[Daily Caller] In our nation’s worst governmental scandal, Watergate, the Federal Bureau of Investigation heroically kept widespread White House corruption from being concealed, eventually reviving important prosecutions. Sadly, in today’s increasingly convoluted moral universe, senior FBI officials, it now appears, have tried to artificially create serious "Russiagate" crimes, thereby becoming implicated in a scandal promising to be nastier than Watergate. Congress presently awaits DOJ documents which may or may not confirm what presently seem reasonable inferences of such FBI wrongdoing.
In Watergate, the White House and senior DOJ officials attempted to limit the investigation to the seven arrested members of the burglary team caught penetrating the DNC Headquarters in the Watergate Office Building. Deputy Associate FBI Director Mark Felt, to prevent the FBI from becoming complicit in a politicized investigation, met with the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward to avoid this corruption through public exposure. The FBI deserves its honor as the unsung hero of Watergate, refusing to become politicized.
However, one perverse lesson of Watergate is that Felt would have received great perks and personal laurels if he had gone along with the corrupt political program. Heeding a lesson not intended by Felt, FBI Director James Comey engaged in acrobatic contortions during the 2016 election to help presumed President-Elect Hillary Clinton to escape serious criminal charges in the email and related obstruction probes. But this blatant politicization pales in comparison to emerging evidence that Comey’s team, working with John Brennan’s partisan CIA, and partnering with British intelligence agency GCHQ, had attempted to fabricate serious Trump-Russia electoral interference crimes akin to treason.
The "Russian collusion" inquiry began in December 2015 (not, as claimed, on July 31, 2016), with a tip from GCHQ to Brennan that Putin wished to financially support a Donald Trump presidential candidacy. Nothing has yet emerged, in subsequent FISA warrant applications or elsewhere in leaks, to suggest that the tip was anything but phony. But on December 28, 2015, after Brennan had hurriedly formed a special "inter-agency" group, one of Comey’s top aides Peter Strzok was attempting to get approval for "LUREs," Fedspeak for spies, inferentially to penetrate the Trump campaign. All of this would have been well and good if there had been a solid basis to suspect criminal activity by the Trump campaign. But, it now appears, rather than dismiss the inaccurate tip as disinformation, the FBI tried to manufacture evidence where none had existed, hoping real wrongdoing would eventually be found. Thus started an investigation without a crime, long a Comey specialty.
[Townhall] Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray are on Capitol Hill Thursday morning to testify about the FBI's conduct during the 2016 presidential election. The House Judiciary Committee members had plenty to ask the two men about the recent IG report that exposed the anti-Trump bias of some FBI agents. One of those agents, Peter Strzok, met with committee members behind closed doors this week.
The committee is also fed up with the apparent resistance from the DOJ and FBI for documents related to the agencies' conduct, specifically whether informants spied on the Trump campaign.
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It is very likely the FBI and others were and continue to be involved in a clandestine intelligence collection effort and disinformation campaign against candidate and now President Donald Trump.
The larger question is, did they use a foreign intelligence agency (Christopher Steele and MI6) to help facilitate a classic 'false flag' effort ?
The evidence is certainly pointing in that direction.
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Rosenstein made an enemy in Jordan, which a wise bureaucrat would not have done. There is a move to replace Ryan with Jordan, and though that seems unlikely at present, Jordan should have a bright career.
#7
Maybe at this point Trump should just de-classify the whole shebang and release it to Congress and eventually the American people? I'm thinking the reason that he doesn't is there might be a lot in the documents that would jeopardize a criminal investigation or unsealed grand jury indictments.
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@JohnQC - It's also too soon. Dragging this mess into the sunlight is a move that could save a Republican House in '18 or shore up a 2nd Trump term in '20 if well-timed (read "dropped very close to election day).
#12
MI6 can spy on Americans; the US agencies can spy on Brits. As fellow Echelon members they can trade info. Having the info isn't against the arcane rules if you've obtained it "legally"
#13
Ref #12. Unless something has changed over the past 20 years, one small problem. Executive Order (EO) 12333 prohibits collection on US Citizens. Circumventing 12333 for the purpose of collection is a big no, no.
Using information collected by a foreign intelligence entity for the purpose of legal action against a US Citizen, also a no, no. Again, unless something has drastically changed.
[David Warren's Essays on Idleness] Today would be the 104th anniversary of the death, by assassination, of the presumptive heir to the throne of Austro-Hungary. The archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and his Czech wife, Sophie, were shot by a 19-year-old hothead, while stalled in traffic during a visit to Sarajevo. It was the second serious act of incivility towards them that morning. Another Bosnian fanatic had tossed a grenade at their car, earlier. It was moving then, however, and all those injured were in the car behind.
It is interesting to me, that in their last moments, only the archduke knew what was happening. His retinue were in confusion, at first thinking he had a nosebleed, perhaps, and that his wife was fainting at the sight of it. Franz Ferdinand’s last words were: “Dear Sophie, don’t die! Stay alive for our children.” She was a loyal wife, but having been shot in the stomach, found this instruction impossible to obey.
