Parts 1-4 covered the unprecedented Biden administration DOJ and FBI deep state raid on United States of America 45th President, Donald J. Trump’s home and detailed some of the reasons people are concerned and have been speaking out against a two-tiered justice system in America and the increasingly blatant politicization of the instruments of government, in particular the DOJ and FBI.
I’ve covered a lot of ground in this series-my articles often reflect a blast of consciousness, but more often agita and vitriol that generate their own momentum-and this piece reflects that in my attempt to chronicle in relatively short form-although this is a longer article-of how we got here and what to do about it.
I listed a number of egregious actions spanning the decades with these government agencies-and I brought more details I will get to here shortly-but an honest view of these incidents begs the question of how the American people developed any faith in these arms of the government at all? In previous articles I’ve touched upon the reason that people-just regular citizens-should have been wary about the politicization of these elements.
I may be a one trick pony with my theory (opinion)-and like elbows and earlobes, everybody has them-but I believe in the wake of 9-11 we allowed the government too much freedom and too few checks and balances in the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) we authorized them to employ in pursuit of counter-terrorism operations.
At one point it was genuinely focused on terrorism and against a worldwide threat our government had largely ignored for years because it was happening overseas, but as those attacks reached US soil, our government increasingly turned those TTPs inward on perceived “enemies of the state” and discovered new and novel uses and applications.
We’ve seen this play out in the most extreme cases in the treatment of the Tea Party by the Internal Revenue Service and the actions, rhetoric and abuse of power by the 6 January 2021 “Insurrection Committee,” which has no legitimate legislative purpose and has been executing a playbook touting inflammatory actions with selective release of information like some political action committee, with video release of violence to tug on the emotional heartstrings of the public while knowing that nobody supports such action-and people of all stripes have made that clear. But the message is lost in the political nature of their objective-which is to stop the Bad Orange Man-and his followers. While following a playbook that has not been seen in the swamp since the McCarthy anti-communist hearings of the 50s.
How can American citizens be held in the DC Swamp Gulag like is done in some foreign third world dictatorship, without rights, charges, representation, speedy trials: the corps tenets of the legal justice system that separates America from third world despots? The answer lies in the torturous application of tenets of the PATRIOT Act being used against Patriots by elected officials who-when laid bare-don’t seem to share or have those values in common with their constituents.
It reminds me of the Fort Hood shooter, that scum bag US Army Major who was an Islamic Radical-and very proud of it-who shot up innocent people at an in-processing center. Our government denied the basic reason for the shooting that everyone knew to be the case, classified it as “workplace violence,” not a terrorist act, he was afforded full rights and representation and received a speedy trial.
Compare and contrast what happened 6 Jan and how those Americans have been treated.
Other than the vocal protestations of a few of our elected officials-but not those who you thought would step up-there has been near unanimous silence about the plight of these Americans-who have received worse treatment than the most dangerous terrorists housed in Guantanamo Bay Prison.
You may think this is somewhat hyperbole-hindsight-a cynical or political view formed because of recent events and where we have ended up, vice an opinion and view-based on the events of the 21st century-that evidence and confirm what I believe is the logical culmination of events set in motion by the 9-11 commission established to assess how and why it happened. There was a lot of momentum, discussions and calls for action to do something-quickly-to track down those responsible for this heinous action.
The 9-11 Commission stood up to conduct the investigation and to make recommendations to mitigate the potential for such a thing to happen in the future. All manner of dialogue, meetings and momentum-purpose-motivation drove our government functions and actions that played out over the next nearly 5 years: it was a whole of government activity.
The commission failed to factor in the famous Church Commission before it, which was formed to address legitimate concerns about intelligence community abuses-and there were many identified. There were few voices of reason in the wilderness advising a “not so fast” warning about the momentum that was all speed and full ahead with the 9-11 Commission amongst the deliberations. It is not a stretch to ponder why our elected officials-nor a groundswell and outcry from the people-has gained momentum to revisit the findings and implementation of Church with a view to curtailing the application of the Patriot Act to ordinary Americans.
