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VDH Explains: Logical Behavior by Bureaucratic Careerists
Today at National Review (Future Pres’ Hillary — the Font of all the Scandals), the exceptional Dr. Victor Davis Hanson takes us on a journey into the mindset of James Comey, Loretta Lynch, FBI Agent 1, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice and Samantha Power.
Why would they risk their reputations by breaking laws, rules and ethical standards, and provide an evidence trail of such criminal behavior?
“The investigators assumed their new boss would reward them for going to extremes to help her.”
And … in spite of all of this now clear and convincing evidence of systemic corruption, criminal behavior and intense extensive cover-up, which included the full knowledge of Barack Obama, it seems that nothing will be done about it.
Because Donald J. Trump.
Sad.
Published in General
https://www.nationalreview.com/videos/fbi-inspector-general-report-slams-president-obama/
As always, VDH give a great summary and review.
Meanwhile the frustration in middle America grows, will these swamp creatures EVER be held accountable?
I suspect it went even deeper. They were positively convinced she would be president. And she has a reputation for political payback. So not only were they hoping for reward, they were fearful of retribution if they didn’t show their willingness to help her.
What chance did the likes of Comey have in a Clinton presidency if he had investigated her honestly!
no
When, if ever, are we going to let go of the Hillary Derangement Syndrome?
I swear, that woman lives rent free in too many heads.
You don’t think she did anything wrong? Seems to be that there are a lot of crimes by the Clintons that will never go punished.
Oh no, I think that she did plenty wrong. Benghazi, Bill’s enrichment, and on and on. But enough already. Let’s stop beating a dead horse.
I wonder if the slimy Comey, “knowing she would win”, testified & ‘reopened the Weiner laptop’ investigation so that if she ever tried to get rid of him, he’d use all of the known dirt about Hilary to help ensure he’d remain as Director. Kind of like the pressure placed on Trump and the “Russian Investigation”.
Conservative Treehouse had an interesting theory on the ‘magic’ that the FBI’s technical folks did to search and clear Hillary of any malfeasance in The Huma/Weiner laptop – they never search though it all. They simply cleared her but most likely have a trove of “professional insurance” just from that.
In this case, I think it is clear the “Two Matters” are linked and this is a reasonable injection on Clinton. I don’t think this is an obession at all. Certainly not on the part of VDH.
I mean, it is not like he posts nearly word for word, the same arguments over and over. That is derangement.
I would like nothing more than to never say another word about Hill/Billy.
However, I think that as long as the Mueller farce continues, she’s entirely relevant.
And if she keeps shooting off her mouth at the policies of the POTUS, she’s relevant … and fair game.
Just watch and reflect on this scene. This is the Secret Service (possibly other DOJ/FBI personnel?). This was entirely practiced choreography. Specific agents were to be the carriers of HRC and all of the rest were taught to fill in the gaps and shield the world from knowing the truth about the poor health of the likely next President. And they all participated happily in the cover-up and subterfuge.
This is less about HRC and more about the entrenched, compromised and ethically challenged bureaucrats that are under her thumb … still!
Free President Donald Trump from this incredibly poisoned witch hunt. Yesterday.
When she is held accountable for abusing her position(s) of power.
….. or we could just let her get away with it ….. again ….
Bryan G Stephens awesomely hilarious idea of having Trump preemptively pardon Hillary for all her crimes, is the least that should be done to this careerist professional grifter.
I hate it when people do that.
It’s not about Hillary, it’s about evidence of corruption at the DOJ and FBI.
VDH:
The plan was for the DOJ to punish Trump for his act of lèse-majesté; his head on a stake in front of the White House would also warn off any future Republican pretenders.
Instapundit draws our attention to a Daily Signal piece (Sports Tickets, Other Freebies for FBI Leakers Raise ‘Bribery’ Issues, Legal Experts Say.)
As Glenn Reynolds notes,
He pulled these comments to the main page:
Hillary is a problem, but not the problem. The problem is the increasing certainty that the FBI interfered with our last presidential election, that the top echelons of the agency are lawless, and that the DOJ is stonewalling legitimate Congressional oversight. That last is understandable, what has emerged makes the agency look bad.
What Sundance at CTH tells us is also bad news:
Sundance knows it took around 30 hours to read the IG’s report. OK, Wray (and Sessions) are too busy to do it themselves. Therefore, their staffs are either malevolently sabotaging their bosses or are incompetent. Neither is good for the country.
It is astounding … the amount of interwoven law-breaking that can be unleashed by one crime family …..
I do admire when people can poke fun at themselves.
No.
Next question.
Those guards covered for her like they had done that before–often. I really wonder, had she been elected, would she have made it through four years?
Let’s explore the mindset of James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice and Samantha Power.
Which of these in their own minds considered their actions criminal, unethical or in any way improper. Goldwater said “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.” Todays progressive liberals are convinced that extremism, political bias and the commission of unethical/illegal acts in defense of their vision of what America should become is no vice. To combat this mindset conservatives must be willing to fight fire with fire, but so far only Trump has been willing to pay that price.
Agreed.
At some point in the unraveling of this debacle the Left is going to have play out the dramatic courtroom scene where they concede they are guilty as hell and proud of it.
The Left has always been fine with breaking/ignoring/bending the law where it benefits their side.
The Left will have the additional benefit of having a faction on the Right that will avert their gaze to illegal acts of the Obama FBI/DOJ/Intel community as long as the victim is Trump.
This would be the correct take, just from looking at the text exchanges in the IG report you can see that fear was clearly a factor in the decision making process when it came to the Clinton investigation. It seems clear that the assumption was that she would inevitably be President and that if the investigation became too vigorous there would be reprisals.
Huh?
Sorry, I thought it was clear.
Amen! As long as Muller is still collecting tax-payer money for his political witch-hunt, Hillary remains part of the conversation.
If she would just shut her trap and go away…
The horse isn’t dead. She’s very much alive and she is beating the system. If she and her criminal husband cannot be brought to justice, then we need to admit as a nation that some people are indeed above the law.
From Ricochet podcast contributor the Powerline’s Scott Johnson Understanding Hillary’s Crimes:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/understanding-hillarys-crimes.php
The money quote from the NRO Andy McCarthy article (and answer to: When, if ever, are we going to let go of the Hillary Derangement Syndrome?):
“It is a classic in the Clinton genre: rules-don’t-apply-to-me sense of privilege causes mess; subordinates blamed for mess; Washington looks the other way”
Hillary gets away with it because you let her and worse than that you encourage others to let her get away with it as well.
The fix was in from the get-go. As Andrew McCarthy’s latest details, the server was intended to be criminal and facilitate crimes, crimes in which the President was a participant. Crimes underinvestigated and never charged because Hillary’s defense would have been Obama. The attorneys and law enforcement officers who are high enough up in the fix are likewise above the law.
And think that their vision leads to utopia rather than tyranny, hence it is virtuous to pursue it BAMN.
I think there’s an even broader concern than what McCarthy focuses on, and one that should help pooh-poohers of the email server issue understand the fundamental ill-intent on the part of Clinton’s IT set-up: if you care about government transparency and accountability — and value public access to the workings of government through FOIA, for example — then it is important that office holders value their responsibility to transmit official communications through channels that are subject to established data retention and archiving practices. The only reason for a government official to go out of their way to use a system which avoids official archiving is to be unaccountable to the public while being paid by the public to work on behalf of the public. This matter more to me than the transmission of classified information, and is the clearest, most-base signal of all that “rules don’t apply” to the Clintons.