“Federal agents are preparing to scour roughly 650,000 emails contained on the laptop of former Rep. Anthony Weiner to see how many relate to a prior probe of Hillary Clinton’s email use, as metadata on the device suggests there may be thousands sent to or from the private server that the Democratic nominee used while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter.”
So, another day of media hysterics, so let’s see, on the political front, Trump is wallowing in the news of Comey reopening the Hillary email investigation and the Clinton camp is waging all-out scorched earth against James Comey.
Reports are there are 650,000 thousand emails on the Weiner/Abedin family laptop… let’s hope Huma used anti-microbial wipes when handling that laptop. Huma’s emails are reported to be many thousands (some reports are saying tens of thousands).
One wonders if she had the crème de la crème of Clinton email server stash saved on her laptop? Or were these just innocent emails she sent to her yahoo account to print out (that’s what she told the FBI). Is she the diligent, little Hillary helper she is portrayed to be?
This is a long post, sorry about that. I believe that whatever his NY FBI field office briefed Comey on was of a magnitude so serious that he felt he had no other option than to send that letter and back his agents, to allow them to continue their investigation.
In July – a few top secret SAP classified emails, Comey waved that aside. The Clinton Foundation corruption – no interest in investigating that, the obstruction of justice with over 30,000 subpoenaed emails destroyed – no biggie. “What’s a little perjury among friends” was Comey’s attitude. So what would be serious enough to get him to act. As I wrote yesterday, I suspect, this might be about espionage (no proof – just my suspicion).
Reading these FBI Notes, then looking at the news reports, the media is fixated on the “classified email” angle and clearing or nailing Hillary (depending on partisan political leanings), but all along I’ve been more concerned that there’s a national security angle that no one has been discussing. The media talked about hacking a lot, but here are my concerns.
First, Huma Abedin should never have been cleared to have high level security clearance, with her and her families KNOWN ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamists. So, she told the FBI she was given her top secret clearance in 2009, but did she ever undergo a formal security background check or did Hillary have that requirement waived? The Clintons did that in the 90s and had national security people fuming. The State Dept worked out the security clearances for Hillary’s lawyers AFTER they were already in possession of them and sorting them last year. The State Dept sent a safe to Kendall’s office… The Clintons IT guys, Cooper and Pagliano, and also the Platte River Network, all had access to the Clinton server and NONE of them had security clearances. And let’s clarify something here – Bill Clinton’s foundation emails were also on that server too. These people are national security nightmares. Huma told the FBI she had no recollection of ever being read into SAPs (Special Access Programs) programs, but she had that clearance???
The FBI Notes have Bill Clinton’s guy, Cooper, telling the FBI that Huma controlled the operations of the SCIF in the Clintons home. The only person, other than the Clintons who had an email account on the Clinton home-brew server was Huma Abedin. (FBI Notes: page 4).
Abedin told the FBI she sent emails to her yahoo email account (FBI Notes, page 86), because she couldn’t print them from her clinton email on her home printer.
Now we have all these emails and the FBI in NY has been sorting them based on metadata. I am completely computer-challenged, but I think of metadata as like sorting mail and looking at the who the sender and recipient are on the envelope (plus there’s a lot of IP info too – sort of like the routing code stuff, I think). Metadata can be a treasure trove of information – the who is emailing to and from, if any of these recipients are foreign or intel peeps or known agents, even the, “if a schedule of exchanges emerges” can lead to drawing some conclusions or at least raising alarm bells. You don’t have to ever read the contents and determine some major red flags just with metadata.
That she has thousands upon thousands of emails on her personal laptop, after claiming she turned everything over to the FBI shows she outright lied. She also said she didn’t know about the server until it broke in the news last year. Cooper told the FBI that Huma put him in touch with Pagliano and recommended Pagliano, as the person to set up the new server in 2009. She was involved in the whole server set-up. She has had unlimited access to Hillary and Bill and ALL the classified information in the SCIF in their home and she controlled the SCIF.
The mainstream media reported today that poor Huma didn’t know how these emails got on that laptop… The email fairy delivered them…
She played dumb to the FBI, but she is a savvy operator. Her demure, clueless routine is an ACT.
Now, she has all these emails – so maybe she was just storing as much damaging stuff as an insurance policy, in case the Clintons ever turn on her (which is about to happen), but maybe Huma is more than just Hillary’s indispensable Girl Friday and because of her unlimited access to the Clintons – the FBI should figure that out quick.
Yesterday afternoon, FBI Director, James Comey, sent a letter to key members of Congress informing them that the Hillary Clinton email investigation is being reopened. The media, in the tank for Hillary, went berserk, the Democrats went berserk, and Hillary Clinton demanded Comey provide more information. With the election 10 days away, this revelation does have the obvious ability to impact the election, so of course, the political optics should concern everyone and assuredly they concerned everyone on the Left and in the media.
Speculation runs rife, but so far, the media is reporting that new emails came to the FBI’s notice through its investigation of perv, Anthony Weiner’s sexting with a minor investigation. Media reports assert that electronic devices belonging to both Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, estranged wife of perv Weiner were subpoenaed in this investigation.
As you read news reports, bits and pieces show up that deviate slightly from the predominant “narrative”. Bits like this, though, shed some alarming light:
“FBI interview notes indicate that Abedin, a Pakistani-American Muslim whose family has deep ties to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the radical Muslim Brotherhood, was granted Top Secret security clearance for the first time in 2009, when Clinton named her deputy chief of staff for operations. Abedin said she “did not remember” being read into any Special Access Programs (SAPs) or compartments.” (my emphasis)
If Clinton wins the presidency next month, she is expected to tap Abedin as her chief of staff, a position that would give her the power to run White House operations – including personnel security and visitor access. The position does not require Senate confirmation. (my emphasis)
the article continues:
“Another guard assigned to Clinton’s residence in Chappaqua, N.Y., recalled in a February FBI interview that new security procedures for handling delivery of the diplomatic pouch and receiving via fax the highly classified Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) had been “established by Abedin.” The witness added that Abedin controlled the operations of a secure room known as a SCIF located on the third floor of the residence.” (my emphasis)
then this:
The FBI pointed out that “the only person at DoS (Department of State) to receive an email account on the (clintonemail.com) domain was Abedin.”
In other words, Abedin, whose email account was huma@clintonemail.com, was the only State Department aide whose emails were hosted by the private Clinton server she claimed she didn’t know existed until she heard about it in the news.” (my emphasis)
One can only wonder what “information” would prod Comey to act, since he already listed an array of felonies, from mishandling classified information to obstruction of justice, in his July “nothing criminal” statement and dismissed them as “extremely careless”. So, knowing that Comey did not feel compelled to pursue those crimes, it stands to reason to wonder what might have motivated him to act now, especially this close to the election.
