Back when the original Meaning in History was all about the Russia Hoax, my main focus was on the systemic abuses at the FBI regarding the checks and balances that were supposed to govern our national security agencies in their relations with the citizens of the United States.
Think Herbert Hoover. He just happened to be President when the '29 crash took place, and he got the blame for the following 10 years of misery. This regime hasn't done anything right, and the November misery index will be unprecedented. Russiagate, the 2020 election, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, the border, crime and our economic woes separately and together are the stuff to cause a Revolution or a Civil War, so when it all comes together there will be radical consequences. I expect everything to be slow-walked until after the November election.
Reported elsewhere today is Joffe's former FBI handler has numerous links to Andrew McCabe.
This suggests the indictments Durham may bring are interconnected, forming an overarching conspiracy in which each piece is a free-standing component. The Sussmann case potentially links into criminality in FGPS, in Hillary for America, the DNC, Joffe and his merry DNS minions, and various high level FBI and State Department nomenklatura.
His speaking indictments (of Sussmann and Danchenko), and various motions in support thereof, layout a "joint enterprise" among many of the players. A conspiracy by any other name.
I believe Durham is playing a long game, and is playing to win. The fact his GJ is still hearing testimony and evidence betokens he is not about to close-up shop anytime soon.
Add to that the fact there have been no departing prosecutors in recent weeks, which are the precursor to a SC winding down.
The FBI/DOJ miscreants never in a hundred years believed Hillary would lose the election to Trump the outsider. That fact and the belief they were untouchable empowered them to act in the manner that they did, including the subsequent FISA warrant process they abused with the assistance of the star chamber court. What a country we live in - that no one suspected such skullduggery until Trump threatened the approved order.
Mark, I read you every day and you have been among the most lucid analysts of America's decline. You also seem to be a straight arrow and an old fashioned upstanding individual. But you are constantly surprised at the corruption and appalling evil that pervades the DC political class. CTH was right all along about Bill Barr's role to protect the institutions of the DOJ and FBI despite their corruption, and CTH is clear that Durham will do the same. My bet is on CTH. John Solomon has been wrong many times regarding Russiagate- he usually expects justice will be served, and it never is. It seems to me that the Obama faction of the Democratic Party is using Durham to bring to light corruption in Hillary's faction to ensure their own power.
This post at CTH is pretty damning as well...That the opening statement of the prosecution to the jury clearly frames the case as the FBI being duped and fooled and used as a political tool. SD makes a good point that it's awfully hard to base your prosecution on the poor, witless FBI then turn around and prosecute that same FBI as criminal conspirators. This sure looks like a civer up where outsiders are blamed but the real evil inside the government is left largely untouched.
These are, potentially, two separate cases with separate defendants. The actions of FBI in submitting a false affidavit to the FISC don't really intersect--for prosecutorial purposes--with the Alfa Bank Hoax case.
Perhaps. Awfully optimistic that anything beyond token prosecutions will ever occur.
It really is a perverse genius: the gangsters heap crime upon ever greater crime until it becomes far too daunting to dig through the pile of excrement toward any type of punishment. It would really require a revolution with a Nuremburg assay to deal w the level of evil rooted in dc.
Which, of course, is precisely the object of the entire exercise-- drag out the process, fry a few relatively small fish, and bring Hillary back to deliver her inimitable line,What difference at this point does it make?
Your points are legit. At the time I explained why I thought Barr was the real deal--his 19 page legal memo destroying Mueller. I think, however, that it's a bit unfair to say that Solomon "has been wrong many times". It's true that justice hasn't been served, but it's also the case that Solomon has largely been factually correct--even if justice hasn't been served.
Re Obama v. Hillary, there's another party to this cage fight, and that's Zhou. His regime is a weird mix of ex-Hillary and ex-Barry people. I personally don't think Hillary has a prayer for a comeback, so the target would seem to be Zhou. But the Obama people need someone to replace him with.
Diddly squat to show isn't on Solomon--he's just a reporter. Can you provide reasons to believe that his facts are inaccurate? Everything he says in that interview--and he could have said more, as I did--is accurate.
He's forever tick-tocking. Maybe he's a simple messenger, maybe he prioritises his career over the truth, but ultimately his assertions and pronouncements always turn out have a bit of truth wrapped in misdirection and /or time wasting.
Separately, on Barr - in hindsight, we all had good reason to trust him (Mueller, reclaiming my time, unequivocally condemning potential ballot fraud pre election, the fact that Trump trusted him and that Trump's instincts at the time we're on point) but in truth we all should have realised what he was the day he asserted that Epstein did actually kill himself.
Emerald Robinson has opined that Durham is slow walking the investigation and has no intention of bringing the ringleaders to justice.
She's usually right.
