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We talked about the continuing resolution and the Barry Loudermilk report.

One big problem with Barry Loudermilk's referral of Liz Cheney to aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel for criminal investigation is that Loudermilk also referred Kash's DOD colleagues Christopher Miller and Ryan McCarthy for investigation of imagined misconduct in which, Kash has repeatedly claimed, Kash himself was centrally involved.

If media insists on treating our democratic governance like sports, the least they can do is criticize their own industry's performance like they do when it comes to football.

The most notable feature of Alexander Smirnov's plea deal is the timing: David Weiss will rush him to sentencing on January 8.

The lies Kash Patel has told are likely to be aired at his confirmation hearing, but at unlikely to dissuade Republicans to vote against his confirmation to be FBI Director. The most important lies pertain to Trump's efforts to put information obtained by US intelligence to his own personal use.

Kimberly Strassel thinks Trump wants to hire people who intend to do grave damage to the US to pay off electoral debts. More likely, the grave damage is the point.

In spite of the fact that the FBI got key warnings about Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio that never got shared with FBI's Washington Field Office, in spite of the fact that the FBI had 26 informants on site but only asked three for information, the FBI contested DOJ Inspector General's critique that it should have done more to work its informants in advance of the attack.

The recommendations in a DOJ Inspector General Report on leak investigations might give Congress further protection to leak. But it also might give aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel an excuse to prioritize prosecutions of journalists, before his former Congressional colleagues.

There were five cases in which fabricated evidence about Hunter Biden was ingested by FBI. Most was not used by investigators, which the House GOP then used to politicize the case against him. But at least two did have an affect on his prosecution.

The glee surrounding Brian Thompson's death is not unprecedented -- Donald Trump campaigned on a similar mob glee, targeting Paul Pelosi, to get elected. And then he installed a bunch of billionaires to start looting. And politicians like Elizabeth Warren have already suggested some "broad public solutions" to that looting.