I never do open threads, but this seems like a good time to try it.
I think this is just the start. Wait until the bank records of FusionGPS come out. Then we see who was paying them and the list of reporters being paid by them. I’m also sure McCabe is a bitter man right now, thinking long and hard about throwing everyone under the bus. He’s no hero and he is no G. Gordon Liddy. Rod Rosenstein should think about hiring a lawyer now. No way he can hide is role in this anymore.
Once the IG report comes out Sessions will appoint a special counsel. Rosenstein et al will resign and lawyer up. Comedy McCabe Yates et al as well. Some one will turn on the others and heads will roll. These elite assholes will get a taste of what they’ve been doing to others for years. This is my dream scenario.
One can hope (“it’s all we got”, ya know).
Comey made a huge mistake today commenting, “That’s it?” and some other stuff.
That’s Al Capone kind of rhetoric, and he’s gonna wind up painting a target on his chest. It only takes McCabe to say “Comey knew”, and down crashes the roof.
I’m pretty sure we will learn that the real reason they moved Comey out is mental instability. I think Rosenstein was worried that Comey would snap and get too honest. Right now, there’s solid evidence that he perjured himself on multiple occasions. He needs an attorney and he needs to be quiet.
The funny thing is, had all these people packed up and left town (or at least cut out the funny business and laid low) once Hillary’s coronation was cancelled, they probably would have gotten away with it. Instead they bought into the worthless cause of vindicating Hillary’s loss through the courts and a strawman special prosecutor. There just had to be something wrong, how could the American public turn on her unless there were some dark forces involved? And if not, we’ll invent them! They could not conceive of a world where much of the country would support that “awful”… Read more »
Asked that question, over and over. Living in ground zero of the “resistance”, I simply think these people had so wound themselves up for a Hillary coronation and so lack self-awareness or self-reflection that they could do nothing else. But yes, had they not cooked up this little exercise in sedition, the train would have simply gone on…
Thinking about why these folks in DOJ, FBI, Obama-ites etc. did what they did, it occurs to me that they 1. wanted to stay in D. C. and keep their jobs, and 2. they were scared shitless that Red Queen Hillary would find some tiny flaw in what they did in assisting her campaign and that she would come after them when she was elected, threatening with a loss of status in The Capitol (think Hunger Games). They were scrambling all over themselves trying to prove their worthiness to Her Thighness. A bunch of second-raters, every one. Notice how John… Read more »
I think Comey just got too big for his own britches. Remember that report earlier in the week where Wray supposedly threatened to resign? You wrote that Trump is the wrong guy to call a bluff. I’m very nearly convinced that Comey called Trump’s bluff, and Trump canned him. Comey is super duper arrogant, and for now he can count on very favorable media coverage. People like that are dangerous. Comey’s been by-name cited in a Congressional report as having signed off on three fraudulent FISA requests. Nunes is sitting on those, but it’s pretty clear from the language of… Read more »
Comey did not last long in Ray Dalios’ organization. There is a reason why.
Beyond the substantive findings in the memo, which are devastating, is a mention in the final paragraph of the Papadopolous affair, which I found intriguing, given what had gone before. The memo does not dispute, but merely repeats the allegations that came out in a NYT story in December that PapaD’s drunken boasting in a public London restaurant to the Australian Ambassador triggered a counterespionage operation against an opposition political candidate. The evidence that brought this about was PapaD saying that he knew a guy who knew a guy who said that Russia had “dirt” on HRC. So essentially triple… Read more »
That smells like “find me a man and I’ll find the crime.” They needed cover so they found this idiot. That suggests it may be worthwhile to move the timelines backward and start evaluating their behavior much earlier. Would anyone be surprised if they were spying on other Republicans? The amazing thing is the ham-handed way they went about this. The casual recklessness could be due to it becoming so common. In other words, they were doing this a lot and got lazy.
This stuff goes far and wide, and has been around a long time. The Patriot Act, kinda, sorta, moved things along. Which means that when the fat starts to fry, we’re going to hear a lot of “but Boosh!”.
