The Republicans’ delay in releasing the summary of the House
Intelligence Committee’s Russiagate investigation is giving weight to the
presstitutes’ claim that the report is not being released, because it is a hack
attempt at a Trump coverup that is not believable. Only Republicans are stupid
enough to put themselves in such a situation.
Readers ask me why the summary memo is not released if it is
real. There must be some reasons besides the stupidity of Republicans. Yes,
that is so. Among the many reasons that might be blocking release are:
1) Republicans are very national security conscious. They don’t
want to provide precedents for the release of classified information.
2) Many Republican congressional districts host installations of the military/security complex. Upsetting a large employer and directing campaign financing to a challenger is a big consideration.
3) The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime was a neoconservative regime. One consequence is that Republicans are influenced by neoconservatives who stress the alleged “Russian threat.”
4) The Israel Lobby can unseat any member of the House and Senate. The Israel Lobby is allied with the neoconservatives and this alliance intends to keep the US militarily active against perceived threats to Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East and against Russia, which supports Syria and Iran, countries perceived as threats by Israel.
5) Many Republicans are themselves invested in false Russiagate allegations against Trump and would like to replace him with Pence. Other Republicans believe that Trump is undermining Washington’s expensively-purchased foreign alliances and, thereby, undermining US power.
2) Many Republican congressional districts host installations of the military/security complex. Upsetting a large employer and directing campaign financing to a challenger is a big consideration.
3) The George W. Bush/Dick Cheney regime was a neoconservative regime. One consequence is that Republicans are influenced by neoconservatives who stress the alleged “Russian threat.”
4) The Israel Lobby can unseat any member of the House and Senate. The Israel Lobby is allied with the neoconservatives and this alliance intends to keep the US militarily active against perceived threats to Israel’s hegemony in the Middle East and against Russia, which supports Syria and Iran, countries perceived as threats by Israel.
5) Many Republicans are themselves invested in false Russiagate allegations against Trump and would like to replace him with Pence. Other Republicans believe that Trump is undermining Washington’s expensively-purchased foreign alliances and, thereby, undermining US power.
Many Americans do not seem to understand what is at stake. What
America is confronted with is a coup conspiracy organized by top officials of
the Obama Justice Department, FBI, CIA, the Hillary DNC, and the presstitute
media to overturn the result of a democratic election and remove the president
from office. The basis of the coup is a fake dossier purchased for money that
consists of unsupported allegations against Trump and that was used to obtain
warrants from the FISA count to spy on Trump and various associates hoping to
find something that can be used against Trump. Regardless, the false
allegations could be fed to the CIA’s media assets and used to create a scandal
requiring a special prosecutor to investigate Russiagate. Once the
investigation was under way, the presstitutes kept the scandal alive hoping to
convince enough Americans that Trump must have done something—“where there is
smoke, there is fire”—that justifies his removal. It worked against Richard
Nixon, but not against Ronald Reagan, and Trump is no Reagan.
If the highest reaches of the police state agencies can get away
with an attempted or successful coup against the president of the United
States, then that is the complete end of democracy and all accountability in
government. The House, Senate, and judiciary will become as powerless as the
Roman senate under the caesars. We will live under a dictatorship ruled by
police state agencies.
Many Americans say they don’t need the House Intelligence
Report, because they don’t believe the Russiagate BS in the first place. They miss
the point. They need the report, because those responsible for this attempt at
a coup must be identified, charged, and prosecuted for their act of high
treason.
This is not minor stuff. This goes to the heart of whether any
form of liberty will exist. We all know that the ability of the people to hold
government accountable is not assured by democracy. However, there is no
prospect of holding government accountable if it is a police state, a road that
the US has been going down for some time. The audacious coup attempt against
President Trump is our opportunity to stop the momentum to a police state.
Despite my recent postings, many people do not understand that
the somewhat redacted FISA court document that has been declassified and
released and explained by myself, William Binney, and former US Attorney Joe di
Genova (see: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/22/here-are-all-the-facts-about-russiagate/
) contains admissions by the FBI and DOJ that they improperly spied and
obtained warrants from the court under false pretenses. In other words, we have
it on the authority of the FISA court itself that the FBI and DOJ have admitted
to the court their transgressions. When Department of Justice (sic)
congressional liaison Stephen Boyd says the DOJ is “unaware of any wrongdoing,”
he is lying through his teeth. The DOJ has already confessed its wrongdoing to
the FISA court.
(See Lendman on Boyd’s claim that releasing the memo would harm national security and ongoing investigations. This is always the claim made when government has to cover up its crimes. http://stephenlendman.org/2018/01/memo-detailing-russiagate-abuses-names-high-level-us-officials/ )
(See Lendman on Boyd’s claim that releasing the memo would harm national security and ongoing investigations. This is always the claim made when government has to cover up its crimes. http://stephenlendman.org/2018/01/memo-detailing-russiagate-abuses-names-high-level-us-officials/ )
When Admiral Rodgers, director of the National Security Agency,
discovered that the FBI and DOJ were misusing the spy system for partisan
political reasons, he let it be known that he was going to inform the FISA
court. This caused the FBI and DOJ to rush to the court in advance and confess
to “mistakes” and to promise to tighten up procedures so as not to make
mistakes in the future. It is these “mistakes” and corrections that the FISA
court document reveals.
In other words, the information already exists in the pubic
domain that proves that Russiagate was a conspiracy organized for the purpose
of bringing down the elected president of the United States.
A case can be made that it would be just as well if the coup
succeeds as it would bring an end to Washington’s cover as the government of a
great democracy with liberty and justice for all. Most other governments, and
one would hope certainly the Russian and Chinese governments, would see the
coup as America’s final transition into a police state and give up their
utopian ideas of reaching accommodation with Washington. The constraints on
Washington’s ability to bully the world would be greatly strengthened by the
universal perception that the government of the United States had devolved into
a police state.