The media is yammering about pay-to-play and more classified information, but I keep thinking about that charge list Comey read off in July and then dismissed. Perhaps, it was something so serious, that even compromised-his-integrity Comey could not bring himself to ignore it as just, “extremely careless”… like, maybe espionage (pure speculation on my part, but hey, I feel no remorse).
Considering Abedin admitted she doesn’t remember ever being read into any SAPs, yet had access and possibly even control over the Secretary of State’s classified information within the State Department, begs the question:
Did she ever undergo a formal security background check to ascertain she is not a security risk???
Or was that waived by Hillary Clinton? This same question should be asked of President Obama and his White House staff. It should also be asked, looking back, to President Bush and President Clinton too. I remember, during the Clinton administration, people in the national security community raised serious alarms about the lack of proper security vetting, which allowed unvetted people close access to the Clinton White House.
And if my speculation turns out to have any veracity, it should prod both sides, especially grand-stander, John McCain, to seriously review how elected officials in Washington vet their staffs. I’ve been wondering since 2013 why on earth McCain hired disgraced ISW analyst, Elizabeth O’Bagy, after she was fired by the Institute for the Study of War. And of course, did she ever undergo a security background check?
How Abedin, with her connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, ever passed a security background check, boggles the mind, but the same goes for O’Bagy, who is still a staffer for John McCain.
In 1980, I was a lowly private in the US Army. I arrived at the 21st Replacement in Frankfurt, Germany, because the lower ranks did not have direct assignments in Germany. I was being given my assignment as an Army journalist/information specialist, but first I was asked some questions, because the assignment was to Berlin. The first question was, “Do you know anyone in the Soviet Union or Eastern bloc countries?” I answered honestly, that I had a pen pal in Czechoslovakia, as a teenager.
That answer precluded me from being assigned to Berlin. I “knew” someone in a communist country, yet here we are engaged in war against radical Islamists and people with direct ties to organizations funding radical Islamists are working for high-level US officials and have access to highly classified US intelligence information. Abedin has direct ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and O’Bagy was working for the Syrian Emergency Task Force, as the political director and that group had ties to Palestinian radicals (Muslim Brotherhood). Here’s a bit from a Daniel Greenfield 2013 report:
Senator McCain mentioned Elizabeth O’Bagy’s op-ed during the Senate hearings, when he wasn’t playing poker, and tweeted it. That should come as no surprise, considering that O’Bagy is credited with arranging McCain’sinfamous photo op with the Syrian rebel leadership.
The Wall Street Journal lists O’Bagy’s role as the Institute for the Study of War. It leaves out the fact that she is the political director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force making her an activist.
O’Bagy doesn’t matter much. She’s a friendly Western face plastered over a foreign organization. Of more interest is Mouaz Moustafa, the smiling man in the Keffiyah on the far right of McCain in this photo. (my emphasis)
Mouaz Moustafa is a Palestinian Arab and the Executive Director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force which arranged for McCain’s visit.
Senator McCain called Moustafa a “patriot”, but it’s not clear which country he’s a patriot of, since it’s not Mouaz Moustafa’s first time around on the regime change bus tour.”
Now, I must disagree with Greenfield, because I think these “oh so innocent American women, with Islamic radical ties“, matter a great deal. I think they might matter more than the men, like Moustafa, because these women have ingratiated themselves with top US politicians and have complete access to highly classified information, but also a great deal of influence over these politicians.
Things have changed a great deal, but it sure seems like national security protocols now center around partisan domestic politics and the vagaries of the egos of entrenched Washington insiders, like McCain and Clinton, whom operate above the rules of lesser mortals, than they do about the actual national security of the United States of America.
Social media, the TV pundits and news peeps erupted into frenzied hysterics about Trump’s response to Chris Wallace’s question about whether Trump would accept the outcome of the election, if he loses. This hysteria is ridiculous.
FOX news played the same game against Trump last night, that they used against the other GOP candidates during a GOP primary debate, to pit them against the “will of the people” – this is a slick propaganda gambit. The media piled on during the primary pinning down every GOP leader they could find and exacting a pledge from them that they would accept the “will of the people”, if Trump got the most votes. That FOX used this same ploy against Trump last night, to pit him against the “will of the people” and the the media hysterics that immediately erupted, shows that FOX staged that question for just that purpose.
Hillary wasn’t asked that question, but she was allowed to get on her soapbox and lecture us about American principles – this woman, who tramples on the law with impunity.
This was shameless agitation propaganda, where the only loser was the American electoral process last night, because if the system is “rigged”, none of us should accept that vote as legitimate – that’s the TRUTH. The media is playing an outsized role in running the Clinton scorched earth to pile-on dirt, to bury Trump now.
All of this is dirt, the media withheld during the primary, while they were giving Trump billions of dollars in free media to burn the GOP to the ground.
However, with FOX – first with their relentless Trumpathon in the primary and now this set-up, which only foments more factional divides and distrust in the American electoral process, something smells. Trump did the same thing he did in the primary – tried to make it about his being treated “unfairly”, but this time the liberal mass media colluded with Hillary, not him.
Once again FOX News is a foreign-owned company, but their role in the American media has always been to incite the far-right, wave the American flag and fuel partisan divides in America.
Update: My son corrected me on FOX News being a foreign-owned company. Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985:
In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen (and as a result, gave up Australian citizenship) in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S. television ownership.[8]
I still have niggling doubts whenever I watch FOX News’ ginning up the far-right and especially watching this Trump spectacle in the 2016 election. Something isn’t quite right there – it’s deliberate propaganda most of the time to stir up partisan divisiveness and NOT to unite America – I guess, that’s what bothers me about all the flag-waving on FOX. It’s not really promoting American values or principles at all, just rabid partisanship.
I used to refer to CNN as the Communist New Network, for the same reason – it was a rabid far-left propaganda machine, but in 2016, it became the Clinton New Network, just an arm of the Clinton campaign spin-cycle.
It’s late in the game for American national security and strategic “experts” to get their heads out of their butts and get back to nuts and bolts basics:
BIG PICTURE/LITTLE PICTURE – LEARN IT, UNDERSTAND IT, PRACTICE IT ALWAYS!!!
Every successful military strategy is based on deception and yes, that means one side is “conspiring” to defeat the other side, so being called a “conspiracy nut” doesn’t even phase me in the least. I study military strategy – ends, ways, means. I try to discern strategies, just like I analyze systems – figure out the parts and how they operate together. I read a lot about military history and military strategy and have for decades, but I am NOT an expert on anything. I am a homemaker, but most of all I am an American, who swore an oath to defend The Constitution always.
