Read this as many times as needed to contemplate the nature of our problem.
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing Congress [the Gang of Eight]. When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance of Comey was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
This event, and everything in the background as outlined within the James Comey admission, factually happened. It is on the record, admitted and nothing about the reality of what took place is subject to conjecture or refute.
Yet somehow, we, specifically our Congress, just moved on as if what FBI Director James Comey outlined and admitted wasn’t a total usurpation of the U.S. Constitution and a collapse in the structure of our coequal branches of government.
We cannot fight our way through the issues until we first realize what lies at the root of the problem.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.
This point is where many people understandably get confused.
Elevator Speech:
(1) The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus, instructed by Vice President Dick Cheney, was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
After 9/11/01, the electronic surveillance system that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad was retooled to monitor threats inside our country. That is when all of our electronic ‘metadata’ came under federal surveillance.
That inflection point, and the process that followed, was exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their political opposition became the target of this new national security system.
The problems we face now as a country are directly an outcome of two very distinct points that were merged by Barack Obama. (1) The post 9/11 monitoring of electronic communication of American citizens; and (2) Obama’s team creating a fine-tuning knob that it focused on the politics of the targets. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. The Department of Homeland Security came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was formed.
When President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Dept of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus – a domestic surveillance state. However, this new construct would have a targeting mechanism based on political ideology.
The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.
We were not sleeping when this happened, we were wide awake. However, we were stunningly distracted by the economic collapse that was taking place in 2006 and 2007 when the engineers behind Obama started to assemble the design. By the time Obama took office in 2009, we sensed something profound was shifting, but we can only see exactly what shifted in the aftermath. The four pillars were put into place, and a new Fourth Branch of Government was quietly created.
As time passed, and the system operators became familiar with their new tools, technology allowed the tentacles of the system to reach out and touch us. That is when we first started to notice that something very disconcerting was happening. Those four pillars are the root of it, and if we take the time to understand how the Fourth Branch originated, questions about this current state of perpetual angst will start to make sense.
If we take the modern construct, originating at the speed of technological change, we can also see how the oversight or “check/balance” in our system of government became functionally obsolescent.
After many years of granular research about the intelligence apparatus inside our government, in the summer of 2020 I visited Washington DC to ask specific questions. My goal was to go where the influence agents within government actually operate, and to discover the people deep inside the institutions no one elected, and few people pay attention to.
It was during this process when I discovered how information is purposefully put into containment silos; essentially a formal process to block the flow of information between agencies and between the original branches. While frustrating to discover, the silo effect was important because understanding the communication between networks leads to our ability to reconcile conflict between what we perceive and what’s actually taking place.
After days of research and meetings in DC during 2020; amid a town that was serendipitously shut down due to COVID-19; I found a letter slid under the door of my room in a nearly empty hotel with an introduction of sorts. The subsequent discussions were perhaps the most important. After many hours of specific questions and answers on specific examples, I realized why our nation is in this mess. That is when I discovered the fourth and superseding branch of government, the Intelligence Branch.
The Intelligence Branch is an independent functioning branch of government, it is no longer a subsidiary set of agencies within the Executive Branch as most would think. To understand the Intelligence Branch, we need to drop the elementary school civics class lessons about three coequal branches of government and replace that outlook with the modern system that created itself.
The Intelligence Branch functions much like the State Dept, through a unique set of public-private partnerships that support it. Big Tech industry collaboration with intelligence operatives [Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Twitter, etc] is part of that functioning, almost like NGOs. However, the process is much more important than most think. In this problematic perspective of a corrupt system of government, the process is the flaw – not the outcome.
There are people making decisions inside this little known, unregulated and out-of-control branch of government that impact every facet of our lives.
None of the people operating deep inside the Intelligence Branch were elected; and our elected representative House members genuinely do not know how the system works. I assert this position affirmatively because I have talked to House and Senate staffers, including the chiefs of staff for multiple House & Senate committee seats. They are not malicious people; however, they are genuinely clueless of things that happen outside their silo. That is part of the purpose of me explaining it, with examples, in full detail with sunlight.
We begin….
In April of 2016, the FBI launched a counterintelligence operation against presidential candidate Donald Trump. The questioning about that operation is what New York Representative Elise Stefanik cites in March of 2017, approximately 11 months later (First Two Minutes).
Things to note:
♦ Notice how FBI Director James Comey just matter-of-factly explains no one outside the DOJ was informed about the FBI operation. Why? Because that’s just the way things are done. His justification for unilateral operations was “because of the sensitivity of the matter“, totally ignoring any constitutional or regulatory framework for oversight; because, well, quite simply, there isn’t any. The intelligence apparatus inside the DOJ/FBI can, and does, operate based on their own independent determinations of authority.
♦ Notice also how FBI Director Comey shares his perspective that informing the National Security Council (NSC) is the equivalent of notifying the White House. The FBI leadership expressly believe they bear no responsibility to brief the Chief Executive. As long as they tell some unknown, unelected, bureaucratic entity inside the NSC, their unwritten responsibility to inform the top of their institutional silo is complete. If the IC wants to carve out the Oval Office, they simply plant information inside the NSC and, from their perspective, their civic responsibility to follow checks-and-balances is complete. This is an intentional construct.
♦ Notice how Comey obfuscates notification to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), by avoiding the fact James Clapper was the DNI from outset of the counterintelligence operation throughout the remainder of Obama’s term. When I get deeper into the process, we will understand how the Intelligence Branch has intentionally used the creation of the DNI position (established post 9/11/01) as a method to avoid oversight, not enhance it. Keeping an oblivious doofus like James Clapper in position held strategic value [Doofus Reminder HERE].
That video of James Comey being questioned by Elise Stefanik was the first example given to me by someone who knew the background of everything that was taking place preceding that March 20, 2017, hearing. That FBI reference point is a key to understand how the Intelligence Branch operates with unilateral authority above Congress (legislative branch), above the White House (executive branch), and even above the court system (judicial branch).
Also, watch this short video of James Clapper, because it is likely many readers have forgotten, and likely even more readers have never seen it. Watch closely how then White House national security adviser John Brennan is responding in that video. This is before Brennan became CIA Director, this is when Brennan was helping Barack Obama put the pillars into place. WATCH:
[Sidebar: Every time I post this video it gets scrubbed from YouTube (example), so save it if you ever want to see it again.]
The video of James Clapper highlights how the ODNI position (created with good national security intention) ended up becoming the fulcrum for modern weaponization, and is now an office manipulated by agencies with a vested interest in retaining power. The Intelligence Branch holds power over the ODNI through their influence and partnership with the body that authorizes the power within it, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Factually, the modern intelligence apparatus uses checks and balances in their favor. The checks create silos of proprietary information, classified information, vaults of information that work around oversight issues. The silos, which include the exploitation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court, or FISC) are part of the problem.
Ironically, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was created in the aftermath of 9/11/01 expressly to eliminate the silos of information which they felt led to a domestic terrorist attack that could have been prevented. The ODNI was created specifically upon the recommendation of the 9/11 commission.
The intent was to create a central hub of intelligence information, inside the Executive Branch, where the CIA, NSA, DoD, DoS, and DIA could deposit their unique intelligence products and a repository would be created so that domestic intelligence operations, like the DOJ and FBI could access them when needed to analyze threats to the U.S. This, they hoped, would ensure the obvious flags missed in the 9/11 attacks would not be missed again.
However, the creation of the DNI office also created an unconstitutional surveillance system of the American people. The DNI office became the tool to take massive amounts of data and use it to target specific Americans. Weaponizing the DNI office for political targeting is now the purpose of the DNI office as it exists.
The illegal and unlawful nature of the surveillance creates a need for careful protection amid the group who operate in the shadows of electronic information and domestic surveillance. You will see how it was critical to install a person uniquely skilled in being an idiot, James Clapper, into that willfully blind role while intelligence operatives worked around the office to assemble the Intelligence Branch of Government.
• The last federal budget that flowed through the traditional budgetary process was signed into law in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008 by George W. Bush. Every budget since then has been a fragmented process of continuing resolutions and individual spending bills.
Why does this matter? Because many people think defunding the Intelligence Community is a solution; it is not…. at least, not yet. Worse yet, the corrupt divisions deep inside the U.S. intelligence system can now fund themselves from multinational private sector partnerships (banks, corporations and foreign entities).
