Posted on 04/23/2018 4:55:28 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
So, here’s how our fake national news media justifies what it does:
- Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the Obama Administration’s fake “counterintelligence” investigation into the Trump campaign was started in early 2016 “with no official intelligence” as its basis.
- Other than Fox and a handful of conservative news outlets, no media outlet has reported this incredible, bombshell news, which means that the investigation was illegal from the outset.
- The fake news media outlets refusing to cover this story claim that it’s all Nunes’ fault, because he has destroyed his own credibility with the fake news media.
- Why is that the case? Because Nunes has spent the last 13 months uncovering the truth about the Trump/Russia Collusion fantasy play that has been mounted by the Democrat party in direct coordination with those same fake news media players.
- Because of that, the fake news media identified Nunes as a threat, and has mounted an intense character assassination campaign against him.
See how that works? The media identifies a threat to their narrative, colludes with Democrats like bug-eyed Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, to demonize that threat, claims that threat has lost his credibility as a result of the demonization campaign, and then proceeds to ignore everything he says on the grounds of the lost credibility. A textbook display of a Saul Alinsky character assassination campaign.
In all seriousness, the revelation by Nunes is incredible in its potential ramifications, and it can’t just be wished away no matter how hard the fake media tries. The FBI and intelligence community currently claim that the origin for its counterintelligence operation against the Trump Campaign was a conversation that a pathetic minor hander-on named George Papadopolous had with an Australian diplomat. If that is true – which is highly suspect – then that bit of intelligence should have been communicated through the so-called “Five Eyes” agreement between the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK, a deal that ensures these five allies do not spy on one another’s citizens without everyone knowing about it.
Nunes, as Chairman of the House Intel Committee, is privy to such Five Eyes communications, so is obviously in a position to know. Obama CIA Director John Brennan testified to congress last May that he directly communicated the intelligence he had accumulated as of October 2016 to then-FBI Director James Comey, and also briefed key members of congress at the same time.
Unfortunately for Brennan, last week the FBI, after months of stonewalling, released the original electronic communications documents that led to the creation of its counterintelligence investigation, and those documents, according to Nunes, reveal that that intelligence that Brennan passed to Comey did not come through official channels. Nunes told Bartiromo the following:
Nunes doesn’t know whether the former secretary of state and then-Democratic challenger to Trump in the election, Hillary Clinton, was pulling the strings of the investigation launched against her political opponent. However, he said it is known that two long-time Clinton associates – including Sidney Blumenthal – were “actively” giving information to the State Department, which “was somehow making its way to the FBI.”
So, what all this means is that it is very likely that the CIA, under Brennan’s leadership, had been conducting illegal surveillance on the Trump Campaign long before the FBI had ever obtained a FISA warrant authorizing such activity against U.S. citizens, and that associates of the Pantsuit Princess were feeding the State Department information from the fake Trump Dossier that the DNC and Clinton Campaign had spent millions of dollars having compiled. That information was then being fed by the State Department to Brennan, and Brennan was then passing it through to Comey. Breathtaking.
This explains why Nunes and his committee are still working on a report on its findings related to the State Department’s involvement in the illegal spying on the Trump Campaign. We also should remember here that we have evidence, in the form of texts between disgraced deep state FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, DOJ lawyer Lisa Page, that President Obama himself was aware of all of this as early as September 2016. In that month, Strzok texted Page that Obama had requested a briefing “on everything we are doing.”
This is the single biggest scandal in American history, and our fake news media is so blinded by its collective hatred for Donald Trump and its overwhelming general political bias that it is not just missing the story, it is intentionally ignoring it in the hopes that pretending that the facts don’t exist will somehow make them go away.
But facts are stubborn things, as Ronald Reagan famously said, and you can’t just wish them away.
Just another day in the truth is coming slowly but surely America.
That is all.
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Exactly!
And when there IS evidence it's denied existence and hidden.
As the highest executive in the DOJ, Sessions has been a miserable failure. Of course the job is no bed of roses, particularly in this heated political climate and because of previous scandals under the Obama administration that happened prior to his watch. That said, Sessions has stood passively by while the reputations of both agencies he heads — the DOJ and FBI — have been severely damaged during his tenure owing to repeated refusals by these agencies to cooperate with the legitimate oversight responsibilities of the U.S. congress. That, sadly, is indisputable. And that stonewalling continues to this very moment.
