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The Undemocratic Democratic Party

The Undemocratic Democratic Party

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In the past week, two influential former Democrats threw their support to the candidacy of Donald Trump for President, citing the dangers that the Democratic Party and its newly coronated standard bearer, Kamala Harris, pose to America’s democracy, as well as to world peace and security.

On August 23, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his Presidential campaign and pledged his support to Trump. This came after the Democratic Party, the party of his assassinated father and uncle, did everything it could do to thwart voters’ ability to cast their ballots for him, both in the party’s single-candidate non-primaries, and then in the general election. Kennedy’s move was followed on August 26 when former Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Tulsi Gabbard also endorsed Trump, citing his dedication to preventing wars and working for peace, as well as restoring and preserving civil liberties, objectives abandoned by the Democratic Party.

At a joint rally held with Trump in Phoenix on August 23, Kennedy called out the Democratic Party for what it has become, which is inherently and thoroughly undemocratic. The state media did its best to hide such a momentous occasion from your eyes, and belittled and attempted to discredit Kennedy when it mentioned him at all, so if you don’t know of the event or of Kennedy’s words, you might want to re-evaluate what sources you use for news since you’re being denied access to an entirely different perspective than is being fed you.

Perhaps the most poignant and relevant words uttered by Kennedy are these:

“The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles, and it’s joined this systemic attack on democracy. It also — the media — justifies their censorship on the grounds of combating misinformation. But governments and oppressors don’t censor lies. They don’t fear lies. They fear the truth. And that’s what they censor.”

Read those words and let them sink in, really sink in, and you have the essence of what is going on in this country now and since well before the election of Donald Trump — which the corrupt state media then, as now, worked feverishly to prevent — in 2016. The trend is now so well established and documented there is no doubt about it. I call it the state media since it works hand in glove not only with the Democratic Party, but with such key government institutions and centers of power as the FBI and the CIA. The media hold the key to whether democracy survives or perishes in this country, and as of this moment they have thrown in with the forces that wish to overturn democracy in favor of one-party authoritarianism.

Gabbard, a former four-term Congresswoman, highly placed DNC executive, 17-year veteran of the Hawaii Army National Guard, and former candidate for President, left the Democratic Party in 2022, also citing how the party has become anti-democratic, repressive of free speech, and a supporter of endless wars. Introduced by Trump at a conference of the National Guard Association of the United States in Detroit on August 26, Gabbard said she supported Trump since he opposes the endless wars the Democrats have come to support, and the kinds of dangers to civil liberties a Harris Presidency would pose.

“I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war,” she said. “We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace. And we cannot live free as long as we have a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil liberties, weaponizing our very, our very institutions against those they deem as a threat. Kamala Harris has done this over the last three and a half years. She won’t hesitate to continue that if she is elected as President. President Trump has been their first and foremost target in this because they don’t want us, as voters, to even have the option to vote for him. I’ve been their most recent target, added to a secret domestic terror watch list after exposing the truth about what kind of dangers we would face if Kamala Harris is elected as President.”

I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to let both RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard tell you, in their own words, why they have come to support Trump. RFK Jr. lays out his case and details the ways in which the Democratic Party has changed and abandoned its earlier roots, and has become the un- and even anti-democratic party it now is. And Gabbard explains why she believes Trump will work to defuse ongoing wars and work for peace, and the dangers to our freedoms a Kamala Harris Presidency presents. There also are links to reportage on both presentations. Listen, read, or both.

Click on the image below to hear RFK Jr.’s own words. Be sure to turn on the sound. A good piece presenting and analyzing RFK Jr.’s endorsement speech in the Daily Mail is accessible with the link below the image.

Read Daily Mail piece on RFK Jr.’s speech

Click on the image below to hear Tulsi Gabbard’s own words. Below that is a link to the AP report on her endorsement of Trump.

Read AP piece on Tulsi Gabbard’s endorsement of Trump

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Sticks and stones

Sticks and stones

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Many children, myself included, often heard the refrain, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. In my case, it was part of my parents’ efforts to calm me in the face of daily schoolyard bullying to which I was subjected in elementary school. I might not have believed it then, but after Saturday’s events, if we didn’t already know better, we do now.

