Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
If you want to grok the awesome failure of authority these Fourth Turning crack-up years in America, start with the lawlessness at the Department of Justice and its sociopathic step-child, the FBI, along with a demonic host of intel agencies seeded throughout the national government: the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, the DHS, and even the lowly crypto-public US Postal Service, lately enlisted to spy on US citizens’ social media posts.
Who is supposed to reign-in these freewheeling rogues? I’ll tell you: the courts and the judges appointed to them. The problem is especially acute in the federal courts where, for instance, Judge James Boasberg allowed the FBI to lie repeatedly on warrant applications to his FISA court, and Judge Emmet G. Sullivan hung General Mike Flynn out to dry even after the DOJ had to admit misconduct in his prosecution — and the DC Court of Appeals failed to enforce the DOJ’s reluctant decision to finally drop charges.
The campaign of false witness against US citizens went into overdrive when Donald Trump strutted onto the scene and “seventeen agencies of the Intel Community” conspired with The New York Times and other news media to manufacture the RussiaGate hoax. No top official across the board been taken to law for the stupendous cavalcade of false accusations and deceitful investigations associated with that venture in sedition, and the nation is still waiting for the apparition known as Special Prosecutor John Durham to make a peep. In fact, since 2017 much of the publicly-reported activity around the DOJ and FBI has demonstrated only their attempts to suppress their own felonious misdeeds — cover-ups on top of cover-ups.
Now comes the curious case of Rudy Giuliani, whose apartment was raided on a warrant last week by the FBI seeking his computers and cell phones. The probable cause remains murky — something to do with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in representing Ukrainian clients in the US? So, the DOJ wants Rudy’s files, emails, and memoranda on that? Of course, Rudy was acting as the President’s lawyer in impeachment No. 1 over a telephone call to Ukraine, and what was that about? Hunter Biden’s grifting activities, his cumulatively receiving millions from the Burisma Company, of which Hunter’s dad was due to receive at least his usual ten percent cut? And concerning which activity, Joe Biden threatened former Ukraine President Poroshenko in withholding US aid, unless an investigation into Hunter’s Burisma grift was dropped.
It might be helpful to the current occupant of the Oval Office to know what kind of evidence Rudy has acquired on all that and more over the years — yes? But then, there’s plenty of evidence about it and much much much more on Hunter’s wayward laptop. Perhaps hundreds of millions in wide-ranging grifts beyond lowly Ukraine all the way to China, where to this day Hunter retains active and substantial financial connections through his Skaneateles LLC financial company. And it has become known that the FBI was in possession of Hunter’s laptop from at least one month prior to the commencement of impeachment proceedings in December of 2019. And nobody was informed about that… not least the president’s lawyer?
Don’t Christopher Wray and William Barr have some ‘splainin’ to do about how such a crucial trove of evidence was withheld during the impeachment? After all, Mr. Trump’s phone call to Ukraine was about the influence-peddling operations of the Biden family in foreign lands. A whole other year passed before the existence of Hunter’s laptop was even acknowledged in the fall of 2020, and then the sole reportage about it from The New York Post was suppressed in a coordinated campaign between the social and news media — in the midst of a national election, with Joe Biden standing for president. Funny how that worked.
Also, note the connections between Rep Adam Schiff’s House Intel Committee, where the first impeachment hearings were staged, especially the committee’s Chief Counsel, one Daniel Goldman, and William Barr’s DOJ. Mr. Goldman was a former US Attorney in the Southern District of New York (2007 -2017). Do you suppose he knows people in Main Justice — like just about everybody? Was he apprised formerly or otherwise of the existence of Hunter’s laptop in possession of the FBI at the time of the hearings? Or Did Mr. Wray and Mr. Barr leave him in the dark about what was on it? (Personally, I doubt it.)
It has come out lately that the FBI secretly hacked its way into Mr. Giuliani’s iCloud data storage account without a warrant in the fall of 2019, when Mr. Schiff’s Intel Committee held its hearings preliminary to impeachment and Mr. Giuliani was the president’s lawyer. Did Mr. Wray and Mr. Barr or others funnel info about what was on the president’s lawyer’s private iCloud files to Mr. Goldman and Mr. Schiff? And was that info known to then Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire? Or Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who allowed the bogus complaints of CIA “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella and National Security Council officer Alexander Vindman to be manufactured into an impeachable “crime?” Do these seem to be esoteric issues? I don’t think so. Will they ever be adjudicated? And will our country pay a price for allowing all that to happen?
It has also been implied in media coverage of the Giuliani raid that the president’s lawyer was somehow nefariously involved in advising Mr. Trump to fire US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. In fact, ambassadors to foreign lands serve at the pleasure of the chief executive. He can fire them for any reason. And his lawyer has every right to advise him to do it. Does the news media not know that?
