The flimsy underpinnings of the Russiagate investigation are by now glaringly obvious to anyone who cares to look, and gale force blowback is gathering in the other direction. From Mark Penn at thehill.com:
The “deep state” is in a deep state of desperation. With little time left before the Justice Department inspector general’s report becomes public, and with special counsel Robert Mueller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.
At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the Hillary Clinton“matter,” but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a yearlong investigation of this won’t come down hard on former FBI Director James Comey and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn’t playing mahjong in a secret “no aides allowed” meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
With this report on the way and congressional investigators beginning to zero in on the lack of hard, verified evidence for starting the Trump probe, current and former intelligence and Justice Department officials are dumping everything they can think of to save their reputations.
But it is backfiring. They started by telling the story of Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, as having remembered a bar conversation with George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. But how did the FBI know they should talk to him? That’s left out of their narrative. Downer’s signature appears on a $25 million contribution to the Clinton Foundation. You don’t need much imagination to figure that he was close with Clinton Foundation operatives who relayed information to the State Department, which then called the FBI to complete the loop. This wasn’t intelligence. It was likely opposition research from the start.
To continue reading: Stopping Robert Mueller to protect us all
Until you see the entire Obama Choom gang going to the gallows I doubt there is any real desperation among the swamp critters.
A new IG of the intelligence community has just been sworn in. One more warrior for the good guys and lawyer up for the bad guys–and DC may have import lawyers to provide enough coverage for everyone.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/21/perfect-timing-intelligence-community-gets-new-inspector-general/
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