There is an old expression, "a fish
rots from the head down," meaning that in any organization, leadership
sets the tone. For better or for worse. Where does the DOJ-FBI rot
begin?
The Trump-Russia collusion investigation is on life support.
After months of investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his
army of highly partisan investigators, spending millions of taxpayer dollars,
all Mueller has to show for his efforts is a handful of process crimes that
have nothing to do with the original allegations that the Trump campaign worked
with Putin to influence the 2016 election.
With 90 percent of media coverage negative toward President Trump,
you can be certain that if Trump conspired with Russia to hack the election,
these same media would have long ago found evidence of collusion. But
they haven't, have they? Instead, they hyperventilate over nonsense, such
as a truck blocking their view of Trump's golf course, now a three-day
story for CNN.
In reality, the only collusion was a bunch of Obama imbeds,
scheming and conspiring to drag their coughing and collapsing candidate across
the finish line by interfering with the right of Americans to choose their next
president. Then there was a bogus dossier, created as opposition
research, used by the FBI and DOJ as a "national security matter" to
obtain a FISA warrant to spy on candidate Trump and his family and associates.
The conspiracy was legion, with many agency heads and upper
managers working together to undermine an election. After failing to
undermine the election, they then concocted the collusion story to justify a
special counsel, staffed with the same Obama administration imbeds, to cover
their illegal tracks. Gateway Pundit compiled
a long list of bad actors and actresses participating in this melodrama.
Who's the head of the rotten fish? Former attorney general
Loretta Lynch? She met with Bill Clinton on the airport tarmac ahead of
the election, directing FBI director James Comey to exonerate candidate Hillary
Clinton over "gross negligence" in her handling of classified emails.
Or is Comey the head of the fish, as FBI director, tying himself
and the law into a pretzel to excuse Mrs. Clinton's criminal behavior?
What about Mueller when he was FBI director, giving a pass to Fast and
Furious, the Clinton Foundation, and the Uranium One deal?
How about former A.G. Eric Holder, directing his energies to
another bogus narrative, "hands up, don't shoot," rather than voter
fraud and the same illegalities that Mueller ignored as FBI director?
Is Hillary Clinton the head of the fish? Close, but no
cigar. She had her share of scandals with her Clinton Foundation, Uranium
One, and her overall "pay to play" approach to public service as
secretary of state. But during her ramp up to running for president, she
was not a government employee, despite her family tentacles reaching into many
dark recesses of the Deep State.
Her campaign did commission and pay for the phony dossier, but it
was beyond her power and influence to convince the DOJ and FBI to dress up the
dossier as legitimate intelligence worthy of a major counterintelligence
effort, including domestic surveillance.
These players could not have behaved as they did without the
approval of the head of the fish, the occupant of the Oval Office – none other
than President Barack Obama. Whether explicit or implicit, his directions
were crystal-clear to his underlings – his attorney general, his FBI director,
his IRS commissioner, and all the other agency heads serving at his pleasure.
No one working in the Obama administration would take on such
chicanery and corruption on his own. This all had the blessing of the
boss. Don't expect a smoking gun – a videotape of Obama directing his
underlings to buy a salacious dossier, gussy it up as an intelligence report,
convince a FISA court to permit wiretapping of American citizens, all in an
effort to thwart an election. Maybe there are some incriminating emails
floating around, assuming they haven't been wiped from someone's server or
hidden from congressional investigators.
But make no mistake that none of this would have happened without
the approval of the boss man in the Oval Office. If his standard were to
respect law and electoral tradition, none of this would have happened.
Yet his name is conspicuously absent from lists and photo montages of
Deep-Staters working for Mueller or recently "reassigned" to less
visible positions within the swamp.
Will a former president ever be held accountable
for such misdeeds? Fat chance. Bill Clinton, despite the wave of
sexual harassment and abuse stories of the past few months, is still a darling
of the Democratic Party.
The DOJ OIG report is due in mid-January. Will this report
be a reckoning for President Trump against the swamp? Will lower-tier
players squeal on their superiors to stay out of prison? Will the
thousands of sealed indictments see the light of day, served against the
guilty? Or will it be another whitewash, typical of the swamp protecting
its serpents?
I believe the former but fear the latter. And I am under no
illusions that the former president will be held to account, despite serving as
the captain of this corrupt ship for eight years.
It's easy to blame Lynch, Comey, Mueller, and their underlings,
but they are only the body of the rotting fish. Not the head. It's
fine to look at the rotting fish body, but answers and accountability come only
when the focus is on the rotting head. Maybe next month, we start
dissecting the rotting fish.
