Secret Acts Shall Be Revealed, Part II

In our last post we talked about corruption coming to light at a local level, related to voter fraud in Harris County, Texas.

Today we’ll talk about corruption coming to light on a national level.

Back in 2012, just after Obama’s reelection, I said this:

President Obama divides the people, ignores the Constitution, and has a four-year record of failed economic policies. His behavior toward our allies has been offensive. His behavior to our enemies has been apologetic and submissive. His specific lies following the Benghazi attack are so egregious as to require impeachment. His history, while sketchy, clearly indicates a disdain for our beloved constitutional ideals. He seems incompetent as a leader (specifically failing to persuade others to follow his actual ideology when truthfully stating it). Meanwhile, I think he is consistent in moving to transform the nation from a constitutional republic into a Marxist tyranny. His tone is condescending and his attacks on his opponent are petty and small-minded. Because I love my homeland and the blessed freedom we inherited from our forefathers, I see him as an enemy.

His second term did not change my mind; it only gave me more evidence. At the end of his second term almost 3 ½ years ago, he didn’t go home and get off the political stage. He remained in Washington, DC, and speaks out against his successor. In and of itself, that’s weird. Unprecedented. And low class. If there’s a political purpose for it, above and beyond bad character, that’s even worse. And it appears that is the case. He’s staying there to keep running a personal army within government, against our country.

Obama, screenshot from The Epoch Times

We’re going to get to the Flynn case, but first, let’s just list again what Obama’s “scandal free” administration included:

·         Gun-running in Mexico, the Fast and Furious scandal.

·         SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17.

·         State Department lying about Benghazi.

·         Voter fraud upon voter fraud.

·         Failure to count military votes.

·         Boston bombing, followed by temporary suspension of rights.

·         Assassinating Americans overseas with drones.

·         Wanting to assassinate Americans with drones in our own country without the benefit of the law.

·         Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, setting off the Muslim Spring.

·         IRS targeting of conservatives.

·         DOJ spying on the press.

·         Lying to the American people: “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” and “The average family will save money in healthcare costs,” when costs actually rose for almost all Americans.

·         NSA monitoring phonecalls, emails, and more; meta-data being kept on innocent Americans

·         Ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants from and prisons—falsely blaming the sequester.

·         Threatening to impose gun control by executive order to bypass Congress.

·         Failure to propose and submit a budget, suggesting his priorities to Congress.

·         Unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advise-and-consent role.

·         State Department interference with Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct.

·         HHS employees being given insider information on Medicare Advantage.

·         Hillary Clinton, IRS officials, James Clapper, and Eric Holder all lying to Congress.

·         Illegal FISA warrant to spy on an opponent’s presidential campaign.

·         Conspiring with corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs to supply dirt to be used in fake FISA warrant.

·         Threatening to cut military aid to Ukraine if they didn’t immediately fire a prosecutor that was investigating VP Biden’s son’s connection with corrupt Burisma.

·         Temporarily taking over sectors of the economy, such as the automotive industry, and interfering with the banking industry.

·         Stonewalling investigations into Hezbollah crime and terrorism, renaming them a legitimate party, as part of his efforts to negotiate with Iran, which included giving Iran pallets full of cash to get them to sign onto the deal that would guarantee them the right to have nuclear weapons in ten years. [12-19-2017]

·         Promising “more flexibility” to the Russians after the 2012 election, when he wouldn’t have to worry about voter opinion any longer.

·         Using more executive orders than any previous administration for actions clearly beyond the powers granted to the executive branch.

·         Requiring slap-downs, with multiple unanimous rulings from the Supreme Court on issues related to religious freedom.

If you were unaware of these things, or thought they were just rumors or yet another “nothing burger,” it is because the biased media you are paying attention to has been purposely covering up for Obama's wrongdoing.

Now, about the Flynn case.

Lt. General Michael Flynn
image from The Federalist

While this is in the midst of investigation, let’s cover what we think we know.

I keep wondering where to start, but let’s go back to spring 2016, during the Trump campaign. Lt. General Michael Flynn became part of the campaign team. This upset the Obama administration. Flynn knew things that could come to light. As Glenn Beck put it (Wednesday, May 13), Flynn “knew where all the bodies were buried.” I don’t know exactly what details Flynn knows that he has been unable to reveal these past several years, but I hope we find out soon.

The FBI started an investigation into Flynn, based on nothing but his being part of the campaign. This in itself is corruption. This investigation ties in to the rest of the Russia investigation, based on the Steele dossier, a Hillary-campaign-purchased oppo research pack of lies intended to create doubt about Trump’s loyalties prior to the election.

