I am going to be outlining some details for those of you who walk the deep weeds of understanding on behalf of our nation.
If you are a “tldr” person, this effort is not for you; feel free to continue sitting on the back bench and complaining about stuff. However, if you are a person who absorbs information so that you can confront our ‘representatives‘, then these articles and points are arrows in your quiver.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board is finally starting to get it. They wrote an article this weekend recognizing how the Durham report totally eviscerates the foundation of the Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann special counsel investigation [SEE HERE]. The conclusion they reach is accurate:
…[…] “All of this suggests that the Mueller probe was as much a cover-up as an attempt to find evidence of collusion.” (link)
Welcome to the party WSJ, nice of you to join us. But it’s worse. Much worse.
Keep in mind that John Durham has laid the Mueller/Weissmann probe naked to their enemies. Unfortunately, Weissmann and Mueller don’t have any enemies in Washington DC amid any party {Go Deep to 2021}. Our representatives are not representing. The true DC enemy is ‘We The People‘ – and I choose to fight them.
How entrenched is the defense mechanism? Well, consider a few things:
♦ First, John Durham clearly shows in his 306-page report with a 48-page classified appendix, that Russia did nothing to interfere in the 2016 election. The entire Russian Interference operation was a Clinton fabrication, later enhanced by a Federal Bureau of Investigation who used the fabrication as a cover-up justification to hide their surveillance of the Trump campaign.
♦ Second, accepting the empirical, factual, and inherently true reality of the first point – consider that President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats to retain the Clinton fabrication and FBI lies. Think about this one carefully, the Obama administration expelled Russian diplomats in order to retain a domestic political ruse! President Obama did this *after* CIA Director John Brennan briefed him about the Clinton fabrication.
There were no Russian diplomats involved; there was no Russian election interference; there was no Russian hacking of the DNC; it was all a fraud created by the intelligence community (IC), FBI and Main Justice to support Hillary Clinton’s lies and then cover their own targeting tracks.
♦ Third, Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, with the full support of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, indicted 14 Russian entities under completely bogus pretenses. All of that effort was done to assist the Clinton narrative, cover for Obama and then use the special counsel to cover up the Trump targeting operation. The totally bogus construct explains why the fabricated indictments were sealed in the DOJ National Security Division in perpetuity, thereby keeping the fraudulent construct hidden from public review forever.
♦ Fourth, the only Russian entity who choose to push back against the Mueller/Weissmann fraud was the Russian Concord catering company – literally a ham sandwich operation. The outcome of that Russian confrontation was Weissmann/Mueller telling the DC judge they had to drop the case because any effort to prosecute the nonsense would create a risk to “national security.” Nice escape hatch from righteous sunlight on a case that was founded in nonsense.
Why do I bring these four points up? Because not a single person in Washington DC will mention it, and it’s the reality of the thing. I am committed to fighting this crap, and if the Wall Street editorial page is going to finally join the fight, that’s good. Let’s keep pushing.
The next post is going to showcase another very granular example of the silo system in operation. However, the prior discussion about silos carries forward as the baseline to understand, so here’s that reminder once again.
CURRENT STATUS – Let me uncomplicate the complex, and more importantly, let me propose the outline of a solution.
♦ SILO #1 – Inspector General Michael Horowitz was given instructions by outgoing President Barack Obama to review the internal decision-making inside the FBI, Main Justice and DOJ-NSD as it pertained to the Hillary Clinton classified document scandal.
In early January 2017, IG Horowitz was tasked to review the FBI decisions during the Clinton exoneration and deliver a report on his findings.
First, it is important to remember the DOJ inspector general can only review internal government conduct. The IG does not review or investigate outside involvement and has no authority to compel investigative compliance from outside parties. The Office of Inspector General is an internal review agency.
Second, it is important to remember the DOJ inspector general was not authorized to conduct any oversight of the Dept of Justice National Security Division, DOJ-NSD. During the Obama era, when the DOJ-NSD was created by Attorney General Eric Holder, through the entirety of the Obama era, there was no inspector general oversight into any operations conducted by the DOJ-NSD – that included the FISA process. It was not until later in 2017 when the Trump administration granted the OIG authority to conduct oversight into the DOJ National Security Division.
Think of IG Michael Horowitz as an investigative silo. You will see why this matters.
♦ SILO #2 – Robert Mueller (truthfully Andrew Weissmann) was appointed in May of 2017 by Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, as Special Counsel to investigate Trump-Russia and the reports of prior Russian influence in the 2016 election. Robert Muller was a figurehead – a person in name only to give credibility to the purpose and intent of the group who assembled under his shingle. Andrew Weissmann was the actual manager of the investigation, events and details of the Mueller probe.
On the outward face, in the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey being fired, the Mueller investigation was created to look at Russian interference in the 2016 election – against the background that Comey’s firing by President Trump was related to an intent to impede the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane investigation. However, on the internal dynamic, inside the mechanics of how DC silos are created, the Mueller probe existed to hide the DOJ and FBI weaponization of government that was deployed under the justification of the FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Sometime around June of 2017, while conducting his review of the FBI conduct in the Clinton investigation, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered troubling internal communications between FBI agent Peter Strzok and DOJ-NSD assigned lawyer to the FBI, Lisa Page. Silo #1 now intersects Silo #2.
Lisa Page was the DOJ lawyer advising FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Peter Strzok was the lead FBI counterintelligence agent working on the Clinton email investigation. Lisa Page, Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe were the core of the Clinton investigation and intrinsically linked to the Clinton exoneration as announced by FBI Director James Comey.
