Finally, some common sense prevails!

State Supreme Court asked to weigh in on recall petition against Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan

Update:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-people-give-up-their-homes/

If you're white and own a home in Seattle it belongs to BLM. Kinda harkens back to Barry.

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Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan asked the state Supreme Court to reverse the decision of a King County circuit court judge that allowed a recall effort to move forward against her, which could result in her expulsion from office.

This should send a clear signal to the other 3 idiots.

If you recall (forgive the pun) Gray Davis (D-CA) governor  was recalled and his views were light years from these Marxists.

Durkan, a Democrat, was called out by five Seattle residents who filed a petition seeking to recall her because of how law enforcement officials have responded to protests this summer, according to The Seattle Times.

Durkan reportedly asked the circuit court judge to reconsider the decision, but the request was denied.

OUTGOING SEATTLE POLICE CHIEF SAYS IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY, BUT 'LACK OF RESPECT' FOR OFFICERS

The state’s highest court is now being asked to render judgment after a notice of appeal was filed on Wednesday, The Times reported.

The petitioners in turn asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider two of the charges the judge initially dismissed and to broaden their original charges against Durkan.

This comes just one day after Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced her resignation, saying that she was not leaving because of pay cuts to her department, but rather because of the “lack of respect” toward her fellow officers.

Best’s resignation comes amid the City Council’s decision to reduce the department by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition.

Finally, some common sense prevails!

Clinesmith...the first domino to fall?

FBI Lawyer Indicted in Review of Trump-Russia Probe; Plea Expected

(He reminds me of  ‘Pajama Boy’)

Clinesmith is small potatoes. The question now is... who directed him to do it? 

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WASHINGTON (CN) — President Trump was ebullient Friday afternoon in announcing the forthcoming guilty plea of a lawyer in, as he put it, “James Comey’s very corrupt FBI.”

“The fact is they spied on my campaign and they got caught,” Trump said at a White House briefing, calling the charges against Kevin Clinesmith, 38, “just the beginning … because what happened should never happen again.”

As detailed in charging papers filed this morning in Washington, Clinesmith was an assistant general counsel for the FBI assigned to support the bureau’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s suspected facilitation of those efforts.

In an apparent reference to Trump campaign aide Carter Page, the indictment notes that the FBI executed a wiretap against Individual #1 under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in October 2016, and that three subsequent applications to approve that warrant were approved over the next year.

The FBI cited probable cause that the target “was a knowing agent of a foreign power, specifically Russia,” but Clinesmith’s indictment says the FBI was already informed in August 2016 this individual served as an “operational contact” for an unspecified government agency from 2008 to 2013, and that he had provided the agency with information about his “prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers” to that end.

Robert Mueller had been appointed as special counsel to oversee the investigation by May 2017 when the FBI needed to renew the surveillance warrant of Page for the third time. It was around this time, however, that Page had asserted publicly that he was a CIA source.

Prosecutors say Clinesmith verified Page’s status with a CIA liaison on June 15, 2017, but misrepresented what the liaison told him to incorrectly say that Page was “not a source.”

Falsifying this information allowed the FBI to renew Page’s warrant for the third time on June 29, 2017.

Clinesmith resigned from the FBI last year and is expected to plead guilty to one count of making a false statement.

Justin Shur, an attorney for the lawyer with the firm MoloLamken, did not immediately return a request for comment Friday. Shur told The New York Times, however, that Clinesmith regrets altering the email. 

“It was never his intent to mislead the court or his colleagues, as he believed the information he relayed was accurate,” Shur said, “but Kevin understands what he did was wrong and accepts responsibility.”

Clinesmith’s indictment follows a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general, who concluded independently that the FBI made “significant inaccuracies and omissions” across its four applications concerning Page’s surveillance, and that “the Crossfire Hurricane team failed to comply with FBI policies and in doing so fell short of what is rightfully expected from a premier law enforcement agency entrusted with such an intrusive surveillance tool.”

This is the first criminal case to come from a probe of Operation Crossfire Hurricane since U.S. Attorney General William Barr tapped U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead it last year while Democrats opened an impeachment inquiry against Trump.

For Democratic Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff, the chairmen of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, respectively, the Justice Department under Barr has “become a vehicle for President Trump’s political revenge.”

Party leaders contend that scrutiny of the Russia investigation is a naked attempt to sways the 2020 presidential election in Trump’s favor while playing directly into the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign. Although Justice Department policy says prosecutors should not take public actions in the weeks before an election or use investigations to affect an election’s results, Barr has said these rules do not apply in this scenario.

Back in April, Barr told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt he thinks this rule only applies to investigations concerning presidential “candidates or perhaps someone that’s sufficiently close to a candidate,” whereas none of the individuals Durham is examining “are running for president.”

Trump supporters see the case brought against Clinesmith as an exposition into whether the FBI engaged in wrongdoing by investigating whether the Trump campaign and Russia worked together to pull off Trump’s presidential victory in 2016.