The following is a repetitive LB message, which I posted at The American Thinker again this morning. It might be removed. Many of my comments there get removed, I suspect because Trump is very popular at their website. I also have posted a few comments at PJ Media and interestingly enough, the author, Roger L. Simon (a Trump supporter), descended into comments recently, to accuse me of making straw men arguments. Yes, I am controversial… and persistent. So, first here is my comment at The American Thinker article by Patricia McCarthy, The Cluelessness of ‘WWWDC’. This article was berating white-women-with-college-degrees for supporting Hillary. Here’s my comment:
“Crooked Hillary, awful in ways both obvious and alarming, isn’t why Trump is losing and it’s also not because of feminist blather. The reason Trump is losing is because he deliberately has been exploding his own campaign for months now, trying to use the Clinton-style scorched earth media strategy that worked like a charm in the primary.
His campaign staff and surrogates spend every minute trotting after him, cleaning up the verbal garbage he spews constantly. Trump could have spent the time since the convention working to unite the GOP, studying policy and staying on a coherent message, but instead he decided to play a high stakes scorched earth face-off with Hillary, hoping to recapture that primary “winning in all the polls” mojo. The reason it hasn’t worked is that scorched earth only works with massive mass media collusion. The “corrupt media” was corrupt in the GOP primary giving Trump billions of dollars in free media and selling his talking points non-stop. That allowed Hillary to bury her email server scandal and also propelled only the worst GOP candidates to gain any traction (per the Podesta email – promoting the Pied Piper candidates)
That Clinton Scorched Earth requires:
Talking points and buzz word messaging, which are relentlessly repeated by both political operatives and the media.
Mass media domination of the messaging, to control the 24/7 NEWS cycle, which requires mass media collusion.
Relentless repetition of polling data by both the political operatives and media, to facilitate the manufacture of opinion cascades (winning in all the polls).
Trump tore the GOP apart, using a hyped GOP establishment conspiracy theory (identical to how Hillary plays her vast, right-wing conspiracy), but his angry followers, who were duped by this con man, still want to blame everyone else for his failures. Trump’s primary talking points and relentless repetition of them by both him and the media sold him as “winning in all the polls”.
This Clinton SPIN media messaging, which morphed into the Obama “narrative” media messaging is wholesale public corruption, where the media elite and one political party control the political messaging 24/7 in the mainstream media and they reinforce that messaging by selling manufactured opinion cascades (polls) and talking points, which they repeat relentlessly. The repeated messages are what people remember and the repeated polls brainwash people to believe poll numbers reflect “the will of the people”.
This isn’t just about this election, it’s about a corrupt system designed to allow Leftists and Democratic politicians to control the media messaging and thereby control the political process in America. This corrupt media collusion, that worked to assure Trump dominated in the GOP primary, is working to bury Trump in dirt now. This is the Clinton Scorched Earth 2.0 . Everyone can see the corrupt media pile-on now, where the media keeps hyping one Trump scandal after another – all stories that are years old and which the media sat on for the past year – to use in October to destroy Trump. Trump is just too stupid to realize he was a Clinton dupe all along, he thinks he can beat the Clintons at their own scorched earth, not even realizing that to win with that strategy requires massive mass media collusion – it’s totally corrupt (but to borrow Comey’s words, “not illegal”).”
The Clinton operatives and their friends have many more devastating hits on Trump planned out, with the worst saved up for days before the election. That reality should check the exuberance of Trump followers, but they keep believing he is great and will win. His campaign is imploding and each Clinton hit will expose Trump’s deplorable character with irrefutable evidence – they spent the past year compiling video tapes and combing records. This is how the Clintons operate. Trump has recycled Bill Clinton women and Putin emails.
Cheer him on at your own peril. Rumors are swirling there’s tape of him using racial slurs… He’s taking the GOP down into the sewer with him.
“That reality should check the exuberance of Trump followers, but they keep believing he is great and will win.”
For the record I would like to say that is absolute nonsense. We are in an election of two people with a tremendous amount at stake. No one said anyone was “great” here or even close. It’s a choice and in my case easy to make because I believe in the rule of law. You disagree, fine. But quit making up idiotic straw men.
Each time Trump comes back with one of these “counter punches”, the Trump pundits keep spinning it that he is back or he’s not out.
The Clintons are the most corrupt political machine in modern American history, perhaps all of American history. The Clinton machine orchestrated the GOP Insurgency with friends of Bill in the media elite. Yes, hard to prove, but the billions of free media selling Trump was obviously corrupt. In late Feb, all but FOX pivoted to the “loose cannon” mode.
Hillary should have been indicted, just as Bill Clinton should have been removed from office for lying under oath, obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses, which were all in the charges. GOP Senators waffled.
Trump seems more like a gift to the Clintons to get Hillary elected than the one thing standing between Hillary and the White House- he is the perfect dupe. Every time he “survives”, there’s another more devastating liberal media revelation of Trump dirt, while Trump is relying on Wikileaks to save him. Bill Clinton set up the perfect triangulation strategy – Bernie the kook on the left, Trump the kook on the right – with the middle cleared for Hillary. Despite her many lies tonight – she stayed calm and poised and did not loose one bit of her foothold on the middle ground. Trump gained nothing.
Tonight he rambled out one attack after another, much of it garbage. And then he ended this debate praising “no stamina Hillary” : “She doesn’t quit, she doesn’t give up, I respect that. I tell it like it is: She’s a fighter!”
Frankly, all along (since 1992), I’ve suspected that there was some hostile foreign intelligence influence in the Clinton SPIN cycle media messaging strategy and their souped up impeachment spin – Scorched Earth media messaging strategy, which morphed into the GWB Derangement Syndrome media messaging strategy, then morphed into the Obama “Narratives” media messaging strategy. And now we have experienced the Trump “GOP Insurgent” media messaging triumph to burn the GOP to the ground, in the primary, and we’re at the Clinton Scorched Earth 2.0 media messaging strategy to make sure Hillary wins – no matter what. All of these media messaging strategies were totally corrupt and relied on massive mass media collusion to brainwash enough Americans to buy into them to succeed. However, they all also are at their core run like military-style INFORMATION WARFARE strategies and sorry, most of the Dems, to include Hillary and Bill Clinton, know nothing about military strategy. Bill Clinton is a political genius, he is not in any way, shape or form a military strategist. The “SPIN” fits with his area of expertise- political messaging.
I’ve always been suspicious of the Carville/Matlin duo, which did in George H.W.Bush – something smelled off with them during that election, their hokey love affair and everything about them. Another Clinton spin meister supreme, George Stepanopoulos, choirboy looks, and now Chief Anchor and Chief Political Correspondent for ABC News.
So once again, here is what this strategy really is and yes, I made up the “mass media saturation strategy” name myself, long ago, because that’s what the strategy IS:
Mass media saturation is the military strategy of swarming juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield
Scorched earth is the military strategy of scorched earth (a war crime under the Geneva Conventions btw) juxtaposed to a mass media battlefield, Scorched earth information warfare is a take no prisoners blitz of vicious character assassinations AND mass media saturation on steroids.
