Nixon’s Shenanigans vs. Obama’s Shenanigans
As we discover the depths to which the Obama operatives and holdovers went to skewer the Trump campaign/administration from 2016-20, I find myself wondering just what the Nixon operatives were up to, back in the bad old Watergate 1970s.
Back in the day the eeevil Republican Richard Nixon thought he needed to spy on the opposition in the run-up to the 1972 election. So he set up a nongovernmental Special Investigations Unit to go a-burgling.
Just the day before yesterday the noble Democrat Barack Obama -- or his henchmen -- wanted to spy on the opposition presidential campaign. So they went to their pals at the FBI and Main Justice and the intelligence community and got them to go a-spying.
Just yesterday the patriotic Obama holdovers in the Trump administration spent three years trying to trip up President Trump based on fake accusations that we now know -- because said holdovers didn’t want to risk lying under oath -- that they knew were fake.
So why did President Nixon start the “plumbers unit” that eventually burgled the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate back in 1972?
According to George Will writing in 2014 it all started in 1968 when Candidate Nixon used Chinese-American Anna Chennault in a backdoor negotiation with the South Vietnamese ambassador. Naughty boy, because Nixon was a private citizen at the time. But of course, the FBI found out about it because they had a wiretap on the South Vietnamese embassy.
On Nov. 2 [1968] at 8:34 p.m., a teleprinter at [President] Johnson’s ranch delivered an FBI report on the embassy wiretap: Mrs. Chennault had told South Vietnam’s ambassador “she had received a message from her boss (not further identified)… She said the message was that the ambassador is to ‘hold on, we are gonna win.’” The Logan Act of 1799 makes it a crime for a private U.S. citizen, which Mr. Nixon then was, to interfere with U.S. government diplomatic negotiations.
Well, bust my buttons: The Logan Act! Back then!
In 1971, right after the publication in the New York Times of the Pentagon Papers, President Nixon, cranking up for reelection, was worried who knew about the Chennault connection. So he created the Special Investigations Unit that eventually went a-burgling at the Watergate.
So here we are, nearly 50 years later. Only notice the difference between the early 1970s and the mid-2010s.
Back in the 1970s the Nixon people wanted to know what the deep state knew about them. What to do? Well, they had to create their own spy operation. Not good.
The Obama administration was interested in what was going on in the Trump campaign. What to do? Set up an extra-governmental spying operation like Nixon? Dear me, no. The FBIs were perfectly happy to spy on the Trump campaign. Logan Act? No problem, the FBI was perfectly happy to work up a Logan Act violation in respect of LTG Michael Flynn. And the “lovebirds” at the FBI were glad to help in time-outs from their love-birding.
After the end of the Obama administration “someone” was interested in continuing anti-Trump operations. Whether that was a defensive operation, to protect the guilty that had used the government to spy without proper “predicates,” or an offensive operation to destroy the Trump administration, I leave you to decide. What to do? Set up an extra-governmental lawfare operation? Lean on “political friends” in the right places? Dear me, no! The very people who ran the anti-Trump operation in the FBI and DoJ during 2016 continued to spy and harass for years the Trump administration from inside the government.
But Nancy Pelosi is shocked, shocked, that the Justice Department should ease up on a man who had once pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI when his head was in a vice! Plus, Flynn doesn’t have a $24,000 side-by-side refrigerator, darling. And Rep. Schiff (D-CA) is unrepentant too.
As lawyer Joseph Welch said to Joseph McCarthy: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” He means you, Nance and Adam.
Back in the day, Dorothy Sayers in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club sent the miscreant to the club library with a revolver and a stiff whisky to do the decent thing. That’s your military honor code.
But honor among liberals is different, because all liberals are the good guys bending the arc of history towards justice. Thus, it’s okay to break the law and violate procedures and use government power to oppress the opposition. Liberals are the good guys, and they are on the right side of history. So when liberal government functionaries break the law it’s not really breaking the law, because it’s all in the good cause of bending the arc of history towards justice.
Worse than Watergate? You be the judge.
Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.
Obama's General Flynn Problem
When the real message of 'Dreams from My Father' becomes clear.
May 11, 2020
Lloyd
Billingsley
That was former president Barack Obama last week after the DOJ dropped the case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who had not been “charged with perjury,” or anything else. The FBI set up Flynn in a perjury trap, with threats against his family, and that violated both institutional norms and the rule of law. The 44th president set up the whole thing in a January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting with FBI boss James Comey, vice president Joe Biden, CIA boss John Brennan, and other administration officials. This revelation created a stir, but it’s really old news.
