BOLD like a Leopard

After a whole morning of being battered by House Judiciary Committee Republicans, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller came back for more. Incredibly, his credibility sank even lower. As mentioned in the rundown of the Judiciary Committee testimony, Robert Mueller was subpoenaed to testify before the House in order to " bring to life " his report. This was the language used by the Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to explain the baffling decision to bring the former FBI director before his committee after the failure of the investigation to establish a conspiracy between the Trump 2016 campaign and the Russian government. During the hearing before the Judiciary Committee, Mueller established a clear pattern of memory lapses, evasive answers, and inability to explain key findings when challenged. However with the Intelligence Committee hearing immediately afterward he seemed to dig himself other new holes. It is understandable that at least one committee, p...

With his gaunt appearance, insecure answers, and stumbling speech Robert Mueller's testimony has worked to shatter his standing as the authoritative witness to justify the impeachment of President Trump. On July 22 House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed that the rationale for pulling former FBI Director Robert Mueller before his committee and the House Judiciary Committee was necessary so that Mueller could " bring it to life ", referring of course to his report submitted in April. At this point Schiff and the other Democratic committee chairs Jerry Nadler (Judiciary) and Elijah Cummings (Oversight) have staked their fortunes on Mueller being able to show that Trump and his associates obstructed justice in the course of his investigation as opposed to previous claims that their was " ample evidence of collusion in plain sight ". Yet even the more modest goal of proving obstruction has evaded them during Nadler's com...

A few months ago a friend of mine, like myself Jewish, suggested to me that there would be forthcoming indictments of Israeli agents for involvement in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He was convinced that documents slated for declassification would shine a light on an operation by Israel's Mossad that had either prior knowledge or involvement in the plot.  I would be remiss if I did not admit that for years controversial historical events, what are popularly panned as "conspiracy theories", are a topic that has fascinated me. But I've always had a blind spot for the 9/11 theories mostly because there were so many of them, and it is difficult to distinguish serious questions from spaced out hyperbolic speculation. And sure, I'll also admit that the idea that there could have been a nefarious plot to topple the Twin Towers and pull the USA into wars in the Middle East made me uncomfortable. After all, my own family hails f...