• When Democrats took over the House of Representatives in January 2007, they took office with a plan. Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and Democrats controlled the Senate where Harry Reid was Majority Leader. Barack Obama was a junior senator from Illinois.
Pelosi and Reid intentionally did not advance a budget in 2008 (for fiscal year 2009) because their plan included installing Barack Obama (and all that came with him) with an open checkbook made even more lucrative by a worsening financial crisis and a process called baseline budgeting. Baseline budgeting means the prior fiscal year budget is accepted as the starting point for the next year budget. All previous expenditures are baked into the cake within baseline budgeting.
Massive bailouts preceded Obama’s installation due to U.S. economic collapse, and massive bailouts continued after his installation. This is the ‘never let a crisis go to waste’ aspect. TARP (Troubled Asset Recovery Program), auto bailouts (GM), and the massive stimulus spending bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ie. those shovel ready jobs) were all part of the non-budget spending. The federal reserve assisted with Quantitative Easing (QE1 and QE2) as congress passed various Porkulous spending bills further spending and replacing the formal budget process.
Note: There has never been a budget passed in the normal/traditional process since September of 2007.
• While Obama’s radical ‘transformation‘ was triggered across a broad range of government institutions, simultaneously spending on the U.S. military was cut, but spending on the intelligence apparatus expanded. We were all distracted by Obamacare, and the Republican Party wanted to keep us that way. However, in the background there was a process of transformation taking place that included very specific action by Eric Holder and targeted effort toward the newest executive agency the ODNI.
The people behind Obama, those same people now behind Joe Biden, knew from years of strategic planning that ‘radical transformation’ would require control over specific elements inside the U.S. government. Eric Holder played a key role in his position as U.S. Attorney General in the DOJ.
AG Holder recruited ideologically aligned political operatives who were aware of the larger institutional objectives. One of those objectives was weaponizing the DOJ-National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) a division inside the DOJ that had no inspector general oversight. For most people the DOJ-NSD weaponization surfaced with a hindsight awakening of the DOJ-NSD targeting candidate Donald Trump many years later. However, by then the Holder crew had executed almost eight full years of background work.
• The second larger Obama/Holder objective was control over the FBI. Why was that important? Because the FBI does the domestic investigative work on anyone who needs or holds a security clearance. The removal of security clearances could be used as a filter to further build the internal ideological army they were assembling. Additionally, with new power in the ODNI created as a downstream consequence of the Patriot Act, new protocols for U.S. security clearances were easy to justify.
Carefully selecting fellow ideological travelers was facilitated by this filtration within the security clearance process. How does that issue later manifest? Just look around at how politicized every intelligence agency has become, specifically including the FBI.
• At the exact same time this new background security clearance process was ongoing, again everyone distracted by the fight over Obamacare, inside the Department of State (Secretary Hillary Clinton) a political alignment making room for the next phase was being assembled. Names like Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton were familiar on television while Lisa Monaco worked as a legal liaison between the Obama White House and Clinton State Department.
Through the Dept of State (DoS) the intelligence apparatus began working on their first steps to align Big Tech with a larger domestic institutional objective. Those of you who remember the “Arab Spring”, some say “Islamist Spring”, will remember it was triggered by Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo – his first foreign trip. The State Department worked with grassroots organizers (mostly Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar and Libya. Obama leaned heavily on the organizational network of Turkish President Recep Erdogan for contacts and support.
Why does this aspect matter to us? Well, you might remember how much effort the Obama administration put into recruiting Facebook and Twitter as resources for the various mideast rebellions the White House and DoS supported. This was the point of modern merge between the U.S. intelligence community and Big Tech social media.
In many ways, the coordinated political outcomes in Libya and Egypt were the beta test for the coordinated domestic political outcomes we saw in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community working with social media platforms and political operatives.
Overlaying all of that background activity was also a new alignment of the Obama-era intelligence apparatus with ideological federal “contractors“. Where does this contractor activity manifest? In the FISA Court opinion of Rosemary Collyer who cited the “interagency memorandum of understanding”, or MOU.
Hopefully, you can see a small part of how tentacled the system to organize/weaponize the intelligence apparatus was. None of this was accidental, all of this was by design, and the United States Senate was responsible for intentionally allowing most of this to take place. The tools the government used to monitor threats were now being used to monitor every American. WE THE PEOPLE were now the threat the national security system was monitoring.
That’s the 30,000/ft level backdrop history of what was happening as the modern IC was created. Next, we will go into how all these various intelligence networks began working in unison and how they currently control all of the other DC institutions under them; including how they can carve out the President from knowing their activity.
♦ When Barack Obama was installed in January 2009, the Democrats held a 60-seat majority in the U.S. Senate. As the people behind the Obama installation began executing their longer-term plan, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was a tool to create the Intelligence Branch; it was not an unintentional series of events.
When Obama was installed, Dianne Feinstein was the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and Democrat operative Dan Jones was her lead staffer. Feinstein was completely controlled by those around her including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The CIA was in the process of turning over personnel following the Bush era, and as a result of a massive multi-year narrative of diminished credibility (Iraq WMD), a deep purge was underway. Obama/Holder were in the process of shifting intelligence alignment and the intensely political Democrat Leader Harry Reid was a key participant.
THE TRAP – Many people say that Congress is the solution to eliminating the Fourth and superseding Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. This is an exercise in futility because the Legislative Branch, specifically the SSCI, facilitated the creation of the Intelligence Branch. The SSCI cannot put the genie they created back in the bottle without admitting they too are corrupt; and the background story of their corruption is way too intense to be exposed now.
Every member of the SSCI is compromised in some controlling manner. Those Senators who disliked the control over them; specifically disliked because the risk of sunlight was tenuous and, well, possible; have either left completely or stepped down from the committee. None of the SSCI members past or present would ever contemplate saying openly what their tenure involved.
[Note: You might remember when Vice Chairman Mark Warner’s text messages surfaced, there was a controlled Republican SSCI member who came to his defense in February of 2018. It was not accidental that exact Senator later became the chair of the SSCI himself. That Republican Senator is Marco Rubio, now vice-chair since the Senate re-flipped back to the optics of Democrat control in 2021.]
All of President Obama’s 2009 intelligence appointments required confirmation from the Senate. The nominees had to first pass through the Democrat controlled SSCI, and then to a full Senate vote where Democrats held a 60-vote majority. Essentially, Obama got everyone he wanted in place easily. Rahm Emmanuel was Obama’s Chief of Staff, and Valerie Jarrett was Senior Advisor.
Tim Geithner was Treasury Secretary in 2010 when the joint DOJ/FBI and IRS operation to target the Tea Party took place after the midterm “shellacking” caused by the Obamacare backlash. Mitch McConnell was Minority Leader in the Senate but supported the targeting of the Tea Party as his Senate colleagues were getting primaried by an angry and effective grassroots campaign. McConnell’s friend, Senator Bob Bennett, getting beaten in Utah was the final straw.
Dirty Harry and Mitch McConnell saw the TEA Party through the same prism. The TEA Party took Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts (Scott Brown); Sharon Angle was about to take out Harry Reid in Nevada; Arlen Spector was taken down in Pennsylvania; Senator Robert Byrd died; Senator Lisa Murkowski lost her primary to Joe Miller in Alaska; McConnell’s nominee Mike Castle lost to Christine O’Donnell in Delaware; Rand Paul won in Kentucky. This is the background. The peasants were revolting…. and visibly angry Mitch McConnell desperately made a deal with the devil to protect himself.
In many ways, the TEA Party movement was/is very similar to the MAGA movement. The difference in 2010 was the absence of a head of the movement, in 2015 Donald Trump became that head figure who benefited from the TEA Party energy. Trump came into office in 2017 with the same congressional opposition as the successful TEA Party candidates in 2011.
Republicans took control of the Senate following the 2014 mid-terms. Republicans took control of the SSCI in January 2015. Senator Richard Burr became chairman of the SSCI, and Dianne Feinstein shifted to Vice-Chair. Dirty Harry Reid left the Senate, and Mitch McConnell took power again.
Republicans were in control of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2015 when the Intelligence Branch operation against candidate Donald Trump was underway. [Feinstein’s staffer, Dan Jones, left the SSCI so he could act as a liaison and political operative between private-sector efforts (Fusion GPS, Chris Steele) and the SSCI.] The SSCI was a participant in that Fusion GPS/Chris Steele operation, and as a direct consequence Republicans were inherently tied to the problem with President Trump taking office in January of 2017. Indiana Republican Senator Dan Coats was a member of the SSCI.
