There was a sinister plot to meddle in the 2016 election, after
all. But it was not orchestrated from the Kremlin; it was an entirely homegrown
affair conducted from the inner sanctums---the White House, DOJ, the Hoover
Building and Langley----of the Imperial City.
Likewise, the perpetrators didn't
speak Russian or write in the Cyrillic script. In fact,
they were lifetime beltway insiders occupying the highest positions
of power in the US government.
Here are the names and rank
of the principal conspirators: John Brennan, CIA director; Susan Rice,
National Security Advisor; Samantha Power, UN Ambassador; James Clapper,
Director of National Intelligence; James Comey, FBI director; Andrew
McCabe, Deputy FBI director; Sally Yates, deputy Attorney General, Bruce
Ohr, associate deputy AG; Peter Strzok, deputy assistant director of
FBI counterintelligence; Lisa Page, FBI lawyer; and countless other lessor
and greater poobahs of Washington power, including President Obama
himself.
To a person, the participants in
this illicit cabal shared the core trait that made Obama such a blight on
the nation's well-being. To wit, he never held an honest job outside the
halls of government in his entire adult life; and as a careerist
agent of the state and practitioner of its purported goods works,
he exuded a sanctimonious disdain for everyday citizens who make
their living along the capitalist highways and by-ways of America.
The above cast of
election-meddlers, of course, comes from the same mold. If Wikipedia is roughly
correct, just these 10 named perpetrators have punched in
about 300 years of post-graduate employment---and 260 of those years (87%)
were on government payrolls or government contractor jobs.
As to whether they shared Obama's
political class arrogance, Peter Strzok left nothing to the imagination
in his now celebrated texts to his gal-pal, Lisa Page:
"Just went to a southern
Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support......I LOATHE congress....And
F Trump."
You really didn't need the ALL
CAPS to get the gist.
In a word, the anti-Trump cabal is
comprised of creatures of the state.
Their now obvious effort
to alter the outcome of the 2016 election was nothing less than the
Imperial City's immune system attacking an alien threat, which
embodied the very opposite trait: That is, the Donald had never spent one
moment on the state's payroll, had been elected to no government office and
displayed a spirited contempt for the groupthink and verities of
officialdom in the Imperial City.
But it is the vehemence and flagrant transparency
of this conspiracy to prevent Trump's ascension to the Oval Office that
reveals the profound threat to capitalism and democracy posed by the Deep
State and its prosperous elites and fellow travelers domiciled in the Imperial
City.
That is to say, Donald Trump
was no kind of anti-statist and only a skin-deep populist, at best. His
signature anti-immigrant meme was apparently discovered by accident when
in the early days of the campaign he went off on Mexican thugs, rapists and murderers----only
to find that it resonated strongly among a certain element of the GOP grass
roots.
But a harsh line on immigrants,
refugees and Muslims would not have incited the Deep State into an attempted
coup d'état; it wouldn't have mobilized so overtly against Ted Cruz, for
example, whose positions on the ballyhooed terrorist/immigrant threat were
not much different.
No, what sent the Imperial City
establishment into a fit of apoplexy was exactly two things that struck at
the core of its raison d' etre.
First was Trump's stated
intentions to seek rapprochement with Putin's Russia and his
sensible embrace of a non-interventionist "America First"
view of Washington's role in the world. And secondly, and even more
importantly, was his very persona.
That is to
say, the role of today's president is to function as the suave,
reliable maître d' of the Imperial City and the lead spokesman for
Washington's purported good works at home and abroad. And for that role
the slovenly, loud-mouthed, narcissistic, bombastic, ill-informed and
crudely-mannered Donald Trump was utterly unqualified.
Stated differently, welfare
statism and warfare statism is the secular religion of the Imperial City
and its collaborators in the mainstream media; and the Oval Office is the
bully pulpit from which its catechisms, bromides and self-justifications
are propagandized to the unwashed masses---the tax-and-debt-slaves of
Flyover America who bear the burden of its continuation.
Needless to say, the Never
Trumpers were eminently correct in their worry that Trump would sully,
degrade and weaken the Imperial Presidency. That he has done in spades
with his endless tweet storms that consist mainly of petty score settling,
self-justification, unseemly boasting and shrill partisanship; and on top of
that you can pile his impetuous attacks on friend, foe and bystanders (e.g. NFL
kneelers) alike.
Yet that is exactly what has the
Deep State and its media collaborators running scared. To wit, Trump's entire
modus operandi is not about governing or a serious policy agenda---and most
certainly not about Making America's Economy Great Again. (MAEGA)
By appointing a passel of
Keynesian monetary central planners to the Fed and launching an orgy of fiscal
recklessness via his massive defense spending and tax-cutting initiatives, the
Donald has more than sealed his own doom: There will unavoidably be a
massive financial and economic crisis in the years just ahead and the
rulers of the Imperial City will most certainly heap the blame upon him
with malice aforethought.
In the interim, however, what
the Donald is actually doing is sharply polarizing the country and using
the Bully Pulpit for the very opposite function assigned to it by Washington's
permanent political class. Namely, to discredit and vilify the ruling elites of
government and the media and thereby undermine the docility and acquiescence of
the unwashed masses upon which the Imperial City's rule and
hideous prosperity depend.
