When The People Act To Clean Up The Swamp And The Swamp Fights Back
I’m somewhat vectoring off the mainline of my article building the case on Obama and also the indictment of Team Obama. The effort makes one (me) wonder what the Founders would have thought of our modern era executives and their performance in terms of their expected reverence for our constitution, their duty to honor and uphold it, and-more importantly-their duty to the people who elect them.
You tend to be somewhat sympatico with the people you work(ed) with, somewhat grew up around, worked for-went to battle with on issues both big and small, and those you mentored. Leaders-in particular-who were entrusted with the day-to-day mission of their agencies in support of our nation and the people who worked under them.
Nobody likes to work under or believe they work for a veritable skunk. A dishonest or crooked, conniving, scheming, lying manipulator. If you ever worked with-or for such a person-you know how troubling it can be puzzling through the machinations, reindeer games and bs before you recognize that smell of Pepe Le Pew…
They are more common than you might believe and do much better in our government system than they should. Skunks tend to be the first one to harumph for the boss, they hang out together and run in somewhat packs, as only among their own kind are they comfortable with the “smell” and the ambience.
I worked for a few skunks in my time. A bunch of them have made what might be considered the skunk’s “A list,” including many of the nifty fifty-one who opined that Hunter Biden’s laptop could be Russian agit-prop propaganda and therefore signed their reputations away in defense of that Crack head.
Many others-mentors to mentees to colleagues-have recently had their clearances stripped for participating in the Team Obama directed, CIA Dir John Brennan manipulated, DNI Clapper guided and FBI Dir Comey scheme-and I should add NSA Dir Mike Rogers’ mitigating efforts-to embarrass the IC with a rush to judgement, full leg on the scale faux Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) in which they lied in a manufactured document that may be a higher watermark scandal than that committed by the nifty fifty-one.
Which resulted in the outing of a lot of skunks. The “last” skunk I worked for might have been the purest of the breed imaginable-the most subtle-slick-manipulating, natural and duplicitous person I worked with in my 42 years. That is saying something considered I schtick canned a lying first sergeant during my first company command, withdrew my overseas extension over an incompetent Battalion Commander who was later removed from a brigade level command, and was involved in the firing of a senior executive who committed provable criminal acts that just did not seem so bad to him, like making fake employment papers for an illegal, vouching for her income on said job and co-signing for a car loan that she defaulted on and took to Mexico.
The “last” and purest skunk above was also the most senior and later went on to become the second most senior intel person in our government as some of these shenanigans played out. These are stories that are rightly disturbing, but the setup takes too long-so maybe a series on skunks I have known and worked for to follow-but I want to continue the Team Obama tale of woe.
I’m in the midst of somewhat of a dual-tracked article series outlining-primarily-how it came to be that somebody who started out totally ignorant and ambivalent about President Barrack Hussein Obama could arrive at a point where in the final analysis there was simply no respect left in the tank for the man: cut and dry.
Thank him for his service but condemn him for his actions and publicly shame him through exposure of his schemes and actions that were a disgrace to his office. A betrayal of the trust the American people honor their president with through the freedom of action to lead his administration to achieve the agenda we elected them to do.
There is no expectation-nor demand-that one would agree with everything a president undertakes, says, does or accomplishes during their time in office. It simply does not work that way. But we do have a right to express our views-especially through our representatives in congress-and actually to the president and his entire administration, who under our system actually work for us-on our behalf.
It is not an unreasonable expectation to expect a president to lead with an even-hand without lurching off the centerline or wildly swinging to favor one segment of our country-population-political party over others in a manner that tips the scales of things like justice, law, policy or support. It should go without saying that such expectations extend to a president’s legacy and the expectation of how events are conducted to pass the torch on to their successor so that the American people may continue to be served with near seamless continuity of their daily lives possible when the inevitable transition of power occurs.
Part of this article series focused on how Obama mostly whiffed from the standpoint of taking care of the majority view on events, particularly as regards foreign policy, but also domestic policy to a great degree. My article does nothing if not expose the veritable tomfoolery he led his administration through on myriad events in seeming total disregard for the majority in favor of the thinnest slice of minority opinion possible. What has come to be known in “Trump-time” as 80—20 issues.
