Capers Of The Clinton Cronies

So, I wanted to get something up quickly before events began developing during the day. Be prepared! American Greatness rode to my rescue with two excellent and thoughtful articles.

First, this may seem an obvious point but it’s well stated and important to have clearly in mind:

Joe Biden’s FBI Raid Crossed the Rubicon

This week we see the continued weaponization of the federal government against the American people. Is there any turning back now?

The obvious point is the one about the weaponization of the federal government against the American people. The author, Andy Biggs, is speaking literally—not rhetorically, not hyperbolically. Here are his concluding paragraphs:

This week we see the continued weaponization of the federal government against the American people.

Trump continues to be pursued by the unethical Attorney General Merrick Garland and his squad. January 6 prisoners continue to be held in solitary confinement and unconstitutionally in pretrial detention. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directs his officers to ignore enforcing the law. How can freedom exist when the rule of law is gone—killed by our own government?

The weaponization of government bureaucracy will continue when the ironically named “Inflation Reduction Act” is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and signed into law. While the bill is replete with regulations that will further strangle our economic freedoms, the Democrats want to turn more than 87,000 new IRS personnel against their fellow Americans. It is not hard to see that there will be attacks by these new agents of the state against political opponents of the Biden regime–the most extreme administration in American history.

One presumes that, given the timing of passage, this new army of IRS agents is being put in place in preparation for 2024.

For those paying attention, we are seeing the systematic dismantling of the great American experiment in self-governance. Every institution is dominated by anti-American zealots eager to arrogate power to the national government in order to bring about, through an institutional revolution, a regime change. The hoped-for world order is one based on Marxist principles, coupled with neofascist dogma, and shrouded in post-Westphalian globalism, with a portion of the religiously dogmatic radical environmentalism added to the recipe.

This point about the "hoped-for world order” is important. This is all, ultimately, being done to enable one world government, Agenda 2030. Call it globalist secular humanism, call it eugenicist Malthusian globalism, this is the reality.

And Biden has his police force, like former East Germany’s Stasi, the former Soviet Union’s KGB, and like every tyrannical government in history.

Biden’s police state and the Goebbels-like propaganda of the media have been investigating and chasing Trump for years with no success. Invading his home is like crossing the Rubicon, not just for Biden and the Left’s obsession with Trump, but for the future of American freedom as well. Is there any turning back now?

However, while the MAL Raid may have crossed a metaphorical Rubicon, the Deep State has had plenty of prior—if less overt—practice.

So, let’s turn to the Capers of the Clinton Cronies.

The other day I commented—in the discussions of Tom Luongo’s Theory of Everything in two parts—that the roots of what’s going on today in the realm of Globalist intrigue and power politics go back at least to the Clintons. In a very smart article Lloyd Billingsley connects Sandy Berger’s escapades to the present context. Granted, purloining classified documents by secreting them in one’s underpants seems a far cry from seizing such documents at gunpoint, but Billingsley has more on his mind than the mechanism—he’s interested in the overall Deep State modus operandi:

Dems ’n’ Docs

In looking at the capers of the Clintons’ cronies, if Americans believed the rule of law is at stake, it would be hard to blame them.

Sandy Berger was a long time Dem operative who ended up as National Security Adviser to the Clintons during the runup to the GWOT (Global War on Terror). He was NSA during the attack on Khobar Towers and the bombings of the East African embassies, which in retrospect can be seen as preliminaries to 9/11.

With that background …

Berger served as a representative to the 9/11 Commission, which gave him special access to classified material about the Clintons’ record on terrorism. In 2004, several months before his testimony, Berger slipped into the National Archives and ripped off classified documents and notes. ...

This was a serious crime, but Berger cut a deal with the Justice Department to stay [out] of jail, … [to] avoid a full explanation of what he had ripped off. No word of any sudden raids or other actions by the FBI. Berger also lost his security clearance but the matter did not end there. As Ronald A. Cass noted in 2007, the D.C. Bar began to probe what Berger had stolen and why he stole it. 

Let that sink in . He cut a deal. The main point of the deal, for anyone with eyes to see, was to avoid explaining what he was up to—why he did it, for whom, and what exactly needed so badly to be destroyed. That kind of a sweet deal doesn’t get put together without collusion at the highest levels. In other words, Sandy Berger wasn’t alone in not wanting to explain things.