It is no wonder, then, that
the inner circle of the Obama Administration plotted an "insurance
policy". They saw it coming-----that is, an offensive rogue disrupter who
was soft on Russia, to boot--- and out of that alarm the entire
hoax of RussiaGate was born.
As is now well known from the
recent dump of 375 Strzok/Gates text messages, there occurred on
August 15, 2016 a meeting in the office of FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe (who is still there) to kick off the RussiaGate campaign. As Strzok
later wrote to Page, who was also at the meeting:
“I
want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office —
that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that
risk......It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event that you die
before you’re 40.”
They will try to spin this money
quote seven-ways to Sunday, but in the context of everything else now known
there is only one possible meaning: The national security and law enforcement
machinery of Imperial Washington was being activated then and
there in behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Indeed, the trail of proof is
quite clear. At the very time of this August meeting, the FBI was
already being fed the initial elements of the Steele dossier, and the
latter had nothing to do with any kind of national security investigation.
For crying out loud, it was plain
old "oppo research" paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. And
the only way that it bore on Russian involvement in the US election was
that virtually all of the salacious material and false narratives
about Trump emissaries meeting with high level Russian officials was
disinformation sourced in Moscow, and
was completely untrue.
As former senior FBI official,
Andrew McCarthy, neatly summarized the sequence of
action recently:
The Clinton campaign generated the
Steele dossier through lawyers who retained Fusion GPS. Fusion, in turn, hired
Steele, a former British intelligence agent who had FBI contacts from prior
collaborative investigations. The dossier was steered into the FBI’s hands as
it began to be compiled in the summer of 2016. A Fusion Russia expert, Nellie
Ohr, worked with Steele on Fusion’s anti-Trump research. She is the wife of
Bruce Ohr, then the deputy associate attorney general — the top subordinate of
Sally Yates, then Obama’s deputy attorney general (later acting AG). Ohr was a
direct pipeline to Yates.....
Based on the publication this week
of text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer
with whom he was having an extramarital affair, we have learned of a meeting
convened in the office of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe...... right around
the time the Page FISA warrant was obtained......
Bruce Ohr met personally with
Steele. And after Trump was elected, according to Fusion founder Glenn Simpson,
he requested and got a meeting with Simpson to, as Simpson told the House
Intelligence Committee, “discuss our findings regarding Russia and the
election.”
This, of course, was the precise
time Democrats began peddling the public narrative of Trump-Russia collusion.
It is the time frame during which Ohr’s boss, Yates, was pushing an absurd
Logan Act investigation of Trump transition official Michael Flynn (then
slotted to become Trump’s national-security adviser) over Flynn’s meetings with
the Russian ambassador.
Here's the thing. There is almost
nothing in the Steele dossiers which is true. At the same time, there is
no real alternative evidence based on hard NSA intercepts that show Russian
government agents were behind the only two acts----the leaks of the DNC
emails and the Podesta emails----that were of even minimal import to the
outcome of the 2016 presidential campaign.
As to the veracity of the dossier,
the raving anti-Trumper and former CIA interim chief, Michael Morrell,
settled the matter. If you are paying ex-FSA agents for information on the back
streets of Moscow, the more you pay, the more "information" you will
get:
Then I asked myself, why did these
guys provide this information, what was their motivation? And I subsequently
learned that he paid them. That the intermediaries paid the sources and the
intermediaries got the money from Chris. And that kind of worries me a little
bit because if you’re paying somebody, particularly former [Russian Federal
Security Service] officers, they are going to tell you truth and innuendo and
rumor, and they’re going to call you up and say, ‘Hey, let’s have another
meeting, I have more information for you,’ because they want to get paid some
more,’ Morrell said.
Far from being “verified,” the
dossier is best described as a pack of lies, gossip, innuendo and irrelevancies.
Take, for example, the claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen met with
Russian Federation Council foreign affairs head Konstantin Kosachev in
Prague during August 2016. That claim is verifiably false as proven
by Cohen's own passport.
Likewise, the dossier 's claim
that Carter Page was offered a giant bribe by the head of Rosneft,
the Russian state energy company, in return for lifting the
sanctions is downright laughable. That's because Carter Page never
had any serious role in the Trump campaign and was one of hundreds of unpaid
informal advisors who hung around the basket hoping for some role in a future
Trump government.
Like the hapless George
Papadopoulos, in fact, Page apparently never met Trump, had no
foreign policy credentials and had been drafted onto the
campaign's so-called foreign policy advisory committee out of
sheer desperation.
That is, because the mainstream
GOP foreign policy establishment had so completely boycotted the Trump
campaign, the latter was forced to fill its advisory committee
essentially from the phone book; and that desperation move in March
2016, in turn, had been undertaken in order to damp-down
the media uproar over the Donald's assertion that he got his foreign
policy advise from watching TV!