Does the DOJ aim to mount an indictment against Rudy Giuliani? Well, if they do, of course, they open the door to evidentiary discovery — like, who gave the order to hack into the President’s lawyer’s iCloud account during the 2019 impeachment? Anything funny going on with that? It happens that Mr. Giuliani’s personal lawyer is one Bob Costello, who served as head of the Southern District’s criminal division when Rudy ran the DOJ’s SDNY. Mr. Costello might know something of the workings in Main Justice. He could possibly root something interesting out.
To return to my original point: who and where are the authorities who will hold high public officials accountable for the things they’ve been doing? Do you wonder why Americans increasingly lack faith in their government? Do you wonder why, for example, so many want to avoid “vaccine” shots, endorsed by government officials as “safe and effective?” Do you note the contrast between what’s taken ultra-seriously in the BLM hoopla over police shootings of perps obviously resisting arrest and fighting with them, and the awesome depravity at the highest levels of the US justice system? Oh, by the way, the Arizona ballot recount and voting machine forensic inquiry goes on. Maybe soon you will start putting together the reasons why your country is cracking up.
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At this point it is a classic criminal oligarchy.
This is so beyond merely disgusting. We have no justice system now. We have a damned gangster government surrounded by security fencing and barbed wire. We have active suppression of opposition to this sickening status quo; we gave a geriatric drunk running the House of Representatives like her own private fiefdom, a United States Senate run by a quisling partisan rushing to any available microphone to announce his latest traitorous move to destroy the Republic, and, last but not least, we have a Republican Party scheming to sneak its latest ‘wholesale ‘Amnesty’ efforts by a weary public while whining from its collective fainting couch about the latest outrage. Our national government and its institutions have failed this nation. Our last hope now resides in a stadium in Arizona, where today’s Minutemen and Women are standing in the breach. Godspeed to every one of them. And may Hell come for the sons of bitches who are trying to destroy us.
That asshat GW is now plotting with Zuckface to throw the borders wide open and make them all citizens. Oh but Trump made rude Tweets!
George Scherff Sr whacked the Kennedy Camelot. Allen Dulles gave the ok.
https://constantinereport.com/allen-dulles-killed-kennedys/
JFK and the Unspeakable depicts Kennedy as getting in the way of the violence that Allen Dulles and gang wished to engage in abroad. He wouldn’t fight Cuba or the Soviet Union or Vietnam or East Germany or independence movements in Africa. He wanted disarmament and peace. He was talking cooperatively with Khrushchev, as Eisenhower had tried prior to the U2-shootdown sabotage. The CIA was overthrowing governments in Iran, Guatemala, the Congo, Vietnam, and around the world. Kennedy was getting in the way.
The Devil’s Chessboard depicts Kennedy, in addition, as himself being the sort of leader the CIA was in the habit of overthrowing in those foreign capitals. Kennedy had made enemies of bankers and industrialists. He was working to shrink oil profits by closing tax loopholes, including the “oil depletion allowance.” He was permitting the political left in Italy to participate in power, outraging the extreme right in Italy, the U.S., and the CIA. He aggressively went after steel corporations and prevented their price hikes. This was the sort of behavior that could get you overthrown if you lived in one of those countries with a U.S. embassy in it.
Yes, Kennedy wanted to eliminate or drastically weaken and rename the CIA. Yes he threw Dulles and some of his gang out the door. Yes he refused to launch World War III over Cuba or Berlin or anything else. Yes he had the generals and warmongers against him, but he also had Wall Street against him.
Of course “politicians who ever try to get out of line” are now, as then, but more effectively now, handled first by the media. If the media can stop them or some other maneuver can stop them (character assassination, blackmail, distraction, removal from power) then violence isn’t required.
The fact that Kennedy resembled a coup target, not just a protector of other targets, would be bad news for someone like Senator Bernie Sanders if he ever got past the media, the “super delegates,” and the sell-out organizations to seriously threaten to take the White House. A candidate who accepts the war machine to a great extent and resembles Kennedy not at all on questions of peace, but who takes on Wall Street with the passion it deserves, could place himself as much in the cross-hairs of the deep state as a Jeremy Corbyn who takes on both capital and killing.