Combined, they have been ruthlessly used to divide America into hostile, warring factions
The Russians are playing a worldwide media messaging game – BIG picture and that Iranian incident of seizing two American ships in January was part of it:
The Wiki-leaks dumps are part of it, even Lavrov’s “oh, so disingenuous pussy joke” with Christiane Amanpour (Iranian, pushed for US intervention in Balkans, married top Clinton State Dept official- getting closer access to Clinton White House), was a middle finger to US leaders. For the pearl-clutchers saying, “How could you be suspicious of Amanpour?” Well first it was her theatrical prodding US intervention in the Balkans, which made me wonder why some “Leftist” was urging US military action, so here’s the LB Guide to Profiling again.
Here’s the Lavrov brilliant attack on American leadership:
Here’s another BIG Russian media message for the US and the West:
For the record, I could not care less when people attack me personally or call me a crazy conspiracy nut, but I sure hope that the people entrusted with our national security get their heads out of their butts SOON, because the Russians ARE on the move and they have a COMPREHENSIVE MILITARY STRATEGY and they have been incrementally waging it for DECADES against America and the West. There should be a few Cold Warriors, who remember how this game is played.
Hillary or Trump are both surefire losers for America – one is too stupid to realize Putin is fluffing him and the other has so much dirt that the Russians are holding and ready to blackmail her, that she’s compromised six ways to Sunday.
This isn’t just about presidential “politics” or some benign media messaging strategy, because the Clinton mass media messaging is just part of this. The Russians are escalating their cyber warfare actions, their geopolitical actions AND military actions.
This is the culmination of a DECADES’ long comprehensive military strategy to neuter the United States and the West and the main effort has been to fuel virulent partisan factions in America and destroy Americans’ confidence in the media, in their economic system (Wall Street attacks ring a bell), the police (hey BLM, ring a bell), and the entire American governmental system. It has been a comprehensive military strategy all along.
Quick post tonight. The foreign situation, with Putin, Iran and China on the move and Obama mulling about, is starkly dangerous for the United States. We are at a very perilous moment.
The media and the American people are fixated on “Trump the Sexual Predator”, which is soon to morph into “Trump the Racist”. Here’s an example:“Report: Trump repeatedly called rapper Lil Jon ‘Uncle Tom’”. This is all pre-planned, pre-packaged Clinton scorched earth hits. The corrupt media that gave Trump BILLIONS of dollars in free media during the primary, to wage his “GOP Insurgency” are now colluding to wage the Clintons scorched earth, to completely burn Trump (and the GOP) to the ground. It’s wholesale public corruption on a massive scale.
The irony is friends of Bill Clinton, like Jeff Zucker at CNN, lamenting, that perhaps, they gave too much time to Trump’s full rallies last year, despite CNN making a fortune off of Trump’s GOP Insurgency Show:
“CNN’s president says he regrets giving so much airtime to Donald Trump and his rallies on the network early in the campaign season.
“If we made any mistake last year, it’s that we probably did put too many of his campaign rallies in those early months and let them run,” Jeff Zucker said at Harvard Kennedy School, according to BuzzFeed. “Listen, because you never knew what he would say, there was an attraction to put those on the air.””
Guess, Zucker’s worried about the monster they created, because Trump has mastered the scorched earth media strategy too and he’s that lunatic that doesn’t back down and buy into “mutually-assured destruction”, as a deterrent to going nuclear. Trump is going nuclear, even if he has to burn the entire electoral system down in the process.
Don’t have a clue where this ends up – Putin is trying to burn down the American electoral system too and he is playing for keeps. Unlike Trump… Putin is NOT a loose cannon.
The lesson to learn from this though is:
CHARACTER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAIT IN AN AMERICAN LEADER!
This election now enters Scorched Earth: The Death Match Edition.
Putin again plays chess, while the US, as usual, plays checkers. So, contrary to Newt, Huckabee, Giuliani and other pathetic Trump mouthpieces, this election isn’t a binary choice between Trump or Hillary. It’s a scorched earth battle between two rabid, very corrupt American partisans, Trump and Hillary, then there is Putin, who is waging a scorched earth battle against American democracy.
While Hillary and Trump take the low road, entrenched in their vicious underhanded character assassination attacks in the media, and the liberal American news media colludes to facilitate Hillary’s attacks against Trump, Putin is waging his own scorched earth campaign against America. Putin’s scorched earth extends way beyond just Trump and Hillary, in fact, most of his effort is directed at waging a propaganda war against the US Armed Forces, by setting up confrontations to make American forces look weak and cowardly. He has China and Iran aiding in these efforts. Putin’s war involved years of careful information warfare against America and he’s now trying to launch the decisive battle. Putin’s aim isn’t just to promote Trump, it’s to destroy the credibility of the American electoral system.
The weakest point for any country is during a transition of leadership change. Putin , Iran, China are all on the move, while Obama continues to golf and the American public talks itself into exhaustion about Trump’s grabbing women’s private parts.
Trump presently is burning up Twitter today, with attacks against Republicans again, more burning the GOP to the ground, intent to take as many Republicans down with him, as his campaign goes up in flames. What a “leader”. His only concern is about his damaged ego and being a LOSER. The “p*&&y” video is assuredly not the last video exposure of the real Donald J. Trump, in this flaming hot mess. If the rumored video exists of Trump using the n-word emerges, his campaign will be not a Three-Mile Island leak, but the Chernobyl of American presidential politics – everyone will be rushing to escape … He’s going down in flames, so any wishful thinking that he “won” the debate Sunday and is going to turn his campaign around rests as delusional.
Hillary’s minions in the media are trying to divert attention away from Wikileaks’ deluge of email leaks and draw attention to Trump. Her only concern is about herself. The email leaks are clearly showing the wholesale public corruption, with widespread liberal media collusion, between many news media outlets and the Clinton campaign… oh, what a surprise.
Since last Fall, I’ve rambled on about Bill Clinton’s triangulation strategy and how the Clinton spin really works – it works only with extensive media collusion, which in turn manufacture opinion cascades. It’s a mass media brainwashing operation, where the relentlessly repeated messaging dominates, even blocks out, other messaging. So, imagine my shock when finally, my youngest daughter told me last night that her husband was telling her about the leaks show the Clintons pushed the media to promote Trump in the GOP primary. As if she was informing me of some big news, she said, “Mama, your conspiracy theory was right.”
It took Wikileaks to prove the actual electronic trails, to expose the media collusion with the political operatives. However, that collusion was obvious if you tracked the messaging and the strategy. Information warfare involves identifying the messaging, who is conveying the messaging, who is the target of the messaging and the means employed to wage the information warfare. All of this can done without high-tech analysis of the information battlefield – it can be done by carefully watching and listening to mass media messaging. It takes human intelligence to analyze it – not high-tech.