The latter part of those expectations is where President Obama and his administration most certainly failed the American people in great measure that constituted sedition and borderline-if not actual-treason. The most ironic part about the seditious campaign President Obama and his administration cooked up and then conducted against what would-unfortunately for them-turn out to be his successor-was that he-they-were so cocksure that Donald J. Trump had no chance to be that person that they were sloppy and as careless as any two-bit burglar, thief or criminal who simply does not fully think through the ramifications of their actions.
In Obama’s case it was pure hubris and chutzpah and apparently the belief in the immunity of the president and the fact that he could count on stooges within his administration to pull off the shenanigans necessary-that were thought to be sufficient-to ensure that the unthinkable would not happen, thereby keeping his “hands clean like some mafia boss”: but it did happen.
The leads on Obama’s team-from his inner circle of advisors in the White House to his agency heads-who had direct authority over the schemes, plots and-ultimately-the lawfare necessary to go after what was apparently his mortal enemy judged solely by his actions, not unlike Sherlock Holmes’s Moriarty, all executed their pieces and parts to a tee and in-line with their boss like some Oceans 45 crew in a paint by numbers crime.
This extended beyond what many would consider Obama’s logical reach when you think about Comey and the Special Counsel/Prosecutor he colluded to bring about, rampant leaks, as well as deep staters in, among, across and down the organization chart who fought internecine warfare against Trump for years.
The problem and main impediment to their execution of this seditious and treasonous, scummy effort was-and is-quite simply our constitutional republic. It has a lot of features-that many consider flaws-built into the framework of our country that are meant to keep honest people honest and to expose those who are skunks who attempt to manipulate the system to achieve dubious and unsound ends through the means-the very mechanisms of government-that enable them to equally lead and govern in enviable and laudatory ways that bring honor to themselves and their administrations.
Some of the major and key players in the Obama administration proved unworthy of the trust and support of the American people. Each in their own turn-and in keeping with convention-took oaths of office swearing to abide by their constitutional duties-so help them God-and not to a political party, person (place or thing,) but to the constitution.
Many of them have written books about their time in the Obama administration and in contrast to many of their predecessors who tout accomplishments, achievement and success stories-not that they don’t address those matters-but these stories focus on facts, fears, truth, lies and leadership.
Which is somewhat ironic or more pathetic when you assimilate what these people perpetrated on our country and how they tried to achieve-at the cost of their integrity, reputations, honor and legacy-the undermining of a duly elected president of the United States of America by any means and actions necessary.
We are talking here about the Team Obama “principals,” DNI James R. Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, DOJ Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey and the personnel the American public paid them to lead, as well as folks like Michael V. Hayden and many, many others-for instance-the near entirety of the LSMBTGA. I would include Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) in the “rogues” gallery or skunks list, but as the beneficiary of Team Obama’s sedition and treasonous acts she is in somewhat of a different category here.
Much like the recipient or beneficiary of the steal or the poison fruits of the blackmail, since none of what she attempted to do in perverting our democratic process could have happened if Team Obama had acted like grownups and made her stop. Had they done so the minute they discovered her scheme-the infamous Russia, Russia, Russia Pee Pee Hoax-we would not be talking about the “matter.”
The not so funny part about this is some may feel sorry for HRC that she was put through the wringer-set up for failure-over this “matter.” Had the adults in the room-Obama, his chief of staff (charged with cleanups on aisle 7,) his senior intelligence advisor-Clapper-Brennan-Comey-any of them-done the right thing when this stupidity and illegal server first came to light, she could have avoided all the public embarrassment and skipped most of the limelight, hate and discontent that culminated in her 2016 election debacle.
Her malfeasance and disregard of regulations-in particular United States Title 50 US Code (USC) 3341 and various provisions under USC Title 18-are disqualifying for anyone from the lowest GS-1 intern to the highest Senior Executive Service pay scale compensated government civilian or contractor.
President Obama could have done the right thing at any point in time when he first discovered that HRC had illegally-in violation of her oath of office and security clearance agreements-stood up an illegal server in her home and somehow conducted United States State Department official business via her personnel server using her unclassified communication devices(s.)
HRC was Secretary of State from 2009-2013. The potential damage she did to our national security with her illegal server is unfathomable, unimaginable and incalculable. The only way we could assess the damage is to know what information was compromised and have those responsible for producing it assess it. That is what would happen in any other case imaginable.