There is also the idea that everyone has the goods on everyone else. Which is why you are seeing so many retirements this term. Get out while the getting is good. Usually most of it stays under wraps and is used as a vague threat, to keep the troops in line. Because of Trump’s role as a DC disinfectant, it all is going to come out on everyone. Trey Gowdy is a great example. He had himself set up very nicely, politically. But he is leaving. Why? Because he is compromised in some way. They all are. Trump is less… Read more »
The word on Gowdy is that he’s frustrated. He can run all the investigations he wants, but with DOJ/FBI ignoring subpoenas and otherwise failing to follow up with grand juries and indictments, he wants to get back to real lawyering. Rumor is, he’s aiming for the 4th Circuit. Other rumors say Attorney General (replacing sleepy Sessions) or even SCOTUS (rumors of one or more openings imminent).
Then he threw in the towel just before things got interesting.
He’s not done yet. I suspect Trey Gowdy has one or two more of these in his future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ
He timed it this way because filing to run in upcoming SC elections opens up shortly, and he wanted to clear the way for potential successors.
Or special prosecutor
The memo doesn’t even begin to address the “unmasking” requests filed by the 0bama WH which were so concerning that Nunes spoke with Trump about them in March 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWPOa3uUWk
This six minute Nunes press conference is very worth your time.
Stay tuned. More to come.
If this really turns out to have been a true conspiracy, the perpetrators will look back on their decision to put Peter “Loose Dick” Strzok’s investigation together with Brian “My Wife amade me”Ohr under Andrew “Yeah But That $700K Was So Last Year” McCabe.
Strzok was the weak link. With Ohr, they could paper him over. Strzok’s texts are the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaking of which, I’m probably not the only person to notice that the whole “FBI lost the texts” issue has evaporated…and that is not a coincidence.
Zman, I actually think the Strzok/Papadopolous thing was something Strzok hatched up for the same reason Steele was shopping around his dossier. Strzok was desperate to “even the score” by putting Trump under investigation. So, he jumps on some bar-bragging by Papadopolous as a pretext, and starts running it up the flagpole. In parallel, we’ve got Steele and FusionGPS. Those two lines intersect at Andrew McCabe who sees it as an opportunity to carry out that “insurance policy”, so he starts elevating the profile of the investigations. But I think the initiation of both lines were separate, and based on… Read more »
And add in a healthy dose of freelancing by all these players seeking to get that one last big career bump under a Clinton administration–by showing willingness to take initiative on behalf of the Queen. That counts for a lot in the Clinton camp.
Well, you have to admit the Obama administration’s one competency was running cover and playing rope-a-dope with any efforts to bring this shit to heel. (See IRS, Lerner, Lois) That would embolden folks, especially if they saw a chance to proactively ingratiate with the incoming Hillary admin.
You need two things to establish a suspect in a crime: Motive and Opprtunity.
Strzok’s texts demonstrate state of mind and motive. His position as Chief of Counterintelligence gave him opportunity. And I’ll throw in his extramarital affair with Page (a HUGE violation of the public trust and his security clearances) as evidence of his infidelity to the law.
That’s what they’re saying today here in Nashville about Liberal Mayor Megan Barry, who since she was elected in 2015 has been carrying on an affair with the chief of her “security detail.” He resigned after a 30 yr career. Lots of “overtime” he needs to account for in his travels w/ Megan. Her husband is now part of the #Metoo crowd. Sad that their only child, a son, died of a drug overdose in Denver CO last summer. Her ambition has been the undoing of herself and her family. Infidelity to US law and to God’s law.
Sorta like the guy was double dippin, ff’n the mayorette, and the tax payers of Nashburg.
she was pretty good looking, too.
I think you have to take into account they are not really that bright A man needs to know his limitations
Really now, we’ve seen things so much worse, repugnant, and outright evil than that.
I read that and thought “Oh, this is just some entry-level redpill, no big deal”.
