Patterico And The Brett Kimberlin Gang

Patterico has a stunning post about the extreme lengths to which a group of nutjobs will go to harass and intimidate their opponents. Of course, Brett Kimberlin was convicted of planting bombs back in the 1980s, so maybe one man's extreme is another man's normal:

You’re about to listen to one of the most bone-chilling pieces of audio you will ever hear. At least, it was to me when I first heard it.

It’s a phone call that could have gotten me killed.

In this post you will hear that audio clip. You will also read about a months-long campaign of harassment carried out by at least three individuals: Ron Brynaert, Neal Rauhauser, and Brett Kimberlin — much of it directed at critics of Brett Kimberlin. This harassment includes repeated references to critics’ family members, workplace complaints, publication of personal information such as home addresses and pictures of residences, bogus allegations of criminal activity, whisper campaigns, frivolous legal actions, and frivolous State Bar complaints.

A deadly phone call? What is this, Ring II? Hardly:

At 12:35 a.m. on July 1, 2011, sheriff’s deputies pounded on my front door and rang my doorbell. They shouted for me to open the door and come out with my hands up.

When I opened the door, deputies pointed guns at me and ordered me to put my hands in the air. I had a cell phone in my hand. Fortunately, they did not mistake it for a gun.

They ordered me to turn around and put my hands behind my back. They handcuffed me. They shouted questions at me: IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE HOUSE? and WHERE ARE THEY? and ARE THEY ALIVE?

I told them: Yes, my wife and my children are in the house. They’re upstairs in their bedrooms, sleeping. Of course they’re alive.

Deputies led me down the street to a patrol car parked about 2-3 houses away. At least one neighbor was watching out of her window as I was placed, handcuffed, in the back of the patrol car. I saw numerous patrol cars on my quiet street. There was a police helicopter flying overhead, shining a spotlight down on us as I walked towards the patrol car. Several neighbors later told us the helicopter woke them up. I saw a fire engine and an ambulance. A neighbor later told me they had a HazMat vehicle out on the street as well.

Meanwhile, police rushed into my home. They woke up my wife, led her downstairs and to the front porch, frisked her, and asked her where the children were. Then police ordered her to stand on the front porch with her hands against the wall while they entered my children’s bedrooms to make sure they were alive.

The call that sent deputies to my home was a hoax. Someone had pretended to be me. They called the police to say I had shot my wife. The sheriff’s deputies who arrived at my front door believed they were about to confront an armed man who had just shot his wife. I don’t blame the police for any of their actions. But I blame the person who made the call.

OK, that is crazy stuff.

Reason highlights the free speech issue. Ken at Popehat deplores the reality that this will break down as yet another left-right thing, even though a few lefties have been caught up in Kimberlin's madness as well.

Breitbart attempts to follow the money by contacting donors to the 501(c)3s run by Kimberlin. They get off to a limping start by failing to understand that Fidelity and Schwab run donor-directed funds.

Actually, those donor directed funds could be an excellent money laundering gambit. If, for example, I were Mr. Kimberlin myself, I could donate to a Fidelity directed fund, have that fund donate to my charity, and then report the cash as having come from the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift. Since Mr. Kimberin was a drug dealer back in the day, he might have problematic cash to clean up. Just ruminating, obviously.

Rosslyn Smith of the American Thinker provided the donor list and this TIME piece from 2007 examining how Kimberlin became a hero to the left. Apparently he got on the vote fraud bandwagon and has helped make the case that Diebold and various Republican operatives have stolen various seats. That said, one of the evil-doers has been booted off of DKos, so there is hope.

My thought - since it is mostly righties being harassed, this story lacks a legacy media news hook. Obviously, if (heaven forbid) this were happening to a Times reporter or columnist we would read about nothing else. Similarly, it would be front-paged and leading the evening news if Kimberlin could be connected to the Tea Party.

That said, there is some glimmer of an Anthony Weiner connection. This is not to allege that Anthony Weiner is in any way supportive of this group, but they seem to be supportive of him.

Per Patterico, we have a snppet from Andrew Breitbart's last interview:

[O]ne of the things they’ve done to people who have worked with me in the past, including an L.A. prosecutor, is to “SWAT.” That means that they’re spoofing phones, pretending to be somebody else’s phone, calling 911, and saying “I killed somebody” and then the person’s home is met with the guns drawn, the SWAT and the helicopters, in a horrifying act. It’s happened twice: once in New Jersey, once in Los Angeles, with an L.A. County . . . prosecutor who [is] associated with me.”