“POTUS wants to know everything we are doing,” Lisa Page texted to Peter Strzok, the FBI factotum in the campaign against candidate and President Trump. To keep that operation going once Trump took office, POTUS needed to take down Flynn. The January 5 meeting was key but in May of 2017 a bigger bombshell would explode.
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. It featured many true-to-life figures and a bevy of accurately described events that indeed had occurred, but it employed the techniques and literary license of a novel, and its most important composite character was the narrator himself.
This was the judgement of POTUS 44’s official biographer David Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed author of Bearing the Cross, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. and other books. Garrow let his subject preview the manuscript of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama and it’s easy to see why the president maintained strong disagreements with the account.
Dreams from My Father was a novel, and Garrow was on to the composite authorship. On page 1049 of Rising Star, an unidentified reporter explains, “The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true.” The president’s official biographer also explained why the former Barry Soetoro needed a new narrative.
Dreams from My Father devotes more than 2,000 words to “Frank,” a happy-drunk poet and counselor. In Rising Star, Garrow correctly identified “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis, an African American Communist who spent most of his life defending all-white Stalinist dictatorships. As Garrow explained, “Davis’ Communist background plus his kinky exploits made him politically radioactive,” so if Barry was to become a political player, Frank had to go.
In the best Stalinist tradition, Frank disappeared from the audio version of Dreams, and did not appear in the 2006 The Audacity of Hope. In similar style, Frank does not appear in The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, released in 2018 by Iran deal promoter Ben Rhodes, or in Michelle Obama’s 2018 Becoming. Also missing in both books is David Garrow’s Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. The author, doubtless under pressure from the former president, is now changing his tune.
In “Obama’s Airbrushed Dreams,” in the March 2020 edition of The Critic, Garrow transforms Dreams from My Father back into a legitimate memoir and autobiography. For further research, see Barack ‘em Up: A Literary Investigation, and Yes I Con: United Fakes of America. And adapt what the former president said last week.
There is “no precedent” for a composite character with a bogus autobiography becoming president of the United States, yet it happened in 2008, and again in 2012. There was no precedent for an outgoing president to deploy deep state operators to support his chosen successor and attack her opponent, yet in 2016 the composite character did just that.
In similar style, there was no precedent for an outgoing president tasking the FBI to target a National Security Advisor with a perjury trap to destroy his life and reputation. In 2017, the composite character sprung that trap, and in 2020 he tricks it out with the lie that Flynn was charged with perjury. And if you like your plan, you can keep it.
What the FBI did to Flynn was a violation of institutional norms and the rule of law, but as Sebastian Gorka noted on Saturday, “as of this writing, not one person has been charged with any crime connected to the FBI’s use of its enormous power for political purposes. Not one. Not Comey, not Strzok, not McCabe, not Lynch. No one.” So maybe the composite character’s transformation of America is the new normal going forward.
Back in 2016, his chosen successor was former First Lady Hillary Clinton. In 2020, he endorses his former vice president Joe Biden, so one might say the composite character is still on the ballot.
As November 3 approaches, look for more lies and obfuscation from the former president whose own biographer proclaimed him a composite character in the historical fiction of Dreams from My Father. As President Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.
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Obamagate: President Trump Goes After Obama
Obamagate: President Trump Goes After Obama
The treasonous investigators and their instigator become the investigated.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
May 10, 2020. "OBAMAGATE!"
That's when President Donald J. Trump tweeted the one word, all-caps, one exclamation mark, that changes everything. A day earlier, the president had also tweeted Jesse Watters' video, titled ‘Obamagate’ – the scandal at the epicenter of American politics that has had many names: “Russiagate”, the “Russia Hoax”, “Spygate”, but it’s only fitting that it should end with its true name.
This was never about the Russians and the spies were cogs in a machine who were following orders.
One man, not some nebulous organization or unaccountable bureaucracy, pushed the lever and decided to use the machinery of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to suppress the political opposition.
Another Democrat in a White House long ago once put up a sign on his desk that said, "the buck stops here." Or, as Lisa Page, formerly of the FBI, texted much more recently, “potus wants to know everything we’re doing." The POTUS in question wasn’t Truman anymore: it was Barack Obama. And the gang that couldn’t frame straight was prepping FBI ex-boss Comey to brief Obama on the plot.
In an address to the real deep state, the 3,000 members of the Obama Alumni Association, the titular head of the government in exile that has been working its manicured fingernails off to subvert, undermine, and betray the actual President of the United States lectured on the rule of law.
"There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk," Barry scolded.
