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Justice watch: John Bolton’s Real ‘Crime’
“President Trump may hate being the target of lawfare, but he sure knows how to wield it against anyone who crosses him,” snipe The Wall Street Journal’s editors. Consider “John Bolton, his former national security adviser,” now taking “a plea deal essentially for the sin of writing a critical book about his time advising Mr. Trump.” The prices aren’t about taking any paperwork, however “for keeping diary notes on a home computer that included ‘national defense information.’” Bolton will “plead guilty to a single felony count for retaining classified information” and “pay a $2.5 million fine,” simply consuming any income from the guide. The Trump Justice Department wished him to “go to prison” — although he absolutely wouldn’t “have been prosecuted had he written a book that was favorable to Donald Trump.”
Conservative: AI’s Dark Take on US History
As America approaches its 250th, anybody relying on AI to be taught in regards to the nation’s founding will “encounter a history that does not celebrate the brilliance and bravery of the colonists,” warns Liz Peek at The Hill. Asking Anthropic or ChatGPT can “lead down a dark tunnel of negativity,” and damage “the American story for generations to come.” Ask them why, and these AI will admit to offering an account “heavier on failure, guilt and conflict than on courage, sacrifice and triumph.” AI fashions “are trained on material readily available on the internet,” which is “an information flow . . . dominated by liberal media.” Schools with “leftist faculties” and the Web’s normal negativity educate AI to undermine “confidence and pride in our nation.”
From the suitable: Propagandist Pelley
CBS-axed Scott Pelley all the time “was a high paid propagandist masquerading as a journalist,” thunders Brianna Lyman at The Federalist. His latest lowlights embrace “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,” the place Pelley “accepted McCabe’s excuse that he was merely ‘confused’ by the investigators’ questions when he lied not once, not twice, but three times,” a “2023 interview with then-Attorney General Merrick Garland” the place Pelley interrupted to offer “Garland the defense he should have made to sound less politically motivated,” and a section with the “Moms for Liberty co-founders” that edited out one of them studying “portions of books that were available in elementary school libraries,” making her look “irrational,” “objecting to books for no reason.”
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Eye on Mexico: Claudia’s Time for Choosing
By indicting Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya, the United States “crossed a line both countries had tiptoed around for decades,” notes Carlos Bravo Regidor at The New York Times, specifically Mexico’s deep-rooted narcopolitics. This case suggests “cartel power may have contaminated the ranks of Mexico’s governing party,” handing President Claudia Sheinbaum an “impossible dilemma”: Letting Rocha’s extradition proceed will expose “rifts inside her coalition and invite accusations that she is yielding” to US bullying; stopping it can “deepen doubts in the United States about her willingness to go after cartel corruption within her own ranks.” If Sheinbaum doesn’t use this “fraught moment” to help Mexico reclaim its combat towards corruption, “Mexico may face something worse than an externally imposed reckoning: no reckoning at all.”
Brooklyn beat: Co-op Joins the Antisemitic Wave
“The decade-long effort to align the Park Slope Food Co-op to the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement” finally triumphed with the latest vote to stop promoting Israeli merchandise, notes City Journal’s Adam Lehodey — after a guidelines change to “remove the supermajority requirement for boycotts.” The “wave of antisemitism and religious intolerance” across the metropolis contains “ugly incidents” of forthright antisemitism on the co-op, which had all the time stood for “collaboration toward shared goals” regardless of disagreements. It stays to be seen if “New Yorkers will continue to be able to set their differences aside.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
