“Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have
six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” ~ Senator Chuck Schumer D-NY
The Liberal Democratic Party does not exist, the Conservative
Republican Party does not exist. One party exists, it is a War and Terrorism Party
consisting of Oligarchs controlled and run by Wall Street and London banks and
their enforcement arm’s the CIA, FBI and MI6. Anyone who dares to drain
America’s filthy, deadly CIA swamp beware.
The CIA has six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
Long ago the GOP infested
with CIA backed figures, purged its party of real conservatives; it was right
around the time the CIA attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan and install his
Vice President and ex-CIA Director George H.W. Bush.
Reagan survived but during his tenure, the CIA worked with
Vice President Bush within the Reagan Administration to enact a CIA agenda of
regime change coups, assassinations, death squads, and rampant terrorism across
the globe. One such CIA black op was the
Iran-Contra Affair where arms were sold to Iran to fund illegal regime change
and terror across Central America.
Reagan was an unwitting tool of the CIA that had infested
his Republican Party. When Reagan left
office George H.W. Bush’s CIA ran America’s foreign policy unabated which
fulminated in Bush pardoning members of the CIA’s criminal enterprise.
When Governor of Arkansas, William Clinton announced his run
for presidency against the sitting CIA backed president George H.W. Bush,
Bush’s FBI Director, Louis Freeh sent two hundred agents to Arkansas dig up
dirt on the Governor and end Clinton’s campaign. All they found was Jim McDougal who had been
charged with check kiting, i.e. (writing worthless checks from multiple
accounts and depositing them into those accounts). This had nothing to do with the Clintons but
McDougal had been a partner in an investment with Hillary years earlier called
Whitewater, an investment that had lost money.
After Clinton was elected president defeating the CIA’s Bush,
Clinton was encouraged to fire FBI Director Freeh as he was hell-bent on
impeaching Clinton. Unlike Trump, who
recognized the corruption of FBI Director James Comey and fired him, Clinton
retained Freeh. The CIA backed Senators
in the Democratic Party, many who are now pushing for Trump’s impeachment, i.e.
Schumer and Biden, eagerly went along with the appointment of a Special
Prosecutor to investigate Hillary’s Whitewater investment with the preordained
goal of impeachment.
The first Special Prosecutor, Robert Fiske found the
Clintons innocent of the charges:
Allegations surfaced during the investigation, which was led
by special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske, that
Clinton pressured David Hale—former president of a small business investment
firm—into making a loan for the Whitewater deal.
Other allegations came out, implying Clinton's gubernatorial
campaign debts were paid off by Madison through McDougal. Fiske issued a grand
jury subpoena to President Clinton and his wife for documents related to
Madison Guaranty. While the Clintons initially reported the records as missing,
THE DOCUMENTS WERE EVENTUALLY FOUND, CLEARING THE CLINTONS OF ANY WRONGDOING.
When Special Prosecutor Fiske exonerated the Clintons
dashing the hopes for impeachment, the CIA controlled Democrats and Republicans
demanded a new investigation into President Clinton and a new Special
Prosecutor Ken Starr was appointed.
Starr, a rightwing religious zealot, was obsessed with finding
impeachable offenses. Starr investigated
the Clintons for four years until he uncovered a sexual dalliance that provided
the basis for impeachment.
Clinton was impeached because he lied under oath. But there is a difference when you lie under
oath to spare your family and loved ones public humiliation and pain like
Clinton did and when you lie under oath to undermine National Security like
Comey, Clapper and Brennan repeatedly did.
No matter, the CIA backed Democrats and Republicans impeached him but
were unable to remove him from office because of public outcry.
Now that Special Investigator Robert Mueller has exonerated
President Trump of Russia collusion, the CIA controlled House and Senate have
decided to conduct their own investigation with the preordained conclusion of
impeachment. From LaRouche publication:
Excerpt:
The Tentacle of ‘Perfidious Albion’ Behind the Impeachment Drive
While embarking on a different
project, I happened upon an article by the inimitable Lyndon LaRouche,
published in EIR January 15, 1999, concerning the Clinton impeachment. It’s
called “To Defeat Impeachment, You Must
Defeat the New Confederacy.”
And it struck me, just how apropos
that article still is today: The strategic situation bears some striking
similarities; only the uniforms of the partisan players have changed. This should tell you that something is
controlling the process over and above those in partisan uniforms, something that controls the partisans.
