8/18/2026

wack job criminal tina peters is back in the news (and general hospital)


Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters was offered a new role Monday as an assistant registrar of voters for a county in Northern California following her release from prison over efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election.

In an appearance on “The Northstate Breakdown,” Clint Curtis, a Shasta County clerk and registrar of voters, stated that he planned to hire Peters to replace Brent Turner, his top deputy, who has been on medical leave.
“He [Turner] got sick on me,” he said. “He’s on there until Sept. 4, at that point I have decided who I’m going to pull in for the assistant role. That will be Tina Peters.”

“She has experience … and she’s able to take the rocks and arrows,” Curtis continued.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) is already calling for Peters to be removed from the position, arguing in a post on the social platform X that Curtis is using Peters “to collude with the Trump Administration’s election mischief.”

Peters worked as an elections clerk in Mesa County, Colo., during the 2020 election, where the results she certified were found to heavily favor President Trump. Colorado was won by former President Biden by more than 13 points in 2020, which led Trump to accuse Democrats of having “stolen” his victory.


tina peters broke the law and should have remained in prison serving her sentence but governor jared polis is a libertarian and not a democrat and he caved to chump and let her go over the objections of pretty much every official in colorado.  

today on 'general hospital'? 


hudson is the guy who beat ethan up and who ethan ran out of port charles when he saw him.  when he and ethan fought, it was obvious that hudson was phoebe's father.  and hudson had bugged ethan's hotel room and discovered that his daughter was alive.  when he returned to port charles, it was to tell josslyn that her father wanted her to run his company.

today, he presented her with documentation on people who could take the job as the head of her father's company since she doesn't want it.  and they were at the quartermaine's.  while they're down at the lake, chase, brooklyn and phoebe show up.  josslyn menions the adoption of phoebe and suddenly hudson interested.

later back at josslyn's he pumps her for information and she explains that phoebe's mother died in child birth.  and her father (ethan pretending to be her father) signed away his rights to her so that brook lynn and chase could adopt her.


brook lynn whined to chase about willow.  and at 1 point told chase that from this moment forward they couldn't hide anything from 1 another.  from this moment forward because brook lynn's hiding that she was drunk the night of jordan's accident and she didn't stop to render aid. 

fitzgeranld is shown the apartment by lucy.  he does ask her why she said she'd seen willow the night of jordan's accident on the road when drew testified in court that willow was home that night.  lucy offered some nonsense.  she tried to pull up the lease on her tablet but couldn't for some reason.  she said it was probably a weak wifi signal and gave him the keys.


lucas told ava that he was moving out and had found a place.  she said she wished he'd stay but she needed to see the place before he'd have her okay.  lucas told her he'd show her it right now.  they go over there and ... yes, it's the apartment that the detective just rented.  lucas had already rented it which is why lucy wasn't able to get the lease to pull up.


it's a 2 bedroom.  i wonder if they'll decide to share it when they find out.  as i've noted for weeks now, there is real chemistry between lucas and fitzgerald.


britt and jason caught up.  he told her he'd quit working for sonny and had to in order to be a father to danny.  they kissed.  


this was 1 of those episodes - 1 every 2 weeks or so - where we get a scene of some 1 watching trina.  whatever the story is there, it's so hidden and badly paced that no 1 cares. 

let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'


Tuesday, August 18, 20026.  Chump and Hegseth fail our troops daily, Democrats want answers, Todd Blanche isn't fit for the position of Attorney General, and much more. 




Operation Hot Air.  That's what Chump and the administration have provided since the start of the Iran War.  Scott Waldman (POLITICO) reports: 

Energy SecretaryChris Wright says about 9 million barrels of oil are moving through the Strait of Hormuz every day.

But nonpartisan oil tanker trackers say it’s likely 7 million barrels at best, or more likely, closer to 5 million.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the oil is flowing freely through the strait, which even before the war was a global energy chokepoint. On Monday, he told reporters at the White House that the U.S. has total control over the strait and that “we’re taking out millions of barrels of oil a week.”

