Good morning on Friday, August 12, 2022, and remember that Cat Sabbath begins at sundown. It’s National Julienne Fries day (these are too thin, but thin fries are better than no fries!):
It’s also Baseball Fans Day, Truck Driver Day, the UN holiday of International Youth Day, and World Elephant Day.
Stuff that happened on August 12 includes:
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
- 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
Here’s the model that went with Singer’s patent. It hasn’t changed all that much!
- 1865 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
- 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The quagga is actually a subspecies of zebra, Equus quagga quagga. Here’s the only known photo of a living quagga, photographed at the London Zoo in 1870. It was hunted to extinction.
- 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
- 1950 – Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: 75 American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
- 1952 – The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
- 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.
- 1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.
Here’s the first IBM PC:
- 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
Sue is at the Field Museum here in Chicago, and visitors always want to see her (and I take them). Getting her wasn’t cheap!
The California State University system, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, McDonald’s, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and individual donors agreed to assist in purchasing Sue for the Field Museum. On October 4, 1997, the auction began at US$500,000; less than ten minutes later, the Field Museum had purchased the remains with the highest bid of US$7.6 million. The final cost was US$8,362,500.
Photos: the mounted specimen; second, the specimen with the real bones in green (rest is restoration); third is Sue’s skull, which was too heavy to be mounted with the rest of the specimen. It has its own case upstairs:
Her real skull, remarkably well preserved. Look at those choppers!
- 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
Da Nooz:
*The NYT reports that for months before the FBI searched his home, Trump had been subpoenaed, and that the FBI “tried every method short of a search warrant” to get boxes of documents he’d taken from the White House. The raid, then, wasn’t just something dreamed up as part of a conspiracy (that’s what Republicans are beefing about)—it was a last resort:
The subpoena suggests that the Justice Department tried methods short of a search warrant to account for the material before taking the politically explosive step of sending F.B.I. agents unannounced to Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and members-only club.
Two people briefed on the classified documents that investigators believe remained at Mar-a-Lago indicated that they were so sensitive in nature, and related to national security, that the Justice Department had to act.
The subpoena was first disclosed by John Solomon, a conservative journalist who has also been designated by Mr. Trump as one of his representatives to the National Archives.
The existence of the subpoena is being used by allies of Mr. Trump to make a case that the former president and his team were cooperating with the Justice Department in identifying and returning the documents in question and that the search was unjustified.
If they were cooperating, why didn’t Trump just turn over the damn boxes. You can bet your bippy that the Department of Justice wouldn’t have conducted a raid if they thought Trump was going to cooperate. We’ve learned by now that Trump always pretends he’ll cooperate, but stalls forever. Remember during the campaign in 2019 when he promised he’d turn over his tax returns? What a joke!
*Speaking of which, there are two important related events. The first is that Attorney General Merrick Garland has asked a judge to unseal the warrant used to raid Mar-A-Lago the other day (you can see the request here). This is a good move, for it will dispel a lot of speculation—and perhaps some whining by Republicans.
In a clipped two-minute statement to reporters at the department’s headquarters, Mr. Garland, who previously declined to comment on the warrant, said he decided to go public with his actions now because Mr. Trump had already confirmed the action, the “surrounding circumstances” of the case, and the “substantial public interest in this matter.”
Mr. Garland’s decision to make a public appearance came at an extraordinary moment in the department’s 152-year history, as the sprawling investigation of a former president who remains a powerful political force gains momentum, with prosecutors from an array of the department’s divisions and regional offices taking new actions, seemingly every day.
Mr. Garland, a laconic former judge, had come under increasing pressure this week to provide more public information about why the Justice Department decided that a search was necessary and who approved it — or at least to offer an explanation of the legal processes undertaken by his subordinates.
But he seemed, even on Thursday, to do so with considerable reluctance, and reiterated his often-stated commitment to conducting the inquiry within the confines of the legal system rather than in public, with a goal of protecting the rights of targets of the probe, and the integrity of the investigation.
Garland’s hand was forced, but I admire the ways he’s going about this.
