The Speaker Speaks

 
If there's a Paulie come lately, it's one the WSJ's editorial board's favorite lap dogs, Paul Ryan, the Republican Wisconsin whiz who doubles as the Speaker of the House. We say that with some intrepidity since we doubt if he's the speaker even in his own house.

Rumors are afloat that lone of those cryo sperm joints has requested some Ryan sperm cells. They want to use them to clone brave risk takers.
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In a previous incarnation he was most likely a hedge fund manager or a leading NFL punt returner ,a real risk taker this guy.

Of course, the press release came after the following tweet last night in which Trump called out Ryan for failing to respond to new allegations about the "quid pro quo" arrangement between the State Department and FBI.

As a reminder, about a week ago we wrote about then newly released FBI interviews with numerous references to State Department officials, including Patrick Kennedy, applying pressure to subordinates to change classified email codes so they would be shielded from Congress and the public (see "Two Boxes Of Hillary Emails Mysteriously Disappear").  Here is the relevant section from the FBI's interview notes:

Then, yesterday, according to a report from Fox News, new FBI files reviewed by Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Chair of the House Oversight Committee, potentially pointed toward a "quid pro quo" arrangement between the State Department and the FBI whereby Patrick Kennedy, a senior executive at the State Department, offered "additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas" in return of "altering the classification" of certain Hillary Clinton emails.  If true, of course, this new evidence could serve to discredit the entire FBI investigation as the notes are a "flashing red light of potential criminality."

FBI interview summaries and notes, provided late Friday to the House Government Oversight and Intelligence Committees, contain allegations of a "quid pro quo" between a senior State Department executive and FBI agents during the Hillary Clinton email investigation, two congressional sources told Fox News.

"This is a flashing red light of potential criminality," Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, who has been briefed on the FBI interviews, told Fox News.

He said "there was an alleged quid pro quo” involving Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy and the FBI “over at least one classified email.”

"In return for altering the classification, the possibility of additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas was discussed,” Chaffetz said.

"Both myself and Chairman Devin Nunes of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are infuriated by what we have heard," he added.

"Left to their own devices the FBI would never have provided these [records] to Congress and waited until the last minute. This is the third batch because [the FBI] didn’t think they were relevant," Chaffetz said.

The plumes of smoke continue to grow...the only question now is whether or not the actual fire will be discovered before November 8th?
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And there you have it. The Hillary clan is in their fourth quarter stall mode.

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