The Washington Post has a lengthy hit-piece against Kash Patel where they infer unsourced claims the DOJ is investigating the former Nunes aide and Trump administration official for releasing classified information.
Keep in mind that President Trump granted full declassification authority to AG Bill Barr on May 23, 2019. I would draw your attention to these two paragraphs buried deep in the reporting (emphasis mine):
(WaPo) […] The battle against the deep state continued, meanwhile. Patel kept pushing, along with DNI Ratcliffe, for declassification of memos challenging the origins of the Russia investigation. Nakasone [NSA Director] strongly dissented, and Esper [Sec of Defense] backed him up in an October letter to Ratcliffe “urging that the information not be released due to the harm it would do to national security, including specific harm to the military,” a senior defense official said. Haspel [CIA Director], too, strongly opposed release of the information. Their argument for protecting sensitive information was finally supported by Attorney General William P. Barr, and Trump backed away, a source close to the events said.
“I think there were people within the IC [Intelligence Community], at the heads of certain intelligence agencies, who did not want their tradecraft called out, even though it was during a former administration, because it doesn’t look good on the agency itself,” Patel said in the RealClearInvestigations interview. (read more)
It is tradition the NSA and CIA run to the Washington Post when they need a media PR firm to push their position. So this article makes sense considering the NSA and CIA both had something to hide within the criminal activity behind Spygate. [Maybe the timing has to do with recent information about the Durham probe.]
Regardless of what has initiated the need for the intelligence apparatus to turn attention toward Kash Patel I think we all understand exactly what is described inside the paragraphs; the stuff the IC couldn’t deal with…. the institutional damage they feared….. and ultimately the reason Bondo Barr went along with their need to keep it all hidden.
The NSA database was illegally being exploited by FBI “contractors” (likely Crowdstrike), and political opposition against Trump was being extracted and shared with the ideologically aligned Clinton group. After NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers shut down their access, the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane to overcome the legal hurdle, and surveillance operations began again.
What the intelligence community fears is the American public knowing there is a process of using bulk metadata gathering of electronic communication for operations against politicians, political interest groups, and any entity deemed adverse to the interests of the leftist administration.
Such an admission would lead to an unrecoverable collapse in institutional integrity. That is why the entire IC apparatus aligned against the declassification.
Robert Mueller had two goals as special counsel. Goal #1 was to continue the fraudulent DOJ/FBI “Stop Trump” operation initiated by James Comey, Andrew McCabe and their crew technically named Crossfire Hurricane. Goal #2 was to bury the illegal action; to create the cover-up needed for everything that took place in the “Stop Trump” operation.
It is the second goal that most people never reconciled; however, it is also that second goal that’s the most important. Everyone in DC knew Mueller’s objective. Every person in every branch of government and every federal agency knew Mueller’s real purpose.
When you accept what Mueller’s objective was, I mean really accept it, then and only then can you move to the second part of that awakening. Everyone else knew exactly what that purpose was, including AG Bill Barr and OIG Michael Horowitz. They all knew.
Everything was essentially a process of systemic contingencies; ‘if this, then that’. If this happens then we react with that. If this is likely to come out, then we proactively respond with this – that allows control. That is the nature of a cover-up operation.
From that baseline it becomes an exercise in intellectual honesty to see the bigger picture.
The entire system was united against the ‘outsider’ that Trump represented. Every action taken by Rosenstein, Barr, Wray, Bowditch, Boente, Horowitz and the special counsel team itself was done purposefully, because they knew the Mueller/Weissmann objective was to cover-up all of the unlawful schemes previously used against Trump.
Generally people accept that Mueller Inc was in place to target Trump. However, the lesser admitted reality is that Mueller was in place to cover for the branches, agencies and institutions that were part of the originating targeting.
All leaks to the media, by any entity – including the special counsel, were purposeful with this goal in mind. All information released was done purposefully with this goal in mind. All action taken by those in support of the Mueller unit were taken with full knowledge of what that second goal and intent was.
No-one was ever unaware of the purpose of Robert Mueller.
Everyone knew.
That list of everyone includes: Bill Barr, Rod Rosenstein, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson, Chuck Grassley, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, Loretta Lynch, Mitch McConnell, every member of the Senate intel committee; every member of the House intel committee… and yes, including John Durham and every member of every DOJ office everywhere.
