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The Clinton Foundation and the ‘Deep State’
In my line of work, I take great interest in investigations by law enforcement. Especially that of our federal government’s law enforcement. This is headed by the Department of Justice and specifically by the Attorney General of the United States. This position has been described as America’s Top Cop. You naturally want to think of this function as possessing the highest of integrity and being one hundred percent apolitical.
Boy, has the past couple of years been eye opening or what?! The DOJ, FBI, DHS, DNI, DNS and CIA have not only revealed themselves as extremely partisan, they have been going public about it in the most abasing way. Book tours?! Embarrassing, if you ask me. You would think your average ‘G man’ would scrupulously guard their secrecy, personal privacy and be ultra low-key. I know I do. But I digress.
To me, it is as plain as the nose on your face. There has been a lot of political ‘stuff’ going on in our federal law enforcement and “justice” has been kicked to the curb. There is a deep state. A yuge segment of “embedded grifters in the bureaucracy” (hat tip @franco), with friends in the media and political commentariat. And this group absolutely loves their country clubs, cruises and concertos. How dare this intruder disrupt that! Both the G men and the commentariat were united in this resistance.
But, there have been several “dustups” between the supporters of the President of our (this is a right of center website, right?) political party, and those whom resist and stubbornly join the democrats in constantly attacking him, his ancient(?) history and his current tweeting (or whatever). In the dustup over the VDH book The Case For Trump, one of the things that these resistors (can I call them that?) have to do, in order to find ways to shame and stigmatize the so-called “bad actors in the conservative elite”, is to ridicule this belief in an embedded bureaucracy. A deep state if you will. They refuse to acknowledge any of the facts that exist and have been reported upon in depth for the past couple of years which prove this case. They call it a “conspiracy theory” and those who believe conspiracy nuts. Yes, VDH got a laugh out of being called an “elite” by the elite grifters and a nut by the nuts themselves, but he also took on this denial of the entrenched bureaucracy with facts and substance.
Anyhow, as I was saying, I think that it has been factually proven that the DOJ, FBI, DHS, DNI, DNS and CIA are in cahoots with the DNC. And now a story today from Townhall.com by Matt Vespa … Oh, So This Is Why The FBI Couldn’t View The Clinton Foundation Emails …
Now, we have ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page saying that there was an order handed down from the DOJ to the FBI, telling them not to charge Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information on her unauthorized and unsecured server from which she did all of her officials business when she served the Obama administration as secretary of state. And now, there was supposedly a deal between the DOJ and the Clinton camp that prevented the FBI from viewing Clinton Foundation emails (via Washington Examiner):
So, my question is … who at this right of center website can argue that this embedded bureaucracy of grifters doesn’t exist?
Published in General
You didn’t notice the DoJ/FBI rogues’ gallery at the beginning of this posting? They resolved ahead of time that Hillary Clinton would be held innocent of wrongdoing, regardless of the evidence, and then halfheartedly went through the motions of an investigation.
According to the liberal site, Politico.com:
“Driven by massive voter turnout, the 2018 midterm election was both a blue wave and a red wave. It just depended on which map you were looking at.”
Doesn’t sound much like a “massive repudiation“ to me.
I am for 1, far more concerned about the collusion between the FBI and the DNC, than with Russia or China. That is the real threat to freedom, not only do republicans have to run against the DNC, but also dodge FBI wiretaps, and searches.
How bad are the democrats? They had the trump campaign wire tapped, infiltrated with informants, and playing every dirty trick conceivable, with the complete support of the media industrial complex – and still couldnt win the election.
Provide a hyperlink for this pretty astounding assertion.
We lost the overall House vote by 9%, our worst showing since the 1974 Watergate elections! (In 1996, 1998 and 2000, we won the overall House vote by .4-1.3%.) We were slaughtered among women, the educated, the young, and the suburbs.
We have lost some 400 state legislators in only 2 years under Trump.
We lost a half-dozen Governors.
Our only bright side was the U.S. Senate, but that is quite misleading. The Dems had 26 Senate seats to defend, and they lost only 4. We had only 9 Senate seats to defend and we lost 2! In the 2020 cycle, we have many more Senate seats to defend than the Dems. I predict that if Trump is our nominee, we will lose both the Presidency, and the Senate.
In Arizona, for the first time since 1964, the Democrats have a majority of the combined Senators and Representatives, 6-5.
@garyrobbins
Jeremiah 5:21
The thing is that the Bush administrations have done nothing to protect our freedoms. The democrats promise to institute a socialist paradise, free college, free medical care, outrageously expensive minimum wages to buy off their union support, affirmative action times 1000, the Paris Accord with a vengeance, and they’ve promised to pack the court.