Bottom line…. When it came to the intelligence system targeting Donald Trump during the 2015/2016 primary, the GOP was just as much at risk as their Democrat counterparts.
When Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election, the SSCI was shocked more than most. They knew countermeasures would need to be deployed to protect themselves from any exposure of their prior intelligence conduct. Immediately Senator Dianne Feinstein stepped down from the SSCI, and Senator Mark Warner was elevated to Vice Chairman.
Indiana’s own Mike Pence, now Vice President, recommended fellow Hoosier, SSCI Senator Dan Coats, to become President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). [Apply hindsight here]
• To give an idea of the Intelligence Branch power dynamic, remind yourself how House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Chairman Devin Nunes, tried to get access to the DOJ/FBI records of the FISA application used against the Trump campaign via Carter Page.
Remember, Devin Nunes only saw a portion of the FISA trail from his review of a Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) previously given to President Obama. Chairman Nunes had to review the PDB at the White House SCIF due to compartmented intelligence, another example of the silo benefit.
Remember the massive stonewalling and blocking of the DOJ/FBI toward Nunes? Remember the back-and-forth battle over declassification surrounding the Nunes memo?
Remember, after Nunes went directly to House Speaker Paul Ryan for help (didn’t get any), the DOJ only permitted two members from each party within the HPSCI to review the documents, and only at the DOJ offices of main justice?
Contrast that amount of House Intel Committee railroading by intelligence operatives in the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI, with the simple request by Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner asking to see the Carter Page FISA application and immediately a copy being delivered to him on March 17th 2017.
Can you see which intelligence committee is aligned with the deepest part of the deep state?
Oh, how quickly we forget:
The contrast of ideological alignment between the House, Senate and Intelligence Branch is crystal clear when viewed through the prism of cooperation. You can see which legislative committee holds the power and support of the Intelligence Branch. The Senate Intel Committee facilitates the corrupt existence of the IC Branch, so the IC Branch only cooperates with the Senate Intel Committee. It really is that simple.
• The Intelligence Branch carefully selects its own members by controlling how security clearances are investigated and allowed (FBI). The Intelligence Branch also uses compartmentalization of intelligence as a way to keep each agency, and each downstream branch of government (executive, legislative and judicial), at arm’s length as a method to stop anyone from seeing the larger picture of their activity. I call this the “silo effect“, and it is done by design.
I have looked at stunned faces when I presented declassified silo product from one agency to the silo customers of another. You would be astonished at what they don’t know because it is not in their ‘silo’.
Through the advice and consent rules, the Intelligence Branch uses the SSCI to keep out people they consider dangerous to their ongoing operations. Any appointee to the intelligence community must first pass through the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, before they get a full Senate vote. If the SSCI rejects the candidate, they simply refuse to take up the nomination. The president is then blocked from that appointment. This is what happened with President Trump over and over again.
• Additionally, the Intelligence Branch protects itself, and its facilitating allies through the formal classification process. The Intelligence Branch gets to decide unilaterally what information will be released and what information will be kept secret. There is no entity outside the Intelligence Branch, and yes that includes the President of the United States, who can supersede the classification authority of the Intelligence Branch. {Go Deep} and {Go Deep} This is something 99.9% of the people on our side get totally and frustratingly wrong.
No one can declassify, or make public, anything the Intelligence Branch will not agree to. Doubt this? Ask Ric Grenell, John Ratcliffe, or even President Trump himself.
• The classification process is determined inside the Intelligence Branch, all by themselves. They get to choose what rank of classification exists on any work product they create; and they get to decide what the classification status is of any work product that is created by anyone else. The Intelligence Branch has full control over what is considered classified information and what is not. The Intelligence Branch defines what is a “national security interest” and what is not. A great technique for hiding fingerprints of corrupt and illegal activity.
[For familiar reference see the redactions to Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages. The Intelligence Branch does all redactions.]
• Similarly, the declassification process is a request by an agency, even a traditionally superior agency like the President of the United States, to the Intelligence Branch asking for them to release the information. The Intelligence Branch again holds full unilateral control.
If the head of the CIA refuses to comply with the declassification instruction of the President, what can the president do except fire him/her? {Again, GO DEEP} How does the President replace the non-compliant cabinet member? They have to go through the SSCI confirmation. See the problem?
Yes, there are ways to break up the Intelligence Branch, but they do not start with any congressional effort. As you can see above, the process is the flaw – not the solution. Most conservative pundits have their emphasis on the wrong syllable. Their cornerstone is false.
For their own self-preservation, the Intelligence Branch has been interfering in our elections for years. The way to tear this apart begins with STATE LEVEL election reform that blocks the Legislative Branch from coordinating with the Intelligence Branch.
The extreme federalism approach is critical and also explains why Joe Biden has instructed Attorney General Merrick Garland to use the full power of the DOJ to stop state level election reform efforts. The worry of successful state level election control is also why the Intelligence Branch now needs to support the federal takeover of elections.
Our elections have been usurped by the Intelligence Branch. Start with honest elections and we will see just how much Democrat AND Republican corruption is dependent on manipulated election results. Start at the state level. Start there…. everything else is downstream.
♦ COLLAPSED OVERSIGHT – The modern system to ‘check’ the Executive Branch was the creation of the legislative “Gang of Eight,” a legislative oversight mechanism intended to provide a bridge of oversight between the authority of the intelligence community within the Executive Branch.
The Go8 construct was designed to allow the President authority to carry out intelligence operations and provide the most sensitive notifications to a select group within Congress.
The Go8 oversight is directed to the position, not the person, and consists of: (1) The Speaker of the House; (2) The Minority Leader of the House; (3) The Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, HPSCI; (4) The Ranking Member (minority) of the HPSCI; (5) The Leader of the Senate; (6) The Minority Leader of the Senate; (7) The Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, SSCI; and finally (8) the Vice-Chair of the SSCI.
Example: When the Chief Executive (the President) initiates an intelligence operation on behalf of the United States, the President triggers a “finding memo.” In essence, the instruction to the intel agency or agencies to authorize a covert operation. When that process takes place, the Go8 are the first people notified. Depending on the sensitivity of the operation, sometimes the G08 are notified immediately after the operation is conducted. The notification can be a phone call or an in-person briefing.
Because of the sensitivity of their intelligence information, the Gang of Eight hold security clearances that permit them to receive and review all intelligence operations. The intelligence community are also responsible for briefing the Go8 with the same information they use to brief the President.
~ 2021 Gang of Eight ~
The Go8 design is intended to put intelligence oversight upon both political parties in Congress; it is designed that way by informing the minority leaders of both the House and Senate as well as the ranking minority members of the SSCI and HPSCI. Under the concept, the President cannot conduct an intelligence operation; and the intelligence community cannot carry out intelligence gathering operations without the majority and minority parties knowing about it.
The modern design of this oversight system was done to keep rogue and/or corrupt intelligence operations from happening. However, as we shared in the preview to this entire discussion, the process was usurped during the Obama era. {GO DEEP}
Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, that the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing the Go8. Comey justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “because of the sensitivity of the matter.”
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.
Keep in mind, Comey did not say the White House was unaware; in fact he said exactly the opposite, he said, “The White House was informed through the National Security Council,” (the NSC). The unavoidable implication and James Comey admission that everyone just brushed aside, was that President Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, was informed of the intelligence operation(s) against Donald Trump. After all, the NSC reports to the National Security Advisor.
Does the January 20, 2017, Susan Rice memo look different now?
Again, no one saw the immediate issue. What Comey just described on that March Day in 2017 was the usurpation of the entire reason the Gang of Eight exists; to eliminate the potential for political weaponization of the Intelligence Community by the executive branch. The G08 notifications to the majority and minority are specifically designed to make sure what James Comey admitted to doing was never supposed to happen.
Team Obama carried out a political operation using the intelligence community and the checks-and-balances in the system were intentionally usurped. This is an indisputable fact.
Worse still, the entire legislative branch of Congress, which then specifically included the Republicans that now controlled the House and Senate, did nothing. They just ignored what was admitted. The usurpation was willfully ignored.
The mechanism of the G08 was bypassed without a twitch of condemnation or investigation…. because the common enemy was Donald Trump.