One of the things that is
different is that this President is taking on those out to get him on
something other than a steamy sexual setup. They already tried that with him,
and it landed with a resounding thud, as cheap reruns tend to do. And President Trump has called them out by
name, the military-industrial complex, serving imperial aims, the
globalists, and declared war on them with substantial public support.
That is really very, very different. But
the enemy is not different. So, I’ll give you some of LaRouche’s
insights on the impeachment, which he penned on January 1, 1999, before beginning
our discussion on the ongoing Ukrainegate.
THE CONSTITUTION IS THREATENED
LaRouche begins his article by
asking: “Will the United States survive this impeachment side show?” And his
answer is to call you out. He says, the
impeachment is “A British style parliamentary coup d’état,” while noting that
the impeachment process was only one among several crucial battlefields in a
much wider war. He says, “Whoever thinks only of one issue at a time—one
battlefield, or one mass-media week—has made a commitment to losing this war,
at the start.”
He noted that the global financial system, run by the City of London and its British
Commonwealth appendages, had begun its inevitable collapse, a rolling mudslide.
That mudslide culminated in the 2007-2008 collapse from which we have not
recovered. Now, a similar bubble has been built up, and there are signs all
over the world that its collapse is imminent…
LaRouche said that replacing Bill
Clinton with Al Gore would ensure that the
neo-liberal and neo-conservative hawks who then controlled Washington would
have their way and that it would have become almost inevitable that they would recklessly create a nuclear
war. Is replacing Donald Trump with Mike Pence any less a
fear-and-panic producing proposition?
He then said, most importantly, “For us, in the United States, the central
feature of our war is a fight against treason in our nation’s political
establishment, like that treason that led to the Civil War of 1861-1865.” Treason perpetrated by President
Lincoln’s London-centered and Wall Street-centered enemies.
He said the British aim has been to “tear up the Constitution and Declaration
of Independence,” and then to integrate a shattered United States as a vassal
state into the British Commonwealth under conditions of the economic collapse
of the world’s economy.
He emphasized that if the President were to be impeached and removed from office,
this would create such horrific conditions, that it would be as if the United
States lost the Civil War. Under these circumstances, LaRouche stated, the
U.S. would either fight a war against that treason or it would be finished as a
nation.
But he cautioned sternly, once
again, this is a war against the British
Empire, which functions throughout the world… He
asserted that this is not an internal U.S. political affair; it is a
global affair in which every leading government of the world is vitally
interested and will be playing a
hand of its own for its own vital strategic reasons…
American System Solution
LaRouche spoke of the bankrupt policies of the world’s central
bankers at the time of Clinton’s impeachment, writing:
All of these and related
conditions combine to create an explosive political-economic mixture in each
and all of these and other nations. We
have come into the kind of a time in history, once again, in which wars,
revolutions, and terrible dictatorship tend to erupt as if on the order of the
day.
And we do see that across the globe
today. He added:
Behind every war there is an issue of choice. Contrary to the
self-styled geopolitical variety of loonies, such as Halford Mackinder,
Karl Haushofer, or Zbigniew Brzezinski, terrain does not cause wars; it is
conflicts over choices of response in the political and economic and cultural
terrain, which prompt serious warfare. Geopolitics
happens to be one of those delusions which tends to cause loonies to choose
wars.
He then located the fundamental
conflict as that between the American System’s view and the British Monarchy’s
view of humankind, writing:
The American System views each man and woman as made in the image of
the Creator, as each endowed at birth with a divine spark of a creative power
of reason lacking in all lower forms of life. For us, that is the principle
of natural law which must underlie all rightful government, axiomatically, as
our Leibnizian Declaration of Independence and the Preamble of our Federal
Constitution express this commitment to such principles of natural law.
The British monarchy’s system, on the contrary, views the majority of
the nation’s and world’s population not as citizens, but as mere subjects of an
hereditary, willful, essentially parasitical authority, the which is
embodied in institutions controlled by a ruling, imperial financier oligarchy,
typified by the pagan tradition of the Venice-modelled Anglo-Dutch financier
oligarchy.
Under conditions of crisis, the British oligarchs will produce
movements and ideological formations geared toward one thing, preserving their
form of “order.”
Right now, advocates of the American
System, as revived and revolutionized by LaRouche—those who believe in the
human creative ability of the individual citizen—would say, let’s cauterize the bubble before it
pops with Glass-Steagall; let’s create a national banking system that can issue
credit for real development and modern infrastructure; let’s
make sure our capital intensive expenditures result in the high wages and
living standards necessary to an advanced population; let’s develop fusion as
an energy source and take off to the next frontier, space, in search of
scientific breakthroughs and understanding nature’s laws.
