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The Deep State Strikes
h/t InstapunditIn case anyone still doubts it, the deep state is real. That doesn't mean people in public life still don't do dumb things. It also doesn't mean unqualified people don't, either by appointment or through election, get into positions of power and authority. But you don't have to be a raging paranoid to believe it exists, is active, and has more to say about what the government does than we do. The federal government is unaccountably large. Whatever accountability people think exists is largely a fiction maintained not by the rule of law but by the actions of men. Friday's news that former White House national security adviser Mike Flynn has pleaded guilty to a single count from among the charges brought against him by former FBI Director Robert Mueller and his merry band of cutthroats should make that clear. Perhaps Flynn did break the law. He's admitted as much ‐ but why? Did he do it because he was guilty (and agreed to say anything) in order to avoid having his life ruined by crushing legal expenses and in order to see his son remain at liberty? ...There are lots of powerful people in both political parties and around the globe who didn't want Trump to win the election. They were afraid, and rightly so, that he meant it when he said he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. ...We're approaching a constitutional crisis that gets at the essence of self-government. Should "We, the people" be in charge of the U.S. government or should that role be ceded even further to the career bureaucrats, members of the Foreign Service, Capitol Hill staff, K Street lobbyists, media stars and others who make up the permanent government? The day of reckoning is coming, something the president could bring about sooner rather than later by ‐ now that he has pleaded guilty to something - pardoning Flynn in order to destroy Mueller's ability to put pressure on him. It would be something to see, watching the special prosecutor and his minions try to move ahead in their effort to construct a semblance of proof the Trump campaign coordinated activities with the Russian government to the detriment of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign without being able to squeeze a key player in this fantastic fantasy. It's not a matter of Flynn not being able to talk as much as it is liberating him to talk about the pressure applied to him by the prosecutor ‐ which, if past behavior is any indication, probably should itself constitute some kind of a crime. ... Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-03 |
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