This example highlights the collapse of the system. Obama, the Executive Branch, collapsed the system by usurping the process; in essence the process became the bigger issue, and the lack of immediate Legislative Branch reaction became evidence of open acceptance. The outcomes of the usurpation played out over the next four years, Donald J. Trump was kneecapped and lost his presidency because of it. However, the bigger issue of the collapse still exists.
The downstream consequence of the Legislative Branch accepting the Executive Branch usurpation meant both intelligence committees were compromised. Additionally, the leadership of both the House and Senate were complicit. Think about this carefully. The Legislative Branch allowance of the intelligence usurpation meant the Legislative Branch was now subservient to the Intelligence Branch.
That’s where we are.
Right now.
That’s where we are.
Term-3 Obama is now back in the White House with Joe Biden.
NOTE: Former Obama National Security aide and counsel to the President, Lisa Monaco, is in her current position as Deputy Attorney General, specifically to make sure all of these revelations do not become a legal risk to Barack Obama and the people who created them. The SSCI confirmed Monaco for this purpose because the Senate is just as much at risk.
Term-1 and Term-2 Obama usurped the ‘check and balance‘ within the system and weaponized the intelligence apparatus. During Trump’s term that weaponization was covered up by a compliant congress, complicit senate intelligence committee, and not a single member of the oversight called it out. Now, Term-3 Obama steps back in to continue the cover up and continue the weaponization.
Hopefully, you can now see the scale of the problem that surrounds us with specific citation for what has taken place. What I just explained to you above is not conspiracy theory, it is admitted fact that anyone can look upon. Yet….
Have you seen this mentioned anywhere? Have you seen this called out by anyone in Congress? Have you seen anyone in media (ally or adversary) call this out? Have you seen any member of the Judicial Branch stand up and say wait, what is taking place is not okay? Have you seen a single candidate for elected office point this out? Have you seen anyone advising a candidate to point this out?
This is our current status. It is not deniable. The truth exists regardless of our comfort.
Not a single person in power will say openly what has taken place. They are scared of the Fourth Branch. The evidence of what has taken place is right there in front of our face. The words, actions and activities of those who participated in this process are not deniable, in fact most of it is on record.
There are only two members of the Gang of Eight who have existed in place from January 2007 (the real beginning of Obama’s term, two years before he took office when the Congress flipped). Only two members of the G08 have been consistently in place from January of 2007 to right now, today. All the others came and went, but two members of the Gang of Eight have been part of that failed and collapsed oversight throughout the past 15 years, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell.
♦ TECHNOLOGY – On a global scale – the modern intelligence gathering networks are now dependent on data collection to execute their intelligence missions. In the digital age nations have been executing various methods to gather that data. Digital surveillance has replaced other methods of interception. Those surveillance efforts have resulted in a coalescing of regional data networks based on historic multi-national relationships.
We have a recent frame of reference for the “U.S. data collection network” within the NSA. Through the allied process the Five Eyes nations all rely on the NSA surveillance database (U.K, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.S.) The NSA database provides the digital baseline for intelligence operations in defense of our allies. The portals into the NSA database are essentially an assembly of allies in like-minded ideological connection to the United States.
Unfortunately, there have been some revelations about the NSA database being used to monitor our allies, like in the example of Germany and surveillance on Angela Merkel’s phone. As long as “the good guys” are operating honorably, allies of the United States can feel confident about having protection from the NSA surveillance of global digital data. We warn our friends if we detect something dangerous etc.
The U.S. has nodes on communication pipelines to intercept and extract data. We have also launched hundreds, perhaps thousands, of satellites to conduct surveillance and gather up data. All of this data is fed into the NSA database where it is monitored (presumably) as a national security mechanism, and in defense of our allies.
However, what about data collection or data networks that are outside the NSA database? What do our enemies do? The NSA database is just one intelligence operation of digital surveillance amid the entire world, and we do not allow access by adversaries we are monitoring. So what do they do? What do our allies do who might not trust the United States due to past inconsistencies, ie. the Middle East?
The answers to those questions highlight other data collection networks. So, a brief review of the major players is needed.
♦ CHINA – China operates their own database. They, like the NSA, scoop up data for their system. Like us, China launches satellites and deploys other electronic data collection methods to download into their database. This is why the issues of electronic devices manufactured in China becomes problematic. Part of the Chinese data collection system involves the use of spyware, hacking and extraction.
Issues with Chinese communication company Huawei take on an added dimension when you consider the goal of the Chinese government to conduct surveillance and assemble a network of data to compete with the United States via the NSA. Other Chinese methods of surveillance and data-collection are less subversive, as in the examples of TicTok and WeChat. These are Chinese social media companies that are scraping data just like the NSA scrapes data from Facebook, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies. [ Remember, the Intelligence Branch is a public-private partnership. ]
♦ RUSSIA – It is very likely that Russia operates their own database. We know Russia launches satellites, just like China and the USA, for the same purposes. Russia is also very proficient at hacking into other databases and extracting information to store and utilize in their own network. The difference between the U.S., China and Russia is likely that Russia spends more time on the hacking aspect because they do not generate actual technology systems as rapidly as the U.S. and China.
The most recent database creation is an outcome of an ally having to take action because they cannot rely on the ideology of the United States remaining consistent, as the administrations ping-pong based on ideology.
♦ SAUDI ARABIA – Yes, in 2016 we discovered that Saudi Arabia was now operating their own intelligence data-gathering operation. It would make sense, given the nature of the Middle East and the constant fluctuations in political support from the United States. It is a lesson the allied Arab community and Gulf Cooperation Council learned quickly when President Obama went to Cairo in 2009 and launched the Islamist Spring (Arab Spring) upon them.
I have no doubt the creation of the Saudi intelligence network was specifically because the Obama administration started supporting radical Islamists within the Muslim Brotherhood and threw fuel on the fires of extremism all over the Arab world.
Think about it., What would you do if you were Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan, Oman or Yemen and you knew the United States could just trigger an internal uprising of al-Qaeda, ISIS and the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood to seek your destruction?
Without a doubt, those urgent lessons from 2009, 2010, 2011 triggered the formation of the Arab Intelligence Network as a network to defend itself with consistency. They assembled the network and activated it in 2017 as pictured above.
♦ Israel – Along a similar outlook to the Arab network, no doubt Israel operates an independent data collection system as a method of protecting itself from ever-changing U.S. politics amid a region that is extremely hostile to its very existence. Like the others, Israel launches proprietary satellites, and we can be sure they use covert methods to gather electronic data just like the U.S. and China.
As we have recently seen in the Pegasus story, Israel creates spyware programs that are able to track and monitor cell phone communications of targets. The spyware would not work unless Israel had access to some network where the phone meta-data was actually stored. So yeah, it makes sense for Israel to operate an independent intelligence database.
♦ Summary: As we understand the United States Intelligence Branch of government as the superseding entity that controls the internal politics of our nation, we also must consider that multiple nations have the same issue. There are major intelligence networks around the world beside the NSA “Five-Eyes” database. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Israel all operate proprietary databases deploying the same tools and techniques for assembly.
The geopolitical conflict that has always existed has now shifted into a digital battle-space. The Intelligence Agencies from these regions are now operating as the backbone of the government that uses them and has become dependent on them. [<- Reread that].
Once you accept the digital-era intelligence apparatus of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and Israel, are now the primary national security mechanisms for stabilization of government; then you accept the importance of those intelligence operations.
Once you understand how foundational those modern intelligence operations have become for the stability and continuity of those governments…… then you begin to understand just how the United States intelligence community became more important than the government that created it.
From that point it is then critical to understand that domestic intelligence operations are underway to monitor the electronic communication of American citizens inside our own country. YOU are under surveillance. The parents who confront school boards are under surveillance. The political operatives inside the FBI are monitoring everyone who comes onto the radar, that is why the National School Boards Association asked the White House, then the DOJ, to have the FBI start targeting parents. Are things making sense now?
♦ Public Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazened they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26 (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives.
In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize against domestic enemies.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. Simultaneously the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.
The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons (we should never have allowed to be created) and turned those weapons into political tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation.
Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also what removing Donald Trump is all about…. The targeting of President Trump in order to preserve the system, the system that was weaponized during the Obama administration, is what the actions of the DOJ and FBI are all about.
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
…. Including an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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The vast majority of our leaders and members of Congress are simply cowards.
They don’t want to rock the boat and get a target put on them by the IC.
Fritz Schumer warned them that the IC has six ways to Sunday of getting back at you.