Trump is the only one that has attempted to turn back some of this socialism. If he loses, our country and our freedom will be gone forever. There is already precious little of it remaining. Going against Trump at this point guarantees that fate.
How about Psalm 109:8?
Mueller?
Trump.
Matthew 7:1 (I think this could go on for a while.)
You win. That is a good verse for both Severe Trump Skeptics and Ever Trumpers.
Good night.
Eight? Uh, you’re going to need a larger screen graphic for Sally Yates and the rest of the mob.
@taras had written:
@garyrobbins suspiciously demanded:
Provide a hyperlink for this pretty astounding assertion
@taras helpfully replied:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/07/midterm-elections-2018-top-takeaways-970328
The article also points out that Republican gains in the Senate will make it an uphill fight for Democrats in 2020:
“The only Republicans up for reelection in states Hillary Clinton won in 2016 are Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Susan Collins of Maine.”
It’s just bureaucracy and a Left-leaning government society group think. Just look at Brexit for all the exact same sort of craziness over there. “Except for a hard core of about a fifth of Parliament, all the other legislators (are against the their own voters and) are adamantly opposed to Britain leaving the EU without a deal…” — Theodore Dalrymple, March 15, 2019.
I just listened to Bill Bennett’s podcast where a lot of this was discussed. He at least remembers his stories of trying to run the Department of Education. It was mentioned that General John Kelly worked against President Trump to build the wall as Secretary of Homeland Security and as White House Chief of Staff.
But you never realize the Cheka or the Spanish Inquisition are there until it is too late! @viruscop is just too obvious. Maybe it is@jasonrudert?
What do you see? Typical, normal, bad government?
P.S. have you seen The Death Of Stalin?
Rudert!
Morning Gary,
Your thought that somehow only Lois Lerner and the IRS would be corrupt, is odd. The ability to misuse power for personal gain, or for political purposes coupled with an insulation from accountability is an almost irresistible temptation. If one also thinks that one is “protecting” the country, then one becomes a hero while saving the republic, if a few laws must be broken along the way for a greater cause, it is justified, right?
The story at the local level, Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the King Street Patriots, from “The Intimidation Game”, Kim Strassel, 2016, “At the beginning of 2011 the IRS showed up to audit tow years’ worth of business taxes. Over the course of the year, the FBI would contact Engelbrecht six times—four phone calls and two personal visits.”
The FBI would not need six contacts to know whether Catherine was a criminal target. Coincidentally, Engelbrecht was visited twice by AFT, OSHA visited the company and then fined it 25K, the Texas EPA, also visited her company. These visits, including by the FBI were not coincidences, they were as Strassel notes,quoting Ian Fleming, “enemy action”.
The FBI’s relationship with the IRS goes even further, again quoting Strassel, “….a “three-way partnership” between the DOJ, the FEC, and the IRS. Lerner in the meantime also arranged for the IRS to transmit 1.1 million pages of non-profit tax return data to the FBI, so the G-men could start trolling through the database for potential crimes. This was a few days before the 2010 elections. The database contained confidential taxpayer information that is protected by federal law and that justice should never have possessed.”
Again no FBI agent broke and reported these violations.
We have seen corruption in the GSA, VA, EPA, and other agencies since the time of FDR and before, so to be blind to this wide spread and chronic problem of corruption is odd.
From Lisa Page’s testimony, we find out that the FBI was told by the DOJ, that Clinton was to be found innocent, the FBI followed orders and no agent resigned and broke the story. In my lifetime, I am a little older than you, I never have seen so many top agents forced to resign or fired for lying and other corrupt behavior, and the strategic leaking by the intelligence community and state to damage a president are unmatched. If you are the wrong kind of people, too bad, poor Catherine, poor Flynn, if you are the right kind of people, Hillary, and Huma, no problems. That you see these things as trivial but see “Birtherism” as big is too be confused about what are the chronic and important threats to our country.
Share Blue paid shills and other forms of inauthentic behavior is likely.
Bless your heart! You don’t have to like Trump to apply the “lesser of two evils” criterion. But I poo poo the never Trumpers who hate Trump so much, they wouldn’t use the LTTE criterion and vote for him, or worse – they voted for Hillary.
I didn’t look at Trump as the lesser of two evils when I voted for him. I looked at him as an unknown with possibilities, versus a known evil with a high likelihood of finishing the job Obama started, which is to destroy the United States as founded.
There is still a lot of work to do fixing things, but for never-Trumpers to refuse to acknowledge the good things Trump has done and is trying to do is tantamount to supporting the Democrat agenda . . .
