Posted on 12/09/2021 11:09:59 AM PST by DeweyCA
Russiagate is the biggest scandal in American history.
Nothing comes close in size, scope or harm to the republic than the years-long effort to cripple Donald Trump’s presidency by claiming he conspired with an enemy state to steal the 2016 election and then do its bidding as commander-in-chief.
Its notorious predecessors – L’Affaire Lewinsky, Iran-Contra, Watergate, Teapot Dome, Crédit Mobilier, the XYZ Affair – involved relatively small numbers of malefactors engaged in specific acts of illegality and corruption (we still don’t know who, if anyone, planned the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol)
Russiagate, by contrast, is a vast conspiracy involving innumerable powerful forces, including the Democratic Party, NeverTrump Republicans, the Obama administration, the FBI, Department of Justice and the nation’s most prestigious news outlets.
Where previous scandals often ended with public accountability for the perpetrators – Watergate saw the imprisonment of top White House aides and President Nixon’s resignation – and public reforms, Russiagate has produced no such reckoning.
Russiagate began with a kernel of truth: Someone – probably Russians, though we still don’t know for sure – hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s private server. Fearful of what might be released, the Clinton campaign tried to discredit any damaging material by raising dark questions about its source. (Joe Biden executed this same strategy to great effect when he falsely described the evidence of corruption found on his son Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation.”)
In response, the Clinton campaign financed an absurd collection of conspiracy theories involving peeing prostitutes and billion-dollar bribes, the so-called Steele dossier. Its importance cannot be overstated – it was the dossier that linked the Trump campaign to the hacking.
No dossier, no collusion theory.
During the summer and fall of 2016, Hillary’s henchmen fed this preposterous concoction to Obama administration officials in the DOJ, FBI, CIA and State Department. Everyone knew it was a political operation: Declassified notes showed that then-CIA Director John Brennan briefed President Obama in July 2016 that Clinton planned to tie Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Clinton staffers – including Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s national security adviser – tried to interest the mainstream press in its scurrilous accusations, but got little traction because they could not be verified. Instead of laughing it all off as transparent campaign mud-slinging, however, the FBI joined the conspiracy.
The bureau took the extreme step of opening a counter-intelligence probe into an ongoing presidential campaign – and its agents perjured themselves to obtain wire-tapping warrants.
Days after the November election, Hillary’s campaign focused on “Russian interference” as a chief reason for her defeat. On Jan. 5, 2017, President Obama, Vice President Biden and other key leaders met with FBI Director James Comey in the Oval Office to discuss Russia-related matters.
We do not know what was discussed in that meeting, but the next day, Comey briefed President-elect Trump on some allegations in the Steele dossier. Four days later, on Jan. 10, CNN used that briefing as a news hook to report the collusion conspiracy theories as high-drama news.
Over the next few months and years, current and former officials illegally fed misleading classified material and partisan anonymous quotes to the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News and other sympathetic press outlets to advance the narrative. Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper became a constant presence on cable news, using the top-secret authority of their previous positions to assure the public that collusion was real – although in sworn testimony, Clapper admitted he had not seen such evidence.
Congressional Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff – who falsely claimed to have seen “more than circumstantial evidence” of Trump/Russia collusion – amplified the smears.
The appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the fantasy in May 2017 fueled the fire. His effort became part of the scheme: He only looked for evidence that might implicate Trump, ignoring questions about who cooked up the conspiracy theory, how they disseminated it throughout the government and media, and the laws they might have broken in the process.
Despite his best effort, Mueller said he’d found no evidence of collusion when he released his report in April 2019. That should have killed the conspiracy theory and – following the script of previous major scandals – sparked a period of reflection by the government, the media and the American people that asked: How did we get this so wrong?
Such a broad reckoning has not yet happened. DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2020 report detailing grave abuses in the FBI’s handling of the matter prompted little outcry and no sweeping reform. The recent indictments of Clinton-connected actors filed by Special Counsel John Durham – who is finally doing the work Mueller should have, exposing the malfeasance that actually transpired during the 2016 campaign – have, bizarrely, led partisans to minimize his findings and actually double-down on the debunked collusion narrative.
Recent pieces in The Atlantic and New York Times, for example, suggest, without evidence, that “Mueller never definitively got to the bottom of what happened.”
As Aaron Maté recently reported for RealClearInvestigations, many news organizations have refused to correct documented errors in Trump/Russia coverage, including deeply flawed articles thatwere awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
Leading peddlers of the hoax – including Brennan, Clapper, Pelosi, Schiff and Sullivan – have paid no price for their actions. To date, no one has conducted probing interviews with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama about their roles in the scandal.
Engineered by broad swaths of the government and media, the effort to paint a sitting president as a foreign agent alone makes Russiagate the worst scandal in American history. But it is this second, still ongoing phase – this willful effort to deny what happened, this refusal to hold the perpetrators accountable – that presents the most serious danger to our nation.
If truth and justice don’t matter, what does?
Syndicated with permission from RealClearWire.
J. Peder Zane is an editor for RealClearInvestigations and a columnist for RealClearPolitics.
“Russiagate began with a kernel of truth: Someone – probably Russians, though we still don’t know for sure – hacked the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s private server.”
Never even slightly proven. This is a mere CLAIM from the DNC who refused to let the FBI look at their servers. The DNC had their own IN HOUSE people look at the servers. It was Seth Rich who was angry at Hillary’s anti-Bernie treachery. He caught a few bullets as a reward.
This is communist party internal crap. This is basically an ice axe planted in Trotsky’s skull.