The clear message was, don’t get in our way or you’ll get it in the neck.
Nobody will take it on.
The vast majority of our leaders and members of Congress are simply Lawyers…… There’s the problem…..
The democrats mostly. 🤷♀️
I disagree. As Sundance has stated most do not understand the process due to the the silo effect. I was going to email my representatives expressing my concerns about this unelected 4th branch. I decided instead to write a letter since we are all being spied on. I suggest that if all we do to make a difference is write letters then it’s away to get our concerns heard. Thank you Sundance for sharing your knowledge. My God bless you and your family for this work to inform the people. Happy Easter!
agree.. maybe some way, some how.. someone will actually read it.. send it on, with a prayer.. and let it go.
Add powder to the letter.
I think there is a certain kind of human being, power junkies, that will do or say whatever they have to in order to get the power they desire. The political party is but a calculated detail along the way, the path of least resistance based on their current circumstance.
They are dangerous psychopaths and skilled liars. They will then say or do whatever they need to retain that power. The IC agencies know their psychological profiles and prefer compromised politicians because they are easier to control.
Think about the dirt the IC has on each of these congress critters …
They weren’t hired to be cowards – they were hired to stand up for we the people. If they can’t take the heat, they need to get out and let the patriots who can stand up do their jobs. Are we willing to give up our country so these traitors can have a cushy job? See what our founding fathers dealt with for comparison yet they kept going, willing to sacrifice all for the cause. God bless them.
They prefer the money and don’t have to be concerned about the target.
Their own greed has taken over anything to do with legislating for the people.
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Yes. Cowards.
Just how much WEAKER could Mitchy look right now?
Elaine has defended him before . . . why not now?
Is his ‘job’ done?
Nope…Congress can investigate however has no authority to arrest. Their recommendations are forwarded to Executive (AG and DOJ) for prosecution.
Truth is we are witnessing separation of power deconstructed. Congress and Executive conspiring to consolidate power.
And the exact moment that the executive branch took a knee is when President Trump first entered the White House as president, and immediately learned that the Twitter app he had been making such good use of was owned and controlled by the US intelligence community–the 4th estate. And President Trump continued to use Twitter without informing the greater MAGA movement that social media was totally controlled.
Because the alternative is that in four years as President, Trump never learned that the CIA/DHS/NSA was behind social media because they were able to successfully keep it secret from him.
I am uncomfortable with both options. Good thing I don’t waste much energy on waiting for political solutions to a problem the Founding Fathers felt should be handled with a rope and a criminal justice system or armed conflict against tyrants who betray their duties…
Source for your claim when PT knew his twitter account was “owned and controlled by the US IC..” ?
Did you read what I said?
He either got to the White House on Day 1 and learned that Twitter was controlled by the IC, or they kept is secret from him for four years, all while EVERY FED AGENCY was censoring and manipulating online discussion.
Which is worse?
Valid points. As if history wasn’t clear enough, all of DC tried to put PDT in a box. Pretty evident when they took out Gen Flynn 1st thing
Pence was definitely in on the plan to take out General Flynn!
That isn’t what you claimed…………..this is what you claimed “And the exact moment that the executive branch took a knee is when President Trump first entered the White House as president, and immediately learned that the Twitter app he had been making such good use of was owned and controlled by the US intelligence community–the 4th estate. And President Trump continued to use Twitter without informing the greater MAGA movement that social media was totally controlled.”
There was no “or” in your statement.
Well then princess, you seem to still be having trouble following what I said even after I explained it, so I guess just move along…
And you seem to have trouble being questioned about your own words and also in having civil and intelligent discourse.
I explained my point and was still basically called a liar for an ipso facto argument. Foul ball, flag on the play.
You can agree with it or disagree with it, but saying I lied when I said it will not get friendly and intelligent responses. I value my own worth more than that…
Well Sir, or Madam, I can agree with both of your sentences in your second paragraph.
Ah yes, more of that civil and intelligent discourse. And you’ve even brought half your wit…
“…because the alternative…” = “or”
Actually, our Founders gave us the 2A, as an emergency back up.
The prinary tool they gave us, is NOT 2A, it is 10A.
But HAVING a tool is of little value, if we don’t USE the tool, and for generations we FAILED to.
There is a Target rich environment, for State Governments to use the 10A, to cut the Federal Govt down to size, we just need State Government to engage.
As Sundance says, it is through excercising STATE power, that we CAN attack the Federal leviathan.
Unfortunately most of the states are now corrupt along with what seems like everybody else.
True Joan,
The governor’s election in Arizona is a good example for that.
The evidence seems solid that Lake beat out Hobbs but Hobbs will never give up, ever.
Lake will be fighting this for years and will probably never win her rightful seat as governor.
The good people of Arizona have been cheated and Lake is giving it the good fight.
But she will fight for years and probably never be governor.
It does not hurt to try to use the Constitution to try to win.
But when this action make us depend on the integrity of elected official’s to pull it off our chances of success diminish.
Our Fore Fathers and Mothers depended on the British system of government to treat them fairly, to give them seats in Parliament and that was never going to happen.
They believed all of the promises from the King that it would even though he was lying and never intended to fulfill this promise.
When they finally realized this was all a lie and they would never be treated as they should be as citizens of Britain they made plans.
I thank Sundance for helping us understand what our own government has in mind for us and it is not giving us our rights under our Constitution.
Our elected officials do not plan to uphold their oath of office or to allow us to be treated respectfully.
This is something we will finally understand completely and then we can make plans.
Apparently my visual aide I added to my reply prevented it from posting. I’ll try again without the Virginia state seal graphic.
You cannot use the 10th as a tool for anything when you are not ALLOWED to use the 1st. The 2nd amendment tool is amply demonstrated in the Declaration of Independence. No other visual aids required to understand the DUTY to remove tyrants after a long train of abuses…
What is the 10 A tool states can use??
it brings me no joy to say “i told you so” – but i recall being a naive young buck at the time of 9/11, a self-declared libertarian…. pointing out that the PATRIOT act could, and almost certainly WOULD be used against the very people who thought it protected them.
history is pretty consistent that way.
90% or more of “conservatives” mocked this assertion. we had to DO SOMETHING.
here we are.
I was pretty well wrapped-up in the Con Inc messaging at the time, and I had two simultaneous feelings about it. I saw the dangers, and I also could understand the arguments of the advocates, but I worried about the dangers. I would say I had been a sort of fence-sitter at the time. Big mistake. Should have listened to my gut, which is tuned to the shortfalls and untrustworthy nature of mankind seeking power. You were right then.
And there WERE voices “crying in the wilderness” of the inherent dangers of the Patriot act.
Knowing what we know NOW, about the control of MSM and Big Tech, we can understand how THEY de-amplified such cries, while amplifying the message “we need this, to be safe from terrorism!”
I am wondering if they were amplifying both sides.
The chaos of both cries which makes us slow to organize and present a solid front against help them move forward faster.
Ron Paul being chief among the voices crying in the wilderness, Dutch. It was my search for RonPaul friendly sites that I found the Conservative Treehouse in ’07 or ’08.
So correct. And he was screwed by the Uniparty and media in 2008. He was winning the primaries.
Rush Limbaugh championed it. He mocked Reid’s proclamation “the Patriot Act is dead!” I guess Reid was unaware of the magnificent tool they had just passed, or he was gaslighting us.
There were plenty of us who could see that coming. Even though it was promised to never ever be used against American citizens by those in the govt. the crack in the door was obvious to see. Every law on the books that Congress passes can be and almost certainly will be tweaked, stretched and misused for the govts. pleasure when needed. People thought they would be protected from terrorists. Instead they became the terrorists thanks to their own federal govt.
One tower, a coincidence…a possibility. Two towers, definitely NOT.
Two weeks prior to this Comey revelation, traitor AG Jeff Sessions recused himself from ANY and All investigations into the Trump campaign.
IMO, this was a more critical date and the beginning of “taking the knee” at DOJ.
Those are essentially One Thing. But there are many moments to choose from. How about when Chappaqua Jezebel got the FBI files on Republicans and sicced the Secret Police on Billy Dale?
I’d have to date it from the Warren Commission, though.
btw, Sessions tried to get True President to fire him as a Count of Impeachment. Mushmouth Scumbag.
