Search Results for: the mixed up files
November 5, 2016 — Scott Johnson
John found common ground with Neera Tanden, president of the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress. CAP coordinates closely with the Democratic Party, seeking to draw it ever further left. Speaking to friends like John Podesta via email, Tanden is a biting observer of the passing scene. In public, however, not so much. At Heat Street Andrew Stiles finds another example in the latest WikiLeaks run through John Podesta’s
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September 6, 2016 — Scott Johnson
The FBI released a redacted set of documents including its Hillary 302 notes and related materials this past Friday before the holiday weekend. The documents are accessible in two sets posted in PDF format here. Releasing the documents as we roll into a holiday weekend represents classic scandal management practice. It raises the question whether the FBI was acting on Clinton’s behalf protecting her, or on its own behalf protecting
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March 11, 2016 — Scott Johnson
I took a look at the Somali Minnesotans charged with seeking to join ISIS in the December 7 Weekly Standard article “The threat from ‘Minnesota men.'” Four of the ten have pleaded guilty to terrorism charges before Judge Michael Davis, including Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame. Last week Judge Davis adopted an experimental sentencing program to apply to these four cases. In the new issue of the Weekly Standard I focus on
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December 29, 2015 — Scott Johnson
This past October, in the course of researching the article that became “The threat from ‘Minnesota men,'” I learned of an unnamed former airport employee and terrorist suspect who had been working “on the tarmac” in Minneapolis in 2014. I was advised by a source at one remove from the information that the suspect had luckily been discovered by a member of Minnesota’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (disclaimer: I still
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June 22, 2015 — Scott Johnson
You have to wonder if the Obama administration has ever uttered a true word about Obamacare. I say no. President Obama has shifted the prevarications into overdrive in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s imminent decision on the IRS’s regulatory revision of the Obamacare law in King v. Burwell. On the issue before the Court in the case, we await a true word from the Obama administration, but we’re not holding
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February 27, 2015 — Scott Johnson
Although it has had to file a Freedom of Information Act to get it done, Judicial Watch has succeeded in extracting a portion of Benghazi-related emails from the State Department. Judicial Watch had sought “Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to notes, updates, or reports created in response to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S, Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This request includes but is not limited
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March 1, 2013 — Scott Johnson
In his most recent verbal assault against Israel, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has characterized Zionism as a crime against humanity along with anti-Semitism, fascism, and, of course, Islamophobia. Isn’t leaving homophobia off such a list itself a crime against humanity? Prime Minister Netanyahu has issued this concise response: “This is a dark and mendacious statement the likes of which we thought had passed from the world.” Netanyahu is constrained by
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April 9, 2011 — Scott Johnson
In this week’s edition of the Goldberg File yesterday (subscribe here), Jonah Goldberg packed a lot of wisdom into a jocular critique: Jonathan Cohn of The New Republic calls our attention to Lyndon Johnson’s remarks when he signed Medicare into law: “No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine,” Johnson said at the signing ceremony. “No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that
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July 1, 2008 — Scott Johnson
In “The Hersh file,” Michael Ledeen provides a lesson in how to read Seymour Hersh’s rigorously fact-checked New Yorker articles. Better yet, Ledeen saves you the trouble of reading Hersh while providing the ridicule that he so richly deserves: Hersh even makes sources of on-the-record statements look bad. He fancies that lots of senior military officers in the Pentagon are fighting a desperate war against warmongers like Bush and Cheney,
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June 12, 2005 — Scott Johnson
Thomas Lipscomb has been in the business of journalism for a long time. He seems to have missed the course on how newspapers are supposed to hide important documents from their readers. He nevertheless seems to think that the case of the mixed-up files of John Kerry is the weirdest he has seen in a long time. Editor & Publisher carries his latest column on the subject: “Questions remain about
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June 8, 2005 — Scott Johnson
Reader John Boyle writes: I have been yelling since last year that the Navy does not have Kerry’s records, nor does DoD. The Navy has always been Kerry’s hide-out. The Navy is covered by the Privacy Laws. You’re a lawyer, right? The SF 180 is generically addressed to the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. These records are 30 to 40 years old. They are history! They do not
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June 7, 2005 — Scott Johnson
Today’s Boston Globe reports on the contents of John Kerry’s full military and medical records: “Kerry allows Navy release of military, medical record.” According to the Globe, the only previously undisclosed records are commendations from commanding officers. In the words of the great Peggy Lee song, “Is that all there is?” Either Kerry is the world’s worst politician, or something is missing from his file. Of lesser interest is the
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February 19, 2004 — Scott Johnson
Under the heading of “Political torture,” James Taranto noted yesterday in his OpinonJournal Best of the Web Today column that John Kerry “has the dubious and perhaps unique distinction of being a presidential candidate whose speeches have actually been used as an instrument of torture against Americans.” Taranto was of course referring to Kerry’s notorious 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Taranto linked to yesterday’s Los Angeles Times
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February 12, 2004 — Scott Johnson
In his Weekly Standard column Hugh Hewitt impressively opens a series on the Kerry Files with “The things they Kerry’d.” Hugh begins his itemization of Kerry vulnerabilities with “NATIONAL SECURITY. Voters cannot trust John Kerry’s judgment or his resolve on issues of national security. From his April, 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to his statement on January 29, 2003, in a Democratic candidates’ debate that the war
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June 29, 2017 — Paul Mirengoff
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a left-wing attack dog operation that defames and bullies those with whom it disagrees about politics. Its designation of political adversaries as “hate groups” — which amounts to an ideological fatwa — is widely used in the liberal mainstream media and employed even by parts of the U.S. government. How to explain this? For one thing, the SPLC is still riding the good
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June 21, 2005 — Scott Johnson
Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun and freelancer Thomas Lipscomb are the only two reporters who have undertaken to resolve the mystery of John Kerry’s SF-180. Earlier this month we noted their stories on the subject in “Mixed-up.” Having received copies of the three Kerry SF-180 forms (posted below) pursuant to a FOIA request, Gerstein returns to the subject today in “Kerry grants three reporters broad access to Navy
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June 9, 2005 — Scott Johnson
The Chicago Sun-Times carries Thomas Lipscomb’s article on the mixed-up files of John Kerry: “Did Kerry really release Navy records.” Lipscomb focuses on the mysterious unavailability of the SF 180 Kerry signed: [H]ow an SF 180 is filled out is as important as signing it. But no one in the press has yet claimed to have seen a copy of Kerry’s SF-180. When asked if she had a copy of
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