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November 3, 2016 at 2:01 pm #56722
Billy_TParticipantIt’s more than just the FBI, of course. And, from my point of view, this is a battle between dumb and dumber, between the two corrupt and toxic wings of the money and empire party — our duopoly. Neither the Dems nor the Republicans should be in charge of anything, but, right now, it’s the GOP which is using unprecedented means to take down their political opponents. The Dems just aren’t in the same league when it comes to blatant disregard for the democratic process. It’s not close.
(I think the author is being needlessly cautious in his assessment of what the GOP and Trump are doing. He really shouldn’t pull his punches on this stuff, IMO.)
Excerpt, with links and sourcing on the site:
But there is something deeply troubling happening right now, and it goes beyond the ordinary trading of blows in a campaign season. Consider these recent developments:
There appears to be a war going on inside the FBI, and from what we can tell, a group of rogue agents, mostly in New York, may be in such a fervor to destroy Hillary Clinton that they may be aggressively leaking damaging innuendo to the press against her in the waning days of the campaign. They succeeded in their apparent goal of making FBI director James Comey a tool of their campaign — and the basis for their investigation is an anti-Clinton book written under the auspices of an organization of which the CEO of the Trump campaign is co-founder and chairman. Pro-Trump FBI agents now seem to be coordinating with Trump surrogates to do maximal possible damage to Clinton.
Republicans continue to cheer the fact that the electronic systems of American political groups were illegally hacked, and then private communications were selectively released in order to do damage to one side in this election. The Republican nominee has explicitly asked a hostile foreign power to hack into his opponent’s electronic systems.
High-ranking Republican officeholders are now suggesting that they may impeach Clinton as soon as she takes office. These are not just backbench nutbars of the Louie Gohmert variety, but people with genuine power, including Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin, Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and veteran legislators like James Sensenbrenner and Peter King. The message is being echoed by top Trump surrogates like Rudy Giuliani.
There is a growing movement among Republicans in the Senate to simply refuse to approve any nominee appointed by a Democratic president to the Supreme Court, leaving open any and all vacancies until a Republican can be elected to fill them.
State and local Republican officials are engaged in widespread and systematic efforts to suppress the votes of African-Americans and other groups likely to vote disproportionately Democratic; in many cases officials have been ordered by courts to stop their suppression efforts and they have simply ignored the court orders.
Republican elected officials increasingly feel emboldened to openly suggest violence against Clinton should she be elected.November 3, 2016 at 2:04 pm #56723Billy_TParticipantAnother key section:
It is important to understand that is not normal. This is not just bare-knuckle politics. Something extraordinary is happening.
Let’s take the FBI case as just one example. You have a situation where a group of FBI agents is in direct conflict with prosecutors who believe the agents have a weak case in their attempt to find evidence of corruption that can be used against Clinton. The agents, in an atrocious violation of FBI policy against injecting the Bureau into an election, begin leaking dark innuendo to reporters. That convinces the FBI director that he has no choice but to go public with the fact that the Bureau is looking at some emails that might or might not have something to do with Clinton, though no one has actually read them. That news lands like a bombshell, despite its complete lack of substance.
And then it turns out that these agents are basing their investigation on a book called “Clinton Cash” by Peter Schweizer. Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, an organization co-founded and chaired by Steve Bannon. Who is the CEO of the Trump campaign.
November 3, 2016 at 2:12 pm #56724Billy_TParticipantAgain, by all means, let’s go after the duopoly and their corruption, endless lies, warmongering, toadying for the .01%, etc. etc. Let’s make sure we pour sunlight on all of it and clean house.
But that’s not what’s happening here. It’s insanely one-sided at the moment. The GOP, especially its control of Congress, is escaping scrutiny almost entirely, and its nominee, with the help of that party, is doing his best to steal this election by hook and crook. He and they are threatening all kinds of horrors if he doesn’t win, including violence. The least noxious thing they’re threatening is immediate impeachment if HRC wins, and that’s unprecedented as well.
Our political system has gone mad, thanks primarily to Trump, and neither party deserves another second in power. Neither candidate should be anywhere near the White House. But of the two, Trump and the GOP are clearly the greater evils. It’s not really close.
November 3, 2016 at 5:37 pm #56731
bnwBlockedLynch is corrupt.
Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, the official now in charge of informing Congress about the revived Clinton email probe, gave a personal status update to the Clinton campaign in the email sent May 19, 2015 to John Podesta. He’s compromised plus he alerted Podesta via his own gmail account!
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has played a leadership role in the agency’s investigation of Clinton’s use of private email addresses and a homebrew server located in her New York mansion while leading the Department of State. McCabe’s wife received $650,000 from Terry McAuliffe a Clinton Crony who loaned the Clinton’s the money to buy their New York mansion for Hildabeasts reverse carpetbagging.
And to put icing on that putrid cake, 97% of the campaign contributions from Justice Department employees went to Hildabeast.
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