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Government Corruption
Will the spies and malefactors in our government ever come clean on their roles in the Russia collusion coup? Is there one good man among them?
2023-05-18
[Heartlander] In the haunting Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others, an East German Stasi agent spies on innocent artists to tragic effect — but ends up changed, regretful and more fully human.

Watching it again this past week made me wonder: Is it remotely possible that America’s domestic spies and malefactors — who conspired to subvert and perhaps destroy our republic the past seven years — might also someday feel guilt and shame enough to come clean?

The Durham report on the FBI’s Russia collusion coup lays bare the fact that federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies under Barack Obama cynically conspired to gin up an investigation of candidate-turned-President Donald Trump. While cozying up to the Hillary Clinton campaign, the agency ignored intelligence of "a trusted foreign source pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server."

The world-class conspiracy, involving an unknown number of unindicted co-conspirators, led to trumped-up charges against former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (who is now suing the government for $50 million for wrongful prosecution); illegal surveillance of a Trump supporter, aided by the phony Steele dossier and by repeated bald-faced government lies to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and a two-year, multimillion-dollar Potemkin "probe" by special prosecutor Robert Mueller that hamstrung and further divided America.

All this, despite the fact that Christopher Steele’s own researcher had told the FBI in May 2017 there was absolutely nothing to the dossier. Yet the political operatives atop the agency plowed on in their scheme to destroy Trump and install their preferred political regime.

Does that even sound like America?
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  ^^^^
https://freebeacon.com/elections/clinton-collusion-russian-spies-and-more-eight-surprises-from-the-durham-report/
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-05-18 13:55  

#9  Key players in the Durham investigation refused interviews with the special counsel. The list includes:

• James Comey

• Andrew McCabe

• Peter Strzok

• Former FBI counterintelligence chief Bill Priestap

• Marc Elias, Clinton campaign attorney who funded the Steele dossier

• Glenn Simpson, cofounder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier

Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-05-18 13:54  

#8  A Stasi agent in Cold War East Germany, having grown up in Nazi Germany during WWII, might be excused for doing his job. He grew up in an amoral culture where that type of job might have been seen as one of the few ways to get ahead. I can't judge him because for all I know about that time and place, he might have been a basically decent human being who just didn't know any better.

I cannot say the same for the likes of Peter Stzrok. I believe that he was born that way and recruited by people who valued his particular type of character defect. After seeing the smirk on his face when he testified before Congress, lying and claiming that he couldn't remember much of anything, I don't believe that he will ever know the meaning of remorse, guilt or shame. Sociopaths and reptiles never do.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-05-18 12:06  

#7  The system was designed with checks and balances that have been negated or overridden so that we have collected bad folks in elected and unelected offices. If there is a good person in the system, that person would have to be hiding from attack.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-05-18 11:55  

#6  The worst kind of evil - the kind that genuinely believes it’s good.
Posted by: Hupolunter de Medici7308   2023-05-18 10:18  

#5  No, and hell no.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-05-18 08:32  

#4  FBI employees had security clearances revoked after speaking out against 'politicized rot': House report
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-18 08:08  

#3  Congresswoman files resolution to expel Rep. Adam Schiff for pushing 'false narratives' in Durham report
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-05-18 08:02  

#2  /\ Hiding dog turds among cow pies. Who will notice ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-05-18 06:54  

#1  Considering all the lies and disinformation after the Russian Hoax I would suggest the success of the Russian Hoax just encouraged more mass manipulation by the deep state.
Posted by: Airandee   2023-05-18 06:50  

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