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The Mesopotamian ‘Rod and Ring’: Icon of Righteous Kingship and Balance of Power between Palace and Temple

 

‘rod and ring’, the identified symbol of the balance of power between the two premier institutions of ancient Mesopotamia, the palace and the temple. It proposes an identification of the ‘rod and ring’ that is rooted in the indigenous Mesopotamian conceptualization of justice. It suggests that the ‘rod and ring’ scene in royal monuments also signified righteous kingship sanctified by the gods and it communicated an aspect of the enduring relationship between the palace and the temple which served to secure the institutional continuity that endured throughout more than three millennia of regime change.

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Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, told colleagues during a House Rules Committee meeting on Tuesday that the Durham review is expected to end sometime starting in June.

 

“His investigation is due to be completed sometime this summer," Jordan said.

 

He mentioned it after Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas, asked whether "anybody is going to be accountable now," referring to the “significant errors or omissions” the Justice Department inspector general found in the Justice Department's and the FBI’s use of British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier when pursuing Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

 

Jordan, who is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said that is exactly why Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to the task. The congressman also mentioned Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer under criminal investigation by Durham after Inspector General Michael Horowitz found he altered a key document in FISA filings related to Page, a U.S. citizen who was suspected of being an agent of Russia but was never charged with wrongdoing.

 

"I gotta believe that individual at some point is going to be held accountable," Jordan said.

 

The meeting on Tuesday was focused on legislation to reform the FISA law while key authorities in it, including roving wiretap powers, the business records provision, and the "lone wolf" amendment, are set to expire on Sunday if not reauthorized.

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-durham-review-due-to-be-completed-sometime-this-summer-jim-jordan-says