Posted on 05/13/2020 8:25:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
And the media know it.
When former president Barack Obama told supporters last week that the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case against former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn is a “threat to the rule of law,” he was relying wholly on the fiction, willingly propagated for years by a pliant media, that the Russia-Trump collusion probe launched by his administration was lawful and legitimate.
But of course it wasn’t. A string of recently released documents have confirmed that the entire Russia-Trump investigation, which eventually entrapped Flynn and forced then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself, was an unprecedented abuse of power that amounted to organized effort by the Obama administration to nullify the results of the 2016 presidential election. It was in effect an attempted coup.
If you haven’t picked that up from the news media, it’s not your fault. Instead of grappling with the implications of newly released details about what Obama officials were doing to undermine the incoming Trump administration during the transition, the mainstream media have fixated on Trump’s use of the term “Obamagate,” dismissing it as a conspiracy theory.
This is to be expected. For years now the media have done everything they can to push the Trump-Russia collusion hoax—even after a years-long special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller turned up nothing—using the complexity of the scheme to hide the greatest political scandal of our time in plain sight.
A key aspect of that scheme was—and is—to make the case against Flynn appear legitimate. Flynn faced trumped-up charges that he mislead FBI agents about conversations he had with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks before Trump’s inauguration. (As the incoming national security advisor, Flynn was doubtless having conversations with numerous heads of state and ambassadors during this time, so there was nothing unusual about him talking to the Russian ambassador.)
The Obama administration already knew about the conversations with Kislyak because it had recordings of them thanks to a series of investigations it spun out of the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign. Crossfire Hurricane, launched in the summer of 2016, was itself a bogus investigation based on the Steele dossier—an entirely fraudulent document riddled with Russian disinformation and paid for by the Democratic Party.
So why did the FBI want to interview Flynn ahead of Trump’s inauguration in January 2017? Top brass at the FBI weren’t exactly sure about their approach, but they knew they needed to get Flynn out of the way. As the bureau’s former head of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap, recorded in his notes, “What is our goal? Truth/Admission, or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Apparently the Obama administration settled on trying to entrap him in a lie. The recent disclosure of an early January 2017 Oval Office meeting attended by Obama, vice president Joe Biden, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and FBI Director James Comey, confirms the administration’s plan to hide the Russia probe from the incoming Trump team—including Flynn.
The idea was to use the Kislyak calls as a pretext to keep the Flynn investigation open, even though there was no reason to do so. After months of spying on him, the FBI had found nothing to indicate Flynn was conspiring with the Russians.
As Rice wrote in an email to herself after the meeting, “President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”
The point was to keep the Flynn investigation open as a way for Obama holdovers like Comey, Yates, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to continue the Russia-Trump collusion probe even after Trump took office—and keep Flynn, Trump’s national security advisor, out of the loop. Since there was no reason to keep investigating Flynn, the Obama administration invented one: the preposterous notion that he intentionally mislead Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Kislyak and then lied about it to the FBI.
There’s no evidence this happened, but even if there were it wouldn’t matter. As the Justice Department explained in its decision to drop the Flynn case, the investigation of Flynn was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation.”
Later, top FBI and Justice Department officials gave the House Intelligence Committee different answers about why they were pursuing Flynn. Comey, McCabe, Yates, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord all gave conflicting testimony about the “primary purpose” of the FBI’s interview with Flynn, ranging from the outlandish notion that he violated the Logan Act—a constitutionally dubious 1799 law forbidding unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments—to the concocted charge that he lied to the FBI, which even the agents that conducted the interview with him didn’t believe.
The Flynn case is just one piece of a much larger story about how the Obama administration—with the full knowledge and support of both Obama and Biden—targeted incoming Trump officials in a failed attempt to cripple the new administration with allegations it had colluded with Moscow.
The complexity of their scheme, and the efforts to hide it and mislead the American people, are frustrating. The cast of characters—from high-ranking Obama administration officials to relative nobodies loosely associated with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign—is long, as is the timeline of events. Details have come out slowly, in fits and starts, over the course of years. Following all the leaks and declassified transcripts and congressional hearings requires constant vigilance, and if you don’t keep up with it you can easily lose the thread.
That all works to the advantage of those who perpetrated this hoax, because it’s easy to get overwhelmed and tune it all out, or simply accept the corporate media’s deceptive reporting. But the ongoing revelations about the FBI’s targeting of Flynn can’t be ignored. They demand a full accounting. If ever there was a threat to the rule of law, it was the Obama administration’s abuse of power and its weaponization of intelligence agencies in an attempt to take down Trump.
However convoluted it might seem, pay attention to it. It’s the biggest political scandal of our time.
I hate to be cynical, but no one above Smirk Boy will even lose a pension payment.
The Establishment in DC is bulletproof, unless you know to much, see Seth Rich, Epstein, Foster, etc.
NO ONE WILL PERP WALK COMEY, CLAPPER, SCHIFF, OBAMA, CLINTON, RICE, POWER, HOLDER, ETC.
It’s all a complete ruse they will pin on an analyst, all while have donor Chardonnay on Martha’s Vineyard.
I am sorry, no one in Washington pays, even with open book evidence, phone calls, texts and emails. NO ONE EVER is reprimanded.
Just mental masterbation of orange jumpsuits when we know Pelosi and Team will be with their lying Commie allies in media blaming Trump.
Sorry, rant over. I am done thinking anyone does time but little people or people who get caught on their 1,000th offense (Lauer, Cosby, Epstein, Weinstein, etc.).
Russia collusion and Russian hackers giving emails to wikileaks were the fake conspiracy theories. And that is what they were. Charges of criminal conspiracy. With nothing there.
I loathe the Leftist Media.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Yak... yak... yak... what happened to a swift and speedy trial? Trump should have droppped the hammer on Wray to release whatever documents Barr wanted. Same with Pompeo with State, etc. There is too much tiptoeing around this entire topic.
Nothing will happen to Obama, other than his complete humiliation, and the permanent dashing of what is left of his reputation and legacy. We will have to be satisfied with that, as anything else in the form of legal punishment would be tantamount to legitimizing the Democrat’s illegitimate and fraudulent coup attempt on Trump, and all future presidents. Obama is out of power, and Biden will follow.
If the choice is between a conservative, pro-Constitution foreigner and a socialist Democrat descended from a long line of Americans and born in Peoria, Illinois... I’ll vote for the foreigner.
No accident of birth prevents a person from being a dictator, as we can see by red state governors.
Birther King Sidney Blumenthal was born here. Hillary was born here. What matters is ideology.
I’ll put you down as an anti-Constitutionalist.
The founders were correct, Obama is living proof.
The people in the picture should be in jail, especially the dude on the left. There is zero chance of that, with a media that is devoted to the destruction of this country.
But to the average American, unless a court issues an order it IS a conspiracy theory. Simple fact of omission. The longer the DOJ takes to unleash the literal treasure trove of corruption cases they are holding the worse the perception will be of that action by the general public. They are being conditioned to both ignore the political aspect and side with how bad the orange man may be. Most people get their news second or third hand. Only democrats are using that.
“I want these people to rot in jail.”
Why?
They’re your betters and worthy of
directing your life and the lives of others.
If you don’t accept that then you have to be re-educated!
SARCASM
In other words through fraud.
I don’t know why. They are 3 different names
As far as I am concerned the US was without a president from 2009 to 2017
My late son was naturalized with me, as he was still a minor. He was 17 at the time. I was advised of this by the examiner
Yes, we had a Traitor in Chief.
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