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.
We’re going to get to the Flynn case, but first, let’s just
list again what Obama’s “scandal free” administration included:
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Gun-running in Mexico, the Fast and Furious
scandal.
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SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17.
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State Department lying about Benghazi.
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Voter fraud upon voter fraud.
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Failure to count military votes.
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Boston bombing, followed by temporary suspension
of rights.
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Assassinating Americans overseas with drones.
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Wanting to assassinate Americans with drones in
our own country without the benefit of the law.
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Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, setting off
the Muslim Spring.
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IRS targeting of conservatives.
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DOJ spying on the press.
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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
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Ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal
immigrants from and prisons—falsely blaming the sequester.
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Threatening to impose gun control by executive
order to bypass Congress.
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Failure to propose and submit a budget,
suggesting his priorities to Congress.
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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.
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HHS employees being given insider information on
Medicare Advantage.
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Hillary Clinton, IRS officials, James Clapper,
and Eric Holder all lying to Congress.
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Illegal FISA warrant to spy on an opponent’s
presidential campaign.
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Conspiring with corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs to
supply dirt to be used in fake FISA warrant.
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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]
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 4th
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 5th 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.
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Glenn Beck, "Collusion Confirmed, How Obama Sabotaged Trump"
screenshot from here |
Glenn Beck did a video expos
é, 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.
· Sally Yates’ testimony, including who attended
the January 5th 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
· 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.
· 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.”
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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.