"The strait is open and the oil prices are coming down, and they will continue to come down unless we decide to do something more drastic than what we've been doing,” Trump said.

But experts say the Trump administration’s figures cannot be trusted because there’s no data that shows that volume of oil is actually moving through the strait.

He can't be trusted to tell the truth.  


The Trump administration chose this war, launched it without congressional authorization, has repeatedly changed its definition of success and has failed to define an achievable political end. It owns the strategic failure. But bad strategy does not absolve military leaders of responsibility for how military force has been employed.

Senior military leaders must advise whether the administration’s objectives can be achieved through force, design and adapt the campaign, protect and supply the forces doing the fighting and tell civilian leaders when an approach cannot succeed. We do not know what advice commanders provided to civilian leadership in private, but we can evaluate the campaign they planned and conducted.
American forces have accomplished some extraordinary things. They destroyed much of Iran’s conventional navy, operated extensively inside Iranian airspace and struck thousands of targets with remarkable precision. That performance deserves credit.

But Iran did not need to defeat the U.S. conventionally. It needed to preserve enough combat power to keep imposing costs. After five months of American attacks, Iran remains capable of striking U.S. forces and disrupting global commerce.

Iran has largely refused to fight on America’s terms. It has dispersed and hidden its missiles and drones, attacked U.S. bases and the logistics networks that support American power, and used mines and shore-based weapons to threaten commercial shipping.

U.S. military doctrine identifies protection and sustainment as fundamental functions: protecting forces and the bases, equipment and communications they rely on, while ensuring they have the weapons and supplies to continue fighting. The campaign has fallen far short in both.

At Shuaiba port in Kuwait, an Iranian drone struck a tactical operations center lacking overhead protection or a counter-drone system, killing six American soldiers. CBS News reported that ground leaders used the site despite a recommendation against it and that requests for additional defenses went unfilled.


And the dishonesty coming from Chump and Hegseth only drags it out further. 





Pete Hegseth is known for his loose lips, for his efforts at playtime and for being unfit to serve as Secretary of Defense.  Even he knows he's not fit which is why he tries to get people to call him Secretary of War.  He's failed the enlisted time and time again.  He's fired qualified generals.  He's attacked trans troops.  He's ridiculed those serving under him as he pretends that he's the state of manhood and masculinity when he has the body of a very lazy fourteen-year-old.  What kind of a person let's people serve on the USS LINCOLN without the needed supplies and resources? 

Amanda Marcotte (SALON) offers this take on Pete Hegseth:

The tale of Donald Trump sneaking off Air Force One in a catering truck captured public attention for many reasons. It was a reminder that, for all his tough talk, the president harbors a sense of fear. Hiding away in a glorified ice chest would also have been a blow to the 80-year-old’s dignity. But the charade, which was first revealed by the Washington Post, also gave us insight, as political scientist Scott Lemieux wrote, “into who he considers his actual inner circle.”

Left behind on the decoy plane were Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and other administration officials and aides. The only people deemed worthy of saving from Iran’s reported threat were people whose full-time jobs are tending the president’s body and, more importantly, his ego: Natalie Harp, who writes Trump love letters, and whose main job is showing him flattering social media posts. Body man Walt Nauta. Dan Scavino, Trump’s former golf caddie. Oh yeah, and Pete Hegseth. 

The defense secretary’s inclusion on this list does not suggest he is an especially well-regarded or important person, especially when other prominent Cabinet members — not to mention White House reporters — were left vulnerable to the rumored assassination threat. On the contrary, his inclusion in Trump’s flock of flatterers is another sign that Hegseth’s main skill is fluffing up the narcissist-in-chief. It helps explain how Hegseth — unlike former Cabinet members such as former Attorney General Pam Bondi or former Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem, who recently lots their jobs — seems in no danger of losing his job, even as his manifest incompetence is a big part of the reason Trump is losing the war with Iran. He may be bad at running the military, but Hegseth is good at lying to (and attacking) the press and stroking his boss’s ego, which are the only skills that count in Trump’s White House. 
Recent news about the ongoing disaster aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln is another reminder of why Hegseth may indeed lead the highly competitive race to be the most hated man in Washington. Both Stars and Stripes and the Military Times reported that multiple service members had attempted to jump off the aircraft carrier, which has been deployed for over eight months without any real breaks. Sailors are reportedly “struggling with exhaustion and declining morale, including reports of suicidal thoughts,” explained Alison Bath of Stars and Stripes.