Again, here are the basics:
The reason Trump broke out of the pack was because he used the borrowed Clinton-style mass media saturation/scorched earth strategy.
That strategy is a sophisticated INFORMATION WARFARE strategy introduced into American politics by the Clinton political operatives.
The mass media saturation strategy was developed by far-left Alinskyite Marxists. The messaging wall required for mass media saturation to succeed requires the active collusion of the mass media NEWS outlets to facilitate it, by actively and relentlessly repeating the messages of the political candidate or activists using this “buzz word, catchphrase spin (talking points messaging). Mass media saturation INFORMATION WARFARE requires mass media collusion to succeed. This strategy can NOT succeed without mass media messaging dominance to CONTROL (“win”) the 24/7 news cycle (or as the Clinton team dubbed it – the spin cycle).
It is a form of mass media brainwashing and antithetical to American free speech principles! To succeed this strategy requires MEDIA COLLUSION.
It can NOT work without that media collusion.
Here are the components:
Talking points and buzz word messaging, which are relentlessly repeated by both political operatives and the media.
Mass media domination of the messaging, to control the 24/7 NEWS cycle, which requires mass media collusion.
Relentless repetition of polling data by both the political operatives and media, to facilitate the manufacture of opinion cascades (winning in all the polls)
Only Democrats had successfully used this strategy before Trump, because the liberal media never before gave BILLIONS of dollars in free media for one GOP candidate, to run a “GOP Insurgency” for 8 months straight on all three cable news networks nor did the mass media cable networks ever collude or facilitate in the mass media messaging for any Republican candidate or cause.
Just as the Wikileaks leak has exposed the MEDIA COLLUSION between the DNC and the media to rig the system against Sanders, that SAME media collusion exists between the Potemkin Trump campaign (or the Clinton operatives who were in the shadows masterminding this charade) and the media.
Those electronic trails exist!!!
This mass media saturation requires constant messaging coordination between political operatives and the media facilitators to keep the SPIN cycle moving. Trump’s “win, win, win” is exactly like Carville’s “sex, sex, sex” during impeachment. I feel sure Trump’s MEDIA COLLUSION will be exposed before November.
And the scorched earth part of the strategy is really just the mass media saturation strategy on steroids, replete with endless character assassinations (low-energy Jeb, lyin’ Ted, little Marco, etc.) and a take no prisoners attitude.
Putin is calmly watching the American freak show and waging a masterful information warfare offensive against an America, unaware it’s under attack, and he is planning real strategic military moves. America isn’t even aware Russia is launching a REAL offensive against the West.
Much of this post is a rehash of old stuff, but I wanted to add a bit to this emerging propaganda picture, not to prove anything, but to encourage others to start looking big picture/little picture to find the Russian active measures to interfere in our electoral process. It’s not just the Democrat bigwig email leaks or Wikileaks that concerns me. It’s the escalating hostile military actions being employed against US Armed Forces by Russia, Iran and Chinacombined with this Russian intelligence overt influence in our election, that makes figuring out the full scope of the Russian big picture imperative. And, thepieces emerging in this Russian strategic big picture make me very uneasy. Putting them together correctly is crucial to America’s national security.
The Syrian “Moderate” Rebel Mirage
A fantasy pervaded the entire argument for earlier intervention in the Syrian civil war. It’s the lie propagated by the Obama administration, Syrian rebel lobbyists, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), John McCain and pundits like Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol.
The argument centered on this belief in arming the mythical “moderate” Syrian rebels. It’s also a lie, that I hope ends up fully exposed, because the US military ended up maligned and badly used in this shady Obama “narrative”. The Obama administration began arming so-called Syrian “moderates” in this civil war, early in the conflict. The stories permeate about Libyan weapons being shipped from Libya via Turkey, into Syria.
The “arm Syrian moderates” crowd never talks about who would take charge of Syria, if this plan had been implemented – hint, there are no real “moderates” amongst the rebels, they radicalized early as US vetted intelligence knew early on in the Syrian conflict. Here’s a McClatchyDC link from 2015 on that issue:
“Extensive interviews with Syria policymakers from the Obama administration, some of whom spoke on the record and others who requested anonymity so as to freely describe the administration’s behind-the-scenes debates, reveal that the Obama administration was warned early on that al Qaida-linked fighters were gaining prominence within the anti-Assad struggle.
Senior officials chose to look the other way, however, and flog a misleading narrative of a viable moderate force. Today, the same extremists have seized wide swaths of Syria and Iraq, uprooting millions of people, threatening the stability of U.S. regional allies, and sucking the United States into another open-ended conflict in the Middle East.
The Syrian rebellion began in March 2011 as part of a wave of mostly peaceful Arab protests against autocratic regimes that had quickly toppled regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. Within months, however, it was clear that State Department pleas for Syrian opposition activists to remain nonviolent weren’t working in the face of the regime’s increasingly brutal crackdown on demonstrators.
It didn’t take long for militant Islamists to join the fight, justifying their participation with literalist interpretations of religious scripture about fighting oppressors. That noble-sounding rally for jihad had a magnet-like draw for disaffected young men and women from across the Muslim world.
By that November, just eight months into the rebellion and only two months after President Barack Obama had called for Assad to step aside, a memo from senior policymakers to then-National Security Adviser Tom Donilon warned “that this thing was becoming jihadized,” as one former top official summarized it. The response?
“There was never any indication that the memo was read,” the former official said.
Two aides to Donilon, who is now with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, said he was unavailable for comment.
The rebel power shift was even sharper the next year. Extremist forces were increasingly active, and the outline of what would become the Islamic State was taking shape.”(my highlight)
I suspect the biggest purveyor of this Syrian “moderate” myth is the ISW and FOX News rolls out General Keane to keep selling that.
Going back
Here’s a timeline with some links that explain the Obama administration’s arming and training of Syrian rebels (interfering in fueling a civil war in Syria – arming NOT “freedom-fighters, but Islamists of varying degrees of radicalization):
The heavy arms include mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles and the controversial anti-aircraft heat-seeking SA-7 missiles, which are integral to countering Bashar Al-Assad’s bombing campaign.
Many have suspected that the US was already involved in sending heavy arms.
The administration has said that the previously hidden CIA operation in Benghazi involved finding, repurchasing and destroying heavy weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, but in October we reported evidence indicating that U.S. agents — particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens — were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels.
There have been several possible SA-7 spottings in Syria dating as far back as early summer 2012, and there are indications that at least some of Gaddafi’s 20,000 portable heat-seeking missiles were shipped before now.” (my highlight)
“WASHINGTON — A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.
The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.
The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said. The Obama administration has said it is not providing arms to the rebels, but it has also acknowledged that Syria’s neighbors would do so.