This is just the start. Like the Nuremberg Trials, you do it as an intellectual exercise and take it where it needs to go. Which makes Comey’s emotional sanctimony so slimy. No need to get dramatic and emotional, just the facts, ma’am. The facts are plenty damning. Emotional appeals are all they have. Taking this where it needs to go, and wants to go, needs to be done in a deliberate fashion. Be careful about saying “that’s all you’ve got?”. Because it is just going to keep coming. Moving the goalposts needs to be done carefully and deliberately. But they… Read more »
Rather you didn’t compare this to Nuremberg. 80% of those convictions were overturned and many who were convicted never served out their sentences. Proper prosecutions are based on material evidence, not natural law theory violations.
Thank you, those rigged, communist show trials were a vile stain on history, law, and honor.
What about the federal judge(s) who now know they were repeatedly lied to when granting and extending the FISA warrants? You’d think they’d want to reconcile this from their end since judges generally don’t like being deceived in court.
Agreed. Rosenstein, Yates, and Boente may all face disbarment proceedings if the evidence shows that they know or had reason to believe that the information supporting the probable cause affidavit was spurious. Sweet, sweet justice.
I don’t see how Rosenstein makes it through another week at DoJ. He has to resign.
Why disbarment? What’s wrong with perjury?
Serious jail time would be good.
If he had any shame, which I doubt.
I have a feeling the House Cmte has communicated with the FISC. That’s why they are so confident that the FISC wasn’t aware of the dossier’s source.
I am left to think that despite his drain the swamp rhetoric Trump had absolutely no idea what a swamp was. Now he does, but when Admiral Rogers broke with the NSA to advise him he and his campaign were being spied upon Trump should have been prepared to fire every upper management desk at DoJ and FIB on his second day in office. Middle and lower rank officers should have been encouraged to rat out known egregious criminal acts of their superiors. Then you would have a real dossier, with NSA and CIA next up.
From Heartiste comments: “This whole thing has been a set up of these Marxist clowns. Trump met with a group of retired generals calling themselves America First and devised a strategy shortly after the election. Admiral Rogers, head of the NSA was there. They have taken all of the NSA data, correlated and triangulated it and devised a strategy to take them down. Trump is being guarded and handled by the USMC and is using DoD intel assets to outflank the CIA, FBI, and DoJ. They literally have a several hundred page operations plan and are following it. There has… Read more »
The marines didn’t land on the Roof at Langley, and this doesn’t even make sense:
“A state of emergency i.e. martial law, has been declared over the areas of human trafficking and political corruption.”
A state of emergency is not even close to the same thing as martial law, and both of those things cover geographical areas, not selective areas of law enforcement. I advise against getting your intel from the comments at Heartiste.
It really was a Flight 93 election. Bottom line.
+10.
For normies this is the ultimate red pill. In the 1960’s the FBI conducted illegal campaigns against leftist groups (including MLK). This doesn’t register to conservative minded people because ‘communism!’ and ‘oh that was the bad old days of j Edgar Hoover’. Despite this past bad acting, the normy view is that the FBI, the CIA etc are in law enforcement, spying on the ‘bad guys’, ‘protecting us from terror’ and so forth. This memo proves that this story is a lie and in fact the guns aren’t aimed at the enemy, they are aimed at us. This calls into… Read more »
The problem is that, for the normies, every element of what is going on kicks up this huge shitstorm in the media and amongst the talking heads, and they just don’t want to deal with it. Little by little, Trump is trying to break through all the noise by acting calm and determined, as he did in the SOTU speech. He is the one person with the media’s attention who can break down the barriers for the normies. The rest of us red-pilled ones are precluded from doing it by the shitstorm associated with the subject. So is Sessions part… Read more »
Releasing this stuff slowly is the only way they can do this. First, too many people trust the system and people will have to go through the stages of grief to believe what is going on. Second it keeps the pressure on the criminals who will keep trying to cover their steps (often committing more crimes).