IG Horowitz knew of the Clinton investigation and was investigating the details therein. Horowitz did not initially know about the Crossfire Hurricane investigation which, by June of 2017, had subsequently morphed into the Special Counsel Mueller investigation.
Horowitz’s 2017 task only pertained to the Clinton classified documents and decision-making. However, it was the exact same FBI and DOJ people who investigated then exonerated Hillary Clinton, who then opened an investigation of Trump, who then transferred into an expanded Robert Mueller probe.
Horowitz (Silo 1) was bound by requirements of his office to inform Robert Mueller that individuals inside his investigation (Silo 2) were under investigation.
This presented a problem for Robert Mueller and Andrew Weissmann who were conducting a coverup and targeting operation.
Essentially, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were a threat, as they were bringing an IG review into the security of the Mueller silo. Almost immediately, Strzok and Page were removed by Mueller/Weissmann to purge the problematic window they represented.
Mueller and Weismann then continued their operation, absorbing any Main Justice information that had anything to do with Trump-Russia. Simultaneous to their unilateral empowerment, Weissmann and Mueller continued to fabricate a false premise of Russian interference in the 2016 election. This ‘Russia narrative’ was supported as the justification for their continued operation throughout 2017, 2018 and into 2019.
It is important to remember that Mueller/Weissmann had full control over everything that had anything to do with the Russian interference narrative or the Trump-Russia narrative. Any ancillary investigation from any government office that touched on these issues was subsequently absorbed by Weissmann and team.
As an example, this Weissmann/Mueller absorption and control included the FBI case against SSCI Security Director James Wolfe, the man who leaked the Title-1 surveillance warrant (FISA application) deployed by the Crossfire Hurricane team against Carter Page. The Wolfe investigation (April ’17 through January ’18) was conducted by FBI Washington Field Office agent Brian Dugan. James Wolfe was indicted by USAO Jessie Liu for leaking the FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins. However, the evidence file was reviewed by the special counsel, and after threats by the defense team to subpoena Senate Intelligence Committee members, the specific charge of leaking the FISA was dropped from the criminal case.
Because Weissmann/Mueller controlled everything that touched the Trump-Russia issues, in June of 2018 when the Carter Page FISA application was made public, it came from the Weissmann/Mueller team release. This was one of the lesser discussed revelations from the Rod Rosenstein June 2020 testimony about the Mueller probe.
♦ SILO #3 – After taking office in February of 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr received the Mueller report in March, and a debate with Mueller/Weissmann about the content and report release began. In May 2019, AG Barr appointed Special Counsel John Durham to review the FBI operations that initiated the Trump-Russia probe.
It is important to note that John Durham was appointed *after* Bill Barr received the Mueller report from Andrew Weissmann. It is also important to note that despite the originating mandate of Weissmann/Mueller being predicated on their obligation to look into the accusations of Trump-Russia, the Clinton campaign organization of the Trump-Russia narrative does not appear in the Mueller report.
There is nothing about Clinton’s work with the Perkins Coie law firm and lawyer Michael Sussmann to work as a cut-out for the Clinton campaign contacts with Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele, Glenn Simpson, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr or any other substantively manufactured system that was used to create the illusion of the Trump-Russia connections. The absence of that information inside the Mueller report begged the obvious question:
How could Mueller investigate Trump-Russia for two years and never find the origin of Trump-Russia?
After realizing the Mueller report contained none of this information, in May of 2019 Bill Barr appointed John Durham and Silo #3 was created.
Each of the silos, purposefully created by those who operate within the DC systems of political power, were created to have specific usefulness and function. This is how the system operates.
We hear things like “ongoing investigation” as sunlight blocks, or “potential interfering with an investigation” as another technique. Each time a silo is created, the purpose of the silo is to control information and isolate the larger system from scrutiny.
When Robert Mueller (silo 2) appeared before a congressional committee in June 2019 to answer questions about his report, he was asked about the origination of Trump-Russia. Mueller’s jaw-dropping response was, “That was not in my purview.”
Wait, how can your existence be predicated on investigating Trump-Russia, and yet the origin of Trump-Russia is not in your “purview”? See the problem.
Unfortunately, and not accidentally, Robert Mueller was able to avoid scrutiny of never having investigated the origin of Trump-Russia because there was another silo, John Durham (silo 3), to take the heat off him. Each silo is sequentially created to deflect and distract from questioning that surrounds the originating corruption. Attorney General Bill Barr created Silo #3 (Durham), for exactly this reason. Bill Barr was the Bondo, John Durham the spray paint.
John Durham finishes up Silo-3 operations, delivers a report, and now we have a Silo #4 in operation via the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith.
As you can see, each silo creates an internal defense system which also allows media to deflect, ignore and distract. However, in the Trump-Russia story you will note there is a flow to how the silos are sequenced. The silos are designed to absorb information, deflect sunlight and keep accountability away. The silos are constructs, preservation systems, for the DC administrative state.
Ultimately, each silo is created to stop seeing the larger picture – the unlawful targeting of a presidential candidate, and then a subsequent coup against that candidate after the election. The evidence of the weaponized government is in the full story that resides, compartmented, inside purposefully constructed containment silos; each intended to block sunlight upon specific components of the evidence.
♦ SOLUTION – There is a way to bring the sunlight and destroy the silo system. The method is to use the inertia of the construct against itself.
Obviously, I hope you can understand why it would be imprudent to go too deep into this right now. However, suffice to say – here are the broad strokes.
In front of you sits a panel of SEVEN people:
Barr, Rosenstein, Horowitz, Mueller, Weissmann, Durham and Wray.
You do not deconstruct the silos by questioning them separately. Each silo will avoid sunlight by deflecting inquiry to the mechanism of the other.