It is collaboration on the last of these initiatives—fusion, space,
discovery of the actual workings of our universe, which can form the basis of
collaboration between nation-states and through which—as LaRouche made
clear in his November 29, 2004 study, The Coming Eurasian World, published in
EIR Vol. 31 No. 49—mankind will experience a higher and more creative culture
than any we have now.
We would also be saying, let’s
replace the present international system with new fixed exchange-rate credit
mechanisms, developed by the four nation-states of China, India, Russia and the
U.S., with the potential, jointly,
to survive and prosper despite the coming City of London and Wall Street
instigated collapse.
The fact that President Trump
leans in these directions, is the reason why the same Anglo-American apparat
and its controlled lynch mob of the day is after him.
A different variety of controlled lynch mob impeached but did not
convict Bill Clinton, based on a sexual scandal that erupted right after Clinton said the world needed
a new financial architecture. And the choices we have to make now
in this war, LaRouche’s solutions, are
the only sure way to defeat them and outflank them worldwide…
Yep, President Trump is a fighter and if he goes down he
will go down fighting taking many scalps with him. A couple of interesting points from that
article are:
1) “One of the things
that is different is that this President is taking on those out to get him on
something other than a steamy sexual setup. They already tried that with him,
and it landed with a resounding thud, as cheap reruns tend to do.” And
2) The “controlled lynch mob impeached but did not
convict Bill Clinton, based on a sexual scandal that erupted right after
Clinton said the world needed a new financial architecture.”
Wall Street and the London Banking Center are behind this impeachment
side show accommodated by the Oligarchs in the American Congress and enforced
by the CIA and MI6. From Chris Hedges at Truthdig:
Excerpt:
Death by Oligarchy
Oligarchs are blinded by hubris,
wealth and power. Their cloying sense of entitlement sees them outraged by even
the most tepid reforms or mildest of criticisms. They lack empathy and compassion, along with remorse or guilt, for what
is done to those outside of their tiny, elitist circles. Privilege does
strange and unpleasant things to human beings. I saw these distortions among my rich classmates as a scholarship
student at prep school and at Harvard University, an institution designed, like
all elite schools, to perpetuate the plutocracy. Living in privilege spawns
callousness, even cruelty, to those less fortunate and feeds a bottomless
greed.
The repugnant characteristics of
the rich are skillfully masked by armies of lawyers and publicists, a servile
and intimidated press, good manners and the fig leaf of philanthropy. Jeff
Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, Jimmy Wales, Peter Thiel, John Mackey and the
late Steve Jobs and David Koch—whatever their carefully packaged public
image—champion or championed economic and social
models that are designed to create a new form of serfdom for the working class
and further consolidate the concentration of wealth and power into the hands of
the oligarchs. When a society falls into the death grip of an oligarchic
class, the result is always catastrophic.
Oligarchs, because they live
insulated lives surrounded by obsequious courtiers that cater to their
bottomless narcissism and hedonism, wield power based on fantasy. They propagate ruling ideologies, such as
neoliberalism and the intellectually and morally bankrupt writings of Ayn Rand,
which are not economically rational but justify their privilege.
Their mantra, first uttered by a notorious serial killer and
enthusiastically embraced by Rand, is: “What Is Good for Me Is Right.” All our
institutions—the press, the courts, legislative bodies, the executive branch
and academia—have been perverted to serve the oligarch’s narrow, selfish
interests while an oppressed citizenry, struggling to survive, is seething with
mounting rage and frustration. The corporate coup orchestrated by the
ruling oligarchs over the past few decades gave us Donald Trump. If this coup
is not reversed, far worse will follow…
“We are in the midst of a major
global, political, economic, social and cultural transition—but we don’t know
which way we’re headed,” writes Lisa Duggan in “Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the
Culture of Greed.” “The incoherence of the Trump administration is symptomatic
of the confusion as politicians and business elites jockey with the Breitbart
alt-right forces while conservative evangelicals pull the strings. The unifying threads are meanness and
greed, and the spirit of the whole hodgepodge is Ayn Rand...”
This spirit of meanness corrupts the far right and the far left. It
defines the Christian fascists and the alt-right as it defines many in antifa
and the black bloc, although unlike their fascist opponents the far left in the
United States is a marginal, poorly organized, ideologically bankrupt and
ineffectual political force…
No battle to accrue profit is too
small for oligarchs. The election for
City Council in Seattle saw Bezos, the world’s richest man, spend $1.5 million
to flip the council to serve his business interests. Bezos was incensed by a council decision last year to tax Amazon,
which in 2018 paid no federal income tax, and other businesses to help provide
housing for the city’s 11,000 homeless. AMAZON GOT THE CITY’S TAX REPEALED WITHIN A MONTH.
