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The NY Times is officially in its "but her emails" phase of election coverage. Soon this will be over and it can return to its puzzles and games.

This election is our last chance to at least rein in some of the foolishness of this Administration. We need real leadership with concrete plans to lower costs, make health care more affordable, make housing more affordable, and get utility bills under control. Let’s do what we can to make @KeishaBottoms the next Governor of Georgia. Let’s go send Jon @Ossoff back to the Senate. And let’s put this country back on the path to a better future.

FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY CHARGED UNDER THE ESPIONAGE ACT On October 5, 2026, the Justice Department filed a two-count "criminal information" charging former FBI Director James Comey with transmitting and conspiring to transmit national defense information against James Comey in federal court in Washington, D.C. Judge Trevor McFadden unsealed it on October 26, 2026. Count one is 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), transmitting national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it. Count two is § 793(g), conspiracy. Section 793 is the statute Jack Smith used on President Trump, who was completely innocent. In June 2023 Smith charged Trump in Fort Pierce, Florida, with 31 counts under § 793(e) for keeping his own papers in his own house. Judge Aileen Cannon threw the case out on July 15, 2024. President Trump was unfairly charged for keeping documents he had a right to keep. Comey is charged for handing a FISA court secret to the New York Times. The leak is dated October 5, 2016. On October 4, 2016, Reuters reported that Yahoo had scanned its customers’ email for the United States government. The next day Charlie Savage of the New York Times published the corrected version, citing two government officials: a FISA court order had required Yahoo to search for a signature used by a foreign terrorist organization. The prosecutors say Comey directed his staff to speak to Savage to correct Reuters, and that the correction was classified. They say the Times story tracked talking points emailed to about thirty officials less than four hours before it ran. Comey’s lawyers answer that the leak was “merely the talking points.” Both sides agree on one thing: the Times printed the government’s talking points. The "criminal information" does not name the staff. Comey’s own lawyers do. Their filings of October 16 and October 27, 2026, name James A. Baker, the FBI’s general counsel, as the man who spoke to the Times. John Durham identified Baker as a source in 2017. Baker’s account: Comey’s chief of staff, Jim Rybicki, told him to do it, and Baker understood the order came from Comey. The Department looked at this leak twice, in December 2018 and January 2020, with Baker’s account in the file, and closed it both times. Count two, the conspiracy count, reaches past Comey. A conspiracy is an agreement. The information says Comey acted “through one or more co-conspirators” to have Individual #1 disclose national defense information to a reporter. Individual #1 is Baker. The co-conspirators are the people between Comey and Baker: Rybicki, who carried the order, and the officials who drafted the talking points that afternoon. Baker has already told a court who else was in the agreement. Under oath at the Sussmann trial in May 2022, he said the Director of the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence authorized the disclosure. The Director of the FBI was Comey. The DNI was James Clapper. Three months later, on January 6, 2017, the same two men were in Trump Tower briefing President-elect Trump, and Comey stayed behind to tell him about the Steele dossier. Within four days the dossier was in the press. On September 19, 2016, Baker took the Alfa Bank material from Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. Two weeks later Baker was handing the New York Times a FISA secret on the Director’s instruction. Three weeks after that, on October 21, 2016, Comey signed the FISA application on Carter Page, built on Christopher Steele’s fabrications. Christopher Wray’s FBI investigated Comey’s other leak to the New York Times, the April 22, 2017 article defending his handling of the Clinton email case, as ARCTIC HAZE from August 14, 2017. The file records that Comey had Daniel Richman hired as a special government employee with a Top Secret clearance so that Comey could discuss classified matters with someone outside the Bureau’s leadership, and used Richman as his liaison to the press. The team cut the suspect list to eight officials, mostly former FBI. All denied it. On June 29, 2021, Comey, through his lawyer, allowed the FBI a limited search of his own iPhone. On September 9, 2021, with Wray still Director and Merrick Garland as Attorney General, the Bureau closed the case without charges, noting that the Department does not as a rule prosecute officials who merely confirm secrets to reporters. On October 9, 2026, the government’s lawyer told Judge McFadden he had wanted to indict Comey that day and had booked the grand jury to do it. The Department agreed to wait thirty days. The thirty days end on November 8, 2026. One of the three prosecutors on the case, Justin Silverberg, comes from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, the office running the Fort Pierce grand jury on the Grand Conspiracy. My book, The Grand Conspiracy, grandconspiracybook.com, has the whole cast: Comey, Baker, Clapper, Rybicki, and what the FBI was really doing in October 2016.

Until the DoJ prosecutes Elias and his ilk, your elections are not safe. Special Counsel Durham was going to charge Marc Elias for his leading role in the 2016 election interference conspiracy against Donald Trump (aka Russiagate) But Obama's crony Lisa Monaco and Hillary Clinton's crony Maggie Goodlander, who were AG Garland's top aides and in effect ran the DoJ under Biden, shut down the Durham investigation and stopped the prosecutions. AG Blanche should act asap and charge Elias, all the evidence was already put together by the Durham team

This is hysterical. Dana Bash tells Nicolle Wallace that "real objective reporters" from "traditional news networks" are being undermined by reporters from right-leaning outlets. Because they ask "Dear Leader" question like "'I'm sorry, Mr. President. Are you great or are you just excellent?" Dana Bash. Nicolle Wallace. CNN. MSNOW. Bashing other outlets for being partisan and undermining the real objective journos. They would seriously have you believe that a Biden or Obama press conference wasn't full of sycophantic media. I'm dead.

Why has the DoJ done nothing since the Trump re-election to bring accountability for the abuses of the Obama-Biden administration? Slotkin just gave you the answer: Republican prosecutors and attorneys are terrified of consequences and are paralyzed into inaction. Meanwhile, they talk a big game and deliver nothing.

Here we go. “It’s not going to end well” for the corporations and other institutions who supported President Trump. Jake Sullivan and Susan Rice send a coordinated message. The band is back together.

OBAMA MEETS UK PRIME MINISTER IN MANCHESTER Manchester, UK, same day: Obama photographed leaving the Stock Exchange Hotel on 15 October. The Manchester Evening News reports he met UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham in the hotel's Sterling Bar. This was ahead of his Co-op Live show. [Photo: Manchester Evening News]