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Kunstler: Capture the Flag
A titanic battle between Mr. Trump and his antagonists looms in the political gloaming of the new year. It may not be resolvable by conventional means since the Intel and Justice agencies have been leading a two-year coup-by-subterfuge against the president, with Robert Mueller as the spearhead, leaving a slime-trail of sedition and prosecutorial misconduct that they are now desperately trying to cover up. How then can the corrupted Department of Justice and its stepchild, the FBI, be relied on to adjudicate these unprecedented crimes against themselves?
The answer may be coming next week when the lame duck session of House Oversight Committee calls John Huber to appear. Huber is the federal prosecutor out of the Salt Lake City district office who was assigned by the erstwhile Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into the manifold irregularities of the RussiaGate matter. It’s not clear how much Mr. Huber can tell the committee about an ongoing case, but he hasn’t made a peep all year, and if his testimony suggests that he’s twiddling his thumbs in the sagebrush, it will inform you that we are headed into real civil war. Too much incriminating information is already loose in the public domain about Hillary Clinton and the DNC colluding with Russia, and something has to be done about it.
It’s obvious that the Obama White House, along with CIA director John Brennan, and Director of National intel James Clapper, used the FBI and the DOJ (with support from the nation’s two leading newspapers), and help from Britain’s MI6 intel shop, to run illegal operations against Mr. Trump during the 2016 election, and then persisted in acts to delegitimize him after Jan 20, 2017. All this, of course, is apart from whether you like Mr. Trump or approve of his policies.
It’s well documented elsewhere that Robert Mueller’s mission to detect election “collusion” between Russia and Mr. Trump was a bust, and that all he has to show for it is a roll of contrived convictions for lying to federal prosecutors and the FBI. The case of General Flynn lies at the center because he served as Mr. Obama’s Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and he knew too much about US shenanigans around the notorious Iran nuclear deal and other shady doings. They were alarmed when he went over to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and determined to disable him. Once Mr. Trump appointed Gen. Flynn Director of National Security, Mr. Obama engineered an “incident” in late December of 2016 (confiscating Russian properties in Maryland over alleged election meddling and laying down new sanctions), that prompted Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to phone Gen. Flynn, the incoming DNS. US Intel was prepared for that set-up and recorded the call, which required the illegal “unmasking” of Flynn, a nicety of spycraft. Thus, the FBI had a transcript of the phone call and were easily able to entrap Flynn in mis-remembering the particulars of the call. Where is that transcript?
The predicate for this operation was completely dishonest: that incoming senior government officials are forbidden to speak to foreign ambassadors. In fact it is their duty to consult with foreign officials, especially in Mr. Flynn’s job, and a long-established tradition of every presidential transition. The coup cadres of the Deep State used The New York Times and The Washington Post to persuade the public that Gen. Flynn had done something treasonous, when it was nothing more than routine transition business.
Gen. Flynn’s sentencing paperwork was released a few days ago. The question is: will he be free to speak about the process he was put through? If there was any contingency against him speaking freely in his sentencing guidelines, it hasn’t been publicized. In any case, he deserves to be pardoned, and I believe that Mr. Trump will do exactly that after Mr. Mueller releases his long-awaited report.
Others have made the point that the Mueller Report will be a handbook for the impeachment of Mr. Trump by the House. The house can run hearings on that until the cows come home, but they’re unlikely to get a conviction in the Senate. The larger question is whether Mr. Mueller himself should be subject to prosecution and there’s plenty of evidence that he has been involved in misconduct himself going back to the shady Uranium One deal when he was the FBI Director. It’s obvious that he was brought onto the RussiaGate case in the Spring of 2017 not to find the truth about “collusion” but to attempt to save the reputation of the FBI and the DOJ using all the considerable power of a special prosecutor to cover the trail of official misdeeds.
There is enough ill-feeling and bad faith about all that activity to suggest that President Trump will have to set in motion some kind of extraordinary adjudication process. There have been rumblings for more than a year that he might accomplish that by declaring an emergency and bringing on military tribunals to sort this mess out. Until now, that has seemed farfetched to me. Not anymore. If, over the weeks turning the corner to 2019, Mr. Huber or Mr. Mueller or any of the House and Senate Committees don’t show any progress in airing out the official criminality among government employees, then we are headed into a titanic conflict between two camps in government. The financial markets may already be signaling the distress coming down the road as these two camps prepare to play capture the flag.
160 Comments on "Kunstler: Capture the Flag"
Davy on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 4:59 am
OH boy a two part nedernazi series on Brexit. Wow, neder you have one colorful mind there. When is the last time you thought about anything besides Brexit and US CW2? Take a breather before you stroke out. Between Euro CW2 social and economic and Brexit you may not keep your mind. I bet it hurts thinking the US might be the last man standing? LOL
Cloggie on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 5:57 am
Caramba!
