The mainstream media have finally, reluctantly, decided to cover the FBI corruption scandal that has been featured prominently for weeks in the alternate media. The mainstream articles are characterized by coverage of secondary details that swim amidst a flood of quotes from Democrats that what is being published are just smears coordinated by Trump himself, using long-time anti-Democratic partisans. Today’s Washington Post coverage is typical of the genre.
Former Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy
Missing from the Post article is former Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy’s bombshell brief that puts together the details suggesting an FBI conspiracy, in coordination with the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. This, according to FBI agent Peter Strzok, would provide “insurance” against a Trump win in case Hillary Clinton’s vote lead evaporated as election day approached — or to bring down Trump subsequently in case he won anyway. Strzok’s insurance plan was discussed in present FBI acting director McCabe’s office.
McCabe is hoping to do a “Lois Lerner” by stonewalling Congress — as he did last week in seven hours of memory lapses and other ruses — and then retiring in March with full pension, just as she did. Lois Lerner was the IRS officer who made sure that tea party groups were maximally harassed by the IRS so that they wouldn’t interfere with President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
Contrary to mainstream media claims, President Trump has not been coordinating the campaign against Special Prosecutor Mueller’s investigation. That’s been the work of journalists, professionals like Andrew McCarthy writing in the alternate press, and Congressional investigators. But the President has not left his Twitter followers uninformed regarding developments.
The FBI has not lacked important co-conspirators, however — Obama’s NSA head James Clapper and CIA head John Brennan. Both have violated agency standards of professionalism by going public as virulent anti-Trump partisans since leaving office — and proven by the foolishness of their statements what poor exemplars of spymaster trade craft they are.
Meanwhile, the Mueller focus on alleged Trump collusion with Russia becomes less and less credible with the facts on the ground — what Trump is actually doing to counter Russia versus all that Obama did to assist it.
hat tips: Eaglebeak, Nicomachus
Massacre of the Innocents
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “Massacre of the Innocents”
As is characteristic of paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, you have to scrutinize the details to notice what is happening. Pictured here is Brueghel’s masterpiece, “Massacre of the Innocents.” Forewarned of the massacre in the Biblical story, Joseph and Mary fled with their child into exile. Those who remained behind weren’t so fortunate at the hands of Herod’s soldiers. The massacre depicted in Brueghel’s original painting was indeed the slaughter of children by Herod’s soldiers. But Rudolph II didn’t like the painting and told Brueghel to substitute animals for the children. Brueghel did so, but not without avenging himself by putting Rudolph’s coat of arms on the coats of the lawless soldiers.
The massacres of humans in the Mideast continues to this day, but now of followers of the infant Jesus. Americans, busy with the holiday season, don’t seem to be noticing the details in that picture either.
All the more to be wary of blanket travel bans against all refugees from countries where Christians are most in danger, some of whom, blessed with English language and professional skills, would greatly add to the US population.
Whose act of war?
North Korean hereditary Communist despot Kim Jong-un complains that the latest UN sanctions against his regime “are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against it.” But Kim forgets all his acts of war against the West — the theft from Sony of an anti-Kim film and threats of harm to movie goers if they viewed it at a cinema, preventing its release; his agents’ assassination of opponents in other countries, such as Malaysia; his perpetration of the WannaCry virus attack that caused great damage to computers around the world; and his recent apparent theft of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoins.
It’s likely that Russian and Chinese acquiescence to enhanced sanctions against North Korea is motivated by fear of the US going ahead with a reported “bloody nose” attack on North Korea’s weaponry.
Click here to go to yesterday’s Founders Broadsheet (“Trump administration finally getting its foreign policy footing: Honduras, Ukraine, Israel”)
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