Things That Make Me Smile
Well, come to find out, if you’re gonna loudly discuss confidential legal matters in a Washington DeeCee restaurant, odds of a New York Times lawyer sitting right next to you are about … oh, I dunno, 100%.
It seems that two of Trump’s lawyers, Don McGahn and Ty Cobb, are snarling at each other.
The friction escalated in recent days after Mr. Cobb was overheard by a reporter for The New York Times discussing the dispute during a lunchtime conversation at a popular Washington steakhouse. Mr. Cobb was heard talking about a White House lawyer he deemed “a McGahn spy” and saying Mr. McGahn had “a couple documents locked in a safe” that he seemed to suggest he wanted access to.
Now here’s what makes me smile. Robert Mueller’s team isn’t fighting. Nor are they in public restaurants whining loudly about each other. I suspect that’s because they have work to do.
Mr. Mueller is also looking into whether Mr. Trump’s decision to fire James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director initially leading the investigation, constitutes obstruction of justice.
Yeah, in addition to Jared and Junior, there’s still obstruction of justice to investigate.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
“Be vewy vewy quiet, I’m hunting wabbits.” – Robert Mueller, 2017
1Back in the day the Palm was the place to go not only slice and dice steak but reputations, careers, etc. It was the power eatery. Does it look like I miss the good old days? Ever since the Barking Yam moved into the W.H.!
2That strikes me as blatantly unprofessional, if not incompetent.
I think I’d get me a new lawyer if I found out about something like this, and maybe sue the blabbermouth for malpractice.
3What a bunch of rubes. I was warned 40 years ago to always be circumspect in public because you never know who might be listening in. And, I was pretty much a nobody at the time.
I even eavesdropped on what was obviously a blind date with Ted Turner and some lady–in Duke Zeibert’s bar.
4Mr. Mueller is similar to the subtle butterfly drifting over the African continent as he thoroughly investigates each detail. Meanwhile back at home many of us patiently or not so patiently wait for “Hurricane” Mueller to land its one-two punch to the core of the Dolt45 maladministration.
That is one hurricane over which 60% of us can actively cheer as we sincerely hope that other too real tropical storms lose wind and speed and most preferably do not make landfall.
5BarbinDC was there ever a doubt ‘modern’ day snacilbupeR live in a bubble? Lucky for Mueller and his investigative team that those maroons never learned that the nearest to a ‘perfect’ crime is committed by a party of one and shared with no one. Dog. Most of us were tweens or younger when taught that never place anything in writing we didn’t want the world to see, what goes into the ether world of the internet is there forever, and the basic “loose lips sink ships.”
6Or as my little ol’ country mama taught me: “Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead”.
Arguing in a public place??? Oh, brother…
7I was stunned yesterday when I read that these two supposedly super lawyers were so stupid to talk biz in a restaurant, especially since the whole country is interested in what they may know.
I prefer restsurants with high backed booths for privacy. Always assume people nearby are listening. Here’s my story. I used to have lunch alone in a pricey place that had duece tables closely spaced along one wall. I always had a book or magazine to read.
For those of you of a certain age you should know these names. Joe Dolan former #3 (I think) in Bobby Kennedy’s Justice Dept, and a Democratic operative, and Allard Lowenstein, NY congressman and super well known Democratic operative were about 18″ from me and having a juicy talk about Ed Koch, then running for mayor of NY. I kept my face buried in a Newsweek mag but not reading. It never occured to these two smart guys that the woman sitting right there would know who they were as they were in Denver, not NYC or DC. I couldn’t believe they were discussing this stuff! You could figure out the year as shortly thereafter Lowenstein was assinated (sp?). Google it. The man, not the spelling.
8Allard Lowenstein was a very interesting guy, adored and hated depending one’s politics. The fact he was assassinated (1980) speaks to that.
9(aside): Things to not smile about:
Hurricane Maria will almost certainly become a Category 4 or 5 storm in a short time.
It went from a Cat 1 to a Cat 3 (Major storm) overnight.
Maria will be hitting many of the same places annihilated by Irma, and a few others too.
Puerto Rico and the VI’s seem to be dead-center for a Cat 5 impact.
After that, the Turks&Caicos, Bahamas, and **Florida and/or the SE US**.
Having TWO Cat 4/5 hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, hit the US in one season is historically unprecedented. THREE (or more, the season is barely half over) would be ?
Ain’t no such thing as no damned “Climate Change” though, no sirree…
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT5+shtml/181458.shtml
“Reports from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased to near 120 mph (195 km/h) with higher gusts.
*** Maria is a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.***
*** Additional rapid strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and Maria is expected to be a dangerous major hurricane*** as it moves through the Leeward Islands and the northeastern Caribbean Sea.”
(*** added)
10And, there’s a big juicy cherry on top of that delicious dish of schadenfreude. Lunch and discussing Donnie’s Russian romances constitutes a working lunch. They probably billed Dolt45 for their time and lunch.
11I’ll bet the tip was lousy, too.
This sounds soooo much like an episode if VEEP!
12Years ago I was in an elevator in DeeCee at the Four Seasons. I was there to take a banking criminal’s deposition in the S&L crisis in Texas. The guy I was deposing and his 3 lawyers all got on the elevator with me and kept their conversation going. They were very surprised by my opening questions the next day. I don’t know if they ever figured out how I knew what I knew. Stupid.
13Looks like the rethugs snacking on each other extends to their lawyers. Traitor trump’s lawyers may have missed the class about confidentiality. Or maybe they strongly suspect that he won’t pay them and are looking toward the future.
14Well, why not blab all their business in a public place? Donnie was blabbing foreign policy and “Oh look, North Korea’s shot off a big bomb” with the Japanese head of state at a MarALago patio dining room.
As for Maria (heading for abandoned Barbuda to make the rubble bounce and everywhere else to turn the rubble into projectiles), it used to be unheard of for a tropical storm to blow up into a monster overnight. We just had three in a row doing it, not counting this one. This is how climate change makes storms worse– they feed on that warmer water.
15I’m old enough to know of Lowenstein but it doesn’t ring a bell (i’ll axe google about him later). Now in my dotage, I’m cynical enough to think both spellings are likely correctish.
“Years ago I was in an elevator in DeeCee…” too funny!
Speaking of the climate change/hurricane situation, have y’all seen the post going around FB, something to the effect… “climate change?: fake news. old guy with magic zoo boat in 40,000 yr storm: Undeniable!”
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