*And he’s going about this in yet another admirable way, having made a public announcement yesterday afternoon. It’s short (4 minutes), and I’ve put the video below. There’s not much new except his personal announcement that he asked a judge to unseal the warrant; most of it is his affirmation that Trump is being afforded the same rights as any American. He says that he personally approved the search warrant, decries the unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI.
The Justice Department has been instructed by the court to confer with Trump about its request to unseal certain warrant documents from the FBI Mar-a-Lago search and to tell the court by Friday 3 p.m. ET if he opposes their release.
If the judge needs Trump’s permission to unseal the warrant, I wouldn’t count on any unsealing.
Sadly, Garland clearly would have made a good Supreme Court Justice, but Mitch McConnell nixed that.
Ken adds this:
AG Merrick Garland held a very brief press conference this afternoon simply to announce the filing of the motion to unseal. I watched it, and he struck me as someone confident in the cards he’s holding.
Interestingly, Trump and his lawyers have thus far declined to make public the warrant and the inventory of seized documents, copies of which were left at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the search. (The application for the warrant — which is the key document containing the sworn affidavit establishing probable cause that a crime has been committed and that evidence of the crime will be found at the place to be searched — is submitted under seal and can be made public only if ordered unsealed by the court.) Trump and his lawyers now have an opportunity to respond to the motion to unseal before the court rules on the motion, so we’ll soon see if they agree or object to the unsealing.In the meantime, Trump has been alleging that the FBI probably planted documents at Mar-a-Lago during the search — which seems awfully far-fetched. This allegation, combined with his refusal thus far to release the warrant and inventory, suggests that he knows there was something seized that he cannot easily explain away.We shall see, and likely soon.
Note that the critical thing we want to see is the application for the warrant: the supposed crimes that persuaded the judge to issue the document.
An update:
The court has given Trump and his lawyers until tomorrow (Fri. 8/12) afternoon to respond to the government’s motion to unseal the warrant, advising whether it consents or objects to having the warrant unsealed.
Also, there’s a piece in today’s The Atlantic regarding the threats of violence by Trump supporters pervading social media (such as Trump’s “Truth Social” platform), including threats directed at the family of the SD Fla magistrate-judge (and former federal prosecutor) Bruce Reinhart, who signed the warrant authorizing the search of Mar-a-Lago. It’s gotten so bad that the shul Magistrate Reinhart and his family attend has been forced to cancel its weekly beachside Shabbat services.
And Ken provides some lagniappe:
You’ve seen the new ad by the Lincoln Project, released after the execution of the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago?
It’s playing in the media market that includes Trump’s “summer palace” at Bedminster, NJ.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like anybody “gave Trump up”: the feds have been trying to get those boxes for a while.
*How can the West be such saps about Iran? We all know that Iran has a nuclear program, but pretend to believe their claims that they don’t. We all know that they’ll eventually have a bomb and delivery capability, but we keep giving them goodies so they’ll keep on pretending that they’re not interested in weapons. Now, by answering (with lies) a few questions, Iran has the chance to get the present sanctions by the US and EU lifted so it can start making bombs again. From the WSJ:
European Union diplomats trying to break a deadlock in talks over an Iran nuclear accord have proposed a significant new concession to Tehran aimed at speedily ending a U.N. investigation into the Islamic Republic’s past atomic activities.
A key sticking point in 16-month-old talks to revive the 2015 deal, which put limits on Iran’s nuclear programs in exchange for sanctions relief, has been a probe by the International Atomic Energy Agency into undeclared nuclear material found in Iran in 2019.
That material, Israel and Western officials contend, is evidence that Iran once had a clandestine atomic-weapons program, something Tehran has long denied, saying it is only interested in a civilian nuclear program.
In the nuclear negotiations, Iran has pressed for an end to the investigation since at least March. U.S. and European officials, meanwhile, have said they won’t negotiate over the investigation by the IAEA, an independent watchdog, which they say is unrelated to the nuclear deal.