Still with Patterico:

As Andrew Breitbart noted, this happened to two people within the course of a single week: a man in New Jersey and myself. Both of us had had contact with Andrew Breitbart. Both of us were writing about the same story. And both of us received email threats days before we were swatted

The man in New Jersey was Mike Stack, who came to fame with WeinerGate. And, by what I assume is a non-coincidence, Patterico was on the phone at the time of the 'swatting' opign to discuss the Weiner case. Let's also note that outing the Ace of Spades seems to be a priority for the Kimberlin crew, and the Ace played a role in the Weiner story.

Well. Following the donor money seems like a good course. Surely some of these donors (Heinz Family Foundation, $20,000) ought to show a bit more awareness.

Just to pick one - here is the HKH Foundation (my emphasis):

For over 30 years, the HKH Foundation has been guided by a fundamental philanthropic imperative: to create new possibilities in pursuit of meaningful and lasting change. We have sought to convene, challenge and enable visionaries, advocates and activists across our areas of grantmaking towards the goal of re-conceiving "the possible." Historically the Foundation has made grants in the arenas of Environmental Protection, Safeguarding Civil Liberties and Peace and Security. We have also fostered non-partisan Civic Engagement as important to securing change across issues. Recently, we have developed a cross-cutting initiative on Protecting the Commons. We have long had a regional focus on the Adirondacks.

One of Kimberlin's groups, Justice Through Music, is a grantee in the Civic Engagement category. HKH ought to review their rules of engagement.

Comments

[Clarice]

TM, I'm persuaded that Heinz and Tides were buying themselves a black bag guy. Just before her husband's presidential run, she gave a ton directly and thru her own foundations to Tides. Tides in turn gave that money to Hamas ops, eco terrorists and Kimberlin.

It's too bad no one ever noses around into Tides.
It's too bad that Congress still permits a 501(c)(3) to money launder for other 501(c)(3) outfits.

Activistcash.Com has the most detailed info on Ties, including its history, who gives to it, and who gets rom it.

It is the left's War Council and Bank.

[Danube of Thought]

Every so often I find myself musing about what I might do with my pre-'64 Winchester Model 70 in .30-'06 if the docs told me I had six months to live. Not so much what I might do as where I might start.

Hmmm...

[Gus]

Kimberlin is a convicted terrorist. He is not stable.
Concealed carry my friends.
Practice.
Aim.

[Strawman Cometh]

Tom, be sure to educate your LEOs on the new word we leaned today.

[Joan]

Sometimes I falter in my faith in justice in the USA when this type of evil, and I do think it is evil, occurs without any kind of outrage from the mainstream media and/or our law enforcement. Surely this type of harassment is illegal, isn't it? Rhetorical question, I guess, since it keeps occurring.

[Gus]

Joan, Kimberlin is attempting to intimidate, threaten and bully CONSERVATIVES.
Don't expect any assistance or help from the LIBERAL INSTITUTIONS that we need to reconstruct as Americans.

[Clarice]

There's more. Kimberlin's outfit has an arrangement with the Dept of State where we bring foreigners, largely I think from Arab countries to meet with him when they visit our fair shores.

[Clarice]

Here:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-is-the-state-dept-partnering-with-speedway-bomber-brett-kimberlin/

[danoso]

You'd think, regardless of politics, "law enforcement" wouldn't think kindly to being used this way. Someone pulling off a swatting op would really piss me off, and I'd really want to know who did it. Maybe I'm just naive.

[Clarice]

Remember Patterico is an asst DA ..you'd think the cops would have been more interested..

[narciso]

Well that couldn't possibly go wrong in any way, Kimberlin seems to operate like those left wing front groups behind the nuclear
freeze, the sanctuary movement, et al, Raw Story, was a not so small player in the Plame case, to use one example, with that flake
Jason Leopold.

[Jane]

I hope the next attorney general spends some time cleaning up all the filth. Unfortunately I don't have faith that Romney will reach that deep.

[Melinda Romanoff]

I like the Fidelity angle.

Boston.

How common.

[Strawman Cometh]

DoT,
Tom Skerritt played a terminal, retired cop (Olin) on The Closer who abducted and tortured a suspect from an old case and got him to tell him where the bodies were buried. When Brenda figured it out, she asked Olin how a decorated detective like him could have done such a thing: "The Make-A-Wish foundation wouldn't do it for me."