Bezos in this election targeted his
nemesis, the socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who thankfully was re-elected,
and pushed a slate of pro-business candidates for the council. Bezos failed,
this time, to seize control of the council. No doubt, the next round of
elections will see him triple or quadruple his investment. The 2016 elections had a price tag of $6.5 billion, but as Hamilton
Nolan points out in the Guardian, “for a group that exercises total control
over a federal budget of more than $4 trillion, that’s a real bargain.”
Oligarchs, freed from outside
oversight and regulation, wantonly pillage the political and economic
institutions that sustain them. They run
up huge government deficits by slashing taxes on the rich. This forces an underfunded government to
borrow from the banks, further enriching the oligarchs, and impose punishing
austerity programs on the public.
They privatize traditional
government services, including utilities, intelligence gathering, large parts
of the military, the police, the prison system and schools to make billions in
profits. They create complex financial mechanisms that ensure usurious interest rates on
mortgages, personal and student loans. They legalize accounting fraud
and suppress wages to keep the public trapped in a crippling debt peonage. They loot trillions in taxpayer money when
their speculative bubbles burst.
They are no longer capitalists, if
we define capitalists as those who make money from the means of production. They are a criminal class of financial
speculators that rewrite the laws to steal from everyone, including their own
shareholders. They are parasites that feed off the carcass of industrial
capitalism. THEY PRODUCE NOTHING. THEY
MAKE NOTHING. THEY MANIPULATE MONEY. And this gaming of the system and
seizure of political power by finance capital is why the wealthiest 1% of America’s families control 40% of the
nation’s wealth.
Dimon, the chief executive of
JPMorgan Chase with an estimated worth of $1.4 billion, is the poster child for
corporate greed and criminality. He directed JPMorgan Chase to
underwrite fraudulent securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial
crash. He overcharged members of the
military on mortgages and mortgage refinancing transactions. He overcharged
customers for overdraft fees.
He manipulated bidding on California and Midwest electricity markets.
He overcharged homeowners for flood insurance. He billed customers for
nonexistent credit card monitoring services. He charged minorities
higher rates and fees on mortgages than those paid by white borrowers. He
failed to pay overtime to company workers.
Yes, JPMorgan Chase had to pay more fines than any other financial
institution in the country, but the profits more than offset its fraudulent and
criminal activity.
It is Dimon, along with fellow oligarchs Gates and the billionaire
investor Leon Cooperman, who has recently led the attack on Warren. Dimon
chastised her for her “wealth tax” plan and for allegedly vilifying “successful
people.” Cooperman accused Warren of seeking to wreck the American dream.
Gates also denounced her wealth tax plan, although if he did have to pay the
tax, he would still be worth $6 billion. When questioned, Gates
refused to say whether, if Warren becomes the Democratic nominee, he would
support Trump.
GREED IS BOTTOMLESS. IT IS THE DISEASE OF THE RICH. The more the
oligarchs accumulate the more they want. This is the dark side of human nature.
It has always been with us. All societies are plagued by social inequality, but
when those on the bottom and in the middle of the social pyramid lose their
voice and agency, when the society exists only to serve the greed of the rich, when income inequality reaches the levels
it has reached in the United States, the social fabric is torn apart and the
society destroys itself.
Aristotle warned about the danger
of oligarchies nearly 2,500 years ago. We stand on the cusp of social and
political disintegration, bequeathed to us by oligarchs who have seized total
power. The ruling oligarchs will stymie all attempts at reform. This makes a
crisis inevitable. Once we enter this
crisis, the oligarchs will become the most potent enablers of despotism.
Trump is a direct threat to the American and British Oligarchs
because he has taken on their Spook agencies, exposing them like cockroaches in
the sunlight of day. Every political rally turns into another exposé
of the corrupt media who serve as CIA/FBI stenographers. Their time is limited as Trump stirs up the
masses and turns them against the Deep State and they know it and they are
running scared. From Russia Insider:
Excerpt:
CIA, FBI Fight for Their Lives as RussiaHoax Implodes
CBS-News carried another bucket of
muddy water for the coup team Sunday night with a lead 60 Minutes agit-prop
story on Maria Butina, an ambitious Russian cutie who worked the American NRA
circuit in the most public manner imaginable to make herself into a sex-bomb
celebrity at the exact moment in history
when the US Deep State wished to reinforce the fantasy, as Lesley Stahl put it,
that “Russia was interfering in our electoral process.”
