Posted on 05/16/2020 11:44:27 AM PDT by knighthawk
“How many articles are we going to read about ObamaGate before Republicans take action?”
Senator Burr will be right on it as soon as he finishes talking to his broker. Whoops, I forgot, his committee recently issued a report whitewashing the intelligence agencies. Funny how he did the bidding of the deep state, and his Democrat friend Mark Warner, and still got outed. Could it have been a warning to his GOP peers in the Senate.
I’ve always wondered about the timing of the outing of the former GOP Speaker of the House as a pedophile, years after he retired from Congress. Hastert was indicted on May 28, 2015 for structuring bank withdrawals to pay an extortionist who was threatening to out him. He entered a guilty plea in October 2015 and was sent to federal prison. Is it a coincidence that, in October 2015 GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner stepped down and was replaced by Paul Ryan, who had been the GOP Vice Presidential candidate in the 2012 general election. Ryan did nothing to block the Democrat agenda while Obama was president and then worked behind the scenes to block President Trump’s agenda from January 2017 to January 2019. Thanks to his “do nothing” legacy, the GOP lost its House majority in the 2018 election and Ryan promptly “retired” to become a well paid lobbyists and corporate board member.
Was the timing of Hastert’s outing and conviction in 2015 planned to accelerate John Boehner’s retirement and ensure Ryan’s ascendancy to the speakership? Was it also a warning to Ryan of the consequences of failing to toe the line? His behavior during his short term as Speaker was antithetical to the conservative beliefs he claimed to have each time he ran for office.
Something to consider.
I think they tapped into Rosen’s parents, too. That might rub some tapped journos the wrong way.
Case in point:
Democrats launch probe into Trump's firing of State Department watchdog, Pompeo
We knew this three years ago.
And more importantly how the rank and file, deep state leftists in the intel communities went along and gleefully supported being weaponized.
These people are also the enemy, folks.
JoMa
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Time to pay the piper.
ALL these criminals should go to PRISON for their numerous crimes
That goes especially for Obama.
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<><> fraudulently obtaining FISA warrants to spy on innocent American citizens;
<><> promoting the phony Hillary/DNC-funded Steele filled with lies about Trump;
<><> politicizing intelligence analysis; <><>leaking intelligence;
<><> as well as Obama spying on other political opponents and journalists. (h/t foxnews.com)
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NY POST EDITORIAL BOARD--May 13, 2020
EDITED EXCERPT Trump calls Flynn unmasking 'a massive thing.' With the release of the names of more than a dozen officials who asked to have Gen. Michael Flynn’s identity “unmasked,” the apparent effort to take down President Trump — before he even took office — is starting to look like a broader malevolent Team Obama scheme than first thought.....as Obama primped and acted the scandal-free prima donna.
The disclosed names who asked to have Gen. Michael Flynn’s identity “unmasked,” include ex-Vice President Joe Biden, Obama Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, FBI boss James Comey and intel chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper. Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell sent the list of names to Congress on Wednesday after they were declassified.
Unmasking reveals the ID's of innocent people caught in conversations with foreign nationals who are under surveillance. The Obama cabal asked to have such people unmasked in the days and weeks prior to what is now cited as a key Jan. 5, 2017, meeting with Obama.
Obama’s team was obsessed with Trump’s foreign-policy team, particularly Gen Flynn (who was to replace Obama's NSA Susan Rice).
Were these (A) legitimate worries, or (B) a vendetta? Or (C) just anger that Trump wanted to pursue a foreign policy different from the sainted Obamas?
And given how the FBI pushed to bring down Flynn, the broad Team Obama interest in Flynn’s conversation certainly raises red flags.
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Another criminal possibility is the avalanche of unmaskings requested in those last days of Obama.
Obama's UN Amb Samantha Power apparently requested some 300 in those final days when she had no reason to unmask
and no legitimate purpose in having the names.
Were the Obama officials selling information to the highest bidder?
