It remains DOJ policy to indict the leakers, not the press who receive the leaks, so we're unlikely to witness perp walks of these four. (In most cases; Julian Assange was indicted for publishing leaks of US classified materials).
Of course press-complicity with the Dems is an old story that was also dramatically revealed in the Podesta email leaks, causing Donna Brazile to be fired from her job at CNN. (And, many others to be outed as shills.)
Here's an interesting article that supports my hypothesis that even the biased MSM will have to report on indictments. L.A. Times:Indicted former Senate staffer appears in court as Russia leak inquiry sets off partisan fireworks.
By Friday morning the case had already begun setting off partisan fireworks. The Breitbart news site and other conservative media dubbed Wolfe a “deep-state leaker,” saying the charges against him bolstered their theory that a cabal of government officials conspired to go after Trump and members of his campaign team after he won the presidency.
I imagine for a lot of the 650,000 readers of the LA Times (print edition) this may be their first exposure to the counter-theory of the Deep State Coup.
We are not quite to the place were the LA Times is covering this story as we would hope ("worse than Watergate", say) but they are at least now reporting the story's interpretation by the opposition press (Breitbart).
And this is why, despite my critics, I still think that indictments and convictions are very important to defeating Mueller.
May the indictments fall like rain.
Verifiable Event Based Scoring Metric
Mueller vs. Team Trump
| JB EVENT-POINT SYSTEM | |
| EVENT | POINTS |
|---|---|
| Public Firing for Cause | 1 |
| Indictmnet for Lying | 2 |
| Indictment for Actual Crime | 3 |
| Guilty Plea or Conviction, Lying | 3 |
| Conviction for Actual Crime | 5 |
| Indictment of Russians in Russia | zero |
| TEAM | EVENT | RESULT | SCORE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mueller | Flynn | Guilty Plea | 3 |
| Mueller | Papadapolis | Guilty Plea | 3 |
| Mueller | Gates | Guilty Pleas | 3 |
| Mueller | Evgeny Freidman | Guilty Plea | 3 |
| Mueller | Alex Van Der Zwaan | Guilty Plea | 3 |
| Mueller | Manaforte | Indicted for Actual Crime | 2 |
| Mueller | Pichard Pinedo, | Guilty Plea, forgery | 5 |
| Mueller | 13 Russians | Indicted, in Russia | 0 |
| Mueller | 2 Russian Companies | Indicted, in Russia | 0 |
| Mueller | Concorde Consulting | Indicted, in USA | 3 |
| Trump | McCabe | Public Firing | 1 |
| Trump | James A Wolfe | Indicted for Lying to FBI | 2 |
| TOTAL SCORE | |
| Team Mueller | 25 |
| Team Tump | 3 |
Notes:
1.Start date for Index is the date of Mueller appointment, May 17, 2017. Firings prior to that, or firings for matters unrelated the the Deep State Coup investigation and counter-investigation, are not included in the Index but are available on this link, and also included as a link from post #1 on all Qanon threads.
We’re catching up!
I don’t see how we can ever match Pichard Pinedo though.
(WTF is Pichard Pinedo? 5 points?? Unfair!!)
I disagree with the premise that team Mueller started in 2017. FBI had Manafort under surveillance since 2014.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort
The FBI reportedly began a criminal investigation into Manafort in 2014, shortly after Yanukovich was deposed.[96] That investigation predated the 2016 election by several years and is ongoing. In addition, Manafort is also a person of interest in the FBI counterintelligence probe looking into the Russian government’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
And Carter page goes back to 2013
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Page
In 2013, Russian intelligence operatives attempted to recruit Page, and one described him as enthusiastic about business opportunities in Russia but an “idiot”. News accounts in 2017 indicated that because of these ties to Russia, Page had been the subject of a warrant pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2014, at least two years earlier than was indicated in the stories concerning his role in the 2016 Presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
And by the Democrats own admission the trump investigation began as early as 2015
“Oh, stifle it, Edith” [/Archie]