doctoring an email used as part of a process to secure court approval to renew surveillance on a onetime Trump campaign junior adviser, Carter Page. The Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, referred the matter for criminal review. . . . Despite the federal surveillance of Carter Page, he was never charged with any crime.NPR reports the Klinesmith indictment pretty straight, with nothing like my title's nostalgia for how this kind of thing was reported when the shoe was on the other foot a couple of years ago. Not to worry, most of the rest of the NLMSM are is accompanied by headlines and ledes suggesting that the investigation does not, repeat not, point to any higher-up conspiracy of any kind, quit saying it does, nothing to see here, move along. When they're done with that message, they turn to worries that the timing of further Durham indictments may be calculated to affect the election. They also spend some time explaining that there's no indication--really! none!--that Klinesmith has cut a deal and is singing like a canary.
"The Walls Are Closing In"
The first Durham indictment! Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to
Why did it take so long to indict somone?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that the DOJ and other agencies were very good at creating initial accusations against the Trump people that sucked up a lot of energy to clear away. Only after that smoke cleared could actual shapes be made out.
ReplyDeleteGringo, if I remember what I read correctly, Clinesmith approached Durham after Grennell declassified some of the Page FISA docs while he was acting DNI. So long as what he did could be hidden under security classification he was immune.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with AVI. Contra Glenn Reynolds, I'm starting to think the Russia allegations were a thing on their own. Nobody in either the Clinton or Obama camps was interested in gathering any actual intelligence from the Trump campaign. What they wanted were enough snippets from emails and phone calls to give the impression that Trump was literally working for/with Putin. That was the 'insurance policy'. Thankfully Trump blusters a lot more in public than he does in private.
Sing, dark ones, Phantom of the Opera.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Gringo said...
ReplyDeleteWhy did it take so long to indict somone?
Different Deep State factions jostling in their civil war, fighting for influence. They release information on each other as a deterrent or threat, but when it comes to actual prosecutions, that is a little bit more cautious a field, as prosecutions can easily lead to the public realizing who their masters are.
A French Revolution is one thing, but the slave masters really don't want to lose control of a public that has their eye set on the powers that should not be. They prefer that human slaves fight and kill each other, such as ANtifa vs patriots.
The following link is a good explanation of how Durham's approach may be structured, and the way the bricks are stacked in building a case for conspiracy. Start with an overt criminal act that is incontrovertible, figure out who knew and helped with this known initial criminal act, establish a conspiracy, and move outwards into the network to establish both criminal and non-criminal acts taken in furtherance of the conspiracy. https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2020/08/major-update-on-kevin-clinesmith-plea.html
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tex. Good info and analysis.
ReplyDeleteWhat about all the other conspiracies the public thought were tin foil hat theories... what will happen to them when they wake up and realize there's problem bigger than they thought?
ReplyDeleteKill themselves? Humans aren't exactly stable mentally speaking even in 2020. If humans even begin to know half of what I know, their reactions will be interesting to watch.
More on Klinesmith and the "smoking bazooka": https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/08/18/will_the_dam_break_after_clinesmiths_plea_143983.html
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