As a former US intelligence professional, this is my analysis on the four page HPSCI memo:
https://freeamericannational.blogspot.com/2018/02/my-explanation-analysis-thoughts-on-memo.html?m=1
I read your article, and while you say that you’re “not sure what consequences will come of this,” what in your opinion would it take to bring about charges of sedition? Of treason? At least, this rates as a criminal conspiracy, doesn’t it?
This SHOULD bring down a hellfire of consequences. But WILL it? D.C.’s ability to do nothing never ceases to amaze. What would it take? An AG that is the bulldog we hoped for is a good start. Second, knowingly providing false info to obtain a warrant is illegal after People v. Cook. We should start with that.
McCabe’s sworn testimony sets him up for precisely this kind of prosecution…and he has admitted that a) he knew in advance and b) approved the application anyway.
One addition to your excellent summary. Peter Strzok was the FBI’s Chief of Counterintellitence. This guy was no run of the mill field agent. He had direct access to “Andy”, and was a core part of the Clinton email probe as well as the Mueller investigation (until Strzok was fired from the Mueller team). The placement of the Strzok paragraph at the end of the memo is a reminder that the investigation is ongoing, and it is a statement by the House Cmte that there were parallel efforts to throw the election to Clinton. One led by Strzok, one led… Read more »
He did indeed. In order to be the best agent one can be, whether it’s intelligence or counter, is to ACTUALLY BE ABOVE MORAL REPROACH. Why? Because moral mistakes allow the enemy, whoever that is, to compromise you. In top of that, you have to keep all communications that you wouldn’t want released to the public to be done over the least easy to compromise system that you can. Whispered word of mouth is best. Hand written. Encrypted email. Etc. Text messages are terrible, maybe the worst.
Nice post, but your blog is very difficult to read. You badly need a different blog template and bigger fonts and less clutter.
I look forward to reading the Gray Man and the Z man.
Matt, I know. I’m currently making arrangements to migrate to WordPress. As hard as it looks to read, it’s that much harder for me to post regularly. The difficulty of managing what you see on my blog is really an incentive against my posting. It took forever to write up that analysis of the memo. Once I’m on WordPress, I think it’ll be a lot better.
It seems likely the Clintons had some idea of how things would go just before election time, when they moved the Clinton Foundation assets (and probably much of their own—wait, I repeat myself) to Qatar, just before the election. Another “insurance policy”.
Pretty slick of them. Where did you learn this?
Actually fake news, attributed to “the Russians”…
So the Democratic response is “fake news!”. Good one, guys. That’ll take you far in court.
Their job is to handle the political side of this. What’s going to become an issue for some of these people (McCabe, Strzok, Ohr, Rosenstein, Comey, Steele) is that the political side cannot save them from the legal side. And their names are all over EVERYTHING. Signatures, emails, warrant requests, text messages, etc.
Insane McCain shouldn’t get away free.
McCain will be dead in a year. Let the man die in peace. The GOP needs to close ranks and focus on the Democratic Party’s infiltration of the FBI and DOJ senior leadership.
The Clinton’s actually succeeded in planting a criminal investigation in the FBI based on a “dossier” co-written by the KGfuckingB.
That is all that matters right now.
Do we have him on video making the comments?
Or are the comments simply coming from his office?
“Let the man die in peace.”
I sincerely hope, from the bottom of my blackened heart, that he finds his just rewards, and that they don’t have even
the tiniest of passing acquaintance with peace.
re: “McCain will be dead in a year.” hok
He seems to be rather active with his commenting for a dying man.
Dan Kurt
Hardly “free”. The man is dying.
Is he? Is he really?
The Songbird wears a harness to make his ‘injuries’ look real.
Anecdotal only, but verbatim from someone who was there.
Said they never laid a finger on their most valuable hostage, as they did so terribly to his forgotten, unheard of mates.