A draft text of the proposal from the EU, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, would have Iran agree to address the IAEA’s concerns before the pact takes effect, saying Iran is expected to answer the agency’s questions “with a view to clarifying them.”
If Tehran cooperates, the U.S. and the other parties in the talks would urge the IAEA Board of member states to close the investigation, the text says.
What a bunch of credulous saps!
If all the parties to the accord, the U.S., Iran, Germany, France, the U.K., Russia and China agree to the proposed text, it would put the International Atomic Energy Agency into a difficult spot, with the implementation of the deal resting largely on its assessment of Tehran’s cooperation.
A spokesman for the IAEA declined to comment. The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, has vowed to never abandon the investigation until Iran answers where the nuclear material originated and where it is now.
Saps and invertebrates—except for the IAEA.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hilli’s getting wormed! When I asked if she voluntarily took her worm medicine (now that was a stupid question!), Malgorzata responded:
Yes, she got it. We always buy more than one because she is very good at spotting them and spitting out. This time Andrzej put it inside a piece of raw chicken meat and she swallowed it without realizing that there was medicine inside. There are never any problems with Szaron.
A: Will you also eat worm medicine?Hili: Unwillingly.
Ja: Czy zechcesz również zjeść środek na robaki?Hili: Niechętnie.
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From Malcolm: oddly behaving cats:
From Merilee:
From Facebook:
From Titania:
Given that hate speech is not possible without free speech, any defence of free speech is a form of hate speech.
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) August 11, 2022
God really does NOT like Trump:
Trump pleaded the Fifth.
It took a massive criminal investigation to finally make him shut the fuck up.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) August 10, 2022
We haven’t checked in with Masih in a while. The oppression of Iranian women continues unabated.
Recently dozens of women got arrested for protesting against compulsory hijab in Iran. 4 of those were tortured, brought on state TV denounced themselves and the #No2Hijab campaign.
By #WalkingUnveiled Iranian women are continuing their civil disobedience in public.#LetUsTalk pic.twitter.com/x0vguUiXfN— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) August 11, 2022
I wonder if they learn this or (more likely), it’s largely in the genes:
If you didn't know, this is how the Reticulated Python climbs a tree.
This sped up footage really demonstrates how snakes are just a muscular tube. pic.twitter.com/Kt5t2JiMvX
— Curious Archive (@curious_archive) August 5, 2022
From the Auschwitz Museum. Almost all of these people (including the children of course) were gassed immediately after arriving at the camp:
12 August 1944 | The 1st transport of Poles deported by the Germans during the #Warsaw Uprising arrived at #Auschwitz from a transit camp in Pruszków: 1,984 men & 3,853 women. See our lesson "From the uprising Warsaw to Auschwitz": https://t.co/UVr5FOrviG | @WarsawRising44 pic.twitter.com/MatRrUeGbc
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 12, 2022
Tweets from Dr. Cobb. A suggestion that jumping spiders might dream (7 tweets in the thread):
While filming hanging jumping spiders at night, we noticed surprising things happening. Regular phases of curling up their legs and twitching in what seemed like uncontrolled movements. Reminding us a lot of sleeping dogs or cats, we asked: could this be REM sleep? 2/7 pic.twitter.com/TdSjwg21hD
— Dr. Daniela Rößler 🌎 (@RoesslerDaniela) August 8, 2022
Really? A reason to live?
I have finally found a reason to live – making sure everyone knows about this horse called Potoooooooo (Pot-8-Os) pronounced Potatoes pic.twitter.com/w7JTjfayiQ
— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) August 6, 2022
I vote for the swing:
A Bronze Age child on a swing, a woman, a goddess? Unique objects often trigger multiple interpretations. Fragmentary clay model of a figure swinging on a string between two columns with birds on top. Agia Triada, Crete, 1500-1450 BCE. Museum Heraklion. #Archaeology pic.twitter.com/SbqZjx5Cxc
— Dr. Oliver Dietrich (@odietrich_) August 7, 2022
I think child on a swing too. What a lovely object.
