( Dossiers and Disinformation…) ========= Holman W Jenkins, Jr. 1/12/2018 WSJ Glenn Simpson, in the now-released transcript of last summer’s interview with congressional investigators on the Trump dossier, mentions his former employment with The Wall Street Journal and Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper. He doesn’t mention the Unification Church-owned (i.e., Moonies) Insight magazine in the mid-1980s. I know because I worked there too.... Read more
Archive for the ‘Jenkins’ Category
Facts Don’t Really Matter
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Jenkins, Liberal Press, Special Counsel, The Left, TrumpAs with Republicans who came before, they are guilty of “something”; the only question is when we will find it…. ======== WSJ 12/8/1017 Pressing in on many of Donald Trump’s critics finally is the unreality of a Putin Trump conspiracy to put him in the White House, so now the switch has been to accuse him, after the election, of violating the Logan... Read more
Crime? What Crime?
December 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Special Counsel, The LeftWhat is the crime? ====== By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Dec. 1, 2017 6:36 p.m. Retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn on Friday pleaded guilty to lying about a non-crime. Even Adam Schiff, the House Democrat most determined to ride the Russia collusion story to bigger and better things, acknowledged that conferring with a representative of Russia about the incoming administration’s Russia policy is... Read more
The Trump Dossier Dam Is Breaking
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpWSJ- 10/28/2017 ’Tis the season of tossing out nondisclosure agreements. Victims and employees of Harvey Weinstein clamor to be released from their NDAs so they can talk about his abuse. Perkins Coie, the Washington law firm for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign, showed the way by voluntarily releasing Fusion GPS from its duty to remain mum on Democrats who... Read more
The FBI’s Political Meddling
October 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Party Politics, The LeftIf it waddles like a duck; quacks like a duck, then its a duck. = = = = By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Oct. 24, 2017 6:17 p.m. ET Let’s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine. Here’s a story consistent with... Read more