Unsurprisingly the net result from this (9-11) effort was an unprecedented increase in our government and the expenditure of trillions of dollars in “new money” dedicated to the mitigation plan.
I’ve written before about the dollars that flooded into the national intelligence agencies-all government agencies, really-to support the Global War On Terror (GWOT) Programs. Called Defense Emergency Response Funds-it was what’s known in the business as “colorless” money, vice our normal funding that comes in three categories bound by expenditure rules and limits-operations and maintenance or 1-year money, research and development or 2-year money, and recapitalization and refurbishment funding or 3-year money. DERF was like lottery money raining down from above that could be used for any justifiable reason that contained the acronym “GWOT.” That’s not to say that good things were not accomplished with the dollars. From my own experience the funding of a high-definition video capability and implementation of Hell Fire missiles on the Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle system was one such result-greatly accelerated via DERF funding.
Legislation was initiated with various forms and names that leveraged the theme of the PATRIOT Act, the actual title of which was “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001.”
These efforts all seemingly had the best of intentions. There were real limitations invoked via Church that created deliberate stovepipes and firewalls in the sharing of intelligence and information (particularly between Title 10 (Special Operations,) Title 50 (War and National Defense,) and Title 18 (Crimes and Law Enforcement Agency elements) that were cited in the 9-11 Commission report as issues that were impediments to our source and target development efforts to go after legitimate threats to the American homeland.
Government agencies were asked and tasked to provide commentary on the emerging legislation. I wrote up a concern about the proposed relaxation of some of the foreign-and domestic surveillance restrictions using as a scenario what might have happened if the Plumbers associated with Richard Nixon would have had the imagination and access to the intelligence community tools that were being discussed in a way that would put them at the disposal of the government-the DOJ and FBI-with a tremendous potential for not only abuse, but invasion of privacy, the potential to go after political enemies and the misapplication of surveillance under the thin veneer of legitimacy because-Patriotism.
That was not a popular nor forwarded concern, in fact it was like the idea was un-American, such was the sirens call for every action possible be taken. Many checks and balances were “poo-pooed” or given cursory consideration through reference to the existing checks and balances available in the earnest desire to do anything-and everything-to contribute to the mitigation plan put forth by the commission.
Failure of oversight-in particular, congress, but even moreso the apparent inability of the DOJ, FBI and many subordinate elements to police themselves and hold those who abuse the system to be held accountable-and to make examples of them-has been the unfortunate-and predictable-result.
It is easy enough and convenient to blame the Obama administration for abusing these laws and applying them to their political enemies, “unfriendly media” outlets and organizations that engage in what is an American tradition, that of the opposition or out of power politicking to provide counter narratives to an administration in what was previously considered somewhat of the “duty” of the party out of power in order to provide checks and balances of incumbents. Our system thrives on such activity-but never has the power and might of the US government been brought to bear and applied against perceived “enemies” like was done during the Obama administration.
Particularly ironic when you consider it was wielded by a constitutional scholar-who was either the worst one ever or who simply was corrupted by the adage of absolute power and its inevitable result, he being adept in the application of an Alinsky-like application to undermine our constitutional republic. I’m reminded of the infamous statement by Mad Max Maxine Water’s comment that “Obama has something on everybody.”
So it has played out that the swamp used all these tools of government against the once perceived-but now very real threat-that Trump represents to the swamp. Any unbiased view of the illegalities committed against Trump and his team over the past 7 years has to wonder what has happened to an America that was once determined to fight against abuses of power by our government. Even the often hated and seemingly wrong side American Civil Liberties Union has largely gone into compliance mode over these abuses.
Abuses of power did not originate with the effort against Trump-but have certainly been perfected in the campaign to attack, discredit and neutralize he and his supporters from the public square. We’ve had indications, warning signs and evidence of how far afield these efforts have wandered from what we envisioned the PATRIOT Act to achieve, most notably in some of the documents that traitor Snowden revealed to the public. Now I detest Snowden and he should be locked up for a long time for what he did, but in light and in view of what was done to Trump with the abuse of these powers, one can understand how he might have come to the conclusion that nobody in our government-the swamp-was going to do anything about the information he had found-and was disgusted by.
