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Will Trump special prosecutor backfire on Democrats? Some think so, and here's why
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| November 23, 2022 - 12:10am
| John Solomon
Posted on 11/23/2022 7:30:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: egfowler3
Many are trapped in the “honorable colleague across the aisle” fantasy!
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:00:49 AM PST
by
Reily
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“In order for [Jack Smith] to investigate what Trump did or did not do on Jan. 6, he has to get into the FBI and what the FBI did or did not do,”
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I disagree with BORE.
Wray & the FBI lie. Smith doesn’t want to get to the bottom of what the FIBs did & never will .... he’s just looking for enough to dust up Trump big time & keep him from running for President.
This is why Smith was appointed - he’s not shy about making things up if you’re a Republican:
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Political Prosecution History is Dangerous
https://townhall.com/columnists/rickmanning/2022/11/23/special-counsel-jack-smiths-political-prosecution-history-is-dangerous-n2616296
When combined with the actions Smith took in both seeking to prosecute tea party activists attempting to legally exercise their First Amendment rights with his Supreme Court rejected redefinition of corruption that successfully took out an up-and-coming GOP governor, it is clear that he is unsuitable to be considered an objective Special Counsel.
The above facts are not unknown to Attorney General Garland, making it difficult to conclude that his appointment is designed to find Donald Trump guilty of something, anything, in order to prevent him from winning the presidency in 2024. It seems clear that Smith’s history of pursuing wild legal theories against high-profile Republicans and seeking to prosecute conservative activists for exercising their rights, were seen by the AG as his qualifiers rather than black marks against him.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:04:44 AM PST
by
Qiviut
(I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control. $hot $hills: Sod Off)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"In order for [Jack Smith] to investigate what Trump did or did not do on Jan. 6, he has to get into the FBI and what the FBI did or did not do," O'Reilly explained in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday night. "He has to. He can't bury it."I'm pretty sure we've gone down this road, and yes, the Jan 6th unselect committee ignored this and many other things. Like subpoenaing Nancy Pelosi.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:07:55 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Hopefully, this prosecutor will also look into Benghazi as Hillary ducked every chance to testify on that matter and took the 5th several hundred times. What is she hiding?
To: FrankRizzo890
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:10:40 AM PST
by
BiteYourSelf
( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
To: Major Matt Mason
GOP in locker room trying to find their jock straps.Jock straps? They don't wear no stinkin' jock straps!!
To: PatriotarchyQ
Afraid that won’t be happening my FRiend.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:22:33 AM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They're not just after POTUS45.
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If you read the article about the “Pegasus Project”, spyware created to infect cell phones that was marketed by Israeli intelligence through a company called NSO {Go Deep Here}, then you essentially know the background. Pegasus is “no click” targeting spyware that can be deployed against cellular phones, simply by inputting the phone number and transmitting to it.
The Guardian previously reported,
“Claudio Guarnieri, who runs Amnesty International’s Security Lab, said once a phone was infected with Pegasus, a client of NSO could in effect take control of a phone, enabling them to extract a person’s messages, calls, photos and emails, secretly activate cameras or microphones, and read the contents of encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.”
Pegasus was deployed to target tens-of-thousands of cell phones by the people who Israel sold the spyware to. The Guardian, and a group of allied leftists in media, were previously granted access to a leaked batch of 50,000 phone numbers that the Pegasus software was operating in.
In a recent update from the New York Times they stated,
“[it] has been used by police and intelligence services to hack the phones of drug kingpins and terrorists, but gained notoriety when it was revealed that governments, like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Hungary and India, had deployed it against political dissidents, journalists and human rights workers.
It was also recently revealed the U.S. FBI under Director Chris Wray purchased the Pegasus program for “FBI experiments” and “exploration” into how the spyware program could be used domestically.
The FBI was initially reluctant to reveal their ownership of the Pegasus program, however, within FOIA documents related to the potential for domestic surveillance and concerns about fourth amendment constitutional protections, the FBI admitted they retain the capability – but promised it has not been deployed.
(New York Times) – […] The Times revealed in January that the F.B.I. had purchased Pegasus in 2018 and, over the next two years, tested the spyware at a secret facility in New Jersey. Since the bureau first purchased the tool, it has paid approximately $5 million to NSO.
Since that story was published, F.B.I. officials, including Mr. Wray, have gone further than they did during the closed meeting with senators last December. They acknowledged that the bureau did consider deploying Pegasus, though they still emphasized that the F.B.I.’s main goal was to test and evaluate it to assess how adversaries might use it. (read more)
Now, stay with me…
The FBI is not saying they will not use Pegasus, they simply said they would not use the spyware outside of the legal framework for deployment without legal and valid investigative baselines. Put another way, if there was a court ordered search warrant, Pegasus would be a tool for use in criminal investigations.
The latest discussions of Pegasus came around four days after the U.S. election, in a New York Times article November 12th. We know the general use of the New York Times as it pertains to the DOJ/FBI and their domestic public relations efforts.