If Max Dribbler was found to have moved classified traffic to unclassified sources-via the government sensitive but unclassified network (SBU)-even one document-for whatever reason-Max would have his clearance suspended immediately, would likely be placed on administrative leave, would immediately undergo a polygraph and likely be given some type of check-up from the neck-up since Max had the highest clearance available with access to sensitive, compartmented information (SCI) and Special Access Programs (SAP) for decades, a category the compromise of which would cause exceptionally grave consequences to the US (without caveats.) Max has undergone myriad polygraphs that are typically mandated to achieve such access and these things-deliberately violating national security policy-for whatever reason-simply don’t happen in that world.
And when it does there needs to be a spanking-accountability-a damage assessment and justice-ramifications. Max will likely never get a clearance again and his hope of being the employee of the month just went out the window: he will not work for the government again.
The minute the State Department or any witting recipient (someone who also has a clearance) received any questionable emails, content, material, whatever from HRC they had an obligation under their own oath of office and clearances to find out why. Part of being a leader is taking care of people. For all anyone knew when these emails initially started flowing, there could have been some enterprise system, processor, translator, etc., anomaly or problem that needed to be fixed.
People make mistakes, sometimes schtick happens, thousand points of light-but people on Team Obama had an obligation to find out why they were receiving official information from HRC that was not .gov or .mil.
I digress but when I was a contractor working in Crystal City, I approached the security entrance like every other day just as our boss-Adm Kaler-got to the door. I swiped my badge and opened the door, standing aside for him. He gave me a very funny look and said, “Do that again.” I asked, “What, open the door?” So I did it again and he was gobsmacked. He had me shut the door and this time he badged-in, only it would not open for him until he punched in his assigned access code: oopsie.
The only thing we could figure out is that as an intel guy working in air defense I had a higher security clearance and access than required/authorized/necessary for the suite-which was honestly not a valid reason-but I could have gone on forever without knowing I had the “magic badge.” Kaler-who could not pronounce my last name-called me “Houdini” from that day forward to the puzzlement and amusement of my co-workers
With HRC it went on for years. Nobody around her-in her chain-of-command, nor those receiving her non-.gov or .mil emails ever raised the alarm. When we saw her on travel with the ubiquitous Blackberry Rim at the ready doing emails-look at her doing her duty (hahaha-) we had no reason to think-OMG–HRC is in Moscow and on her unclassified email device. Nobody would ever think that a senior US government official would be dumb enough to have perpetrated the means to receive classified over such a device: but perpetrate it she did.
And those documents from State did not magically “leap” the proverbial electronic divide and suddenly show up on a totally different server-network-lower classification device: somebody was doing the “classification shuffle” to enable the process. Whomever that was-having themselves signed paperwork to gain access to classified material-to obtain a clearance-removed classified from a network specifically configured to deal with it and knowingly moved it-inserted it-scanned it-took actions to enable it to be accessed on a network that was not cleared-authorized-to contain such information-is as guilty if not more so than the authority that gave them the unlawful directive to do so.
That is what’s known in the business as an unlawful order or directive. It can’t be mitigated by following orders or by pleading ignorance of the requirements because any such person having access to the information in the first place had to sign the paperwork that explains those matters in detail where they acknowledged the restrictions on their actions in writing in order to gain said access: the same as HRC, or else we have other problems to deal with.
Which can be regarded as somewhat of an academic discussion in 2025 but the main point is to recognize that HRC should have immediately upon discovery that she had done this at the very least had her clearance and access immediately suspended (with clearances there is no assumption of innocence-bam-clearance immediately suspended as step 1 of the actions) and an interview scheduled to probe the “matter,” eventually being forbidden from ever holding one again in the future, as well as being restricted from ever being hired by the government in any capacity in the future.
For those unfamiliar with government clearance protocols there is a place called the Central Clearance Facility that is the caretaker of all clearances and all it takes is one report by a requisite authority and the system immediately reflects concomitant clearance actions like suspension, cancellation, modification, etc. If I were traveling between locations and-lets say I left Langley (CIA Hqs) and had caused some type of scene or whatever-by the time I made the 30 minute drive to the Washington Navy Yard, steps would have been taken so that my badge would not open the turnstile-the dreaded buzzer claxon accompanied red flash of death-and I would be talked to by security-my badge would be confiscated and I would likely be directed to my parent HQs-where security would have to escort me at the gate to the security director wherever they were located. I would be flagged and not be granted access-just that quickly-throughout the community.
I would need an escort to get into my parent HQs: how embarrassing would that be?
Max Dribbler
20 August 2025
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