Instead, you rain sunlight down upon the silos by questioning each of the participants individually while located together.
All prior guidelines remain valid.
You use very granular and specific questions that pertain to the flow-through details that each silo was created to hide.
The usefulness of the silo process is dependent on its ability to stand alone.
When you put direct questions to the assembly of silos, there is nowhere to deflect.
Two days. Eight hours each day. Five rounds of questions. No one reading statements – only questions.
Very, very specific questions.
The goal is sunlight. Rip the Band-Aid off, call the baby ugly, and start the process to fix this crap by exposing it. Restore the First and Fourth Amendments and heal the injury. What we need is a full, uncensored, brutally honest expose’ of how bad things have become and how that system can be dismantled. The existing constitution is the protection; just remove the stuff that is violating it.
From what I remember, Obama expelled the Russians as a pretext for the Russia Russia nonsense. Ergo he was willing to damage relations with Russia to get rid of Trump. That helped no one except the plotters. I didn’t need Durham to tell me that.
Most of the report, I already knew. Of course it is good to get the whole thing out there for Congress to chew on. Not sure they will do anything.
Also, people are saying most people won’t be charged. That is why we need a commission and military tribunals. They committed sedition at the very least.
I have been saying that very thing because I wasn’t sure there was enough evidence of foreign involvement that would rise to a more serious charge.
But after today, reading an article published this morning, it is provable they used at a minimum, the IC of UK, AUS, and Israel as willing participants to advance their respective counties’ own interests to conduct the whole frame up of Trump.
Given that context, I am on board with TREASON by any legal authority, preferably a military tribunal
These acts, while vile and reprehensible (and possibly illegal), do not fit the constitutional definition of treason.
I have made that same argument on here repeatedly and was chided as you are doing now.
The military version is UCMJ 106a Espionage.
Military Tribunals under Insurrection Act
You should consider reading it.
18 USC Ch. 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
§2384. Seditious conspiracy
That was my previous argument.
A conspiracy to spy on, falsify evidence for, and withhold information from the Commander in Chief – with the express purpose of impeaching him from office *is possibly illegal*? Perhaps we have a different definition of seditious conspiracy.
They’re all on the take from China…how is that not aiding and abetting the enemy?
Sounds pretty treasonous to me.
Doesn’t treason require being at war?
Or once the government (‘President’ Biden or the actually Obama) declares China to be an enemy; which has happeened: therefore, Biden, Obama, and most of Congress are guilty of treason.
Treason extends beyond the limitations of the Constitution. The organized overthrow of the government of the Constitutional Repaublic of the United States by the unconstitutional 4th branch; so is the participation of the US/billionair funded NGOs in the world wide migration invasion treason (against the legacy population both Black and White); and so are the treaties and agreements with the UN, the WEF. CDC, WHO, etc.: they all are contrary to the Constitution and the laws pursuant to it.
Oh, JoAnn Leichliter, and we are as free to update or change the meaning of Treaon as the left is to change the meanings and even insert new but unwritten constitutional amendments. Two can play that game; for sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; something mother tell their little children in their first lesson in justice.
It is all there albeit unwittingly in George Papadopoulos’s book “Deep State Target”. He, a 28 y o wannabe was unknowingly used by an Israeli acquaintance who introduced him to his (the Israeli’s) fiance who worked for Alexander Downey, the Australian ambassador to Great Britain who arranged for Geo Papadop… to meet for drinks after Papadop…had been told the Russians had info on HRC, after which the Aus Ambass told the Brits and if I remember correctly contacted the Americans and that started “Crossfire Hurricane “. Sundance…if you haven’t read this book, you should. Lots of dots in it that are now connected. When I read it, I wasn’t sure Papadop… was telling the truth, but now everything he said has turned up in the Durham report and more. Papadop…was targeted from the get go because he was young, naive and ambitious to get into politics.
See Larry Johnson’s article 7:15 AM TODAY on TGP.
It matches what you say and MORE!
Oh, there is so much more.
Stephan Halper, a shady organization that recruited an unknown Papadopoulis to work for him in London, an introduction to a man named Misfud (or something like that) who told him the Russians had dirt on Hillary and now seems to have disappeared, an American honeypot sicced on him, an all expense paid trip to London to give a speech, characters who came in and out of his life at odd times, a consultant who insisted on paying him in cash which he left in Greece an act that saved him from being incarcerated for a long time as FBI agents were waiting for him when he landed in USA and who proceeded to search his bags and seemed taken aback when they didn’t find anything i criminating. One even told him, “This is what happens when you work for Trump” which sounded too made up to be true when the book was published.
“Deep State Target” reads like a political thriller from the p.o.v. of a 28 y.o. naive youngster who even though he went to jail for”lying to the FBI” never really understood what was going on. I wonder if he does now that the Durham report has laid it all out. Like Misfud, he seems to have disappeared from the news. As has Carter Page.
They even tried to frame him with $10,000 cash.
He was smart enough to leave it with a lawyer before returning to the USA.
Where the Customs people were waiting…To charge him for having the $10,000?
Which he didn’t have on him!
Carter Page got screwed as well and just as hard?
And punishment by firing squad!
I wouldn’t waste a bullet on them. Old school – HANG
Agree – firing squad too good for them – must be hanging.
Sect. Austin, Gen. Milley, and Adm. Rachael are going to get right on that!
Russia has become the Left’s favorite bogeyman since the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. And they have been able to co-opt old Cold Warriors by waving the “Putin is just a commie in sheep’s clothing” cape. Putin is not a liberal democrat, but Russia is not the U.S.S.R., nor does it wish to be.
You’re mistaken. The “Left” (not exactly sure who that entails, but let’s say “progressives”) do not view Putin or Russia that way. They view the US as an imperialist power that is trying to exert control over Russia.
