John R. Houk, Editor
February 22, 2018
I find it very disturbing the U.S. Press (aka Lame Stream
Media, Leftist Mainstream Media & so on) is so hot in Trump-hatred that
they would rather distribute fake news or inflammatory opinions too often based
on lies and/or twisted facts to incite Impeachment Proceedings against
President Trump.
There has not been ONE reported connection between President
Trump colluding with the Russians in the 2016 election cycle. NOT ONE!
HOWEVER, there has ample Congressional testimony of Dems (Crooked
Hillary & Associates as well as Odious Obama & Associates) colluding
the Russians over the 2016 election cycle.
As bad, some RINOs conspired with the Clinton Crime
Syndicate (aka Clinton Foundation) to make some nefarious bucks by clearing the
way for 20% of American uranium to end up into the hands of Russians. AND Mueller
as the then FBI Director did nothing to alert the public of the conspiracy,
indicating he might somehow be in on the Uranium One crime conspiracy.
Where is the U.S. Press on informing the public about more
tangible crimes against the rule of law by these wicked Dems? It is beginning
to feel like collusion with these characters: Obama, Obama’s upper echelon
staff, Crooked Hillary & staff (both State Department & Campaign),
Slick Willy (aka former President Clinton), the usual suspects of Slick
Willy’s staff &; associates, FBI upstairs staff, Intel Agencies
of numerous alphabet acronyms AND various Dems still in Office.
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The paradoxes of the Mueller investigation
Feb. 22, 2018
Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13
Russian nationals for allegedly conspiring to sow confusion in the 2016
presidential election. The chance of extraditing any of the accused
from Vladimir Putin's Russia is zero.
Some of the Russians' Keystone Cops efforts to disrupt the
election favored Donald Trump (as well as Bernie Sanders). Yet
Mueller's team made it clear that the Russians neither colluded with
any U.S. citizens nor had any material effect on the election's
outcome.
But from here on out, there will be ironies, paradoxes and
unintended consequences with just about everything Mueller does.
Is it now time to prosecute foreigners for attempting to
interfere with a U.S. election? If so, then surely Christopher
Steele, the author of the Fusion GPS dossier, is far more culpable and
vulnerable than the 13 bumbling Russians.
Steele is not a U.S. citizen. Steele colluded with
Russian interests in compiling his lurid dossier about Donald Trump.
Steele did not register as a foreign agent. And Steele was paid by Hillary
Clinton's campaign to find dirt on political rival Trump and his campaign.
In other words, Steele's position is far worse than that of
the Russians for at a variety of reasons. One, he is easily extraditable while
the Russians are not. Two, his efforts really did affect the race, given that the
dossier was systematically leaked to major media and served as a basis for
the U.S. government to spy on American citizens. Three, unlike with
the Russians, no one disputes that American citizens -- Hillary Clinton,
members of the Democratic National Committee, and anti-Trump
partisan Glenn Simpson and his Fusion GPS team -- colluded by paying
for Steele's work.
Mueller's team has also leveraged a guilty plea from former
Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for making false
statements to FBI investigators. If the Flynn case is now the Mueller standard,
then we know that a number of high-ranking officials are vulnerable to such
legal exposure.
Department of Justice official Bruce
Ohr deliberately omitted on federal disclosure forms the fact that his
wife, an expert on Russia, worked on the Fusion GPS dossier.
Steele himself probably lied to the FBI went he claimed he
had not leaked the dossier's contents to the media.
Hillary Clinton aides Huma
Abedin and Cheryl Mills likely lied to FBI
investigator Peter Strzok (who had also interviewed Flynn) when they
claimed they had no idea that Clinton was using a private and illegal email
server until the story went public. In fact, Abedin and Mills had communicated
with Clinton over the same server -- as did then-President Barack Obama,
who likewise denied that he knew about the improper server.
Former FBI Director James Comey likely lied
to Congress when he claimed that his exoneration of Clinton came
after he had interviewed her. We now know from documents that he drafted a
statement about the conclusion of the investigation even before he met with her.
As far as obstruction charges go, Mueller has other possible
targets. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch met secretly
with Bill Clinton on a jet parked on a tarmac in Phoenix shortly
before the Justice Department closed the probe of Hillary
Clinton and chose not to pursue charges against her. Comey said Lynch
asked him not to use the word "investigation" when discussing the
Clinton email probe. Text messages between Strzok and fellow FBI
official Lisa Page suggest that Lynch knew in advance about the
conclusions Comey would reach in the investigation.
What is going on?
Mueller is under enormous pressure to find collusion between
the Trump team and Russia, or to find that the Trump team obstructed
justice by trying to hide such collusion. But neither likely happened. Mueller
was appointed at a time of national hysteria, brought on by partisan journalism
based on a leaked dossier -- itself a product of a discredited British agent
working with Russian sources while being paid by the Clinton campaign.
Worse still, the effort to hide the origins and the use of
that dossier to obtain court permission to spy on American citizens may be a
classic case of obstruction of justice.
Mueller's existential problem has been with him from the
start. Due to the shenanigans of his discredited friend Comey and a rabid
media, he was appointed to investigate crimes that did not exist. But if they
did exist, collusion and obstruction were committed by those associated with
the Clinton campaign and even by members of the Obama administration.
Investigating any possible crimes committed by members of
the Clinton campaign or the Obama administration apparently is taboo, given the
exalted status of both. But every time Mueller seeks to find incidental
wrongdoing by those around Trump, he only makes the case stronger that behavior
by those involved in the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration should
be investigated.
If such matters are not treated in an unbiased manner, we
are not a nation of equality under the law, but a banana republic masquerading
as a democracy.
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