The truth of the matter is
that Page was a former Merrill Lynch stockbrokers who had plied his trade
in Russia several years earlier. He had gone to Moscow in July 2016 on his
own dime and without any mandate from the Trump campaign; and his
"meeting" with Rosneft actually consisted of drinks with an old
buddy from his broker days who had become head of investor relations at
Rosneft.
Nevertheless, it is pretty evident
that the Steele dossier's tale about Page's alleged bribery scheme was the
basis for the FISA warrant that resulted in wiretaps on Page and other
officials in Trump Tower during September and October.
And that's your insurance policy
at work: The Deep State and its allies in the Obama administration were
desperately looking for dirt with which to crucify the Donald, and thereby
insure that the establishment's anointed candidate would not fail at the polls.
So the question recurs as to why
did the conspirators resort to the outlandish and even cartoonish
disinformation contained in the Steele dossier?
The answer
to that question cuts to the quick of the entire RussiaGate hoax. To wit,
that's all they had!
Notwithstanding the massive
machinery and communications vacuum cleaners operated by the $75 billion US
intelligence communities and its vaunted 17 agencies, there are no digital
intercepts proving that Russian state operatives hacked the DNC and Podesta
emails. Period.
Yet when it comes to anything
that even remotely smacks of "meddling" in the US election
campaign, that's all she wrote.
There is nothing else of moment,
and most especially not the alleged phishing expeditions directed at 20 or
so state election boards. Most of these have been discredited, denied by
local officials or were simply the work of everyday hackers looking
for voter registration lists that could be sold.
The patently obvious point
here is that in America there is no on-line network of
voting machines on either an intra-state or interstate basis. And that
fact renders the whole election machinery hacking meme null and void. Not
even the treacherous Russians are stupid enough to waste their time trying
to hack that which is unhackable.
In that vein, the Facebook ad
buying scheme is even more ridiculous. In the context of an election
campaign in which upwards of $7
billion of
spending was reported by candidates and their committees to the FEC,
and during which easily double that amount was spent by
independent committees and issue campaigns, the notion that just $44,000 of Facebook ads made
any difference to anything is not worthy of adult thought.
And, yes, out of the
ballyhooed $100,000 of Facebook ads, the majority occurred after the
election was over and none of them named candidates, anyway. The
ads consisted of issue messages that reflected all points on the political
spectrum from pro-choice to anti-gun control.
And even this so-called effort at
"polarizing" the American electorate was "discovered" only
after Facebook failed to find any “Russian-linked” ads during its first
two searches. Instead, this complete drivel was detected only
after the Senate's modern day Joseph McCarthy, Sen. Mark Warner, who
is the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a leading
legislator on Internet regulation, showed up on Mark Zuckerberg's doorstep at
Facebook headquarters.
In any event, we can be sure there
are no NSA intercepts proving that the Russians hacked the Dem emails for
one simple reason: They would have been leaked long ago by the vast network of
Imperial City operatives plotting to bring the Donald down.
Moreover, the original architect
and godfather of NSA's vast spying apparatus, William Binney, has essentially
proved that the DNC emails were leaked by an insider who downloaded them
on a memory stick. By conducting his own experiments, he showed that
the known download speed of one batch of DNC emails could not have
occurred over the Internet from a remote location in Russia or anywhere else on
the planet, and actually matched what was possible only via a
local USB-connected thumb drive.
So the real meaning of the
Strzok/Gates text messages is straight foreword. There was a conspiracy to
prevent Trump's election, and then after the shocking results of November
8, this campaign morphed into an intensified effort to discredit the
winner.
For instance, Susan Rice got Obama
to lower the classification level of the information obtained from
the Trump campaign intercepts and other dirt-gathering actions by
the Intelligence Community (IC)--- so that it could be disseminated
more readily to all Washington intelligence agencies.
In short order, of course, the IC
was leaking like a sieve, thereby paving the way for the
post-election hysteria and the implication that any contact with
a Russian--even one living in Brooklyn-- must be collusion. And that
included calls to the Russian ambassador by the president-elect's own
national security advisor designate.
Should there by any surprise,
therefore, that it turns out the Andrew McCabe bushwhacked General Flynn on
January 24 when he called to say that FBI agents were on the way to the
White House for what Flynn presumed to be more security clearance work with his
incipient staff.
No at all. The FBI team was there
to interrogate Flynn about the transcripts of his perfectly appropriate
and legal conversations with Ambassador Kislyak about two matters of state----the
UN resolution on Israel and the spiteful new sanctions on certain Russian
citizens that Obama announced on December 28 in a fit of pique over the
Dems election loss.
And that insidious team
of FBI gotcha cops was led by none other than......Peter Strzok!
But after all the recent
leaks---and these text messages are just the tip of the iceberg-----the die is
now cast. Either the Deep State and its minions and collaborators in the media
and the Republican party, too, will soon succeed in putting Mike Pence
into the Oval Office, or the Imperial City is about ready to break-out in
vicious partisan warfare like never before.
Either way, economic and fiscal
governance is about ready to collapse entirely, making the tax bill a kind
of last hurrah before the mayhem really begins.
In that context, selling the rip
may become one of the most profitable speculations ever imagined.