General Flynn wasn’t charged with perjury. Maybe Page and Strzok should have spent more time helping Comey brief the C student in the Oval Office and less time carrying on. But it’s Obama who might want to spend time reviewing the penalties for perjury or making false statements to the FBI.
Because Obamagate is coming back home to where the buck stops. And the buck stops with Barry.
That’s the message that President Trump has sent by tweeting, “OBAMAGATE”, followed by videos, graphics, and texts laying out the case against, not just the “scum” who carried out the coup, but against their boss who watched, oversaw, and was certain that he would get away with his worst crime yet.
Investigations start by exposing, breaking down and then flipping the stooges, before working their way up the ladder to the bosses who gave the orders, and then the man at the top. The investigation formerly known as Spygate has been burning its way through the titular spies who did the dirty work.
The Steele Dossier, the two-legged stool on whose shaky pretext President Trump and his allies were targeted, was exposed by tracing it up the ladder to the Clinton campaign, and then back through the layers of scam FISA evidence, media surrogates, and incestuous Fusion GPS/FBI/DOJ relationships.
But Hillary Clinton wasn’t an elected official. She had no official power to give anyone any orders.
Only one man had the authority to weaponize every intelligence agency by directly controlling their heads and cabinet members and as Obamagate burns up, it has only one possible stopping point.
Page and Strzok’s communications opened the gateway upward, McCabe and Steele widened it,
“NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!” President Trump had tweeted after the Strzok/Page texts.
Steele has since testified that he not only knew that Hillary Clinton was in the loop, but that National Security Advisor Susan Rice had been briefed. Obamagate had linked together the figures empowered to conduct surveillance of political opponents with political figures in the White House. That’s how covert spying operations like Watergate work. The DOJ is meant to serve as a buffer against abuses like these.
The public decision to bring down the hammer on General Flynn was not made by acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who had been left out of the loop, and had to be told about it by Obama. While unnamed "Obama advisers" were being briefed by the FBI about the Flynn case, the Attorney General wasn't. That's a fundamental reversal of how the justice system is supposed to work.
When the AG hears about a case against an opposition figure from POTUS, that’s not a DOJ case, that’s a White House case. The Obama administration had spent years, at the least, eavesdropping on domestic political opponents, including members of Congress, possibly even fellow Democrats, under the guise that they had any contacts with foreign governments. The last thing the guys who had been using the NSA as their private Watergate wanted was a National Security Adviser who might expose them.
So, they decided to do to Flynn what they had only played at doing to other political opponents.
As I wrote three years ago, “Once Obama and his allies launched their domestic surveillance operation, they crossed the Rubicon. And there was no way back. They had to destroy President Trump or risk going to jail. The more crimes they committed by spying on the opposition, the more urgently they needed to bring down Trump. The consequences of each crime that they had committed spurred them on to commit worse crimes to save themselves from going to jail.”
And I predicted that the Democrats will "finally get their Watergate. Except the star won’t be Trump, it will be Obama."
The great shadowy investigation that has consumed so many years of our national politics has come apart. Mueller delivered nothing, Flynn has been exonerated, and Schiff has nothing to show for it. All the claims made about collusion have come apart and nothing remains to justify the whole thing.
It’s time that the investigators become the investigated.
That’s the message that President Trump’s Obamagate tweets, his retweet of the Jesse Waters video laying out the case against Obama, is sending to those who have perpetrated this plot against America.
The tables are turning. And the question now becomes, will middle rank ex-feds be willing to go to jail to protect their bosses, will those bosses be willing to go to jail to protect cabinet members, and will they all be willing to go to jail to protect Barry? If Biden loses, so does the Obama Alumni Association.
And then the OAA boys and girls go the way of the Clinton Foundation and the Carter Home for Wayward Marxists with nothing for them except a tough choice between a cell and naming names.
Obama knows it’s his last shot. His network bought him these past years of undermining Trump. But all of it’s worthless if Biden loses, taking his prestige with him, and opening him up to an investigation.
An independent prosecutor can take years to do his job, but once appointed, grind slowly, and small.
The Obama coup has run all these years, but it’s reached the end of the line. The investigations are turning back on their instigator as Spygate and its minions gives way to Obamagate. The new phase will reach beyond the henchmen to the political operatives who were giving the orders. And to their boss.
Beyond Spygate lie the Spymasters and beyond them, the Master of the Spymasters.
Obama operatives committed treason for political gain. Only one man had the power to command them, to reward them, and to bring together the forces that spied on men, women, and on a nation.
Obamagate is not just the reckoning the nation needs: it’s the reckoning that the rule of law deserves.
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