The clandestine intelligence-gathering effort is the most detailed known instance of the limited American support for the military campaign against the Syrian government. It is also part of Washington’s attempt to increase the pressure on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who has recently escalated his government’s deadly crackdown on civilians and the militias battling his rule. With Russia blocking more aggressive steps against the Assad government, the United States and its allies have instead turned to diplomacy and aiding allied efforts to arm the rebels to force Mr. Assad from power.” (my highlight)
September 2012: Elizabeth OBagy published a report at the Institute for the Study of War – Jihad in Syria
May, 2013: John McCain went on his secret fact-finding trip to Syria with the SETF and Elizabeth O’Bagy as his guides.:
“Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) met with rebel leaders in Syria on Monday, The Daily Beast reported, making the senator the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the country since conflict broke out over two years ago.
CNN and Politico confirmed the visit with McCain’s office.
While in the country, McCain met with the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council leader Gen. Salem Idris.”
O’Bagy was also moonlighting as the political director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, a Syrian Free Army lobbying group. She and that SETF escorted McCain on a “secret” fact-finding trip, where later photos of McCain emerged, which were claimed to be McCain with Syrian “moderates”, but whom other experts have identified as Islamist terrorists. The president of that SETF was reported to be connected to Palestinian terrorists.
September 2013: The drumbeat for more US intervention in Syria escalates, but then O’Bagy is exposed as a liar, more questions emerge about exactly who we are arming in Syria and Obama waffles. John McCain hires O’Bagy, right after the ISW fired her for lying about her doctorate.
September 11, 2013: The ISW canned O’Bagy for lying on her resumé, but that was after everyone from Secretary of State, John, Kerry, Senator McCain, everyone in the freakin’ media, to include the Wall Street Journal, accepted Elizabeth O’Bagy without any vetting of her credentials:
“The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-ed piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about having a Ph.D., the group announced on Wednesday.
“The Institute for the Study of War has learned and confirmed that, contrary to her representations, Ms. Elizabeth O’Bagy does not in fact have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University,” the institute said in a statement. “ISW has accordingly terminated Ms. O’Bagy’s employment, effective immediately.”
Story Continued Below
O’Bagy told POLITICO in an interview Monday that she had submitted and defended her dissertation and was waiting for Georgetown University to confer her degree. O’Bagy said she was in a dual master’s and doctorate program at Georgetown.
Kimberly Kagan, who founded the ISW in 2007, said in an interview that while she was “deeply saddened” by the situation, she stands by O’Bagy’s work on Syria.
( POLITICO reports – Obama’s Syria address: special coverage)
”Everything I’ve looked at is rock solid,” Kagan told POLITICO. “Every thread that we have pulled upon has been verified through multiple sources.”
Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, told POLITICO in a statement that “we were not aware of Elizabeth O’Bagy’s academic claims or credentials when we published her Aug. 31 op-ed, and the op-ed made no reference to them.”
“We also were not aware of her affiliation with the Syrian Emergency Task Force, and we published a clarification when we learned of it,” Gigot said. “We are investigating the contents of her op-ed to the best of our ability, but to date we have seen no evidence to suggest any information in the piece was false.” (my highlight)
September 19, 2013: President Obama signed a bill to “arm and train Syrian” rebels, but said little publicly
“President Obama on Friday signed legislation that gives the U.S. approval to arm and train Syrian rebels in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIS, or ISIL).
The approval was part of a larger bill that funds the government through Dec. 11. It was approved with bipartisan support in the Senate on Thursday and in the House on Tuesday.
While Mr. Obama did not comment on the legislation when he signed it Friday afternoon, he did mention the fight against ISIS earlier in the day, at the Democratic National Committee’s annual Women’s Leadership Forum.”
September 27, 2013: McCain immediately hired Elizabeth O’Bagy and she still is on his staff. I’ve wondered if she ever underwent a security background check or if strings were pulled and that was waived for her:
“Sen. John McCain has hired Elizabeth O’Bagy, the Syria analyst in Washington who was fired for padding her credentials, The Cable has learned. She begins work Monday as a legislative assistant in McCain’s office.
O’Bagy was a young but well-respected advisor at the Institute for the Study of War and had emerged quickly as an important voice among those arguing in favor of intervention in Syria. McCain and others had cited her work publicly before her nascent reputation collapsed when it was discovered that her claims to having a combined master’s/Ph.D. were false and that in fact she had not yet defended her thesis.”
January 9, 2014: The Obama administration was considering resumption of arming Syrian rebels, after ISIS had reportedly raided Free SyrianArmy warehouses that contained US -provided weapons:
“WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering the resumption of nonlethal military aid to Syria’s moderate opposition, senior administration officials said on Thursday, even if some of it ends up going to the Islamist groups that are allied with the moderates.
The United States suspended the shipments last month after warehouses of equipment were seized by the Islamic Front, a coalition of Islamist fighters that broke with the American-backed Free Syrian Army and has become an increasingly vital force in the nearly three-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
But as a result of the rapidly shifting alliances within Syria’s fractured opposition, some of the Islamists fought alongside the Free Syrian Army in a battle against a major rebel group affiliated with Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
That has eased American qualms about resuming the aid, the officials said.”
The ISW and McCain, plus Obama’s friends from the Muslim Brotherhood/Palestinian terror network, kept pushing for the US to aid the Syrian “moderate” rebels.
“The U.S. is providing more arms and training to the moderate rebels in Syria, under a growing secret program run by the CIA in Jordan. Sources tell NPR that secret program could be supplemented by a more public effort in the coming months involving American military trainers.
The change in strategy comes as the White House sees Syrian leader Bashar Assad growing in strength, and continuing to strike rebel strongholds.
Another factor: Russian leaders appear unwilling to help end the three-year-old civil war and are continuing to provide weapons to Assad. Finally, al-Qaida fighters and their allies are expanding in Syria, a development that some believe could threaten the U.S. homeland.”
September 2014: President Obama expanded from CIA arming and training Syrian “moderates” to dragging the US military into this fiasco of arming Islamist nutjobs. Here’s how the vetting Syrian “moderates” went – from Patrick Poole at PJ Media:
“As President Obama laid out his “strategy” last night for dealing with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and as bipartisan leadership in Congress pushes to approve as much as $4 billion to arm Syrian “rebels,” it should be noted that the keystone to his anti-Assad policy — the “vetted moderate” Free Syrian Army (FSA) — is now admitting that they, too, are working with the Islamic State.
This confirms PJ Media’s reporting last week about the FSA’s alliances with Syrian terrorist groups.
On Monday, the Daily Star in Lebanon quoted a FSA brigade commander saying that his forces were working with the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s official Syrian affiliate — both U.S.-designated terrorist organizations — near the Syrian/Lebanon border.
