By Editorial Board Orange County Register The FBI quietly acquired sweeping surveillance powers, beginning Dec. 1, it had sought for years, and the change came without a single congressional hearing or vote. Under a change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the FBI will now be able to obtain a single…
At this point in our nation’s history President-elect Donald Trump has chosen exactly the right person to serve as our next attorney general: Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
Many of these deaths result not from painkillers, but from the DEA’s war on painkillers.
Perhaps no public official emerged from the presidential campaign more battered than FBI Director James Comey.
A president-elect who handles his transition from his hometown, not Washington. A big city and its residents cursed with traffic snarls and security measures that get in the way of normal life. An incoming first lady who entertains waiting until the end of the school year to move the rest of the family to the White House.
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions, then a United States attorney from Alabama, to be a federal judge.
It may never be determined whether James Comey altered history by introducing a headline-grabbing non-sequitur into the Hillary Clinton email saga on the eve of the election, but this aspect of that false alarm is irrefutable.
The bottom line: Comey’s conclusion from an earlier investigation stands.
