Does the FBI ask, How high? This question is prompted by revelations that came out at the recent Sussmann trial. What became very clear during the trial was that the FBI-as-victim narrative was a bit of a legal fiction that John Durham deployed for the purposes of the trial. The reality that emerged for all the world to see is that the FBI’s top management was complicit in the Russia Hoax that Michael Sussmann was purveying.
All of this knowledge of how utterly criminally corrupt our institutions of government have become is fine and all. It truly has awakened me to how hopelessly F’d up our nation truly is. But without any action to prevent future malfeasance and criminal acts by these same institutions our country will whither and crumble and cease to exist in a few short years. I’m sorry, but I find myself pessimistic that anything of meaning will or can be done or that anybody of significance will ever be held accountable and suffer any consequences. We at this point are just along for the ride. Witnesses to history. The observers of a once great nation destroying itself. At this point I just want to get out of the way. Protect myself and my family from the falling rubble. Truly amazing.
While we try to figure out why it was that Michael Sussmann was essentially in charge of the FBI in 2016, the consequences of Sussmann's and his clients' manipulations then and since then have led directly on pretty much a straight line to the astoundingly dangerous and inept presidency of Joe Biden. Biden's efforts reached a high point today when he managed to induce Russia to threaten WWIII if one of the US missiles (an 'assault weapon', by the way) Joe has passed off to his new friend, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, happens somehow to get fired by somebody and then lands inside Russia. Of course, that'll never happen.
@Cassander - I agree 100%, I could not think of a stronger word than hounded, yet weaker in feeling than tortured. There is a lot of “the process is the punishment”.
I wish Trump had pardoned him. What a strange situation with echos of how the Jan 6 protesters are being treated, Roger Stones arrest, and now Peter Navarro arrested. And the continuing actions by New York AG to go after Trump. Contrast how Hillary has been treated, much less the the 7th floor people that went after Trump.
@Ray -- As much as I support PDJT, I can't think of a single time where he really *stuck it to* the Deep State. More often he seemed to back off, perhaps trying to curry favor with those who would literally destroy him. I'm thinking of when he let the Clintons off the hook, "I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people.” Maybe I'm forgetting a time when he did. But a pardon of Assange would have been a ballsy and 'in your face', but totally defensible (given that Assange is in fact innocent), move. I, too, wish he'd done it.
I also wish he had de-classified the hell out of the documentation of the Deep State's investigation (attempted coup) of him.
Trump governed as a moderate, and tried hard to be a nice guy, and work the system. He did not start fights, but he would hit back hard. And yet the Left treated him as as if he was the Devil Incarnate. And the eGOP sided and abetted this, wolus with lots of back stabbing and betrayals. And Trump got impeached twice, and star chambered for two (mueller)
Assange was one of the items he got rolled on. So many missed opportunities.
A huge positive of Trump is he ripped the masks off his opponents, and showed there was an alternative set of policies that worked.
Biden is daily further discrediting his non Trump policies.
And a lot of anti Trumpers committed credibility suicide, for their conservative bonafides.
Thank you for the interpretation. I always read your stuff, albeit hurriedly. I think that you have it exactly right or/and it's more plausable than the current narrative. Information regarding our present circumstances is always needed and always welcome. The strenth that we have in numbers only works if we have good communication, and knowledge. Hopefully, the government never turns 'off' the internet as Geo. Bush had plans for after 9/11.
Hopefully, the people get a measure of their power back after the coming midterms. We need a wish list of things to be changed (like the FBI, which should be totally overhauled and the name changed) and people (like the bad example of Chris Christy recommending Chris Wray for director of FBI, what a mistake that was! Hopefully, the elections have been somewhat fixed, and fixed enough that a large majority of voters get a lot of new people in, and the bad ones already elected fired. If and when that happens, we need safeguards to prevent 2020 from ever happening again.
Will will need to know what happened, so we know at least how to fix the present problem. Thanks for your value added internet essays!
Because any opinion I have is probably as much of a fantasy as the “Crowdstrike” report the FBI claims to have as a source document, I theorize that the DNC/DCCC server directly implicated some bad actors involved with Seth Rich and access to the servers that was not hidden well enough. I also theorize that the decision to resolve the intrusion issue was on that server and also not hidden well.
