Washington's Hollow Men

NRO ^ | 5 July 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Rummyfan]

In Merced or Dayton, if an insurance agent, eager to help his wife facing indictment, barged into a restaurant where the local DA is known to lunch, he would almost certainly be told to get the hell out.

But among the Washington elite, the scenario is apparently quite different. The two parties, in supposedly serendipitous fashion, just happen to touch down at the same time on the Phoenix corporate tarmac, with their private planes pulling up nose to nose. Then the attorney general of the United States and her husband, in secrecy enforced by federal security details, welcome the ex-president onto her government plane. Afterward, and only when caught, the prosecutor and the husband of the person under investigation assure the world that they talked about everything except Hillary Clinton’s possible indictment, Loretta Lynch’s past appointment by Bill Clinton and likely judicial future, or the general quandary of 2016.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437454/american-elite-and-american-people

[Ouchthatonehurt]

What faith I had left in government is completely gone.
FREEDOM!

[T-Bone Texan]

Anyone who willingly serves this illegitimate regime is my enemy and the enemy of my people.

A haiku:

Government workers
Must take a deep look inward
Nazis behind desks

[T-Bone Texan]

Those quisling traitors
Who serve this evil regime
Will hang for their crimes

[Aevery_Freeman]

In matters of deception, ostentatious vulgarity never proves as injurious as the hubris of the mannered establishment. So what I resent most about the Washington hollow men is not the sources and methods through which they parlay wealth, power, and influence, or the values they embrace to exercise and perpetuate their privilege and sense of exalted self, but the feigned outrage that they express when anyone dares suggest, by word or vote, that they are mediocrities and ethical adolescents — and really quite emotional, after all.

Well said VDH

[Ann Archy]

Hollow HELL....CORRUPT is the word!

[DIRTYSECRET]

A whole lot of specifics in this article. America doesn’t have the attention span.

[Grampa Dave]

Folsom Naval Reservist is Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to Unauthorized (trunc) (2015)

FBI ^ | 7-29-15 | FBI
Posted on 7/5/2016, 10:12:45 AM by dynachrome

SACRAMENTO, CA—Bryan H. Nishimura, 50, of Folsom, pleaded guilty today to unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials,
U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman immediately sentenced Nishimura to two years of probation, a $7,500 fine, and forfeiture of personal media containing classified materials. Nishimura was further ordered to surrender any currently held security clearance and to never again seek such a clearance.

Nishimura was a Naval reservist deployed in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. In his role as a Regional Engineer for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Nishimura had access to classified briefings and digital records that could only be retained and viewed on authorized government computers.

Nishimura, however, caused the materials to be downloaded and stored on his personal, unclassified electronic devices and storage media. He carried such classified materials on his unauthorized media when he traveled off-base in Afghanistan and, ultimately, carried those materials back to the United States at the end of his deployment. In the United States, Nishimura continued to maintain the information on unclassified systems in unauthorized locations, and copied the materials onto at least one additional unauthorized and unclassified system.

Nishimura’s actions came to light in early 2012, when he admitted to Naval personnel that he had handled classified materials inappropriately. Nishimura later admitted that, , he destroyed a large quantity of classified materials he had maintained in his home. Despite that, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Nishimura’s home in May 2012, agents recovered numerous classified materials in digital and hard copy forms. The investigation did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute classified information to unauthorized personnel.

This case was the product of an investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Jean M. Hobler prosecuted the case.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3446483/posts

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The investigation did not reveal evidence that Nishimura intended to distribute classified information to unauthorized personnel. So, Nishimura’s lawyers will be going to a federal court to get his sentence reversed and multi million $’s due to this abortion of justice aka an aeronautical intercourse of Americans for the Clintoons!

[Grampa Dave]

In Merced or Dayton, if an insurance agent, eager to help his wife facing indictment, barged into a restaurant where the local DA is known to lunch, he would almost certainly be told to get the hell out.

But among the Washington elite, the scenario is apparently quite different. The two parties, in supposedly serendipitous fashion, just happen to touch down at the same time on the Phoenix corporate tarmac, with their private planes pulling up nose to nose. Then the attorney general of the United States and her husband, in secrecy enforced by federal security details, welcome the ex-president onto her government plane. Afterward, and only when caught, the prosecutor and the husband of the person under investigation assure the world that they talked about everything except Hillary Clinton’s possible indictment, Loretta Lynch’s past appointment by Bill Clinton and likely judicial future, or the general quandary of 2016. Predictable after Boss Hogg Clinton, the Arkansas Godfather met with his black slave Lynch on the tarmac!

"Former President Bill Clinton, doing his best Boss Hogg impersonation, rendezvoused with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the middle of the scorching Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport tarmac to discuss “grandchildren, golf, family” and of course his “wife’s” possible indictment for violating a couple hundred national security statutes."

In his new book Crisis of Character: A White House Secret, Gary Bryne tells about another secret service agent’s private encounter with the GodFather, Bill Clinton, during the testimony hearings, starting on page 166-167.

Clinton approached the agent and after some small talk, he asked the agent how his wife and kids were…...They had never actually talked before.

“Nothing about that was normal. It was obviously a subtle form of intimidation. The president was sending a message that he knew of the officer’s recent testimony,---and perhaps was sending a more sinister message.”

[TTFlyer]

The hollowest men work for the GOPe led by the odious weasel, Paul Ryan.

[Madame Dufarge]

Is it all that strange that when Washington fixtures write outraged op-eds about the “fascistic” Donald Trump or the “self-harming” Brexit voters, no one seems to listen any more?

Say, isn't this the VDH who called Trump "bufoonish" just recently in one of his columns?

I've always admired his work, here's hoping that the scales are starting to fall from his eyes.

[Psalm 73]

So, this is how our Republic dies.

Stay safe. Stay armed.

[YogicCowboy]

I’ve always admired his [VDH’s] work, here’s hoping that the scales are starting to fall from his eyes.

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I doubt it will happen.

I call such persons Cookie-Cutter Conservatives: They are very good at seeing the trees, but very not good at seeing the forest.

The people they endorse have the leaves and twigs they like - mostly in the form of saying the right things. The big picture - that these well-spoken so-called true conservatives do not love America, and trip over each other in their eagerness to sell it out - is lost on them.

[Ann Archy]

Since 'Squeaky Clean" HA! Comey was willing to DEBASE HIMSELF over this YUGE case, it makes me wonder WHAT THEY HAVE ON HIM!!!!!

HE MUST BE FILTHY DIRTY since he was willing to throw away his good name on Hillary!! FILTHY DIRTY CORRUPT COMEY!! There is NO OTHER ANSWER for his actions!! What do they have ON him or what was OFFERED to him??? I DETEST this corrupt country.

[Lee Enfield]

Do a goat once on an overseas political trip, just to comply with local Bedouin customs, and see what happens!

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Amen to that! VDH has a clear bead on things.
Reminds me much of CS Lewis’ description of “men without chests” in The Abolition of Man.