The Wheels of Justice Are Grinding Stormy Daniels, Pocahontas Warren, and Leaker James Wolfe

THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE TURN SLOWLY, but grind exceedingly fine. That may be comforting for our conservative sense that justice delayed is justice denied, because there are several wheels of justice turning in our favor right now. • • • STORMY DANIELS SUIT TOSSED OUT. The New York Post reported Monday evening that Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Trump was tossed out Monday, and the federal judge ordered the porn star to pay the President’s legal fees, according to media reports. The case stemmed from a Trump tweet that called Daniels, who claims she had an affair with him, “a total con job.” Judge S. James Otero, a US District Court judge in Los Angeles, said last month the comments made in the President’s tweet appeared to be an opinion protected by the First Amendment. The President’s attorney Charles J. Harder called the ruling a “victory” in a statement to Fox News. The amount Daniels needs to pay will be decided at a later date, he said. Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said he planned to appeal the dismissal. • One wheel of justice that has turned sufficiently to grind one piece of Fake news into dust. • • • ANTIFA CALLS FOR VIOLENCE. We remember when the entire world pummeled President Trump for suggesting that there was violence on both sides at Charlottesville in 2017, with everyone saying that only the extreme right marchers were violent and the masked Antifa crowd were peaceful marchers. • Well, on Monday we learned from Gateway Pundit that Antifa placed severed pig heads at polling stations and campaign offices in Austin, Texas, while calling for “revolutionary violence.” Gateway Pundit said that Antifa "appears to have targeted both the campaign offices of Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz -- calling them 'imperialist pigs.' " The militants placed the severed pigs heads protesting the elections at polling places and campaign offices in and around Austin longside placards that read "Cruz and O’Rourke are imperialist pigs. Elections, no! Revolution, yes!" and "O’Rourke is an imperialist pig. Elections, no! Revolution, yes!" < pic.twitter.com/EmCXcEN2p3 >. • Far Left Watch reported : "After attacking five separate GOP offices, Antifa has escalated their extremist activities by placing severed pig heads at multiple polling locations and campaign offices in the Austin, TX area. This comes directly on the heels of the media accusing Republicans of 'seizing' on the 'angry mob' mantra in order to generate a better turnout for the midterms. The Red Guards Austin recently shared a blog post with their 8,000 Facebook followers in which they commemorated Mao Zedong’s brutal communist revolution that resulted in millions of people being slaughtered. In this blog post, they called for a boycott of the 'bourgeois elections' and advocated for organized revolutionary violence." The armed Antifa group that placed severed pig heads at campaign offices called for "People's War." • Contrary to what mainstream media and leftist online outlets have claimed, the far-left absolutely presents a legitimate threat of political violence, says Far Left Watch. How right that is -- and how just it is that not only a Republican but also a Democrat should be targeted by Antifa -- it's those wheels of justice grinding again. • • • A WASHINGTON LEAKER ROMANTICALLY LINKED TO A TIMES REPORTER PLEADS GUILTY. Fox News reported on Monday that : "A former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee has pleaded guilty to one count of giving a false statement to FBI agents looking into leaks of national security information to several reporters, including one at the New York Times he dated, the Justice Department announced Monday. James A. Wolfe, 58, was in charge of maintaining all classified information coming from the executive branch to the Senate panel. He served as the panel's security director for 29 years. 'Did you make a false statement to the FBI?' DC district court judge Ketanji B. Jackson asked Wolfe in court on Monday. Wolfe had been scheduled to appear for a routine status hearing, before prosecutors announced that 'substantial' negotiations had produced a guilty plea. 'I did, your honor,' Wolfe responded." • Wolfe lied to the FBI in December, 2017, about contacts he had with three reporters, according to a statement of offense released Monday as part of his guilty plea. He also allegedly lied about giving two reporters non-public information about Committee matters. His guilty plea on Monday to one count means that the other two counts against him will be dismissed. • President Trump this summer told reporters : “I’m a big, big believer in freedom of the press. But I’m also a believer in classified information. It has to remain classified." But, in a statement released after Wolfe's guilty plea, his lawyers emphasized he had not been charged with leaking classified information : "Jim has accepted responsibility for his actions and has chosen to resolve this matter now so that he and his family can move forward with their lives. We will have much more to say about the facts and Jim's distinguished