Additional observations on the memo now that Democrats have sort of gelled around “it’s a big nothingburger” as their collective response. The reason they have to do this is that there is even MORE information that the GOP can release, specifically the FISA warrant request itself. If the Democrats claim Nunes mischaracterized the warrant, Nunes can release it. So, they can’t fight that. The other reason is because the memo draws a perfectly straight line from Hillary Clinton to the KGB (now called the FSB in Russia). Clinton$$–>Lawyer–>FusionGPS–>Steele–>KGB. There are no breaks or gaps in that chain of money, and… Read more »
Do you have links or docs that place the FSB receiving money from Steele? My analysis posted at my blog has the line traced from Clinton through Steele. I’d love to post the info injecting the FSB into that.
Vanity Fair, April 2017 details Steele’s extensive contacts in the Kremlin and Russian Intelligence. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele This is, of course, written from the perspective of a Vanity Fair writer who has absolutely NO PROBLEM with the fact that Christopher Steele was collaborating with the Russians. It’s still stunning to me that nobody thinks this is a big deal since this sort of thing is PRECISELY what Mueller is supposed to be investigating. The report details how much Steele was being paid by FusionGPS. Did he ply these Russians using Clinton’s money? The only way to know for sure is a full… Read more »
Mind if I ask which 3-letter agency you worked for? I was DoD.
One correction, Yates and Rosenstein are also DOJ. So this defintely crosses a lot of red lines.
The Democrats’ strategy has been unbelievably short-sighted throughout this entire affair. 24 hours ago we’re told the memo will cause great harm to the nation. Well… What part of this memo had them so concerned? Is anyone in the media asking this? So now the Democrats are saying the memo falsely characterized McCabe’s sworn testimony to the Intel Cmte. I believe the testimony will eventually come out. Democrats will undoubtedly move on to some other facet of the case and most of them will never have to answer for their previous statements. Feels like there’s something going on much deeper… Read more »
Football analogy. The Truth is slowly moving the ball downfield, picking up first downs. With the release of the Memo, this gives the Truth a First down just past mid-field. The Democrats cry, “Big deal, they only got a first down, they didn’t score a Touchdown.” No, the TD hasn’t been scored, YET. The D’s defense is weak and cannot stop the truth. The only thing that can stop the Truth from scoring is the GOP going ultra conservative and playing for the Field Goal with a kicker with a piss-poor accuracy rate.
Prog inc. is very effective so long as no one points at the King’s invisible clothes and laughs. There is no single great mind to carry them forward through this reckoning. Great minds did not get them into it. They understood correctly that to forestall the coming shitstorm they must go on the offensive with a contrived investigation to employ their actors and occupy the public’s mind. There is no other plan other than to win the House and impeach Trump, a bridge even farther afield than Russian collusion.
The media is basically saying that everything Obama and Hillary did while in power – pay for play schemes, open selling of state influence, using the executive branch against political opposition – are perfectly acceptable.
Essentially, they are making the case that Trump should be able to use all these tools to stay in power and go after political enemies.
What I see out of the media is discussions about everything except what is actually in the memo. Constant droning on about the suppression of Shifty’s counter-memo, the possibility that Trump’s people were in on the drafting of the memo, the lack of FBI or DOJ support for releasing the memo, etc, etc.
A counter memo is fine. Provided they follow the exact same procedures used to get the first memo out.
Something tells me they won’t do that. Instead, they’ll just write something, anything that tells a different story and just publish it.
No votes. No reviews. No declassification. Just revenge.
By the way, does anyone think that this is the first time that any of the people mentioned in the memo broke the law to spy on politicians or other people they know to be innocent? Was the first time that these criminals compromised themselves by lying to the FISA court with invented ‘evidence’ the time when they decided to spy on a Presidential candidate – or were they so used to this corruption that deliberately subverting the political process of this country was routine to them?
One little reminder, Deep Throat turned out to a disgruntled FBI management type who believed he had been treated poorly.
The most remarkable thing to me is that the memo seems to have given the rest of the republicans the excuse or will to finally gather behind Trump.
I have in the last year never seen more support for Trump from within the republican party. This in itself may be more important than the direct consequences for the (alleged?) traitors.
