Although other news has tended to eclipse Spygate…
…and although I believe that is partly (or mostly) by design, what happened in connection with Russiagate/Spygate is nevertheless extremely dangerous and unconscionable, and should raise alarms with every American.
I know, I know; fat chance.
But here’s more on what went down:
Conald Trump was president for only 24 hours when then-FBI supervisor Peter Strzok sent an angry missive to his boss. A colleague had given the new White House a counterintelligence briefing and hadn’t consulted on how to use the meeting to further the Russia collusion investigation…
“I am angry that Jen did not at least cc: me, as my branch has pending investigative matters there,” Strzok added in his email to Assistant Director for Counterintelligence William Priestap. “This brief may play into our investigative strategy, and I would like the ability to have visibility and provide thoughts/counsel to you in advance of the briefing…
The email exchanges — and others like it made public on Friday — have shocked veteran intelligence experts, who told Just the News that any effort to use official briefings of the president and his White House to spy, investigate or gather information violated the necessary trust for keeping a president apprised of intelligence in a dangerous world.
“It’s unbelievable this kind of stuff was going on,” said Fred Fleitz, a longtime intelligence analyst…”He has to be able to ask difficult questions. You want him and his aides to ask hypotheticals during the briefings as they get up to speed. But if those questions are going to be leaked back to investigators, the president is not going to talk to the experts.”
Fleitz said the new memos show that Obama-era holdovers in the FBI and Justice Department have “used every element of the domestic intelligence services to destroy this president.”
And all of this was despite the fact that the FBI already knew at that point that there was no there there in terms of the dossier and Michael Flynn. They weren’t going to let a few little things like that deflect them from their goal of destruction.
I am so tired of evidence like this mounting and mounting and mounting and being utterly ignored by everyone who isn’t already on the right. That’s every bit as shocking as the actions themselves – at least, it was when it first began to be revealed. It’s no longer shocking at all, really. That’s how far we’ve slid down the slippery slope.
[Hat tip: commenter Barry Meislin.]
[NOTE: Much more here.]
You won’t here any alarm from the press because they were doing the same thing… working to destroy the president by any means possible. The law, ethics, and plain decency be damned!
I’m surprised Durham hasn’t had an “accident”.
The Democrats are willing to believe the “dossier” is all true. Denny Heck, (D-WA) is running for Lt. Governor here and is claiming there is a mountain of evidence against Trump. He could only believe that if he believed the dossier. I’m sure there are legions of Dems who will not take any time to look at the counter evidence.
I have said all along that their alibi will be, “We couldn’t take a chance that the POTUS was a Russian asset. There was so much smoke, we believed there was a real fire.” Proving that they proceeded with political malice of intent will be hard, although many of Strzok’s e-mails seem pretty revealing of malice of intent to me.
John Durham, paging John Durham. We need your results soon.
“Let 100 falsehoods bloom…”
Should be on most of the mastheads across the nation and around the world.
(Should make that a million…)
I was on a liberal site recently about Mueller being called to testify before the senate, and most of the story was about how Trump just can’t let it go.
Of course they want Republicans to just let it go– and that’s the narrative they’re going to push.
“…Durham…”
FWIW (from a knowledgeable, experienced fellow but one who whose judgement seems a bit reckless at times, so “caveat emptor”):
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1285296312120782848
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1285296310493405185
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1285284606409752576
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1285296309272866816
And the magnum opus (which I would prefer were a bit less convoluted…):
https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/07/20/notes-by-peter-strzok-regarding-new-york-times-article-in-feb-2017-implicates-comey-and-mccabe-in-conspiracy/
Related (Strzok’s attorney):
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1284356284876111872
The question no one asks is who was pulling the strings? Overthrowing the President would in another time get you drawn and quartered if you failed, no mercy and maximum pain. We know that the investigation was being run out of the Oval office two weeks before Trump took office. We have Susan Rice’s infamous memo to herself saying that Obama told them to do everything “by the book”. Of itself that was an extraordinary thing to say to a bunch of officers of the law who should do that automatically. The conspirators on their own, just decided to continue the investigation with no direction from above? Bureaucrats are not known for either initiative or daring. My suspicion is that Obama was deeply involved via cutouts until the conspiracy unraveled. Food for thought…
I suspect Valarie Jerrett and her old Chicago friends were pulling the strings along with some of the establishment Republicans, (Bush, Bush, Bush, is he here?) were willing to try to sink Trump coming out of the gate. I heard a little bit of the inside upper Republican talk at the time that pressure would be put on Trump and being Trump he would get fed up and step aside and they could all live with Pence. George W has really disappointed me over the last few years.
It seems the reckoning never comes.
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse is spawning a movement about disseminating the evidence as briefing documents designed to help conservatives communicate that evidence to others, but ALSO to raise awareness among government officials about how much we know, and how angry we are!
I find the second objective particularly interesting, in that it recognizes that success is not just nailing the guilty, but first about convincing the AG that we are not going to let him sweep this mess under the rug!
George W has really disappointed me over the last few years.
When it was known in 2013 that the IRS had volunteered to harass the opposition and then played hide-the-ball with their own inspector-general (while their outgoing directed lied through his teeth to a congressional committee and Lois Lerner took the Fifth), that was the time for Jimmy Carter and the Bushes to speak. They said nothing. The lot of them can do the world a favor and leave public life.
“convincing the AG that we are not going to let him sweep this mess under the rug!” – Ray
I agree with the idea that putting these documents before the public is both a resource and a warning, but I really don’t think Congress or Judicial Watch (which has received others under FOIA) would have gotten them if AG Barr didn’t want them to be got.
We’re all Obama Banana Republican’s now. This ship cannot be set aright.