Accounts of the escapades of Allen Dulles, and the dozen or more partners in crime whose names crop up beside his decade after decade, illustrate the power of a permanent plutocracy, but also the power of particular individuals to shape it. What if Allen Dulles and Winston Churchill and others like them hadn’t worked to start the Cold War even before World War II was over? What if Dulles hadn’t collaborated with Nazis and the U.S. military hadn’t recruited and imported so many of them into its ranks? What if Dulles hadn’t worked to hide information about the holocaust while it was underway? What if Dulles hadn’t betrayed Roosevelt and Russia to make a separate U.S. peace with Germany in Italy? What if Dulles hadn’t begun sabotaging democracy in Europe immediately and empowering former Nazis in Germany? What if Dulles hadn’t turned the CIA into a secret lawless army and death squad? What if Dulles hadn’t worked to end Iran’s democracy, or Guatemala’s? What if Dulles’ CIA hadn’t developed torture, rendition, human experimentation, and murder as routine policies? What if Eisenhower had been permitted to talk with Khrushchev? What if Dulles hadn’t tried to overthrow the President of France? What if Dulles had been “checked” or “balanced” ever so slightly by the media or Congress or the courts along the way?
These are tougher questions than “What if there had been no Lee Harvey Oswald?” The answer to that is, “There would have been another guy very similar to serve the same purpose, just as there had been in the earlier attempt on JFK in Chicago. But “What if there had been no Allen Dulles?” looms large enough to suggest the possible answer that we would all be better off, less militarized, less secretive, less xenophobic. And that suggests that the deep state is not uniform and not unstoppable. Talbot’s powerful history is a contribution to the effort to stop it.
I hope Talbot speaks about his book in Virginia, after which he might stop saying that Williamsburg and the CIA’s “farm” are in “Northern Virginia.” Hasn’t Northern Virginia got enough to be ashamed of without that?
This article was originally published at DavidSwanson.org and has been used here with permission.
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Thank you, Mark.
Yes Mam!
“JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died, and Why It Matters” is a fine read.
There are, of course, various loose ends associated with the JFK killing, but you can bet your family’s lives on one thing: Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t do it.
The Red States need to continue to go their own way!
How about some justice FOR the Biden family…
https://mobile.twitter.com/preemie513/status/1387995040073633794
Gateway Pundit and Revolver have a news article about the discovery of a spy plane hoovering up all the cell phone, wifi and any other SigInt from the Arizona recount. It was noticed flying circles for hours on end over the stadium where the AZ recount is being conducted. A Swiss made Pilatus prop plane identical to the ones used by intel agencies and US military world-wide. Registered to the local VoPo. Likely carrying a Stingray unit which mimics a legit cell tower and steals all the data on phones, wifi devices etc.
There is only one entity that can put a stop to the corruption in government – We The People. The question is when will we reach the point needed to stop it?
We won’t. We are way past that point. Had a chance 15 to 20 years ago but anyone sounding the alarm was labeled a tin foil hat wearer or conspiracy theorist. Life was good and too many believed in the government and politicians. We have no cohesion, backing, leadership or willingness to do the dirty deed necessary to end this. Can’t even get a lot of the people out of their masks and way too many on the right can’t get through their thick skulls that rule of law is dead and voting is useless and rigged. Numerous commenters on here talk about a rigged election and then in the same breath talk about their favorites for the next election. Look at the Patriot Riders bending at the knee and going elsewhere In DC for their rally. WTF!! No National Day of Prayer. The guns are shelf or wall ornaments now. Everyone is naval gazing waiting for their orders which will never come. A lot of people talk tough and rage against the machine but not happening. Where was support for the Kenosha kid, the McCloskys in St Louis and any number of people that have been savaged by the Laviathan? Is there any support for the Shamrock bar and grill and people raising hell or is just easier to tell people tell people to get out of there and move until you can’t run anymore. You can only run so many times until you are cornered. The parents in Vail, Arizona did it right grouping together and firing the school board after getting screwed and using the Roberts Rules Of Order against the board and then posting it on Facebook. The old board told them they couldn’t do that and the response was….we just did. THATS how its done. We have let the Leviathan get too powerful and are still looking around for the Savior to lead the faithful into battle. Too late for that, would be destroyed before he even got started
There is only one possible way to fix clown world. VOTE: 308 & Freedom
Unfortunately we are well past the point where we can expect anybody in Govt, including the Judiciary system inc. SCOTUS, to do a damn thing to stop the installed Dictator and his Deep State minions. Outside of a questionable reliance on our election systems (which may even get worse if the Chinocrats shove thru HB1) our only hope beyond secession or Civil War is for our once Constitution loving military to be involved directly and quit the going along to get along crap.
As is frequently the case in sh*t hole nations, a military coup will have to come from the Colonels.
The USA’s Top Brass are chiefly devoted to lining up their post-retirement gigs on defense contractor boards of directors.
If you think USA is corrupt to its roots – look again at Britain – a sick society, getting sicker:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/10/uk-corrupt-nation-earth-brexit-money-laundering?utm_term=d1b63d0f917e62cd4c681517ab8e039e&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email
AND this is the MSM! We’re getting there!