Justice watch: John Bolton’s true ‘crimes’
“President Trump may hate being a victim of the law, but he knows how to use it against anyone who opposes him,” said Wall Street Journal editors. Consider “John Bolton, his former national security adviser,” now taking “a plea deal to write a critical book about his time advising Mr. Trump.” The charges are not for taking any documents, but for “keeping diary notes on a home computer that included ‘national security information.'” Bolton will “plead to one count of keeping classified information” and “pay a $2.5 million fine,” easily using any profits from the book. Trump’s Justice Department wanted him to “go to jail” – although he certainly wouldn’t have been “prosecuted if he had written a book that favored Donald Trump.”
Conservative: AI’s Dark Take on US History
As America approaches 250, anyone who relies on AI to learn about the founding of the nation “will encounter a history that does not celebrate the ingenuity and courage of the colonists,” warns Liz Peek at The Hill. Questioning Anthropic or ChatGPT would “lead down a dark tunnel of negativity,” and ruin “the American story for generations to come.” Ask them why, and this AI will admit that it provides an account that is “heavier in judgment, guilt and conflict than courage, sacrifice and victory.” AI models are “trained on things readily available on the Internet,” which are “flows of information . . . “Left-skills” schools and the general absence of the Web teach AI to undermine “self-confidence and pride in our nation.”
From right: Propagandist Pelley
CBS regular Scott Pelley was “a high-paid propagandist masquerading as a journalist,” Brianna Lyman of The Federalist famously declared. His latest flashpoints include “a 2019 interview with Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director who leaked information to the Wall Street Journal and then lied about it under oath multiple times,” where Pelley “accepted McCabe’s excuse that he was just ‘confused’ by the investigators’ questions when he lied not once, not twice, but to General Mercy” three times. Garland” where Pelley interrupted to give “Garland his own defense it should made them sound politically unpopular,” and a segment on “Moms for Liberty co-founders” that edited one of them reading “sections of books that were available in elementary school libraries,” making her look “absurd,” “rejecting books for no reason.”
Mexican Eye: Claudia’s Time to Choose
By indicting the Sinaloa Government Rubén Rocha Moya, the United States “crossed a line that both countries have been shaking for decades,” noted Carlos Bravo Regidor in the New York Times, which is a Mexican political insider. The case suggests that “the power of the military may contaminate the ranks of Mexico’s ruling party,” presenting President Claudia Sheinbaum with an “impossible dilemma”: Allowing Rocha’s extradition to proceed would expose “dissensions within his coalition and invite suspicions that he condones” US tyranny; suspending it “will raise doubts in the United States about his willingness to go after private sector corruption.” If Sheinbaum doesn’t use this “difficult time” to help Mexico regain its fight against corruption, “Mexico could face something worse than an extradition bill: no case.”
Brooklyn beat: The Co-op Joins the Antisemitic Wave
“A decade-long effort to unite the Park Slope Food Co-op and the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement has finally succeeded with a recent vote to stop selling Israeli products, notes City Journal’s Adam Lehodey – after the rules are changing to “remove the majority boycott requirement.” A “wave of anti-Semitism and religious intolerance” across the city includes “bad incidents” of the co-op’s consistency, which has always stood for “cooperation towards shared goals” despite disagreements. It remains to be seen whether “New Yorkers will continue to put their differences aside.”
– Compiled by the Post Editorial Board