- [Broadly, Main Justice (DOJ/FBI) use NYT/Politico, CIA use WaPo and State Dept use CNN]
Consider the timing of November 12th against the backdrop of Main Justic announcing the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith November 18. Media narratives often follow a data frequency, a rhyme or signal that you can sense amid the background operations.
So, here we have:
- Pegasus, a stealth tool for surveillance and extraction of investigative evidence that can be deployed, covertly, without the target having any idea they are exposed.
- We have concrete evidence the FBI has the Pegasus tool, and an understanding it would not be deployed without legally authorized authorities. And
- we have a special counsel created to investigate congress under the auspices of the J6 ‘insurrection’….
Can you see where this is going?
The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation or that are within the scope of [Special Counsel Regulations 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a)]. (pdf)
The special counsel appointment essentially means that congressional representatives are under investigation; and search warrants on their phones, text messages, emails, etc could be authorized. Then we overlay using DOJ-NSD defined terms of “national security threat” (that’s why they emphasized insurrection) and we find the pathway to gain legal search warrants on an incoming congressional caucus. Then the possibilities for Pegasus.
They didn’t just think this up overnight. They are using J6 as a weapon against their losing the House to republicans. The Democrats are now structurally targeting Republicans with the appointment of Jack Smith. The executive is now investigating the legislative branch; the legal structure of this eliminates the separation of powers issue.
The DOJ is not investigating republicans, they are investigating defined criminals; insurrectionists that are national security threats, that happen to be republicans. See how that works?
Contrast these recent events, tools and discoveries against the backstory of how the modern surveillance state was created {Go Deep}. Then overlay their recent Pegasus capabilities against the backdrop of a weaponized DOJ and FBI now targeting political opposition in congress.
In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize against domestic enemies.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. Simultaneously the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.
The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful. (more)
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also what removing Donald Trump and all of the rebellious unaligned freedom believers is all about.
The question now becomes, will anyone in congress do anything about it now that they are within the target zone?
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:29:10 AM PST
by
Bratch
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“he has to get into the FBI and what the FBI did or did not do”
and if he doesn’t?
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:41:20 AM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The point of a special prosecutor, in this case, is harassment. They know they can’t reasonably expect a conviction. They will seek to punish any Trump supporter they can. They won’t need to gather any info on FBI operations if it never goes to trial. And they’ll find some new strategy of attack when this one fails, just like they have since Trump first announced his candidacy.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:54:08 AM PST
by
unlearner
( Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“In order for [Jack Smith] to investigate what Trump did or did not do on Jan. 6, he has to get into the FBI and what the FBI did or did not do,”
No he does not. Corrupt prosecutors can create and destroy evidence in their own eyes. Every special prosecutor has done this since the beginning with Ken Starr. And we already know that this one is especially corrupt.
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posted on
11/23/2022 8:57:01 AM PST
by
Revel
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Does anything ever really backfire on the Democrats? Oh yeah, there’s the Wellstone memorial from 2002.
To: Revel
They record video of the hearings behind closed doors, then create a deceptively edited condensed version to prove whatever crimes they want to prove.
Those aren’t judicial hearings.
They are show trials.
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posted on
11/23/2022 9:09:20 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
For all you numbskull Trump naysayers out there all this going on and on, hourly doses of Trump bashing with no negative results is evidence of how much power Trump really has.
Some of you, like Democrats, RINO's, never-Trumpers, Fox News (I repeat myself) are too stupid to see through your hatred.
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posted on
11/23/2022 9:12:22 AM PST
by
lewislynn
(Trump accomplished more in one term than any other President in your lifetime.)
To: lewislynn
If not for Trump, Hillary would be in her second term at this very moment.
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posted on
11/23/2022 9:15:28 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointee will have to probe what the FBI knew in advance of the Jan. 6 riot,”
I do not know why O’ Reilly thinks that. The whole thing is nothing but a political charade.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I listened to the O’Reilly interview, he didn’t say a word about Nancy Pelosi’s role on January 6th. But, rest assured, Smith won’t look into any of that, he’s a partisan hack just as much as Garland himself, he’ll follow the “Jan 6th Committee’s” dictate that Pelosi will not be looked at, and the focus will only be on Trump and the “insurrectionists”.
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posted on
11/23/2022 9:30:17 AM PST
by
euram
To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is laughable analysis. A special prosecutor can focus on whatever he wants to focus on. This is just O’Reilly projecting his fantasies. Although at least this time they don’t involve sponges.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
O’Reilly never misses an opportunity to be wrong.
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:02:47 AM PST
by
Basket_of_Deplorables
(I was so afraic of him coming in the shower with me I would wait until later in the night” Ashley B)
To: Basket_of_Deplorables
O’Reilly never misses an opportunity to be wrong.A non-stop bloviating attention seeker in search of an audience.
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posted on
11/23/2022 10:03:55 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
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