January 02, 2020 "
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Former US
President Barack Obama is now in severe
legal jeopardy, because the Russiagate
investigation has turned 180 degrees;
and he, instead of the current
President, Donald Trump, is in its
cross-hairs.
The biggest crime that a
US President can commit is to try to
defeat American democracy (the
Constitutional functioning of the US
Government) itself, either by working
with foreign powers to take it over, or
else by working internally within
America to sabotage democracy for his or
her own personal reasons. Either way,
it’s treason (crime that is intended to,
and does, endanger the continued
functioning of the Constitution
itself*), and Mr. Obama is now being
actively investigated, as possibly
having done this. The Russiagate
investigation, which had formerly
focused against the current US
President, has reversed direction and
now targets the prior President.
Although he, of course, cannot be
removed from office (since he is no
longer in office), he is liable under
criminal laws, the same as any other
American would be, if he committed any
crime while he was in office.
A
December 17th order by the FISA (Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court
severely condemned the performance by
the FBI under Obama, for having
obtained, on
19 October 2016 (even prior
to the US Presidential election), from
that Court, under false pretenses, an
authorization for the FBI to commence
investigating Donald Trump’s
Presidential campaign, as being possibly
in collusion with Russia’s Government.
The Court’s ruling said:
In order to appreciate the
seriousness of that misconduct and
its implications, it is useful to
understand certain procedural and
substantive requirements that apply
to the government’s conduct of
electronic surveillance for foreign
intelligence purposes. Title I of
the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA ), codified
as amended at 50 USC. 1801-1813,
governs such electronic
surveillance. It requires the
government to apply for and receive
an order from the FISC approving a
proposed electronic surveillance.
When deciding whether to grant such
an application, a FISC judge must
determine among other things,
whether it provides probable cause
to believe that the proposed
surveillance target is a “foreign
power” or an agent a foreign power.
…
The government has a heightened
duty of candor to the FISC in ex parte
proceedings, that is, ones in which the
government does not face an adverse
party, such as proceedings on electronic
surveillance applications. The FISC
expects the government to comply with
its heightened duty of candor in ex
parte proceedings at all times. Candor
is fundamental to this Court’s effective
operation. …
On December 9, 2019, the
government filed, with the FISC, public
and classified versions of the OIG
Report. … It documents troubling
instances in which FBI personnel
provided information to NSD[National
Security Division of the Department of
Justice] which was unsupported or
contradicted by information in their
possession. It also describes several
instances in which FBI personnel
withheld from NSD information in their
possession which was detrimental to
their case for believing that Mr.
[Carter] Page was acting as an agent
of a foreign power. …
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On December 18th, Martha McCallum, of
Fox News,
interviewed US Attorney General Bill
Barr, and asked him (at 7:00 in the
video) how high up in the FBI the
blame for this (possible treason) goes:
MACCALLUM: Were you surprised
that he [Obama’s FBI Director
James Comey] seemed to give
himself such a distance from the
entire operation?
“JAMES COMEY: As the director
sitting on top of an organization of
38,000 people you can’t run an
investigation that’s seven layers
below you. You have to leave it to
the career professionals to do.”
MACCALLUM: Do you believe
that?
BARR: No, I think that the —
one of the problems with what
happened was precisely that they
pulled the investigation up to the
executive floors, and it was run and
bird dogged by a very small group of
very high level officials. And the
idea that this was seven layers
below him is simply not true.
The current (Trump) A.G. there
called the former (Obama) FBI
Director a liar on that.
If Comey gets heat for this possibly
lie-based FBI investigation of the US
Presidential nominee from the opposite
Party of the sitting US President (Comey’s
own boss, Obama), then protecting
himself could become Comey’s top
motivation; and, in that condition,
protecting his former boss might become
only a secondary concern for him.
Moreover, as was first publicly
reported by Nick Falco in a tweet on 5
June 2018 (which
tweet was removed by Twitter but
fortunately not before someone had
copied it to a web archive), the FBI
had been investigating the Trump
campaign starting no later than 7
October 2015. An outside private
contractor, Stefan Halper, was hired in
Britain for this, perhaps in order to
get around laws prohibiting the US
Government from doing it. (This was
‘foreign intelligence’ work, after all.
But was it really? That’s now
being investigated.) The Office of Net
Assessment (ONA)
“through the Pentagon’s Washington
Headquarters Services, awarded him
contracts from 2012 to 2016 to write
four studies encompassing relations
among the US, Russia, China and India”.