Barr appointed Durham, who is the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, after telling members of Congress he believed “spying did occur” on the Trump campaign in 2016. Durham’s office said it had “no further comment” on the Clinesmith matter Friday. 

After Trump’s election, the FBI turned over the Crossfire Hurricane investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller report. Mueller’s report of the probe in April 2019 failed to allege a criminal conspiracy but did find that Trump’s campaign had contact with Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Mueller by his own words said, "he did not establish that members of Trump’s campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.” 

Clinesmith...the first domino to fall?

Maybe Time Magazine will make her ‘Person Of The Year’

Maybe Time Magazine will make her ‘Person Of The Year’

One injured after bullet rips into US Air Force helicopter over Virginia; FBI, military investigating

(CNN) — A US Air Force helicopter was shot at near Manassas, Virginia, on Monday, injuring one of two pilots on board, according to an Air Force official.

The UH-1N was flying 10 miles northwest of Manassas on a routine training mission at an altitude of 1,000 feet when the incident occurred. It landed safely at Manassas Regional Airport west of Washington, DC, and the pilot was taken to hospital where they were treated and released, the official said.

The incident is now under FBI and Air Force investigation to determine if the helicopter was deliberately shot at or if someone was randomly shooting into the air. The aircraft will be closely inspected for other damage, the official added.

Randomly shooting into the air?

or...

The airport operations officer Richard Allabaugh reported its air traffic control tower was notified of an "an onboard emergency on a military helicopter that was inbound."

The pilots of the US Air Force helicopter, which identified itself as Mussel 16, can be heard reporting "a medical emergency" in air traffic control audio. The aircraft initially scrapped plans to land at Manassas Regional Airport then informed controllers it would be heading "direct to Manassas." 

Paramedics were called to the airport.

The US Air Force 316th wing only confirmed an incident occurred and that the helicopter made an emergency landing on Monday. 

"A UH-1N Huey helicopter assigned to the 1st Helicopter Squadron at Joint Base Andrews conducted an emergency landing at 12:43 pm on August 10th in Manassas, Va during a routine training mission," the statement read. 

"The Office of Special Investigations is fully engaged with our FBI colleagues on this incident. OSI take threats to our Airmen and our resources very seriously. As this is an ongoing investigation, no further investigative details can be released at this time," it added.

McClatchy was first to report the shooting.

"On Monday, August 10, at approximately 12:00 p.m., the FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) dispatched Special Agents and its Evidence Response Team to the Manassas Airport after receiving reports that a helicopter was shot at from the ground nearby," the FBI Washington Field Office said in a statement to CNN. 

"WFO is working jointly with our law enforcement partners, including the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident. One individual in the helicopter sustained a non-threatening injury, for which he was treated and subsequently released from the hospital The FBI asks that anyone near this area at the time of the incident who may have information please call the FBI at 202-278-2000," they added.

CNN's Christina Carrera, Greg Wallace and Pete contributed to this report.

One injured after bullet rips into US Air Force helicopter over Virginia; FBI, military investigating

Boy, 5, riding bike in yard is ‘shot dead at point blank range by neighbor’

Have you heard much about this in the news?

You know why? It's a non-story. The shooter and the victim are the 'wrong color'.

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Boy, 5, riding bike in yard is ‘shot dead at point blank range by neighbor’ in front of his sisters

A LITTLE boy was allegedly shot dead by his neighbor in front of his two terrified young sisters as he cycled in his own front yard.

Cannon Hinnant, 5, was playing as his two sisters watched on when he allegedly rode into 25-year-old Darrius Sessoms' yard.

Cannon was starting Kindergarten on Monday. 

Sessoms was taken into custody approximately 24 hours after he allegedly shot Cannon Hinnant in the head, the Daily Mail reported. 

The shooting is not believed to be random, however a motive is still unknown. 

(Motive... does a motive even exist to kill a 5 year old?)

Sessoms lived next door to Cannon's family and neighbors claim he had dinner with Cannon's father on Friday and was at the house earlier Sunday. 

Darrius Sessoms was charged for shooting his five year old neighbor

According to a GoFundMe, Cannon rode into Sessoms yard when riding his bike. 

"A beautiful 5 year old baby boy riding his bicycle was shot by his neighbor point blank in Wilson, NC," it read. "One minute he is enjoying life, the next it all ends because he rode into his neighbors yard." 

Cannon was set to start kindergarten on Monday, the Daily Mail reported.

"He was just a loving kid," his mother Bonny Waddell said. "He had the biggest heart. It's devastating. No one should ever have to bury their child. No mother should have to go through this." 

Sessoms is currently being held without bond and made his first apperance in court on Tuesday morning. 

The neighbor was previously convicted of felony larceny of firearms in March 2016, misdemeanor maintaining a place for controlled substance in April 2016 and felony marijuana possession in November 2016. 

Boy, 5, riding bike in yard is ‘shot dead at point blank range by neighbor’