Matt Drudge says spending bill passed because NSA has 'dirt' on John Boehner

Washington Examiner ^ | 12/14/14 | Eddie Scarry

[Joe Boucher]

Well heck,
Photos of any old geezer with young boys might cause problems for any politician cept maybe the retired Barney.

[stellaluna]

When I was in college one of my professors told us that you can not be effective in public life unless you are clean. No matter how unrelated or discreet your private sin is; your opponent will find out about what you did in the club, that hotel room or even the barn at your grandma’s place and use it. These guys never learn.

[wally_bert]

Another favorite is the ME-TV promo with the woman yelling “I don’t know” a few times.

[Amagi]

I don't doubt this for a minute.
Is it too much to expect that men of character will rise in government?
Crime, Inc.

[Old Sarge]

The Clinton acquital was also broght about by the Ellen Romesch Defense.

I don’t have the quote on me here, I’ll report when I get back to the house, but it in essence runs like this:

George Stephy was carrying the Clintons’ water at ABC, same as today, and went on “ABC This Week” and told Sam Donaldson that if the Repubs and the media didn’t back off of Bill, they’d dump the entire FBI file cabinet they had on every media celebrity and GOP congressman.

And the impeachment died then and there.

[Travis McGee]

8. EXACTLY WHO CONTROLS CONGRESS?

In Stonewalled, Atkisson also has a lot to say about National Intelligence Director James Clapper, and his infamous straight-faced lies to Congress concerning the NSA’s mass-spying upon unsuspected ordinary American citizens. Like with the shape-shifting “former” spook and CBS News “consultant” Mike Morell, I am reminded of the famous (but unattributed) saying: “In acting, once you learn how to fake sincerity, the rest is easy.” (Question: is this a subject taught during CIA training? Undoubtedly it is. How else to recruit foreign agents of influence, which is the CIA’s bailiwick? Or at least, it used to be, before they started operating on domestic soil against Americans once again.)

After recounting Clappers’ apparently sincere but always changing testimony, Atkisson had this to say: “Allowing Clapper and other government officials to be in charge of solving their own surveillance controversies is like inviting the fox to guard the henhouse. Except the fox is also getting the keys to the henhouse and the recipe for chicken fricassee.

“In a fictitious world, one can imagine a meeting in which any member of Congress calling for Clapper’s head gets a closed-door visit from Clapper or his team. They slide a file bearing the name of the member of Congress or someone close to him across the desk, J. Edger Hoover-style. The file contains materials surreptitiously gathered under the auspices of a government leak investigation or surveillance program. The member of Congress opens the file. Perhaps his eyes flicker. Maybe his face becomes white. The materials are very...personal. The imaginary Clapper rubs his forehead with his four fingers. No words are spoken because no words are necessary. The file is closed and Clapper drags it back across the desk, never to be spoken of again. Unless necessary. Suddenly the member of Congress is no longer out for Clapper’s head.

“Or here’s another fictitious premise. CIA director Petraeus deviates from the Obama administration’s official line on Benghazi. Somewhere in a private room, a small group of government operatives culls through data to find out who Petraeus had been emailing and calling. Any skeletons in that closet? A review of his file reveals some unseemly contacts with his former biographer. That information could come in very handy.”

A link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

10. OBAMA’S AMAZING LUCK: A PATTERN OF BLACKMAIL

Next, please recall the bizarre history of President Obama’s unlikely string of incredible luck that resulted in his election victories first in Illinois and then to the United States Senate. At each level, sudden embarrassing personal disclosures about his rivals forced their last-minute withdrawals. Sealed divorce records, for example, suddenly became unsealed, and were handed to Obama-friendly reporters. Just as in the removal of General Petraeus, blackmail and the well-timed disclosure of hidden scandals are an established part of Team Obama’s modus operandi.

Therefore, is it reasonable to assume that agents of the Obama administration would not seek and then misuse embarrassing personal information in order to blackmail and control key members of Congress, or even the Supreme Court? Rumors surrounding Chief Justice Roberts, and his 11th hour conversion on the constitutionality of Obamacare come to mind.

I contend that after Barack Obama’s history of mysterious election victories resulting from last-minute disclosures about his opponents, and the manipulation and forced resignation of CIA director Petraeus, it would take an unwarranted leap of faith to assume that the Obama administration’s bad actors would not engage in spying upon and blackmailing Congressional leaders.