Though Halper actually
did no such studies for the
Pentagon, he instead functioned as a
paid FBI informant (and it’s not yet
clear whether that money came from the
Pentagon, which
spends trillions of dollars that are
off-the-books and untraceable), and
at some point Trump’s campaign became a
target of Halper’s investigation. This
investigation was nominally to examine
“The Russia-China Relationship: The
impact on US Security interests.”
Allegedly, George Papadopoulos said that
“Halper insinuated to him that Russia
was helping the Trump campaign”, and
Papadopoulos was shocked at Halper’s
saying this. Probably because so much
money at the Pentagon is untraceable,
some of the crucial documentation on
this investigation might never be found.
For example, the Defense Department’s
Inspector General’s 2 July 2019 report
to the US Senate said
“ONA personnel could not provide us any
evidence that Professor Halper visited
any of these locations, established an
advisory group, or met with any of the
specific people listed in the statement
of work.” It seems that the
Pentagon-contracted work was a
cover-story, like pizza parlors have
been for some Mafia operations. But,
anyway, this is how America’s
‘democracy’ actually
functions. And, of course,
America’s Deep State works not only
through governmental agencies but also
through underworld organizations.
That’s just reality, not at all
speculative. It’s been this way for
decades, at least since the time of
Truman’s Presidency (as is documented at
that link).
Furthermore, inasmuch as this
operation certainly involved Obama’s CIA
Director John Brennan and others, and
not only top officials at the FBI, there
is no chance that Comey would have been
the only high official who was
involved in it. And if Comey was
involved, then he would have been acting
in his own interest, and not only in his
boss’s — and here’s why: Comey
would be expected to have been highly
motivated to oppose Mr. Trump, because
Trump publicly questioned whether NATO
(the main international selling-arm for
America’s ‘defense’-contractors) should
continue to exist, and also because
Comey’s entire career had been in the
service of America’s Military-Industrial
Complex, which is the reason why
Comey’s main lifetime income has been
the tens of millions of dollars he has
received via the revolving door between
his serving the federal Government and
his serving firms such as Lockheed
Martin. For these people, restoring,
and intensifying, and keeping up, the
Cold
War, is a very profitable
business. It’s called by some “the
Military-Industrial Complex,” and by
others “the Deep State,” but by any name
it is simply agents of the billionaires
who own and control US-based
international corporations, such as
General Dynamics and Chevron. As a
governmental official, making decisions
that are in the long-term interests of
those investors is the likeliest way to
become wealthy.
Consequently, Comey would have been
benefitting himself, and other high
officials of the Obama Administration,
by sabotaging Trump’s campaign, and by
weakening Trump’s Presidency in the
event that he would become elected.
Plus, of course, Comey would have been
benefitting Obama himself. Not only was
Trump constantly condemning Obama, but
Obama had appointed to lead the
Democratic National Committee during the
2016 Presidential primaries,
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who as
early as
20 February 2007 had endorsed Hillary
Clinton for President in the
Democratic Party primaries, so that
Shultz was one of the earliest
supporters of Clinton against even Obama
himself. In other words, Obama had
appointed Shultz in order to
increase the odds that Clinton — not
Sanders— would become the nominee in
2016 to continue on and protect his own
Presidential legacy. Furthermore, on 28
July 2016, Schultz became forced to
resign from her leadership of the DNC
after WikiLeaks released emails
indicating that Schultz and other
members of the DNC staff had exercised
bias against Bernie Sanders and in favor
of Hillary Clinton during the 2016
Democratic primaries — which favoritism
had been the reason why Obama had
appointed Shultz to that post to begin
with. She was just doing her job for the
person who had chosen her to lead the
DNC. Likewise for Comey. In other words:
Comey was Obama’s pick to protect
Clinton, and to oppose Trump
(who had attacked both Clinton
and Obama).
Nowadays, Obama is telling the Party’s
billionaires that Elizabeth Warren would
be good for them, but not that
Sanders would — he never liked Sanders.
He wants Warren to get the voters who
otherwise would go for Sanders, and he
wants the Party’s billionaires to help
her achieve this (be the Party’s
allegedly ‘progressive’ option), so that
Sanders won’t be able to become a ballot
option in the general election to be
held on 3 November 2020. He is telling
them whom not to help win the
Party’s nomination. In fact, on November
26th, Huffington Post headlined
“Obama Said He Would Speak Up To Stop
Bernie Sanders Nomination: Report”
and indicated that though he won’t
actually say this in public (but only to
the Party’s billionaires), Obama is
determined to do all he can to
prevent Sanders from becoming the
nominee. In 2016, his choice was Hillary
Clinton; but, today, it’s anyone other
than Sanders; and, so, in a sense, it
remains what it was four years ago —
anyone but Sanders.
