Posted on 12/03/2021 11:04:59 AM PST by bitt
Since Watergate, conventional Washington wisdom holds that the cover-up is worse than the crime. Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) tasked former intelligence operatives to break into Democratic National Committee headquarters to wiretap the opposition. To cover up his involvement in the Watergate break-in, Nixon lied about what he knew and when he knew it, resulting in his resignation from office.
Whether Hillary Clinton was aware of the crimes committed between 2016 and 2020 to further her political ambitions is a question that may never be answered. What has been proved beyond any shadow of doubt by the U.S. Justice Department over the past few months is that top operatives in her 2016 campaign used concocted falsehoods to leverage active law enforcement officials who in turn used U.S. government programs and resources to spy on the Trump campaign—a violation of American political norms whose only real parallel is Watergate. We also know that under the pretext of “investigating collusion,” at least 40 Obama officials, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, spied on the Trump team. There is circumstantial evidence that Barack Obama knew what was going on, but since, miraculously, no one has ever publicly asked him about Russiagate, not even once, he hasn’t had the opportunity to either lie or come clean.
But with Trump now safely out of office, it appears that the cover-up is now cracking wide open. In September, John Durham, the special counsel investigating the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe, charged Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with lying to the FBI. In September 2016, Sussmann, a former Justice Department official, passed reports to the bureau that were meant to incriminate the Trump circle by claiming evidence of links between the Trump organization and a Russian bank. Sussmann had told the FBI he was not acting on behalf of a client, but records Durham obtained from Sussmann’s law firm, Perkins Coie, showed he was billing the Clinton campaign for drawing up the reports and for the meeting itself.
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This is chump change. It only amounts to the Plumbers Unit. It doesn’t include people of the level of Victor Marchetti, E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Charles ‘Chuck’ Colson or Donald Segretti.
Nixon was basically patriotic. The press corpse today is anti-American.
the plumbers did time... we will see if the durham endicted will overcome their depression in the slammer.
Thanks for posting! I’d highly recommend reading the whole thing.
Lee Smith column, trl.
The Watergate reference is interesting to me because I found a stack of newspapers covering the highlights of Watergate up to Nixon Resigns while cleaning up my parent’s estate.
Watergate was revenge for HUAC
How many Republicans bailed out of Congress in 2018 because the felonious media convinced them that President Trump was a criminal?
We can hardly get our minds around what these TV entertainers in the drag of reporters have done to our country.
They were also conspirators in the 2020 steal and work to this day to destroy all that is good and decent.
May God damn them all to hell.
What is HUAC?
House Unamamerican Activities Committee— so-called McCarthy era
And some, like MH, were taking $$$ under the table and slipping it into off shore storage. Such perfidy would be traceable.
We need a HUAC today!
In those days it referred to investigating un-American activities; today it refers to engaging in un-American activities
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