The
Stupid Party Remains Stupid
Paul
Craig Roberts
In the
1970s neoconservative Irving Kristol aptly described the Republicans as “the
stupid party.” We are seeing this today in the hesitation of the House
Intelligence Committee to release to the American public the results of its
investigation of Russiagate.
The
committee has released a description of its findings to members of the House,
and most Republicans who have read it are demanding that it be released to the
public as it clearly proves that Russiagate was an orchestrated conspiracy
between the Democratic National Committee, the FBI, and the Obama Department of
Justice against Donald Trump.
Apparently,
Republicans are not smart enough to understand that to announce that you have
proof that turns Russiagate away from President Trump and toward its DNC, FBI,
and DOJ originators and
then to sit on the information gives the Democrats and the
presstitutes time to discredit the information in advance of its release.
And that
is exactly what we are witnessing. For example, presstitute Greg Sargent
writing in the Washington Post, a long-time CIA asset, mischaracterizes the
finding of the House Intelligence Committee as “the latest effort to
delegitimize the Russia probe by painting it as born of partisan dirty tricks
and an illegitimate abuse of power.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/23/republicans-launch-extraordinary-new-tactics-to-protect-trump-on-russia/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-f%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.73506281e6ba
The
presstitute Sargent goes on to allege that “the campaign to discredit the Russia
investigation continues unabated, and the Nunes memo [the House Intelligence
Committee report] is at the center of it.” Sargent dismisses the report, which
he has not seen, as merely “a selective release of cherry-picked info that will
give Republicans ammunition to shield Trump from accountability, secure in the
knowledge that the full set of facts allowing us to gauge the memo’s
accuracy will not be
released.”
Note
presstitute Sargent and the Washington Post’s assumption that Trump is guilty
of some Russiagate accusation despite the absence of any evidence.
What
Sargent, his editor, and the highly partisan Rep. Adam Schiff do not
acknowledge is that proof that Russiagate is “born of partisan dirty tricks and
an illegitimate abuse of power” already exists in public in the form of an
official report by the FISA court. I posted it here on January 22:https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/spy-court-finds-survelliance-operating-outside-law/
Former US Attorney Joe diGenova explains it in detail here:https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/here-are-all-the-facts-about-russiagate/
Former US Attorney Joe diGenova explains it in detail here:https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/here-are-all-the-facts-about-russiagate/
The FISA
court lists the admitted violations of surveillance laws and their misuse
against Trump by the FBI and DOJ and lists the corrections promised by the FBI
and DOJ to prevent such illegality in the future.
If the
House Republicans were intelligent, they would immediately have released the
information, not announce that they might release it and then sit on it while
the Democrats and presstitutes discredit it in advance. By the time the Republicans
can bring themselves to release the damning information, assuming they ever do
considering their idiotic “national security” concerns, it will have been
discredited.
Meanwhile
the Russiagate campaign against Trump continues. CNN presstitute Stephen
Collinson tells us that “a foreboding moment looms for Trump’s presidency and
for the nation” as “inexorably, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation
has clawed all the way up to Donald Trump himself.”https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/mueller-investigation-analysis/index.html
If this
is not sufficient to suggest Trump’s certain guilt and upcoming indictment,
what about this:
“A stunning barrage of revelations on Tuesday suggested that at least one strand of Mueller’s Russia probe is racing toward its end game, emphasizing the gravity of the situation facing the White House and the potential vulnerability of the President.”
“A stunning barrage of revelations on Tuesday suggested that at least one strand of Mueller’s Russia probe is racing toward its end game, emphasizing the gravity of the situation facing the White House and the potential vulnerability of the President.”
What is
the “stunning barrage of revelations”? Mueller has interviewed Comey and
Sessions, Trump asked an inappropriate question of McCabe, one of the FBI
plotters against him, and Trump’s mistake as FBI director Chris Wray threatened
to quit. Only for an axe-grinding presstitute would these constitute a
“stunning barrage of revelations.”
Presstitute
Collinson writes that Mueller “has a clear picture of where he is headed in
what could turn into an obstruction of justice case, legal experts said.” It is
simply amazing that Collinson and “legal experts” are so incompetent that they
do not understand that there cannot be an obstruction of justice case unless
there is a crime. What crime was Mueller obstructed from finding?
The
problem with Mueller’s investigation is that it has never been an investigation
of a crime but an investigation seeking
to find a crime. No crime that falls under the purpose of the
investigation has been found. As William Binney, the former high level NSA
official who designed the spy program, has said, if a crime existed, the NSA
would have the evidence. No investigation would be necessary.
The only
purpose of the Mueller “investigation” is to plant in the public’s mind that
Trump and Putin conspired to steal the presidential election from Hillary.
Considering
the extraordinary stupidity of Republicans, it is possible that having all the
facts will do them no good as the presstitutes will have already established
the explanation of the facts before they are released.