The Left really lost their minds when Putin made remarks condemning homosexuality prior to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Their problem with Putin is he is NOT a conmie
But, but, but … The Russians spent $200k at Facebook! Now let’s take apart THAT myth.
Actually it was $150k but what’s a few thousand dollars?
Obama clearly stated on an open mic, “tell Vlad I can do more after the election”.
We all heard it and yet we’re never given an explanation?
Obama decimated Syria. And he would reference Levant or ISIL at a time when everyone called it ISIS? Levant was a very large Muslim territory in history.
It was only after Putin entered Syria (on their invite/with Iran helping) did US efforts to destabilize Syria end. And the Levant territory idea was no longer.
It is my opinion Obama was attempting to recreate Levant and since Russia got in the way (remember US was within Syrian borders without permission, Russia was asked to help defend Syria) Russia/Putin were new targets of US Intel services.
And now US states Russia has invaded Ukraine and caused migration/death of millions? Obama’s US did the same to Syria.
Clearly its all happening now. 40 satellite phones have been handed out, and of course they have their bunkers!
A military tribunal overseen by the likes of Austin and Milley?
That’s a whole other silo.
Those aren’t silos…They’re cesspools?
Did you not read sundances post? If you’re a TLDR…then move on.
If not, get on your phone. You have reps to call. You have Senators to call. You have an email to write and send to them all. YOU need to tell them we want this to happen. Those silos all in one room at one time to be questioned specifically.
A million Paul Reveres can’t be stopped.
Sorry?
Lindsay, Tim, and Nancy aren’t going to do anything but “let it play out’.
Well, there is that accepting the money thing? But…?
“You use very granular and specific questions that pertain to the flow-through details that each silo was created to hide.
The usefulness of the silo process is dependent on its ability to stand alone.
When you put direct questions to the assembly of silos, there is nowhere to deflect.
Two days. Eight hours each day. Five rounds of questions. No one reading statements – only questions.
Very, very specific questions.”
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Okay. So how is this ever going to happen?
Who will ask these questions?
How will we know if they are asked and what the answers are?
We’ll know when we’re supposed to know.
You dont expose the details of an attack plan in advance of doing it.
What we do know now is that a foundation is being laid.
It would have to be a congressional oversight subpoena.
With the willingness to enforce it using the Capitol Policec Swat team which will precipitate “a two way firing range.” Let be so.
GET ON YOUR PHONE AND CALL YOUR DARN REPS. Sundace’s first darn paragraph calls out this exact BS right here. And I’ve read several posts like this….
Just think in the time it takes you to read several comments and come up with some BS reply, you can take this blog by SD, digest it, and put together a very pointed email to your rep and your darn Senators. You can do that either before or after you call them and leave messages.
I have sent to my reps over the past year an average of at least 2 emails a week with really good info gained here…..form letters if that . These people put you on anoyance list. With Turdberville it automatically generates a form response. It is ridiculous. With Carl actually on a phone conference town hall of sorts was asked my question only to be ignored. It first goes through their very young staff. It is an exercise in futuility. Was months before I was told they can’t open articles sent on their govt. emails. They purposely stay in the dark (silo) My state is 80% Trump.
I don’t disagree. I’m in CT. My Rep is Corey and my two Senators are Blumenthal and Murphy (directly involved in Ukraine- several trips made there). It is futile at times but must be done. You don’t stop trying to put out a fire because the first two or three glasses of water didn’t work. Instead, you increase the amount of water until the fire’s out.
The annoyance list- talk about dereliction of duty.
I don’t even trust them to know what questions to ask….these people are really in the dark.
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Podesta was the very first person from Hilary’s camp to smear the Russians and President Elect Trump. It was broadcast live on the MSM immediately after the election. I remember it quite distinctly.
These people are the creepiest of creeps.
Podesta likes Pizza and hot dogs.
And thorium
Don’t claim to be a lawyer but is it possible for 20 or so Red State AG’s to somehow go after and file lawsuits/charges against those who seemed to have violated so many laws?
If the Feds are mostly corrupt, protecting their own, where else do Patriot American citizens go for justice?
I do like the idea of these 7 sitting for hours on end, day after day being asked tough questions. I just don’t have much faith in Congress having the balls to ask the tough questions for the purpose of exposing anything.
Which is why I would like to see if possible Red State AG’s take control of any new investigations.
Not a bad idea, but with corrupt, Communist judges expect such cases to be thrown out because of a “lack of standing” to bring such a lawsuit.
It will not matter if, in fact, the attorneys-general do indeed have “standing,” because the corrupt,Communist judge will say that they do not.
Any FedOfficial will ignore anyting from a state court.
“If the Feds are mostly corrupt, protecting their own, where else do Patriot American citizens go for justice?”
Another good question: outside of the local gun stores, perhaps Patriotic Americans could try “peaceful demonstrations,” but we know what that will mean!
The above two AGs are suing Biden and alphabet agencies and so far are doing GREAT! See Del Bigtree video referenced above.
These two AGs are constitutional POWER HOUSES! https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/missouri-vs-biden-one-of-the-most-important-lawsuits-of-our-lifetime/
If Alvin Bragg can do, a State AG sure can. They made the rules play by the rules they made and make them adhere their own rules.
We are all being held hostage by a unelected regime
Perhaps President Trump is finally accepting the fact that these people aren’t merely incompetent. Instead, they are evil.
Sounds like he needs our help.
So basically isn’t Durham saying it is OK for a group of people to make up a complete lie, spread it to the media, while covering up their own crimes in order to try and take down a sitting President?