The Guardian (via the Washington Post) are reporting that the documents taken from Mar-a-lago include those describing nuclear weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/fbi-search-trump-mar-a-lago-home-classified-nuclear-weapons-documents-report
Trump is also claiming that the FBI planted some of the documents (!)
If you were to bet “lie” on every single utterance by Trump, you would win at least 85% of the time. I wonder if any of his supporters would take those bets?
Tangentially related to Lister’s first antiseptic surgery: We have Listerine products, named in homage to Lister (or so I’m told), but why has no one produced any antiseptic SemmelWipes in honor of poor Ignaz Semmelweis?
If anyone wants to do so, and it hasn’t already been done, I hereby declare that you may have the trademark for use in perpetuity in return for consideration of $1.00, or whatever the minimum requirement is for such consideration in contract law, to be paid whenever you next happen to see me in person.
Dreaming jumping spiders? Fascinating! What is really amazing about this to me is that, if true, then REM / dreaming evolved a long, long time ago. Was it positively selected for? Or is it merely a neutral side effect of nervous systems? Seems likely to me that it would have been positively selected for, that it is necessary for some reason for biological brains. And if so that suggests that the problem that dreaming deals with is something that arises very early in the evolution of brains, given that even a brain as minimal as a jumping spider’s does it and that the LCA of jumping spiders and humans was no doubt a very long time ago.
Of course it could have evolved multiple times, but that seems less likely to me.
The Wall Street Journal reported last night that the FBI received a tip from inside Trumpworld at Mar-a-Lago that Trump had failed to turn over classified documents in response to requests from the National Archives and a subpoena from federal law enforcement.
Also, The Washington Post has reported that the documents the Feds were seeking in the search warrant include classified information regarding nuclear weapons — one of the reasons the Justice Dept. felt the need to conduct the search so expeditiously, once this information was revealed. I think we ought to suspend speculation on this aspect until additional facts have been disclosed, since the potential implications of this are too awful to imagine.
Yeah, it is indeed pretty obvious why Trump would steal such documents.
All we can do at this point is to quote back to Republicans the cautionary lyrics from The Donald’s favorite Al Wilson tune:
You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in:
My own speculation is that the Signals Intelligence folk picked up some chatter among our adversaries suggesting that the documents might be available for the right price. I can only think of nefarious reasons for tRump to have been holding on to these documents.
If that turns out to be the case, GBJ, one wonders who may have seen the documents, or been made privy to the contents therein, in the 19 months since Trump lost office.
Indeed.
How so? There are already at least 9, more likely 10 or 11 countries with nuclear weapons in a variety of styles and differing detailed capabilities. The detailed engineering that makes for different machines is very unlikely to be in a briefing aimed at a person like Trump, with the technical abilities of a 1970s ignoramus.
“Codes” for the US nuclear weapon systems? It’s a truism that code security lies in the system, not in the codes. Leaking even a few thousand sets of codes would leave the system’s overall security uncompromised. It’s not as if the codes don’t get changed on a daily (or hourly, or minutely) basis, so what would be lost by the equivalent of sending a Post-It with “Psswd = 123@Trumpies#tinyhandz” to the Kremlin Department of Trump Psychology Manipulation?
Far more serious for nuclear proliferation is the “Ukraine Lesson” currently being taught : do not ever consider secession without maintaining and keeping control of any nuclear systems on your own territory. This lesson will be being studied in any threatened capitals (Pyongyang, Tel Aviv, Delhi, Lahore …) as well as potential future secessionist capitals (Austin, Sacramento, maybe others). It slightly raises the barrier for secession, but if you weren’t expecting war-war to replace jaw-jaw in the first case, jawing until you get the nukes remains a viable road to secession. If you’re planning secession by war-war, then you need to figure out how to incapacitate any nukes on your territory and then replace the old control system with your own. So you’ve got to have plans for that.
Ah, now I see – there might be sufficient information about the US nukes control system to enable putative a Texan secessionist to actually succeed in gaining control over them. Actually … yes, that’s not implausible. Having competent encryption designers and penetrators is a commercial project these days, not a state secret. Obviously, Trump supporting far-Right Texan secessionists in seditious treason is a reasonable proposition.