Let’s get right to the heart of the matter. Words can hurt. They can kill. And Saturday they came damned close to killing a former President, the Republican soon-to-be nominee for President, and if current trends hold, the next President of the United States. How close? A fraction of an inch. Less than a couple centimeters.

Ever since Donald Trump came down the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his run for President in June 2015 there has been a veritable unrelenting tidal wave of hatred, vitriol, and shameless lies to come out of what can only be termed the state media and the Democratic Party against the man who would become the 45th President. They mocked him, accused him of being a racist and a sexist, said he was a hater.

His opponent, Hillary Clinton, bankrolled a bogus so-called dossier to paint him as a tool of Vladimir Putin and someone who would have Russian whores pee on him. High officials in what is supposed to be the country’s premier organ of law enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, furthered the lies, tricked close associates of Trump into entrapment, knowingly verified warrants as truthful that they knew were not. Putin himself would have been proud of the techniques used by FBI officials to attempt to prevent the will of the people from selecting Trump as their President.

For virtually the entire four years of his term he was hounded by one bogus investigation after another. He was impeached, but not convicted, twice. He was badgered, slandered, and mocked relentlessly. Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars were squandered on trying to pin one false charge after another on the man. The nation’s energy and attention and good will were plundered, all because a single man dared challenge the established order. And that established order fought back, covering up the corruption and perfidy of his opponent in 2020, using a national crisis in the form of a pandemic as an excuse to bend and break election laws, putting a weak, already dementia-ridden tool who would do as he was told, into office.

That was then. This is now.

A lot of people, the current incumbent among them, thought Trump was done, an artifact of the past. But he wasn’t done, and when he indicated he was going to reclaim the office he felt was taken from him, the wheels of the established order swung back into action. Biden’s Department of Justice (sic) swung into action, launching what has been termed a lawfare campaign against him, ginning up legal cases on charges others, Biden himself and Hillary before him, were guilty of, but never charged. Dem Party hacks in Georgia and New York ginned up state cases. But Biden and his henchpeople underestimated voters ability to see through the ploy, and with each charge, each case, each hearing, Trump’s popularity increased.

Biden, in his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2021, promised to bring the country together. Something he put the lie to almost every time he has opened his mouth since. He spoke nothing but defamation and hatred for the half of the country who continued to support Donald Trump. He sneered at “Maga Republicans,” said Trump would be the end of democracy. Never mind reconciliation. It was the hyperbole of hatred that came from Biden’s mouth.

“In the end, they’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way,” Trump presciently told his supporters. By now those supporters see all too clearly the truth in those words.

And then Saturday happened, and the true import of the lies and hatred and vitriol spewed by the current President and the lackeys in the state media — afflicted to the last one with the mental illness known as TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome — became apparent. You don’t compare someone to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, say he’s going to usher in Fascism and Naziism, be the death of democracy, predict he would incarcerate and execute his opponents, and all the other hyperbolic nonsense spewed by the real haters in the White House and state media, and not expect some nut job, like Saturday’s shooter, to take those things to heart and act on them. Take, for instance, the June cover of the leftist magazine The New Republic, presented above. That’s a real cover, not some made-up meme. And the magazine had the chutzpah to double-down on defending it following Saturday’s assassination attempt.

The power of words to hurt

If someone really believes Trump to be Hitler, who wouldn’t want to see him done away with before he can take power? Biden and others can blather about deploring political violence, but if they really believed their words they wouldn’t say things to incite it. We don’t know all of his motivation, but Thomas Andrew Crooks, the 20-year-old shooter on Saturday, might have felt he was doing something heroic in attempting to kill Donald Trump. I’d also add that he gave truth to Trump’s words about who the haters are really coming for, since the shooter was willing to fire into a crowd of Trump supporters, killing one and critically wounding two others. Almost as miraculous as Trump’s survival is that more innocent people were not killed or wounded in the eight-round fuselage released by Crooks from his AR-15.