That didn’t work, and several years of investigations proved there was no Russia-Trump collusion—which we knew from the get-go, but which the Mueller investigation proved.

Documents justifying investigating Flynn
screenshot from here

During the investigation, it appears that surveilling noncitizens who had contact with Flynn was a way of surreptitiously surveilling Flynn, a US citizen, which is illegal, but, under such wiretapping, citizens do get swept up. Normally their names are not revealed, since they are not relevant to the surveillance of the foreigner, but when officials ask for the name to be revealed to give them context concerning conversations that have been recorded, that unmasking can be requested. Under those conditions, the name is known by the official requesting it, who has a valid reason to know, and who is under obligation to keep the name secret so as not to violate that citizen’s 4^th Amendment rights. Multiple unmaskings were requested involving Flynn; it appears he was the actual object of surveillance and not the innocent citizen accidently caught up in surveillance. Without warrant. In other words, if motive is proven, this is a crime.

Beyond that, Flynn’s name was leaked to the media as being under suspicion for his connection (known and valid) with Russians. Unmasking to the media is a felony. Stephanie Powers testified under oath that she had not only asked for much fewer unmaskings of Flynn than were done in her name; she had asked for none. Whoever used her name and official top secret clearance to get the unmaskings is guilty of multiple counts of that crime as well.

One of the issues involving Flynn was his giving a speech in Russia, for which he was paid about $40,000. That is not illegal. And it was before the election and any official appointment. Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a speech in Russia, and no one jumped on that claiming illegal dealings.

On December 29, General Flynn spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The call was recorded, purportedly aimed at surveilling the Russian Ambassador. Flynn’s name was unmasked—and mysteriously leaked to the media. But there was nothing wrong with what he said in the call, according to FBI investigators.

The Justice Department had looked at everything Flynn had done for months and found nothing that could be construed as wrongdoing, so they said they were closing the investigation.

Almost immediately afterward, on January 4, 2017, FBI officials openly discussed their concern that, if they couldn’t stop Flynn, he would soon be privy to their Russia investigation—which would unveil what they had done against the Trump campaign and plans they had to undermine the Trump presidency. They wished the case could be reopened, so they would have the excuse that someone under investigation shouldn’t be briefed on state secrets he was entitled to see. Then (Strzok and Page, possibly others) realized that, because of a sort of clerical error, the case hadn’t been officially “closed,” so they would make use of that error and proceed with it as still open.

Obama was aware of this. Yates, Brennan, and Clapper have all testified that they did not inform Obama about it. In fact, Yates was unaware of the information until Obama shared it in a January 5th meeting. Strzok had told Page in an email, however, that Obama wanted to know everything about what they were doing. It may have been them. It’s also likely the information came to Obama from Susan Rice.

So, on January 5^th there was a briefing related to Russia matters in the Oval Office. Attending this meeting were President Obama, Vice-President Biden, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and FBI Director James Comey.

Following the briefing, intelligence officials not staying beyond the Obama term left, but Obama asked Yates and Comey were asked to stay. I believe at least Susan Rice and Joe Biden also remained. We learned of this meeting because of a memo email Rice wrote to herself upon leaving office on inauguration day.

The Flynn situation was discussed in that after-meeting. If it is as it appears, Obama not only was aware that the Flynn case was not “officially” closed; he directed, either obliquely or directly, the others to pursue Flynn using the Logan Act. This is a very old (1799), never successfully used piece of legislation, possibly needed back in days before phones or transportation faster than sailing ships, to prevent ordinary Americans from going to a foreign country and representing themselves as speaking on behalf of the country, and declaring our foreign policy. The phone conversation Flynn had was official, as the incoming National Security Advisor, and there was nothing in it that was expressing anything contrary to the elected administration’s position. Not only couldn’t the act be used because it was irrelevant for Flynn in his position; there wasn’t anything Flynn had done that could have been construed as acting on his own behalf instead of the Trump administration.

Additionally in the meeting Obama (presumably) directed those “deep state” officials to not share any Russia-related information with the incoming administration—a breech of law and the biggest failure to turn over power to a duly elected next administration ever. Banana republics, and Venezuela, fail to turn over power without a bloody coup. Up until now, America was exemplary for its peaceful transitions of power. This Obama policy is unprecedented.

It is likely not because of sheer cussedness; it may have been a desperation move to keep bigger secrets hidden. We don’t know what else has been withheld.

Moving forward with the Flynn, the FBI set up an interview—to entrap him. They told him he was not under investigation; it was just a friendly chat. He wouldn’t need a lawyer. Except, they were there to entrap him; we have their handwritten notes discussing that purpose.