Just another glaring example of trusting even a MAGA Republican. Who didn’t assume Sessions was laudable and a straight shooter? Maybe he meant well but he never reversed on that. He busted the locks and opened the door to the Beast. Fool me once…
Sessions was a rube about 15 years past his shelf life.
He was boxed into recusing himself by Schumer, McConnell, and DOJ-NSD (Tasha Ganier (sp?) is a Holder protege). You think Senator Franken came up with that line of questioning on his own, or that McConnell and Schumer didn’t know about it?
And note that Franken was quickly removed from the Senate afterwards – but no follow up to the charges once he left. Franken has recently hinted at running for office again.
Haven’t heard a peep out of Sessions in a long , long time.
PERFECT, Sundance!
Keep the peddle down on this as you have consistently done!
Constant reinforcement helps everyone that knows to stay focused and for the new – exposure.
Your own version of needed psychological operations for and in support of the oppressed , albeit RIGHTEOUS!!!!
Happy Easter to you and yours!
Awesome Sundance! Required reading. Absolutely required. Thank you!
When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”
IMO this is what he really said and no one called him on it.
When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, would you believe because of the sensitivity of the matter?”
“Max, former French President Hollande just blabbed how we’ve been manufacturing a War in Ukraine for over a decade–and the Times is helping us cover up Hollande’s bombshell admission with the old Russian Disinformation-ploy.”
“That’s nice, Chief. But if France had a president named Hollande, why doesn’t Holland have a president named France?”
“We’re done here, Max. Say hi to 99.”
The lies and slime from those who purport to be our betters are at an incredible depth, or height, depending upon one’s perspective. Comey was the slimiest., by far. And yet, it continues.
US ATTY Comey helped the Clinton/Rodham Gang get away with selling pardons out of the White House.
For his loyal service to Ma Barker, he was made Oberfuhrer of the FBI. Quid Pro Comey.
But wasn’t he a Republican? Sigh.
Comey was also the prosecutor that handled the Sandy Berger case and made sure the investigation did not expand to Clinton’s inner circle.
People have been saying for decades that congress and the president don’t run this country. Trump took that claim from tin-foil hat to undeniably true by exposing how corrupt all of these agencies are and how they are working against the american people in every way.
The entire administrative state was spying on the sitting president for 4 years. Listening and leaking his phone calls, no-doubt bugging every room in the WH, every e-mail, text, hand-written note, under-cutting his efforts at every turn, and God only knows what else.
Congress knew this and allowed it. They are part of this. Some are afraid and some support the unlimited, unaccountable power as a way to “fundamentally change” america. You wanna bet all of these terrorist agencies get every dollar of funding they requested? The House has full control of budgets.
2024 will be a huge disaster for the GOP. I will not continue to support them as lesser of the two evils. Not ever again. It almost seems like they want to be a permanent minority party.
I can not ‘see’ the RNC ‘allowing’ PDJT to have his name on the ballot, AS THE R NOMINEE, in 2024.
I can not imagine PDJT accepting, as his VP running mate, any name on an RNC approved “shortlist”, nor any name PDJT wants, to be approved by the RNC.
Just as the 10th amendment (not the 2nd!) is our main tool for fighting the Big club in terms of Government power and control, the real fight within the R party is not primarily over Chair of the RNC, it is the fight over control of STATE R parties leadership; State party Executive boards, Chairs, County Executive boards and Chairs, etc.
The RINOS in such positions within State parties, will be crucial in the multi-pronged effort to deny PDJT the nomination, and should he get it despite their efforts, they will do all they can to facilitate another Steal.
Therefore, taking the position “I am DONE with the R party!” is an enotional reaction, not a logical one.
It is LACK of engagement and involvement in R party, that has enabled the RINOS to gain control of State R parties, and it is involvement and engagement that is neccesary to drive them out.Make the Republican Party Great Again.
The battle lines are already drawn, with the issue being are WE, the base (MAGA) going to have OUR Nominees for POTUS and VPOTUS, on the ticket?
Both parties ‘leadership’ have long manipulated the process, to maintain the myth that ‘”the PARTY is neutral, until we have a nominee” while exerting all of their considerable power, to insure THEY control who the nominee IS.
And, them having RINOS in leadership positions in State parties is CRUCIAL to their keeping such control.
Just as we need State elected leaders to USE the 10th, we need State R parties, to get such elected leaders in place.
The chair of our state party, Drew McKissick, is the rinos’ rino. Pathetic!
“The House has full control of budgets.”
This is why my suggestion to Sundance was that we the people demand the defunding of the FBI and DOJ – not next year or next month but TODAY – RIGHT NOW. Coincidentally President Trump suggested the same thing. If they can’t even do this, when the House has control of the money, we might as well try some other action that does not involve congress.
IMO Congress agreed, they didn’t take a knee or brush it off at all. Let’s be serious, Hillary and Biden are not the only ones selling the nation for personal gain. It’s useless separating out “all republicans”, as they get very rich, too. The era of the “power couple” or kids has made that a guarantee. Never believe that they don’t know what the family is doing, that’s an agreed upon ruse to fool us and get rich.
My thought when I saw the article.
Awesome just awesome.
I interpret the lack of action by congressional Republicans as complicity founded in fear. Fear of the Deep State and fear of losing control of the Republican party to Trump and those who support an America First agenda.
Watching all of that unfold convinced me, once and for all, that I have ZERO representation in this country. I no longer consider myself a franchised citizen.
I live in occupied territory.
For me? This!!!
Returning to the country of my birth after twenty years abroad, I knew within two weeks that the country I left was no more. Seventeen years later after having that sharp, disturbing feeling and therefore having paid laser focused attention to all that has occurred since, I sorrow fully remain of the same opinion.
As to the cowardly Republicans? I’ll add one more fear, Bamanicious…
Their fear that all their dirty secrets (personal or otherwise) undoubtedly known by the Deep State, are in continuous danger of being exposed. Blackmail if you like.
The price they pay for compromising whatever principles they may have had…my bet being that there weren’t many in the first place, if any.
Yes, Betsy!
They’re being leveraged by their own misdeeds.
Either because of affairs they’ve had, corruption they’ve taken part in or even because of what they have in their search histories.
All of those things are far more forgivable than sitting back and allowing the systematic destruction of this country.
Others were worse,… McTurtle trying to destroy the TEA Party in ’14 after Obama had sic’ed Lerner’s IRS on.
The worst sin is foreswearing their oaths on the Bible. Being complicit in the destruction of our country for personal gain and glory is an extremely close second.
I wonder how they sleep at night…don’t worry. I know the answer.
No conscience for sure
Once we all process that truth we can get to praying for our Lord’s intervention, and jump off the red white and blue express. We do have hope, I’m not peddling despair, but hope in humanistic government always leads to collapse.
One King, one Kingdom.
Amen and Amen, Greg.
Its not complicated. Listen, if you haven’t, to KL’s speech at CPAC.
She tells of how she was contacted by someone she knew, who wanted a late night meeting to discuss something that couldn’t be discussed over the phone.
This person, that she did not identify, was conveying an offer from “the east”; Agree not to run for any public office, for two years, and she would be on the board of a coropration with $100,000/ year salary, and perks.
When she pointed out she was financially secure, didn’t need it, they asked her, basically to “name her price”.
We can assume many are approached with such offers, and few turn them down.
This explains (as an example) all the candidates that campaigned as “Tea party” and promptly capitualated once they got in office.
And, such offers are the ‘carrot’, possible ‘sticks’ could be threats to expose past indiscretions, both against the principle or their family, including manufactured indiscretions that while not factual, would damage or destroy the principle or their family.
And, once the principle capitualates, they are OWNED. Its how intel agencies “turn” assets, its old spycraft, just turned to different ends.
Just like the mafia.
Yes, and sadly most of the government are “made” (wo)men.
“Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.” – Sundance.
What I would like Sundance to post next is The Exact Moment The Supreme Court Took a Knee!!! What Congress has done is Unconstitutional giving power to the Fourth Branch. The FISA Court participated in this power grab by the Fourth Branch. Yet we have no control over the unelected Fourth Branch that we fund with our tax dollars, our unrepresentative Congress is their client and Congress won’t cut their funding and won’t fire them! How will this Gordon Knot ever get cut??? Godspeed Sundance!!
That is an easy question. When ADD (on meds) Chief Justice Roberts backed out of finding Obama Care Unconstitutional.
