Exposing the Hoax

Washington Examiner ^ | 05/28/20 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[jocon307]

No need to build to a crescendo — let’s just say it: The Trump-Russia investigation was a politically driven fraud from beginning to end. It was opened on false pretenses, sustained by investigative abuses, and will undoubtedly end in recriminatory angst, which is what happens when the kind of accountability the victims demand does not, indeed cannot, come to pass.

Worst of all is the damage wrought, though even that isn’t fully understood. Obama administration officials exploited the awesome national security powers that we trust our government to use for counterintelligence operations that safeguard America from jihadists and other foreign hostiles. Because of the abuse, and the growing awareness that few of the abusers will be held to meaningful account, those powers have lost the solid constituency they had maintained in Congress for nearly two decades. Thus, this episode will prove to be a catastrophe for American national security.

[jocon307]

Great piece, of course, by the great Andrew McCarthy. An excellent recap of the entire plot, which gave me an understanding of motives and how things hinged together that I have not had before. And, regrettably, he is likely right that no big shots will be forced to face the music for their wrongful acts.

[Ann Archy]

Hey Andy....it was NOT a HOAX...it was a COUP PLOT!! And it’s STILL going on with FRaud Fauci and the Wuhan Flu Shutdown!

[Paladin2]

0bamagate is an ongoing Deep State riot.

The ring leaders need to be locked up.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

“A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.”
- The Blue Fairy (no, not Barney Frank)

[CheneyClone]

McCarthy gets as least one thing dead wrong in this article - that Sessions would have put an end to the farce if he had remained AG. How can McCarthy state that as a certainty while Sessions, immediately after being named AG, recused himself from participating in the potential end of the farce?

[Big Red Badger]

BUT,
They have All
Exposed Themselves!

[FirstFlaBn]

He left out the apology for starting out as a Never Trumper.

Next time he defends any action by the Deep State, I’ll assume he got it wrong again.

[eyeamok]

A Seditious Conspiracy to Overthrow the United States Government was a Hoax???

PUT THE PIPE DOWN MR MCCARTHY!!!

[Political Junkie Too]

The imperative to get the Justice Department and the FBI out of our politics discourages the filing of charges that would be portrayed as banana-republic stuff. Yet, even if Barr succeeds in this noble quest, there is no assurance that a future administration would not turn the clock back.

The solution to this is to dismantle the FBI as we know it today and replace it with a decentralized investigative body organized by the states.

I'm reposting my idea from March 5, 2018 (reformatted for easier reading):

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As I was reading this article (As D.C. Corruption Mounts, Here’s How The American People Can Get Justice), I was beginning to think of a solution that was close to where the author ended up.

What if the FBI were disbanded as a federal agency, and replaced by a different organization that was populated by the states themselves?

1. Each state would delegate a number of investigators to serve at the pleasure of their home state, and this body would become a decentralized federal investigative bureau, managed by the states.
2. As is with the militia, the Constitution provides for calling up the militias for national service, but the officers are selected by the states.
   • It isn't a stretch to declare that state militias have investigators as a component of a military police, perhaps made up of local police department detectives who are also in the state national guard reserves.
   • Use the militia clause in the Constitution to call up the state militias' investigative arms for federal service, with state appointed officers.
   • Each state can create a branch of their militia as MPs, or detectives. These people would report to militia officers appointed within each state, and then these militia branches (officers and detectives) would be called up at the request the Commander-In-Chief and approval by Congress (Article I Section 8: "to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions,") to serve a national priority such as investigating a particular federal crime, under the authority of state officers, not federal bureaucrats.
   • The state officers will report directly to the Commander-In-Chief (Article II Section II: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States").
3. Once the investigation is complete, the investigating team is released back to the states.
   • If a crime occurred in one state, then the militia police from another state can be called up to investigate.
   • Several investigations across several states can operate in parallel, if needed.

Root cause analyses looks for systemic causes of failures, not behavioral causes.