Yes the only one, and he’s done exactly what that the Bush administration didn’t do? Apoint judges? Cut taxes, deregulate? Please… I don’t think I can roll my eyes hard enough. At best Trump has accomplished a mediocre standard Republican agenda, despite his own personal incompetence at leading or negotiating. And those accomplishments were achieved with little or no input from him.
Trump isnt the wall standing between Democrat excesses and sanity. Mitch McConnel and John Boehner are and were. Considering all the terrible political precedents Trump is setting with regard to executive overreach, he is probably doing the most of any Republican in guaranteeing that Democrats will run wild when they next get into the White House, which they will do if not in 2020, then probably in 2024.
So I guess by your reckoning we are eventually doomed. Always doomed. How many flights are we going to be on that keep getting hijacked? Maybe we should just stop flying if we always have to storm the cockpit. You have set up for yourself a no win scenario. Therefore you will always be disapointed and displeased.
This is the whole GOP in aggregate since LBJ, really. That’s how Trump even became a possibility. I’ve posted over and over about this.
I don’t buy this, but I could be talked out of it.
Whoa! Where were my manners? I apologize for not starting off with a polite “please.” My bad. It is not my job to order you or anyone around. I apologize for being demanding and rude.
The Politico article was written the day after the election, before the extent of the House massacre was apparent, and it assumed that we had won in Arizona where we lost. The title of the article was “7 takeaways from a wild midterm election.” The Dems won 5 of the 7 points: 1. Suburban Republicans were swept away, 2. How big is the wave? Wait for California [California has slow to count mail-in ballots. We were slaughtered, ended up losing 7 of our 14 House members!], 5. Democrats patched the Blue Wall, But it’s still vulnerable, 6. Women won in record numbers, and 7. Beto didn’t win, but other Texas Democrats did.
Republicans won 2 of the 7 points: 3. Democrats may have lost the Senate until 2022 [The article says that McSally was leading in Arizona, she lost.], and 4. Republicans held some big Governorships [while the Democrats flipped seven Governorships in IL, KS, ME, MI, NV, NM, and WI.]
With all due respect, we were killed in 2018. The results were far worse than were apparent the day after the election. In the House, we lost 40 seats, not just 30 seats. In the Senate we lost 2 (not 1) of the 9 Senate seats we were defending, while the Dems lost only 4 of the 26 Senate seats they were defending. We will be defending a majority of the Senate seats up in 2020 (and 2022).
If you want to write fantasy, I believe there is a group dedicated to it . . .
I agree that agencies like the IRS, OSHA and VA are corrupt. But I don’t see the tentacles of corruption at the FBI and DOJ to the degree that my fellow Ricochetti do. Maybe I have gone on too long on Trump’s Birtherism….
But if I were a Dem shill, why would I fork out the big bucks for a Reagan Membership?
Lying about FISA warrants and setting up innocent citizens to overturn an election. Hillary Clinton completely busted on espionage negligence. All supported by the state controlled media.
So not a deep state just a history of incompetence, lying an bias.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/05/bundy-fbi-misconduct-another-example-why-feds-need-leashed-james-bovard-column/1001603001/
And Collins is only a part-time Republican. Not enough to qualify for benefits.
I didn’t say you, you are a well-meaning earnest garden variety nevertrumper caught in an infowars like bubble of hysterical unreality. Its just likely that they are already posting here, or will be soon. Which I believe is the most fair and assumes the most possible good faith on everybodies part. The inauthentic behavior abounds everywhere though, and there is no way to actually know.
But if you were a paid shill, buying a Reagan membership just enhances the shill, and given Ricochet’s on and off again relationship with actually influential people, sowing mistrust and discord here is a good way to accomplish the stated ends of share blue and other web based misinformation campaigns, Russian agents, and so forth.
Everything that can be faked, will be faked.
I was a lawyer (before retirement) dealing with environmental issues. In the early 1990’s, I had extensive dealings with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection wherein the DEP was attempting to impose very strict cleanup standards for a particular contaminant. Then, to everybody’s surprise, a Republican was elected governor. The Republican administration was not as keen on the proposed standard as the preceding Democratic administration. What happened? The bureaucrats in the DEP simply sat on the proposed standards for years, which frustrated cleanup efforts, until the beastly Republicans were out of office. Then, the DEP promptly introduced the harsher standards and proceeded merrily on its way, having ignored the interval of Republican governance as if it had been an inconvenient roadblock. Deep state? I’ve been aware of it for years. It’s much more powerful than we can conceive.