Bottom line......Absolutely none of this could have flown had it not been for the complicit press.
They won’t fight in the streets. They want to use their system to attack with no risk to themselves. With the deep state’s help, they’re getting away with it.
THESE PEOPLE ALL BELONG IN SOLITARY, OR WORSE.
And Comey also KNEW IN ADVANCE that the election would be STOLEN FOR BIDEN. He knew it long in advance and so did Obama. Obama WAITED FOREVER BEFORE CAMPAIGNING FOR JOE.. WHY? BECAUSE OBAMA WAS WAITING FOR ASSURANCE THAT THE FIX WAS IN AND BIDEN WOULD WIN. Until that time, he REFUSED to campaign for Biden!
Greeted with a yawn by the MSM.
Not to mention that Russia was not an “enemy” until we wouldn’t stop screwing with their internal affairs and demanded they let our oil companies and banks control their reserves. Then we started pushing Khodorkovsky and others to try to undermine the Russian government. Then Barky Obama was really offended that they stopped adoption to America and he hated their anti-homo recruiting laws.
After 9/11 they gave us free access to their rail system and former Soviet Air bases.
All that is water under the bridge, but they are pretty much the only nation that can annihilate America in an hour. It’s retarded to keep worsening relations and lying about them doing things in America that are actually done by the UK and DNC and CIA.
At best, they might just start doing those things they are already getting blamed for. At worst, they might correctly decide we are a menace and go for all the marbles one day.
It really is time for the white Christian nations of the north to ally against the moslem horde.
The 2020 election theft and coverup might be an even bigger scandal.
As with the Kenyanesian Usuration and the Big Steal, Russia,Russia,Russia was completely bipartisan.
EVERYONE in DC knew by June of 2017 that it was a Hillary hit job and the GOP kept assisting the Democrats anyway.
Someone – probably Russians, though we still don’t know for sure – hacked the Democratic National Committee
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Seth Rich was the leak from the DNC and they killed him for it.
Absolutely none of this could have flown had it not been for the complicit GOP.
“If truth and justice don’t matter, what does?”
John Kennedy stated, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
The necessary companion to that quote is, “Those who make it impossible for the powerful to face justice in a court, will someday face justice in the streets.”
That’s what these people are doing - they’ve created a two-tiered system of justice in which everyone who is not one of the powerful insiders is subject to the laws and regulations on our books, but the powerful insiders themselves are exempt. They have done this because they have been attempting for decades to put in place a plan that will leave them with absolute control over our society and turn our Constitution into as much of a joke as the Soviet Constitution was in its day. Part and parcel of their toolbox are lies, regular and purposeful violations of the laws, the destruction of personal reputations and falsely accusing their opponents of various crimes to not merely destroy their reputations, but to cost them their jobs and their hard-earned money - i.e. they use the law as a weapon to cancel their opponents.
Where justice is not possible because of corruption of this type, History shows that the population winds up having contempt for the law - because the law doesn’t act to set the rules and settle disputes fairly, but rather it serves as a set of virtual chains that enslave them. Once that population gets angry enough, mere contempt for the law and those who have perverted it is not enough - that’s when you get assassinations and revolutions.
Any sane person would like to avoid this type of result - and the ONLY way to ensure that our society does avoid it is to bring to justice those who perpetrated the Russiagate hoax on this country.
Is China's People's Daily "complicit" in the schemes of the Chinese CCP? Or is it totally controlled political-propaganda organ?
US MSM is no different
BTTT
The communist coup of 2020 is far more damaging.
Not even close.
I’ve been saying for a long time that we and Russia are natural allies.
First, we were very friendly with each other for a long time before Communism took over the Russian Empire. They sold us Alaska, and they also leased a very large tract of land in central NJ (near where I grew up) for the purpose of testing DuPont’s propellant in its artillery pieces. Neither of these things would have occurred if the US and Russia were hostile to each other.
Second, look at what we have in common, now that Communism doesn’t rule Russia: we are both continent-sized superpowers with highly advanced technology in every field of science. We are both mostly white and mostly Christian. We share common enemies - China and much of the Moslem world.
Now that Communism is gone, there is no reason for hostility (though, of course, hating on the other side is a habit that is hard to kick when you’ve lived it for most of your life - so it will take decades before those in power didn’t personally experience the hostility and fear of the Cold War, and can thus make policy free of that now-dead past). If we and the Russians could reach an agreement to respect each other’s spheres of influence, not act against each other’s allies, and cooperate in some intelligence and small (if secretive) military matters, then trust could grow.
However, due to the lies and propaganda of the Russiagate scandal perpetrated by the Democrats, their captive media and many agencies of the government, the well is poisoned. Just this week we witnessed sabre-rattling between our nations the likes of which haven’t been seen since Ronald Reagan was President - Hell, we even had high-ranking Senators saying that a nuclear first strike on Russia to defend Ukraine was “not off the table.” This is INSANITY - we should be friendly with Russia (it is too soon to be actual allies), not threatening war over territory that Russia controlled from roughly the time of our Revolution until 30 years ago, which territory means nothing to us.
This state of affairs, the missed opportunity of becoming friendly with and, perhaps a few decades down the line, allied with a very powerful and technologically-advance Russia, is all on Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators. The MUST be jailed!
Zuckerberg is most culpable of all involved. PRISON IS TOO GOOD FOR HIM.
“The must be jailed!”
should be:
“They must be jailed!”
Good point.
Building on that - the Russia hoax was morphed into the 2020 election theft. They are connected.
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