LOT OF “WEIRD SHIT” GOIN’ ON
To use a term apparently popular with George W. Bush, and adopted by the Establishment to criticize President Trump, there’s a lot of “weird shit” going on today.
As I surfed the cable news channels early this morning and read the Wall Street Journal and scanned other newspapers on line, I expected that all the “news outlets” would be leading, grudgingly perhaps, with possibly the biggest story of the year…the ‘breaking’ news discovery of the massive corruption and coverup of the Clinton campaign and strong evidence of the involvement in the coverup of the nation’s highest law enforcement leaders which went on for virtually the entire term of the Obama administration!.
In “controversies” which will be known as the “Uranium One deal”, the “Trump Dossier”, and “Hillary’s email scandal and exoneration”, the evidence is now turning from a “leaking out” to a massive “dam break” and it is big, its very alarming and threatens the very stability of this country.
Needless to note, that was not the lead story of the day. In fact it was barely mentioned except on Fox News, of course.
The Wall Street Journal “news section” saw fit to run a 3 paragraph “story” on its “Washington Wire”, on page A4…not a “go-to-section” for the latest, but a catchall for ‘minor’ news items.
Holman Jenkins, in the Journal’s op-ed page, however, did devote a column which concisely reports on the story.
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Nevertheless, if you get all your “news” from the usual liberal “mainstream” outlets, you’ll believe the big story is the Pentagon’s coverup of the Niger ambush by Taliban fighters which resulted in the deaths of four American soldiers.
But if you delve deeper into the news of the day you’ll realize that as tragic as the GI casualties in Niger are, a bigger story is that the US Senate’s greatest statesmen of the 21st century are quitting because our president is “not normal” and is “dangerous to a democracy”.
That would be, for one, GOP Senator Jeff Flake, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Washington establishment, a great embarrassment to his home state of Arizona, and an unctuous, self-righteous “pretty-boy” who has no loyalty to anyone but himself. His decision to “retire” ahead of the 2018 election is a reflection of the fact that Mr. Flake was not going to even win the Republican primary, and not because of any of the high-sounding principles he invoked with a remarkably straight face from the floor of the Senate.
The “Flake’s” , as we affectionately refer to the senator, surrender to the humiliating inevitable follows the equally comic spectacle of Republican senator Bob Corker announcing his recent decision to “retire” from office, for essentially the same reason as the Arizonan.
Corker may have been a bigger disaster for America than the Flake, however. He did, in fact author legislation which upended the US Constitution regarding senate approval of treaties and enabled President Obama to complete the worst deal in US history which allows this country’s bitterest enemy, Iran, to get nuclear weapons with which to dominate the Middle East and seriously threaten the United States and its democratic allies worldwide.
We’d hasten to add that we don’t believe that Mr. Corker did that for treasonous motives, but rather simply because he was a clueless and incompetent fraud (in our opinion, of course).
At any rate that seems to be “THE BIG NEWS” of this and probably the next several cycles if you happen to be one who has complete devotion to delusion as spread by the MSM.
DLH
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the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 24, 2017
Here’s a story consistent with what has been reported in the press—how reliably reported is uncertain. Democratic political opponents of Donald Trump financed a British former spook who spread money among contacts in Russia, who in turn over drinks solicited stories from their supposedly “connected” sources in Moscow. If these people were really connected in any meaningful sense, then they made sure the stories they spun were consistent with the interests of the regime, if not actually scripted by the regime.
The resulting Trump dossier then became a factor in Obama administration decisions to launch an FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and after the election to trumpet suspicions of Trump collusion with Russia.
We know of a second, possibly even more consequential way the FBI was effectively a vehicle for Russian meddling in U.S. politics. Authoritative news reports say FBI chief James Comey’s intervention in the Hillary Clinton email matter was prompted by a Russian intelligence document that his colleagues suspected was a Russian plant.
OK, Mr. Mueller was a former close colleague and leader but no longer part of the FBI when these events occurred. This may or may not make him a questionable person to lead a Russia-meddling investigation in which the FBI’s own actions are necessarily a concern.
But now we come to the Rosatom disclosures last week in The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress.
Here’s another story as plausible as we can make it based on credible reporting. After the Cold War, in its own interest, the U.S. wanted to build bridges to the Russian nuclear establishment. The Putin government, for national or commercial purposes, agreed and sought to expand its nuclear business in the U.S.
The purchase and consolidation of certain assets were facilitated by Canadian entrepreneurs who gave large sums to the Clinton Foundation, and perhaps arranged a Bill Clinton speech in Moscow for $500,000. A key transaction had to be approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.
Now we learn that, before and during these transactions, the FBI had uncovered a bribery and kickback scheme involving Russia’s U.S. nuclear business, and also received reports of Russian officials seeking to curry favor through donations to the Clinton Foundation.
This criminal activity was apparently not disclosed to agencies vetting the 2010 transfer of U.S. commercial nuclear assets to Russia. The FBI made no move to break up the scheme until long after the transaction closed. Only five years later, the Justice Department, in 2015, disclosed a plea deal with the Russian perpetrator so quietly that its significance was missed until The Hill reported on the FBI investigation last week.
For anyone who cares to look, the real problem here is that the FBI itself is so thoroughly implicated in the Russia meddling story.
The agency, when Mr. Mueller headed it, soft-pedaled an investigation highly embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton as well as the Obama Russia reset policy. More recently, if just one of two things is true—Russia sponsored the Trump Dossier, or Russian fake intelligence prompted Mr. Comey’s email intervention—then Russian operations, via their impact on the FBI, influenced and continue to influence our politics in a way far more consequential than any Facebook ad, the preoccupation of John McCain, who apparently cannot behold a mountain if there’s a molehill anywhere nearby.
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