¶We say (Pot-8-Os)¶ ¶The French say (Poe-tweet-Os)¶ ¶Let’s make some FREEDOM Fries¶
IIRC, “Poo-tee-weet” is the last line of Mr. Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five, spoken by a bird to Billy Pilgrim.
It is, according to Uncle Kurt, what birds say — all that can ever be said — about a massacre.
I didn’t listen. Did Garland say anything about when there would be a Special Counsel to investigate the Bidens’ business dealings with China and conflicts of interest?
Congratulations. You win the Non Sequitur Of The Day Award!
And the Whataboutism Award on the very same night!
Why do you keep on showing up here, the website of a scientist, just to parrot Sean Hannity all the time, who is easily the least intelligent person in all mass media?
It does you no credit, sir. The constant false equivalences, the dumbing-down by ignoring every nuance or complication, the weird sycophancy to an objectively amoral, mean-spirited, and stupid Leader and his constant lying…why do you choose to bring all that crap here?
I don’t get it.
Nice to see you putting the national interest above partisan bickering, DrB.
Mar-a-Lago is guarded by the secret service, right?
So it’s not like the classified info was left on an unsecured server in someone’s basement.
The former president is guarded by the Secret Service. Mar-a-Lago is not a secure facility for storing classified materials. It is a private club not a government office.
During a WH press conference on 14 Feb 2017, the existence of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility within Mar-A-Lago was confirmed by the WH spokesman. Any place where a president is expected to regularly stay during their term is going to have secure communications facilities, as well as document storage and secure conference rooms.
There is no such thing at MAL.
I referenced the 2017 press conference. I would have linked the transcript, but the WH deleted that one.
Wikipedia lists the following-
“Officials documented to have had a SCIF set up in their private residences include:
President George W. Bush at his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas (which he used as his Western White House)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at her Washington, D.C., home
President Donald Trump at both Trump Tower in New York City, and at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida (which he used as his Winter White House)”
The GSA provides staffing and suitable office space appropriately furnished and equipped for an “Office of the Former President”, and the Secret Service maintains an office nearby. “Appropriately equipped” includes provisions for the fact that a former president continues to have clearance to access sensitive documents from the period when “that individual was serving as President or Vice President”. Also, previous presidents normally receive regular briefings on national security.
But the thing is, the president has a unique authority to classify, declassify, and control access to information bearing on national security. He is literally the final authority on such matters.
The National Archives always has issues with former presidents and their records.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/10/crisis_at_the_national_archives_137241.html#
Importantly, the law gives the Archivist pretty broad powers to determine what are and are not important national records.
I am not going to assume that the new staff at the National Archives, who put a “harmful language alert” on pages describing US founding documents, would use their power in a personal and vindictive manner against any particular former president. I assume that the archivist has ensured that none of the other living former presidents have retained even a single document or memento from their term in office.
You type many words into the computer machine. None of it is relevant to the fact that at MAL there simply is no such facility. Your attempt to make this into a “normal, nothing unusual” situation is ridiculous. Trump is not entitled to keep classified material at MAL. He has no security clearance. The facility is not a government facility. Stop trying to defend the indefensible.
“at MAL there simply is no such facility.”
I have not personally examined MAL, so I have had to rely on video of the WH press briefing and a spectrum of media reports reporting the existence of the facility. Additionally, I have a pretty good working knowledge of classified material handling requirements.
However, you seem pretty confident in your assertion, so I will defer to your personal and detailed knowledge of MAL.
Anyway, I would have thought that Trump’s refusal to allow the installation of secure communications, meeting, and storage facilities would in itself be a scandal worth reporting.
You’re displaying willful ignorance. If you put a bit of time into following the news you would know that The Former Guy does not have security clearance, that the US Government does not have a secure facility at MAL, and that the Secret Service is not responsible for operating such facilities. These are not obscure facts.
Pace what his craziest cultists claim to believe, Donald Trump ceased being president of the United States at noon on January 20, 2021. He had no legal right to steal classified documents from the White House to take with him to his private residence at Mar-a-Lago. Full stop.