The details coming from family members offer a chilling illustration of how little regard Hegseth has for the actual well-being of service members, even as he releases videos implying they have low testosterone levels or berates them for being “fat” or “beardos.” Sailors have reported being fed “rotten” food or barely being fed at all, and desperate family members have been begging the Navy for relief. The wife of one sailor told MS NOW’s Priya Sidhar that the company is working 12-14 hour days and that her husband “said that he was exhausted working on the flight deck.” He also raised safety concerns with his superiors. “His prescription contact lenses had expired,” Sidhar reported, “and he told his chain of command that he couldn’t even see what he was doing, and he was worried about causing accidents.”

Hegseth, though, is shrugging off the concerns, telling reporters the issue is “completely misrepresented” and that the service members have “everything we can provide them at every single moment.”




He lies and then he lies some more.  He denied the reports when they first surfaced in April and, all these months later, he's still denying them.  Mike Nelson (THE i PAPER) explains: 

At the end of July, Sean Parnell, the chief spokesman for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and his rebranded Department of War, released a flashy video on his social media platforms in which he announced: “The era of putting public affairs on the back burner is over.” It was fitting, as an indicator of how Parnell views his job and the larger conversation of public affairs, that he spoke in the video from the podium of the Pentagon press briefing room – speaking to an empty room without an audience in a space where he rarely briefs the press, a departure from the weekly briefings conducted by previous Department of Defence spokespersons. Purely performative, purely for the image and, as the young ones would say, “the vibes”.
Parnell’s message behind the video was a jarring departure from reality. A defence department so incredibly hostile to the press and so dishonest in countering reports on its actions can’t really be seen as putting public affairs front and centre. But the department appears focused on public relations over everything – tightly controlling the image of the influencer turned defence chief rather than presenting honest information to the American public about what the military is doing. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Hegseth, a man whose primary experience was as a news infotainment personality, defaults to what he knows. Before becoming Secretary of Defence – later changed to “Secretary of War” – Hegseth had never run anything larger than an organisation of just over a hundred or so people. Now he leads the single largest employer in the United States when accounting for the 1.3 million active duty service members, more than 750,000 reservists and National Guard and an additional 750,000 civilians employed by the department.
In fact, Hegseth has more experience being a Fox News pundit and political advocate than anything else. That’s not to knock these professions, merely to point out that for much of Hegseth’s professional life, the mission has been cultivating his image and “putting on a show”. From the earliest days of his tenure at the Pentagon, his focus on controlling the narrative, promoting his desired public image, and a strict, almost paranoid, response to even the slightest perceived criticism have been a defining part of his leadership. He hired close personal friends and advisers to be part of his growing communications shop. He engaged in several witch-hunts among senior department staff to determine who might be providing unflattering details to the press. Often, these investigations were launched into stories that didn’t represent threats to national security, but were personally embarrassing or critical of Hegseth. He used the department’s public affairs platforms primarily to release hype videos in which he worked out with the elite units of which he was never a part. 

Hype videos.  Designed to make him seem more than he was, more than his record is.  Hype videos to make him a semi-star like the way he was when he was a weekend on air for FOX "NEWS."  Just a weekend on air.  Never Tucker or Greta or Bill.  Forever the second (really third) string.  That's why he had to install a make up room in the Pentagon.  Colin Powell didn't need one, Donald Rumsfeld didn't need one, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, Lloyd Austin . . .  None of the previous Secretaries of Defense needed to put a beauty salon into the Pentagon until Pete showed up.  But his starry feet are still grounded, the Pentagon insists, because Pete applies his own make up.  He does.  Make up he wears for the camera and make up he wears in regular life.