They questioned him about the Kislyak conversation—not to gain information; they had the transcript, which he apparently realized, so when he was unsure of details, he deferred to their suggestion of how it was, which turned out to be incorrect. And that “incorrect” statement, that couldn’t possibly have interfered with an FBI investigation, because it was information they already held and that didn’t relate to any crime—that is what they used to claim he gave a false statement to the FBI.

When they came after him for that, they used organized crime tactics to pressure him to plead guilty. They told him he was being prosecuted under the Logan Act (even though he wasn’t), and that he’d provided false information (which he hadn’t intentionally done), and that if he didn’t plead guilty, they were going after his family. I understand they were going after his son in some way, but I don’t know what that is about.

Anyway, this case has been hanging over his head for three years already. Finally it goes to trial, and the Department of Justice is looking at the case and realizing, there’s no case here. That’s the announcement we got a couple of weeks ago.

Then, in another unprecedented move, US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan invited amici—that is, instead of saying, “OK, no prosecution, no case; we’re dismissed,” he says, “Calling anyone out there. If you have something to say in favor of keeping the prosecution going, let’s hear from you.” Judges Do. Not. Do. That.

His pretext for not giving up is that Flynn lied by pleading guilty. I am not kidding.

There are several good sources on what has happened. One is a piece by Molly Hemingway on May 8^th, offering a detailed timeline of what happened from January 4 through March 2, 2017, concerning the railroading of Flynn. 

Glenn Beck, "Collusion Confirmed, How Obama Sabotaged Trump"
screenshot from here

Glenn Beck did a video exposé, chalkboard and all, on May 13^th, called “Collusion Confirmed: How Obama Sabotaged Trump,” on his weekly show, available on YouTube. He provided all the documents he had used. You can find them and read them for yourself, here. 

Most of these are photos of the documents. A couple are links to documents, which I’ve also provided, but here's the list:

·       The Susan Rice email header, when she emailed herself on inauguration day about the January 5, 2017 meeting.

·       The letter sent February 12, 2018, by Senators Grassley and Graham asking Rice why she sent that email to herself. 

·       Sally Yates’ testimony, including who attended the January 5^th briefing and the followup meeting, where using the Logan Act came up.

·       The FBI’s justification for opening up an investigation of Flynn, dated 8/16/2016

·       Harry Reid's email to the FBI, dated 8/27/2016, specifically mentioning the Steele Dossier contents regarding Carter Page. 

·       The FBI's justification for opening an investigation into Mike Flynn.

·       The FBI’s final communication on Flynn, closing communications on the investigation, dated 1/4/2017.

·       The FBI’s handwritten notes, discussing using the Logan Act as pretext for getting Flynn fired.

·       Mike Flynn’s statement to the FBI, used to charge him of a crime.

Since the airing of Glenn Beck’s show (he says the first of several on what’s being called Obamagate), I’ve come across more.

·       “Obama White House Kept Key Officials in Dark About Brennan’s Russia Intel” in today’s The Epoch Times. 

·       The Daily Wire praises new press secretary for her explanation, video included. It’s epic. “Reporter Asks Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany To Explain ‘Obamagate.’ She Gives A First-Class Education.” 

·       Former Obama officials testified under oath that they had no evidence linking the Trump campaign with Russia, no matter how much many of them had insinuated there was. Western Journal commentary by C. Douglas Golden. Former Obama Official Admits She Lied to Media About Evidence of Trump-Russian Collusion

Title graphic from Glenn Beck's show
screenshot from here

Remember how Obama used to use that word audacity? It never made sense to me in the way he used it, as if it’s some sort of revolution to “hope” for something vague and undefined. It makes more sense in the normal meaning of hubris or shamelessness.

After word comes out about his wrongdoings—his personal role in the multiple crimes—he has the audacity to speak to graduating seniors across the country, telling them what a terrible president we have, and how terrible the administration’s response to the virus has been. Dispicable.

Never has an ex-president worked so hard to undermine a sitting president.

We know Obama lied. We know he recruited, directed, and endorsed weaponizing government agencies against American citizens. We know, by our own experience, that he was feckless and disparaging while representing us internationally. He relished the long economic malaise as a new normal. And we know he divided us racially and politically beyond what we’d seen since the Civil War.

Imagine what would be happening to us if his cohorts had been elected instead of President Trump, and all the secret corruption remained hidden.

This man—and everyone in government still doing their damage to our constitutional republic—must be held accountable.