The legislative branch knew. The judicial branch knew. The executive branch knew. The FISA court knew… All of the insiders knew the Mueller probe was one big vacuum to suck up all of the evidence that would have exposed a corrupt system to We The People.
They did all of this because the scale of the originating scandal was so severe it would be almost impossible for our nation to cope with the consequences. That fearful knowledge is also what’s behind the reality we are currently seeing with thousands of National Guard troops guarding Washington DC…. just in case. Another systemic contingency.
On TV some voices railed against goal #1, the investigation itself; however, no-one ever publicly talked about goal #2, the cover-up. Yet they all knew it.
Bill Barr knew the cover-up operation when he repeatedly praised Robert Mueller. So too did Lindsey Graham and all of the other voices in/around the DC system.
This is why all of those characters acted with disregard for any information that surfaced. They were all participants; and they knew the system would protect itself from sunlight.
Once you begin to accept this uncomfortable truth, then you start to realize just how far some voices went to keep the pantomime going. Everything was orchestrated to keep everyone focused on the “injustice” within the details.
Think about the last four years, systemic contingencies everywhere. No-one ever publicly talked about what Mueller was really in charge of doing in the goal of protecting the institutions and systems within them. The people inside that system all knew that Mueller was their protector. Mueller was protecting very corrupt people.
Everything now visible, the blatant disregard and the ‘in-your-face’ approach with the JoeBama administration, is downstream from that origination point. That’s why they all walk around as if they do not care…. because they have nothing to worry about.
Start from the position that everyone knew the purpose and intents of Robert Mueller, including people very close to President Trump, and then you start to realize just how brutally corrupt this DC system is. President Trump was satiated by people who knew Robert Mueller was protecting all of those who tried, and failed, to keep him out of office and then hamstring him once he entered the system.
Everyone knew.
No one did not know.
The only difference is… some were active participants, and some -out of fear- just sat silent to the cover-up operation. That reality is why the FISA court did not react to Kevin Clinesmith aggressively.
Everyone knew… And they could not let Trump win reelection. [Tweets, May 23, 2019]
Remember all those leaks that informed us the reports regarding spygate would be released any day now? Yeah, they were lying. I’m be interested to know who Greg Jarrett’s (and others who were following things closely) contacts were that were feeding him such a line of b.s. It was all a cover up. Bill Barr was brought in as “clean-up” guy.
Yes he was—-but not to ‘clean’ up the mess, but to ‘clean’ up the Exposure.
Agreed. I still want to know WHY the Trumpster hired anyone associated with the bush crime family.
He, not being a politician, delegated the wrong people. He was surely stabbed in the back, with Sessions, and Pence. Politics is a very Dirty business, as we have now seen. Washington D.C. has always been a swamp, literally, and figuratively, and never will change until the “animals” that are considered “more equal” than the other animals are dispersed to pastures where they can be more closely shepherded. Read “Animal Farm”.
Bill Barr should be punished for his conspiracy to obstruct justice. Mueller, Weissmann, tons of others too.
I’m really surprised people are not calling for half of DC to be adorning lampposts.
Everybody knows what happened except people that don’t want to know. The media lies are no longer believed by most.
I surely hope President Trump now sees that cutting people a break, (“HRC has suffered enough”) is not a plausible option in the Washington DC swamp.
There is a reason stakes are driven through the heart of vampires in movies–if you don’t, you’ll die horribly.
When Trump is back in the White House, he needs to do a General Sherman scorched earth march, followed by a Roman Salt-the-Earth policy to prohibit any deep state recovery.
Hundreds, or even thousands, need to be fired and thrown into jail. Hopefully, a new YUGE majority in 2022/2024 Congress will help pry our Republic away from the globalist totalitarians trying to oppress the USA and conquer the world.
I’ll tell you what I really tried to do in Deliverance. My story is simple: there are bad people, there are monsters among us. Deliverance is really a novel about how decent men kill, and the fact that they get away with it raises a lot of questions about staying within the law—whether decent people have the right to go outside the law when they’re encountering human monsters. I wrote Deliverance as a story where under the conditions of extreme violence people find out things about themselves that they would have no other means of knowing. The late John Berryman, who was a dear friend of mine, said that it bothered him more than anything else that a man could live in this culture all his life without knowing whether he’s a coward or not. I think it’s necessary to know. ~ Jamed Dickey, 1976, interview in The Paris Review
Did you know Dickey was another Biden and Brian Williams—he was a fabricator of his life,told even his kids a bunch of made-up stories. There is a fascinating biography of him and a book by his son as well.