No harm no foul because as a District Attorney he found no crimes.
What he is saying is that while the decision to release the Durham report without redactions or edits was done to prevent Durham as serving as a Whistle Blower (because somehow I feel like he would go that route if the report wasn’t published) it is now the MEDIA’s job to cover for the deep state intelligence by declaring over and over that it’s a nothing-burger.
And meanwhile, the DOJ will not prosecute itself and the congress presently lacks the balls to set up a special prosecutor to prosecute the crimes of the DOJ and FBI and CIA.
It’s not that Congress lacks the balls.
They simply have no interest in exposing the truth and a lot of interest in keeping it hidden.
True. But, they also lack balls.
yes, in bright bold red letters…durham is saying exactly that. “the agency makes mistakes, and many of them are criminal violations, but we don’t prosecute our own”.
which leads me back to the 10,000th time I have stated this:
the ONLY WAY TO PROSECUTE THE CRIMINALS IS THAT CONGRESS AUTHORIZE AN INDEPENDENT COUNSEL, with investigative AND prosecutorial power. It’s the ONLY way legally and practically that any of these criminals can every face am objective, straight foward examination of facts and their actions WITH A FULL UNDERSTANDING that criminal prosecutions WILL LEAD TO INDICTMENTS.
If congress does not act to authorize said independent counsel, then there is a very high probability that at some point in time, each of the major players are going to face street justice….my guts tells me this is going to happen. It would be safer for all of them to just face criminal indictments and take their chances. There are many people more than just a little angry about this entire conspiracy…some people have lost everything they had…and have nothing to lose.
God Bless America
Congress doesn’t have the authority to appoint an independent counsel with prosecutorial power – that is an executive branch authority.
Congress has broad power under Article III “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Which resulted a passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789. That act authorized appointments of marshal and attorney per judicial district and defined their authority.
That’s not prosecutorial power. Congress doesn’t have the power to prosecute, thus it doesn’t have the power to appoint special or independent prosecutors. That is an executive branch function.
Impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate is the Congressional expression of prosecutorial power.
Yes they do and yes they can.
So manhy TLDRs
No they don’t and no they can’t.
Let me attempt to settle all of your disagreements.
My understanding is that Congress can ‘pass legislation’ to create a special counsel (that is presumably answerable to them).
However, passing legislation of this sort requires the approval or veto of the POTUS. Ain’t gonna happen. The House could override, but that is highly unlikely.
So, it appears can create, but has to have a signature or override to proceed.
I may be wrong, but my cursory review indicates this to be accurate.
They…Congress…House has the power to implement Marshall law….where the security of the country is in jeopardy and the military takes into their hands. Would be interesting how the corrupt top brass would handle this…It would all be laid bare.
“To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union…”
“To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia…as may be employed in the service of the United States…” – Art. 1 Sec. 8
yes and not absolutely.
congress, specifically the house judiciary committee may itself or through subcommittee determine to authorize a independent counsel. While the “ethics committe” in 1999 suspended such action, there is NOTHING IN THE LAW that prohibits congress from the power to do so.
in constitutional law, there is no ambiguities related to how state attorney generals MAY CHOSE to assign their own Special Counsels to investigate AND TO PROSECUTE FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN CRIMINAL MATTERS…re: SUPRA.
article 3, congress has powers, some almost nearly limitless in terms of power. While I tend to agree GENERALLY that those powers are adjusted according to some balance and shared power..
let me be clear….as daylight. The Department of Justice is not ONLY AN EXECUTIVE AGENCY….It IS ALSO A PART OF THE JUDICIARY BRANCH. How can the Justice Department, not be a part of the executive and ALSO a part of the judiciary. What branch of government provides checks and balances to IT? The answer is of course, CONGRESS. So this is a very special and very important aspect of what the founders and the constitution they created attempted to solve….and yet, for a very very long time, has not been fully challenged and settled.
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHER?
or set it to the other side. WHO WATCHES CONGRESS?
see the problem?
the point is this…ultimately congress has more power. It has more power because this is how the law in its present form, relatively consistent with a long arc, has proven to be. The department of justice can be controlled by congress…the FBI can be controlled by congress…not the other way around.
the check and the balance of a rogue agency, even IF it presents itself as top law enforcement and top JUSTICE agency (determines whether to prosecute or not), is provided in the constitution. Congress.
title 1 does that. not the other way around.
think of it this way….the DOJ and the FBI have proven incapable of properly investigating and prosecuting its own criminal violations. And the SC figures have proven incapable or unmotivated…
so what IS the solution? This is where congress can construct the power, using title 1, just as state attorney generals may also INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE FEDERAL OFFICIALS (even congressional members!) with special counsels of their own: SUPRA.
What congress can choose to do, is set up such a SUPRA…it would be uncontroversial to the constitution…it would be basically referring the matter to a state ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR PROSECUTION.
the “political investigation” from congress, I have no interest. that is show and tell, with no bite. It sells tickets to a show that never ends with criminals going to jail, or getting fired.
an INDEPENDENT COUNSEL selected by Congress can have teeth…this would be solving a “problem” that is as obvious. It would not violate separation of powers or co equal powers.
it would settle the problem that even the founders had trouble solving.
who watches the watchers?
I state these things not as an attorney or an expert of any kind…But someone who is genuinely curious how to solved problems.
this is a very big problem….and anyone who refuses to acknowledge that this problem MUST BE SOLVED.
well…pardon me, but that kind of thinking is exactly WHY we are in this problem. No one seems to know or even care to solve problems.
oh, this and that prevents this and that….no the law doesn’t allow it.
do you even hear what you are saying?
have you noticed that this is not the time to be uncreative…
the revolution ..the transfer of power…demands that we reform…and yes, this means challenging the long held assumptions about from WHERE POWER IS DERIVED.
power is derived from those who are bold and willing to take the risks.