Think Herbert Hoover. He just happened to be President when the '29 crash took place, and he got the blame for the following 10 years of misery. This regime hasn't done anything right, and the November misery index will be unprecedented. Russiagate, the 2020 election, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, the border, crime and our economic woes separately and together are the stuff to cause a Revolution or a Civil War, so when it all comes together there will be radical consequences. I expect everything to be slow-walked until after the November election.
Reported elsewhere today is Joffe's former FBI handler has numerous links to Andrew McCabe.
This suggests the indictments Durham may bring are interconnected, forming an overarching conspiracy in which each piece is a free-standing component. The Sussmann case potentially links into criminality in FGPS, in Hillary for America, the DNC, Joffe and his merry DNS minions, and various high level FBI and State Department nomenklatura.
His speaking indictments (of Sussmann and Danchenko), and various motions in support thereof, layout a "joint enterprise" among many of the players. A conspiracy by any other name.
I believe Durham is playing a long game, and is playing to win. The fact his GJ is still hearing testimony and evidence betokens he is not about to close-up shop anytime soon.
Add to that the fact there have been no departing prosecutors in recent weeks, which are the precursor to a SC winding down.
The FBI/DOJ miscreants never in a hundred years believed Hillary would lose the election to Trump the outsider. That fact and the belief they were untouchable empowered them to act in the manner that they did, including the subsequent FISA warrant process they abused with the assistance of the star chamber court. What a country we live in - that no one suspected such skullduggery until Trump threatened the approved order.
Mark, I read you every day and you have been among the most lucid analysts of America's decline. You also seem to be a straight arrow and an old fashioned upstanding individual. But you are constantly surprised at the corruption and appalling evil that pervades the DC political class. CTH was right all along about Bill Barr's role to protect the institutions of the DOJ and FBI despite their corruption, and CTH is clear that Durham will do the same. My bet is on CTH. John Solomon has been wrong many times regarding Russiagate- he usually expects justice will be served, and it never is. It seems to me that the Obama faction of the Democratic Party is using Durham to bring to light corruption in Hillary's faction to ensure their own power.
@bitterb
This post at CTH is pretty damning as well...That the opening statement of the prosecution to the jury clearly frames the case as the FBI being duped and fooled and used as a political tool. SD makes a good point that it's awfully hard to base your prosecution on the poor, witless FBI then turn around and prosecute that same FBI as criminal conspirators. This sure looks like a civer up where outsiders are blamed but the real evil inside the government is left largely untouched.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/17/special-prosecutor-frames-the-background-of-the-sussmann-case-the-fbi-was-manipulated-duped-by-clinton-campaign/#more-233169
These are, potentially, two separate cases with separate defendants. The actions of FBI in submitting a false affidavit to the FISC don't really intersect--for prosecutorial purposes--with the Alfa Bank Hoax case.
Perhaps. Awfully optimistic that anything beyond token prosecutions will ever occur.
It really is a perverse genius: the gangsters heap crime upon ever greater crime until it becomes far too daunting to dig through the pile of excrement toward any type of punishment. It would really require a revolution with a Nuremburg assay to deal w the level of evil rooted in dc.
Which, of course, is precisely the object of the entire exercise-- drag out the process, fry a few relatively small fish, and bring Hillary back to deliver her inimitable line,What difference at this point does it make?
Your points are legit. At the time I explained why I thought Barr was the real deal--his 19 page legal memo destroying Mueller. I think, however, that it's a bit unfair to say that Solomon "has been wrong many times". It's true that justice hasn't been served, but it's also the case that Solomon has largely been factually correct--even if justice hasn't been served.
Re Obama v. Hillary, there's another party to this cage fight, and that's Zhou. His regime is a weird mix of ex-Hillary and ex-Barry people. I personally don't think Hillary has a prayer for a comeback, so the target would seem to be Zhou. But the Obama people need someone to replace him with.
Diddly squat to show isn't on Solomon--he's just a reporter. Can you provide reasons to believe that his facts are inaccurate? Everything he says in that interview--and he could have said more, as I did--is accurate.
He's a messenger. Don't shoot him.
Not convinced. https://trendingpolitics.com/breaking-john-solomon-confirms-trump-will-declassify-foot-high-stack-of-documents-exposing-obamagate-and-russiagate/
He's forever tick-tocking. Maybe he's a simple messenger, maybe he prioritises his career over the truth, but ultimately his assertions and pronouncements always turn out have a bit of truth wrapped in misdirection and /or time wasting.
Separately, on Barr - in hindsight, we all had good reason to trust him (Mueller, reclaiming my time, unequivocally condemning potential ballot fraud pre election, the fact that Trump trusted him and that Trump's instincts at the time we're on point) but in truth we all should have realised what he was the day he asserted that Epstein did actually kill himself.
The walls HAVE closed in--in the sense that we have a pretty good idea of who they were and what they did. Not everything, but enough.