Comey’s virtually exclusive concern,
at the present stage, would be to
protect himself, so that he won’t be
imprisoned. This means that he might
testify against Obama. At this stage,
he’s free of any personal obligation to
Obama — Comey is now on his own, up
against Trump, who clearly is his enemy.
Some type of back-room plea-bargain is
therefore virtually inevitable — and not
only with Comey, but with other top
Obama-appointees, ultimately. Obama is
thus clearly in the cross-hairs, from
now on. Congressional Democrats have
opted to gun against Trump (by
impeaching him); and, so, Trump now
will be gunning against Obama — and
against the entire Democratic Party
(unless Sanders becomes its nominee, in
which case, Sanders will already have
defeated that Democratic Party, and its
adherents will then have to choose
between him versus Trump; and, so, too,
will independent voters).
But, regardless of what happens,
Obama now is in the cross-hairs. That’s
not just political cross-hairs (such as
an impeachment process); it is, above
all, legal cross-hairs (an
actual criminal investigation). Whereas
Trump is up against a doomed effort by
the Democratic Party to replace him by
Vice President Mike Pence, Obama will be
up against virtually inevitable criminal
charges, by the incumbent Trump
Administration. Obama played hardball
against Trump, with “Russiagate,” and
then with “Ukrainegate”; Trump will now
play hardball against Obama, with
whatever his Administration and the
Republican Party manage to muster
against Obama; and the stakes this time
will be considerably bigger than just
whether to replace Trump by Pence.
Whatever the outcome will be, it will
be historic, and unprecedented. (If
Sanders becomes the nominee, it will be
even more so; and, if he then wins on
November 3rd, it will be a second
American Revolution; but, this time, a
peaceful one — if that’s even possible,
in today’s hyper-partisan, deeply split,
USA.)
There is no way that the outcome from
this will be status-quo. Either it will
be greatly increased further schism in
the United States, or it will be a
fundamental political realignment, more
comparable to 1860 than to anything
since.
The US already has a higher percentage
of its people in prison than does any
other nation on this planet.
Americans who choose a ‘status-quo’
option will produce less stability, more
violence, not more stability and a more
peaceful nation in a less war-ravaged
world. The 2020 election-outcome for the
United States will be a turning-point;
there is no way that it will produce
reform. Americans who vote for reform
will be only increasing the likelihood
of hell-on-Earth. Reform is no longer an
available option, given America’s
realities. A far bigger leap than that
will be required in order for this
country to avoid falling into an utter
abyss, which could be led by either
Party, because both Parties have brought
the nation to its present precipice, the
dark and lightless chasm that it now
faces, and which must now become leapt,
in order to avoid a free-fall into
oblivion.
The problem in America isn’t either
Obama or Trump; it’s neither merely the
Democratic Party, nor merely the
Republican Party; it is instead both; it
is
the Deep State. That’s the reality;
and the process that got us here started
on
26 July 1945 and
secretly continued on the American side
even after the Soviet Union ended
and Russia promptly ended its side of
the Cold War. The US regime’s ceaseless
thrust, since 26 July 1945, to rule the
entire world, will climax either in a
Third World War, or in a US revolution
to overthrow and remove the Deep State
and end its dictatorship-grip over
America.
Both Parties have been controlled by
that Deep State, and the final stage
or climax of this grip is now drawing
near. America thus has been having
a string of the worst Presidents —
and worst Congresses — in US history.
This is today’s reality. Unfortunately,
a lot of American voters think that this
extremely destabilizing reality, this
longstanding trend toward war, is okay,
and ought to be continued, not ended now
and replaced by a new direction for this
country — the path toward world peace,
which FDR had accurately envisioned but
which was aborted on 26 July 1945. No
matter how many Americans might vote for
mere reform, they are wrong. Sometimes,
only a minority are right. Being correct
is not a majority or minority matter; it
is a true or false matter. A misinformed
public can willingly participate in its
own — or even the world’s — destruction.
That could happen. Democracy is a
prerequisite to peace, but it can’t
exist if the public are being
systematically misinformed. Lies and
democracy don’t mix together any more
effectively than do oil and water.
This article was originally
published by "Strategic
Culture Foundation "
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