I would point out the extraordinary steps taken by National Security Agency Director Adm Mike Roger’s action when he drew attention to FISA abuses and the unauthorized-and illegal effort-by contractors supporting the FBI-and CIA-to leverage the NSA data base in violation of agreements intended to prevent such abuses: they weren’t feverishly aggressive and going after terrorists, they were targeting Americans who were not toeing the party line. Criticism of the Obama administration-particularly all the lies sold to the public during the Iran negotiations-was tantamount to becoming an enemy of the state. I would also point out that the FBI “said” they took steps to curtail these abuses.
Curiously enough Adm Rogers had become somewhat of a thorn in the side of the swamp during this time period for specious reasons that started showing up in the LSMBTG-who started reporting on how Rogers had been at the helm but had not prevented problems-although the biggest problem-Snowden-happened before his watch. Then there was the curious unauthorized November trip Adm Rogers took to Trump Tower that was raged against by the Pentagon and DNI and the LSMBTG-who called for the sacking of Rogers for “insubordination:” the Adm had gone rogue (hahahaha.)
On 17 November 2016 Trump moved his transition operations to his Bedminster, New Jersey Golf Course: just a coincidence. Just like the fact that Paul Manafort lived at Trump Tower and Carter Page was a frequent visitor-and likely the subjects of deep state applied NSA “hop” rules applied by other government agencies involved in the spying-that was not spying-on Trump’s campaign-and then on the nominative next President of the United States-and then on the President himself. Anybody held accountable for any of that stuff? Crickets…..
Tellingly, oversight never took up these illegal actions and violations and failed to hold the agencies accountable for their abuses. And-yes-the agencies came up with five-point plans (yawn) to fix the problems noted.
In fact-in a bona fide deliberate act that showed how out of control these agencies had become in their pursuit of whatever they decided was warranted, previously the CIA was forced to expose information to the senate in support of their investigation of the Abu Grab and “Black Site” interrogation abuses, and the CIA inserted monitoring applications that in effect spied on the senate personnel doing the investigation within the halls of congress. Who was called to account and fired over those abuses of authority? Hand in the back-yes, John Brennan eventually acknowledged and apologized for it. But his initial commentary tells the tale:
CIA Director John Brennan denied the charge. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said. “We wouldn’t do that. That’s just beyond the scope of reason in terms of what we’d do.” It would be months before his denial was publicly proved false. “
And if it is true that senate staff was violating the sharing agreements by printing out classified documents-to share with the friendly press-to smear the CIA-does that justify the means (and I’m truthfully on the fence about that in light of the indictment and conviction of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence security official being charged with leaking classified documents to the friendly LSMBTG-that he was sleeping with (and get a load of the crap that was written in this article-Trump, interference with the press-hahahaha)): but that’s what makes it the swamp. Wolfe was given the “rabbits paw on the wrist” sentence, as a lot of people suddenly realized that he would take down a whole bunch of swamp rats with him (reminiscent of how cocksure HRC was that she would not go down for emails that were known about and shared with all her peeps in government, including President Obama …)
I could go on about these topics ad infinitum, but we need to address these abuses that have occurred-congressional oversight-and as necessary-the court system, rather than wring our hands and wonder how these things happened.
It is not a stretch to review the actions of AG Garland and see this malfeasance being played out to ultimate effect. To hear him talk about a limited scope effort against a cooperating former president is laughable. It is hard not to view his actions in terms of crass and blatant political motives and actual criminality. His story is that the US government undertook the recent actions of Trump because of “security” concerns. When we view it in terms of the absolute conspiracy against Trump that started with the Obama administration, continued throughout his term and created momentum that continues to this day, it raises the question of how a “limited scope effort” as described by our AG could be credible when the scope of that effort covers every document or piece of information covering the entirety of his presidency?
What the AG has actually authorized is an unlimited fishing expedition against a former president of the United States that defies belief and credulity that it is narrow in scope and not motivated by the desperation of the Insurrection Committee’s attempt to get the goods on Trump to feed the conclusions that must be reached to achieve the criteria-one objective-of the committee to ensure that Trump cannot run for president again. Here is a great discussion of these points about politics from the Federalist’s Margot Cleveland.
