Frank Figliuzzi

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

Pam Bondi will not have a license to practice law when this is all over. You can’t stay a bar member and agree to investigate only members of one political party for child sexual abuse but not members of the other. And, you can’t do it after previously saying no one else could be charged.

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters

The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”

20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.

The NYPD officer killed by the active shooter was an immigrant from Bangladesh. He had 2 kids and a 3rd on the way. The US State Dept travel advisory for Bangladesh is level 3; “Reconsider Travel” for violence, crime and terrorism. He died here, for us, shot with a Colt M4 rifle. Think about that.

Tell me again how brilliant he is: www.nbcnews.com/science/spac...

SpaceX again loses its Starship rocket on test flight after explosion during previous attempt

A little over 8 minutes into the flight, live video showed the upper-stage vehicle spinning in space before all communication was lost.

Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter

Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez collapsed into tears as she recalled the moment last week when U.S. immigration officials in Florida told her she would be deported and separated from her still-breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter.

Through executive order, President Biden should mandate that the FBI conduct background investigations on Trump’s picks and instruct the FBI to begin the process now. The U.S. Senate should use its power to request the same of the FBI.

And another one: www.newsweek.com/woman-given-...

Woman given Jan 6 pardon is sentenced for death by drunk driving

A woman pardoned for her role in January 6 has been sentenced again in court after killing a person while drunk driving.

My latest: Biden and Senate Judiciary should order background checks on Trump nominees now: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks

The FBI has conducted background investigations of White House nominees since at least the tenure of President Dwight Eisenhower’s time in office.

Here they come: theins.ru/en/news/277378

Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the ...

From @nbcnews.com and @msnbc.com

Headline that could have been written months ago:

Here’s what happened at the summit I spoke at in Washington, DC today. Tell me free speech isn’t under attack: youtu.be/Gnt4PNS7lJU

Michael Fanone on altercation with Enrique Tarrio

YouTube video by Nicholas Ballasy

Jack Smith has resigned. AG Garland now needs to grow a pair of balls and release the entire Smith report. Yes, there are remaining defendants in the docs case, but Trump will pardon them.

The American president has lost his mind.

In Davos, the world is watching an American president’s mind dissolve in real time.

For the record:

Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a minimum security camp. This looks like a reward, but for what exactly? www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

“It was a day of love”: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Jan. 6 rioter is convicted of plotting to murder FBI agents who investigated him

Edward Kelley, a Donald Trump supporter and anti-abortion extremist, was among the first rioters to breach the U.S. Capitol.

Nada. Zip. Nothing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.