Aside from being Trump’s residence, Mar-a-Lago is a private club for the idle rich, whose members can come and go as they please. It’s about as secure as Gatsby’s mansion in West Egg.
And you seem to have forgotten all about Yujing Zhang, the Chinese national woman who waltzed right into Mar-a-Lago, while Trump was still president, carrying two Chinese passports, four cellphones, a laptop, and a thumb drive containing malware. She was later — after roaming around the grounds for a while — arrested for trespassing and for lying to federal agents and was, apparently, trying to establish a business of selling access to Trump to other Chinese nationals.
Some secure.
In any event, the Secret Service’s remit is to protect Donald Trump personally, as a former US president. It is not to secure classified documents it had no reason to know Trump had purloined from the White House.
Though nice try with the buttery males anyway, Lysander.
Had to look up buttery males🤣🤣
I can’t tell. Is this satire?
Now that Merrick Garland is involved, I’m expecting the antisemites to come out of the woodwork and blame the Jews for Trump’s woes. Maybe some already have. It’s inevitable. (Of course I hope I’m wrong.)
Bruce Reinhart, the Southern District of Florida federal magistrate-judge who signed the warrant for the Mar-a-Lago search, has been the object of antisemitic slurs and death threats from Trump supporters. See here and here The risk posed by these threats is sufficiently serious that the shul he and his wife and his children attend has suspended its weekly beachside Shabbat services.
Is this an implication that Merrick Garland is (or isn’t) a Jew? It’s not clear which way this is going.
Is religious affiliation a matter of public record in America? I’ve probably known a lot more than one Jew in my time, but I only know of one (and that’s inference based on him volunteering to describe the tenets and practices of Judaism to our RE class ; which says precisely zero about his actual religious beliefs (I never felt a reason to ask).
How would a putative “affiliation database” deal with people changing their profession? Or, for that matter, the creation of new religions? How could it is handle the deletion of religions – do they erase the classification on the death of the final registered adherent, or on their (self-professed) move to a different classification?
Someone, somewhere would have invented a game of trying to break such a system.
I suspect that the Orange One may have had some very specific items in mind when he floated the possibility of the DOJ having planted documents.
Clearly he would have learned from his lesson that some things are sinkers, and won’t flush.
Claims of planted evidence tend to be the last redoubt of incompetent, guilty suspects, made when they cannot avail themselves of straightforward denials or explanations.
I’ve had cases where I thought a federal agent played fast & loose with the facts in an affidavit submitted in support of a search warrant application. (And, for an earlier generation of criminal defense lawyers, during the days of J. Edgar Hoover’s infamous “black bag” squads, cases were legion in which information from an illegal wiretap was falsely attributed to an unnamed “confidential informant.”) I’ve also known street cops who weren’t above tossing some contraband next to suspect as a pretext to search the suspect’s pockets. And there are police-force units notorious for keeping Saturday-night specials on hand to throw down next to suspect whom they’d shot, to bolster their justification for the use of deadly force.
But in 3-plus decades of defense work, I know of no cases in which federal agents planted evidence in the course of executing a federal search warrant. I think the odds that FBI agents planted classified documents regarding nuclear weapons during the search of Mar-a-Lago — if that is indeed what The Donald is claiming — are an order of magnitude lower than that detectives from the LA Sheriff’s Dept. planted the black glove behind the house on Rockingham or splattered blood inside OJ’s white Bronco.
New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/312605-schumer-trump-being-really-dumb-by-going-after-intelligence-community/
All those movies about three letter agencies going rogue may not be far off the mark.
I remember just what to do with that original IBM PC. Put your floppy boot disk in slot A, turn it on. Wait for the A:> command prompt. Replace boot disk with the floppy containing WordStar software. Start Wordstar from the prompt but leave the disk in! Insert the data disk with your files in slot B. Type. Print out document on a chattering dot-matrix printer on accordion-fold paper with tractor holes along the perforated edges. Repeat.