The Sussmann Case--Over, Or Not?

First, let me give my brief understanding of what’s going on. Basically, we’re watching the DC Establishment continue its efforts to remove Donald Trump from public life. That’s the meaning of the J6 Insurrection narrative, it’s also the meaning of the way the Sussmann case was handled. It’s the meaning of the news blackout, and it’s the meaning of the continued disinformation campaign regarding all things Russia and about election fraud.

The Russia Hoax and its ancillary hoaxes was never about violations of law. As I’ve maintained from the start, it’s all about predication—and the lack of predication is what gave the game away immediately. It was about removing Trump. Doc Shipwrecked, without using the word, lucidly explains the telltale signs of a lack of predication and how it played out throughout Trump’s administration. But everyone in DC knew this:

2. Mis-conduct of FBI leadership in time frame of Aug-Nov. 2016 reinforced. We will see lots more FBI comms now than were made public. The Leadership badly wanted the HRC hatched plot to be true, and they had EVIDENCE it was not true very early on but persisted.

IOW, they lacked predication for a full investigation, and they knew it. Comey may be a creep, but he’s not a stupid lawyer.

3. IMO, the biggest issue re the FBI and DOJ after the election was the continued pursuit of Trump.

IMO, at that point it did not matter if Trump was a Russia sympathizer. That was not illegal. The issue was on the table for the electorate prior to the election and he won.

The continued pursuit of Trump was a policy dispute or, perhaps more to the point, it was a dispute over America’s constitutional order. Trump wanted MAGA—he wanted to return America to its founding concept, a constitutional, federal republic. The DC Establishment is uninterested in the US Constitution as such, except as a talking point when it serves their purposes with the public. What it wants is to maintain the world hegemony of the American Empire and its place as the driving cog in the Globalist World Order, the Rules-Based Order.

Counterintelligence work is intended to benefit the thinking of the President for foreign policy purposes. After the election, for whose benefit was the FBI work supposedly being done? They don't work for Congress.

The reality of the American order, certainly since Watergate, is that the intelligence related agencies work together as a Deep State. Congress and the President get some input, sometimes. Congress, through its budget authorities, probably has more influence than the President, but Congress is beholden to the Big Money interests that share the goals of the Deep State.

IMO it was misconduct for DOJ/FBI senior management to keep those investigations going after Trump was elected absent actual evidence of crimes having been committed. The existence of the investigation hindered the new Administration's execution of policy changes.

Yes, and this is very much about DoJ.

Of course that was the whole purpose. But it was illegitimate and destructive, and led to a justifiable belief by Trump supporters that his POLITICAL OPPONENTS would work to bring him down by any means necessary -- and Govt actors went along.

On the other hand, a week or so ago I maintained that Durham had already won, by exposing through Robbie Mook that Hillary was the driving force behind the entire Russia Hoax—whether or not she dreamed it up. The reason I still hold to that view, perhaps somewhat cautiously, is that the Left no longer controls the public narrative through the MSM. No matter what complaints we may have re Fox, they serve a purpose and we can be grateful. Even the new Big Tech censorship can’t seem to exercise the degree of control that Dems hoped for. So …

With that in mind, we turn to Margot Cleveland for a more upbeat opinion, beyond the depressing post mortem:

Even Without The Jury Convicting Michael Sussmann, The Special Counsel Has Won

Here are Cleveland’s major points. Some I leave as just a heading.

Durham Proved the Collusion Hoax Was a Hillary Clinton Enterprise

This is out there now, and there’s no getting it back. It’s important.

A Court Ruling Requiring More Disclosures

Beyond exposing the Clinton campaign’s responsibility for the Russia-collusion hoax, Durham’s prosecution of Sussmann sets the stage for potentially even more damaging revelations about Clinton’s personal involvement in the scandal.

To date, the Clinton campaign has hidden behind claims of attorney-client privilege to prevent Durham from obtaining documents, communications, and testimony through the grand jury. The Clinton campaign claimed material prepared by, or communications between, Perkins and Coie attorneys, Fusion GPS employees, investigators, and other third parties are protected by attorney-client privilege. Prosecutors in the Sussmann case, however, succeeded in obtaining a court ruling that several documents withheld by Fusion GPS, based on the Clinton campaign’s claims of privilege, are not protected and must be given to prosecutors.

While Fusion GPS continues to withhold thousands of documents, this precedent provides the special counsel’s office solid grounds to challenge the privilege in both the Danchenko case and in other grand jury probes that may be pending. Piercing the privilege will prove key to further exposing Clinton’s personal involvement in Spygate.

The bottom line here is the same as for the Sussmann case. No matter whether Durham ever makes a case, there remains hope for more truth coming out.

Killing the Alfa Bank Hoax For Good

This, too, is now proven beyond a reasonable doubt—the testimony by the FBI agents was devastating. In the court of public opinion it’s game, set, match. There will still be hoax defenders, but they’re howling at the moon.

Media Keeps the Lies Circulating

The deep collusion between DoJ and FBI management and the media has been exposed. Where does the MSM go to get its reputation back? Beats me. I don’t think they do.

Hey, we’re playing a long game. It never ends. A guilty verdict would have been nice, but Durham has moved the ball downfield.