Sundance…Have you tried to explain this to anyone of our politicians ? They would never have access or even know where to begin to find this information. They basically ignore everything I send them…..told me they don’t open articles on govt. email.
Of course all this surveillance is following the trannie violence threats as the domestic terrorists that they are, right?
it follows the enemies of the illegitimate government that has removed our republic.
that should answer your question.
“I’ve assigned our top men to the case. TOP.”
Mangy cork soakers, one and all.
And still, brown shoes and black socks!
Gipper, I have been trying to find a the original picture of those plants/informants without the Photoshopping. Do you happen to have a link to the original?
How do we send our new graduates into this mess of corruption?
How do we send well-meaning m-raised new graduates into this mess of corruption?
Where is the MAP that can guide them to the people who will education them to fight the corruption, and who are not compelling them to become corrupt?
It exists in our homes. It rests on bended knee with direction and strength from God. We must train up our youth to honor truth before personal gain. Restore integrity and honor as attributes that can save our nation.
Shine a light on who these roaches are, and be willing to prosecute them. Or dispatch them.
It will literally take bloodshed if we don’t have integrity within our system to do the work it was established to do.
People are horribly naïve if they think that this can be fixed through voting. The election process is horribly broken and may be beyond repair.
Also, DA’s and Judges being elected is a huge problem. Democrat’s purposefully elect judges who are activists and who are corrupt. Thus they apply the law not as it is supposed to be, but through the prisms of activism and corruption.
The Ryan/McConnell congress took a knee.
They never stood up to begin with.
Of course they did. Did you read SD line about them ALL being anti Trump? That was the reason for all of this escalation. Surround Trump and never ever let him do what he wants. Get him impeached. Get him out. Make him unelectable. Bingo.
Thank you, Sundance, for continuing to share this valuable research.
Many new members on the Tree and I wish there were a way to pass this on by posting a notice to every door of every household in America.
Steadily, friend… steadily the Truth is making its way…
What would powerful people in DC do to stop the American people from finding this out?
Collude with the 4th Branch to rig elections of course. Thereby retaining the positions of power that blocks the sunlight. Fake a global pandemic to make it all possible if necessary. So basically the cabal would do anything and everything to prevent draining the swamp. Including literally poison and kill innocent Americans.
Say his name Taibbi
Exact moment for me? 1919 a young J. Edgar Hoover is put in charge of the “General Intelligence Division.” All down hill from there.
A Five-Decade Fiefdom. Just like Fauci.
You should be talking to Kyle seraphin
I left a hospital late on election night of Obama’s victory. My mother in law was in the process of dying in this hospital. The inner city residents were joyous. I had a profound feeling that something not good was taking place in politics. Decades later I got to see exactly what was changing.
Maybe we can plead with the Chinese and Russians to destroy and liberate us from our evil empire fascist government ?? The desperation level is getting that high.
we have all the tools we need to do it ourselves. we simply choose not to.
i do not want those evil empires replacing our own.
Amen
Brilliant and frightening work Sundance.
I believe that it will take violent and destructive events to right this ship. Which could take generations- sadly.
None of this would have occurred had the attacks of 9/11 not taken place, this is a fact. I then have a question – how many of us still believe that our own government didn’t have a hand in those attacks?
I don’t have a fully formed answer in my own head, but I no longer dismiss the possibility out of hand.
conspiracy theorist or not… this has been one of the hardest ones for me to accept – but accept i have, now that i see how out in the opne all of this has become.
i do not believe for one instant, anymore, that a bunch of saudis did it on their own.
No. The NSA has been spying on Americans via phone taps at Ma Bell/AT&T since at least the 1960s… without warrants.
They’ve just formalized the process and expanded it as technologies became available.
The advent of the Federal Reserve and the CIA enabled all this.
And We the People have not stopped it.
It’s come down to- we stop all this, or we live with the boot on our necks, forever.
Whether it’s the dollar losing reserve status, rampant inflation, even more flagrant corruption, or violence, one day we will need to end this.
Let it be soon. I have grandchildren I’d like to leave to a better world than this.
I think my use of the phrase, ‘had a hand’ covers that.
THOSE that PROFIT from using Currency CREATED without GOLD / SILVER / PLATINUM Backing by LOANING a Piece of PROMISSORY NOTE Derived FROM a PROMISSORY NOTE From a PROMISSORY NOTE From a PROMISSORY NOTE, …
CONGRESS Sets a BUDGET, WHICH ASKS ” TREASURY “( EXECUTIVE BRANCH ) for FUNDS,
WHICH ” TREASURY ” ASKS The FED, WHICH WRITES A FEDERAL BOND…
( The ” FEDERAL RESERVE ” is the PRIVATE BANKS who Draw BANK FEES and INTEREST RATES FROM US The CONSUMERS / TAX PAYERS ), WHICH PAYS FOR THE BILL ( to the GOVT or CONTRACTOR ), WHICH HAS LOBBIED ( K STREET ) FOR The BUDGET, …
ALL ACTIVELY INVOLVED – TIL NOW ? McCarthy ? McCarthy ?
Are YOU / WE JUMPING OFF the Merry Go ROUND ?
The REST of the WORLD IS
Ben Franklin’s admonition about our Constitutional Republic and “being able to keep it” is hard enough enough, but when we just give it away, it’s sheer idiocy. . . . . .
When they get away with shit like this, is it any wonder they felt they could blatantly steal a national election and not have to worry about anyone actually stoping them?
Your analysis is why I’ve said in the past .. SD, you should keep doing what you do best.. informing readers of what’s really going on…
Until more people understand..solutions will NOT be found…
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I agree and might add that a “schoolhouse rock” version would help those who are totally oblivious to what is happening and what has happened. I know many whose eyes become glazed when trying to educate them about this very evil branch of government. They want to go on about their lives and take their children to soccer and swim practice… no worries. This mentality is what truly scares me the most.
JMO.
The “The American Criminal Triad: slick / w / o-bummer” have been behind the coup against America and President Trump from the beginning…. heck, it was their idea.
Their administrations spanned a quarter of a century of America’s history.
Their “leave behinds” are in every branch of the administrative, swamp state.
Know thy enemy.
The truth is catching up to them. They will have to show their true coup involvement before long.
Just a suggestion. If you are currently a bushieeee MAGA citizen, you’d best start putting some distance between you and the bushieeee gang and become a full fledged MEGA MAGA Patriot.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats and GOPe, especially the DeXX gang.
I would add that Sundances deep dive analyses of Benghazi shows how the notification of the gang of 8, intially intended to keep both parties leadership apprised of major intel ops, and therefore provide a “check” on rogue operations, has been “flipped”.
By informing both parties, both parties have a vested interest in “covering up” such operations when they “go south”.
Sundance makes a compelling case that an approved “no name” operation in Syria, and “Operation Zero footprint” in Lybia, had the effect of funneling 100’s of tons of sophisticated U.S. weoponry to ISIS, including manpads that were used against U.S. forces in Afganistan, and killed Seal team 6 and others.
And that the Goudy hearings were an attempt to “investigate to exhonerate” (and cover up) the WORST details, by exposing lessee details.
Basically, Goudy yelled at Hillary, etc. to create the illusion of exposure, while covering up the deeper aspects of the operation (supplying our enemies with weopons) AND also covering up that Republicans were just as culpable as Dems (Hillary).
Looking at the OTHER major ‘scandals’ that Goudy treated exactly the same, “Fast and Furious” and “IRS/TEA PARTY” it seems likely that Republican leadership was also complicit in both of those operations, and that Goudy was assigned “Clean up on aisle 3” duty, and it ‘worked’.
We all SAW it. We all initially thought, as the Goudy hearings started “FINALLY, the Republicans are going to hold Obama to acct. and fight back!”
We watched as details that had actually already been made public, but memory holed by MSM, were ‘exposed’ and then we watched Goudy put on his act, ‘grilling’ Hillary, and various admin officials, with Holder even being held in contempt of Congress for refusing documents,…and NOTHING happening.
We KNEW “somethings not right, here!” but didn’t see the obvious.
IMHO, Jim Jordan is the Trey Goudy, 2.0.
Possibly.
Regrettably, I’m coming to that conclusion about Jim Jordan, too…because he is from Ohio, which is Trump country, Jordan has about two more teeth than the toothless Gowdy had…
You are an intensely courageous man! May our Lord God keep His omnipotent shield over your head.
