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

IT'S A THING AMONG DEMOCRATS –  FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:  WASHINGTON — Two groups of Russian hackers, working for competing government intelligence agencies, penetrated computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to emails, chats and a trove of opposition research against Donald J. Trump, according to the party and a cybersecurity firm.  One group placed espionage software on the committee’s computer servers last summer, giving it unimpeded access to communications for about a year. The committee called in CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, early last month after the Democratic Party began to suspect an intrusion.  Why, they should have called in Hillary.  She knows all about these things.

ASK FOR THE DETAILS – FROM BREITBART:   Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he be may be “open” to placing new gun controls on law-abiding citizens following the terror attack on Pulse Orlando.  According to CBS News’s Steven Portnoy, McConnell has a meeting with FBI director James Comey and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday. Portnoy Tweeted that McConnell has signaled he may be willing to consider new gun controls after that meeting.  The suspected gunman in the Orlando attack passed background checks for his guns, submitted to a waiting period before picking up his handgun, and held a Florida Security Officer license and a Statewide Firearms License. There is no word on what additional gun controls McConnell might be “open” to discussing.  All the legal mechanisms were in place to prevent the Orlando shooter from obtaining guns, but they didn't work.  The FBI had investigated the man, but the information was never placed in the federal database that is used in background checks.  Very baffling, and requires a Congressional probe.

AND OBAMA ALLOWS THIS – FROM AP:   MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican authorities say migrant traffickers have adopted a new trick to smuggle Central American clients to the U.S. border: renting high-end tour buses.  Mexico's Immigration Institute says it has found 102 migrants on two buses being used to whisk them across the length of the country.  The migrants reported paying between $7,000 and $10,000 to go from an area near the Guatemalan border to Reynosa, a city across from McAllen, Texas.  The institute said Monday that because the traffickers wanted to move quickly, they had not stopped to get the migrants food or water for two days.  Where are the "human rights" organizations?  Maybe this is their vacation time.

June 14, 2016