As the AG, one of his greatest responsibilities is ensuring the integrity of the chief law enforcement agency in our country. His actions, or lack thereof, speak loudly and can quickly lead to a loss of confidence in the fairness and competence of the agency he heads. Sessions has not steeped up to manage this crisis of confidence. Rather he has been reclusive and passive to the point where the reviled Rod Rosenstein is widely perceived as being the de facto AG.
Its not so much about jailing people as it is exposing the truth about the nefarious machinations that threaten our democracy and holding people accountable for their roles in partisan political treachery, stonewalling and otherwise resisting the release of facts that the American people have a right to know about.
It is hard to believe that anyone could be as passive and tolerant of wrongdoing and ongoing cover-ups as Jeff ‘Sleepy’ Sessions, unless he was either part of the Deep State or personally compromised. Its also hard not to believe that almost anyone else could have done a better job as AG.
Bttt.
5.56mm
It’s a coup attempt. Nothing less. If the shoe were on the other ideological foot, I believe there would be blood running in the gutters.
“A strong AG could have begun the investigation by examining the illegal FISA warrants. The best defense is an offense.”
Thanks for the very well thought out response - it comes very close to answering my question. I understand being on the offensive and not appeasing.
What I wanted to know is what tangible results (visible to the public), like specific indictments or arrests of top level Clinton or Obama administrators, would we have seen - and which or how many specific terminations of top level deep state bureaucrats do you think we would we have seen in the early months - if we’d had a strong AG?
The second part of my question was - how would the MSM and rabid Left (which neither of us want to appease) - how would they have responded to this assertive AG? After firing a bunch of the key deep state traitors, would they have backed off out of respect for the show of strength? After indicting a bunch of corrupt career politicians from past administrations - would they run for cover because there’s a new sheriff in town?
I’m not suggesting appeasement is better - I’m just asking how you think the tough AG’s toughness would have gone over - would it have scared them into submission or would it have escalated the “war” on Trump? I’m not saying good or bad - just asking what you think the landscape would look like right now if we’d done it your way?
What I’m getting at of course, is that when we “walk softly and carry a big stick”, there are several reasons why we should walk softly - and appeasement is NOT one of them. One reason to walk softly is stealth. A second reason is so as to remain alert - in a listening mode - so as to be aware of the enemy’s movements. A third reason is to constantly offer the enemy an optional course of action to resolve the dispute without bloodshed.
I worry that some on our side are so angry that they want blood - they wouldn’t accept a draining of the swamp unless it involved Clinton’s in jail.
I’d love to see Clintons in jail but I don’t think that will ever happen - nomatter who is AG.
One has only to compare the treatment of Watergate and the treatment of this to see the utter and complete disparity of justice and law being applied.
This is a universe worse, IMO.
‘What I wanted to know is what tangible results (visible to the public), like specific indictments or arrests of top level Clinton or Obama administrators, would we have seen - and which or how many specific terminations of top level deep state bureaucrats do you think we would we have seen in the early months - if we’d had a strong AG?’
This is absolutely, positively not the issue. When Trump won, despite his having encouraged chants of Lock Her Up, his entire focus was on MAGA. This is crystal clear in his words and actions post-victory. Certainly some in the base would have been disgruntled, but their resentment would have waned had Trump been free to barrel ahead with his huge and excellent MAGA plans.
The rage, the fury, the white hot resentment of Sessions is that he knee-capped—to understate the issue by orders of magnitude—the POTUS right out of the gate. Instead of being free to charge ahead with his great plans, Trump has been hounded, dogged, persecuted, undermined, undercut, weakened, deprived of leverage and ruined in terms of momentum. And it’s entirely Sessions’ doing. Trump said it best:
“Sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else.”
As far as the press/leftists are concerned, we know absolutely how they’d have responded. Every time a Republican gives in to their demands they destroy him or her. Witness that senator, George Allen, who tried to appease the press by apologizing for his use of the word, maccaca. They destroyed him. There are many such examples.
Then there are the times Republicans refuse to appease. Even McCain had such an instance. He sang a snatch of, ‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran,’ — and the press went berserk. They sensed a George Allen moment. They were going to destroy McCain for being so giddy for war with Iran that he was singing about it.
In possibly his only good move in the entire campaign, McCain came right back at the press with both guns blazing. He mocked and ridiculed them for having no sense of humor and for taking a light hearted molehill joke and trying to make a mountain out of it.
The press slunk off like whipped puppies. They thrive on apologies/appeasement, and are taken aback when the childish pettiness of their words is unexpectedly thrown back in their faces.
Trump’s campaign was one long succession of similar press gotchas. Every time he said something outre or an incident surfaced from his past the press/Democrats lost their minds. They screamed hysterically that THIS time Trump was done.