He shows up before members of Congress made up.  It usually covers his psoriasis -- usually.   Travis Reed (THIRSTYY) reports on his meetings with some members of Congress:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing an unusual problem: some of the sharpest criticism of his approach is now coming from his fellow Republicans. Several GOP senators have objected to the Pentagon's decision to exclude Democratic lawmakers from some classified briefings, warning that the strategy could make it harder to build bipartisan support for the administration's enormous defense agenda.

The dispute comes as Hegseth promotes a historic $1.5 trillion defense request for fiscal year 2027. While the administration is pursuing parts of its spending agenda through reconciliation, lawmakers still face major negotiations over defense funding. That makes the growing Republican criticism particularly significant.
The controversy centers on reports that Hegseth has repeatedly kept Democrats out of certain classified discussions involving defense policy and spending. Republicans, including Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, and Mike Rounds, have questioned whether excluding an entire party is a sensible way to build congressional support.

Their criticism does not amount to a Republican revolt against Hegseth. Instead, it reflects concern from several senators that national-security decisions and major defense investments require cooperation across party lines, especially when Congress must eventually consider legislation implementing them.
Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina has been particularly blunt. He argued that Hegseth's decision to limit Democratic participation could undermine the secretary's own efforts to secure support for his defense priorities, especially when lawmakers need to understand the administration's plans before deciding how to vote.

Tillis' criticism highlights the practical problem facing Hegseth. Persuading lawmakers to approve enormous military expenditures requires more than speaking to supporters who already agree with the administration. It also requires convincing lawmakers who may have serious questions about strategy, spending, and oversight.











Adm. Brad Cooper, the highest-ranking U.S. military commander in the Middle East, wrapped up a 10-day regional tour with a stop on the aircraft carrier that has spent nearly nine months at sea.

The Lincoln has been stationed in the Middle East since January, playing a key role in the U.S. war against Iran, including enforcing a blockade on Iranian ports. It was initially deployed in the Pacific in November 2025.

It has now surpassed a record-breaking 240 consecutive days at sea. The prolonged deployment of carriers has sparked growing concerns about the strain placed not only on the ships themselves, but on the service members aboard. The Lincoln has about 5,000 service members.
Family members of those on board have reported their loved ones facing "appalling" conditions and food rationing.

"History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era," Cooper said of the Lincoln strike group in a statement released Saturday.


And it will fall on Hegseth and Chump's shoulders.  Kathrine Frich (DAGENS) notes:

President Donald Trump dismissed reports of exhaustion during a press briefing in Maryland on Friday.
He bluntly stated that the uninterrupted deployment was “not nearly long enough.”

A combat veteran bites back
Those remarks triggered a furious response. On Saturday, Democratic Representative Seth Moulton, a former Marine, went on television to fire back.

“Typical from a draft dodger, not a surprise,” Moulton told MS NOW.

He argued the president ignores the troops. Moulton said Trump is “going to spend his weekend at his luxury golf course, not thinking one bit about the troops who he’s put in harm’s way for a war of choice that he and Hegseth are losing.”

Hegseth and Chump's actions are drawing fire from many in Congress.  Senator Patty Murray's office issued the following:

***LETTER HERE***

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA),Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined all thirteen members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) minority and the Democratic leader of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense in sending a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth demanding answers about deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, following reports that the aircraft carrier’s crew has endured food and water shortages, broken plumbing, and mental health crises severe enough that multiple sailors reportedly attempted to go overboard during its record-setting deployment. The Lincoln has been at sea for more than 250 days, including over 200 consecutive days without a port call, the longest continuous deployment at sea for a U.S. aircraft carrier in the modern era.

The Senators pressed Secretary Hegseth on his Department’s failure to provide a clear timeline for the crew’s return and condemned his public dismissal of the reports as “completely misrepresented,” as well as President Trump’s remarks suggesting the Lincoln had not been deployed “nearly long enough.” The Senators demanded detailed answers on mental health and medical resources aboard the ship, the state of good order and discipline, hygiene and food conditions, the full extent of the reported man-overboard incident, and support being provided to military families, along with a formal request for a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit the ship.