To keep from answering those questions, Berger duly surrendered his law license. For Cass, author of The Rule of Law in America, that decision confirmed Berger “must be hiding something important. And if it is that important to him, it is also important to us.” Most likely, the stolen material “points to a terrible mistake by Berger himself, by President Clinton, or by both” in failing to stop al-Qaeda.

For our purposes, I’d like to suggest that what was being hidden may have been more than a “mistake”—it may have been, or have implied, deliberate policy decisions. I say this, because it helps tie this episode in to the Deep State jihad against Trump. Mistakes have been made during that ongoing jihad, but there are deliberate policy implications behind those mistakes. More to the point, perhaps, the mistakes have not induced the Deep State to change its NeverTrump course.

Now, even though, as Cass explained, our national security and the continued functioning of something resembling the rule of law in America were at stake,

…, the Justice Department failed to pursue the case, the media were not interested, and Congress opted for “more promising political fodder than one that might point back to the Clintons.” 

Or maybe the media got the memo that told them to get interested in just about anything else.

Despite his document theft—or perhaps because of it—Berger became a big star with prominent Democrats. In 2014, President Obama invited Berger to a private dinner with a group of foreign policy experts. Berger was a big promoter of the Iran deal, and when he died in December 2015, the president praised him as one who “devoted himself to strengthening American leadership” and a man “remembered fondly within the ranks of the National Security Council, where those he mentored carry on his work.”

The president who praised Berger when Berger died in 2015 was Obama, who could certainly appreciate the kind of behind the scenes derring-do of the likes of Berger. The linked article from Politico also contains this:

Antony Blinken, the current deputy secretary of state and a Berger acolyte, tweeted, “Mourn the passing of Sandy Berger --- father, husband, mentor, friend, leader and great patriot. RIP SRB.”

In fact, all the usual Globalist suspects are quoted in that eulogistic Politico article. But onwards … and note that the WaPo quote is not some sort of Onionesque bit of tongue in cheek parody:

Sandy Berger “helped shape foreign policy” under President Clinton, proclaimed the Washington Post, and Berger was later “engulfed in legal tribulations over his un­authorized removal and destruction of classified documents from the National Archives.” No word of Berger’s “theft” or the commission of a “crime” by the former national security official.

“Mr. Berger made repeated trips to the National Archives to refresh his memory about the Clinton national security team’s work to foil a bin Laden plot,” the obituary explained. “He was caught smuggling out a handful of sensitive documents, destroying some at his office, and lying about possessing them.” 

The Post is not curious about what these classified documents contained. For his part, Berger “continued to advise political leaders, including Hillary Clinton,” who also had a thing about classified material.   

The former first lady and secretary of state kept reams of sensitive data on her unsecured home-brew server. When some 30,000 emails sparked interest, she bleached the server clean and smashed up phones and other devices. Clinton’s actions violated several statutes, but the FBI never conducted a surprise raid.  

FBI boss James Comey, a longtime Clinton crony, contended that no reasonable prosecutor would take up the case. Hillary Clinton stayed in the race and lost to upstart Donald Trump, the target of FBI covert operations both as a candidate and as president. With Trump now out of office, the FBI conducts a surprise raid on his residence, the first such operation against a former president of the United States. 

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Meanwhile, the midterms are coming up in November, and 2024 is just around the corner. As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to wait and see what happens.

Two possible explanations for the MAL Raid have been offered, both of which can be plausibly argued. Both explanations presume that the official purpose of the raid was not the real purpose—the real purpose had little to nothing to do with the National Archives.

The first explanation is that the FBI was in search of incriminating or damaging documentation connected to the J6 narrative. If so, the timing seems a bit odd to me—why not push that issue earlier rather than take what could have been foreseen to be an extreme political risk? Nevertheless, the explanation is at least reasonable.

The second explanation is that the unprecedented raid was undertaken to protect the Deep State, and specifically to recover documents that may have implicated the FBI in illegal actions—either beyond those we already know about, or with additional and damning details that connect higher levels of Deep State actors. My own view—which is speculative—is that the second explanation is, given the circumstances and the political risks involved, perhaps more compelling.