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Deep State at War With US

Democrat pollster Mark Penn, Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster during her 2008 run for the Democrat nomination for President, lays it out for us:

 

I’ve seen President Clinton deny he had a relationship with “that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” I’ve seen President Obama assure people they will get to keep their doctor under ObamaCare. And I’ve seen former press secretary Sean Spicer declare that President Trump’s inaugural crowd was larger than Obama’s.

But these falsehoods pale in comparison to the performances of a series of “deep state” witnesses who have combined chutzpah with balderdash, culminating so far in the testimony of FBI agent Peter Strzok.

Let’s review just some of the highlights.

Former FBI Director James Comey maintained he did not make any decision on the email investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton until after Hillary Clinton’s interview, even though his conclusion memo was written, edited and watered down months in advance of his announcement. We have all of the timing, the drafts of the memo, and the dates and times of the edits.

Former CIA head John Brennan denied he supplied the Steele dossier on Trump to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the face of mounting evidence that he did precisely that and, at least orally, gave the former Nevada Democrat a full account of the dossier, leading Reid to write a public letter demanding an investigation.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has flatly denied that he lied to the FBI about orchestrating a self-serving leak, even denying knowledge in several interviews with FBI investigators, including one session that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz has on tape, if one reads the fine print of his report.

Now comes Strzok who, to the actual applause of congressional Democrats, denies he ever did anything in 26 years that contained even a hint of bias, despite the most damning evidence imaginable in the record — quote after quote indicating, at each and every phase of the Trump-Russia investigation, that he hated Trump, would create an “insurance policy” against his victory, and would “stop” him from serving as president. On a trip to Walmart, he says he can “smell” the Trump voters there. After all, he said, he expected his texts would be private communications — even as he used government devices to avoid detection of his relationship with then-FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom he texted.

And like all the other witnesses, he does not come in contrite but with verbal guns blazing. These witnesses seem to believe they belong to a protected class. He offered no proof that he carefully acted to separate these views — which he constantly expressed to his paramour Page, who also was on the investigation — from his actions that are now under investigation. It is false, by the way, to say he was cleared of bias in the Trump-Russia investigation; the inspector general faulted Strzok’s texts and is currently investigating the origins of that investigation.

Remarkably, we learned that special counsel Robert Mueller never even made the slightest direct inquiry into Strzok’s actions and behavior, other than to remove him from the investigation. Mueller, you may recall, for five months ducked answering congressional inquiries as to why Strzok and Page were reassigned, and we only learned the reasons when the DOJ inspector general sent these text messages to Congress. Mueller, it seems, was too busy combing every single email of the transition team, and later monitoring every single call of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, to stop and review how this bias might have tainted much of the evidence of his investigation and require new interviews of witnesses or other action.

One other revelation in Thursday’s congressional hearing was really quite stunning: Strzok named fellow FBI official Bruce Ohr, whose wife was hired by the political opposition research firm Fusion GPS, as someone who handed in a version of the Steele dossier to the FBI. And Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) read from an email indicating that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), journalist David Corn of Mother Jones magazine and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson all had sent versions of the Steele dossier to the FBI. (Simpson, by the way, testified he never dealt with the FBI.) At that point, just as it was getting interesting, Strzok claimed the FBI was barring him from answering any further questions on this material.

 

Go here to read the rest.  There is a threat to the our Republic but it isn’t Trump.

 

 

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father of seven
father of seven
Monday, July 16, AD 2018 6:27am

This scandal goes straight to Obama. There is no chance any of this, including the former AG’s tarmac visit with the former predator-in-chief, goes down with out the knowledge and approval of Obama. He corrupted everything he touched, just like a third world dictator. Between that, the debt burden he added and the poisoned race relations he spawned, his legacy will be extremely hard to undo.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Monday, July 16, AD 2018 6:37am

I doubt Obama had to explicitly direct the CIA and the FBI to behave this way. That’s the problem.

NB, Sztrok and McCabe were hired by the FBI in 1996. About 3/4 of their career was spent in the house Mueller and Comey built. That tells you something about the institutional culture those two nurtured.

father of seven
father of seven
Monday, July 16, AD 2018 6:41am

Too true. He was smart enough to use underlings for that. Just like Bill used a bagman for his bribes and Hillary perfected it by running a massive fake charity, Obama for sure engaged in plausible deniability.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, July 16, AD 2018 8:33am

The system is rigged. If not, Strzok would be in jail.

Arrogance is a vice, not a virtue. It is almost-always yoked to dishonesty and stupidity, which we saw in spade with Strzok’s testimony.

Tragically, Strzok and the rest could not get away with it if the American people stopped voting for imbeciles in Congress.

Ezabelle
Ezabelle
Monday, July 16, AD 2018 8:51am

“Tragically, Strzok and the rest could not get away with it if the American people stopped voting for imbeciles in Congress.”

What else besides embeciles are there in Congress?

Ezabelle
Ezabelle
Monday, July 16, AD 2018 8:55am

Well if the embeciles are running the show, what does that say about the rest of them?

Heather Witsman
Heather Witsman
Thursday, July 19, AD 2018 7:50pm

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