Writers admittingly lie in order to embellish their narrative. Case in point would be a best selling author, Ernest Hemingway. He so as much admitted to lying on a regular basis.
Look up Charles Mackay’s No Enemies Poem.
You Have No Enemies
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the fight
I get a different sense. I get the sense that this rapidly falling apart for the “progressives”. Everyone DOES KNOW. It is not the crime but the coverup that gets you.
The “left” seems to be wildly flailing with no real direction or idea of what the heck they are doing. Now with Biden/Harris are in charge it is just a massive and total cluster fark. It is theater of the absurd. Nobody, on any side of the aisle, has that feeling that “the people in charge know what they are doing”. It is gone. Kaput. The economy, the border, the hoxes, the lies, the fraud.
Last week I swear I felt a collective cry of foreboding from millions of karens on the left. A feeling like one might have when your once perfect marriage has some troubling signs and then one afternoon you see your spouse laughing and flirting with a attrative co-worker over lunch. The slow and horrible realization that all that was is no longer and the future is in doubt.
All the news flooding out in the last few weeks is like a dam bursting. The exposing of the Russia Hoax, COVID fear and fraud, Russia moving on the Ukraine, China moving on Tiwan, massive human trafficking with billions gifted to the aliens and pennies for Americans, children in cages rented for sex trafficking, obvious massive election fraud, the FBI hunting Americans and ignoring terrorists, children denied school, BLM burning Portland..etc., etc., etc. X 1000.
The liberals who so stood proudly with their global masters, gleefully mocking the misfortune directed at dirty Deplorables, can’t shake that sinking feeling that the fire they flamed are out of control and headed for…THEM.
America with Biden/Harris at the helm is such a mess that it is not even as a major player anymore. It’s like a bunch of yahoos calling out a drug cartel. China and Russia and the other ruthless players are now eyeing the spoils of Western Civilization. But the multinational globalists’ power is only as good as their ability to control the systems of global governance and business and keep them all on the same page. Impossible now! The equally ruthless nation-states from all over the globe will soon be at each others throats. It’s like the game of Risk, once you get much of the board, your friends turn on you, and plot against you to save themselves from being kicked out of the game. The truces made only last until your friends see greater potential for themselves elsewhere.
I don’t know where this is going. It doesn’t look good. I’m optimistic that there is still time for something unexpected to happen that will change the current trajectory. Perhaps, like Moses God will save us.
But my point of this post is that what I see the left in a complete and total panic mode; a flailing monster who is very dangerous, but has too much coming at it at once from too many directions to survive.
So polish your crystal ball, and tell us what event (because history tells us there is always a single one) will bring down these charlatans’ house of mirrors? What will be the Sarajevo … the December 7th … the 30 pieces of silver?
If there will be such an event, it’s an event that no one is predicting. If the event was predictable, it wouldn’t be THE event that catches them by surprise.
I have something that I want to relay to you guys in the US. I’m an Aussie and a few days ago out of pure coincidence I went to buy a small fridge from the classifieds. Turns out the bloke selling it is a former state politician here selling up and moving back to Texas where his wife is from. We got chatting about the situation in the US. He travels to and from and has done for many years. He told me straight up, don’t get too dejected. There are many things happening behind the scenes that we don’t know about. He is connected to some very high ranking US political players and he said they are giving Biden/Harris enough rope to hang themselves and it’s not too far away. Apart from what we already know as there are many more things going on. One thing that has stuck with me is he straight up said that there’s every likelihood that Trump will be reinstated as POTUS by years end. I know that sounds far fetched but as the conversation went on, it turned out that we’ve known each other for 25 years when him and his wife used to house sit for my parents and way back then he was always upfront and honest. I really want to believe what he said so time will tell.
The fear of the stolen election being overturned and President Trump retaking his rightful place as President certainly clarifies why the dims desperately want the National Guard to remain in DC to cover their sorry butts. There doesn’t seem to be any other logical justification for them.
