Julian
Assange says that no state entity provided stolen emails to Wikileaks. He is
adamant about this. It gets little coverage. Fox News did report this, but the
Democrat-controlled mainstream media have not.
Assange
made this clear: "Everything is almost completely insecure now. Computer
systems have become so complex that it is not possible to understand all the
parts, let alone secure them. It's just impossible." We know this. Yahoo
certainly knows this.
How do
the CIA and the FBI know that Russian hackers did this? Why not blame that most
familiar of sources, a disgruntled leader? The Wikileaks agent who collected
the mails has said that the leaker was a Democrat insider who had access to the
emails. The Daily Mail reports:
A Wikileaks envoy today claims
he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they
were leaked by 'disgusted' whisteblowers - and not hacked by Russia.
Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a
close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he
flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email
sources in September.
'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray in
an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. 'The source had legal access to the
information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.'
That is
quite clear. But that is not good enough for President Obama. ABC News posted
this headline: Obama Vows Retaliation as Evidence of Russian Hacking
Mounts.
I saw
that and chuckled. This is the most feckless President since Jimmy Carter.
Obama pulled troops out of Iraq, and Iraq fell apart, just as
non-interventionists had said would happen in 2003. ISIS -- called ISIL by
Obama -- began creating Havoc. Suicide bombings are a way of life. Meanwhile,
back in Afghanistan, U.S. troops are overseeing a 16-year losing campaign. As
for Syria, Assad is winning, much to Obama's consternation.
He has
not gotten anything through Congress since ObamaCare, which is visibly falling
apart.
In 2011,
he announced that U.S. troops captured bin Laden, for which he offered no
proof. There was no body. But even if U.S. troops did do this, they were simply
following Bush's orders. Remember "dead or alive"? Obama had done
nothing unique about bin Laden.
This is
the man who went before the press in his final press conference of 2016, and
announced this:
"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to
impact the integrity of our elections ... we need to take action. And we will
-- at a time and place of our own choosing."
I think
of the old Lone Ranger joke: "What you mean 'we,' paleface?" It
doesn't fit the complexion, but the "we" part surely does.
Better
put: "You and who else?"
Obama
said that he told Putin at the September G-20 meeting "to cut it out, and
there were going to be some serious consequences if he didn't." He says
that's all it took. "In fact, we did not see further tampering of the
election process," Obama said. "But the leaks through WikiLeaks had
already occurred."
Well, I
guess that showed Putin!
Putin is
still in office. Obama will not be a month from now.
Obama is
departing. The sleepwalking man with the teleprompter is heading into the
sunset. Yet he speaks of "we."
The media
are running Trump attacks 24x7. These do no good for the Democrats. They still
cannot understand this headline from November: Shrill, Nagging, and
Secretive Old Woman Loses Election. The Secretary of State who somehow
became a multimillionaire between 2001 and 2005 lost to a multibillionaire TV
celebrity. Only in America!
The Dems
blame the supposedly hacked emails, not her unquestionably illegal emails as
Secretary of State.
The Dems
blame Russia, not Carlos Danger and his now-estranged wife.
The Dems
are looking for a non-campaign excuse for her loss in much the same way that
Bush looked for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction after 2003.
Teddy
Roosevelt recommended that America -- meaning Teddy Roosevelt -- should speak
softly and carry a big stick. Obama speaks loudly and carries a well-worn twig.
In a
month, the media will pay no attention to what he says, any more than they care
what Hillary Clinton says. Wisely, she says nothing.
I can
think of only two relevant things that any lame-duck President has said in my
lifetime. Eisenhower gave the most important farewell speech in American
history on January 17, 1960. He uttered these words: "military-industrial
complex." The other memorable comment was George W. Bush's assessment of
the economy he had overseen: "This sucker may go down."
Obama has
one month to match them. I remain doubtful.