Hard-right party enters parliament in El-Andaluz, Spain:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/09/far-right-andalucia-seville-vox-party-shockwave-spanish-politics
After Franco, the Spanish Right is back in business. Wonder what George Soros has to say about this development:
https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/1069315775935197186
(That picture under Marine le Pen’s congratulations is not from Marine but from our Mobster)
George Orwell and Ernest Hemmingway already have been seen packing their bags to fight them on Spanish soil. I mean somebody has to fight nationalism, that’s what Anglos are for.
#GlobalBritain
#GlobalUSA
Don’t believe me, ask George.
Cloggie on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 6:02 am
OH boy a two part nedernazi series on Brexit. Wow, neder you have one colorful mind there. When is the last time you thought about anything besides Brexit and US CW2? Take a breather before you stroke out. Between Euro CW2 social and economic and Brexit you may not keep your mind. I bet it hurts thinking the US might be the last man standing? LOL
Mmmm, make that “the US the last (racial) communist country standing”.
Why are you whining so much about me being on topic or not. I constantly deliver collapse content, but you are unable to recognize it as such.
You hate it that I post this content, right? What are you going to do about it, oh great self-styled moderator and neuterer?
Davy on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 6:14 am
“Mmmm, make that “the US the last (racial) communist country standing”.”
I think we are less communist then you nederlanders.
“Why are you whining so much about me being on topic or not. I constantly deliver collapse content, but you are unable to recognize it as such.”
Neder, what part of “proportionality” do you not understand? You are packing the board with your emotional shit 20/7. Nobody is here as much as you.
“You hate it that I post this content, right?”
No I don’t I am following Brexit it is important to the breakup of the EU. It is a reflection of the breakup of the US and China too. It is a process of globalized breakup unlike your fantasy of a coalescing PBM Eurasia.
“What are you going to do about it, oh great self-styled moderator and neuterer?”
Annoy and shame you until you moderate would be a start. You piss on me whenever you can then whine when I do the same to you. What a pussy.
Cloggie on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 7:02 am
While davy is congratulating himself with what a great moderator and neuterer he is…
The state of western “manhood”:
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5145248/frans-timmermans-sorry-dat-ik-geen-vrouw-ben/
Note, this is the socialist candidate for the successor of EU chieftain Juncker.
Thank God, socialists are on the retreat everywhere in Europe and are being replaced by populists as the new heaven for the small deplorable guys. In his native Holland for instance his socialist party PvdA is currently at 6%, where in a not too distant past they had 33%. In France socialists have ceased to exist, in Germany they are almost overtaken by the AfD.
It is unlikely this guy will capture the post.
Davy on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 7:26 am
“While davy is congratulating himself with what a great moderator and neuterer he is…”
Come on neder, it is no fun moderating dumbass. What I like is a challenge when someone smart smacks me hard. Why would I care to moderate a high school study hour? I enjoy sparing with you neder because you are intelligent and generally say something too bad much of it is old news regurgitate 10 different ways.
“Thank God, socialists are on the retreat everywhere in Europe and are being replaced by populists as the new heaven for the small deplorable guys.”
Neder, socialist are here to stay. Like Putin says “Presidents change but the policy remains”. There are way too many socialists in Euroland. Populism is same as it always was. The right wing cannot fulfill its promises. Populism of the “right side” will show its dirty head then reality will smack it down again. The problem today is decline and populism will not stop that nor will socialism. What I am looking for is something good out of both sides. I am not like you being someone who takes hard sides. I am not going to be led by a party. Stupid people without brains turn into party loyalist. That appears to be your type.
JuanP on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 8:40 am
Delusional Davy “I am not like you being someone who takes hard sides.”
Says the biggest extremist American Exceptionalist living in complete denial of what both he and his country are while supporting terrorism.
Davy on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 8:52 am
there you go dirty juan come out of the shadows and be a man. LOL.
Quit “projecting” (lol your primary vocabulary word) your extremism and mental illness.
boney joe on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 9:30 am
Delusional Davy “I am not like you being someone who takes hard sides.”
My God, DavyScum, you are the biggest lying sack of shit that I have ever encountered.
Cloggie on Sun, 9th Dec 2018 12:51 pm
Mood in Britain regarding Brexit:
52% Remain
40% Leave
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-theresa-may-uk-vote-economy-mps-remain-a8673926.html
NO deal?
No 44%
Yes 37%
Norway?
Yes 41%
No 39%
Democracy is a wonderful institution… but you shouldn’t do it over your lungs.
Bonus article:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-britain-nationalism-racism-class-religion-leave-remain-identity-a8672691.html
Patrick Cockburn – Brexit Britain is facing a deep crisis of self-confidence. It will only end in tears – and rising nationalism