record of nearly three decades of dedicated service to the Senate and the intelligence community at his sentencing hearing." Wolfe is set for sentencing on December 20, and although the charge carries a maximum potential sentence of five years and a fine of $250,000, he probably faces up to six months in prison according to federal sentencing guidelines. • Fox News stated : "Earlier this year, the New York Times revealed that federal investigators had seized years' worth of email and phone records relating to one of its reporters, Ali Watkins. She previously had a three-year romantic relationship with Wolfe, the Times reported, adding that the records covered a period of time before she joined the paper. Watkins worked previously for BuzzFeed, Politico and McClatchy. Wolfe's contacts with Watkins specifically did not appear related to the charge he admitted on Monday to lying about. Wolfe allegedly exchanged 'tens of thousands of electronic communications' with one reporter, including one that read, 'I've watched your career take off even before you ever had a career in journalism....I always tried to give you as much information that I could and to do the right thing with it so you could get that scoop before anyone else...'....But Wolfe told FBI agents that 'he had never disclosed to REPORTER #2 classified information or information that he learned as Director of Security for the (Committee) that was not otherwise publicly available,' according to Monday's court documents and his indictment. • Wolfe used several means to contact reporters, including Signal and WhatsApp, according to court papers. He also met “clandestinely in person,” in secluded areas of the Hart Senate Office Building, according to his indictment and statement of offense. • Wolfe's guilty plea comes just weeks after secret text messages revealed that anti-Trump former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had discussed a “media leak strategy” amid the Russia probe -- while Strzok's attorney claims the text merely referred to efforts to stop leaks. In a September letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Representative Mark Meadows raised “grave concerns” about an “apparent systemic culture of media leaking” among high-level FBI and Justice Department officials to release information damaging to Trump. Meadows noted two text strings in April, 2017, between Strzok, later fired by the FBI, and former FBI attorney Page, in which the two discuss the bureau's "media leak strategy." Strzok texted PAge on April 10, 2017 : "I had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you I want to talk to you about media leak strategy with DOJ before you go." On April 22, Strzok wrote : "article is out! Well done, Page," and on April 12 he told her that two negative articles about Page's "namesake" would soon come out, in an apparent reference to Carter Page, the former Trump advisor the FBI surveilled for months after obtaining a FISA warrant. Republicans have charged that the FBI provided misleading or inaccurate information to the FISA court to obtain the warrant. In particular, the FBI incorrectly suggested to the FISA court that a Yahoo News article provided an independent basis to monitor Page, when that article relied on the same source the FBI had cited earlier : ex-spy Christopher Steele, who worked for a firm hired by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign, a fact also not revealed to the FISA court. • Carter Page announced on Monday that he is suing the DNC and other entities for allegedly spreading false and defamatory reports about his supposed dealings with Russians. • President Trump some time ago ordered a crackdown on leakers, and the Wolfe guilty plea may be the start of more wheels of justice grinding leakers. • • • POCAHONTAS SHOOTS HERSELF IN THE FOOT AGAIN. Many news outlets reported on Monday about Senator Elizabeth Warren's release of her DNA test results. None was more untruthful than the NBC Nightly News report that stated that Warren indeed has Indian blood and that she has proven President Trump wrong. NOTHING could be farther from the truth. • Gateway Pundit got it right with its headline, "Average White American Has DOUBLE THE AMOUNT of Native American DNA as Elizabeth Warren. Gateway Pundit wrote : "Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren released a DNA study today that claims she is 1/512th Native American. The Fauxcahontas folly began to fall apart quickly when the Boston Globe had to make an embarrassing correction. The DNA test revealed that Elizabeth Warren is not 1/512 Native American, she’s 1/1,024. That’s 0.0009765625." [As one commenter said, that is just about the same percent as her chance of being elected President.] • Gateway Pundit noted that most tribes require the percentage of Native blood to be at least 1/16th in order to claim Native American heritage. Warren specifically claimed to be Cherokee. The DNA test did not prove this to be true. • According to the New York Times, the average white person in America has nearly double the amount of American Indian DNA (0.18%) as Elizabeth Warren (0.098%), who claims to be Cherokee. • Gateway Pundit said : "Elizabeth Warren made up all kinds of elaborate stories in an