It was clear to me in 2001, that Dirty Dick Cheney was selected by the Papa Bush syndicate to be the ‘brains’ of Junior. When 911 (maybe the setup piece) became the focus for the creation of the Patriot Act and of all the ‘gates of hell’ that it opened, it should have been obvious to every thinking American that it was only a matter of time that our constitutional protections were pushed to the wayside. We knew…we weren’t blind; but we allowed this to happen. We are living in the aftermath of the ‘Coup of 2001’and only fire and brimstone can cleanse our national soul!
The nature of our problem is the existence of the DHS.
How do we get rid of it? Any other endeavor is only a temporary workaround at best.
I was once dismissed from a Federal jury pool because I asked if evidence would be allowed that was discovered under authority of “The Patriot Act”.
The judge and prosecutor looked stunned.
Upon reflection, I should have remained silent, and continued as a juror and vote my conscience and the Constitution.
Many Soros friends in Gov. Gov does what Gov does.
As an aside,…. there’s one of the Cabal’s ‘go-to’ MSM Shills, Mark Halperin, sitting behind and to the right of Comey, and wearing his Concern Frown in SD’s initial photo in this article.
At the time of said photo, Mark was a contributing Journo to MSNBC’s Morning Joe, a main source of “Get Trump at any/all Costs!” news/opinion shows.
In 2019, Halperin penned his book, How to Beat Trump. He is now a contributing Journo to Newsmax, where he presents the Opposite view for it’s mainly conservative audience.
When the Great Cleansing begins, don’t forget to round up the unrepentant complicit MSM and their primary shills (looking first at you, Michael Isikoff) who worked consistently hard to help make all of these nefarious and illegal schemes to undermine We The People possible.
James Comey is a Lawyer…..Andrew McCabe is a Lawyer, Lisa Paige and Rod Rosenstien are Lawyers, Chris Wray is a Lawyer…..Almost 50% of Congress are Lawyers…. The problem plaquing our Republic is completely obvious…..
Cade wasn’t wrong. Cob’s response didn’t include lobbyists and/or their ilk – unfortunately.
Good and relevant article on todays AmericanThinker, by Janet Levy;
“Coup 53; The story of How Operation Alex killed a nascent Iranian Democracy.”
It gives a historical review of the history of the 1953 overthrow of a Nationalist,Democratically elected leader in Iran, details highlights of how it was accomplished, reviews a long list of subsequent “regime change” operations by the CIA, virtually all with disasterous results for Americas interests.
They didn’t have Social media “back then” but they hab the same basic modus operandi, and have only updated it by adding in high tech.
And, exactly WHEN did the I/C first begin using such operations WITHIN the U.S., to “interfere” (i.e. manipulate OUTCOMES) of our elections?
Was Eisenhowerselection victory “assured”?
Okay, how do we fix this or in other words, what course of action can the American people take to eliminate this threat to our own wellbeing. The surveillance state is obviously unconstitutional. I’m looking for answers but aren’t finding any. Hoping to find the answers soon because this cannot stand.
I know Who can take all this on. His name is Jesus.
Don’t laugh, don’t underestimate the Lord God.
Our government and all it’s agencies plus the corporations, biotechnology, pharmaceutical/medical industrial complex, military industrial complex, ad nauseum, are all playing with fire.
Remember the Tower of Babel. They wished to be as gods.
Even though it’s kinda scary to pray this, I’m asking the Lord God to bring it all down to ash.
I see no redeeming quality to the evil that is round about us, and I don’t see but a fraction of what the Lord God does.
The “system” is too big now and too corrupt.
Oh, I also pray for redemption and rescue. Of course, that too.
I pray that the Lord would save us from certain destruction.
Amen.
God has heard the prayers of His People. Amen!
I pray for the same. It is the only solution at this point. God is the only one who can fight these demons. Shame on us for letting it get this far. However before the internet we were kept so ignorant due to the msm. I still would be ignorant if it wasn’t for the internet. I used to believe that the government was good lol! I did not know anything. I was so ignorant. I have tried since January 2010 when I woke up to do what I can to inform the ignorant. However it is like peeing in the ocean. This monster is just too big for any mere mortal to tame at this point.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/end-hope
The End of Hope
In the end, the only 2 opposing positions are anarchy (laissez faire) or socialism
My [former] “friends”, all avowed liberals, told me for years I was crazy when I spoke of these things. I did and do point out the difference between crazy and stupid. And here we are. At a precipice of their making. God wins.
notyetbeguntofight: By land mass, yes; by population, no. Most people are concentrated in the blue areas.
I am looking to spend more time in the red areas, myself. If not in person, than, in a state of mind.
Every day feels like a battle..
The RED areas feed the country…and other countries…in Rural Minnesota farmers love God, family, farming, guns, babies…and Trump…during their downtime in the winter they are at the Treehouse, TGP, Breitbart, ZeroHedge…my farm contacts know LOTS more than I ever thought they did…{shame on me}…and they have not bought into the running-not running RDS…no matter what the absolutely pathetic and globalist Farm Bureau tells them…
Many congress / senate people act as if they are fearful of truth
( in part because the NY/ dc media will publicly disparage elected or appointed officials in the dc bubble via the papers ( or online ) ).
A couple thousand years ago ( somber, good friday ), some feared the truth and persecuted a truth sharer.
Some have learned.
But many, many more need to learn to embrace the truths.
Love thy neighbors…
Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue.
Not stupidly – they were in on it – all of them are traitors to our country and to the American people and need to be removed from the buildings they occupy – the buildings fumigated and we start over. Or we will deserve what we get.
It never fails…..each time this is posted , I spend a half hour rereading it. And every time I get a little more furious! Disgraceful….all around
RIGHT THERE WITH YA RICK GOD BLESS AND HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND
R.D.
A lot of unnecessary words. Only one is really needed here.
I would like to add to the following:
The geopolitical conflict that has always existed has now shifted into a digital battle-space. The Intelligence Agencies from these regions are now operating as the backbone of the government that uses them and has become dependent on them. [<- Reread that].
Once you accept the digital-era intelligence apparatus of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and Israel, are now the primary national security mechanisms for stabilization of government; then you accept the importance of those intelligence operations.
Once you understand how foundational those modern intelligence operations have become for the stability and continuity of those governments…… then you begin to understand just how the United States intelligence community became more important than the government that created it.
What prevents the following intelligence apparatuses of China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, The United States and Israel ETC, FROM WORKING TOGETHER?
If an intelligence apparatus can take over a nation. They can take over the world by working as a cooperative.
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There are times when I think AI is already running these ‘operations’.
Truly, Bribem appears to be a shell of a human with (admittingly flawed at this point in time) an AI machine doing his walking, talking, thinking on the sly.
If we all stopped using the ‘electronic gadgets’ we have for a week, would that AI creation change course, as it is programmed to RESPOND to the collective of all data at the moment . . .?
Flashback
https://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/beaton-is-obama-a-manchurian/
“The Manchurian Candidate” was a movie about a U.S. politician who was secretly a “sleeper agent” working to overthrow American democracy. (Manchuria is the region of Russia and China where the agent had been brainwashed into working for the other side.)
So is Obama a Manchurian? My earlier column noted that one of his first moves was to appease the Russians and infuriate our allies by unilaterally canceling defensive missiles in Poland. In exchange for that, the Russians agreed to, well, nothing — that we know of.
Later, Obama promised Russia that he would show more “flexibility” in American defense after being re-elected (a promise he thought he’d made secretly to the Russians but was caught on an open microphone). Russia judged that Obama’s “flexibility” would accommodate its invasion of Crimea. It was right.
And Obama drew a “red line” on the Syrian dictator gassing his people and said the dictator “must go.” The dictator publicly sneered at him, and Obama proved “flexible” about the red line. The dictator and his gas remain.
Iran periodically threatens a second Holocaust (or, in its view, a first one, since it denies the first one ever occurred). And Obama “flexibly” accommodates its march toward a nuclear weapon that could accomplish that.
Meanwhile, he has shown less “flexibility” with Americans. His Internal Revenue Service targets Americans who disagree with his politics, his National Security Agency taps the phones of millions of Americans, his CIA spies on American senators of both parties, and his State Department sits idly by — and he himself goes to bed — as American diplomats are slaughtered in Benghazi.
Many of us don’t require multiple readings to understand the nature of the problem nor the question of what must be done to alleviate it; nor the question of when or where do we begin. The only question that most of us have is how do we stop it once it starts.