Of course, Ms. Stahl and her
shifty producers left out half the story: how Maria Butina was manipulated by her FBI-handler and sometime-boyfriend,
Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO who had been employed by the
Bureau over the years on other undercover assignments.
They didn’t mention him or seek to
understand his role in the operation. But
they gave plenty of air-time to the DOJ lawyer, John C Demers, who prosecuted
Ms. Butina, and never bothered to ask Demers why Butina was not charged with
espionage — perhaps because nothing remotely like that occurred.
How media giants like Ms. Stahl can
keep mouthing this malarkey designed to stoke a new cold war is one of the
great mysteries of our national psychology these days. You’d think they’d learned something from the train wreck of the
Mueller Investigation, the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, and the current debacle of Adam Schiff’s imploding Ukraine
whistleblower caper — namely, that spouting lies will eventually get you
found-out and disgraced.
But the coup team is now
dangerously stuck tripling and quadrupling down on its fairy tale narrative as
the reckoning of its dark deeds approaches and its star players await their
turns on the witness stand. Half the
country has been waiting patiently for authorities-of-standing to put an end to
this Hitchcockian campaign of seditious fog that has driven us close to the
brink of a second civil war…
None of that evidence has been
posted through the main media outlets wholly owned by the coup team, gospel to
the other half of America, and soon
millions of credulous bystanders who got high on three years of CIA-issued
RussiaGate Kool-Aid will get the surprise of their lives when they discover how
deeply they were played.
The
CIA and the FBI are in a fight for their lives now. The evidence shows pretty clearly that these rogue agencies conducted all the
election “meddling” of 2016 and that the RussiaGate hysteria was an
engineered smokescreen to hide their tracks and cover their asses when the
certainty of a Hillary election triumph nauseatingly resolved unfavorably in
the cold, gray dawn of 11/8/16. Despite the chatter about an “insurance
policy,” they were quite unprepared for the exposure that loomed.
They also badly underestimated the
resources of what is now a very sturdy alt.media which has managed to weave the
real story of what happened over the past three years into a shocking tapestry of massive subversion and treachery.
A big part of the true story is how
amazingly incompetent the RussiaGate coupsters were.
Did
they really believe they could conceal the ties between their agencies and
Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS operation, and its feckless front man, British
ex-spy Christopher Steele, and the whole outfit’s connection to Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic National Committee?
Did they suppose they could pass
off Stephan Halper and Joseph Mifsud as Russian agents when the two have
consorted with US and allied intelligence for decades? The US Department of Defense even holds Mr. Halper’s million-dollar pay
stubs and Mr. Mifsud appears in photographs of every Western cloak-and-dagger
cocktail get-together of spook officialdom for the last twenty years.
The
latest, and most desperate gambit is the UkraineGate whistleblower,
a CIA employee blatantly playing errand-boy for his mentor John Brennan and
deeply tied to 2016 election shenanigans emanating from Ukraine, featuring his
former employer, ex-Vice-President Joe Biden.
This shadowy figure, pegged as Eric Ciaramella, 33, may shortly find
himself in a grand jury chamber answering for his role in this charade.
Ciaramella has just been hung out to dry by his sponsor, Rep. Adam Schiff in
a desperate attempt to dissociate himself from the huggermugger within his
House Intel Committee that preceded the falsely blown whistle.
It’s not an overstatement to say that many of the figures behind this
gigantic web of lies and deceit ought to answer charges up to and including
treason. THE QUESTION IS WHETHER
MESSERS BARR & DURHAM HAVE THE COJONES TO CATER THE BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES
THAT THIS HUGE CAST OF CHARACTERS SHOULD BE MADE TO FEAST FROM.
Another
question is whether these desperate characters and the agencies they represent
will go all the way now and attempt to enlist the military brass in an outright
overthrow of the executive. There are already intimations of this. It would be answered by the kind of civil violence that has broken out
in other parts of world where other Deep States have worn out their welcome —
and their legitimacy.
My, my, my. Sounds
like the Spook agencies have really gotten their tit caught in the ringer. As the article says “Did they really believe
they could conceal the ties between their agencies and Glenn Simpson’s Fusion
GPS operation, and its feckless front man, British ex-spy Christopher Steele?” While the CIA/FBI media stenographers push
the Russian collusion meme, the real culprits of a coordinated election
interference have thus far been protected.
From Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone:
Excerpt:
Why Is Christopher Steele Still a Thing?
The ex-spy and infamous “dossier”
author posits yet another elaborate theory of foreign infiltration
Fresh evidence has also emerged of
attempts by the Kremlin to infiltrate the Conservatives by a senior Russian
diplomat suspected of espionage, who spent five years in London cultivating
leading Tories including Johnson himself… The committee’s report is based on analysis
from Britain’s intelligence agencies, as well as third-party experts such as
the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele…
Christopher Steele became famous in the United States as the author of
a “dossier” that claimed Russians had been “cultivating, supporting, and
assisting” Donald Trump “for at least 5 years.” Now Steele is back, claiming that the
Russians have been cultivating the Tories and Boris Johnson for… five years.
You can’t make this stuff up. The only thing comparable would be Ahmed Chalabi lobbying for a sequel invasion
after the WMD hunt in Iraq came up empty, and having the same humiliated media figures and politicians reach for pom-poms
all over again.
Steele first appeared in connection
with the Trump story as a “well-placed
Western intelligence source” in a 2016 Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff.
The piece claimed a Trump aide named Carter Page was discussing the lifting of
sanctions with Rosneft chief Igor Sechin.
Steele, in fact, was a private opposition researcher hired by the
“premium research” firm Fusion-GPS, on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The Yahoo story came out on September 23, 2016; it would be over a year before
Steele’s status as a paid Clinton researcher would be made public.
After Isikoff’s piece came out, the Clinton campaign released a
statement about how it was “chilling” to learn that “U.S. intelligence
officials” were “conducting a probe into suspected meetings between Trump’s
foreign policy adviser Carter Page and members of Putin’s inner circle.”
If the merry-go-round trick of commenting gravely about a story you
yourself planted sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the tactic used by Vice
President Dick Cheney in the early 2000s, when he went on Meet The Press to
comment about “a story in the New York Times this morning” regarding Saddam
Hussein’s aluminum tubes. Press figures denounced such chicanery then.
Steele’s report came out in full
during the transition, in a sleazy series of maneuvers by outgoing intelligence
officials, who presented the incoming president with a synopsis of Steele’s
work.
When details of this meeting
leaked, news outlets that previously had been sitting on Steele’s report
because it was unverifiable suddenly had a “hook” to release news about the
briefing: Intelligence chiefs relayed
“allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and
financial information about Mr. Trump.” The
resulting viral furor spurred Buzzfeed
to publish the entire dossier, so Americans could “make up their own minds.”
In this way, the dossier was published without ever going through a
vetting process. For all the talk
of hacking, this was a true Trojan Horse penetration of the American news media
system (not that most media companies minded, of course).
Enthusiasts now cling to the idea
that the “dossier” was merely a “starting point,” and remains “neither proved
nor disproved” (the New York Times translation for “unmentionable until
published by someone less reputable”), but the whole shooting match should have
ended once the world got a chance to read Steele’s reports. Any sane person’s Malcolm Gladwell-Blink
reaction to these memos would be that they were lunatic conspiratorial
horseshit on the level of Avril Lavigne dying and being replaced by a clone
named “Melissa.”
Steele’s most boffo-sensational charge was Russians having a tape of
Trump getting off to prostitutes peeing on a Moscow hotel bed once slept in by
Barack and Michelle Obama. This, he said, “enabled” the Russians to
blackmail Trump “if they so wished.” However,
per Steele, Putin chose instead to offer a “regular flow” of “lucrative” real
estate deals that Trump for “some unknown reason” kept declining, even though
Steele simultaneously reported Trump was “exploring the real estate sector in
Petersburg as well as Moscow…”
Meanwhile Trump — who at the outset
of the alleged conspiracy was issuing reality TV challenges to heavyweights
like LaToya Jackson, Meat Loaf, and Jose Canseco — was supposedly feeding Putin information about Russian oligarchs in
America, through Russian émigrés “living in the U.S. as cover” (read:
Russian immigrants). These middlemen were paid through the
“mechanism” of Russian pension “disbursements.”
“TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS WERE
INVOLVED,” WROTE STEELE, ECHOING DR. EVIL.