This is beyond gratifying to see. I’ve been writing here and on other blogs about the rot at the top of the DoJ for almost two years now. Don’t see how Rosenstein can avoid resigning after this revelation. Not a coincidence that Gowdy is suddenly available for service. Win!
re: Gowdy
Were only Congressman “Rooster” Gowdy from a Western State he would epitomize the insult: all hat and no cattle. Since he is from the South East he is just called a phony. a big talker.
Dan Kurt
I view Gowdy with some bemusement and think he serves a purpose.
Please enumerate why you think he’s a phony; particularly since, as Congressman, he has NO power to prosecute, only the power to complain to the “permanent government”t of bureaucrats.
re: “Please enumerate why you think he’s [Gowdy] a phony. OC
Check this story and comments on Zero Hedge today:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-04/memo-co-author-trey-gowdy-says-it-wont-have-any-impact-muellers-russia-probe
Dan Kurt
Gowdy’s a phony because he gave his opinion? He’s absolutely right. Releasing the memo shows the abuse the leftist globalists went to gain a FISA warrant to spy on an American citizen, It was not about the Dossier being bullshit, that part is just a supporting factor. The Democrats were going to have their Special Investigator and their case even without the FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page.
Well I suppose if, as the Democrats suggest, its ok to this then we should encourage Pres. Trump to do something similar to his opponent in 2020…
Couldn’t agree less. The situation is the fruit of 100 years of Progress. A petty aristocracy has made DC as alien to contemporary America as the 18th-century British Parliament. Going the Full Hammurabi and returning the favor keeps us on the same negative slope. Were I Trump, beside having hair, I’d lay all the facts out, name all the names, and then pardon the whole lot of Commies infesting our institutions. Let all know how despicable they and their party are, and then do something that is both: a) irrefutable, and b) low-cost. Plenty of havoc to wreak on the… Read more »
Smitty; Despite the down votes, you are on to something. Many writers on strategy, starting with Sun Tzu, have praised the wisdom of leaving the enemy a way out instead of leaving him no alternative but to fight to the death. No way out focuses all their minds on the common purpose of fighting a desperate battle for survival (that you might possibly lose due to chance, etc.). Instead it is far better for the enemy leaders to suddenly each individually envision their own personal escape. In the military context, the escape of a few of the enemy leaders is… Read more »
re: “Sun Tzu”
Over the years I have read a few translations of Sun Tzu and never discovered that Sun Tzu dealt with TREASON by leaving the [internal] enemy a way out. Hell, it is written he beheaded a concubine who didn’t learn how to handle a spear with alacrity.
Dan Kurt
Dan; The point of my recommendation is to punish extra-legal conduct without motivating the perpetrators to resort to insurrection en masse out of fear and desperation. We’re talking practicality here. I’m not sure anybody knows the actual correlation of forces since they mostly exist as potentials right now. The objective should be to drain the swamp without burning everything else down even though you’re p*ssed off. When you get right down to it, insurrection is treason only if you lose. If you win, it’s a glorious revolution. So there can be ‘treason’ only where there is established sovereignty, new or… Read more »
Dear Al,
Hard to debate when the opponent covers all the bases with the statement: “treason, however defined.”
Dan Kurt
Dear Dan; A couple of belated points: – Treason *is* loosely defined historically. The common thread is posing some kind of threat to whomever has the power to prosecute the offense. Sometimes the accusation is just a pretext for state-sanctioned thievery. – The usual argument about what is actually treasonous conduct is ultimately about whether those in power are ‘legitimate’, whatever that means. 😉 – Ultimately, legitimacy is settled by force.* – I meant to make the pragmatic argument that so long as we can drain the swamp, right now, that’s what we should be focusing on. We can and… Read more »
I think the answer is somewhere in between. Hang the penultimate echelon. Humiliate the Obamas and Clintons, strip them of everything. Doing so to Obama risks a racial uprising, but it may just be time for that…..