Just last week, Biden told donors in a private phone conference it was time to forget about his abysmal debate performance and “to put Trump in the bulls-eye.” Well, on Saturday, someone attempted to do just that.

On Monday, in one of his halting, stumbling, and rare interviews, with NBC’s Lester Holt, Biden tried to cover his tracks. And he couldn’t even get that right, mumbling a couple of times that he didn’t say “crosshairs,” as if it made any difference. Apparently he was trying to remember some talking point given him by his handlers, and all it did was further reinforce the notion of what he did say, and his inability to express thoughts cogently.

Despite every thing thrown at Trump, from Biden’s lawfare to a would-be assassin’s bullet, Trump has only grown stronger and more likely to be elected back into the White House in November. As one black woman said Tuesday, speaking to a reporter in an Irish bar in Milwaukee, where the Republican National Convention is under way, “He’s Teflon Don.”

Indeed.

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It’s Nice To Be Right, But At What Cost?

It’s Nice To Be Right, But At What Cost?

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It’s nice to be right, and I’ve been right a lot in the past seven years since I started this blog. But after seeing President Joe Biden’s performance in last night’s presidential debate, I have to ask at what price has all this correctness come?

We saw, in vivid detail, how the sitting president is utterly incapable of serving in the office he holds, much less is capable of another four years as Leader of the Free World. I know his handlers and his unscrupulous wife will continue to prop him up so he gets through the next seven months, but what if — admittedly a long shot at this point — he should be reelected either by a fair vote or, as the Democratic Party has shown itself more than capable of doing, through some sort of dirty trick, staged crisis, or just plain old-fashioned corruption? Can this country sustain more of what it’s endured for the past three and a half years?

Before I get ahead of myself, let me point out just some, but by no means all, of the things I’ve been right about, giving the lie to the attacks I’ve sustained from denizens of the left during all that time:

— Joe Biden is saddled with growing dementia and is incapable of serving as President, something I’ve been saying since before his election in 2020  — right, as we clearly saw last night.

— We don’t know who is in charge in the White House, but it clearly is not Joe Biden — right, as we also saw last night.

— The Hunter Biden laptop is and was real, and it clearly ties Biden into an ongoing criminal enterprise, and Biden just blatantly lied about it — right.

— The state media has corruptly propped Biden up even in the face of the obvious, endangering both democracy and the country’s security — right again.

— This administration, with collusion by the state media, has peddled a raft of lies to the electorate. That includes a ploy they employed during the debate last night, and which can only be described as Soviet in its absurd level of dishonesty, that Biden had a cold, which accounted for his poor performance in the debate — right.

— That the government worked hand-in-glove with social media to suppress valuable information while promoting falsehoods the government supported — right.

— That the essential weakness and misguided policies of this administration led directly to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as well as the barbarism Hamas wreaked on innocent Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023 — right once more.

— That the Russia hoax foisted on the country by Hillary Clinton, Democrats, and the corrupt media, was just that: a hoax — right from the beginning on that one.

— That everything from an open border to rising crime and abuses committed by the administration are not the results of mere incompetence, but is deliberate — right.

— That Biden’s disgraceful exit from Afghanistan was the biggest disgrace in our nation’s history, and a line can be drawn directly from that to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the rising level of adventurism by America’s opponents — sadly, right.

I could go on, but I think the point is made. And so here we are today, a society and economy in disarray, in the midst of an unprecedented invasion by illegal aliens, facing growing wild fires around the world, and with a man supposedly at the helm of the country obviously incapable of steering the ship of state. If you had any doubt that I was using hyperbole when I said you wouldn’t trust this guy to drive your kid’s school bus, I’d think that doubt was dispelled last night.

It was clear, even to partisan observers, who was most physically and mentally prepared to hold the nuclear codes in his hand, and it wasn’t Joe Biden. Most of the post-debate talk, on both sides of the political divide, was how Biden could be eased out of the run he has envisaged and be replaced by someone more up to the job. And to beating Donald Trump. While the chatter among Dems was how shocked they were — why remains a mystery since Biden’s deterioration has been there for anyone to see all along — the best they could do to counter Donald Trump was accusing him of lying. Aside from the blatant lying done by the present incumbent, is that really the best they can offer? And in fact, most of their accusations were based on their own falsehoods.

