Attorney General Garland is correct in protecting the integrity of the cases at DOJ.

Partially redacted documents (click here) with classified markings, including colored cover sheets indicating their status, that FBI agents reported finding in former president Donald Trump’s office at his Mar-a-Lago estate. 

That picture is just mesmerizing. Highly classified documents with human lives in the balance strewn with Time magazine. The White House staff couldn't get Trump to read PDBs and this is what happens to the USA's most secret of secrets. Something has to be done about it. This is more than negligence. This is an outrage. He couldn't give a damn about the country, the people or those he compromised that loved this country.

There was nothing sacred to Trump. His lawyers let him get away with it. There were no stops. All Trump cared about was the leverage he could create for himself in whatever perverted idea he had about the world. He had no respect for life. This fits in to the hideous man we witnessed during the pandemic news conferences with injectable bleach and penetrating UV light. How can any sane and loyal American give credence to this idiocy?

August 30, 2022
By Glen Thrush

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland (click here) on Tuesday imposed new restrictions on partisan activity by political appointees at the Justice Department, a policy change that comes ahead of the midterm elections.

The new rules prohibit employees who are appointed to serve for the duration of a presidential administration from attending rallies for candidates or fund-raising events, even as passive observers.

Under the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from engaging in political activities while on the job, the department had previously allowed appointees to attend such events as passive participants provided they had permission from a supervisor.

That is now banned. Under the new policy, the department also prohibits appointees from appearing at events on election night or to support relatives who are running for office. Both had been allowed in the past with prior approval....

The Hatch Act fights corruption. It was always there to enforce, it is just that the Attorney General is correct in enforcing it. Basically, rubbing elbows with those influential is not allowed. The simple appearance of impropriety is not to be on display. It is about time there was no looking the other way.

The Hatch Act, (click here) a federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees, as well as some state, D.C., and local government employees who work in connection with federally funded programs. ​The law’s purposes are to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace, and to ensure that federal employees are advanced based on merit and not based on political affiliation.​​​​

There is nothing like having a candidates Megadonor at a rally and low and behold who shows up but someone from inside the government to make the donations seem so worth it.

From CNN:

Trump weighs delaying 2024 decision as political and legal troubles grow (click here)

Ya think? But, it also gives the GOP/MAGA a chance at being elected this November.

Don't defund the cops, just the FBI. The words GOP HIPPOCRITES come to mind.

They don't care about the people. 

The don't care about the country.

What does the GOP care about?

They care about their own priorities and their own power to carry out civil rights violations against Americans.

I swear someone needs to us that REALITY of statements as a campaign slogan.

August 15, 2022
By Andrew Solender and Alayna Treene

Republicans (click here) used the "defund the police" slogan after George Floyd's murder to paint the Democratic Party as radical. But since the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, a growing number of GOP candidates and lawmakers are rallying around their own calls to defund or abolish federal law enforcement agencies.

Why it matters: The new demands muddle a narrative embraced by Republicans long before the Black Lives Matter demonstrations of 2020 — that they are the party of law enforcement. They also show how much former President Trump has reshaped his party.Strategists say it could jeopardize the GOP's chances in some contests in November.

The big question: Could this become the new Trump loyalty litmus test?

Driving the news: Dan Bolduc and Bruce Fenton, leading Republican Senate candidates in New Hampshire, said in a recent debate they believe the Department of Homeland Security and top agencies need to be significantly "reduced" and called for abolishing the FBI....

The incarnation of the Koch Brothers. Every citizen in this country should be able to make a difference in an election. These megadonors carry more weight than any other vote. The go into their ballot with the idea they can buy their dream ticket into whatever government office they believe will benefit their interests. If the rest of the country could do that they would, but, the average American might be able to pass on $10 a month to their candidate if they aren't paying for gas to and from work with an artificial cost that benefits Big Oil and its political ambitions.

So, in the long view, who is actually paying the price for the Dark Money and Mega-Hegemony contributors? The American people simply because they aren't able to donate EQUAL amounts to these guys.

THE MONEY BEHIND THE LYING PROPAGANDISTS!

August 26, 2022
By Russell Lissau

Elizabeth (click here) Uihlein (L) and Jacob Peters arrive for the State Dinner at The White House honoring Australian PM Morrison on September 20, 2019 in Washington, DC.

A suburban billionaire and his wife (click here) have contributed millions of dollars to conservative candidates and organizations across Illinois and the nation this election cycle, state and federal records show.

