Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
It was interesting to watch the Cable News divas go incandescent under the glare of their own gaslight late yesterday when they received the unpleasant news that the Barr & Durham “review” of RussiaGate had been officially upgraded to a “criminal investigation.” Rachel Maddow’s trademark pouty-face got a workout as she strained to imagine “…what the thing is that Durham might be looking into.” Yes, that’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, all right… with a sputtering fuse sticking out of it. Welcome to the Wile E. Coyote Lookalike Club, Rache. You’ll have a lot of competition when the Sunday morning news-chat shows rev up.
Minutes later, the answer dawned on her: “It [the thing] follows the wildest conspiracy theories from Fox News!” You’d think that someone who invested two-plus years of her life in the Mueller report, which blew up in her pouty-face last spring, might have felt a twinge of journalistic curiosity as to the sum-and-substance of the thing. But no, she just hauled on-screen RussiaGate intriguer David Laufman, a former DOJ lawyer who ran the agency’s CounterIntel and Export Control desk during the RussiaGate years, and also helped oversee the botched Hillary Clinton private email server probe.
“They have this theory,” Rachel said, “that maybe Russia didn’t interfere in the election….”
“It’s preposterous,” said Laufman, all lawyered up and ready to draw a number and take a seat for his own grand jury testimony.
Over in the locked ward of CNN, Andy Cooper and Jeff Toobin attempted to digest the criminal investigation news as if someone had ordered in a platter of shit sandwiches for the green room just before air-time. Toobin pretended to not know exactly who the mysterious Joseph Misfud was, and struggled to even pronounce his name: “…Mifsood? Misfood…? You mean the Italian professor?” No Jeff, the guy employed by several “friendly” foreign intelligence agencies, and the CIA, to sandbag Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, and failed. I guess when you’re at the beating heart of TV news, you don’t have to actually follow any of the stories reported outside your range of thought and experience.
Next Andy hauled onscreen former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (now a paid CNN “contributor”) to finesse a distinction between the “overall investigation of the Russian interference” or “the counterintelligence investigation that was launched by the FBI.” Consider that Mr. Clapper was right in the middle between the CIA and the FBI. Since he is known to be a friend of Mr. Comey’s and a not-friend of Mr. Brennan’s one can easily see which way Mr. Clapper is tilting. One can also see the circular firing squad that this is a setup for. And, of course, Mr. Clapper himself will be a subject in Mr. Durham’s criminal case proceedings. I predict October will be the last month that Mr. Clapper draws a CNN paycheck — as he hunkers down with his attorneys awaiting the subpoena with his name on it.
The New York Times story on this turn of events Friday morning is a lame attempt to rescue former FBI Director Jim Comey by pinning the blame for RussiaGate on the CIA, shoving CIA John Brennan under the bus. The Times report says: “Mr. Durham has also asked whether C.I.A. officials might have somehow tricked the F.B.I. into opening the Russia investigation.” There’s the next narrative for you. Expect to hear this incessantly well into 2020: “We wuz tricked!”
I wonder if there is any way to hold the errand boys-and-girls in the news media accountable for their roles as handmaidens in what will be eventually known as a seditious coup to overthrow a president. We do enjoy freedom of the press in this land, but I can see how these birds merit charges as unindicted co-conspirators in the affair. One wonders if the various boards of directors of the newspaper and cable news outfits might seek to salvage their self-respect by firing the executives who allowed it happen. If anything might be salutary in the outcome of this hot mess, it would be a return to respectability of the news media.
As for impeachment, ringmaster Rep. Adam Schiff is surely steaming straight into his own historic Joe McCarthy moment when somebody of incontestable standing denounces him as a fraud and a scoundrel… and the mysterious workings of nonlinear behavior tips the political mob past a criticality threshold, shifting the weight of consensus out of darkness and madness. It has happened before in history. Two centuries before Joe McCarthy, the French national assembly suddenly turned on the Jacobins Robespierre and St. Just after their orgy of beheading 17,000 enemies. The two were quickly dispatched themselves to the awe of their beloved guillotine and the Jacobin faction was not heard of again —until recently in America, where it first infected the Universities and then sickened the polity at large almost unto death.