“We are collaborating with the Islamic State and the Nusra Front by attacking the Syrian Army’s gatherings in … Qalamoun,” said Bassel Idriss, the commander of an FSA-aligned rebel brigade.“We have reached a point where we have to collaborate with anyone against unfairness and injustice,” confirmed Abu Khaled, another FSA commander who lives in Arsal.
“Let’s face it: The Nusra Front is the biggest power present right now inQalamoun and we as FSA would collaborate on any mission they launch as long as it coincides with our values,” he added.”
Poole continues:
“But the Free Syrian Army is not the only U.S.-armed and trained “rebel” force in Syria that the Obama administration is having serious trouble keeping in the “vetted moderate” column.
Earlier this week I reported on Harakat al-Hazm, which was the first of the “vetted moderates” to receive U.S. anti-tank weaponry earlier this year. Harakat al-Hazm isreportedly a front for the Muslim Brotherhood as well as Turkey and Qatar, its Islamist state sponsors.
An L.A. Timesarticle was published this past Sunday from the battle lines in Syria. The reporter recounted a discussion with two Harakat al-Hazm fighters who admitted, “But Nusra doesn’t fight us, we actually fight alongside them. We like Nusra.””
The Obama Syrian debacle continued through 2015 and in the news, you could follow reports of various ME leaders going to Moscow to talk to Putin, as Putin planned his own Syrian intervention, while Obama kept floundering arming Islamist terrorists (yes, I believe he was arming Islamic radicals in Syria FROM the beginning).
September 2015: Congress dragged the US Army general, Lloyd Austin, commander of US Central Command, before Congress to berate Austin about the failure to vet and train more Syrian moderates. Austin reported only a handful of “moderates” were vetted and trained. Instead of getting a clue, that there aren’t any “moderates” left in this brutal civil war in Syria, where both sides have used chemical weapons, John McCain used the opportunity to grandstand and insult the general and the US military. McCain said”
“Highly critical of Austin and Wormuth’s presentation, Committee chairman Sen. John McCain(R-Arizona) said that in his thirty years onn the committee “I have never heard testimony like this. … Never.”
“I have never seen a hearing that is as divorced from the reality of every outside expert and what you are saying,” McCain told Austin.”
October 2015: When the Russians started bombing in Syria last year, I noted 3 ISW maps, 2 used on FOX broadcasts and one on CNN’s website, which identified the area with the largest Russian strike group north of Hama, identified in the map legend as Syrian rebel-controlled, ISIS-controlled, and Jubhat al Nusra-controlled. Three maps at the same time, one area in Syria, and the Obama narrative was the Russians aren’t attacking ISIL, they are targeting CIA-backed rebels:
“When Russia acted in Syria the ISW provided maps to FOX news and CNN – where the maps differed, the WH narrative and military analysis by the FOX military analysts Gen Jack Keane (also in the board of ISW) and LTC Shaffer did not match the details on the map:
Gen.Keane pushed for arming the illusive “Syrian moderates” and yet the “narrative” at the time the Russians moved in Syria, the neocon big voices were screaming about the Russians and claiming they were targeting US-backed “moderate” Syrian rebels. The heaviest shot group of attacks on these maps was north of Hama, which these ISW map legends indicate was controlled by Jubhat al Nusra, Syrian rebels or ISIS – 3 maps from the ISW – three different takes on the strikes the Obama narrative and the ISW were ranting were the Russians targeting “CIA trained US Syrian “moderate” rebels. The media and punditry “experts” all went with the “narrative”.”
When I thought about these maps, something is wrong that everyone from the White House on down relies on the Kagan crowd, the Institute for the Study of War and listens to John McCain bloviate about Syria. McCain had access to US vetted intelligence, but he relied on O’Bagy and the ISW, run by Kimberly Kagan, Dick Cheney and his daughter, and General Jack Keane. No one dares question their “expertise”. These maps, all from the ISW, indicate THREE separate ISW takes on who was controlling the area in Syria where the heaviest air strikes occurred in October 2015. The Obama White House and McCain railed about the Russians attacking CIA-backed rebels. So, according to these ISW maps, just who were the CIA-backed rebels??? Why does the media trust the ISW maps? Does the US government have maps that are reliable?
Even today, McCain, General Keane and mouthpieces all over the media keep talking about how the US should have intervened earlier arming Syrian “moderate” rebels, but that is a TOTAL lie – there never were “moderates”, they were Islamist-backed and armed rebels all along, with the Palestinian terror network playing a central role. The president of the Syrian Emergency Task Force had Palestinian terror connections, the Muslim Brotherhood has always been a funder of Palestinian terror, and the Obama administration, the ISW and John McCain have lied to the American people since 2011, when out of the Libyan debacle, the US started funneling arms from Libya to Syria.
This post has run longer than I intended, so in my next post, I’m going to go through the Trump-Russian connections, more McCain questions, and how it all ties in with this Syria mess too. It’s important,because Putin saw his chance to expand his sphere of influence in the Mid-East and he has masterfully set-up one propaganda embarrassment after another for the US, with the crucial aid of Iran. Putin, through Iran has led Obama and Kerry around like hapless dupes, every step of the way in this Iran deal.
President Obama and John Kerry began paying Iran to release hostages.
The most embarrassing incident, again, one where the US military took the blow, made to look like weak, ineffectual idiots occurred in January 2016: America on its knees (LB blog post January 13, 2016):
President Obama delivered a rambling, disjointed final State of the Union address last night. He warbled on about American values, bridging partisan divides, and more hopey changey blather, but he did not mention an international incident with Iran taking custody of 2 US Navy ships and detaining 10 US sailors.
Today, Secretary of State, John Kerry, bragged about kowtowing to Iranian officials and unbelievably he bragged about his smart diplomacy, where he lauds his handling this situation peacefully. He actually thanked Iran for releasing our sailors.
If there are any people left in the Pentagon who aren’t political hacks, they assuredly must be furious about this administration bowing to Iran. What really happened was not brilliant diplomacy, but a complete submission of the US to Iranian muscle-flexing. The Obama administration has failed to respond to escalating provocations, emboldening Iran to engage in this latest stunt, knowing full well that the Obama administration would not respond forcefully. Thanks to these clueless, wimpy, leftist nitwits in this administration, video of these American sailors, on their knees in submission, will now be broadcast all over the Mid-East. So, the message Secretary Kerry is not brilliant diplomacy, it’s America’s military on its knees.
In the real world, far away from the neutered Obama administration, weakness is a potent provocation. Safe to state – neither smart nor powerful!
Next post will be the Russian connection in our 2016 election
This might be a serious national security issue – in fact, I feel very strongly someone in our counter-intelligence should be investigating this matter!
Today on Twitter I retweeted a tweet, just so I would have it and because it’s about something that has been bothering me since 2013: Elizabeth O’Bagy. I strongly suspect John McCain is being targeted by a hostile foreign intelligence service, to make him look bad. I strongly suspect he was set-up in 2013.