And though senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial hopefuls are among the beneficiaries of Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein's largesse, the Lake Forest couple hasn't limited their contributions to top-of-the-ticket candidates....

...An heir to the Schlitz brewing fortune, Richard Uihlein cofounded the Uline shipping supply company with his wife. He serves as Uline's CEO, and she is the Wisconsin-based company's president. Known to avoid interviews, they couldn't be reached for comment.

Together, the Uihleins have donated millions to well-known and low-profile candidates and groups. The first category includes former President Donald Trump, former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and -- after a split with Rauner -- 2018 gubernatorial challenger Jeanne Ives.

The politician who has received the most support from Richard Uihlein this cycle is gubernatorial hopeful Darren Bailey. Uihlein has given Bailey's campaign more than $9 million, Illinois State Board of Elections records indicate.

Uihlein also has donated more than $28 million to an independent committee called the People Who Play By the Rules PAC that targeted Bailey's chief GOP rival, Richard Irvin, in the June primary and now is attacking Pritzker.

This week, Lightfoot accused the group of darkening her skin tone in an anti-Pritzker ad. The group's leader, conservative radio host and longtime Uihlein ally Dan Proft, has denied the accusation....

Governor Pritzer has looked for a special session of the Illinois legislature (click here) to act to support women's decision making regarding their own bodies, but, no surprise here the Republican obstructionists will make that special session impossible. Americans need to elect Democrats this November at the federal and state level. It is just that important. If the Republicans get away with assaulting women's civil rights, they won't stop with a woman's health.

Oh, the Republican GOP/MAGA candidate for Illinois governor, Darren Bailey, has called Chicago every slanderous word he can think of, "hellhole" and the "OK Corral." I wonder fi Bailey is willing to act to end violence in major cities by ending interstate gun trafficking?

August 31, 2022 is 25 years after the death of Princess Diana. It is being noted in the UK.

This is an interview by the Chicago Tribune that reflects on a visit by Princess Diana to Northwestern University. Diana was a profound personality in this world. She showed the world how celebrity can be used for good.

August 31, 2022
By Kori Rumore

Princess Diana receives a flower from an admirer in Evanston on June 4, 1996, after leaving the home of Henry Bienen, the president of Northwestern University.

...It was this combination of academics, philanthropy and friendship that paved the way for Princess Diana’s first and only visit to Chicago on June 4-6, 1996 — one month before she and Prince Charles agreed on terms for a divorce, and just 15 months before her death....

...Q: Did you have any idea how big it would be, (click here) how widely broadcast her visit would be when you agreed to it?

A: No, not really. I hadn’t really paid, frankly, that much attention to her. Of course I knew who she was. I knew she was a worldwide celebrity. The first inkling I got was she came from the plane and she came to meet me on campus. We were walking around and the lines behind the rope lines were literally five and six (people) deep and I was floored.

That was the beginning of the visit. And then I really understood how huge the media attention would be and that this was a very bid deal. But no, initially, I was very surprised....

Princess Diana on a yacht in Portofino, Italy, one week before she passed in 1997

She is so missed. Any photo, any moment has become a treasure.

This shot of Princess Diana (click here) sitting on the diving board of the private yacht "Jonikal," owned by her boyfriend, Mohammed Al Fayed, is from the final holiday she ever took. In the summer of 1997, Diana was trying to reinvent herself, to remove herself from the public eye and become a person again.

In late July she traveled to Saint Tropez in the South of France where she spent time on Fayed's yacht and the Fayed family's 30-bedroom villa, Castle St. Therese, with her sons, William and Harry. It's clear from this photo that even when she was alone she was never really alone.

Photographers were constantly hounding her, even when she was in the middle of the ocean. There was nowhere she could go where she was safe.

Trump’s lawyers conspired.

There is a good chance Trump’s lawyers that lied to the FBI and hid documents will lose their law license.

More lives ruined by Trump’s continuing vortex into hell. Those don’t even count for the human beings from other countries sympathetic to USA intelligence in helping with our national security. How many of those lives are ruined, imprisoned or dead? And their families?

There are lots of ways that intelligence can be used against us. Russia likes to prey on Russians in the USA to intimidate them with personal threats and threats on their families to gain cooperation. These issues that are NOW created by Trump have legs for possibly decades into the future.

There is no doubt Donald John Trump and his willing conspirators have compromised the USA. They have no remorse, ie: Giuliani. They don’t care about the people of this country. They care about themselves, their personal priorities and personal power.