1. Part of that review is identifying the protective systems that were in place to prevent what happened from happening, and to brainstorm additional protective systems to catch whatever still slipped through.
2. Management enforcement of process compliance with consequences for failure to comply is a protective system.
   • Lax management enforcement of process compliance might be a systemic cause if the fix were to reinforce the importance of process compliance and put consequences on management for lack of process discipline.
   • However, in the recent examples of FBI failure, management was not lax in oversight, they were also complicit actors in avoiding the process. This is still behavioral, so the systemic root cause is not yet found.
   • I'm going to suggest that the systemic root cause of the recent FBI disfunction is the "independent" nature of the FBI itself.
     • This was magnified by the behavioral causes that top management felt they were unaccountable to anyone;
     • that a single ideological mindset became established through years of political appointments that controlled the hiring practices of lower-level staff;
     • that using management reinforcement to correct the root cause was ineffective given that management was a part of the problem, if not leading the effort.
3. Therefore, we must look to other protective systems for corrections.
   • One protective system is the Inspector General. While this seems to be working now, in hindsight it doesn't seem to have been effective at the time the actions were taking place.
     • When the bad actors are the top management itself in a department, an IG is too easily bypassed. Therefore, a new protective system must be put in place.
4. My proposed corrective system is to replace a federal-centric FBI with a state-centric investigative agency.
   • This agency would have distributed leadership, since by following the militia model in the Constitution, the "officers" would be selected by the states and would be subject to recall at the whim of the home state.
   • A single monolithic mindset cannot become entrenched, since concerned states can replace their officers at any time.
   • I suggested attaching this investigative militia to the Commander-In-Chief directly on a case-by-case basis, with some provision for a senior officer hierarchy to manage separate state contingents.
   • Since Congress has the authority to call up the militia, but the President is the Commander-In-Chief of the militia, there is a check-and-balance already in place.
     • If a state investigative team finds evidence of a crime, the President can refer charges to the Department of Justice for further prosecutorial action.
     • There would be no need for a Special Prosecutor, as the investigative arm of the called up militia units can do this.
     • The Department of Justice can aid the investigations with grand juries, and criminal referrals would be passed along to the Department of Justice for action.
   • The President can then release the militia units back to the states, preventing a runaway special prosecutor from expanding the scope of the investigation.
   • "Process crimes," such as lying to the FBI, would go away as an especially nefarious tool of an over-zealous prosecutor.

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A decentralized national investigative structure, overseen by the states but controlled by the commander-in-chief on a case-by-case basis, may be the best way to restore confidence that such an agency is not corrupted by national party bloc interests.

-PJ

[Tucker39]

Andy, semi-covert Never Trumper, did this article in an effort to get us unwashed deplorables used to the idea that all the coup perps will walk. And maybe they will. But I’m not throwing in the towel yet.

[Nuc 1.1]

Holding the revolutionaries accountable is a matter of will. Treat them like Lincoln treated the copperheads. Better than they deserve.

[MCSETots]

The Democrats have learned a very valuable lesson way back in the early nineties.

For those of you who can remember, early in the Clinton administration, two very important things happened.

The first was when Bill Clinton announced that the computer systems of the White House and intelligence agencies were sorely outdated and ordered them up graded - which facilitated their ability to collect information on their political adversaries (at taxpayer expense, of course).

Secondly, Hillary Clinton got caught with over eight hundred FBI files that had raw data of their political opponents. Of course, she was never charged and nothing happened (just like every other scandal they’ve been involved with).

So, the lesson they learned? They could do ANYTHING with impunity (unless there is cum stained blue dress).

Which brings us to the Obama administration. With the previous lessons learned, Obama went to work almost immediately using the IRS, FBI, DOJ, CIA and others, for data collection for political purposes.

Kind of reminds me of how Jeffrey Epstein got rich. Collecting compromising information on influential and high powered individuals, then blackmailing them.

Virtually everybody involved with this corruption is never going to be held accountable. And, probably even more disconcerting, is that the Democratic party, as a whole, doesn’t have a problem with what went on.

Unless of course, it was a Republican (can you say “Richard Nixon?”) that did it.

[TBP]

We knew all this, didn’t we?

[jocon307]

The big guys and gals will all walk. Why isn’t Lois Lerner in prison?

[jocon307]

“And, probably even more disconcerting, is that the Democratic party, as a whole, doesn’t have a problem with what went on.”

Right. I just see that party as pure evil now. Not every single person, I’m sure. But it was the Kavanaugh farce. I saw very clearly that they did not care an iota about whether or not any of these accusations were true or not.

I keep saying this over and over and I’m sure I’ve said it here before, but it just was shocking to me.

[jocon307]

“We knew all this, didn’t we?”

Yes, of course. I knew this from day one, and that made me not pay attention to things. This article was helpful to me in understanding the whole sordid affair.

[JungleGoat77]

He missed the key part, that the impeachment was really a delaying and distracting tactic, remember Pelosi holding the articles for a month, until the PRC coronavirus was entrenched in USA and it was probable that the positive economic situation under Trump could be crashed. Knowing now, from retesting blood vials from last autumn that it was world-wide in 2019, and PRC locking down Wuhan but allowing international flights out, a case could be made for collusion between PRC and DNC to take down Trump. After all, Bill Maher said it would be worth a recession to prevent his re-election. So they are responsible for the 100K deaths also, but killing to get and stay in power is a Leftist identifier per Black Book of Communism. Can’t we all just live together in peace? History seems to disagree.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Interesting concept.

[martin_fierro]

“ Durham is conducting a serious criminal investigation, and we could see some prosecutions, particularly of officials who can be shown to have actionably lied or obstructed justice. But those dreaming of the big indictment of Obama and his top minions will be sorely disappointed.”

Unnngh.

OTOH McCarthy writers a hell of an op ed

[jocon307]

“McCarthy writers a hell of an op ed”

Yes, he’s a good, very clear writer.