effort to bolster her claims she is Native American. Warren claimed her parents had to elope because her father’s parents were racist and didn’t approve of their son’s Cherokee girlfriend." You can watch the video of Elizabeth Warren describing about how hard it was for her "oppressed" parents to get married because her Mom was a "Cherokee Indian" at < pic.twitter.com/P7VVYovpsd >. And there's also the video of Pocahontas describing her Pawpaw’s high cheekbones. Watch that video at < https://youtu.be/uegqTj3SHO4 >. • Sometimes the wheels of justice don't even need to grind -- the culprit grinds herself up without help. • • • JUSTICE KAVANAUGH GETS A WARM WELCOME AT THE SUPREME COURT. American Thinker's T. R. Clancy wrote a lovely article on Sunday about Justice Brett Kavanaugh's first day at work. Clancy wrote : "As Democrats continue to promise their base they'll somehow manage to impeach the newest justice on the Supreme Court, Justice Kavanaugh's first day on the bench last Tuesday showed a man far from disabled by what the left just put him through. As reported in Roll Call : 'Justice Brett Kavanaugh heard oral arguments for the first time Tuesday in cases about one of the Supreme Court's least favorite criminal laws, jumping into his role with some straightforward questions and little hint of the bitter confirmation process he just went through. There were no outbursts from protesters in the gallery, as there had been during his Senate confirmation hearings or Saturday's historic vote.' After the justices took their places, Chief Justice Roberts welcomed Kavanaugh, telling him, 'We wish you a long and happy career in our common calling.' Shortly after, while lawyers were being admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, Justice Kagan leaned over and spoke to Kavanaugh, who 'became animated, smiling widely and nodding as he exchanged comments with his new colleague.' " Clancy explains that the Court was hearing oral arguments in two cases on Tuesda and about 15 minutes into the first hearing, Kavanaugh asked his first question, "inquiring why a previous Supreme Court ruling regarding the Armed Career Criminal Act shouldn't be applied to the statute under review in the current case. He showed complete familiarity with the issues and the law, including a related Florida statute. From then on, he was asking questions throughout both oral arguments." • But, the best part of Clancy's article is this : "It's encouraging that, in his first appearance on the Supreme Court after that awful nomination process, Brett Kavanaugh showed no hint of apprehension that he was there on probation or that he wasn't fully deserving of being exactly where he was. It's clear that by Tuesday, his estimation of the accusations being hurled at him only days before was exactly what they deserved -- forgotten and put out of his mind. Unfortunately, in his personal life, Kavanaugh and his family will still need healing, and all the scars the left so basely inflicted on them will be there for life. But by keeping his promise to rise above all that without bitterness, and to become a fair and successful justice, he's showing his enemies up as being the small and vindictive people they are. He'll let their hatred remain their problem, not his. Kavanaugh is a brilliant jurist, considered possibly the best qualified candidate ever nominated to the Court. The strength of his mind was evident Tuesday in the way he waded right in with his new peers to hash over the legal intricacies of cases, statutes, and precedents. He was made for this job." • Roll Call reported that former justice Anthony Kennedy also was there, listening to the arguments from the audience. Afterward, "as the arguments ended and the justices stood to retire to their chambers, Kagan shook Kavanaugh's hand." Clancy tied up his article with this : "Nor, judging by the way Justice Kagan warmly -- and publicly -- welcomed Kavanaugh, is it likely that she shares any of the doubts about his character that her sister liberal women claim to have. Even liberal justices respect evidence, and Chuck Schumer's political directives don't extend to the Supreme Court." You can read the entire Clancy article at < https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/first_day_at_work_shows_justice_kavanaugh_unfazed_by_the_lefts_hit_job.html#ixzz 5TumUfKaf >. • Justice Kavnaaugh was ground, not by justice but by the insensate and cynical deceitfulness of the Senate's Democrats, determined to prevent his confirmation. But, Lady Justice is smiling now as Brett Kavanaugh takes his rightful palce on the US Supreme Court. • • • DEAR READERS, to go back to the opening quotation : "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine." It is actually a thought that is 1,600 years old. The ancient Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus wrote : "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small." American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translated the classic Greek as it was quoted in a 17th century poem, 'Retribution,' by Friedrich Von Logau. Longfellow's rendition is this : "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all." • It is a thought worthy of any conservative's book of quotations.