Trump merely showed his genius for making the press look like stupid babies. He did it again and again. Yes, it was Lucy and the football, but Trump was Lucy.
Sessions crime is that he didn’t give Trump time to ridicule and mock the Russian collusion fairytale. Before Trump could properly frame the silliness and dispose of the idiocy, Sessions had saddled him with a never-ending witch hunt/fishing expedition. In my wildest imaginings, I can’t picture Sessions screwing Trump over worse than he did. Sessions is a disgrace.
Any AG that wouldn’t have placed Trump at the mercy of Deep State pro-Hillary snake Rosenstein would have been incalculably better. Sessions created a catastrophic mess. Maybe Trump can recover and maybe he can’t. We’ll see.
“..he [Sessions] knee-capped—to understate the issue by orders of magnitude—the POTUS right out of the gate.”
“Trump has been hounded, dogged, persecuted, undermined, undercut, weakened, deprived of leverage and ruined in terms of momentum. And it’s entirely Sessions’ doing.”
“Sessions had saddled him with a never-ending witch hunt/fishing expedition. In my wildest imaginings, I can’t picture Sessions screwing Trump over worse than he did.”
This kind of abstract generality - saddled, screwed, knee-capped, ruined, weakened, persecuted, dogged, hounded, undercut, undermined, deprived, - is what I was trying to see past.
What specific tangible things should Sessions have said and done? Are there certain people, or a certain number of people, within the DOJ that he should have fired when he took office? Are there certain people or a certain number of people he should have indicted within a certain time frame? Should it have been done publicly or privately?
You say it’s not the issue but to hold him accountable you need to be specific - not just a bunch of abstract verbs like saddled, screwed and knee-capped.
Also, the examples you gave of the different ways Allen, McCain, Trump responded to MSM “gotcha” attempts - I agree that Trump’s strong pushback is the right way - but Trump continues to do it his way, the right way - Sessions isn’t stopping Trump from speaking his mind.
Reading between the lines of what you are saying, I think you believe Mueller wouldn’t have been hired in the first place, and wouldn’t have been able to continue his witch hunt without Sessions enabling and protecting him - and if that is what you are saying it is a valid hypothesis worth exploring. But... you need specifics.
So back to my original question: What specifically would a strong AG have done to keep the Mueller witch hunt from happening? How would that battle have been fought? Would he have refused or delayed demands for a special investigator, and instructed RR or whoever in the DOJ to do likewise? If the strong AG had agreed to appoint a special council, would he have instructed his underlings as to who is and is not acceptable (if not Mueller)? If they ignored or counternanded his instructions would he have fired them or demoted them? Would a strong AG have taken positions against nominees like Mueller or underlings like RR on the basis of conflict of interest, and made public statements to that effect? Would he have testified to that effect before congressional committees for the American people to see on CSPAN?
These are all specific actions that an AG more assertive and confrontational than Sessions might have taken, especially if he wanted the people (Trump’s supporters) to know he was fighting on Trump’s behalf.
If I was AG, I’d much prefer to take the confrontational “damn the torpedoes” approach - but I’d only do it with permission from the POTUS. If I did that without the President’s permission, I would be what is known as a “loose cannon”.
Before I started firing people, indicting people, or running my mouth, I’d have to hear it directly from the President’s mouth that he wanted me to (via a one-on-one private meeting of course, I would NOT get my marching orders via a Twitter comment or other public statement!).
That’s why I think Sessions is doing what Trump wants him to - Trump doesn’t want Sessions or any other cabinet Chiefs out there making waves - Trump likes to do that himself.
My cow, this is not complex. There is one reason why Hillary-fixer Trump-hater Mueller was hired: Rosenstein. There is one reason why Rosenstein was in a position to hire seek-and-destroy Mueller: Sessions’ recusal. All that was required was an AG who didn’t recuse. Trust Trump to handle the rest. It’s not rocket science.
One note of clarification. No, Trump is not free to work his PR magic. He is being investigated and has been for the past year. That. Is. The. Problem.
Look at it this way. You’re a great driver and you’ve never had a ticket. People start sliming you for being a dangerous driver. You point to your record and tell them to buzz off. The gossip soon dies.
Now suppose you’re being never-endingly investigated for causing a huge, horrible accident. The police haven’t said you’re guilty but they haven’t said you’re innocent. They just investigate, investigate, investigate.
People accuse you of being a dangerous driver. You tell them you’re innocent. They point to the extremely serious ongoing investigation, and the accusations take on a life of their own.