God Bless America
And remember there isn’t enough security to protect them and their families 24/7/365.
Again, congress will NOT be coming to the rescue.
For 99% of them (both parties) exposure of the truth represents an existential threat to their gravy train.
Many pretend to care about this “new” information and feign outrage to exploit the optics for personal gain, but they already KNOW the truth and have known it for a very long time.
If they were actually inclined to DO anything about it they would have done so way back in 2017 when Republicans controlled everything.
I vaguely remember PUTIN saying……. “Don’t fck with us.”
I thought Hillary said that…
She said: “We will all hang together, if he is elected”
“You use very granular and specific questions that pertain to the flow-through details that each silo was created to hide.
The usefulness of the silo process is dependent on its ability to stand alone.
When you put direct questions to the assembly of silos, there is nowhere to deflect.
Two days. Eight hours each day. Five rounds of questions. No one reading statements – only questions.
Very, very specific questions.”
And even after all the sunlight and exposure… who is going to prosecute? How will there be accountability? My thinking is the military (military tribunals) taking over is the only way. However, our current military (Obama purged numerous Patriots within the ranks and promoted deviants) in it’s current form (woke and weak) doesn’t inspire any confidence.
What’s left?
A hopium idea:
We have to get Trump back in office.
Day 1 – amongst other orders of business (firings, etc), declare a national emergency under the Insurrection Act; reinstate Michael Flynn back to active duty, executive order promotion to ‘General of the Army (5 stars)’ (that carries extraordinary military powers), place in direct command of ALL forces, TURN HIM LOOSE!
It will get cleaned up quickly!
Just a dream, but sometimes dreams come true!
What’s left? A drag queen military tribunal, featuring pole swinging and lap dances.
Use the patriots that are left with the support of retired military – (can they be called up for special duty?). I think many true patriots would sign up.
Turns out the only ones not involved in the Trump-Russian collusion were Trump and Russia.
EXCELLENT reporting, analysis, and proposed solution! Thank you.
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Off topic: PLEASE Consider switching to a conservative-friendly payment processor for donations(ie dump PayPal).
He has one, but you may have to turn off your ad blocker to see it. It’s a yellow box under the “Donate” button.
Thanks. Will do.
Still doesn’t work. After you donate it asks you to CREATE AN ACCOUNT which turns out to be paypal.
Hmmm . . . I don’t have to create an account. Maybe contact the site???
Using the yellow box to make donation does not to create an account, only the PayPal link asks that.
you do not need to “create an account”…just click through all of that…you can send your donations without making a paypal account.
note: I’ve been doing this for years with ebay. The paypal is there because that is how ebay and paypal have developed their payment system. But there is no requirement to create a paypal account. Ebay would prefer you create an account. Paypal would prefer you create an account…But there is nothing preventing you from paying for your purchase directly from a credit card, debit card. It’s just a business trick to make you assume you must create a paypal account. But you will find if you click past all of that, no paypal account is created. Some kind of processing system in the backend from your bank account, credit card or debit card to the “sellor” (or in the case of CTH, the donation site), must handle the payment. This is normal. Nothing unusual about it. The reason why for instance a company like amazon does not have paypal that pops up, is that amazon ITSELF operates the pay processing (through a variety of different service providers, depending on your payment method/bank/card). For ebay, they have chosen paypal, because there is a contract to handle the payment processing between paypal and ebay…which then clears the payment, and delivers the funds to the sellor from the buyer. For CTH, it is similar, but direct, given there is only one entity that receives payments. So the payment processing is must more efficient, meaning the maximum amount of your donation actually goes to CTH…I assume this is the reason why that was chosen, versus trying to create some custom specialized payment processing system that would invariably result in heavy fees…fees that you would probably not be pleased with, knowing that a high percentage of your donations never makes it to CTH. Versus paypal, which has a very low cost fee, tiny.
tldr: just click past “create account”. You can make a donation without creating a paypal account.
God Bless America
Total Admiration and gratitude for your in depth analysis. Total agreement with your conclusions and WSJ notwithstanding; how do we get this panel of criminals to the court(congress)? Does McCarthy have the courage and strength of character to really go after this gang??? Do we have ANY congresscritters who do??? Sorry to be pessimistic but I have lost faith in our system of Government. I think we are just screwed.
Sorry, there are few, if any real leaders in Congress. Don’t look there for an assist. They are all, money grubbing grifters.
We the People are the only ones with the power to take care of this.
McCarthy can’t even release the rest of the J6 videos he promised. Loser.
I pray someone in Congress will pick up on this and do precisely what is recommended here. And then I pray for their safety.
Rosenstien,Weismann ,Horowitz
Thank you, Sundance!
So after all this are people really going to doubt bartsibrel.com when he evidences the moon landing was a fake?
Why just one big lie? Why not many? Is deception comfortable until it reaches certain levels?
The existing constitution is the protection; just remove the stuff that is violating it.
excellent Sundance..thank you
excellent.
noting: can we also have carter page seated and apply some specific questions also? maybe mifsud, papadopoulos?
God Bless America
God Bless America
It’s all a big shell game to protect the corrupt system.
Onward Christian Soldiers. Awaiting the
Call.
Man, Sundance….Your clear thinking thru this Machiavellian process amazes me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Obama continued the ruse. We know why…
Even without wallowing around in the weeds, I knew that 1) Russia never interfered in our elections (but the Deep State did); 2) Ovomit expelled the Russians to either cover up something or to start something, and 3) every shenanigan they pulled was to keep themselves in power by hook or by crook and to cover their tracks.