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There have been a few reporters and activists who have pulled vast amounts of incriminating data out of the deep state through FOIA requests. The entire coup d’etat has been well documented by many people, but those on the left do not believe any of the memos or e-mails from the conspirators.
As I have said often, if we do not see indictments handed up and perp walks by the Hawkeye Caucai, this whole Durham investigations is nothing more than more fog emanating from the swamp. As a loyal American, I can only hope for the truth to come out and the perpetrators to be punished accordingly. This criminal investigation could be the beginning of the real swamp draining, but I doubt it.
Yes, I can handle the truth, just give it to me one time.
Patriot ,you wrote my comment perfectly.
How many more times do you need it ‘given to you’?
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/12/03/usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-censor/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/06/frank-pallone-greg-walden-inappropriate-to-include-section-230-language-in-usmca/
I’d probably go by the worsening anal chafing though.
You’re suggesting an ignus fatuus, TN?
I do not know, but I fear it will be. The swamp is wide and deep and “has 6 ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
here is a great story about how lawyer for Mike Flynn (Sydney Powell) is destroying the FBI bogus case against Flynn.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/25/stunning-potentially-game-changing-court-filing-by-flynn-defense-lawyer-sidney-powell/
The full filing can be found here…
shoes are dropping..
Have you read it already?
Not yet .. at work so don’t have time. I did skim thru it though and makes for great reading. Looks to me like General Flynn is going to walk from this…
Probably why the Deep state are throwing everything and the kitchen sink right now. Cuz once this gets thrown outta court and General Flynn goes live on Fox and CNN, shits is going to get real and quick..
Yeah, Flynn can tell us all about his lobbying for Russia and Israel.
Then he can tell us about his direct relationships with Israeli billionaires.
https://thesternfacts.com/last-year-putins-propagandist-eerily-predicted-trump-s-relationship-with-general-flynn-and-dana-82a712ade359
https://www.exposetheenemy.com/israel-russia
Wake the fuck up people. This chart is nearly a year old and spells it out!
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Yes, everybody has seen this picture for the whole year, just about every day.
Of course Flynn is going to skate.
He is an agent of Israel!
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yOU need help 22…
Of course!
For you
the jews
are here, there
and everywhere..
Takes one to know one.
Facts are facts.
Just listen to Flynns prior admissions.
“De Nile” is a river in Egypt.
Oh do tell you fucken retard!
I did realize that Flynn was Jewish…
But facts are facts.. I guess..
you Sir are a Super Genius!
Having a Brain that is thick
It must be hard to address
That tin foil hat
sitting flat
In De Nile
on yer head
22 as a kid…
Hello, Nova Scotia. I mailed off a Halloween Card headed to Pennsylvania with a picture of EC in costume on the cover. Am hoping the card makes Admin smile and the money order inside makes it a bit easier to put up with those of us who ended up on this blog by accident but stayed on purpose.
Am writing so I never talk about what I’m writing when I’m writing because I learned if I’m talking I won’t write it.
Commenting is a lot like talking.
Tell you-know-who that I watched my neighbor’s youngest son dragging a dead coyote behind his Quad. I saw he left it on the gravel (county) road a mile up the road, creekside. He’d blown its head half off. Can’t sell that.
22,
Flynn is a PATRIOT. I don’t give two rips about what his religion, color, or creed are. Neither should anyone who believes in arriving at the LCD — the lowest common denominator. If I had my way, I’d promote him to chief over all mil intel and indict everyone who framed him. Furthermore, they would be asset-stripped to their shorts or panties in order to make him whole again.
FURTHER FURTHERMORE, the sovereign immunity of the King’s Court MUST be abolished. Period. Any prosecutor who is found to be in dereliction of their legal duties should be tried, and if found guilty, hanged for high crimes.
one thumbs up just for your name
Smorgasbord of delicious schaudenfreude (TM).
and, another excuse to paste one of my favorite passages from literature:
“I see Barsad and Cly, Defarge, the Vengeance,
The jurymen, the judge, long ranks of the new oppressors
Who have risen on the destruction of the old
Perishing by this retributive instrument
Before it shall cease out of its present use.