The BEST way to put the collectivist enemy in such position, is to arrest the bset-known lot of them and then offer them deals, including “pardons” if they root out the more hidden remainder !
An old prosecutor’s trick from way back! Worked well on the Mafia; the DEMs are no better and far less clever than the Mafia
It’s a good start, a Special Counsel to look into the FBI/DOJ would now turbocharge things.
Need both a special counsel and committees in both house and senate resembling the Church committee from the mid 70’s.
Bring back the House Un-American Activities committee! 🙂
Church was the last true Congressional hero.
His work with Dodd on the not-for-profit “foundations” should be compulsory reading for all senior high school kids.
Christipher Dodd was one of the most corrupt politicians in US Senate history. Google his name if you have forgotten AIG/ Country Wide / public drunken bouts with Ted etc. There is much more. The New York Post covered his taxpayer funded antics quite well.
I’ll never forget the Dodd-Kennedy “waitress sandwich.”
WHO could ever forget the Kennedy-Dodd “waitress sandwich”???
The Church Committee? Yeah, that worked real well, didn’t it!
Merely served to drive the malevolent types deeper into the Swamp and forced them to exercise a bit more care in carrying out their nefarious schemes.
What to do after that? Break out the petitions?
Holy shit, that memo is way worse than anybody realized. It reads like a Greatest Hits list of all the anti-Trumpers at the FBI. Sally Yates signed off on the fraudulent FISA warrants. Comey signed off on THREE of them. The warrants themselves were submitted to the court without disclosing the source of the dossier, and the FBI “corroborated” the dossier using media reports – media reports that had been planted by Christopher Steele several weeks prior. Andrew McCabe testified to Congress that the FBI would not have been able to get the warrants without the dossier. Towards the end,… Read more »
There is some evidence that McCain and the Never-Trumpers were first to fund the dossier. When Trump won the nomination and they lost their battle, they passed it off to the Clinton campaign.
True, and that has been a way the Dems reduced Clinton’s profile. “But THEY started it!” However, at that point it was just dirt. The Clinton/DNC machine weaponized it using allies in the FBI: McCabe owed them a favor. Ohr’s wife at FusionGPS was a loyal foot soldier pushing dirt to her husband. None of them counted on Strzok, who appears to have hatched a similar plan on his own that was initially its own thing, but the two sides were merged. Once they did that, and Strzok’s activities became public, the entire conspiracy was outed. Why? Because that horny… Read more »
Keep in mind too that many of these names were involved in the Mueller “investigation” which indicates that it was always phony and in fact was part of the cover-up. Literal criminals specifically chosen for the assignment to cover up their own crimes.
Mueller concealed the reasons for Strzok’s firing for months…he needed time to get those indictments. Mueller has much to answer for.
Expect Mueller to try and counter this with some more “lying to the Feds” kinds of indictments.
This ain’t over yet.
Not by a long shot.
The IG report comes out in March. There have already been three administrative actions within the FBI based on the IG’s work: Strzok removes from Mueller team and “assigned to HR” which means he’s under investigation for misconduct. Bruce Ohr gets demoted for misconduct. Andrew McCabe announces his March retirement (IG report), but moves it up 2 months (Nunes memo). The IG report, which Democrats will NOT be able to characterize as “a Republican political document” will corroborate the Nunes memo, and possibly expand on it. And, since the FBI is above criticism per Schiff and the Media, they will… Read more »
What I find odd is Sessions is a complete no-show on this. Maybe that’s the plan, as he is a partisan. Still, his second in command is dirty. Ho can he keep Rosenstein on now? But, there seems to be a high degree of coordination between Grassley, Nunes, and Goodlatte. It could be that Horowitz and Sessions are silent partners in this. After all, there is a political component, a criminal component and now a diplomatic element. Steele was the guy creating the fake dossier and working with foreign intelligence. It appears he was given intel from the FBI and… Read more »
I think that’s the play. Sessions stays “above it all” while quietly putting the pieces in place for criminal probes. The Trump folks have penetrated the cabal at FBI, but probably not at DOJ yet. They’re gong to have to clean house at FBI in order to clean house at DOJ. Seems like a plan is being carried out. Sessions stays quiet, let’s Nunes take the yard darts, and uses this to root out who at DOJ was part of this. The DOJ has a FISA role too I think. I don’t think Steele had any partners outside of his… Read more »
Sessions opens his mouth and really puts his foot in it: Sessions, Democrats Defend Rosenstein Amid Trump Criticism “Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, on Friday in the face of criticism from the president, who wouldn’t say if he still has confidence in Rosenstein. Sessions broke from prepared remarks in a speech on human trafficking. He praised Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who is overseeing the special counsel’s Russia probe, as well as the department’s No. 3 official, Rachel Brand. Standing on a stage with them, Sessions said both are experienced lawyers and “represent the kind of… Read more »
The political kiss of death, those words are.