Here’s the Tweet from the afternoon (9/28) and I don’t know if this has been Photoshopped or not – BUT it is VERY peculiar.
I sure suspect that Alicia Machado Wikipedia exposure was a savvy foreign intelligence agency at work, but this crap is even worse. A person commented, “FYI Nikolaki is censored in France”.
A few years back, I was exploring “crowd-sourcing” and a “conservative” blog, The Last Refuge Blog”, which has gained a good deal of attention in this 2016 election. They had a “crowd-sourcing” format, that covered, among other topics, the black grievance industry, of black political leaders/activists sensationalizing police/black issues. To make a long story short, I was fascinated with the amount of information they churned out, but I wondered about the fact-checking process and I wondered why they allowed overtly racist comments. I posted some comments on Islamic history from the Islamic Golden Age (YES, there really was an Islamic Golden Age). My comments were blocked and I ended up being banned.
When Trump entered the race, something bizarre happened with The Last Refuge blog – it became the Trump Polling Update Center, with constant streams of “Trump winning in all the polls” propaganda and campaign insider information. Considering the Trump campaign has been a disorganized hot mess, I found it amazing that this blog had up-to-the-minute insider campaign news, videos, and PILES of polling information.
Sure, my questioning nature makes me consider “conspiracy theories”, but the TRUTH is sophisticated intelligence agencies around the world, run long-term programs targeting their adversaries (these are by nature “conspiracies” – in that these secret activities are meant to undermine or harm their adversaries). So, it’s no big deal to me, to be dismissed as a “conspiracy nut”, because I just keep digging for information.
The Russians are reported to be engaged in a high-level of interference in our election.
Back in the Fall of 2013, I became curious about the push by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) to urge President Obama to get engaged in the Syrian civil war. The argument was we needed to stop ISIS and arm the “moderate Syrian rebels”. Why on earth we would jump into a civil war, with Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya in chaos, Egypt trying to regain stability after the Hillary/Obama backing of the “mostly-secular” Muslim Brotherhood, eluded me. Then there was the basic question: what is the end game plan if ISIS and Assad are defeated? The truth is Syrian rebels were varying shades of Islamists – none actually “moderate” and all of them, even though they fight each other, when push comes to shove, they will work together against Americans.
A young woman emerged from the ISW, as the subject matter expert on Syria, Elizabeth O’Bagy. Everyone from Jonh Kerry, to John McCain, to the media bought into O’Bagy, because the ISW put her forth as The Expert on Syria. O’Bagy, did not have a doctorate degree, she was the political director of a lobbying group called the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF). She wrote a paper on Syria, in 2012, for the ISW and in her bio, she listed her thesis topic as “female militancy”. Since the ISW never even vetted her educational credentials, I doubt they looked closely at her background. She was exposed as having lied about her educational credentials and was fired by the ISW. Senator John McCain, turned right around and hired her, as a legislative assistant.
O’Bagy and her SETF lobbying group escorted John McCain to Syria, in the Spring of 2013, on a “secret” fact-finding trip. A photo of John McCain started floating about the internet, from his trip to Syria, with allegations that he was posed with Palestinian/ISIS terrorists, in fact, the president of the SETF, was reported to have ties to Palestinian terrorists. McCain’s staff dismissed this claim. BUT John McCain turned right around and hired this woman, who had just been exposed as having lied about her educational credentials. I’ve written extensively about O’Bagy, starting on September 3, 2013:
I and many other journalists (google Bryan Preston and Patrick Poole at PJ Media) have written extensively about O’Bagy, the Syrian moderate mirage, and the reliance of top government officials on this woman’s “information” over VETTED US intelligence information:
“At another hearing that week, Kerry responded to a lawmaker’s skepticism about the existence of moderate rebels by saying that only a fraction of the fighters were “al Qaida and the bad guys.” Maybe 15 to 25 percent, he estimated.
“There is a real moderate opposition that exists,” Kerry said.
If the skeptical lawmaker was reassured, professional Syria watchers were not. Many were aghast at what sounded to them like either dangerous naivete or an outright lie, given that the U.S. government’s own internal assessments had found from very early in the conflict that al Qaida-style extremists were playing an outsized role in the rebel fight.”
The latest Friday FBI dump contains 189 pages, with much of the identifying information redacted, making it another process of elimination, as to who is being interviewed, based on who else is mentioned in that interview. Comey’s charade with these releases has nothing to do with transparency, but everything to do with his trying to salvage his reputation and also bury this story with information overload. There’s so much politically-damaging information about the Obama administration, in general, the State Department, in specific, and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, in totality, that as you read along, the Keystone Cop optics, of a bunch of dimwitted BIMBOS at work, makes you wonder if the cast of Clueless was running the State Department, with Alicia Silverstone playing the role of Secretary of State.
The national security implications aren’t just that every half-decent foreign intelligence agency has all of her email traffic from her private server. It’s a foregone conclusion, that assuredly due to her being a high-value intelligence target for them, and her server being completely unsecured, it was hacked. There’s no way the Russians missed this opportunity. The other side of the national security equation is she and her cadre of bungling bimbos might be running our nation’s national security after November and plenty of Americans seem okay with that.
Her email server highlights the Clinton corruption, but the cover-up speaks to President Obama. His entire administration, to include him, engaged in risky handling of national security information. He was emailing her at her private email address. The IG had cited the US embassy in Japan, run by Caroline Kennedy, as another huge national security nightmare, due to risky personal email use.
Back when the Ukraine mess started, Russia leaked an intercepted phone call, between State Dept. flunkie, Victoria Nuland, and the US ambassador in Kiev, to western media. Nuland was using an unsecured phone. That should have been the end of her career, but she laughed it off and Jen Psaki, State Department spokeswoman, said:
“We think this is a new low in Russian tradecraft, in terms of publicizing, posting,” Psaki told reporters yesterday in Washington.”
It wasn’t a new low for the Russians – it was excellent intelligence-gathering and savvy propaganda use of that intelligence. These fools in the Obama administration have no clue about national security. The “new low” was that this stupid woman, Nuland, with her “expertise” on RUSSIA, used an unsecured phone to talk to the US ambassador in UKRAINE, knowing how the Russians monitor American embassies and personnel, especially in Ukraine. This is the cluelessness.
This latest batch of FBI notes shows one of Hillary’s flunkies telling the FBI that she was verbally reprimanded for leaving a briefing book:
“Hanley was given “verbal security counseling” after she accidentally left a classified document and a sensitive “briefing book” in a Russian hotel suite she was using with Clinton.
Diplomatic security officers “found a classified document from the briefing book in the suite during a sweep following Clinton and Hanley’s departure” and later told Hanley “the briefing book and the document should never have been in the suite.””
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