Posted on 12/25/2019 9:47:15 PM PST by bitt
To understand why there’s no-one in the administrative mid-tier of the FBI acting in a whistle-blowing capacity requires a background perspective looking at the totality of corruption. The institutions are protecting themselves; and yes, that protection applies to the internal dynamics.
Former DAG Rod Rosenstein was dirty. He might not have started out dirty, but his actions in office created a dirty mess. Rosenstein facilitated the McCabe operation against Trump during the May 16th, 2017, White House FBI sting against Trump with Mueller. Rosenstein also facilitated the special counsel (writ large), and provided three scope memos to expand the corrupt investigation of President Trump. According to the inaction of AG Bill Barr, we’re not allowed to see those authorizing scope memos
Additionally, despite knowing the Trump investigation held a false predicate, Rosenstein signed the 3rd renewal of a fraudulent FISA application. Worse yet, even if Rosenstein was caught up by corruption around him, he did nothing to stop the fraud once identified.
Why is Rosenstein a key inflection point? Because Rod Rosenstein recommended current FBI Director Christopher Wray to President Trump. POTUS then allowed Wray, as he does all department heads, to select his deputy – Wray chose David Bowditch.
♦Keep in mind the National Security Division of the DOJ (DOJ-NSD) was/is the epicenter of many corrupt activities, including filing the fraudulent FISA application, manipulating interpretations of law for FARA (§901) violations, and doing all of this while denying any inspector general oversight. As FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer recently noted, the DOJ-NSD is positioned as a rogue legal arm of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
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"If we had a functioning Fourth Estate none of these corrupt officials could survive investigative media scrutiny. Unfortunately the corrupt administrative state doesn’t *play* the press, it actually involves the press…. it absorbs the press… it attaches the press viability to its own position…. it makes the press part of the corrupt process. "
"The press cannot turn against the corrupt administrative state without exposing their own culpability, participation and lack of credibility…… It’s a protective circle."
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It was said by a few here at FR 15-20 years ago ........ that if we had functioning, honest watchdog journalism .... the corruption in government would be severely eliminated.
The media is the WORST KILLER of America. These weasels need to be beaten to a pulp.
Happy Holidays ......
bkmk
(snip) -- "Unfortunately, the reality in these halls of power is more Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, and less the Book of Daniel. Reformers like Flynn wind up fired, smeared, entrapped, and standing before a Judge being told they “waived their constitutional rights” despite false charges and compromised defense counsel."
(snip) -- "Presidents (and their officers like Barr) aren’t kings over the executive branch; they were weak rulers at our founding, and have only grown weaker over time. We think they can just fire everyone in the agencies; in reality, the agencies try to make it look that way, while they write their own tickets and basically hire themselves, president after president. That’s where we get the “loyalty to the inter-agency” Vindman bizarrely proclaimed as a credo."
"This is not a tale of Barr or Trump as Daniel, being saved from the Lions for speaking truth. It’s more like the Count of Monte Cristo, luring the bad guys into traps one by one."
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Bears repeating ---
"Presidents (and their officers like Barr) aren’t kings over the executive branch; they were weak rulers at our founding, and have only grown weaker over time. We think they can just fire everyone in the agencies; in reality, the agencies try to make it look that way, while they write their own tickets and basically hire themselves, president after president. That’s where we get the “loyalty to the inter-agency” Vindman bizarrely proclaimed as a credo."
Great post ......... nice to see a positive post.
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Three branches of government by constitutional law, but six in real life.
Executive, legislative and judicial, as spelled out by law.
Propaganda media (narrated by cia), entrenched government employees (especially SES) and the intelligence agencies (especially cia) are the other three. The CIA controls the two previously mentioned and for the past seven decades have been the powerhouse too often. These last three must be crushed hard.
Go POTUS!
yep
" If Barr via Durham doesn’t have all these people and the Lawfare Group under a FISA Warrant for Conspiracy to overthrow the Gov. {Sedition} and if he isn’t looking at all of their e-mails, and phone calls, then the FISA Court is useless from here on."
What is amazing to me is all the people who act surprised at the corruption that has been uncovered at the FBI. Anyone with knowledge of J.Edgar Hoover’s FBI (all 37 years worth) know how corrupt it was then, not to mention the corruption in the Bureau of Investigation that preceded the FBI. Hoover kept secret files on everyone from Presidents to movie stars. There’s no reason to believe anything has changed. I’m certainly not at all surprised at the recent exposure of FBI corruption.
“In essence, no one to whom anyone with decency can report truth”
I figured that out long ago. The top dogs were not doing the actual spying, they were ordering the people in the windowless rooms to do the spying.
So what can they do? Very little. Most have families, virtually all have careers at stake. They can go to Hantity or Breitbart, or maybe roll the dice with Fox. Anyone else, and they’re turned in, that simple. The problem with Hantity and Breitbart is that they are marginalized in the real world (even though they’re virtually always right)...so nothing gets accomplished.
Bottom line is we will be foolish to continue to “play the game” after it is painfully obvious that they never are held to account. We would correctly be called “fools”.
Chuck U Schumer “ six ways from Sunday to get back at you”
It is also important to remember that there were many components of this that the FBI deliberately KEPT “at home” and didn’t farm out to district field offices. (FISA warrants for Carter Page and dealings with both General Flynn and George Papadopoulous)
They wanted to keep this at the top of the FBI, and didn’t want underlings to see it.
The FBI top brass and their defenders say they did it because of the “sensitivity”, but that isn’t true.
They did it, because if it ended up in the hands of field agents, two things would happen:
First and most obviously, the more people involved, it becomes exponentially harder to keep a secret, and procedures (like the Woods Procedure) have to be followed more faithfully. No person outside headquarters wants to be pilloried or fired for not following proper procedures.
Secondly, people not in the know for the “real” purpose of these actions would dispassionately see the information in things like the Steele Dossier were complete BS and would probably have said so.
But I think (hope) Trump, the businessman, has learned a lot about politics sense then.. I don't think he'll make those mistakes again..
I still recall the incident involving a Foreign Service Officer and the leak of a Top Secret document to a paper. He was discovered within twenty-four hours, but instead of being fired, his security clearance was lifted for a year and he was assigned to the Foreign Service Institute. He retired from the Foreign Service years later.
“In essence, no one to whom anyone with decency can report truth.”
Or, alternatively, there are not many decent people in the FBI at any level.
I’ve never seen evidence that there are any decent people at the FBI.
I am reminded of a phrase of Paul’s. “This thing was not done in a corner...”
Hannity kisses “rank and file” FIB behind because the Dems started to get traction over “Trump attacking the FBI” nonsense.
National Security Division of the DOJ (DOJ-NSD) was/is the epicenter of many corrupt activities.
Grease the ropes treason is the final crime.
ping
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