Author: Victor Davis Hanson
The views of the Authors are not necessarily the views of Enigmose
Compare the current progressive view about civil liberties against the old liberal positions of the past.
Surveillance and spying on U.S. citizens? Remember liberal Senator Frank Church of Idaho and his 1975 post-Watergate select Senate investigative committee? It found the CIA, FBI, and NSA improperly over three decades had tapped into the phones of Americans, opened their mail, and worked with telecommunications companies to monitor the data of supposedly suspect politicians, actors, celebrities, and political activists. “Collusion” with the communists and the Russians was often the pretense to surveil American citizens.
Consider Church either a bastion of civil liberties protection or a dangerous firebrand who weakened the CIA and FBI. But the point is that the Left’s position had once mostly been that the government’s unelected deep-state intelligence officers simply had too much power to trust.
Indeed, the ACLU was outraged at what the committee revealed. Church was deified as a liberal hero uncovering government abuse. About the worst thing a government could do, liberals reminded us, was to spy on its own citizens.
Then we were also warned that the scandal was the result of the government, for over 30 years, targeting mostly liberals on grounds of trumped-up suspicions that they were sympathetic to Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular. Yet in addition, the Left argued that the state had no business spying on any American at all, unless it had a certified warrant and ample criminal cause—or we found ourselves in a war with enemies at home among us.
And now?
Russia is no longer a global Communist superpower rival. Yet the Obama Administration’s CIA, NSA, and FBI were every bit as obsessed with Vladimir Putin as had the old Right worried about Leonid Brezhnev—as if a contemporary kleptocratic thug lording over a failed and shrinking state posed the same existential dangers as a Communist dictator reigning over a huge postwar empire dedicated to destroying the free world.
Actually, at the behest of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the U.S. earlier had reached out to Putin in a naïve, flawed “reset” appeasement that failed. So, the Obama Administration’s about-face obsession with Putin the monster always was largely a convenient gambit of wanting to destroy the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency.
No Drama? Not Exactly
Barack Obama’s 21st-century intelligence hierarchs and their minions systematically outdid Richard Nixon’s plumbers, spooks, and spies. Obama appointees and loyalists surveilled American citizens, doctored or destroyed evidence, and monitored their communications. They deceived FISA courts to justify such illegal surveillance, set perjury ambushes to snare perceived political opponents, and used informants to spy on political enemies. Full Story - American Greatness
Forget About Seeing Any Justice For Obamagate
Disabuse yourself of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system
Allow me to disabuse you of your naïve delusion that we still live in a country with a justice system and break it to you that no one is going to jail for what was done to Flynn, or for the unmasking business, or for the Russia hoax or, for that matter, for any of the corrupt Dem/foreigner collaborations exemplified by the payoffs received by stripperphile and Bolivian folk medicine enthusiast Hoover Biden.
No one.
Well, maybe Mike Flynn himself will. Since his judge is now making up the law as he goes along – in law school they taught us that the judicial branch didn’t prosecute, but that was before the Trump Exception™ to existing principles – I actually expect that the next time the General shows up in court the judge will sentence him on his coerced plea to a “crime” that never happened and order the marshals to immediately take him into custody. Read More
In the Flynn Case, It’s Time for an Extraordinary Writ
With every passing week it will be harder to stop Judge Sullivan from violating the constitutional restrictions on the power of our courts.
Do not wait. That is the part of wisdom for President Trump and Attorney General Barr as the United States seeks to end its wrongful prosecution of General Michael Flynn. It is for the United States to petition the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a writ of mandamus against Judge Emmet Sullivan. A newspaper is not a lawyer. Our advice, though, could not be more emphatic: Do ... not ... wait.
We say that because with every passing week it will be harder to stop Judge Sullivan from violating the constitutional restrictions on the power of our courts. The courts may decide only actual cases and controversies. When both sides desire to end their dispute, the power of the court to act is over. Judge Sullivan seems so emotionally invested in this case that he chafes at that restriction. Meantime America and General Flynn are both being damaged. Read More
Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates 'Predicted' Wuhan Pandemic in 2017 with "Astounding" accuracy
What Did the Elites Know and When did they Know it ?
At a 2017 forum on pandemic preparedness at Georgetown University Dr. Fauci told listeners that the Trump administration will be challenged by global health threats AND a surprise disease outbreak.
Bill Gates also knew it was coming, he predicted the outbreak - down to it starting at a Chinese market - in 2019 Netflix documentary show 'The Next Pandemic' Video and Article
Case of Dr. Judy Mikovits lends insights on the infamous Dr. Fauci
Untold Truths About Fauci From Dr. Judy Mikovitz
Beginning in 1980 Dr. Judy Mikovits worked for the NIH, Her boss was Anthony Fauci, yes THAT Anthony Fauci. Mikovits claims that he delayed publication of a critical paper she had produced for 6 months, in order to let his protégé Robert Gallo replicate, publish and take credit for her work. The delay in mass HIV testing let AIDS further spread around the globe and helped Fauci win promotion to director of NIAID. I could copy and paste the highlighted section preceding this and insert Covid-19 amd corona with HIV and AIDS and it would sound like history repeating itself. . . Wait there's More - Read More