This was no mastermind at work here, and the ONLY reason they succeeded is because all of Congress, many of the agencies (FBI, DOJ, etc), and all of the MSM were in cahoots with them!
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To believe that a war with Russia has not been planned and in the works for over a decade now, is to ignore reality.
That the build-up for that war got delayed for four years while PDJT wielded leverage and negotiations instead of sniping and accusations that Hillary would have wrought, must be navigated with some tip-toeing.
But they do not have tip-toe artists—they have bumbling Joe Bribem who was in on the origins, the accusations, the cover-up, and the persecutions.
My prediction is that SLO-Joe will be sacrificed on the Deep State alter as the “leader”of these processes, and by ridding our country of him, the populace is supposed to be so grateful and relieved such that the remainder of foul actors will skate . . .
Sundance
Gatekeeper YOU ROCK
TEA
What is tdlr?
Chase…: The slang acronym should have read “TLDR,” as in “Too long, didn’t read.”
Ahhh ok. Thanks
Too long, didn’t read….
Sundance, I am glad to see that you think there’s still hope for the WSJ, but they still publish that loathesome crone Peggy Noonan as their featured Op-Ed every Saturday, so I don’t share your glad tidings about that formerly reliable newspaper. Just this week, she repeated the myth that Russia hacked the DNC server and shared the emails, and of course that’s what the “Mueller” report says “appeared” to happen. But the only source we have for real information on that topic is the sworn testimony of the President of Crowdstrike to the House Intelligence Committee in December, 2017. Quoting the RCP report linked below:
Later, he proposed that the Russians could have captured the contents of the email server via screenshots. Sure, 70 GB of screenshots. Peggy Noonan and her readers will buy that.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/hidden_over_2_years_dem_cyber-firms_sworn_testimony_it_had_no_proof_of_russian_hack_of_dnc_123596.html
From the article you linked:
“In its investigation, Henry said, CrowdStrike “saw activity that we believed was consistent with activity we’d seen previously and had associated with the Russian Government. … We said that we had a high degree of confidence it was the Russian Government.”
Sounds exactly like the the 51 former CIA/IC officials on the Hunter Biden Laptop.
Durham omits the DNC hack from his report.
Could it be that going down that path would have led to the unspeakable…..a murder?
Unfortunately, I believe the ultimate solution to this crap would have to be a lot uglier and messier than your proposed solution.
WSJ does not have clean hands. Holman Jenkins (who is on the WSJ Editorial Board) wrote dozens of articles about Orange Man Bad….even though he knew from his co-worker, Ali Watkins, that this whole thing was a scam.
Ali Watkin is the nice lady who had the Senate Intel Committee leak everything to her.
OK… I’m not!
Putting the Un-Magnificent Seven in a hearing together where they can’t hide and deflect to the other silo would definitely be worth watching.
In order to expose it we must boil the sap down and out of the putrid goo arises a lieutenant of Lucifer…Barrack Obama. If there’s any justice in this universe he would do hard time at Guantanamo- for treason. For life.
Your “solution” SD … would attack (with the intent to destroy) America’s “Institutions”. That would be defined as leading an “Insurrection”. Surely you would be jailed as a traitor to America before any hearing involving these men would ever happen.
The scoundrels run for cover behind the sanctity of our vaunted Institutions while completely ignoring the ROT within those Institutions. It makes me physically sick.
They would shut the internet down. It is their plan anyway. Isn’t it?
Agencies becoming institutions is the problem;
a dream solution would get rid of unionized federal employees (pay them enough to set up their own private retirement accounts) and put a limit on how long (7 years or less) that any individual can work for the federal government would be a great start to putting the power, and responsibility, back onto the elected (and if judges appointed) officials and no sweetheart jobs given to political contributors during the last year of any Administration and if given such a position they have to leave when the Administration changes.
Where’s the evidence Schifty?
Where’s the justice?
He’s … “seen things” … ohhhh mommaaaaaaa … the “things” he’s seen
Anthony Bourdain is unavailable for comment.
Great detail reporting. Key pivot point and moment of singularity – Obama becomes president of the United States. Essentially, our world changed.
I guess if this were a criminal case, we would consider where we are to still be part of the discovery phase.
We are a nation of laws.
Don’t throw out the laws. Don’t blow up the system. Just remove those who violate the laws.
It may seem overwhelming. It’s going to be like weeding a garden that’s been allowed to become overgrown with weeds for years.
Two quotes from John Adams come to mind: “Facts are stubborn things.” and “The best time to prune the branch is when the saw is sharp.”
Just think of all the people in congress who knew the truth and went before the cameras and said
LET THIS PLAY OUT THE WAY THEY WANT IT TOO, SHAME ON Graham and others who wouldn’t go to the
mat for the President back then, Your all a bunch of cowards and I pray that all of you get kicked out of congress when the next election comes along..
Thank YOU SD for all the great work that you do, We are all so lucky to be able to read the truth here
Okay, great suggestion. Now who is going to do it?
Wow – Wall Street Journal doing journalism!
More please.
May the bright light of the Sun continue to shine, make these traitors squirm and truly let the citizens begin to see just how badly they have been manipulated with lies upon lies to the point they thought it was okay to denigrate their neighbors and hate on family and friends,
and then bless these same people with the courage to own up to their willfully being deluded and begin the healing process they must undertake by repairing the damages they were encouraged to make all for the sake of a Clinton dirty trick.
President Trump (then Candidate Trump) was right – she does belong in jail. She is the one the agencies need to point their fingers at; fire those who played along and clean up their agencies or be defunded one Congressional budget at a time.
