Posted on 05/27/2023 8:51:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The conspiracy between a corrupt set of bureaucracies (including the Justice Department, the IRS, and the intelligence community) and an equally corrupt and enabling elite media is astonishing. The Durham Report is just one more confirmation of the devastating level of dishonesty and manipulation which have characterized the last few years.
Some analysts believe the open corruption can be traced back to Lois Lerner and the IRS scandal, in which she clearly stonewalled conservative organizations from getting tax status. When she was found to be in contempt of Congress, the Obama Justice Department spent two years ignoring the congressional contempt charge and then decided not to prosecute her.
As Congressman Jim Jordan said at the time, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen was “us[ing] his power as a political weapon to undermine the rule of law.” Jordan went on “Mr. Machen … unilaterally decided to ignore the will of the House of Representatives. He and the Justice Department have given Lois Lerner cover for her failure to account for her actions at the IRS.”
The signal had been sent that protecting the left would itself be protected.
This lesson was reinforced in the cover up about the terrorist attack at Benghazi. The Obama administration was worried that the killing of an American ambassador—despite his consistent appeals to the State Department for more security—would hurt the president’s reelection campaign. So, the administration adopted a strategy of simply lying to the American people.
This began the week of the attack when the administration did everything it could to avoid responsibility for a terrorist killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens. In fact, the Obama White House immediately sent former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice on five network shows to blame an American-made anti-Muslim video for causing the supposed unrest. It was exactly what Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick had warned against in her famous “Blame America First” description of liberals. We now know that the entire story was a falsehood, and no one in Benghazi was motivated by a film they had never seen.
When then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before Congress, she dismissed the whole question of responsibility for the failure to protect Stevens. She even failed to be honest about his murder famously saying: “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”
The leftists in the national bureaucracies learned a big lesson from Lerner and Clinton. Whatever you need to do to defeat the right or protect the left is OK. You can get away with it. There is no responsibility for your actions if you are protecting the corrupt system.
That lesson was publicly driven home in late June 2016, when former President Bill Clinton walked uninvited onto the airplane of Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Phoenix airport. The FBI was investigating the former president’s wife (and Democratic presidential candidate) for a variety of charges including deleting more than 33,000 government emails and having staff destroy computer hard drives with a hammer.
It is hard to imagine anything more inappropriate than a former president visiting an attorney general while his wife (and presidential candidate) was being actively investigated by the FBI.
As then-candidate Donald Trump described in a tweet “Take a look at what happened w/ Bill Clinton. The system is totally rigged. Does anybody really believe that meeting was just a coincidence?”
We now know from the Durham Report—and the reports from Chairman James Comer and the House Oversight Committee—that candidate and then-President Trump has been consistently smeared and defamed by corrupt elements of the Washington bureaucracy on a scale which makes Watergate look trivial.
At the same time, the corrupt system was working overtime to protect Joe Biden and his family. The stunning dual nature of the corruption makes the present moment so dangerous for the future of the rule of law—and the entire constitutional process which has protected American freedom for more than 200 years.
As deeply and persuasively corrupt as the bureaucracy has become, the other great decay since Watergate has been the corruption of the elite media.
The New York Post, Fox News, and a few others have attempted some sense of honest coverage. Smaller conservative publications, podcasts, and social media have called out the big media systems for being active allies of the corrupt bureaucracy. Still, when needed, the elite corporate media have eagerly smeared President Trump and enthusiastically lied to protect the Bidens.
There are no Bob Woodwards or Carl Bernsteins courageously working to uncover the truth and get it published. (Indeed, Woodward has reinvented himself into a chief Trump smear-monger.)
There are no courageous editors like Ben Bradley backing up the reporters.
There are no fearless publishers like Katharine Graham willing to risk lawsuits and withstand the anger of the government.
Today, there is only a corrupt media protecting a corrupt establishment. The challenge to the American people to get at the truth is far more difficult than it was when Richard Nixon was under attack.
The establishment rot threatens our survival as a free people, and it is increasingly difficult to uproot. Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins when we need them most?
Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins when we need them most?“
They are looking for any parking tickets Trump may have received in 1983.
Newt is a DA:
They’re leftists. What an absolutely moronic premise to pose such a question.
They have long been infiltrated by the CIA. Carl Bernstein wrote a long article about it back in 1977 and only a fool would think it got any better since then.
Looks there have been certain edit cuts since I last looked at this several years ago. Principally, the CIA’s media roll in the JFK assassination.
https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977
When interviewing Moorer for the book, Moorer said something like “It is utterly ridiculous to think that I, an Admiral of the U.S. Navy would be involved in spying on the White House!”
Thirty(?) years later Moorer was involved in selling old military equipment to foreign governments under the guise of “antiques” (they were still functional). In an interview with some magazine (Time?) that was investigating it, Moorer replied “It is utterly ridiculous to think that I, an Admiral of the U.S. Navy would be involved in selling weapons to foreign governments!”
Newt is feeding the myth.
Journalists were never “objective” in the even handed sense of the word. They always had “an objective” to achieve. Woodward and Bernstein included.
They work for the FBI.
They are probably hiding behind their desks, playing switch.
What we need is to purge the systems infected and jail those who are responsible, like they did with the j6. Let them sit there in jail waiting
Sitting on their fat duffs and posing as experts.
Base message that Washington establishment & corporate media actively protect the uni-party ruling class, while actively attacking anything Republican or conservative. But to recall Woodward & Bernstein as some sort of saints is ridiculous. There is no way they would have gone after a Democrat president in the same way they went after Nixon. Yes, there was a coverup of a so-called 3rd-rate burglary. But the punishment did not really fit the crime - at least by standards of today. They were out to take down a Republican president. Nothing less. Nothing more.
They wanted Nixon’s scalp since he served on HUAC.
When did the NYT takes back Walter Duranty's Pulitzer for covering up for Stalin or publicize that the Kitty Genovese story was fake? Let's not start on the Vietnam War and the fake news on a daily basis.
Publishing books and proclaiming him “worse than Watergate.”
They're Demagogic Party demagogues, so, off somewhere, probably reading the latest DNC talking points.
Where they always were, making sure to pounce on any potential political brouhaha and insist that it be criminalized, but only in one direction. They don’t do Dem political brouhahas.
It’s worse than Watergate.
Newt seems to be under the impression that he can win over people, enticing them across the aisle, by pointing out supposed similarities they’d perhaps never before considered. The fact is, there are nearly zero people on that side of the aisle who can be so enticed. They know the election was stolen, but just don’t care, they’re in favor of cheating, lying, corruption, racism, etc.
Woodward and Bernstein are still dining out on their previous con!
They wanted Nixon’s scalp since he took part in outing Alger Hiss as a known Communist Spy.
I found it hilarious, as did the entire courtroom, when presented red-handed with components of “The Pumpkin Papers” and asked how these documents, pulled from a Pumpkin (that Whitaker Chambers had put them in and hidden in his garden for safekeeping) had been shown by an expert to have been typed on Hiss’s father’s typewriter that Alger Hiss now owned, famously said:
“I will never know how Whitaker Chambers broke into my house and used my father’s typewriter to type up these documents.”
Apparently, the entire courtroom cracked up at this.
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