They are running out of time-the public is worried about other matters of importance to them-and uncharitably only a total corrupt card carrying LSMBTG swamp creature can view this any other way.
AG Garland and FBI Director Wray are guilty of the admonition that the “gentleman doth protest too much:” somewhat the textbook definition of crocodile tears. I enumerated a number of reasons both men should consider as to why the American public has lost faith in these two government institutions. And not just because of recent events.
The Weaver family has something to say about this-what’s left of them. The stories about the terrorizing raids the FBI has conducted myriad times in pursuit of political objectives like the events I detailed in Part 4 are reminiscent of any dictatorial, Nazi-Stasi-like or tin pot dictator tale from around the world. It is worth remembering the 30th anniversary of Ruby Ridge when thinking through this FBI malfeasance that has thus far-fortunately-not resulted in the death of the unfortunate people who have unwittingly wandered into the boresights of their political optics-or agents who risk getting lit up when they break through gates intended to keep livestock safe and sweep in with overkill in the form of men, machines, and weaponry to rural homes that are alert to such dangers because of the necessity of protecting livestock. Ruby Ridge was a long time ago-from the piece:
For those too young to remember, it was thirty years ago this month that the DOJ entrapped Randy Weaver for his Christian beliefs, issued a death warrant, killed his dog, son, and wife, and shot Weaver and his friend.
Surely, the DOJ doesn’t just execute innocent people. Yet, as we learned at trial:
He had no propensity to commit crimes. Never even had a traffic ticket. Never been charged with a crime of any kind and honorably served his country.
They murdered his wife while holding her baby with a shot to the head from a sniper’s rifle as she opened the door for her husband and son-both of whom had been shot-the son fatally. Ever shoot a sniper or scoped rifle? Do you believe it would be hard to discern from less than several 100 feet that the target under scope was a woman holding a baby-in a daylight operation? Do we suspend basic rules of engagement when we declare American citizens enemies of the people? Weaver was setup when an FBI informant befriended him and over the course of several years finally got him to agree to make and sell him a sawed-off shotgun: bang, the prelude to a death sentence for his family, the product of government officials. He lived in the middle of bumsquatchalla where he was a menace to NOBODY…..
But that was long ago. And of course, that was just a one-off incident out of character for our vaunted and premiere law enforcement agency and our criminal justice system. Unless you think about Waco, which is also coming up on a 30th anniversary and was also a totally botched, disaster that has been alleged to be the real cause of the suicide of Clinton Associate Vincent Foster.
We could talk about Whitey Bolger, which is a fascinating case of malfeasance where the FBI inadvertently (maybe) helped Bolger kill off his rivals (think about that stupidity by choirboy Bob Mueller for a bit) and also jailed 4 people by failing to produce exculpatory evidence in order to protect Bolger’s identity before the injustice was revealed-lawsuit was settled, two of the deliberately jailed innocent men died in prison.
How about Senator Theodore “Ted” Stevens (who died in a plane crash before his illegal and immoral conviction was overturned?) I often cite the government malfeasance (well covered in this American Thinker article) against Senator Ted Stevens, a World War II veteran pilot, who along with his good friend Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii-a Medal of Honor recipient-came to see our business unit every year to get a special briefing on intelligence topics of concern to these great men. Stevens was hounded and harassed by the justice department in an effort that resulted in a 27 October 2008 conviction that caused him to lose his re-election bid. Stevens was the second longest serving member of the senate at the time. His replacement-Democrat Senator Mark Begich (remember him? Nope)-provided the 60th vote to pass Abysmal-care. No less than infamous Judge Emmit Sullivan of the LTG Flynn trial fame-he being the judge who referred to Army counter-terrorism expert Flynn as a “traitor”-who later decided he was going to be judge and prosecutor when he refused to drop the case after the DOJ identified all manner of Brady violations on the part of the government and the failure of Flynn’s high-powered lawyer’s to share offers of plea arrangements made by the government-railed about government malfeasance in the case. From the piece:
In April 2009, while presiding over the Sen Ted Stevens case, Judge Sullivan scolded the prosecution team: “In nearly 25 years on the bench I’ve never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I’ve seen in this case.”