Let us not even try to review the awkward yet quick diplomatic Dance of Death that followed from this incident. Within a few weeks, all Europe was at war, and the issue with which it had started — the constitutional status of Bosnia-Herzegovina — was no longer on the front page. This year we have been celebrating, or rather ignoring, the centenary of the conclusion of that Great War, which stands as a bookmark in history, marking to my mind the beginning of the chapter on “Post-Modernity.”
[Red State] As covered earlier today and yesterday, the rhetoric of the Left is escalating to dangerous levels.
Within a little more than a week, Maxine Waters called for the public and perpetual harassment of Trump’s Cabinet (see here), Sarah Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen were rejected at restaurants (covered here), and raging imbecile Peter Fonda fantasized about the child rape and naked woman torture of those close to the President (read that incredible story here).
While in North Dakota Wednesday, President Trump thanked the most unhinged politicians for their lack of civility, which ultimately does exactly what he has suggested: it repulses the masses.
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I won't even consider looking at dead state. They are actually printing articles that aren't anti-Trump now?
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POTUS Trump thanked the most unhinged politicians for their lack of civility, which ultimately does exactly what he has suggested: it repulses the masses. The rocks get turned over and the unmasking of the unhinged politicians occurs. Trump has a gift.
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"While in North Dakota Wednesday, President Trump thanked the most unhinged politicians for their lack of civility, which ultimately does exactly what he has suggested: it repulses the masses."
Ummm... you might want to cool it with that kind of talk, Mr. President. While most Democrats, and all of the Democratic base, are irretrievably batshit crazy, there are a few non-insane (or "less insane") among the leadership who are beginning to suspect that their incivility and the constant cries of "Trump is Hitler! LITERALLY!!" may cost them dearly this November.
Don't give them any more clues, OK?
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Chumming is not about calming the sharks down.
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Don't give them any more clues, OK?
He's using the very nature of anti-Trumpers against themselves.
[WND] Big Media, the policy veterans and the chancelleries across Europe and Britain are constantly complaining: Donald Trump has had the temerity to defy their international order, summit ‐ and seek peace ‐ with their enemies and mess with the multilateral maze they call agreements. He even declared, early in June, that the U.S. would be far better off if it negotiated bilateral trade agreements.
Or, in Trump speak, "country-on-country agreements."
But what does an entrenched punditocracy, a self-anointed, meritless intelligentsia (which is not very intelligent and draws its financial sustenance from the political spoils system), oleaginous politicians, slick media and big money care? They’ve all worked in tandem to advance a grand government ‐ national and transnational ‐ that aggrandizes its constituent elements, while diminishing those it’s supposed to serve.
These political players have built the den of iniquity Trump keeps trampling. Against these forces ‐ NAFTA, NATO, FBI, DOJ, CIA, a whole alphabet soup of acronyms that stands for the Permanent State, national and international ‐ is Trump, still acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the house crashing down on its patrons.
And his latest: Trump’s judicial appointments, in particular, might just prove to be "his most enduring legacy," lamented the liberal Economist. These certainly threaten to cement the Supreme Court’s originalist bent:
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There might be some funny 'tongue in cheek' going on here. I believe George Wills recently described Trump as 'oleaginous', a word you don't hear very often. Back at ya George.
[Jpost] News coverage of the large and growing anti-regime protests in Iran this week has included warnings by Iran "experts" insisting that the vocal support the protesters are receiving on social media from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is counterproductive.
Israeli and US statements of support for the Iranian people and their desire to rid themselves of the regime that oppresses them will only weaken them, experts warn. But several counter-indications make clear that these warnings should be disregarded.
...Another problem with the position that Netanyahu and Pompeo and other senior Israeli and American officials should keep their counsel on the protests is that it is not at all clear why they think the protesters hate Israel and the US more than they hate the regime.
...The slogans being shouted in Tehran’s grand bazaar this week ‐ "Iran out of Syria," "Iran out of Lebanon," "I will die for Iran not for Syria or Lebanon," and "Death to Palestine," are not calls for a change in policy per se. They are a rejection of the Iranian revolution. Well, the "experts" who hate Israel more than they hate USA and vice versa, project. Plus, regime change in Iran threatens EUropean profits.
...Given the balance of power favors the regime, and that as protests grow the specter of mass repression increases, what else ‐ short of war ‐ can be done to weaken the regime?
In a word: AMIA.
Twenty-four years ago, on July 18, 1994, at Iran’s orders, Hezbollah terrorists in Argentina bombed the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, or Jewish mutual aid association in Buenos Aires. Eighty-five people were murdered and more than 300 were wounded in the worst terror attack in Argentina’s history.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
When you wake Woodrow at #10, wake me as well. (Caution - use a phone) 
[WND] Big Media, the policy veterans and the chancelleries across Europe and Britain are constantly complaining: Donald Trump has had the temerity to defy their international order, summit ‐ and seek peace ‐ with their enemies and mess with the multilateral maze they call agreements. He even declared, early in June, that the U.S. would be far better off if it negotiated bilateral trade agreements.
