Work In Progress
As the pandemic crisis begins to move toward a resolution, with guidelines for "Reopening" now available, AG Bill Barr has followed up on his remarkable interview with Laura Ingraham--Bill Barr: "Without Any Basis" --and is using his broad declassification authority to reveal more and more of the inner workings and details of the atttempted Deep State coup against President Trump. The President's moves to finally clean house in the Intel Community are undoubtedly part of that process.
So much for those who doubt Barr's resolve.
I notice that sundance, has chosen not to submerge himself for now in the details of the latest declassifications of the Carter Page FISA applications (fewer redactions). I think that's a smart decision--we already know enough about that to have a good grasp of what was going on. Instead, this morning sundance has focused on a July, 2018, letter from DoJ to the Chief Judge of the FISC. The reason I think that this is a smart use of resources is that July, 2018, appears to have been a critical moment in Trump's counteroffensive.
By mid-July of 2018 Bill Barr had already sent his tightly reasoned 19 page memo to Rod Rosenstein, attacking Team Mueller's legal theories. That memo was dated June 8, 2018. By mid-July Barr, having taken the step of writing that memo, had either committed to taking on the AG post or was being strongly persuaded to do so by allies in the White House such as Pat Cipollone and Emmett Flood. We also know that by September, at the latest, John Durham was somehow involved in looking into aspects of the Russia Hoax--the details of that are foggy at best, but the point is that wheels were being set in motion for the counteroffensive, personnel decisions were being contemplated. Had Rod Rosenstein begun to have second thoughts about his role--and about his future?
In that context the DoJ's July letter to the FISC should probably be seen as a defensive move to protect Team Mueller from the coming Trump assault, which had rightly discerned the Carter Page FISA as a weak spot. More importantly, the letter places us in the middle of the Big Picture, pointing toward the impeachment that would inevitably come. We can assume that most of the major players are behind this letter, and that moves us closer to the heart of the conspiracy Barr is targeting.
I'll be doing a lot of reading today.