Finally, after “at least” five years of “well-developed conspiracy,” when
Russia’s prize asset at last became the nominee of the Republican Party, Putin according to Steele withheld a secret
kompromat file on Hillary Clinton that was being personally run by spokesperson
Dmitry Peskov (because who doesn’t put a press chief known to half the world’s
foreign correspondents in charge of a secret intelligence file?)…
Devastating revelations? Not to Trump’s Team, who Steele claimed
was “relaxed” about Russia stories appearing in the press, as those only “deflected media and Democrats’ attention”
away from the real story, i.e. the “substantial… bribes and kickbacks” in
China. Steele said these would have been “very damaging” to the Trump
campaign if revealed, though Steele
didn’t know what they were well enough to reveal them…
Trump aides Carter Page and Paul Manafort, named as key conduits,
managed to keep their conspiracy to act as intelligence go-betweens hidden even
from secret FISA monitoring, the vast Chinese swindles never emerged, and no one ever found those cutout consular
officials, whom Steele in an interview with a State Department official seemed
to have believed were being paid out of a nonexistent Russian consulate in
Miami.
If you read this and thought it was
silly, you weren’t alone. In early 2017, CNN anchor Jake Tapper wrote to
Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith in a snit, complaining that Smith had been
“irresponsible” and “uncollegial” when he published the dossier. Was Tapper upset that Smith had broken with
ethical tradition by publishing unverified material, defaming a string of named
human beings as traitorous spies without evidence?
Nope. Tapper was mad that Smith had defamed the story by showing where it
came from! “I think your move makes the story less serious and credible,” he
wrote, in an email produced as part of a lawsuit against Buzzfeed. “I think
you damaged its impact.”
Tapper apparently liked the Steele
tale better when it was coming out in bits, through more politically astute
sources like his buddy and future
co-worker, the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, one of
the four Sneaky Petes who presented Trump with the Steele synopsis…
America didn’t lose its mind for the two ensuing years because of
Russian hacking, but rather because
of the widespread belief that the new president was a long-cultivated Russian
agent who would be found out at any moment, across years of “tipping
points” and “beginnings of the end.”
The original source of this madness was Steele, and the media and
political figures who leaned with all their might into this phony narrative
— especially the ones who knew it originated as Clinton campaign research — should be as embarrassed as the
newspapers and news networks who pushed the WMD hunt.
This obviously hasn’t happened, as the instinct instead has been to apply the
Scarlet Letter of conspiracy theory to those who didn’t buy this nonsense,
usually on the grounds that any effort to “discredit” Steele is just
pro-Trumpism by another name. This
has nothing to do with Trump, and everything to do with restoring controls that
are supposed to exist to prevent the press from leading the public off the deep
end.
The WMD affair showed what
happens when we don’t require sources to show us evidence, when we
let political actors use the press to “confirm” their own assertions, when we
report on the journey of rumors instead of the rumors themselves, and most
especially when we lionize intelligence
and law enforcement figures, who usually turn out to be just as craven and
unreliable as the rest of us.
When we let stuff like this go, the public sees us as fools, at which
point it doesn’t matter whether what we write is for or against any politician,
because nobody believes us anyway. Is this really the industry standard
we’re gunning for? Are we never going to own up to this one?
Yep, that is the media parlor trick, publish unsubstantiated
explosive allegations from an unnamed “high ranking official” and then that
unnamed official goes on all the CIA controlled media to cite those media
published allegations as evidence that it is true. But the whole kit and caboodle is coming
crashing down because President Trump is a fighter. Trump has the bully pulpit and as Matt Taibbi
pointed out, “the public sees us (the media) as fools and it doesn’t matter
what we write because nobody believes us anyway.
Now our entire intelligence apparatus and media mocking bird
media are under fire, they are desperate to discredit the Trump Administration
and impeach Trump before the truth can come out. Enter stage right, Attorney General William
Barr and his appointed prosecutor John Durham.
From Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
Will Durham Investigation Tank Impeachment Efforts?
If the recent moves by prosecutor
John Durham are any indication, some
important people have cause to be worried. After the investigation into the
origin of the Russia probe became a criminal matter, many have speculated
as to who might be in Durham’s crosshairs.
Sources familiar with Durham’s
investigation recently told Fox News the
prosecutor likely has evidence that crimes were committed. So who is guilty
of wrongdoing, and how will the progressive left, who championed the failed
Russia collusion narrative, react?
Indictments On The Horizon?
Durham recently elevated his investigation to criminal status, which
broadens the powers of the authorities looking into the matter. It means he can
subpoena witnesses, call a grand jury, and take other actions. Fox News’ source
indicated that the prosecutor might know already who engaged in illegal
activities.
