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Lee Smith’s article in Tablet, titled “How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign,” pieces together why President Obama warned then incoming President Donald Trump away from Michael Flynn. It explains why Flynn was investigated. It all fits.
At the bottom of the Russian hoax story is a tale of narcissism: Hillary Clinton’s shock at losing the election, the media’s shock at being wrong and less capable of manipulation that they thought, and, importantly, Barack Obama’s shock that his priorities — all of them, but most of all the Iran Deal — would be swept away as so much ideological detritus. Like Saruman watching the Ents loose the dams and flood Isengard, the Obama administration knew that Michael Flynn would ruin their edifice, so they had to ruin him. Please do go read Smith’s piece.
The obvious reaction to the article is, Of course. Of course, this had to all come back to Obama’s inflated self-view. Of course, the administration was in a pure panic because Michael Flynn could deftly navigate the intelligence community backwaters and could point President Trump in the right direction to … drain the swamp.
What’s so distressing is that President Obama and his enablers have succeeded. The torment continues. They effectively obstructed the Trump administration, and Congress helped them.
Not only did the Obama administration use every tool in their arsenal, most of them illegal at worst and damn shady at best, but they also had the media on their side. The media’s reputation was tied to Obama’s. Their cheerleading proved their own value. He was, after all, a media creation. He had to succeed or they would be revealed as fools and neophyte-enabling stooges.
And don’t forget Hillary, the creator of the Russia collusion hoax narrative. After her ignominious fit-throwing evening where she didn’t have the decency to face her supporters, she immediately began a string of confabulation to justify her loss. She had to find a boogey man to avoid any blame for a winnable election. It was her DNC and her dossier, via John McCain to the FBI, that got the ball officially rolling. Fusion GPS (former reporters who had lots of media connections), the FBI and DOJ, and, we learned this week, President Obama himself all knew about this nonsense because of their surveillance of Flynn. John McCain was just either the willing dupe or was in on the drive to destabilize the Trump presidency at the beginning.
That brings us to the Republicans in the House and Senate who aided and abetted this charade to hamstring a president they feared and loathed. To John McCain, these voters were hobbits. To Hillary Clinton, they were “deplorables.” Tomato, tomahto. Now, Lindsey Graham and Trey Gowdy trip over themselves to explain their previous prevaricating . . . Full Article @ National Review
How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign
By Lee Smith
Barack Obama warned his successor against hiring Michael Flynn. It was Nov. 10, 2016, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States. Trump told aide Hope Hicks that he was bewildered by the president’s warning. Of all the important things Obama could have discussed with him, the outgoing commander in chief wanted to talk about Michael Flynn.
The question of why Obama was so focused on Flynn is especially revealing now. The Department of Justice recently filed to withdraw charges against the retired three-star general for making false statements to the FBI in a Jan. 24, 2017, interview regarding a phone call with a Russian diplomat. The circumstances surrounding the call and subsequent FBI interview have given rise to a vast conspiracy theory that was weaponized to imprison a decorated war hero and a strategic thinker whose battlefield innovations saved countless American lives. There is no evidence that Flynn “colluded” with Russia, and the evidence that Flynn did not make false statements to the FBI has been buried by the bureau, including current Director Christopher Wray.
So if the Obama administration wasn’t alarmed by Flynn’s nonexistent ties to Russia, why was he Obama’s No. 1 target? Why were officials from the previous administration intercepting his phone calls with the Russian ambassador? Full Article @ Tabletmag.com
The Hunting of the President
Scores of bad actors first want to take out the attorney general.
There was no predicate for charging Mr. Flynn with a crime back in 2017. Yet if [The] Jensen report cleared Mr. Flynn, why are the Democrats and the press so eager to castigate the attorney general and not Mr. Jensen? All we read in the press is that the country’s best legal minds are outraged at the attorney general. Almost 2,000 former employees for the Justice Department signed an open letter protesting Mr. Barr’s action. (Thousands of other former Justice Department employees apparently abstained.) The answer is because the attorney general oversees the entire cleanup of “Spygate” with all its working parts. The surest way to close down this enormous undertaking is to take out Attorney General Barr. Read More
Yea, Though I Walk Through The Uncanny Valley
You are being gaslit You are on the business end of a casual conspiracy of complicity.
No, you’re not crazy. They just want you to feel that way.
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