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The Patriot Post Digest 12-18-2017
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Strzok was hardly an outlier. The stench of partisanship attaches itself to other members of Mueller’s team. Bruce G. Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, was demoted30 after evidence revealed he was in contact with Fusion GPS, producer of the infamous Steele dossier paid for31 by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. (His wife, Nellie Ohr, was hired by Fusion GPS specifically to probe32 Trump). Andrew Weissmann emailed33 former acting AG Sally Yates to express his “awe” for her refusal to implement Trump’s legal travel ban. Aaron Zebley represented26 Clinton IT staffer Justin Cooper, the man who set up Clinton’s server — and smashed her Blackberries with a hammer. Jeannie Rhee was a Clinton campaign donor, represented the Clinton Foundation, and functioned as Obama deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes’ personal attorney.
Page and Strzok had another equally damning exchange. “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” Page stated in a text that also included a Trump-related article. “Of course I’ll try and approach it that way,” Strzok replied.
Was Strzok’s aforementioned editing job that included changing the words “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless” in Comey’s memo part of that “approach?”
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec. 7, current FBI Director Christopher Wray insisted34 his agency is above reproach. Yet when Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) asked35 him if the Steele dossier was used to spy on Trump associates, Wray refused to answer, citing the ongoing investigation conducted by the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General as the reason. Six days later, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein declined36 to answer the same question — but insisted37 there’s no bias in Mueller’s investigation.
What about illegality? Trump attorney Kory Langhofer is accusing38 Mueller of illegally obtaining transition team emails from career staffer at the General Services Administration (GSA), including confidential attorney-client communications, in an apparent violation of the president’s Fourth Amendment rights.
Moreover, Wray and Rosenstein aren’t the only stonewallers. On March 20, 2017, Comey told Congress39 the counterintelligence operation into Russian collusion was recommended by Asst. Director of Counter Intelligence Bill Priestap, who was Strzok’s former boss. Priestap also decided not to inform congressional overseers “because of the sensitivity of the matter,” Comey testified.
Disingenuous? Priestap’s boss was McCabe. McCabe’s boss was Comey.
McCabe was scheduled to testify behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee last Tuesday, but abruptly canceled due to a “scheduling error.” Some members of the Committee apparently weren’t buying it. “McCabe has an Ohr problem,” a congressional source surmised.
He is scheduled to testify this week, and while the Committee is prepared to subpoena McCabe to compel his testimony, one suspects he would invoke his constitutional right against self-incrimination — before stating anything that might reveal the nation is in the midst of the biggest political scandal in its history.
With so many players and moving parts it’s easy to ignore the one individual who may have been the prime mover behind all of these machinations. “Lest we forget, President Obama had endorsed Mrs. Clinton … to be president,” Andrew McCarthy writes40. “Moreover, Obama had knowingly participated in the conduct for which Clinton was under investigation — using a pseudonym in communicating with her about classified government business over an unsecure private communication system.”
Americans should also remember former AG Loretta Lynch’s airport tarmac meeting41 with Bill Clinton while his wife remained under investigation, and that she directed Comey to call that investigation a “matter.” Emails released Friday by the DOJ reveal10 department officials were less concerned by the meeting itself than that it was leaked to the press and how to prevent further leaks.
Americans should also remember Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power unmasked42 Americans.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz’s office has compiled43 more than 1.2 million pages of documentation, and even if the aforementioned players don’t cooperate, indictments are a real possibility. Thus, Americans will soon learn if we are still a constitutional republic — or whether the aforementioned “fundamental transformation” has succeeded beyond the former president’s wildest dreams.
Trump is said to be dismantling Obama’s “legacy.” Taking down a potential police state should be priority number one.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
Defining Evangelicals46 — Some Christians are having a tough time with the label because of the political connotations.
Trump’s FBI Speech47 — The president laments politicization, but pledges his full support to the nation’s law enforcement.
Boston Tea Party48 — On Dec. 16, 1773, “radicals” from Boston threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Jeff Jacoby: This Is Your Brain on Social Media49
Bill Wagner: Justice Department Inspector General50
Larry P. Arnn: Three Lessons of Statesmanship51
Burt Prelutsky: Witch-Burnings52
Kathryn Jean Lopez: The Reason for the Season53
For more of today’s columns, visit Right Opinion54.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Gary Bauer55: “Several Hollywood celebrities and comedians are putting on a special Christmas performance [this] week benefiting Christian orphanages. No, wait, that’s not it. They are helping to raise funds for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Oh, sorry, wrong again. Unbelievably, their Christmas celebration is being used to raise money for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. If King Herod were alive today, he’d have a photo on his wall signed by Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. In an attempt to kill Jesus, Herod ordered all babies two and under to be murdered. Richards does him one better. She promotes destroying innocent babies before they can take their first breath out of the womb.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “I have a special reason for wanting to solve this [economic] problem in a lasting way. I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the ‘30s when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he’d lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that’s a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.”
Upright: “In face-to-face conversation, people devote 30 to 40 percent of their speech to communicate personal feelings or experiences, Harvard researchers found in a 2012 study. On social media, the figure soars to 80 percent. Interactions on social sites thus trigger a dopamine rush far more consistently than traditional communication — and getting that rush requires less effort. … Sites like Facebook are normalizing unhealthy behavior with alarming speed. Most obviously, they promote a culture of relentless narcissism and a persistent hunger for flattery.” —Jeff Jacoby
Political futures: “Those [sexual harassment] allegations were made before the election and so people had an opportunity to judge before the election. I think we need to move on and not be distracted by those issues. I don’t think the president ought to resign at this point.” —Senator-elect Doug Jones on the Democrats’ “Assault Allegation56” strategy to take out Trump
For the record: “I don’t think impeachment is something we should be talking about. … I think it’s futile at this point in time.” —Sen. Joe Manchin
Tone-deaf: “ABSOLUTE RED LINE: the firing of Bob Mueller or crippling the special counsel’s office.” —Eric Holder (What about gun-walking to Mexico?)
You’re always welcome to (try to) celebrate Christmas in North Korea: “All I want for Christmas is full communism now.” —BuzzFeed’s Kelly Oakes
And last… “I’ve yet to meet a Christian who’s liberal in their politics who’s not also liberal in their theology. They tend to view the Bible as they view the Constitution — mostly outdated & subjective to their feelings.” —Allie Stuckey
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