The statute has requirements necessary to justify the gag orders. The DOJ is falsely claiming in its secret, ex-parte filings that the factors required by the statue have been met—even if they haven't. That's AUSA's lying to the court. How is that Congress's fault?

Smith used the excuse of Jan. 6 to trawl the entire GOP ocean. This looked to be a prosecutor in search of a crime. wsj.com/opinion/jack-s… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

The talking filibuster still exists, people. You can still make them talk!

The exhibits just filed by Lindsey Halligan are damning, to say the least. They lay out a detailed record of Comey shaping narratives through his media leak conduit, Dan Richman. Given that Comey used a Gmail account under a false name, there’s likely more where these came from.

Wow. Notorious Fake News operative from the New York Times, Michael Schmidt, texted Comey to give permission to Comey’s leak conduit, Dan Richman, to leak details about “dinner,” presumably Comey’s conversation with Trump. Comey gave the go-ahead. He's been caught dead to rights.

it is so moronic that the Comey case is limited to leaks about Clinton investigation, rather than leaks related to Trump and Crossfire Hurricane. I don't blame Lindsay Halligan; the failure is ultimately poor management where the buck stops. Be that as it may, the email on

“I’m not saying Brennan is guilty, but he shows all the hallmarks of someone who is guilty.” Walter Kirn may be the master of one-liners. Some of the best America This Week moments are when Walter makes Matt Taibbi laugh so hard he doubles over and drops out of frame.

ARCTIC FROST: UPDATE Verizon complied with Special Counsel Smith's subpoena for GOP Senator phone records. Federal Judge order kept the request be kept secret. AT&T pushed back against Smith.   The fact that Smith did not pursue the AT&T phone records may be an important

.Chuck Grassley and I recently received information from Verizon showing that Jack Smith subpoenaed more than two years of FBI Director Kash Patel’s phone records in Nov. 2022 and Feb. 2023. This is yet another example of the partisan misconduct of the Biden DOJ and FBI that led to