It didn’t originate with Page or Papadopoulos; it originated with the Obama administration.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Civil war within the FBI? Some agents want Congress to subpoena them to get their stories out. I hope they oblige them.
[Update a few minutes later]
James Clapper: Leaker, liar, sleazeball.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Capt. Kirk to Norman #1: Remember, everything James Clapper says is a lie.
James Clapper to Norman #1: Listen carefully lad. I’m lying!
Ivana: “When did you get the Clapper?”
Austin Powers: “November 1964, Dutch East Indies, shore leave.”
This might be of interest to this post:
Holder urges DOJ/FBI to unconstitutionally defy President;’Protect the institutions’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/23/holder-urges-dojfbi-unconstitutionally-defy-presid/
Think of all the ways the Obama administration is still breaking protocols that past Presidents followed and setting precedents for unethical behavior. He is running a shadow state department even though he is out of office. His heads of DNI and CIA are using their former office to make baseless accusations against the President. His political appointees are engaged in acts of sabotage.
This is all on top of the widespread lawless behavior of when he was in office, which didn’t start with Trump. The lawless behavior started before he was sworn in. Trump was just the last act.
When people at the CIA, DNI, NSA, and State Department from the top of the leadership down to the field workers all participate in illegal acts to influence an election and stage a soft coup as an insurance policy President Obama had to have been giving the orders. He is the only one who can order those agencies to act in such a coordinated way. It is especially bad that the people who do the redacting of records also participated. We really need to know more about who those people are.
You have to expect them to hide their acts. This is high stakes, and as they get closer to losing; they’ll get more desperate. They are very close to losing and in a big way. Already there is a landslide shift in public opinion, such that the even the likes of Elon Musk are calling out the media. Most of this has occurred over the course of a couple of weeks. Life is coming at them fast, so expect something big and ugly to occur just to buy some time.
You gotta figure the prior administration has supporters absolutely everywhere, including the secret service. How big and how ugly do you correlate with desperatation?
“How big and how ugly do you correlate with desperatation?”
At a minimum, I’d expect an epidemic of FBI agents committing Arkancide by shooting themselves twice in the back of the head.
Beyond that, they’re in a bind. Trump has most of the military and gun-owners, so a coup is going to fail. And no-one’s going to believe the ‘lone gunman’ story these days.
Maybe a North Korean nuke in DC?
But, from what I’ve read in the last few months, I’m guessing Trump is ready to roll up most of the Deep State’s leaders as soon as he gets the go-ahead from the DoJ.
Where’s Obama these days? If he’s in a no-extradition nation again it’s probably a sign that it’s game over.
I wasn’t thinking direct violence, at least not on their part (just yet).
Note how the FBI tried to do with Nunes what they did with Flynn, held a fake meeting supposedly to provide documents, but instead just gave up Halprin’s name. They lead up to this meeting with Plame type allegations that the spy was NOC classified. They hoped Nunes would leak, so they could, if not arrest him, make him seem like another Scooter Libby. I don’t think that effort has ended, because now there are allegations that conservative media types leaked the name early, akin to “how did Novak know it?”
Setups like this will continue, and someone may screw up. We will then here about this comparatively petty crime so to hide the larger crime of massive abuse of authority within the FBI and CIA.
If there’s a suspicion of Barrycade running operatives within the administration to undermine the lawfully elected president, it would seem appropriate to issue an executive order that any contact between administrative personal and now departed persons of the former regime shall be reported, just as contact with representatives or a foreign government are.
Breaking protocals and you don’t bring up trump? So lets not talk about trump and the his last acts of lawlessness .. lets allow him any latitude possible.. but .. lets go after past .. not the present..
“So lets not talk about trump and the his last acts of lawlessness .”
Can you name the three most recent acts of lawlessness? Tell us the law(s) they breaks please.
I’m not sure what to make of the comment. What protocols were broken? By whom? Trump? Is breaking of a protocol illegal? If Trump is lawless, what crimes has he committed, because Congress would like to know? I don’t see Trump or his associates afforded any latitude, as compared to Hillary, who was interviewed off the record, her compatriots given immunity, and she was allowed to claim a potential codefendant as her lawyer without any raids of that person’s office.
The election is in the past. Trump won, and that’s not a crime. Manafort pleaded guilty to a crime from 2012. The entire Mueller investigation is about the past. Even Stormy Daniels is about consensual sex over 5 years ago.
It is the ‘Ham Sandwich’ Kind of Law-Breaking. The Prosecutor decides you are guilty of something and if nothing appears immediately they charge with:
–Perjury/Obstruction/Conspiracy, all of which seem to be the current equivalents of Treason, a crime so terribly easy for those in power to accuse their enemies. It’s a pity that there is no mention in the Bill of Rights!