Therefore, in light of the recent extra-constitutional “executive actions” taken by President Obama, it is dangerously naive to assume that we can expect remedies to this creeping tyranny either from Congress or the Supreme Court. I would contend that for our national safety, we must assume that many of our key leaders are already under the control of blackmail and the threat of scandalous disclosures.

Spying upon and then blackmailing opponents is in President Obama’s political DNA down to the center of his bone marrow. Consider that key Obama advisors such as Valerie Jarrett have been part of his team since his early political life in Chicago, when the blackmail pattern first became evident.

[Travis McGee]

Please see 146.

[GailA]

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/shawnmitchell/2014/12/15/boehner-bombs-the-base-n1931793?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad

cry baby with no gonads BOMBS THE BASE!

[Personal Responsibility]

The guy is the Speaker of the House. Boehner may dislike Drudge but by publishing Boehner’s dirt, Drudge becomes an active enemy. Not a smart move.

[bgill]

Hillary’s FBI and tax files on her enemies was chicken feed compared to hussein/Val/Soros’ blackmail files.

[bgill]

I really believe Beck was going to announce it to the world but was told something bad would happen to him and his family if he didn’t shut up.

Share it with someone of importance who is alone in the world with one foot in the grave already and let them announce it. Surely, there are some older conservative reporters out there still.

[wintertime]

so? how does drudge know that?

[444Flyer]

The most needed man/woman today is one that can’t be bought or blackmailed. Unfortunately, Congress is full of the opposite.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” BTW, does Boehner spend time in a tanning booth?”

Not enough....................not NEARLY enough.

[Kenny Bunk]

Boehner's blackmailable moments are hardly deep national secrets, needing the NSA and its weird-tech to winkle them out.

This fellow Boehner is (was always) a rather well known public DC Bon Vivant and Party Boy, a notoriously charming alcoholic with quite a gallant eye for attractive companions. It would take Sam Spade and Phillip Marlow about 35 seconds to give you the complete book on his present 'secret life,' with lurid full-color Polaroids to match. Blackmail him? Not hard. Maybe even Mrs. Boehner is doing it!

Unlike Condit, Boehner's questionable activities are conducted on a somewhat higher social plane. He is for example, always beautifully tailored (would you belief $4Large for a suit!?) and groomed, as befits an Ohio multi-multi-millionaire who is locked into the really big money on the national scene.

Team Obama has got him dead to rights. The real question is: "Knowing all WE do about Obama, how come no one has HIM dead to rights, except Joe Arpaio, to whom no one will listen?"

[cynwoody]

Drudge is just talking through his hat. If he really had anything, he’d spill it on his page. Torpedoing a House speaker would be a signal accomplishment for the wannabe Walter Winchell of cyberspace.

[Travis McGee]

It's not enough to have the dirt on somebody. You have to convince the media to report it.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[LucyT]

Important ping.

Check out both #145 and #146, please.

Thanks, Travis McGee.

[Old Sarge]

A refresher course on the Ellen Rometsch strategy from Richard Poe:

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... on February 8, 1998, with pressure mounting to impeach Bill Clinton, George Stephanopoulos appeared on ABC’s This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. Stephanopoulos had resigned as White House communications chief in 1996 and became an ABC news analyst. But he was still carrying the Clintons’ water, as his next words made clear.

Stephanopoulos announced that the Clinton White House was planning what he called an “Ellen Rometsch” strategy. He explained that Rometsch was an East German spy who had managed to become John F. Kennedy’s lover. According to Stephanopoulos, the Kennedy White House threatened
to open up the FBI files and divulge embarrassing or incriminating information on anyone who attempted to blow the whistle on JFK’s affair with Rometsch. If pressed to the wall, the Clinton White House would do likewise, said Stephanopoulos.

Sam Donaldson asked, “Are you suggesting for a moment that what they’re beginning to say is that if you investigate this too much, we’ll put all your dirty linen right on the table? Every member of the Senate? Every member of the press corps?”

To which Stephanopoulos replied, “Absolutely. The president said he would never resign, and I think some around him are willing to take everyone down with him.”

This was a clear threat, delivered openly, on national television. Through Stephanopoulos, the Clintons were warning Congress and the media to back off. The threat worked.

David P. Schippers, who was Chief Investigative Counsel for the Clinton impeachment, reveals in his book “Sell-Out” that Republican leaders, from the get-go, had no intention of holding a proper impeachment trial or of convicting Bill Clinton. It was all a charade.