Posted on 05/20/2018 6:32:39 PM PDT by CWW
he “deep state” is in a deep state of desperation. With little time left before the Justice Department inspector general’s report becomes public, and with special counsel Robert Mueller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.
At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the Hillary Clinton “matter” — but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a year-long investigation of this won’t come down hard on former FBI director James Comey and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn’t playing mahjong in a secret, no-aides-allowed meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
With this report on the way and congressional investigators beginning to zero in on the lack of hard, verified evidence for starting the Trump investigation, current and former intelligence and Justice officials are dumping everything they can think of to save their reputations. But it is backfiring. They started by telling the story of Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, as having remembered a bar conversation George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump presidential campaign. But how did the FBI know they should talk to him? That’s left out of their narrative.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Yeah …but The Hill published it. That’s a lib go to site, just a little better than Politico.
“Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.”
YUGE!
Perhaps the murkiest event in the timeline is Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of a special counsel after he personally recommended Comey’s firing in blistering terms. With Attorney General Jeff Sessions shoved out of the way, Rosenstein and Mueller then ignored their own conflicts and took charge anyway. Rosenstein is a fact witness, and Mueller is a friend of Comey, disqualifying them both.Unfortunately...the Mueller investigation comes with no “off” switch: You can’t fire Mueller. He needs to be defeated...
Finding the “off” switch will not be easy. Step one here is for the Justice Department inspector general report to knock Comey out of the witness box. Next, the full origins of the investigation and its lack of any real intelligence needs to come out in the open. The attorney general, himself the target of a secret investigation, needs to take back his Justice Department. Sessions needs to act quickly, along with U.S. Attorney John Huber, appointed to conduct an internal review of the FBI, on the Comey and McCabe matters following the inspector general report, and then announce an expanded probe into other abuses of power.
Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.
Sad to say, but I don't think Sessions is up for the job that needs to be done. I just don't think he's strong enough. He's just another a milquetoast Republican creature of the Senate.
Just wanted to add that there is an “off switch,” but Congressional Republicans would need to act in unison for a change. They could stand on the steps of the Capitol together, invite others who would support their position, and DEMAND an end to the whole Mueller affairs immediately. They can state unequivocally that they will pull the plug on funding.
The latter are, and are likely to remain, unindicted co-conspirators in all of this. None of this would even be possible if it weren't for an open declaration of war on the part of the media and the resulting "damn the truth, get Trump" attitude. We have negotiations in Korea, a diplomatic scuffle over the Iran deal, a burgeoning economy, a tax reform, and yet we were treated today with a "major" scandal involving the misspelling of the First Lady's name. The institution has failed, and its death throes aren't pretty.
Psssst..lol...want to buy a Bridge in Brooklyn??..Do your own DD!
It seems like everyone in DC knows what’s in the Inspector’s report and who will be hanging by their thumbs. There is a rush to either discredit or shift your posture. I think we are in for some interesting times very soon.
Trump knows the Deep State CAN be extinguished.......b/c really, they’re not that smart. Susan Rice proved that in one memo.
If they were as smart as they think they are, “sure-thing” Hillary would have won.
IMHO, Obama’s CYA maneuver of January 3, 2017-——the signing
of NSA Data-Sharing Order Section 2.3 by AG Lynch. ——could be the coupe d’etat to blow out The Deep State. Obama’s after-the-fact ex/order contains some unusual language particularly the convoluted language WRT “The Strategic Delay of Section 2.3 of Obama’s Executive Order 12333”:
NOTE WELL: Prior to the formal signing of Section 2.3, greater latitude existed within the White House in regards to collection of information – especially in relation to the Trump Campaign. However, once signed, Section 2.3 granted broad latitude to inter-agency sharing of information.
But by the time Obama’s new executive order was signed on January 3, 2017, all that information was already in the possession of Obama White House.
Thus, Susan Rice’s email to herself takes on an even greater significance b/c no one was ever supposed to know
about the REAL meaning of Obama’s retroactive CYA.....until Rice stupidly laid it all out in an official email.
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If you read her email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?
Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier.
The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:
Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
This is pure boilerplate.
It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or
anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)
The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, 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 next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.
CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.
Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.
Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.
If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the
new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.
What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.
There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.
And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.
Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.
“It’s gonna’ be great to watch.”
I hope Hillary unloads the goods on Obama ... And, in retaliation, one of Obama’s desciples releases raw video of her and her various meltdowns ... Including election night 2016 :-) ... Tape of that night *must* exist if these Deep State retards like blackmail.
” The institution has failed, and its death throes aren’t pretty. “
If you’re referring to the media, can’t happen soon enough.
I wish more Democrat were like them. I still disagree withtthem on most things (I suspect with Shoen a little more than with Caddell), but they’re honest guys you can have a fair discussion with, and we need more of that.
This together with McCarthy’s piece yesterday and of course Trump’s tweetstorm is a lot of return fire on the Mueller probe. We could be in for some real fun the next few weeks and months!
"At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the Hillary Clinton “matter.” https://t.co/ktttX80Kq4— PolitixGal (@PolitixGal) May 21, 2018
Yeh, I am, and I sense a real paradigm shift when it all comes tumbling down on them. The infrastructure for something else is already in place - we're communicating to one another on it now - and it seems to me that all that will be left to them is the cult of celebrity, which is a hollow shell and not real power at all. That may suffice for a time, but the signs are there, cable cutting and the like, that the assumed authority may be taken back with an abruptness that will shock.
They are, and have been, the conduit through which the ruling classes, and yes, they are real, communicate to those they wish to manipulate. What is likely to change is the conduit. It may, after the pattern of Google and Facebook and Twitter, be quite as corrupt as what went before. That may be the next battleground for freedom. And here we all are.
Like Egypt confronting Hamas. Just tell them to knock it off.
BTTT!
Penn is one of the most decent people alive from Team Bill Clinton - I suspect he's saying this primarily because it's true. He may also see some advantage in writing this article, and he may be worried that the democrats are going to lose seats they could have won because of this witch hunt, but mostly this looks like an honest warning.
Penn is speaking loudly. When Teller starts talking, you know the @#$&* is going down! ;-)
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