Never-Trumper Ed Morrissey, via Instapundit;
Over the weekend, I spoke with a senior Trump administration official with access to intelligence regarding the significance of the Sussmann indictment. He pointed to House Intelligence Committee transcripts declassified in a fight between the White House and Adam Schiff last year. Pay attention to those transcripts, the former official advised, because those made it clear that the FBI knew the Alfa Bank theory was nonsense — but used it to push forward nonetheless on the Russia-collusion theory. That was one reason Schiff tried to stop declassification of the transcripts, and those are the reason that Durham could get the grand jury indictment on Sussmann at all. Some of the agents that worked with Sussmann remain in the bureau, he also said, and that will go to McCarthy’s larger point about the “deep state” and the effort to push Trump out of office. There may also be a broader scope involving former officials in the Obama administration regarding politicization of intelligence, a few of whom have returned in the Biden administration — notably in the State Department. Stay tuned.
Clearly, more is happening than a mop-up for Durham.
More: Jonathan Turley thinks one person in the White House should be very, very worried.
Another good summary by Glenn Greenwald here.
The lie that Sussman allegedly told the FBI occurred in the context of his mid-2016 attempt to spread a completely fictitious story: that there was a “secret server” discovered by unnamed internet experts that allowed the Trump organization to communicate with Russia-based Alfa Bank. In the context of the 2016 election, in which the Clinton campaign had elevated Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin to center stage, this secret communication channel was peddled by Sussman — both to the FBI and to Clinton-friendly journalists — as smoking-gun proof of nefarious activities between Trump and the Russians. Less than two months prior to the 2016 election, Sussman secured a meeting at the FBI’s headquarters with the Bureau’s top lawyer, James Baker, and provided him data which he claimed proved this communication channel.
It was in the course of trying to lure the FBI into investigating this scam conspiracy theory when Sussman allegedly lied to Baker, by concealing the fact — outright denying — that he was peddling the story in his role as lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign as well as a lawyer for a “tech executive” hoping to be appointed as the top cybersecurity official in the soon-to-be-inaugurated Clinton administration. Sussman’s claims that he was just acting as a concerned private citizen were negated by numerous documents obtained by Durham’s investigation, including billing records where he charged the Clinton campaign for his work in trying to disseminate this story, including his meeting with Baker at FBI’s headquarters.
Related: The FBI’s Incurable Rot
A couple sacrificial lambs (extremely well compensated) … and the entire dirty Deep State apparatus lives to thwart Trump 2024
Obviously you CAN pile shit that high!
Some photo ID-ing
“Well, well, well… FBI agents identified from gay pride parade photographs?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/09/well-well-well-fbi-agents-identified.html
And in comments “The Gaystapo”
If the Obama tribe can use this against the Clinton gang, it will go on. Otherwise, yada yada yada
The works of these low life bottom feeders are the same as of national socialist, communists and fascists.
The rot is so bad that it directly attacks and undermines democracy where the expected result is more control.
The South American regimes of the past and present have nothing on these low lifers, they are supremely qualified for the totalitarian dictatorship. They will most probably succeed.
So much for the rule of law.
Watch the bottom feeders spin it any which way. When they talk there is always a space left for way out of what they said. Their talk is so relative and tentative that it can mean anything or nothing.
Guess, that is what they teach them at the H’ward Law School.
As for rule of law, what a clever phrase.
The law is made by those that rule, not the common agreement of people by the way of legislature.
The American constitution was written assuming common decency of those that represented people in congress. Today, that assumption is completely eliminated. Corruption is so common that its not even commented on.
Sussman was a known Clinton and Mark Elias crony. He should have been dismissed as a partisan propagandist at the outset.
What an incurious lot Comey, McCabe, Yates (and many others) were, now knowing of this association.
Actually, they were all in on it from the start. How is any other conclusion plausible or even possible.
That they got away with and in doing so put a big hurt on the American body politic, outright liars winning the argument, is sad.
Progressivism. Taxation. Inflation. War. Do it all over again with a reverse big bang, the apparatchiks ensconced in prosperity.
Sheep usually have to be herded into pens. Sheeple sprint there, demanding shearing and slaughtering, in fear of hobgoblins.
And the lies keep surfacing from the swamp.
The fact that dirtbag Schiff isn’t already in jail for the rest of his miserable life tells you everything you need to know about the US “justice” system.