In addition to Senator Murray, the letter was signed by the following SASC members: Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Senator Angus King (I-ME), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI). Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), the Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, also joined.

Full text of the letter is available HERE and below:

Dear Secretary Hegseth,

We write regarding the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln and mounting evidence that conditions aboard the carrier have deteriorated to the point that the safety and wellbeing of its crew could be compromised. These are deeply troubling reports, and the American people deserve honest answers.

The USS Lincoln departed San Diego on November 21, 2025. The ship has now been deployed for more than 250 days, including over 200 consecutive days without a port call, setting a modern-day record for continuous time at sea for a U.S. aircraft carrier. Family members of the sailors and Marines serving aboard have received urgent messages describing conditions that should alarm you, and everyone serving in a position of leadership at the Pentagon, to include concerns about exhaustion, food and water shortages, and mental health crises serious enough that multiple sailors reportedly attempted to go overboard.

In response to these reports, you publicly stated that the conditions aboard the carrier have been “completely misrepresented.”  Even more galling, when asked by reporters about the conditions on the Lincoln, President Trump dismissed the concerns of the families and stated that the Lincoln had not been deployed “nearly long enough.”

Our sailors and Marines signed up to serve and to be treated with respect. They did not sign up to be kept at sea indefinitely with no announced return date and, by multiple accounts, without reliable food, hot water, or working plumbing. That is not how we treat the men and women we ask to carry out this mission.

This situation was preventable, and the conditions aboard the Lincoln are nearly identical to the issues faced by the USS Ford when it conducted an extended deployment that ended earlier this year. The USS Lincoln was redirected to the Middle East as the war with Iran began and has remained there as that war has dragged on with no clear endpoint. This is a symptom of poor planning by both you and the President and exacerbated by the deeply unsound decision to start a war with Iran. Open-ended deployments driven by an open-ended war have real consequences for our servicemembers, and we are seeing those consequences now.

Recent press reports indicate that the USS George Washington will be deployed to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln.  While that is welcome news, the Department’s mismanagement of carrier deployments also means that the U.S. will not have an aircraft carrier in the Pacific for the foreseeable future.  However, ensuring the USS Lincoln returns to port takes precedence, and it is incumbent on the Department to inform Congress, and the families, on the plan and timeline to get the crew home. Denial and defensiveness are not acceptable responses. Congress and these families need accountability.

Given the seriousness of these reports, we request written answers to the following:

  • What is the current timeline for the USS Lincoln’s relief and return to homeport, and what specific operational requirements are driving continued extensions of this deployment?
  • Was the crew informed that the deployment could be extended indefinitely? Have any members of the crew been changed out since the beginning of this deployment, and if so, how many?
  • Has there been any degradation in the operational capability of the USS Lincoln or her airwing?
  • What mental health resources are being provided to the crew?
  • Have there been any suicides aboard the ship during this deployment?  How many instances of detected suicidal ideation or attempted self-harm, including attempts to go overboard, has the Department recorded?
  • What other medical resources are available aboard the ship, and are resources sufficient to meet the crew’s needs given the length of this deployment?
  • What chaplain resources are available to the crew, and have they been adequate to the scale of need aboard the ship?
  • What is the current state of good order and discipline aboard the USS Lincoln?
  • What is the hygiene and healthy food situation on board, including the status of reported plumbing failures, water contamination, and food shortages?
  • What is the extent of illness or injury aboard the ship, including full details of the reported man-overboard incident and any other similar incidents?
  • What is the state of the families of the sailors and Marines aboard the USS Lincoln? What resources are being provided to them, and are they being kept informed on a regular basis about the status of the deployment and their loved ones’ wellbeing?
  • Will the Department authorize a bipartisan congressional delegation to visit the Lincoln to conduct firsthand oversight of conditions aboard the ship?

As the Secretary of Defense, you are accountable to the men and women who serve our nation.  It is time for you to demonstrate leadership, rather than peddle excuses.  The servicemembers we send into harm’s way deserve nothing less.

