SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

EXPLANATION PLEASE – FROM THE DAILY MAIL:   The security services were facing difficult questions last night over how at least one of the London Bridge terrorists slipped through the intelligence net.
It emerged that the 27-year-old Muslim extremist appeared in a TV documentary last year about British jihadis – and was involved in a filmed altercation with police after an Islamic State flag was unfurled in a park.  He was caught on camera alongside two notorious preachers who were well known to police and intelligence officials because of their extremist views.  Amid a series of revelations last night, it was claimed that a friend of the Watford-born suspect had reported him to the anti-terror hotline after he became radicalised by watching extremist videos on YouTube.  It was also alleged that police were warned about the suspect radicalising children in a local park two years ago.  How much more evidence do you need?

WE'VE NOTICED – FROM MARKETWATCH:  WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said there was no proof so far of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign, as Congress geared up for a week of high drama highlighted by the testimony of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey.  “Listen, there’s a lot of smoke. We have no smoking gun at this point,” Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said on CNN. “But there is a lot of smoke."  Yeah, smoke.  This nonsense has been going on and on, and no one has been able to show that a crime was committed.  Will a crime be manufactured by the Trump haters in Washington?  That's the way totalitarians play the game, so I wouldn't be surprised.

AN EXTREME CONSPIRACY THEORY – FROM DAILY CALLER:  MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts theorized on Sunday that President Trump is trying to provoke a terrorist attack on U.S. soil in order to “prove himself right” about Islamic terrorism.  Roberts floated the theory during two separate interviews, one with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and another with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.  Roberts pointed to Trump’s tweets early Sunday in the wake of a terrorist attack that left at least seven dead in London.  Trump wrote that “we must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people.” He also criticized London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, who said that there was “no reason to be alarmed” following the attacks.  Pretty outrageous.  Reminds me of the weird theories about JFK's assassination and the equally weird theory that FDR planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Will MSNBC apologize?  Don't bet on it.

June 4, 2017