That’s what Sessions has done to Trump. Jeff should have resigned in shame and disgrace. He is the problem.
Maybe they’ll stop ignoring it when some of the crooks get indicted, or go to jail. (And they’d better make it snappy; the midterms will be here before we know it, and the American people have a right to know the truth).
“Look at it this way. You’re a great driver and you’ve never had a ticket. People start sliming you for being a dangerous driver. You point to your record and tell them to buzz off. The gossip soon dies.”
So let’s explore your analogy: Trump is the good driver. The people wrongly sliming him as a “dangerous” driver are the MSM. The police perpetually investigating the driver for a huge, horrible accident - that’s Mueller and other political enemies in the deep state, the intelligence community, the DNC, and the impeach Trump crowd in congress, who conspired to frame him and who demanded the special investigation.
So where is Sessions in your analogy? You seem to think he’s part of the “dirty cops” who are framing the innocent driver, maybe the dirty chief of police. I say more likely Sessions is the innocent driver’s public defender who has not been able to get the charges dropped.
Instead of making a public statement that all the cops are dirty and moving to have the case dismissed, the public defender (Sessions) appears to be looking to strike a deal to keep his client out of jail - namely, we don’t charge you with being dirty cops and you let my client off for time served (enduring a year and a half of witch hunt).
The drivers close friends and family (his supporters - the deplorables) are livid at the idea of a deal - they want to go to trial and expose the dirty cops and bring down the whole corrupt police force (go after the Clintons etc).
Look, it sucks Trump is being investigated by dirty cops and being framed for crimes that he didn’t commit. But that’s not happening because Sessions is a sucky AG - it’s happening because they control DC and Trump declared war on them! This is “witch hunt” is the DC swamp fighting for their lives against a man who they see literally as being the wicked witch, hitler, the antichrist, and far worse, all wrapped up in one.
I just don’t see how you can think the witch hunt could have been avoided by a stronger AG.
As far as I’m concerned, this year plus witch hunt is only the beginning - brace yourself for far worse. This was never going to be easy - they were never going to “buzz off”.
This isn’t complicated. Sessions is/was the chief of police. He could have prevented the entire illegal, dirty, politicaly-motivated investigation. Instead he punted to a deputy that hates the wrongly accused driver. And the longer the witch hunt continues, the more withdrawn and useless the chief of police bevomes.
Without the witch hunt Trump would have ridiculed and mocked the false accusations into oblivion. With the constant investigation ongoing he’s politically crippled.
But it’s fascinating that you can’t picture Sessions as the top dog/person ultimately in charge. Nobody else can either. Rosenstein is the acting AG and Sessions is the passive, helpless bystander.
Btw, the only reason you imagine there’s anything to the silly, stupid, baseless Russia accusations is because Sessions has allowed it to get totally out of control. By allowing Mueller to be appointed, to lard his team with Hillary supporters and to spend millions a month Sessions has blown the evidence-free charges massively out of proportion and given them official legitimicay. Without Sessions’ complete compliance with the swamp, Trump would have brushed the fake allegations away as he did so many others.
The only real crime is that Trump beat Hillary. That’s the bottom line.
If Sessions was the sole cause of this witch hunt, as you argue, Trump would have simply fired him as it was happening. There, problem solved.
But Trump couldn’t fire Sessions, Mueller, Rosenstien or do anything to deflect the witch hunt without adding obstruction to the fake charges. He knew he would be playing into his enemies’ hands. They were daring him - baiting him into such a play - hoping beyond hope he start firing people and would commit a Saturday Night Massacre, so they could escalate into a watergate level scandal and use call his terminations defensiveness - de facto admission of guilt.
But Trump didn’t fire anyone - smartest thing he ever did.
Trump spoke of firing Sessions. The Senate Repulicans erupted in dire, apocalyptic threats. Trump doesn’t have even one ally in the Senate. They are already moving his appointments and judges at the speed of frozen molasses. Imagine if the Senate GOPers joined with the Democrats in declaring all out war on Trump. That’s what they threatened to do.
That is what makes Sessions’ recusal such a cowardly act of insidious betrayal. Trump had one shot to get a decent AG. Sessions took that opportunity and used it to make a Trump-hater, Rosenstein, the acting AG. Sessions and the swamp Senate have had Trump in a box ever since.
Trump:
“Sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else.”
Trump wants to return the power and wealth to the people - that makes him the mortal enemy of the most powerful and wealthy people in the world.
Jeff Sessions is not the problem - not even a little bit.
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