I would like to know what the swamps useful idiot, the eternally self recused Jeffry Beauregard Sessions has to say about the toothless Durham report. since none of this bullshit would’ve been possible if he just did his JOB!
Thanks so much, Sundance. Whenever I mention the diplomats people look at me like I’m nuts!
bottom line – both republicans and democrats were in on the cover up
or at the very least turned the other way
That is genius in its simplicity.. question them all together, but look how much you had to know to see it.
Also, Have the hearing streaming live and covered on cable. Public questioning of these miscreants.
I would also like to see John Brennan present to represent the point of view of the CIA. I’d like to see him squirm.
WHO questions these people?
WHAT department, under WHAT proceeding?
“Unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in suspension or loss of access privileges, disciplinary action, and civil and/or criminal penalties.” – Warning banner found on EVERY government computer.
What I want to know is why is NO ONE being prosecuted for accessing the FISA Database for political information? Why will no Congressmen ask that question in a hearing? This is a criminal violation of the law, BLACK-LETTER LAW.
The silo system seems to fit the old adage that the best defense is a good offense. Block investigations and sunlight (defense) by creating another investigation (offense) that prevents looking backwards. This post really clarified the silo system for me. Curious that if Jack Smith’s position is a silo in itself (silo 4), presumably to block sunlight from reaching into the assuredly damning Trump declassified documents, would not his inclusion be needed along with the other sorry seven? Would they create another silo to block any inquisition and what entity would would be willing and able to do the questioning. No answers needed. Just hypothetical at this point and look forward to the next installment.
The only way those seven miscreants would ever incriminate each other–or themselves–is thru the gratuitous use of rendition in a spectacular island getaway….say, Gitmo.
But any chance of that happening is slim and none.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/kt_mcfarland_fbi_doj_and_cia_rigged_the_last_2_elections_and_they_will_rig_2024.html
We aren’t voting ourselves out of this.
Looking forward to part 2!
Your skills at TRUE investigative journalism is just brilliant, Sundance.
And, this is all extremely complicated to comprehend too.
It truly requires a brilliant mind, tremendous effort and excellent analytical and writing skills to accomplish what you have accomplished.
Thank you.
Bongino: How Obama Admin got the Kislyak call without a paper trail
May 17, 2020
https://www.independentsentinel.com/bongino-how-obama-admin-got-the-kislyak-call-without-a-paper-trail/
The facts are that the Obama administration listened in on General Flynn’s phone calls or were getting transcripts. Permission to do that comes in three ways: from a criminal wiretap, a FISA warrant, or listening in on foreigners and if an American is caught up during that conversation, you can ask for the American to be unmasked.
Dan Bongino found a fourth way which leads right to Barack Obama.
[big snip]
THE TRAP
If the government is surveilling Kislyak, how do they know who he is speaking with? They know Flynn is vacationing in the Dominican Republic so they have a target location. But how do they get Kislyak to call Flynn?
They might announce sanctions against Russians or they might expel 35 Russian diplomats and close two Russian compounds for interference in the 2016 presidential election, Bongino says.
That is what they did. On December 28th, Obama signed Executive Order #13757 which enacted sanctions on several Russians and Russian entities. On the next day, December 29, 2016, Obama announced the closing of two Russian compounds and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats. Why did they do this after Election Day? It was always confusing.
They did it because they knew the announcement of sanctions against Russia would “absolutely guarantee” that Kislyak would call Flynn.
It allowed them to listen in on the call. This would leave no paper trail.
Dan thinks the unmasking on this call [only] is a distraction.
They kept the Flynn investigation open without any “derogatory information” but they needed something else. This call with Kislyak gave them the reason to threaten Flynn with the bogus Logan Act, an obscure Act from 1799 that is deemed unconstitutional by most scholars.
In the Statement of Offense against Flynn (excerpt below) the devious Brandon Van Grack conflates the executive order on sanctions with the White House statement on the expulsions. They were two separate actions, a day apart, and he made them into one for a reason.
Robert Mueller, The FBI And Obama’s Culture Of Corruption
https://newswithviews.com/robert-mueller-the-fbi-and-obamas-culture-of-corruption/
Protect Robert Mueller? Jail Him
https://newswithviews.com/protect-robert-mueller-jail-him/
Trivia question…. FBI lawyer pleads guilty to altering an e-mail in the Trump/Russia operation. What was his name and his sentence?
That’s America. The only way it will change is when the enforcers fear us more than they fear death. That’s nothing new. It’s been the way of governments and the humans who populate them throughout human existence.
Clinesmith
Yep, Durham worked hard for that one. Punishment? IDR, did he ever lose his license to practice law, at all? I know he never saw the inside of a jail. I remember something about family and a newborn, bla, bla.
Gotta love the club. They protect their own. That’s why conventional warfare will never defeat them.
As far as I could find, Clinesmith is the only attorney in U.S. history to plead guilty to lying to the tribunal yet escaped being disbarred. As an attorney for roughly 25 yrs., believe me when I say that being caught lying to the court is a guaranteed referral to the grievance committee and a prompt hearing to revoke the law license. Clinesmith’s license was temporarily suspended, and after a short period quietly reinstated by the DC bar.
I closed my practice when the vax wrecked my health and my business, and I have spent the last couple of years soul-searching about whether I want to return to practicing. As a trial lawyer in a small town, there were often times when I struggled to explain the unexplainable to my clients or disabuse someone’s notions about how the justice system works. After Clinesmith and other CFH related blatant examples of our two-tiered justice system, I find I am too heartsick to run cover for a system that is not, as claimed, a system of laws and not men.
Kevin Clinesmith, and I always felt that that was a fake name and a fake person.