This is just more Q “trust the plan” BS. The whole Q idiocy was nothing more than a false flag to FUD patriots into doing nothing when they should have been doing something, because “somebody else is doing it for you, and it’s all being taken care of.” Fool me twice, suckers. If you need something done right, who ya gonna call? Not somebody else, for d*n sure.
Don’t shoot the messenger. I’m just passing on what I was told. He’s in no way connected to any Q stuff. He is actually a Christian minister along with his Texan father in law. I have no reason to doubt him but as I stated it sounded far fetched but time will tell.
All I will post now is : Devolution.
Do your research.
This is NOT Q…I don’t even know what Q means or is other than a letter in the alphabet…so don’t fall for that BS.
Remember: Devolution.
Also remember: PDJT after he “LOST” the election: “The Best is Yet to Come”.
He is NOT done.
Make of it what you will…
I will continue to hope that it is true. I remember early on someone on this site posted the rope-a-dope boxing match (sorry don’t remember boxer’s names) as an analogy for Trump. Being a casino owner and having had to work with the mob in NYC to build, I thought it an apt analogy.
String them along, let them think they are winning and then wipe the floor with them. If by chance Trump pulls it off, it will remain in the history books 4-EVA!!
I know it’s hope. Hope and a prayer is all I got.
For some reason, I remain optimistic that we will prevail, and before the 2022 election, and without (much) violence.
Let’s hold that vision in our hearts! The “how” isn’t up to us, but I’m sending lots of prayers toward the election audit outcomes.
Sticking Barr in as AG was the worst decision Trump ever made. Barr’s name had to come from Miz Lindsey and/or McConnell–the 2 biggest lying snakes in the Senate. He was just a fat ass all-you-can-eat buffet Bush bag man brought in to clean up any leftover messes and make sure the establishment was protected by blocking everything. And more importantly that nothing would come out against Barry (who’s now running the WH). Every time I saw him I thought of Ruby Ridge and my blood pressure would go up. Leopards don’t change their spots, and neither do RINOs.
I’m still annoyed we never got those promised documents.
Sundance wrote this for a good reason:
“Start from the position that everyone knew the purpose and intents of Robert Mueller, including people very close to President Trump, and then you start to realize just how brutally corrupt this DC system is. President Trump was satiated by people who knew Robert Mueller was protecting all of those who tried, and failed, to keep him out of office and then hamstring him once he entered the system.”
It wasn’t just Mueller who was covering up….it was everyone who President Trump was allowed (by McConnell) to appoint and be passed by the totally corrupt Senate.
I see no constructive purpose in continuing to criticizing President Trump for his appointments when we know he was misled, lied to, and prevented from appointing qualified outsiders that he wanted but who were not already compromised by and under the control of the Establishment / Deep State.
I guess what bothers me the most is NOTHING happens to Dems, only republicans are arrested. Why?
Absolutely!! I have said it a hundred times…Barr is deep state.
Yes, we remember Ruby Ridge, and especially Waco.
This is why I will never complain about President Trump and even though SD did a full article that he wouldn’t, and fully explained why, this article continues to emphasize why anyone who has a half brain and claims to be a patriot, MAGA-America First-Trump supporter would never complain about President Trump.
Yet, still, we have commentors continuing to complain.
My only comment when they do is “Whiners aren’t warriors”.
Always a President Trump supporter!
Triple Amen!
count me in!!
It’s the Chamber of Commerce guy!
Very true, very depressing. A small part of me – which I outwardly denied – was clinging to the hope Durham would come good. Just my hopeful naivety refusing to die…
Most of us were hoping the same. Some held out longer than others but that’s normal. Independent thinkers tend to think differently… Eventually we all pretty much arrive at the same conclusion.
All I found at the end of my rope was a ‘frayed knot’. I spent this month reviewing Lowered Expectations.
I fear that a large part of the visible “conservative” media is in on the game as well. It has been a huge moneymaker having the same old GOP rhino on your TV and radio show year after year. A lot of sound and fury…
I don’t see the right media breaking it down this simply, naming the names, and broadcasting it out to the masses. They just want to start a food fight like Jim Jordan did with Fauci the other day. Great entertainment but little substance.
With that being said I am sure the new book coming out from Breitbart will expose everything and indictments will soon follow.
I buy the “everybody knew” yet I have a hard time understanding how “everybody” is content to watch the LEFT destroy the country while their demented puppet and his handlers play ball with tech and our enemies.