Light is a disinfectant, and we need all of this corruption to come to light so we can clean it out.

Fears Realized So Far

Back in 2008, well before I had this blog, I wrote down the fears I had following the election of our current president. I used Facebook Notes, so I could look back at them later. 

The purpose here today is not to praise my prognostication skills; we have plenty of evidence of how limited those skills are. Rather, if there are things I knew easily in 2008, then there’s no reason to be surprised about them as they happen. 

Another day we’ll tackle the things that went beyond what I imagined.

Bold type means I was proven right, by 5 ½ years into the administration. Plain type means maybe I was wrong, or at least we don’t have obvious evidence yet; some of these were on my mind at the time, but haven’t kept my attention, so I might not know enough. Comments added today are in brackets and italicized. 

 

Fears in Wake of Election

November 6, 2008 

• Troops will be quickly removed from Iraq, leaving that country vulnerable to invasion by Iran or other forces—breaking the word of the US and ruining our chances of being trusted in a coalition in the future.
• Using troops for actions where there is no threat to US interests, nor request from US allies, such as Darfur. And, further, that US troops will be placed under the control of the UN, negating our sovereignty. [Syria could be an example. There are numerous examples of trying to subject us to the UN. But it hasn’t been as in-your-face military submission as I feared.]
• Borders will not be enforced; “illegal alien” will cease to have meaning, since anyone here will be given citizenship rights, including welfare, draining the treasury and endangering the populous. [Granting of actual citizenship with voting hasn’t yet been accomplished—in part because of citizen outrage in 2010 or so.]
• Porous borders will enable terrorists to enter the US, as well as drug trafficking and other illegal trade. [And human trafficking and sex trade, which I didn’t foresee.]
• A major terrorist attack on US soil will soon happen. [Boston bombing is one; many have been thwarted, fortunately.] Efforts to protect the US, such as listening in on conversations between terrorists, will be prohibited. [No, I was wrong on this; what I didn’t foresee was the extent to which this administration would target citizens and claim they’re protecting us from terrorists. I should have known that, if something is a power, this administration will take it and run way beyond the limits.] Perpetrators will be prosecuted as citizens through the judicial system, rather than as wartime enemies. [Yes, often against military council, but sometimes prevented because the court system requires revealing our intelligence gathering methods to the enemy combatant and his legal team. Which is why GITMO exists, and hasn’t yet been closed down.]
• Funding will be cut for the military, making it less able to defend us in the world. [Military generals suggest we can no longer sustain two war fronts, if called upon to do so.]
• Equal funding will be spent on some nebulous “civilian force,” as Obama suggested, with equal funding and power as the military, to be used purportedly for natural disasters, but in reality to be used as enforcement against US citizens. [I don’t know if the funding is equivalent to military. But the recent BLM example is one; the BLM is made up of geologists, mineralogists, mapmakers, bureaucrats—and now also apparently its own SWAT teams. FEMA and Homeland Security also strike fear in the heart of innocent citizens.]
• “Fairness Doctrine” will be enacted, removing free speech from Americans with opposing (conservative) points of view, starting with talk radio, but eventually will not be limited there (fear for internet). [This has been attempted, again recently, but has been unsuccessful because of constant vigilance.]
• People speaking out against the president or his policies may be attacked and speared (as were Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin). [The IRS scandal, showing targeting of non-profits the administration dislikes is well beyond what I envisioned; it’s closer to totalitarian regimes.]
• Repeal of 1996 US DOMA law, and eventual enforcement of “same-sex marriage” in states that have laws and constitutions against it—ignoring the sovereignty of states to make these laws. This will lead to prosecution for differing views, loss of freedom of religion, loss of freedom for parents to decide on education of their children, loss of business freedom to refuse service when it goes against personal beliefs. [Yes. Some questions of state sovereignty are going through the courts, which is a tenuous thread for civilization to depend on. Note that I wrote this when the president was declaring he supported traditional marriage—because it was politically advantageous for him to say so at that time, but I knew better than to believe him.]
• Taxes will increase on anyone considered rich (possibly as low as $42,000/year), as is certain to happen when Bush tax cuts expire in 2010, but taxes are likely to be raised on most taxpaying Americans in addition to that.
• Taxes will increase for small businesses, causing less entrepreneurism, fewer jobs.
• Taxes will be increased on corporations, leading to businesses leaving the US to locate in more favorable countries—which will mean less wealth created in US, and lower employment.
• Tax will increase on capital gains, reducing incentive for investment, causing stock market drop. [Truthfully, I haven’t paid enough attention to capital gains rules to know how much effect this has had on the economic malaise, which has so many presidential-policy causes.]
