Posted on 01/14/2019 3:39:50 PM PST by a little elbow grease
Last week, the New York Times reported that the FBI, in 2017, launched an investigation of President Trump “to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security” and specifically “whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.”
The story was predictably treated as the latest in an endless line of Beginning-of-the-End disasters for the Trump presidency, though – as usual – this melodrama was accomplished by steadfastly ignoring the now-standard, always-buried paragraph pointing out the boring fact that no actual evidence of guilt has yet emerged:
The lack of any evidence of guilt has never dampened the excitement over Trump/Russia innuendo, and it certainly did not do so here. Beyond being construed as some sort of vindication for the most deranged version of Manchurian Candidate fantasies – because, after all, the FBI would never investigate anyone unless they were guilty – the FBI’s investigation of the President as a national security threat was also treated as some sort of unprecedented event in U.S. history. “This is, without exception, the worst scandal in the history of the United States,” pronounced NBC News’ resident ex-CIA operative, who – along with a large staple of former security state agents employed by that network – is now paid to “analyze” and shape the news.
The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of Trump is far from the first time that the FBI has monitored, surveilled and investigated U.S. elected officials who the agency had decided harboerd suspect loyalties and were harming national security.
(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...
The FBI’s Investigation of Trump as a “National Security Threat” is Itself a Serious Danger. But J. Edgar Hoover Pioneered the Tactic
He’s your Prez, sure..!
UNLESS THE FBI DOESN’T LIKE IT.
And, uh...freedom of speech, of course..!
JUST *WATCH WHAT YOU SAY*.
The selection of Sessions was a disaster. Comey, Lynch, Brennan and Clapper all should have been arrested Day 1 of the Administration.
"The core attribute of a Deep State is, to use Goldsmith’s words for what may have happened here, an “unelected domestic intelligence bureaucracy holds itself as the ultimate arbiter—over and above the elected president who is the constitutional face of U.S. intelligence and national security authority—about what actions do and don’t serve the national security interests of the United States.”
Such a state of affairs is at least as dangerous for U.S. democracy as anything Trump is doing with Russia.'
That's how I see what The Deep State is now ...... an uncontrollable mess, a multitude of individuals and forces working against the one good man.
It's the ugliest time I have seen in this country in my 72 years.
I pray that God will help the President in some way.
The deep state is more of a danger to this Republic than all the commies in Russia.
There better be something we don’t know about that caused them to start this investigation; otherwise, nothing less than the firing squad will fix this.
Sessions was possibly the most incompetent person who could have had that position.
But some will say he is still running things behind the scenes...
Obviously, if there is reason to suspect that actual crimes have been committed – such as, say, Trump officials collaborating with Russia to hack into email inboxes or otherwise engaging in illegal deals with foreign powers – then it’s not just permissible but vital that the FBI investigate such allegations.
The truth is that there was never anything “there” and the allegations were only to allow political monitoring of everything to assure Hillary won.
The whole “Russian” thing was a clumsy cover story.
It probably would have been used on other Republican candidates, if they had won the primary.
It’s clear the Clinton/Obama/Bush deep state created a false narrative to keep Trump occupied on defense so they could obfuscate their crimes. After all, the best defense is a good offense...or like Napoleon says, “the army that stays in their fort is doomed”
The whole “Russian” thing was a clumsy cover story.
It probably would have been used on other Republican candidates, if they had won the primary.
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..... well said.
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I hear you, but there seems to be no one in the government (except DJT) to call for and actually do the shooting.
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