Here are my observations and opinions on some of the news of the day.

THE RESIGNATIONS of two FBI officials, Jim Baker and Lisa Page are not a surprise to me. As I have written earlier, upper levels of the DOJ and FBI would be given an opportunity to read Michael Horowitz’s IG Report prior to its release. I suspect that’s happening now and Baker and Page are the first to see the handwriting on the wall.

Baker, an FBI attorney, was reassigned following suspicion that he leaked the Trump dossier. He has been an advisor to the current FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Disgraced former FBI Director Jim Comey, without shame, tweeted @Comey:

“A great public servant retired from the FBI today. Jim Baker’s integrity and commitment to the rule of law have benefited our country through 5 presidents of both parties.”

You may remember the anti-Trump tweets Page exchanged with close associate Peter Strzok. Page and Strzok were once part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

While we await the release of the DOJ IG Report, Congress continues to press the DOJ for documents relating to both Trump and Hillary Clinton investigations.

OUR DEFIANT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE – “I don’t think there’s a threat to rule of law in America today,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein boldly stated on Wednesday.

While stating that the DOJ is not independent of the executive branch because it has a responsibility to be in accord with the priorities of the administration, Rosenstein was quick to add that “The Justice Department is independent of inappropriate political considerations.”

Since posting my criticism of Rosenstein on May 3, 2018, in “Our misguided deputy attorney general,” two other writers have noted their editorial comment about Rosenstein.

BUCK SEXTON, a former CIA intelligence officer who now hosts a syndicated radio show tweeted this at @BuckSexton:

“Hard to avoid the feeling some folks at DOJ are hoping they can get rid of Trump before the American people find out what they’ve really been up to all this time.”

KIMBERLY STRASSEL, a columnist in The Wall Street Journal, tends to lean toward “a desire (by the DOJ and FBI) to protect the institutions from embarrassment,” but points out that “the current leadership is about 20 steps behind the narrative. Comey, Strzok, Page and McCabe have already shattered the FBI’s reputation and public trust.”

Her tweet this week @KimStrassel was brief and to the point:

“Another House letter and subpoena this week, and another refusal to comply.”

I agree with Strassel, who said, “There’s nothing to be gained from pretending this is business as usual, or attempting to stem continued fallout by hiding further details.”

She’s encouraging House Speaker Paul Ryan to continue pressing his oversight committees to push for the release of documents, even if it requires subpoenas, contempt or threatening impeachment of Rosenstein.

IT SEEMS APPROPRIATE that with the discussion of our corrupt Justice Department and its FBI, and its Obama Deep State holdovers, that I touch again on another entity with designs on bringing down the Trump presidency – the media.

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan wrote Saturday of the state of journalism following the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

“It’s been persuasively argued that the dinner hurt journalism (true) and politics in general (yes). But I think it hurt America.

“What was once an event of stature – a sign to journalists that they’d arrived or were arriving … a way to make a good impression on a potential source … and for all to feel part of something meaningful and important. American journalism – is over.

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is a blind, sick, stumbling horse desperate to be put down. Put it out of its misery.”

WITH ALL OF THE CRITICISM of the foul-mouthed comedienne who “entertained” the attendees of the dinner, you may not know that WHCA members annually raise funds for scholarships to be presented to aspiring journalists.

Noonan suggests they hold a banquet to honor scholarship winners. “(They) will be delighted to meet those they think real stars – reporters, anchors, editors.”

I AM REMINDED of an annual Los Angeles Air Force Association scholarship banquet my wife and I often attended, a black-tie affair to present scholarships to sons and daughters of airmen killed while serving our nation. While a number of Hollywood celebrities frequently attended this event, it was always done in good taste.