The names of Trump's inner circle, alone, would have been worth a bundle to foreign operatives.
Yet when pressed, Biden admitted straight into the cameras that he “was aware that there was — that they asked for an investigation, but that’s all I know.”
OK,if so, ........why was Biden intent on requesting the name of the unmasked person (Flynn) who spoke to the Russian?
Biden and the rest of the "scandal-free" Obama crew have a lot of explaining to do.
At some point, AG William Barr and prosecutor John Durham will likely put all the pieces of this peculiar, possibly criminal, puzzle in place.
In what Hollywood might regard as an Academy-level "Stupidest Move by An Obama Insider," his then-National Security Adviser
Susan Rice wrote about that Jan. 5, 2019 meeting which ignorantly suggests then-president Obama instructed his underlings
"to be careful" about what information they shared with the Trump folks regarding Russia.
That's just one crime Rice confessed to......via electronic transfer.
The scale to which Obama’s team spied on his successor should be focus of ‘unmasking’
By Lee Smith, May 13, 2020. NY Post
The presumptive Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, heads a list of more than a dozen Obama officials who spied on Donald Trump’s ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Others senior Obama officials include chief of staff Denis McDonough, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and UN Ambassador Samantha Power.
A list declassified Tuesday by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grennel shows that Biden and others asked to have Flynn’s name “unmasked” in transcripts of US intelligence intercepts of foreign officials.
The names of US persons or entities incidentally collected by such intercepts are minimized to protect the privacy rights of Americans. Unmasking identities is not in itself illegal, nor even necessarily improper.
Occasionally US policymakers will ask to unmask a US person to better understand the nature of the intelligence before them. Obama officials, however, gorged themselves like children at a candy store.
In an almost two-month period starting election day, Nov. 8, 2016, senior US officials made 49 requests to unmask the retired three-star general.
Flynn’s Dec. 29, 2016, call to a Russian diplomat in which they were alleged to have discussed sanctions on Russia was leaked by a senior US official to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. His subsequent column ignited the Russia collusion scandal, which in time became the special counsel investigation. Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding the call, and finally last week the Department of Justice withdrew its deeply compromised case.
And yet for all the political and personal damage ensuing from the leak of Flynn’s call, it is worth noting that the bulk of unmasking requests precede it.
Obama officials were less interested in that particular call than in the broad sweep of Flynn’s conversations.
The GOP is worthless. Obama and Clinton just give everyone the middle finger.
Making a big deal of that would be worse than shooting themselves in the foot.
They would be sticking the gun down their own throats.
...make life difficult for newly elected Donald J Trump...
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They were willing to start a hot war with Russia in order to mire POTUS in an unpopular military adventure that would likely mean: 1) the expenditure of vast amounts for armaments (w/rake-offs as a feature);
2) the destruction of military infrastructure, the expenditure of military materiel (which would then need to be replaced, benefiting the usual corps and critters);
3) death and injury to service members, debilitating the military and providing reasons to recruit and train and replenish forces at great expense, further impairing military effectiveness (in order to generate hatred against the POTUS and provide fodder for anti-war demonstrations);
4) risk cyber attacks, destabilization of the informational infrastructure, and possible conventional & nuclear attacks against civilian targets (furthering the desire for political fodder, great financial costs, and societal strains).
It was cynical, self-serving, destructive and completely without regard for anyone or for the country as a whole in the pursuit of political revenge and a quick re-taking of power by the Left.
I only recently became aware of the testimony of Comey and higher ups in DOJ in which they discuss their concerns about Russia’s seemingly mild response to Obama’s sanctions and expulsions.
The more testimony I read, the angrier I get.
Rand Paul is the only one talking about ObamaGate. Do any Republicans care?
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Rand Paul wasn’t there on Usurpation Day.
There are just a few who weren’t.
The rest have to help cover up Obama’s crimes or their own complicity in violating the Constitution will come to light.
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