• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Does anyone think that Richman will testify and not use atty client privilege to stay silent?


The Plot Thickens2019 Justice Department watchdog concluded
@Comey
set a “dangerous example” when he shared personal memos documenting his private meetings with President Trump about the FBI's Russia Collusion probe.According to the Inspector General Report, several memos were shared with the Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman. Richman is expected to be a central witness in the pending federal prosecution against Comey in Virginia for allegedly lying about his role in media leaks.The Inspector General also found attorney Patrick Fitzgerald received multiple Comey memos about the Trump meetings, including at least one memo containing classified information. Fitzgerald is now representing Comey in the Virginia case.Question: Is there a conflict, or the appearance of a conflict? Does it cross any legal or ethical red lines?Richman has not responded to our team's multiple requests for comment.Seeking additional comment.2019 IG report
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https://scribd.com/document/423671596/Doj-Ig-Comey"Comey sends scanned copies of Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 from his personal email account to the personal email account of one of his attorneys, Patrick Fitzgerald.”“The FBI determined that Memos 1 and 3 contained information classified at the“SECRET” level, and that Memos 2 and 7 contained small amounts of information classified at the “CONFIDENTIAL” level. The FBI designated Memos 4, 5, and 6 as unclassified, “For Official Use Only.”"By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his (Comey's)
@FBI
employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example…”
 


@ChrisVanHollen is lying or is woefully uninformed about GEFTA’s provisions - it does not guarantee backpay for furloughed workers. He should check out this @Axios @MarcACaputo story.

Axios story said that in emails exchanged between OMB and Hill staff in 2019, OMB stated that GEFTA did not create an entitlement for furloughed workers.

According to story, an OMB email stated "It's preferable if S. 24 [GEFTA] were further clarified to make it more explicit that payment to furloughed employees is contingent on future appropriations . . .”

And that’s EXACTLY what Congress did by making clear that federal employees shall be paid “subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.” (see highlighted section below).

Thus, as the Caputo story notes, P.L. 116-5 provided a specific appropriation to cover pay for federal employees, including furloughed workers. (see highlighted section below).

Why would Congress write this appropriation specifically covering federal workers referenced in 1341 (c) if the law already guaranteed that furloughed workers would be automatically be paid??

Does Van Hollen know his Approps staff took the exact language OMB suggested for the start up legislation that ended the lapse, as Caputo writes in his story??

Senator Van Hollen, please stop lying or do some basic work by consulting your staff and committee records to learn what happened in the negotiations on the law you claim you “wrote.”

One final note – President Trump is making sure our brave men and women in the armed forces are paid on time on October 15th and won’t be held hostage to the SCHUMER shutdown.

 
Barton Springs pool in Austin used to allow topless women on the "adult" side of the pool (back in the late 70's - haven't been since). It was funny to watch the new puberty boys walk through that side of the pool. The youngsters walked with their heads high trying not to look but their eyes were going 100 different directions. The water in the pool was naturally spring fed and was colder than normal pools. Many of those boys jumped into the pool after their walk through.
How many times did you have to jump in the cold water?
 

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