The news on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice would not bring charges against former Gov. John Kitzhaber or first lady Cylvia Hayes brought some closure for the couple, and for Oregonians who have wondered about the more than two year-old federal investigation. For Kitzhaber, the four-term governor, the announcement was a huge relief—it also gave him an opportunity to repeat a theme he has put forth over the past two years: that it was the media's fault. "Over the last two years," Kitzhaber wrote in a statement released through a spokesman, " I have kept a low profile while resolving questions related to the federal investigation that began shortly after I was elected to a fourth term as Oregon's Governor. I'm glad to report the U.S. Attorney has concluded the investigation and found nothing to pursue. "As I have said from the beginning," Kitzhaber continued, "I did not resign because I was guilty of any wrongdoing, but rather because the media frenzy around these questions kept me from being the effective leader I wanted and needed to be. Then there was the real investigation, not by reporters, but by people with subpoena power and the ability to look at everything in context. They decided there was nothing to pursue. So I'm back." In a Facebook post over the weekend, Hayes picked up that thread as well, pointing to "unethical media bad-actors," http://www.wweek.com/news/state/201...ot-be-the-last-word-on-federal-investigation/
What did Bukowski used to say about his audience? "We need more blood!" Good. Bad. Really doesn't make a difference. Once the mob's head is turned it is hard to get them to look away.
Well............now that we know he is clean and honest, Kate should move out of Mahonia Hall and give John and the missus the place back..........Cylvia needs the business.....
The news is always making mistakes. I had no idea how many gun deaths we really have. The news never told me this......
NYTimes published this by David Brooks (of all people)? WOW https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/opinion/russia-investigation-trump.html?ref=opinion I was the op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal at the peak of the Whitewater scandal. We ran a series of investigative pieces “raising serious questions” (as we say in the scandal business) about the nefarious things the Clintons were thought to have done back in Arkansas. Now I confess I couldn’t follow all the actual allegations made in those essays. They were six jungles deep in the weeds. But I do remember the intense atmosphere that the scandal created. A series of bombshell revelations came out in the media, which seemed monumental at the time. A special prosecutor was appointed and indictments were expected. Speculation became the national sport. In retrospect Whitewater seems overblown. And yet it has to be confessed that, at least so far, the Whitewater scandal was far more substantive than the Russia-collusion scandal now gripping Washington. There may be a giant revelation still to come. But as the Trump-Russia story has evolved, it is striking how little evidence there is that any underlying crime occurred — that there was any actual collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russians. Everything seems to be leaking out of this administration, but so far the leaks about actual collusion are meager There were some meetings between Trump officials and some Russians, but so far no more than you’d expect from a campaign that was publicly and proudly pro-Putin. And so far nothing we know of these meetings proves or even indicates collusion.