Yeah, Jeff Sessions on the FBI/Rosenstein: “Nobody’s perfect.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYUfPTeE0DM
I suspect that Sessions is not the bulldog we had hoped for. Though living near his former district, I never really saw him as such. Did Trump even appoint him to BE a bulldog? I am not sure anymore. I feel that Gowdy or Cruz as AG would likely have their hair on fire right now. Instead, Sessions is just absent.
Fusion GPS and CrowdStrike were given raw intelligence signals info, by the FBI to start working up the dossier. FBI, the DNC, and the Clinton Foundation paid Fusion GPS for their work. Fusion paid Steele to find something in Russia. Steeles’ contacts, in the FBS, were more than happy to make something up for him. Putin wanted no part of a President Trump.The package is returned to John McCain. The Senator returns it to the FBI. The FBI exclaims “Oh my, what is this, we must investigate.” End of story.
Why waste time with investigating? All these people serve at the pleasure of the President. Fire everyone. Start from scratch. “Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Previous federal government employment will be a disqualifier among new applicants.
Supposedly, the FBI is a law enforcement agency. Why does it have to be run by lawyers? Can’t we find some career gumshoes?
Being vindicated is such fun!
Can’t wait to see the sanctimonious ones (Comey especially) get indicted. There is a broader web to this, it goes to Obama and to the Clinton Foundation, and we are just getting started.
Curious whether the Washington Post will flip, Jeff Bezos knows how to play the influence game, and things have been shuffled around now. The NYT is hopeless, the Mexican mafia is not going to give an inch. (My code is “pdtz1”. Cool.)
Conservative Treehouse is batting .1000 so far.
Sundance is a national treasure. I’ve often wondered if he’s actually Don Jr.
Seriously, a self-respecting country would be erecting scaffolding and tying up short ropes for these treasonous bastards right now.
Send a few away, and watch how fast this shit corrects itself.
Incremental steps to demonstrate the level of corruption are all that can be made. Rank and file conservatives don’t understand what they’re up against. There are billions of dollars from both Republican and Democrat donors, foreign states, thousands of beuracrats, legions of judges and lawyers, and they all work for the single purpose of destroying the white demographic of the United States and Europe within a generation. Any sudden moves by Trump would require him to form a Junta, lest he be the victim of a coup himself. Both sides are walking up to the line now. Political correctness will… Read more »
The prior administration “third worlded” us pretty good, didn’t it?
This is a really good point, particularly the second paragraph. Trump et al have to move in phases. The Senate referred criminal charges, rather quietly, a couple of weeks ago regarding Steele. That tells you the House and Senate are probably collaborating. Sessions gives a luke warm endorsement of the FBI (very similar to Trump, who tweeted that the “rank and file” are great people), and promised to address these serious issues. He did it with a lot of gravity, I think. The IG report is probably the next shoe to drop. And there is enough in the Nunes memo… Read more »
re: “batting .1000” el
Do you mean batting 1,000 or 1.000?
Dan Kurt
Thanks, Dan. I am very prone to typos. Like Z, I am not very inclined to go back and fix them.