The whistleblower who wasn’t
Well, well, well. Not a whistleblower, just a person who heard a couple of people describe something about which they may or may not have had first-hand knowledge. And as we know from the transcript of the call plus the whistleblower complaint, these people mischaracterized that “something.”
You can find the “whistleblower” document here.
This won’t stop the Democrats and the press from going on and on with this, at least for a while. There’s Adam Schiff, for example, making stuff up, as well as promising “to protect the courageous whistleblower.”
Sure Adam, sure. You do that. The “courageous whistleblower” who was found to be biased. But the bigger issue IMHO is that this whistleblower had basically the same connection to reality as the many people who tell rumors of rumors of rumors to the NY Times, which then turn out to be false. This time they decided to go the “whistleblower” route instead of the “leak to the Times” route, just to add variety and supposed gravitas.
Here’s a short version of some of the things wrong with the whistleblower story and the reporting on it. The long version would take a book.
And one of the more interesting things I learned today is that there is a treaty between the US and Ukraine for cooperation in prosecuting crimes. It was passed during the Clinton administration.
The internet age has encouraged the hottest takes at all times but this really is what it looks like when the Social Contract breaks down. This isn’t gas lighting or even a show trial where you phony up evidence that looks true. This is just straight up mob power and mob psychosis.
I wonder how much people on the Left are paying attention to this. If they can do it to Donald Trump, you damn well know they’d do it to someone like Bernie Sanders or Tulsi Gabbard.
Mike
There are certainly many Republicans in Congress who are of dubious intelligence and questionable probity, but no elected official in the GOP can match Schiff, Nadler, Waters, Lieu and many others on the opposing side for sheer dishonesty and the most flagrant contempt for facts, evidence, reason and logic. It must also be said that many of the NeverTrumpers at National Review are becoming more and more delusional.
Sean Davis, twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1177254925518213120
sdferr:
Wow.
I had read bits and pieces of some of that, but putting it all together as Sean Davis did is stunning.
Indeed neo, I think we can finally begin to understand the lunatic confidence Pelosi and company have been displaying the last few days. Their assurance was based on their prior establishment of the whole scheme, to say nothing of possessing the “complaint” they claimed not to have. The final nail is merely that they took the claims of the complaint as gospel truth.
Imbeciles.
Morons.
Snow on Pine provided Rep. Devin Nunes’ excellent opening statement here.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/09/25/whats-the-impeachment-craze-about/#comment-2456900
Not legitimately a whistleblower complaint in the legal sense, based entirely on hearsay, whistleblower not identified, the hearsay sources not identified, complaint not consistent with the phone transcript. Garbage, entirely.
The hands down most lasting impact of the Obama presidency is not Obamacare or any other policy it the utter corrupting politicization of the DOJ and Intelligence sectors of the government.
This is banana republic type stuff.
“Schiff and his allies even stovepiped information in the same manner as during the collusion hoax: they leak claims to compliant media, media runs with claims, then leakers point to the media reports they seeded as proof of their allegations. They started back in May.
And surprise! The anti-Trump leaker cited as proof of corruption in his complaint the very same articles that Schiff and his allies quite obviously seeded to form the narrative they desired.” — sdferr — Sean Davis
This is Nancy Pelosi’s “wrap up smear.” She claims its a GOP tactic, but as Devin Nunes has said, Dems always project or attribute their tactics over to the GOP.
The difference here is that instead of a smear like “I know you beat your wife,” it is “He is subverting the election process and The Constitution itself.”
“Protect the whistleblower.” Projection. It was Donna Brazile who wondered whether she was in danger and hid out in her house with the shades down after revealing the unethical transfer of control of the DNC to Hillary’s campaign. And Brazile knows these people far better than we do.
Hypothetical:
President Hypothetical runs on a campaign promise to win war with some country. Having hard time winning war which affects his re-election possibilities. Then new president elected in country whose support would greatly help in war effort. In call President Hypothetical urges country’s new president to help with war.
Is this improper?
Griffin:
Of course not.
A president can conduct his own foreign policy, and that foreign policy is obviously conducted not only for the benefit of that politician but for the benefit of the country, in his opinion. The two are hardly mutually exclusive. There is no requirement that a president act AGAINST his own interests, and that every single interaction with a foreign government be pure.
Maybe such purity would consist in implementing the policies of that president’s opponents.
It’s an absurd idea.
That, by the way, is why it is at least possible that Joe Biden’s pressure to fire the prosecutor was a bona fide exercise of government policy. But it is highly suspicious in that case, because it serves the financial interests of his son, who already appears to be enriching himself from connections related to his father’s position rather than any skills that son may possess.
Neo,
Yes, I agree but under the new rules apparently established the last week my President Hypothetical could be accused of pressuring a foreign government to act in a way that would benefit him.
Just proves how ridiculous this whole thing is.
Joe Biden should never have been officially involved in Ukraine as because of his son’s large business interest. The conflict of interest is obvious.
Griffin:
Indeed.
It sounds like Ben Rhodes “echo chamber” technique.
Breitbart:
Report: Federal Worker Who Made Complaint Is CIA Officer
” . . . a right to anonymity.”
Were genuine whistleblowing involved one might acquiesce to such a claim. Not so much when the “whistleblowing” is bogus, a cover for a purely political hit job. Or no?
I welcome the left continuing to demonstrate their utter lack of remorse, as they attempt to seize power. The longer and more extreme their actions, the more certain that the consequences are going to be biblical.
“Some may recall the apocryphal story of the Texan accused of murder who, when asked by the judge if he had anything to say in his defense, replied, “Well, your Honor, I guess he just needed killin’…” https://www.redstate.com/diary/cmndr45/2011/05/06/he-just-needed-killin/
I take no pleasure in it but that’s where the left’s path leads to…
Wow, Fusion GPS and Schiff had this since Aug 12. What evil are these people. I’m ashamed he is from California. I knew he was unethical but the depth of his evil lies is worse that a typical criminal .