Sincerely,

###







GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska on Sunday called for congressional oversight of the USS Abraham Lincoln amid reports of poor conditions on the aircraft carrier.

“We should have oversight,” Bacon said during an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” while adding that the secretary of the Navy or its service chief should testify in front of lawmakers. His statement adds to those of congressional Democrats who have similarly pressed military officials for more answers regarding how they’re supporting service members on extended deployments.

Bacon, a retired Air Force brigadier general and moderate Trump critic, also said that he had seen service members experiencing mental health challenges when he was stationed on an aircraft carrier in 1996. He noted that “we had a couple members jump overboard and commit suicide” at the time, describing the incidents as “terrible” and “sad.”



Let's move over to Attorney General Todd Blanche.  Brittany Fonteno (TIME) reports:

In the early morning hours, before the sun came up on Saturday Aug. 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as the nation’s top law enforcement officer. But long before the vote, Blanche’s comments inside and outside of the confirmation process signaled an escalation of President Donald Trump’s anti-abortion agenda. 

In a now-deleted audio recording with the White House Faith Office, Blanche outlined a plan to utilize multiple agencies, including his Department of Justice and the Food and Drug Administration, to end abortion access in all 50 states. Blanche illustrated how these departments—which should work independently of the White House in service to our collective health and safety—are blurring lines in service to an agenda targeting abortion providers and patients.

The National Abortion Federation, which sets clinical standards for abortion care and provides security and safety support for clinics nationwide, knows firsthand the grave dangers when checks and balances disappear within the federal government. Law enforcement is the only mechanism of accountability our current system provides for people who engage in violence and disruption at abortion clinics. While these activities are illegal under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances (FACE) Act, the law is only as protective as the person in charge of enforcing it. 

Not only did Trump pardon violators of the FACE Act, the DOJ has also paid them with tax dollars as a backwards form of restitution. Just last month, Paul Vaughn received a Trump pardon and $1 million from the DOJ after staging a blockade at a NAF member clinic in Tennessee. NAF is actively suing the DOJ to stop more payouts of this kind. But the Trump-Blanche duo has already sent a message with serious consequences.

Since Trump took office, NAF’s most recent Violence and Disruption report showed a 113% increase in threats of death and harm. Clinic blockades increased from one to six. While we know laws like the FACE Act are a limited means to protect people, not only is the federal government failing to meet these low bars, it's abusing the law to incentivize violence. Blanche’s confirmation is part of a larger pattern of involving law enforcement in pregnancy, including abortion care. That should scare everyone no matter what you believe. 


The disgusting Todd Blanche.  Roxanne Cooper observes:

Todd Blanche just let the mask slip in real time, and the thud of post-Watergate norms hitting the floor should echo straight through the halls of Congress. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Donald Trump's former personal defense attorney-turned-Attorney General didn’t bother with the traditional, polite fiction of an isolated, impartial Department of Justice. Instead, he stared down the camera lens and openly declared that absolute independence is a bad idea, telling the country point-blank: "No, I'm not going to pledge that, and no attorney general should ever pledge that."

For fifty years, the unwritten covenant of the nation's top law enforcement post was that the Attorney General operates as a constitutional firewall against West Wing vengeance. Blanche didn’t just tear down that wall; he ground it to dust.

Cornered on whether he would factor Donald Trump's personal feelings into reviving dead cases, Blanche admitted "of course" he would. He’s not hiding the ball anymore. He has recast the Justice Department not as an independent watchdog of the people, but as an interactive policy desk for the Oval Office, openly dismissing neutral oversight as a dangerous administrative glitch.

This marks a radical departure from everything the country learned from the dark days of the Nixon administration. The post-Watergate consensus was established specifically to ensure that the terrifying power of federal law enforcement—the power to wiretap, to indict, to seize property, and to strip citizens of their liberty—would never again be used as a private blunt-force instrument for a president's political survival or personal vendettas. By rejecting this consensus out loud, Blanche signaled a return to an era where justice is defined entirely by executive whim.




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