It became so painful to watch Biden even Trump seemed to take compassion on him. At one point the men started arguing over their respective golf games and handicaps, and Trump finally said they should stop with the childishness. This coming from Trump, no less.

Where the Democratic Party will go from here remains an open question. It’s generally acknowledged that Biden will need to voluntarily step aside to allow his delegates to be free to vote for a new candidate at the party’s convention in Chicago in August. By then it will already be late in the game, with the first early voting in some states beginning in September. But if there was any doubt, Biden made it clear today while on the stump in North Carolina that he doesn’t intend to step aside. And clearly Doctah Jill, the First Lady and Chief Elder Abuser, isn’t encouraging her fading husband to step aside, regardless the cost to the country. Or, for that matter, to her husband.

That last part, about the cost to the country, is what concerns me most. What will be the country’s fate with another four years of this man? It’s hard to imagine, given how bad things already have become. When the country saw the damage done by Jimmy Carter it voted him out. But it is a different country today than it was in 1980, and will the country have the good sense and the courage to vote Joe Biden out? One hopes so, and the current polls show a majority are ready for a change, but there are so many unknown variables and wild cards that could be dealt between now and November, nothing can be assumed.

One wild card is the role third-party candidates — most notably Robert F. Kennedy Jr, — will have in pulling votes from one cadidate or the other. RFK Jr. is still working to get himself on more state ballots, fighting an uphill battle against the Dem power brokers. Many would have liked to see him on the stage last night as a counterpoint to both major candidates, but he narrowly missed meeting the guidelines set down by the debate organizers.

I will say, much to my surprise, the debate moderators — Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, both of CNN and both rabid Trump haters — did an amazingly balanced and measured job. Moderators of previous debates justifiably have come in for much criticism, but in all honesty, Tapper and Bash actually did a decent job, and they had some difficult questions for both candidates. Their fairness was at least in part responsible for leaving Biden to his own devices, which clearly proved insufficient.

All this said, I’m continuing with my plans to relocate out of the country. While I’m likely to implement those plans regardless who wins in November, the urgency will become much greater if it’s Biden. Nightly I see how we are sooooo fucked, but we’ll be even more fucked, exponentially so, should this shell of a president be reelected.

As I said in 2020, maybe you don’t like Trump’s tweets or some of this statements or his demeanor. I get it. He’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But I strongly urge people to get past their TDS and attitudes brewed by the unrelenting venom shot at him by the state media, and consider the good of the country. At this point, it’s borderline treasonous not to put that first. I’m happy to claim vindication for all the things I’ve reported and opined on in the past seven years, but the cost to the country has been enormous. I hope we can start to lessen that cost.

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It’s Time to Break Up the FBI

It’s Time to Break Up the FBI

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On August 8, 2022, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Biden Administration declared war on the principle of equal justice for all citizens, and told at least half the American population that they are persona non grata. With the unprecedented FBI raid on the home of a former President, we witnessed the most evident sign yet of the Sovietization of America that is already in advanced stages. With that declaration of war, it is time for the gloves to come off in resisting this mortal threat to our democracy and if there is to be any chance of saving what is left of what once was America.

There are numerous steps that are essential to win the war to save the country, and the first and most urgent is the dismantling of the corrupt organization known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI has been out of control for years, and the agency’s previous commitment to the equal administration of justice is long gone. With the raid on Mar-A-Lago by at least 30 FBI agents and DOJ attorneys, there isn’t even a pretext of that remaining. It is the single largest lawless element in the U.S. today, largely as a result of the agency’s politicization at the highest levels.

I don’t like to predict future events, but this raid and the abuse of power it represents has galvanized opposition to Biden and the Dems — already at record levels — and has further galvanized support for Donald Trump. Trump is almost certainly going to announce his candidacy for the presidency — making the raid not just on a former president, but on a future candidate for president. Even more certainly, the Dems are going to lose control of the House by a significant margin in November, and very possibly the Senate as well. While the Republicans have shown themselves on more than one occasion as capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, one hopes they will be as energetic at rooting out the very real corruption and unequal administration of justice as the Dems have been in pursuing their chimeras and bogus conspiracy theories over the past six years. All with the complete and knowing complicity of their co-conspirators in the mainstream media.

