Posted on 02/16/2022 3:25:47 AM PST by Cboldt
If you have never encountered CS Lewis "On Living in an Atomic Age," it's worth looking up. The powers that be will never find a shortage of things with which to alarm the public.
Sundance at CTH has offered similar takes, going back to a time when he personally visited Washington, DC, excited to share facts he had gleaned from assorted public forces. He came away with the same impression - the investigations are for show, not for go.
My general point of view is that other than process crimes (lying to Congress or an investigation), there is nothing there - not that there is nothing wrong, there is lots wrong. But there is no crime.
It is not a crime for Congress to lie to the people. It is not a crime to conduct a bogus investigation on bogus allegations, meaning it is not a crime for the government to frame an innocent person, or even, for that matter, to convict him of a crime he did not commit. Is it wrong? Of course. Is it criminal? Nope.
And the only power a white hat in DOJ has (white hat in DOJ is a unicorn), is to prosecute crimes.
It’s folly to try to fix the corruption with resort to law. Law itself has been subverted in order to perpetrate bad things against the public. It’s all legal.
I share your joy on the exposure. Depends on what one means by accountability though. I hope and pray that the public awakens to just how depraved, corrupt, and damaging our institutions have become. The institutions cannot repair themselves, even if there was a desire within them to do so (and the desire is not there - the desire is to continue the charades with minimal damage).
Emerald Robinson pretty much echoes everything I said about the Durham investigation in my own substack about three days ago
https://larrys.substack.com/p/durhams-big-discovery-isnt-what-you?r=dx45b
He’s “The Sanitizer,” he’s the cleanup crew, he’s the Great Protector of the FBI.
Same article, additional discussion at https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4038760/posts
Whatever Durham is doing is taking far too long - evidence disappears, witnesses die (naturally or by Arkancide), political pressure wanes. But at several hundred dollars per hour for the last several years and with no end in sight, Durham has no incentive to bring this to a conclusion.
Lemme see ... $300 per hour times 8 hours per day times 5 days per week times 100+ weeks works out to well over a million bucks - in his pocket as the ambulance chasers say.
Although I will have to say that it will be worth it to see PIAPS and several folks in the ‘Just Us’ department dead bodies rotting at the end of a rope.
That of course adds some credibility. Does it appear as if his take influenced Emerald?
Thanks for that add. Yep. Generally speaking, Inspectors General and Sepcial Counsel exist to protect the institutions. Fake accountability.
Goes along with fake “consent of the governed,” fake news, and fake justice.
All of them are great protectors of the institutions they inhabit and animate. None of them view the institutions as failed. They are in love with the government.
Bttt.
5.56mm
We are supposed to believe the sophisticated FIB was duped? ROFLMAO. If that is what the FIB is peddling through Durham and its media apparatus, anyone who believes this or takes it seriously is being duped by the FIB. They are masters at this.
[Also Mr Soprano - thanks for your research on links on a lot of aspects of this issue - including the judge that Durham is in front of. I have taken note, and since I am still working full-time - you are saving me (and others) a lot of time! You might be our resident professor before long.]
I'm With Her (again!)
It certainly could have. I don't know for a fact that she reads there, but I would not be surprised that she did and does.
Sundance had a huge letdown. He was genuinely excited at what he had to present to government investigators. He made a substantial build-up over the course of a couple weeks. The evidence of malfeasance is obvious, in your face, etc. once somebody connects the dots, and that is what he did.
He was given a respectful audience. At the conclusion, or sometime during the presentation, he was told in no uncertain terms that there would be no prosecutorial ramification for the malfeasance of framing Trump.
Sure it is. It’s a criminal conspiracy at the core. It’s also a crime to misappropriate government funding or power for inappropriate purposes. These are the types of charges hat brought Nixon down. In order to prove those cases, you start with the process crimes, to get the players on the hook. Obviously, after 18 months on the job, Durham isn’t interested in that.
Ratcliffe summed it up Monday when he said as former Director of National Intelligence, he’s seen more than enough evidence to indict many more than we’ve seen. But he inferred that we may not see any more indicted, because those at the top agencies implicated (doj, fbi, cia) are more interested in protecting the agencies, than seeing justice done.
Durham seems to be keeping with that script. So far, he’s indicted a Russian, and a lawyer who was not a government employee. It looks like the only hope we have of him bearing fruit will be if he goes up the Clinton campaign tree, because all the criminal referrals of government employees that were already made, appear to be off limits.
There are few people I would actually trust in that job. One would be Jason Miyores in VA; probably Victoria Tensing, though she may be too old for the gig.
If we get a good crop of politicians with common sense and a passion for making those agencies begin again with decent, professionals ...not wingnuts with “dreams of power,” I believe November will be a crucial test.
I hope and pray that the country will be saved by new faces with morals and intelligence.
I had questions about Durham from the start, when it was revealed one of the largest cases he worked on was investigating the torture of Iraqi’s at Abu Ghraib by CIA and DoD.
https://sethhettena.com/2019/10/25/john-durham-and-the-ghosts-of-abu-ghraib/
While I’d like to think his lack of prosecution of anyone related to that means that we ran the operation by the book, but it could be that we didn’t and he helped cover it up.
Bkmk
We are our own worst enemies. I’m not biting on these latest revelations like it’s “release the Kraken” but to be like many that this means nothing is just a swing of the pendulum toward “we’re doomed”.
Emerald is right. People talk hardball but play nerf ball.
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