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. Political matters, such as presidential elections, were supposed to be treated in a hands off manner—left to constitutional process, such as elections by We the People—absent rigourously justified reasons of overriding, even existential, importance. It seemed clear to me back then that the FBI had gone seriously off the rails, which is why I kept returning to the issue of “predication”—the concept that no investigation should be opened without an articulable reason that adheres to explicit standards, i.e., reasonable suspicion, probable cause, etc. Those standards—which had, in fact, been articulated in the Attorney General Guidelines that govern FBI national security investigations—had, to my mind, been flagrantly ignored.
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.
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.