Posted on 07/03/2019 6:44:46 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Finally America has its George Smiley, the fictional master spy from the John le Carré novels. Smiley knew the importance of a spy agency being willing to get to the bottom of its own major cock-ups.
Attorney General William Barr has been given power by Donald Trump to declassify classified material. He told CBS that stories offered by the FBI about its investigation of the Trump campaign dont hang together. The same could be said for a more consequential enigma of the 2016 election, concerning the alleged Russian intelligence that lay behind the FBIs intervention in the Hillary Clinton email case.
Remind yourself what happened: James Comey, on his sole initiative, held a press conference to announce that, though Mrs. Clinton had behaved improperly, she did not merit prosecution. Except it wasnt his decision to make: It was the Justice Departments.
We know that Mr. Comey secretly explained his action by invoking still-classified Russian intelligence. In his memoir, he refers to a development unknown to the American public to this day. In fact, we know from news leaks that a Russian intercept of some kind cited a Democratic Party email that referred to an alleged conversation in which Attorney General Loretta Lynch promised to bury the Hillary Clinton investigation.
On the surface, the Russian intelligence indicated political corruption at the Justice Department and yet Mr. Comey rejected this self-advertised significance. He didnt investigate. He didnt tell the Justice Department. He used his possession of the classified intercept as his classified justification for intervening to free Mrs. Clinton from the email matter in time for the Democratic Convention.
The questions about this episode are many. Mr. Barr could start by releasing the classified appendix of the Justice Departments own inspector generals review (whose existence the media uniformly ignores).
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
You could release it incrementally and probably increase your leverage.
Screw the WSJ!
What the hell is taking so long. Do it already.
Dont put your hope into Horowitz, Barr, Huber, Wray, or any of these DC players folks. Youre only going to get disappointed, disillusioned, and frustrated. Hillary and Obama are never going to be arrested, charged, or tried for their crimes.
Thank you. It’s hard to hear, but it’s the truth.
Fixed it.
Ouch.
So clever! How did you ever come up with such an original remark?
The only way any major players will be indicted is after the 2020 elections and ONLY if Trump wins bigley and Repubs take both houses of congress.
Still, even if that happens I'm not confident that many bad guys will go to prison.
Yeah, I really wanted to include that part but had reached the 300 word limit.
Concurring bump...especially the third one!
Thanks. It is hard to accept, but Obama and Hillary are not going to Gitmo, or to a US prison. It is never going to happen.
There is a lot he should declassify.
He’s an Obama appointee.
“Those rats will spill the beans”
Maybe Comey. I doubt Clapper or Brennan would.
I’d take a different approach. Round up all the ladies involved in the operation, like Loretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, etc. Let them spend a few months in federal prison with some bull dyke gangs and then see if they want to make a deal.
We don’t need leverage, we need justice.
Absolutely they would. When the Democrat/Left wants something -- anything -- every single member of the party screams to high-heaven until they get what they want.
Republicans on the other hand, just as with the census question, stand mute for the most part -- scared obama-less of the Left ... truly paralyzed with fear of the Left. It's really sad to see people in positions of considerable power and authority granted to them by conservative voters to protect and defend our Constitution and our Republic to be so scared nearly out of their freaking minds that they are unable, incapable and/or unwilling to speak up -- much less act on -- the unrelenting attacks of the Democrat/Left who so hate America and so very many Americans.
Anyone know of a reliable way around WSJ’s pay wall?
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