Courting Trouble

As usual, in part because of persistent judicial overreach and in part because the Democrats’ desire to keep getting in Court what they cannot win at the ballot box, the courts are the main focus of attention this week as they are in so many weeks. There’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court to be filled and the Michael Flynn dismissal motion is due for a hearing on the 29th before Judge Emmet Sullivan. In the first instance, I think the Democrats’ disgusting performance in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and the restrictions on the conduct of the hearing due to COVID-19 precautions will hamper their usual soap-opera theatrics. Of course, by now, too, more people surely have wised up to the game. In the second, Judge Sullivan opened up the door, and Attorney General William Barr and Flynn’s lawyer Sydney Powell burst into the courtroom with blazing guns.

In a tell that they will lose this fight, the Democrats are throwing silly proposals up in the air -- everything from court packing to setting limits on the terms of justices to the Court to demanding any nominee recuse herself from any cases involving this election -- in advance of the hearings. The hearings will be held online with no spectators and the gals in handmaiden outfits that lined the Capitol halls during the Kavanaugh hearing will have to do so without an audience. Perhaps Dianne Feinstein, who played such a low-handed role last time, has no longer the stomach for a repeat as members of her party are whispering to reporters that she’s not up to the job this time, something I read as a concession that she cannot be relied upon to further besmirch her once more attractive, more sober image.

But the FBI 7th-floor biggies and the Special Counsel team were not alone in this seditious endeavor. We learned this week, that intelligence analysts believed -- not at all unreasonably -- that Russia favored Hillary in 2016, but that the CIA’s head John Brennan overruled them and forwarded his own fact-free cockamamie theory that it was Trump they were helping.

Former CIA Director John Brennan personally edited a crucial section of the intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and assigned a political ally to take a lead role in writing it after career analysts disputed Brennan's take that Russian leader Vladimir Putin intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump clinch the White House, according to two senior U.S. intelligence officials who have seen classified materials detailing Brennan’s role in drafting the document.

The explosive conclusion Brennan inserted into the report was used to help justify continuing the Trump-Russia “collusion” investigation, which had been launched by the FBI in 2016. It was picked up after the election by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who in the end found no proof that Trump or his campaign conspired with Moscow.[snip] The review, conducted by the House Intelligence Committee, culminated in a lengthy report that was classified and locked in a Capitol basement safe soon after Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff took control of the committee in January 2019.

The official said the committee spent more than 1,200 hours reviewing the ICA and interviewing analysts involved in crafting it, including the chief of Brennan’s so-called “fusion cell,” which was the interagency analytical group Obama's top spook stood up to look into Russian influence operations during the 2016 election.

Obama, Biden, Hillary, Brennan, Schiff and others need be tried, convicted and hanged. I am serious about the hanging part, preferably with a short rope. Murders should have a fast, pain-free execution. Murders should have a fast, pain-free execution. Traitors do not deserve to die with dignity.

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