Do you recall the outrage from Steven’s peers in congress when the malfeasance of the DOJ and FBI came to light with his acquittal? Where is the “Ted Stevens Act” from the senate that spanked these out-of-control politicians with badges and dragged them on the carpet to expose, spank and sanction them?
There are some half dozen more cases of FBI malfeasance herein, (and then there is the Russia, Russia, Russia, Pee Pee Hoax), the FBI burying the HRC email scandal where she benefitted from-in turn-a chance meeting on a tarmac in Arizona, Comey’s FBI staffing an acquittal letter prior to her interview, the subsequent recusal of AG Lynch from the case, the presence of HRC’s lawyer and also Chief of Staff at the interview post recusal-both of whom material witnesses-with the FBI agreeing to help dispose of their electronic devices-that were certainly evidence in the case-which the FBI agreed to “take care of.” Comey unilaterally usurped the authority of the DOJ to dismiss the issue of the email scandal charges-by coincidence-the very same day-5 July 2016-that President Obama joined HRC on the campaign trail for the first time. Wait-there’s more-the subsequent discovery of HRC’s Wiener email problem in late September 2016-it took the FBI nearly six weeks to get the laptop from the Southern District of New York to Va-tough commute-they had to almost beg main FBI to take the thing-which was meanwhile just hanging out in NYC with unknown classified “stuff” on it-forcing Comey to make the declaration that the investigation was reopened and then to close it once again in early November through another Comey SGT Schultz announcement (We found nothing, there is nothing, she did everything-but no prosecutor would charge her.)
The only thing I didn’t mention above was the FBI raiding the Clinton home-where the illegal server resided-processing all those classified emails, her lawyer’s office where the copy of them in the form of an USB was kept in his unsecure safe, and the raids accomplished on all who communicated with her through the device, including Mills, Obama, Biden, Rice, Clapper, O’Sullivan, Podesta, Brennon, Powers-all her government peeps.
Of course, the most controversial raid was on President Obama, who also did a SGT Schultz when it came to the illegal server (I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing) but when it was discovered that he was assigned a specific pseudonym that was setup speeeecifically for the purpose of communicating with her via Blackberry, that was it for the FBI: they can’t stand it when they get lied to on these matters: and liars know when they are being lied to-so he had to be raided as well: these were matters of national security, after all.
And hahahaha-what a story that would have made-can you imagine the schtickstorm in the wake of that righteous action? How crazy would it have been for the DOJ and FBI to raid these people’s houses, take their electronic devices and papers, computers, servers, electronics-all of it-in the interest of national security??? Clinton was not only allowed to delete emails that were nor relevant or “work related”-in her sole judgement-so they also let the person who lacked the judgement of the most junior GS-3 in the government who knows better than doing such a thing in the first place-decide what was what. And when she was done, she mailed the laptops to the Southern District-where they never arrived and were never received.
HRC’s emails included over 100 classified messages and a bunch that were redacted by the State Department-but were not included in that total and then there were the emails that became her “Weiner problem” found by the SDNY on his laptop which were forwarded from Humah Mahmood Abedin-so they were also on her laptop.
A similar situation to when the DNC alleged, they were hacked by the Russians-and the FBI allowed them to stiff arm-not turn over the servers-in favor of letting a commercial firm do the forensics-only to claim it was the Russians-only to some 6 months or more later to disavow under oath in testimony to congress that they had proof positive that it was Russian hackers.
There are many, many, many more DOJ and FBI problems to cite here. But the bottom line down the bottom is if AG Garland and FBI Director Wray want the respect of the public and for people to stop pointing out illegalities, immoralities, malfeasance and politicization of justice in this country, it is up to them to clean up their scummy, corrupt, political house and stop perpetuating these crass and political acts. And maybe hold people accountable?
Congressional action and oversight is the recourse for our government to fix these problems. All the IG reports in the world won’t do it if there is no provision to hold people accountable.
I’ll take things that are not going to happen for 1M dollars, Alex….
Max Dribbler
15 August 2022
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