[Sir Napsalot]

Only the beginning of the article. Read it all, and go back later for the BC comment section for great discussion.

[arthurus]

Interesting analysis but the situation is modified by the fact that one side is using the “deadlock” to further its own ends. Trump was going to face fanatical institutional opposition from within the permanent government just as Reagan and Bush did. The Obama-Clinton conspiracy merely focused it and gave Trump a visible handle to be able to cripple it more certainly. The Head of the snake, instead of being obscured in the cols of the body has reared up and bared its fangs, the better to identify the leadership and cut it down.

[Sir Napsalot]

From Nov 2016 to Jan 2017, Obama and Co had almost two months time in between. And they still won’t accept the decision made by the American people. Talk about ego and hubris.

[dadfly]

Richard is one of a handful of fruitful and trustworthy journalists left in America, VDH comes to mind too. good article, best op-ed, i’ve seen posted here in some time.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Susan Rice wrote that Hussein said to investigate Trump “by the book”. As I’ve said before, the book he was referring to is “Rules for Radicals”.

[IndispensableDestiny]

In hindsight, the appropriate course of action for the incoming Trump administration would have been to fire each and every political appointee (the Plum Book). Then, fill about half the positions. The majority do not require Senate confirmation.

Plum Book: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2016/pdf/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2016.pdf

[Meet the New Boss]

The start of this war can be dated to January 5, 2017

Actually it probably started in March 2016 with Brennan's secret trip to Moscow where he met with the Russian security service (FSB). (Indeed, even before that they were probably doing queries on the NSA database to see what was in there on Trump.)

I'm guessing he asked the Russian spy chiefs what dirt they had on Trump. Which was probably very little. I would bet he also asked them if they had extracted Hillary's emails from her homebrew server and what they wanted from Obama in exchange for not releasing them.

I would bet that after Brennan got back the ringleaders of this op decided to manufacture dirt as if the Russians did have something, and use it as a pretext for more expanded spying on Trump and to spread lies in the media.

The Special Counsel was a continuation of the same op, the purpose of which was to shield what they had done from being discovered and try to find something, anything, with which to remove Trump before he could actually hold them accountable for the corruption.

[bmwcyle]

Most of DC on both sides of the isle.