[narciso]

This link in that story, really shows some hereto for, unknown elements;

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/do-you-know-what-swatting-is-victims-tell-beck-how-they-were-targeted-by-terrorist-brett-kimberlin/

[Clarice]

I suspect this was another of their set ups..they used to attack me every time I defended Libby.
Looks like it closed shop after Obama was elected.

http://patrickjfitzgerald.blogspot.com/

Were they the originators of the fake website used to out Mark Foley?

How many dirty ops can we lay at this doorstep.

[Captain Hate]

I hope the next attorney general spends some time cleaning up all the filth. Unfortunately I don't have faith that Romney will reach that deep.

DoJ and State have to be completely gutted and to hell with the whining in the headlines. It has to be game over for this garbage.

[MarkO]

I think Romney has enough self-righteousness to do it. You may be underestimating his Puritanism.

[centralcal]

Thanks, TM, for contributing a blog post against this evil. And, yes, it is evil in the purest sense.

We must all stand against it in whatever way we can.

[Clarice]

I remember a bunch of fake calls to my house trying to find out info about me..I traced one to a "public interest" gig nearby and let them know someone was using their number to make these calls to me. Voila..they stopped.

[Clarice]

Bloggers everywhere were asked to stand up for McCain and the others by publicizing Kimberlin today and they came thru with flying colors..Now to cut off his funds and his links to DoS and get someone inside his shop to get scared and talk about all the carp they've been pulling.

[Danube of Thought]

Good one, Strawman.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Clarice-

"How Many Dirty Ops Were They Fed?" would be the better question.

(There was more here I deleted it.)

[Captain Hate]

Bloggers everywhere were asked to stand up for McCain and the others by publicizing Kimberlin today and they came thru with flying colors

Kudos to TM for adding his voice. Doing the job the MFM willfully ignores.

[Gus]

Clarice, criminals and violent felons like Kimberlin, have no morals, and criminals skills.

PERFECT for DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES.

[MarkO]

This is more of the Chicago Way.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Clarice-

The better question would be "How many dirty ops were they fed?".

These people resemble cruise missiles, not independent researchers. There's architecture behind them. Well funded architecture, with "certain" access.

[xbradtc]

I find it astonishing that a convicted violent felon, especially one who also has a conviction for perjury, can be a principal or officer of a 501(c)(3) or similar non-profit organization.

Shouldn't someone who has forfeited their civil rights via felony conviction be prohibited from serving in such a position of trust?

[Melinda Romanoff]

Uh-Oh.

I duped one.

There is an enormous lag time tonight, as if there were a bunch of auto-reloading going on.

[Jim Eagle]

The left are untouchable. Simple as that.

[Clarice]

Here's an example--Don't ignore the comments.
http://patrickjfitzgerald.blogspot.com/2006/11/clarice-masquerading-as-frequent.html

[narciso]

It's is reminiscent of the way that Robert Baer, before he lost his mind, described Hezbollah, they would operate as Islamic
Jihad Organization, for plausible deniability,
same for Black September, which stayed apart from the PLO.

[centralcal]

Clarice, thanks for the link to the way back machine. However, my eyes simply cannot tolerate white print on black background. Hopefully a gazillion others are like me and never read that nonsense!

[Porchlight]

Thanks for this post, TM.

[Clarice]

narciso, there are only so many ways to run these things, and they've all got antecedents.instead of an anonymous letter as in the ld days, there's anonymous blogs, etc. but the techniques are the same.

Tides needs to be fumigated right after these guys are.

Raw Story was a major purveyor of lies about Libby and Rove. How close was Jason Leipold to these three pieces of dreck?

[narciso]

Much as with Chambers, uncovering the likes of Hiss, a lefty blogger, did the initial
investigation of Kimberlin's claims,

[Clarice]

The point of that old blog was to discredit anyone who came to Libby's defense online. There were as many attacks on me to be found on google as there were links to my articles. Now. I can't establish it was these guys, but I would not be surprised.

Maybe someone clever than I can find out who the owner of the website was.

[Captain Hate]

Clarice, thanks for the link to the way back machine. However, my eyes simply cannot tolerate white print on black background. Hopefully a gazillion others are like me and never read that nonsense!

Wow. My eyes were fine with it but I could only put up with reading just so much from those retarded thugs. Was that really Fitz's blog hosting that crap. What an embarrassment and what a lowlife.

[Gus]

Hey Mel!! Where did you and henry have that lunch????

[Clarice]

No, Fitz had nothing to do with that,CH. It was a dummy website to discredit those who defended Libby and Rove and to spread lies like Raw Story did.

