MORNING EDITION

May 19, 2020 

By Mike Huckabee

BARR: CHARGES "UNLIKELY" AGAINST OBAMA AND BIDEN

The timing of Bill Barr’s announcement was curious.

Over the weekend, it became clear even to those of us without a security clearance that President Obama was involved in the surveillance of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. He had to be. We know through Sally Yates’ testimony that on January 5, 2017, with just a couple of weeks left in office, Obama already knew all about the incoming national security adviser’s call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He and then-FBI Director James Comey had a conversation about it while Yates just stood there, amazed.

And that call wasn’t “unmasked,” as has wrongly been reported over and over. Now that the complete list of unmasking requests has been declassified and turned over by acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell, we know there was no such request that would have applied to that particular call before January 5.

It means either that the CIA had been spying on Flynn, Obama’s most serious political nemesis, when he was in the Dominican Republic and somebody had briefed Obama on the call with Kislyak, or that Obama himself, as President, had ordered Flynn surveilled. IG Horowitz has testified that there was no FISA warrant on Flynn, so, really, what else is left?

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JUNK MODEL

Dr. Neil Ferguson was the head of the British team at Imperial College London who created the notorious computer model that predicted up to 500,000 coronavirus deaths in the UK and 2.2 million in the US. That dire prediction not only set off the worldwide lockdown panic, it also secured him a powerful government advisory position where he helped draft draconian rules for other people. I say “for other people” because he resigned after it was revealed that he was allegedly having an affair with a married woman who would travel from her home to his, despite the government’s ban even on committed couples visiting each other if they lived at different addresses. He became Britain’s #1 example of the “Harsh rules for thee but not for me” elitist, a role filled here by the mayors of New York City and Chicago.

But there’s another twist to Ferguson’s story that isn’t getting the publicity it deserves, and that’s the story of that computer model that shut down the world, before its apocalyptic death toll estimates started being reeled way back. For months, its creators refused to let anyone see the coding that resulted in those death estimates. But it has finally been analyzed by computer experts, and they were stunned at just how incompetent it was.

You’ve heard the computer term GIGO: “Garbage in, garbage out”? It means that if you feed bad data into a computer, you get unreliable results back out. Well, this was even worse. It was “AIGO: Anything In, Garbage Out.” No matter what you fed into it, even if you put the same data in five times, you would get back five different useless results. The results even vary depending on what kind of computer you use. Some of the results were just averages of the various unreliable, disconnected-from-reality results the machine spit out. And based on that, we shut down economies worldwide.

There have been a lot of gloomy predictions from the left about how “everything will change” due to this virus panic. I seriously doubt that. People are already going back to work and their regular lives, whether politicians like it or not; the stock market is rising; restaurants, hair salons and gyms are reopening; and movies, concerts and sports events will return. But I hope that what will change for good, and for the better, is that we will no longer put blind faith in self-proclaimed “experts” who claim to be able to predict the future based on computer models that are less accurate than consulting a Magic 8-Ball.

This bodes badly for the Green New Deal.

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