENotes. This occurs when lung mucus mixes with air in the trachea as the victim unsuccessfully attempts to breathe. This foam can be found in the lungs or the throat and is typical in cases of drowning....
The Missouri governor has a problem. Women need strong laws, prosecutors and judges to end domestic abuse and violence.
A mistress or girlfriend is a domestic partner whether or not the couple lives together. Being a girlfriend in some ways is more dangerous.
Invasion of privacy is a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain.
It is amazing that a governor's wife was actually robbed at gunpoint. Albeit a Governor-elect in this picture, but, where was the security detail?
At any rate, this is the typical "stand-by-my-man" photo. It may have worked during the time of denial and legal shenanigans, but, will it work today considering a judge saw merit in the allegations?
In this Dec. 6, 2016, (click here) file photo, Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens and his wife Sheena speak to the media in St. Louis after she had been robbed at gunpoint the day before. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appears to be bracing for a fight to preserve his political life after admitting to an extramarital affair but denying anything more. Greitens met Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, with Cabinet members and placed calls to rally support while his attorney issued firm denials to a smattering of allegations related to the 2015 affair.
...Though expressing disappointment about the affair and concern about some of the more lurid allegations that Greitens has denied, some Republican voters and party officials said their support for Greitens had not been shaken....
Missouri statute:
565.252. 1.(click here) A person commits the offense of invasion of privacy if he or she knowingly:
April 18, 2018
A St. Louis judge (click here) is allowing the criminal case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to move forward, rejecting a move by the governor's lawyers to dismiss it. Circuit Judge Rex Burlison on Thursday disagreed with defense attorneys that the conduct by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and an investigator she hired was so bad that the only way to protect Greitens’ rights to a fair trial was to dismiss the felony invasion of privacy charge.
February 22, 2018
By Suzannah Gonzales, Karen Pierog
(Reuters) - Missouri Governor Eric Greitens (click here) was briefly taken into custody on Thursday after being indicted on a felony invasion of privacy charge in connection with an extramarital affair and a blackmail allegation involving the Republican politician, officials said....
...“As I have said before, I made a personal mistake before I was governor. I did not commit a crime,” Greitens said in a statement. “I look forward to the legal remedies to reverse this action,” he added.
Invasion of privacy is a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain.
It is amazing that a governor's wife was actually robbed at gunpoint. Albeit a Governor-elect in this picture, but, where was the security detail?
At any rate, this is the typical "stand-by-my-man" photo. It may have worked during the time of denial and legal shenanigans, but, will it work today considering a judge saw merit in the allegations?
...Though expressing disappointment about the affair and concern about some of the more lurid allegations that Greitens has denied, some Republican voters and party officials said their support for Greitens had not been shaken....
Missouri statute:
565.252. 1.(click here) A person commits the offense of invasion of privacy if he or she knowingly:
April 18, 2018
A St. Louis judge (click here) is allowing the criminal case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens to move forward, rejecting a move by the governor's lawyers to dismiss it. Circuit Judge Rex Burlison on Thursday disagreed with defense attorneys that the conduct by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and an investigator she hired was so bad that the only way to protect Greitens’ rights to a fair trial was to dismiss the felony invasion of privacy charge.
February 22, 2018
By Suzannah Gonzales, Karen Pierog
(Reuters) - Missouri Governor Eric Greitens (click here) was briefly taken into custody on Thursday after being indicted on a felony invasion of privacy charge in connection with an extramarital affair and a blackmail allegation involving the Republican politician, officials said....
...“As I have said before, I made a personal mistake before I was governor. I did not commit a crime,” Greitens said in a statement. “I look forward to the legal remedies to reverse this action,” he added.
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