[centralcal]

Yeah, Captain, my eyes simply cannot take that formatting (white print on black or dark background). I was so glad that within recent weeks Johnny Dollar cleaned up his website to a nice neutral background, because I do follow MFM links.

Gotta keep up with the enemy and the patriots, doncha know! lol.

[Captain Hate]

No, Fitz had nothing to do with that,CH

Maybe I'm terminally naive but why wouldn't a person in his position take steps to have his name disassociated with something like that. And by that I mean really drop a legal hammer.

[narciso]

You know it's hard to say, Leopold, was probably fed a line,like when he blamed
Tom White for Enron, and then couldn't come up with the proof, which he may have imagined
it, ala Aaron Sorkin,

[henry]

Gus, a burrito place in Brookfield. Great scenery, better conversation. Mel will chastise me for forgetting the name, we talked quite a bit about their franchise strategy.

[Clarice]

I have no idea if he knew it even existed, CH.

[Gus]

Jose's Blue Sombrero???

[Clarice]

Niters..Have a safe weekend and holiday.

[narciso]

No, we know in the Peter Lance example, he'd
be one to after someone who criticized his methods, it's interesting about Armitage, now
Erdogan's man in Washington, back then he was so anti Iraq intervention, that he had been 'coincidentally' on the board of one of the two contractors involved at Abu Ghraib, CACI,

[Rick Ballard]

"Maybe someone clever than I can find out who the owner of the website was."

It was probably part of the package which Trippi sold to Soros - along with the DNC. There's a polisci PhD dissertation waiting to be written about the proglodyte social networking "success story" from '04 to '08.

It sure wasn't just about raising money and reinforcement.

[Gus]

Joe Trippi!!! Now there is an honest and decent honorable man!!

[Melinda Romanoff]

narciso-

There is only one Leopold that doesn't show up in my stream. You be Pitzen up the wrong stream.

[henry]

Chalupa's or something.

[Melinda Romanoff]

CH-

Would you be as nice if your family was proved, within a reasonable doubt, to be vulnerable to a random accident at a school bus stop in Virginia?

[Gus]

East of Moreland?
henry, I was in your office park today. At lunch time.

[Captain Hate]

I have no idea if he knew it even existed, CH.

Imo it's inexcusable for a person in his position to not know about something like that. He could certainly afford to have staff that would scrutinize the interwebbz sporadically for trash like that under his name; that would take like one manhour per month. The more I know about these people the less I think of them. Evidently it hasn't come close to bottoming out.

[Danube of Thought]

I confess I'm way behind on this, and will have to go to a number of links and catch up. But I think I have the drift.

Hasn't this guy just committed a number of crimes? I don't mean the ones of which he's already been convicted, but the ones that have currently put people in fear for their lives.

Is the MD Attorney General, for example, on notice of this stuff?

[Gus]

Danube, the Dude is "shadowy", and there are surrogates and non-tracible web sites, phones etc. Someone is paying him.

[henry]

Gus, yes just east of Moreland. Call next time, my schedule is generally open.

[Melinda Romanoff]

henry-

I am not going to give away the cat bird seat either.

For a parking lot view, block built wall back lit by nothing, the scenery was superb, aside from the slight, occasional shrieking of patrons.

Remind me to have lunch, more often, next to fashionable hair salons.

[Gus]

henry, I shall. Unfortunately, today was a converted day off for me, and I went in to the office and got some stuff done, in Brewers sweats!!! My best friend works in Bishops Woods, in the "ATRIUM" building at the end of Bishops Way. Without any advance planning, we did lunch at this really nice IRISH PUB nearby. DIET MTN DEW was on the menu for me!!!

[henry]

Mel, I'm a hunter. I remember how to get to good spots... names not so much.

Danube, McCain reported the threats to the MD authorities-- no action taken.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Oh.

You went to Mo's.

[henry]

Gus, I'm at a software company. On Fridays I'm lucky if people wear shoes.

[Gus]

Mel and henry, I believe the burrito joint you encountered, was Chipotle's. You park south of Bluemound ,in a little strip mall??

[Melinda Romanoff]

DoT and Henry-

Md AG is still a hangover of the D'Alesandro machine. Not going to happen.

[Gus]

henry, I'm familiar with your business. Despite the corns, trench foot/feet, athletes footseses, and other fungii. You guys have a stellar reputation.
Maybe.

[henry]

Gus, shhhhh. There is no scenery there...

