James
Comey’s Legacy: Blaming Russia Rather than Saudi
Arabia and Israel
Russia has never influenced US policy making but
Saudi Arabia and Israel have and continue to do
so.
By Adam Garrie
May 11,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- The last time Donald Trump fired an important
official prior to an important foreign visit was
when Steve Bannon was fired from his position on
the National Security Council the day before a
Chinese delegation led by President Xi was to
meet with Trump. It was also incidentally a day
prior to Trump’s infamous 6 April 2017 attack on
Syria.
Steve
Bannon was known to favour Russian
reconciliation, particularly over Syria
cooperation. He was also a leader of the
anti-Chinese camp, especially in the aftermath
of Mike Flynn’s resignation. The dots were not
difficult to connect.
Now, within hours of Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov holding talks with US Secretary of
State Tillerson and
apparently Donald Trump
in Washington, FBI Director James Comey has been
fired.
Donald Trump is quoted in an official statement
as
saying,
“The FBI is one of our Nation’s most
cherished and respected institutions and
today will mark a new beginning for our
crown jewel of law enforcement”.
The
liberal mainstream media are all ready saying
that this is a ‘gift of Russia’ as if Trump will
hand over Comey’s firing notice to Mr. Lavrov on
a silver plate, not that Russia particularly
cares. Russia does not.
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Theories about Trump firing Comey to placate
Russia are not only literally stupid, but it
makes a mockery of the United States. Then
again, so too did the entire ‘Russiagate’
investigation that Comey’s FBI was leading.
In a
democracy, important checks and balances held
keep each branch of government scrutinised when
any powers are abused or laws are broken. It is
important to have an impartial FBI willing to
investigate any branch of government when
anything untoward is suspected. But it’s a two
way street.
The
un-elected FBI can go rogue as much as a
President or Senator and that is what the FBI
has done over investigating the non-issue of
Donald Trump’s non-existent connections with
Russia.
Any
patriotic American should be ashamed of what
Comey has done, continuing to investigate such a
totally bogus set of entirely
political/opportunistic accusations.
Not
only is there zero evidence of any Trump-Russia
connnections but more importantly, America is
too powerful to be influenced by ANY foreign
power. So too are Russia and China.
The
fact that America still can be
influenced by foreign powers is not due to
capitulation, but instead due to greed which
leads to a voluntary surrender of US interests
whilst those of a foreign state are elevated.
But is
Russia one of those states? No it is not.
There
are no signs historically nor presently that
Russia has ever had any positive influence on
the United States Federal government at any
level.
The
same cannot be said of Saudi Arabia and Israel,
states which are far weaker than Russia, but
states which never the less have influenced US
policy making for decades.
America
doesn’t depend on Saudi or Israel for survival,
but in a corrupt country, money talks and this
is what America has become: a corrupt country
that is so rich and so powerful it doesn’t even need to
be corrupt, but greed has got the better of
integrity.
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For
years America depended on cheap oil from Saudi
Arabia and its other OPEC goons and likewise,
many Americans liked to lavish themselves in the
easy money which flowed from the repressive
desert kingdom. Hillary Clinton was a prime
example of a politician bought and sold in Saudi
gold.
Likewise, the US based Israel lobby is
extraordinarily powerful in terms of monetary
influence. Groups like the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) donate millions
to political causes. By contrast, groups which
oppose Israel’s foreign and internal policies do
not have that kind of money and therefore do not
have that kind of influence.
One can
love or hate Saudi Arabia/love or hate Israel,
but these are facts and they are as American as
baseball and burgers. They have nothing to do
with Wahhabism or Zionism per se.
What a
shameful state it is, that US politicians feel
the need to rely on foreign money for personal
enrichment. I can understand why leaders in the
poor countries that America dominates feel the
need to go along with American money and
influence in order to enrich themselves or even
keep their nation from total collapse or
invasion, but what is America’s excuse? America
has the biggest military in the world and is the
world’s wealthiest nation.
There
is no excuse other than old fashioned greed on
an extreme scale.
In this
sense, I do not blame Saudi Arabia or Israel for
their disproportional influence on US policy.
They are simply purchasing something that is
de-facto for sale.
One
must blame the US politicians who put money
before country and they do so in a country that
doesn’t even need the money. Hillary Clinton’s
husband gets millions just for opening his mouth
(to speak that is, not the Monica Lewinsky style
of mouth opening), does she really need that
much more?
This
knowledge must lead to questions of both how far
to expand America’s legal definition of
corruption. This also much raise questions about
the heart and soul of American democracy.
No
country should unduly influence another. But the
fact is, Russia is not now and never has
influenced America. Russiagate was a political
crusade and a deeply un-creative one at that.
The fact that the FBI took it seriously was
shameful.
James
Comey had to go and although the move was
probably motivated by Donald Trump’s personal
anger rather than any wider philosophical sense
of justice, the result is the same and it is the
correct one.
Adam Garrie is Managing Editor at
The Duran
where this article was originally published.
The
views expressed in this article are solely those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of Information Clearing House.