Dismantling the FBI

The first substantive post on this blog, Threading the Needle Badly, which appeared on June 9, 2017, recounted the malfeasance committed by former FBI Director James Comey. I continued to report on that malfeasance, which included commission of felonies by Comey, both before and after President Trump relieved Comey of his duties. Comey’s successor, current FBI Director Chris Wray, has further weaponized the Bureau against Trump supporters and opponents of the Biden regime (a legitimate word to use now — calling it an administration is a euphemism, at best).

The first step in rooting out the rot should be dismantling the FBI, starting at the top and working down. The organization, over the past six years and beyond, has shown itself as beyond reform and incapable of dealing with its own wrongdoers. Congress, once the Republicans gain control, needs to make reorganization of the FBI its first, but not only, priority.

This would not be without precedent. In the 1970s, the Church Committee, headed by Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, investigated abuses committed by the intelligence community, the CIA, NSA, and FBI. That was a different time, when Democrats were concerned about abuses and civil liberties, a far cry from their highly politicized position today. Another case of agency reorganization was the merger of the United States Information Agency (USIA) into the State Department in 1999.

While the FBI and DOJ conduct their ongoing witch hunts against Trump and his coterie, the blatant criminality of the Biden family is blithely ignored. Just as the egregious criminal offenses committed by Hillary Clinton are ignored. It is only if your name is Trump that the heavy hand of justice is mustered against you. The concept of equal justice under the law no longer applies in this country, which should be a cause for concern for every American.

Once the FBI is dealt with, attention should be focused on cleaning out the rot in the CIA and the rest of the intel community, which has declared itself by its actions as a government unto itself. That has no place in our democracy. And yes, I am a former intel officer (in the State Department), and at that time I was always told there was a bright line between intelligence and policy. That line is now obliterated, and that merging of the two poses a mortal threat to the country on a number of fronts.

The Dems’ War on Ordinary Americans

The raid on Mar-A-Lago is not the only front in the Dems’ war on America. This week they also managed to push through, on a purely partisan vote, their fraudulently named Inflation Reduction Act. A key feature of that law is provision of $80 billion for the IRS to double in size, adding 87,000 new agents and other employees. Part of the fraud is the claim that these new agents will be to conduct audits on the uber wealthy, when in fact they’re coming after you and me. Most audits, by a wide margin, are done on people earning under $200,000 a year, and it is estimated that 60% of the audits to be conducted by the new agents will be on taxpayers earning less than $75,000 a year.

Add in skyrocketing crime rates in cities nationwide, an open border that has allowed a record number of illegal aliens, along with a flow of deadly drugs, terrorists, and human traffickers, to enter the country, and the targeting of parents unhappy with their childrens’ non-education — branded as “terrorists,” by the slimy Merrick Garland and the DOJ — and it’s clear the Democratic Party has set its sights on altering life in America as we’ve known it. And their vision is not a pretty one.

Four years ago I realized I could no longer vote for Democratic candidates, reversing what had been my voting pattern through most of my life. With the sell out of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, we see clearly that there are no trustworthy Democrats. If you vote for someone with a D after their name, you are voting for the Sovietization of the country’s justice system and the destruction of our way of life. Sorry, there is no way to sugar coat that. That’s where we are today. We each have to pick our side — I know which side I am on — and the present and future of the country hang in the balance.

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Keeping America in the dark on illegal entries, Adrees Latif/Reuters, via the New York Post. Used under Fair Use.

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Finally, Something That *Is* Bigger Than Watergate

Finally, Something That *Is* Bigger Than Watergate

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For half a century we’ve heard one political scandal after another called “bigger than Watergate.” None other than Watergate co-reporter Bob Woodward has uttered those words over and over as he peddled his various books across the years, relying on the famed laurels he earned at the early pinnacle of his career. And now, finally, thanks to the plodding but relentless investigation of Special Counsel John Durham, we’re getting details of a scandal that, if substantiated, really is bigger, far bigger, than Watergate.

