Posted on 12/05/2019 5:37:07 AM PST by Kaslin
One symptom of a society in crisis is the unreliability or even corruption of its own auditors.
After all, when the watchmen have lost moral authority to watch, who can be believed or trusted? Or, as the Roman satirist Juvenal famously put it, "Who will guard the guardians?"
It was recently reported that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered an email to bolster a suspicious FBI effort to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant authorizing the surveillance of Carter Page, a onetime employee of the Trump campaign.
If true, Clinesmith helped the FBI successfully delude the court into granting what was likely an illegal request to spy on the Trump campaign. Clinesmith was reportedly expelled from special counsel Robert Mueller's legal team for cheering on opposition to the Trump presidency by writing "Viva la resistance!" in a text message discussion.
After FBI Director James Comey was fired, he leaked his own memos of private and confidential conversations with the president. Whether Comey would go to jail hinged on how the FBI would categorize his memos post facto -- as merely "confidential," or as "secret" or "top secret."
Two of the adjudicators were Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, former Comey friends and FBI subordinates. The FBI eventually ruled that the leaking of the memos was not felonious. Page and Strzok, who were involved in an amorous relationship, were later dismissed from Mueller's team for exchanging texts that showed bias and hatred toward Trump, the object of their team's investigation.
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As usual, Dr. Hanson cuts to the quick of matters with surgical precision and efficiency.
The guy is a treasure.
He sure is.
Good but the rot started from the top. It’s amazing that the election of one rogue has wrought so much corruption and damage.
Aneruca doesn’t have guardians. We had hired employees. At least in old America we did.
IMO the only way any of these swamp dwellers get tried for their treasonous activities is if Trump declares martial law. Then he can suspend habeus corpus and start rounding these criminals up by the scruff of their necks. Otherwise its never going to happen.
Loss of good character in persons entrusted with public power and the lack of a peaceable and orderly method of replacing them is the path to government paralysis and, given enough time and distraction, civil war.
CW II is gonna happen. There is just no way around it. We all know what they have done and it is clear they will never be held to account. I suppose it might be avoided if they started arresting the coup conspirators for the crimes we already know they have committed at this point but Barr seems to have other things on his mind.
I totally disagree. People like Obama didn't just beam in from outer space.
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