I see a beautiful people and a brilliant city
Rising from this abyss and in their struggles
To be truly free through long years to come,
I see the evil of this time and of the previous time
Of which this is the natural birth, gradually
Making expiation for itself and wearing out.”
A tale of two cities right?
Correct. Last, un-uttered thoughts of Sidney Carton.
I’ve got some sad news for all you people who think AG Barr is going to drop the hammer on anybody .
Look into his background . Barr is Deep State just like all the rest of them , and NONE of the major players
in this whole “American Fuckover” are ever going to see a day in jail . Mark my words !
As a patriot, I think certain of these people should be taken out and hung or shot for High Treason !
At the very least the Big Name players should be doing life in Leavenworth !
But it just ain’t gonna happen people, unless we do it ourselves .
JUDICIAL WATCH keeps uncovering more and more truth about what is really taking place,
BUT NOBODY IS DOING ANYTHING WITH THESE FACTS !
The Republicans are shit-scared to make a move , maybe Hilly has too much dirt on them all,
or they don’t want to be “Arkancided”.
And everybody is sitting around saying “Barr will do something !”
MARK ME , nothing will happen .
Everyday the CORRUPTION in this country makes what went on in Sodom and Gomorrah
look like a kids birthday party .
BRING BACK THE GILLOTINE !
you make a good point, how much longer until serious men take matters into there own hands, there will be a tipping point when political violence starts, it’s a fireworks factory waiting for the spark
Serious men taking matters into their own hands?
Try John Travolta aka Gabriel in Swordfish (2000).
The French Revolution was not what you think it was.
A lot of good heads were chopped, and too many bad heads escaped the National Razor.
http://mileswmathis.com/frev.pdf
Nobody will do time. Journalism will never be respectable.
When the truth is in front of our face we do not need one of incontestable standing to authenticate. That is part of the problem.
The DOJ (should have) lost all credibility in 2003 when it was revealed the FBI/DOJ routinely protected and excused the murders of the Boston mob. Mueller was US Attorney for Boston in the 90s of course.
I remember when Agent-of-Israel Michael Flynn was painted as a Patriot by his handlers.
Ordnance-grade stupid Trumptards licked it up and asked for more.
There are no shoes dropping, only more of the same Washington churn and burn.
https://www.exposetheenemy.com/israel-russia
This excellent video will show you how criminal they really are.
Carry on. ..
There is always 2 Jokers in a deck…..
Whenever a president gets squeezed, especially in an election cycle, war tends to break out. It could be why mechanized units are arriving at Syrian oil fields. Almost sounds like Little Big Horn redux and the resultant need to go to war (albeit without Congressional declaration).
Little Big Horn was hoaxed and staged, just like what’s going on today.
http://mileswmathis.com/custer.pdf
So Mathis is saying the badass Indian leaders real names were Sitting Bullshit and Sane Horse? I don’t think so.
.22……..its a CULT….runnnnnnnnnnnnn!
http://www.snowwowl.com/histcuster.html
If Miles is so smart, why is he still using PDF in an age of responsive UI?
Nice how JHK often writes cathartically refreshing pieces. This was one. And below is another one by an honest (albeit left-leaning?) keyboard warrior named Helen of DesTroy. In fact, if I wasn’t married and not busy, and in the same city, I’d agree to meet for lunch if she asked:
“The Democratic Party Is Dead, And Everyone Knows It But Them”
Yup. They need trump to get reelected to keep the base polarized and everyone of the citizens at each others throats, distracted while they dismantle freedoms of the citizens.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The repub and dems are now friends because we are their common enemy. However we choose sides and think the repub or trump is our friend because the dems are out common enemy. Ain’t so.
The enemy of our enemy is the Constitution and we should all embrace it as if we have everything to loose.