A recent 19-page court filing made by Durham’s team contains clear indications that the now nearly three-year-old investigation is looking past — far past — indicted Hillary Clinton presidential campaign legal advisor Michael Sussmann. Three times in the submission Durham informs the court that he is conducting “an active, ongoing criminal investigation” not limited to defendant Sussmann. Sussmann, for his part, has pleaded not guilty to lying to the FBI, and has answered with his own six-page filing accusing Durham of being wrong about key facts and attempting to prejudice the jury pool.

Part of Durham’s allegations is that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was spied on by Sussmann, working with cybersecurity experts, and  touting the information to the media and government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, hoping to spur an investigation of Trump. Which, we may recall, is exactly what eventuated, in the form of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the subsequent ill-fated, but costly and highly destructive, investigation conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

While the Watergate burglars physically broke into Democratic Party headquarters, Durham’s allegations imply an electronic break-in to the Trump campaign. Those kinds of dirty tricks might make the scandal as big as Watergate, but not necessarily bigger. The bigger issue, the one that — again, if substantiated — would make this scandal not only bigger than Watergate, but substantively a direct threat to national security, is that a government contractor, referred to as “Tech Executive-1” in the Durham filing but reported to be early Internet industry pioneer Rodney Joffe, may have been gleaning and passing on data from White House communications during Trump’s presidency. Joffe has not been charged in the case.

Was Trump Right?

Trump has alleged all along that his campaign and, subsequently, his presidency, was spied on. He called the campaign spying “Spygate” and alleged it was conducted by his opponent, who is called Crooked Hillary. He clearly feels, if prematurely, vindicated by Durham’s filing. In an exclusive interview earlier this week Trump told Fox News Digital, “It looks like this is just the beginning, because, if you read the filing and have any understanding of what took place, and I called this a long time ago, you’re going to see a lot of other things happening, having to do with what, really, just is a continuation of the crime of the century. This is such a big event, nobody’s seen anything like this.”

In a prior statement, Trump said, “What Hillary Clinton and the Radical Left Democrats did with respect to spying on a President of the United States, even while in office, is a far bigger crime than Watergate.” He called for further criminal charges and implied that the perpetrators, in an earlier time, would face the death penalty, which is what his opponents would have called for were he the offending party.

“Can you imagine,” Trump said in his statement, “if the roles were reversed and the Republicans, in particular President Donald Trump, got caught illegally spying into the Office of the President? All hell would break loose and the electric chair would immediately come out of retirement.”

Asked by a Daily Mail reporter to respond to the allegations contained in the Durham filing, Clinton first ignored the question, walking masked past the reporter and waving. She later came out with a tweet to blame Trump and Fox News for “spinning up a fake scandal.”

“Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it’s a day that ends in Y,” Clinton tweeted. ‘The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie.”

To back up her denial, she linked to an article in Vanity Fair written by Democratic Party toadie Bess Levin and subtitled, “In less breaking news, Donald Trump remains a moron.”

Aside from the two former candidates sparring, part of the issue revolves around the value of the data mined by Joffe’s group. According to Durham’s filing, the investigation has approximately 17,000 documents related to Tech Executive-1’s companies, including approximately 226 emails relevant to Sussmann’s defense. While it is not clear whether any specific information was gathered from White House communications, it appears that Joffe’s efforts “exploited” the communications to garner what is called DNS — Domain Name System — information indicating which computers White House computers connected with in an effort to garner derogatory information about Trump. One objective, which failed, was to tie Trump to the private Russian bank, Alfa Bank.

Durham Has the Clinton Campaign in His Sights

It’s been known for some time that the Clinton campaign and the bogus Russian dossier, which contained numerous unsubstantiated and false accusations that attempted to tie Donald Trump to Moscow, has been under investigation by Durham’s team. On Nov. 3 of last year the primary source for the infamous dossier, Igor Danchenko, was arrested and charged with lying to federal officials about his Russian contacts during his 2017 interviews with the FBI.

