Wow. There are some folks really earning their money as talking heads, spinning wheels and offering next-to-nothing on The Comey Indictments. I wish I could earn money this way.
Two comments. There is process, and the next step in the process (trial) will determine all of this. Next, this is clearly only the first move in a fuller examination-by-process of all of the matters relating to Crossfire Hurricane and Russiagate. This latter process had to start somewhere. It will now fan out.
Where do I stand on all of this? No longer a Democrat, still a liberal, and someone who has studied the Constitution for many years.
There is so much partisan information flying around, my advice (for those of us able to remember ten years back) is to trust your memory.
The indictment against Comey says that, in 2016, he leaked or authorized leakage of information about investigations underway within the FBI, primarily the investigation into links between Trump and the Russians, and then lied to Congress about this.
So. Think back. Do we recall in 2016 hearing allegations that Trump was colluding with the Russians? Answer: yes. So, either Comey leaked or authorized, or he instructed the FBI to investigate a leak. Did the latter occur? Nope. So, even at the time, I remember being surprised that this information was floating around. So, I am not surprised it is now being investigated, nor that indictments have followed. However, there is process, and the trial will determine the truth.
Why wasn’t this investigated and exposed during Trump’s first term, then? Again, cast your minds back. And again, even though not a Trump supporter, I was writing about this at the time, in 2017. It was very apparent to me that Washington’s law enforcement and national security communities were briefing against their President (Trump). I wrote that this would lead to trouble. It now has. Why didn’t Trump do something about this at the time? Because his law enforcement and national security apparatus was working against him. This is why he appointed loyalists this time around. And this is why it has taken ten years for all this to be revisited.
Why Comey? I believe he is the starting point. You mean there will be more? Yes. We are now told (yet to be indicted and/or proven in trial) that the DoJ and FBI knew in 2016 that the Clinton campaign was planning falsely to tie Trump to the Russians. Yet, we are told, the FBI and the DoJ did nothing. To be fair, we know that only now. We were not aware in 2016.
What we were aware of in 2016 and 2017 (again, I wrote about it at the time) was The Steele Dossier, and its contents falsely connecting Trump to salacious matters involving Russian blackmail and influencing the 2016 Presidential Election. And here’s the thing, we were aware even at the time that The Dossier was eventually financed by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. No one is making this up. There will undoubtedly be indictments associated with these situations.
Then, there is the Tulsi Gabbard ICA Report (108 pages), suggesting that President Obama in 2017 was presented with an intelligence briefing that stated that, although the Russians attempted to influence the 2016 election, that undertaking had failed. The allegation in the Report is that Obama then ordered that the briefing show the opposite, and that this was then leaked, and that the leakage undermined the Trump Presidency for two years until Mueller declared that Trump had not colluded with the Russians in 2016. Again, trust your memory. We all know that, in 2017 and 2018, before Mueller reported, the narrative that had been leaked from somewhere was that Trump colluded with Russians, and that this won him the 2016 Election. We all knew about this in 2017 and 2018. Again, I wrote about it at the time.
Not only did I write about it, I also wrote about why everyone was so agitated about alleged Russian collusion. This is one of the primary matters about which I have been interviewed these past few weeks (https://tinyurl.com/ycyyc2uz). The fact that, in 2016, Putin was attempting to influence all manner of politicians in Washington, in order to repeal US legislation, which potentially might freeze his illegally laundered overseas assets of $70 billion.
The latter relates back to the corruption of Western intelligence agencies and politicians in the Eighties through arms-dealing and money-laundering, all of which I wrote about in my book, “Maggie’s Hammer” [https://maggieshammer.org/]. The networks established in the Eighties, and described in MH, then meandered their power and influence through the War on Terror, all the way into the Teens and Twenties, right up to Putin and Trump.
Putin offered all sorts of information to gain the support of Washington politicians in the 2016 Election. He tried this with Trump. He definitely succeeded with Clinton (hence, The Steele Dossier). Russiagate wasn’t just about Trump. It was about both sides in Washington. What was behind all of this was the corrupt arms networks seeking to protect their power and influence, or wield it some more, or other folks trying to expose the networks (https://tinyurl.com/4uy5n8sh).
Ok. Migraine time. The very last sentence is confusing. Who was trying to do what? Exactly. My contention is that it has taken forty years for all the corruption of the Eighties, and coming forward, finally to come to a head. What we are now witnessing (with Russiagate, Epstein, and Kirk) is all of the parties furiously attempting to throw as much confusing mud as possible, either to expose, or to protect. And we mere minions are utterly confused.
Moreover, this is why both sides have engaged in such blatant politicization of DoJ, law enforcement, and lawfare generally. Never-Trumpers. Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Obama, Clinton, Trump, Biden. All of them. This is a huge powerplay, all of it relating back to corruption, and all of it about trying to be the one with the least mud sticking. Just makes you proud to be an American, right?
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