• Social Security taxes will be levied on income above $102,000, instantly raising rates for these earners by 7%, without any compensating benefit. [This was being discussed in 2008, including by John McCain. It hasn’t been accomplished. The upper limit continues to rise a bit annually, and is $117,000 for 2014. Social Security as a program, however, continues toward an inevitable fiscal cliff.]
• Restrictions aimed at particular energy-related industries, reducing our ability to provide energy from our own resources, and possibly bankrupting major companies or entire industries: coal and oil in particular. [Solyndra, etc. Blocking XL Pipeline. Refusal to allow any new drilling on public lands, or new refineries. Nevertheless, drilling on private land has boomed, mainly in North Dakota and Texas, lowering our dependence on foreign oil. Yay! Obama took credit for this, despite his continuing efforts to thwart fracking and other techniques, in a recent state-of-the-union speech.]
• Restrictions on energy use on individual Americans, which will hinder business and travel and lower standard of living for most Americans. [Attempted, but not accomplished, for the most part. But smart meters are in place for future purposes.]
• Making unlimited abortion the national law, negating state laws across the nation—just one evidence of ignoring state sovereignty. [Attempted, not accomplished thus far. Supreme Court cases related to forcing corporations to pay for abortifacients of employees, regardless of the corporation’s religious beliefs, should see rulings any day.]
• Replacing up to three Supreme Court justices with liberal judges who fail to acknowledge the supreme law of the Constitution, who willingly favor poor, minorities, and other special interest groups that currently have liberal approval. Justice no longer even attempts to be blind. In addition, other levels of judges will be filled with similarly activist judges, leaving a legacy of judicial activism for at least a generation. [Two so far. And, oddly, conservatives are in the position of hoping Ruth Bader Ginsburg holds on until a different president has the opportunity to appoint her replacement.]
• Economic problems will return to the challenges of the Carter administration: double-digit inflation, high unemployment, double-digit interest rates, stock market recession or depression, and skyrocketing federal debt. [Yes, with the exception of double-digit inflation, which has been kept artificially low by low interest rates and printing money, which is a more invisible form of inflation. The rest is beyond the intensity and length of the Carter malaise. They refer to this as a slow but steady recovery.]
• Socializing banking, energy production, and other parts of the economy that have thrived in a free market. [General Motors. Some other attempts, but mostly not fully accomplished.]
• Socializing of medicine, leading to severely lowered services and service providers, and inevitable decisions to devalue statistically high medical risks: children born with genetic disorders, elderly, people with chronic illnesses, people whose lifestyle habits don’t coincide with the government’s requirements for diet, exercise, and other practices. [Obamacare passed in March 2010, in dark of night, with nefarious manipulations, and the failures on every level continue, beyond our fears. Actual death panels cannot be fully implemented until Obamacare succeeds. Incompetence on their part gives us hope there may still be repeal. Evidence of likely outcomes of Obamacare are before our eyes in the VA scandal.]
• Revelation that the philosophies of this new president’s friends are actually his philosophies, and that is why he sought such alliances: terrorist methods for remaking America into Marxist country (Ayers and others), African racist supremacy over America and rest of the world (Wright, Pfleger and others), pro-radical Islam and anti-semitic (particularly anti-Israel) and anti-Christian policies (Kahlidi and others), organized crime and Chicago thuggery (Rezco and others). His cabinet and staff will be made up of people who, in normal times, could not be given security clearance needed to do their jobs. The president himself, under normal circumstances, could not be given security clearance. [I wrote all of this years before I read Stanley Kurtz‘s book Radical in Chief, which lays out the evidence. Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2016: Obama’s America was also informative in explaining the anti-American behavior we see in this president.]
• Without the checks and balances of an opposite view in the legislature, judiciary, or media, he will lead as one would expect of one with the most liberal record in the Senate. [We at least got the brakes put on with a Republican House in 2010. Media has stuck by him, but is showing signs lately of cracking in the face of the onslaught of lies, which they have so long been expected to repeat.]
• America will cease to be a superpower, or even leader among nations. The first step (after withdrawal from Iraq and negative consequences of that move) will be to destroy missile defense and nuclear weaponry, leaving the US vulnerable to attack from both rogue terrorist entities and rival world powers (such as China and Russia). [That’s what we’re seeing, and feel vulnerable to. And we can sense the president smiling about it off-camera.]

Using the Spherical Model, what we can be sure of is that Obama will not move us out of the southern hemisphere toward freedom, free enterprise, and civilization—because he prefers tyranny, controlled economy, and savagery.