Along with supplying fabricated information to Christopher Steele, the former British intel operative who provided the dossier to the Clinton campaign, Danchenko had lied about never speaking with what was identified as “PR Executive-1,” described as a “long-time participant in Democratic Party politics.” It was later revealed that PR Executive-1 is Charles Dolan, Jr., a former executive director of the Democratic Governors Association who advised Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and also volunteered for her 2016 campaign. It is alleged that Dolan supplied Danchenko with information and Danchenko’s deception about his contacts with Dolan “was highly material to the FBI’s investigation of these matters.”

One key thing revealed in Durham’s recent filing is that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz had not been fully forthcoming about his activities that are relevant to Durham’s probe of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. For one thing, Horowitz had failed to disclose that he met with defendant Sussmann in March 2017. A focus of that meeting was discussion of how the computer of an employee of the Office of the Inspector General had been detected connecting to a virtual private network in another country, information Sussmann had gathered through his connection with Joffe.

Also revealed was that Horowitz had failed to turn over two cell phones belonging to FBI General Counsel James Baker, the official Sussmann is accused of lying to, claiming he was not advising the Clinton campaign while peddling stories of Trump-Alfa Bank connections. Durham has sought possession of a number of FBI phones, including the Baker phones, and is “working diligently” to review relevant materials on them for presentation to the court.

Unindicted Co-conspirators

During the Watergate festivities we heard a lot about “unindicted co-conspirators.” Well, there are plenty of them in the current imbroglio. Not the least of them are the media miscreants who spouted the lies about the alleged “Russia-Trump” conspiracy as if they were fact (and in most cases, still do, and who are now covering up the latest Durham revelations), and Democratic Party apparatchiks, not the least of which are California Representative Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who almost certainly knew, and know, the allegations about Trump were bogus. Working in tandem, those co-conspirators wasted the country’s time, trust, and resources for the better part of five years, and are continuing to squander the national trust and treasure in an effort to drive a stake in Trump’s heart.

There are plenty of guilty parties who may or may not ever be indicted by Durham or anyone else. These include not just Hillary Clinton herself, but also the current occupant of the Oval Office who, along with his boss Barrack Obama, was informed of the phony efforts to defame Trump and allege collusion with Russia to distract attention from Clinton’s illegal use of a private server for conduct of classified government business. They also include former CIA Director John Brennan, who informed Obama and Biden of the plot, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who knew the allegations against Trump were unsubstantiated and who lied to Congress, former FBI Director James Comey, who approved of false filings to the national security FISA Court, his deputy, Andrew McCabe, and former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, all of whom furthered the bogus plot.

We know all this went on thanks to former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Clapper’s successor, who held multiple conversations with Durham and confirmed there was sufficient documentation of all this rot. Perhaps most explosive and damning is a CIA Counterintelligence Operational Lead (CIOL) that the CIA forwarded to Comey and Strzok stating that Clinton allegedly approved in the 2016 election “a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”

Does it get any clearer than that? I don’t think so. Now the question is, will any of these big names, whether it’s that of Hillary Clinton or Comey or Brennan or Obama or Biden, wind up in any indictments? I doubt, and have doubted for a long time, that our dual system of justice will bring justice to the biggest offenders. As I said about three years ago, in March 2019:

“But do I see it happening? Do I believe that tomorrow the sun will come up in the West and set in the East? The depth of corruption, the extent of the collusion, and the two levels of justice we live with in this country all make prosecution of Hillary and most of the other guilty parties about as likely. Sure, there might be some low-level functionaries punished, beyond the resignations and firings that have already taken place. Maybe. But the worse offenders? The most egregious actors? Not likely.”

I hope I’m proven wrong. But I doubt I will be. The better chance is that we’ll see Hillary again vying to be crowned to what she sees as her divinely ordained place as President of the United States. May that divinity have mercy on our souls.

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Donald Trump, source unknown, from HuffingtonPost.com. Used under Fair Use.

John Durham, source unknown, from NeoNettle.com. Used under Fair Use.

Adam Schiff, Getty Images, from DailyCaller.com. Used under Fair Use.

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