Can you tell me if the people whose grandchildren will be the citizens of this country are content to let this happen?
As for Potus 45 relenting, eventually.
He did the wrong thing.
So what if CIA agents are compromised if the world knew the truth. They can quit, go incognito, get lost.
I owe them noting, no loyalty at all if what they’ve let me and mine inherit is rigged so that my VOTE NEVER COUNTS.
Eff them.
Those who are content to let the Left destroy the country are in large part the ones who quite ignorantly believe the Left will never come for them or their assets.
GB Bari, IMHO you are 100+% correct.
There IS NO INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY.
Are the same folks who wished to maintain “institutional integrity” okay with SCOTUS packing?
This is heart-breaking. God, please protect Kash Patel from these vipers. He’s a great patriot — pray for his protection.
I believe the headline should read “Buried Lede.”
“Lede” and “lead” are interchangeable; although, the former is more “proper” inside newsrooms among newsmen; and, the latter is the more sensible otherwise.
Click the following link for the story as to why: Bury the Lede or Bury the Lead: Which is Right? | Merriam-Webster (merriam-webster.com)
Not only that jesse, I think that dogsmaw needed the ‘lead’ instead of the ‘lede’ for understanding 😛
Barr also intervened to prevent investigation of Hunter Biden foreign financial ties.
Sundance, I really love you !!!!! ?
Thank you –again for teaching……. informing….. leading.
~You are steadfast,
God keep you ❣
This article is excellent and insightful but do any other Conservative sites or politicians ever discuss or expose the specific points highlighted by sundance? I can’t recall any but I might have missed them.
I doubt anyone can convincingly argue against SD’s 2 main assertions that “Robert Mueller had two goals as special counsel:”
“Goal #1 was to continue the fraudulent DOJ/FBI “Stop Trump” operation initiated by James Comey, Andrew McCabe and their crew technically named Crossfire Hurricane.”
“Goal #2 was to bury the illegal action; to create the cover-up needed for everything that took place in the “Stop Trump” operation.”
Hi Sundance, I admire your work and take your stories to my site. I’m curious why you would use the WAPO as your source which is owned by Jeff Bezos. WPO is ranked up there with the New York Time as two vehicles that would be best used as bird cage liners or to wrap dead fish. Not dissing you in anyway. Thanks for the great news you provide. I’m going to see if I can find a more credible source. Jim
“The Washington Post has a lengthy hit-piece against Kash Patel where they infer unsourced claims the DOJ is investigating the former Nunes aide and Trump administration official for releasing classified information.” -Sundance
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>Miss that?
the word is seething. no other word can describe how stinking angry i am right now after reading this.if every other Trump supporter would get this angry they have good reason to keep up the wire fencing in DC.
Shouldn’t we boycott all woke businesses backing the evil empire? I need a complete list.
Part 2 in the WaPo today- story about the sidelining if a last minute Trump General Counsel to NSA. Gotta make it REAL clear that NSA is on the super up and up and that guy had an IG investigation going on y’know!
I wish I had a dime for every time I told people that Barr was a joke, and they told me to just give him more time. Don’t think that the Left has the stupid market cornered. Many on the Right give them a run for their money.
That should have been our first hint that AG Barr was not to be trusted, as he definitely proved later. History will show that he did very little to punish those who corrupted the FBI, and CIA and used fraud to attack a duly elected President and those around him. He will go down in history as a traitor to those who trusted him to right the wrongs and bring law and order back to Washington DC. He joined the dark side, and thumbed his nose at justice and the American people.
In the interest of national (uniparty) security (crimes), it’s not good enough to get away with it, let’s find some innocents to punish !
From Politico:
Blinken says of Afghanistan drawdown: ‘The terrorism threat has moved’
“The terrorism threat has moved to other places,” he added. “And we have other very important items on our agenda, including the relationship with China, including dealing with everything from climate change to Covid. And that’s where we have to focus our energy and resources.”
In other words, ordinary Americans are the new terrorist threat.
In other good news, “China agrees to cooperate with the US on climate change”
Meaning American freedoms and businesses will be bound in straight jackets and China will sign accords and then ignore them to their advantage.
Senate Candidate Dr. Shiva is calling Trump out for becoming/cooperating with the swamp.
They’d have been 100% successful in removing him from office.