“You do not impanel a grand jury at this point unless you are going to
indict,” the source said. “Durham is at a point where he knows he has crimes
and now the question is how many people were involved and they have a pretty
good idea of that group of people and what the charges can be and whether or
not they can get some cooperators.”
If the source is correct, it means
Durham possesses much of the information he needs to issue indictments. Perhaps
elevating the investigation gets him closer to uncovering the rest of the
crimes. If this is true, Durham’s probe
is likely to send the progressive left into a tizzy; they did not expect to be
on the receiving end of this strategy. So how will the Democrats and their
close allies in the corporate press react if the prosecutor files indictments
and makes arrests? It seems they have already given us a clue.
How Will The Left React?
The Democrats have already placed Durham in their sights, and the
leaders are rushing to condemn Attorney General William Barr for daring to
investigate government officials for potential wrongdoing. With no sense
of irony, they accuse the Justice Department of conducting a politically
motivated investigation to harm Trump’s political opponents. This is what a
lack of self-awareness looks like, folks.
William Barr
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and House
Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued a joint statement,
lashing out at the attorney general. “The Department of Justice under AG Barr
has lost its independence and become a vehicle for President Trump’s political
revenge,” they whined. “If the Department of Justice may be used as a
tool of political retribution or to help the President with a political
narrative for the next election, the
rule of law will suffer new and irreparable damage.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) claimed that Durham’s investigation is not
warranted. He stated that the Senate Intelligence Committee “is wrapping up
a three-year bipartisan investigation, and we’ve found nothing remotely
justifying this.”
Apparently, the Democrats have embraced the “good for me but
not for thee” policy over the past three years when it comes to
investigations.
What About Impeachment?
In the midst of an attempt to
impeach President Donald Trump, the
arrests of government officials who began an obvious politically motivated
investigation is the last thing the Democrats want. While they use the
president’s phone call with Ukraine as a pretext to conduct yet another probe,
it might not be a good look if Durham indicts other officials for doing the
same.
Fox News also reported that the prosecutor is “very interested” in
questioning former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Intelligence
Director James Clapper. In fact, another source told Fox that Brennan was
informed by his attorney that Durham might reach out to him. FBI agent Peter
Strzok – a key member of the team investigating the Trump campaign – also might
be a focus of the continuing investigation. He has been the subject of
scrutiny since messages between himself and former FBI attorney Lisa Page
revealed a distinct anti-Trump bias.
It is no secret that the Democrats
have been planning to impeach Trump since five minutes after he won the
election in 2016. The false Russia
collusion narrative was supposed to be the kill shot to the president’s time in
office. But special counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed that their efforts
were based on utter falsehoods. Now,
the left has replaced Russia with Ukraine, hoping to pound a final nail in the
coffin. It is clear to anyone following politics that it is out to get
Trump by any means necessary.
However, if Durham’s investigation
results in indictments of prominent individuals who targeted the president
during the 2016 campaign season, it might be yet another demonstration that Democrats are motivated by politics when it
comes to removing Trump, not a sense of duty or altruism. It is one thing
to lead an impeachment effort based on “Orange Man Bad;” it is quite another if the DOJ exposes left-leaning government
officials who used illegal means to damage the president.
Support for impeachment is still
high, but it is sinking. As time goes on, with no new compelling evidence
against Trump, it will continue to decline. If Durham arrests political actors who worked against the Trump
administration, the American public will see through the effort to unseat the
president through the impeachment process. Then the Democrats will not have
the support they need to push it through. Either way, it looks like the Democrats’
only hope for victory lies with the 2020 election, not the impeachment process.
Ouch, that’s the worst thing that can happen to the
two-headed War and Terrorism Party. “Their
only hope for victory lies with the 2020 election.” If that’s the case a stake has been driven
through their black heart.
The Liberal Democratic Party does not exist, the Conservative
Republican Party does not exist. One party exists, it is a War and Terrorism Party
consisting of Oligarchs controlled and run by Wall Street and London banks and
their enforcement arm’s the CIA, FBI and MI6. We were warned that anyone who
dares to drain America’s filthy, deadly CIA swamp beware. The CIA has six ways from Sunday to get even
with you. Turns out that the CIA is
about as powerful as the Wizard of Oz hiding behind a curtains bellowing out
scary threats.
Trump is fighting back and that’s bad news for the War and
Terrorism Party. They foolishly have put
all their putrid eggs in one basket the impeachment basket believing they could
continue to hide behind a media provided curtain of deceit. God Bless President Trump for taking on the
CIA and exposing rot that has permeated our government for too long and God
Bless America.
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