[Jane]

Mark,

The people who worked with
Romney as gov say replaced the people at the top and never bothered with the underlings who made sure the liberal mindset persevered.

My fear is he will do the same as pres.

[Gus]

Oh no Mel. I know the owner of MO'S quite well. He's Italian. His Mom's name is MAUREEN. MO.
henry knows the place I'm referring to.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Gus-

Hair salons. Do your research!

Was there food? I don't recall....

[Captain Hate]

As Clarice pointed out Patterico is an assistant DA (and I think his wife is too) and they were still confident to lay into him with no repercussions.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Jane-

That's my fear in spades.

[Gus]

Mel, the little "O'Bistr" that I refer to, is within staggering distance of henry's sweat shop. In the lovely TREE LINED village of ELM GROVE.

[narciso]

Well that's in keeping with his M.O, Goldstein he's been subject to some of this stuff, always has some interesting angles;

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=40616

[henry]

Gus, I haven't tried that one yet. My nieces bought me mucho Guiness next door on my birthday.

[narciso]

I mean about Kimberlin, It'd funny Sarah was considered Nixonesque, because she pushed for
a replacement attorney general, after the previous one was caught in the tiller,

[Rick Ballard]

Jane,

Civil service. The crap hires have to be handled by the Speaker - really deep cuts will force out recent hires due to seniority. Head count has to be pushed back to 2002 levels in order to ensure that most of the hires from 2009 forward are forced out.

The Great OPM Famine is going to have a few positive benefits.

[Danube of Thought]

"My fear is he will do the same as pres."

The problem he will have as prez (God willing) is that he can only purge and replace the Presidential Appointees. The permanent rot lies in the lifetime civil servants, the GS 16's (or whatever) on down.

[Melinda Romanoff]

That one I'll hit next week. I hope.

Do you know that if you yank on the compliance tiger's tail at a large financial institution, and complain about potential Patriot Act violations, like funding domestic terrorism, that those taped lines force them to act in very specific manners?

Like proving to a number of institutions that they are not facilitating money laundering activities? Especially if you mention that you suspect the $$ involved are way more than $3K. Over time.

But I may just be outlining the punching of buttons.

Since I couldn't possibly know what would trigger a multi-jurisdictional investigation into financial activity.

G'night all!

[narciso]

Hence the whole brouhaha over the 6 fired US attorneys, and the complaint of hires in the Green Zone, all preemptive, as Christian Adams
has pointed out.

[Gus]

henry, you DO realize, that GUINNESS, is a health food?
I've been told so.
When I was in Dublin last spring, I actually timed my lunch for EXACTLY NOON. And the truth is, that the Dublin Pub I had this Noon Guinness at, on my first day, has the same name as that Pub in Elm Grove.

[Gus]

Danube, great point. My youngest Bro is State Dept. Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Former USAF, left USAF early (no retirement).
He was amazed at how many STATE DEPT, bureaucrat lifers, had IVY LEAGUE degrees, and were working for $75G salaries, and were bound and determined to SAVE THE WORLD.

[Captain Hate]

O/T I just saw a new "anti Bain" ad where some barely literate crone was whining about losing her job because of Romney just as she was about to retire. No details of what she did or didn't do; no mention of anything except Romney. And she ended it by just saying "It made me sick".

I know I'm not their intended audience but exactly whom are they aiming these at? People who've lost their jobs in the last 3 years? People who graduated with a worthless degree? I'm not seeing a good return on investment.

[Gus]

Cap'n. I coined the term nearly 4 years ago, vis a vis the LIBTARD-O-CRAT PARTY.

THE FULL COMMIE.

It's all they have/had left.

[henry]

Gus, when I got to college my coach assigned two upper classmen to ensure that I drank at least 4 pints every evening my freshman year. The purpose was to strengthen me for D1 ball. Best fitness regime ever! Athletic dept slush funds are marvelous.

[Rick Ballard]

"are they aiming these at?"

CH,

The pop in Governor Romney's favorable surprised them (not a tough trick) and the Pinhead Troika, firing on three of eight, as usual, launched a negative campaign just a tad early - or way too late, depending on your POV.

The tactical execution matches the strategic brilliance of the ACME General Plan. You can't identify the target because they haven't been able to identify a demographic susceptible to complete idiocy. They just don't feel that they can waste any more time on aiming.

[narciso]

They are following the brilliance of Admiral Ozzel's attack on Hoth, it was so brilliant
that Vader offered offered Captain Needa an immediate promotion, reading between the lines.