All of this knowledge of how utterly criminally corrupt our institutions of government have become is fine and all. It truly has awakened me to how hopelessly F’d up our nation truly is. But without any action to prevent future malfeasance and criminal acts by these same institutions our country will whither and crumble and cease to exist in a few short years. I’m sorry, but I find myself pessimistic that anything of meaning will or can be done or that anybody of significance will ever be held accountable and suffer any consequences. We at this point are just along for the ride. Witnesses to history. The observers of a once great nation destroying itself. At this point I just want to get out of the way. Protect myself and my family from the falling rubble. Truly amazing.
While we try to figure out why it was that Michael Sussmann was essentially in charge of the FBI in 2016, the consequences of Sussmann's and his clients' manipulations then and since then have led directly on pretty much a straight line to the astoundingly dangerous and inept presidency of Joe Biden. Biden's efforts reached a high point today when he managed to induce Russia to threaten WWIII if one of the US missiles (an 'assault weapon', by the way) Joe has passed off to his new friend, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, happens somehow to get fired by somebody and then lands inside Russia. Of course, that'll never happen.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-threatens-strike-west-if-us-supplied-rockets-hit-its-territory
And what of Seth Rich and the FBI claiming for years to have no information on him, and now they admit they actually had his laptop.
It was probably stored next to Anthony Weiners laptop and Hunter Biden’s Laptop.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/who_really_killed_seth_rich.html
So many unanswered questions.
And Julian Assange is still being hounded.
One must save the institutions of course.
@Ray
Worse than hounded...
@Cassander - I agree 100%, I could not think of a stronger word than hounded, yet weaker in feeling than tortured. There is a lot of “the process is the punishment”.
I wish Trump had pardoned him. What a strange situation with echos of how the Jan 6 protesters are being treated, Roger Stones arrest, and now Peter Navarro arrested. And the continuing actions by New York AG to go after Trump. Contrast how Hillary has been treated, much less the the 7th floor people that went after Trump.
@Ray -- As much as I support PDJT, I can't think of a single time where he really *stuck it to* the Deep State. More often he seemed to back off, perhaps trying to curry favor with those who would literally destroy him. I'm thinking of when he let the Clintons off the hook, "I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people.” Maybe I'm forgetting a time when he did. But a pardon of Assange would have been a ballsy and 'in your face', but totally defensible (given that Assange is in fact innocent), move. I, too, wish he'd done it.
I also wish he had de-classified the hell out of the documentation of the Deep State's investigation (attempted coup) of him.
@Cassander - 100% agree
Trump governed as a moderate, and tried hard to be a nice guy, and work the system. He did not start fights, but he would hit back hard. And yet the Left treated him as as if he was the Devil Incarnate. And the eGOP sided and abetted this, wolus with lots of back stabbing and betrayals. And Trump got impeached twice, and star chambered for two (mueller)
Assange was one of the items he got rolled on. So many missed opportunities.
A huge positive of Trump is he ripped the masks off his opponents, and showed there was an alternative set of policies that worked.
Biden is daily further discrediting his non Trump policies.
And a lot of anti Trumpers committed credibility suicide, for their conservative bonafides.
Thank you for the interpretation. I always read your stuff, albeit hurriedly. I think that you have it exactly right or/and it's more plausable than the current narrative. Information regarding our present circumstances is always needed and always welcome. The strenth that we have in numbers only works if we have good communication, and knowledge. Hopefully, the government never turns 'off' the internet as Geo. Bush had plans for after 9/11.
Hopefully, the people get a measure of their power back after the coming midterms. We need a wish list of things to be changed (like the FBI, which should be totally overhauled and the name changed) and people (like the bad example of Chris Christy recommending Chris Wray for director of FBI, what a mistake that was! Hopefully, the elections have been somewhat fixed, and fixed enough that a large majority of voters get a lot of new people in, and the bad ones already elected fired. If and when that happens, we need safeguards to prevent 2020 from ever happening again.
Will will need to know what happened, so we know at least how to fix the present problem. Thanks for your value added internet essays!
We knew about the corruption and the lies in 2016. In 2017-2018, the Republicans controlled the government.
I expect the same amount of "justice" in 2023 and 2024.
Because any opinion I have is probably as much of a fantasy as the “Crowdstrike” report the FBI claims to have as a source document, I theorize that the DNC/DCCC server directly implicated some bad actors involved with Seth Rich and access to the servers that was not hidden well enough. I also theorize that the decision to resolve the intrusion issue was on that server and also not hidden well.