[Captain Hate]

Thanks Rick; I'm glad it's not just me. It was just on again in keeping with what Rove has been saying about the huge burn rate. He snookered the lefty gays to pony up with doing nothing of substance for them; where does he pander next?

[narciso]

For those without the Rosetta, Vader choked the life out of the former, for not learning
'the lesson of not being seen'

[narciso]

Well, 'What me Worry'

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/25/great-news-egypts-next-president-will-either-be-an-islamist-or-a-leftist/#comments

[Rick Ballard]

CH,

It doesn't matter. He has set up the command structure of the campaign in a manner which force decisions up to the Pinhead Troika level. He's not fit to be part of any decision making team and neither are the other two. They are going to waste resources on shoddy product in an increasingly erratic manner plus we're going to get to watch him melt down on a daily basis due to fatigue.

He's not a leader, his underlings know he's not a leader and they are going go through the motions and cash their checks while producing like the slowest DMV clerk who ever held a sinecure.

[daddy]

FWIW,

Having read some of your guys links on this KImberlin creep, I was able to call my local Talk Show Host 40 minutes before show time and steer him to this topic. I recommended a few websites and gave him a quick run down.

He had no heard of it at all, but with that 30 minute prep time, and then time between breaks, by hour 2 he was able to give a decent synopsis of the topic and get it out to the drive home audience.

Thanks JOMer's.

[Danube of Thought]

Has Rush talked about Kimberlin yet?

[daddy]

Ted Stevens Update---The Fix is In: Part 2

The DOJ's investigators earlier this week cleared all the Prosecutors except 2. The two they "ripped", to quote from the [email protected]#t headline over at The Hill, wound up getting wrist slaps; one guy got 40 days off with no pay, the other got 15 days off no pay, and the DOJ concluded that all the incidents of the DOJ prosecutors withholding evidence from Ted Stevens were unintentional---It was all inadvertent, could'a happened to anyone, damn shame and all but oh well these things happen ya' know. Oh, and no new legislation is needed or required in order to stop it from happening again. Trust us.

Today they cleared the DOJ Team for not prosecuting head Prosecuting lying witness, Bill Allen, for engaging in underage sex with a minor.

"The Justice Department said Friday that its investigators found no misconduct in the decision of federal prosecutors to abandon the teen sex crime case against disgraced former Veco Corp. chairman Bill Allen, the government's star witness in the failed prosecution of then-Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens."

Investigation backs prosecutors in Allen sex crime allegations.

No answer given why, no particulars offered.

It's worth reading the linked story to get the nuts and bolts of Alaska's frustration about this. Allen was accused of having a 16 year old girl flown across State Lines to have sex with her in Seattle. Thats a Federal Crime, but the DOJ team decided to squash that investigation, and moved to prevent the State of Alaska from pursuing it's own case against Allen on the same matter.

This may be a legitimate DOJ conclusion, but with no particular answers forthcoming by the DOJ about this, how can anyone look at the case and the DOJ decision objectively and make an informed decision as to whether it was a legitimate decision or a coverup? Beats me.

Nice job DOJ of self-exoneration.

From where I sit, it walks and talks, and looks, and smells, like coverup, but IANAL.

[JimMtnViewCaUSA]

"They just don't feel that they can waste any more time on aiming."

pure poetry. :)

[Threadkiller]

I don't buy Patterico's story. Not one bit.

Mostly because if I did, I might be inclined to believe this story:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/did-threats-silence-media-on-obama-probe/

Since we know this could never happen, I shall remain a skeptic.

[Captain Hate]

Good job on getting the word out on Kimberlin, daddy.

[Captain Hate]

Has Rush talked about Kimberlin yet?

There's nothing at his website.

[pagar]

Glad to see this article.

Of all that I have read on the Kimberlin story, I can't find one word on an active investigation of him by law enforcement.
Has anyone seen some thing I missed?

TK, check out the Bill Gwatney murder in Ark. If you've got people telling an ex-president with Secret Service protection that you're next, scaring media people ought to be a piece of cake.

[jpe]

They get off to a limping start by failing to understand that Fidelity and Schwab run donor-directed funds.

Apparently, Fidelity doesn't understand donor-directed funds, either; that, or they lied to breitbart to take the heat off. They said that they don't have discretion to reject grant, which is false. As a legal matter, donor advised funds must reserve the right to reject grants. It may be their policy not to do any substantive review, but they do have the right to not grant funds to any charity.