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Machinations: what is happening to our country?

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First, let’s begin with the $900 BILLION dollar “stimulus” package that was pushed through by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who received roughly half of what President Trump proffered months earlier, but was refused by Her Highness. Back in October:

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that Congress is unlikely to enact economic relief legislation before the November 3rd election because Nancy Pelosi-led Democrats do not want to deliver anything that President Donald Trump could portray to voters as a win.

So Pelosi held up money which could have been distributed months prior, because she enjoyed playing politics with the lives of Americans.

She literally said so. There’s a new president, so she’s willing to deal. Why? Because she couldn’t give Trump a win before the election. It really is that simple.

But Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas lays it all out with the truth.

It is one of the most craven, callous, cynical, despicable actions I’ve heard of, played for politics, by Demorats, in quite some time. And that’s saying something.

Refusing to open America up — whilst simultaneously playing god, dangling money in front of Americans and then snatching it away “because OMB: Orange Man Bad.”

When in fact the proper play would have been to SAVE that money and allow Americans to do what they’ve wanted for months: to get back to work.

We all know the numbers. We all know, as Americans, that we’ve been sold a massive bill of goods and that we have been gaslighted for over four years.

A small aside for a BZ Reality Check.

I’ve never worn gloves, a mask twice, I seldom wash my hands, I touch gas pump handles, groceries, goods in Costco, doors all over. I fear this like I fear the flu.

When I die, which won’t be that long, it’ll be due to a heart attack because I’m so fucking fat. I don’t fear death, and I’m not stopping living.

Too many have. Because of unreasonable government demands.

Which is why suicides have skyrocketed, OD’s have skyrocketed, Valium and other psychotropic prescriptions have skyrocketed, we’re ruining an entire generation of kids, keeping them from schools, from their pals and their friends, from necessary socialization.

We’ve set nursing homes on fire because they’re not the first priority, we’re watching domestic violence arrests, injuries and deaths skyrocket, people are divorcing, losing their jobs, their homes, their apartments, their cars, their savings, going bankrupt, becoming homeless.

All because government morons can’t understand the consequences of their actions.

And because THEY still have their jobs, have no skin in the game, go and do as they please despite their own orders — which tells me they don’t believe the bullshit they spew. And you can’t tell me there isn’t a punitive aspect to their strictures when they “feel” they’re being dismissed.

Their edicts clearly take precedence over something as stupid as some ancient, worthless document.

They’ll arrest “violators” of their Wuhan-19 regulations and put them in jail. But arsonists, rioters, assaulters, rapists, murderers, go free or with no bail.

We’re releasing felons, murderers, pederasts, but threatening normal people.

Here in Sacramento County, the Board is Supervisors are considering TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FINES for violations. Not for murder, but for Wuhan-19.

That’s insane. No business can afford that. No private person can afford that. It’s simply punitive and oppressive.

Unlock America. Let people live their lives. You can’t stop this crap. People who are fearful should stay home. Period. More on this in a moment.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.  .  .

Congress unveils massive $900B COVID government spending bill after months of negotiations

by Megan Henney, 12-21-20

The deal comes at an increasingly perilous time for the nation as it teeters on the brink of another economic downturn

Congressional leaders on Monday unveiled a mammoth agreement on a roughly $2.4 trillion spending package that includes $900 billion in coronavirus relief after a half-year stalemate, securing another tranche of aid as a surge in COVID-19 infections threatens to further derail the nation’s faltering economy.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has pledged that lawmakers won’t leave the Capitol until the bill is passed, giving lawmakers and their offices just a few hours to review the massive 5,593-page bill.

STOP. Any and every bill — specifically like this and the ACA (Affordable Bill Act, which was everything but), which contains this number of pages — almost 6,000 — should be on its face immediately refused on its face unless a sufficient period of time, which should be weeks, is allowed for its processing and, more importantly, discussing openly in chambers.

This is simple insanity. No human can read a bill this large and totally understand it, much less be able to craft any form of a cogent series of questions about it, or even discuss it, in hours.

There is ONLY ONE REASON for doing so, and that is to create arbitrary pressure — which could have been relieved literally months ago — in order to pass provisions in a bill of this size that would revolt even the strongest of stomach, to create emetic conditions.

In other words, there are NO good reasons to remotely consider passing bills like this. It’s sheer insanity, intended to confuse AND to slip things by members that they would, under normal conditions, object to vehemently. It’s to pull the wool over your eyes and trick you.

Particularly when we know something about their infamous contents.

The bipartisan, bicameral proposal — intended to blunt the continued economic fallout from the virus-induced crisis —  will be combined with $1.4 trillion in spending to fund government operations for the rest of the fiscal year, meaning the total package costs about $2.3 trillion. 

And so what else did we find contained within?

$135 Million dollars to Burma

$85.5 Million dollars to Cambodia

$1.4 Billion dollars for the “Asia Reassurance Initiative Act.” Hello? CHINA.

$130 Million dollars to Nepal

$700 Million dollars to Sudan

$26 Million dollars to the Kennedy Center — why does the Kennedy Center get precedence every year? I know why. So DC elites have somewhere to go, drink cocktails on your dime, show off to each other and talk shit behind each other’s political backs.

$1 Billion dollars to the Smithsonian.

$154 Million dollars to the National Art Gallery

$167 Million dollars to the National Arts and Humanities (nice places for cocktail parties)

$10 Million dollars for “gender programs” in Pakistan. You know. The nuclear armed Muslim country that wants to wipe out India, forces women to wear veils, adores honor killings. You know, because Pakistani Muslims are some of the most understanding of “gender studies” on the planet. And that cash goes into the pockets of the bureaucrats to create more weapons against Pakistani enemies.

$1.3 Billion dollars to Egypt

$453 Million dollars to Ukraine

$33 Million dollars to Venezuela

$3.3 Billion dollars of Grants to Israel

$3.36 Billion dollars to Bill Gates

YOU get $600. YOU are an AFTERTHOUGHT. Why? Because so many of you reprehensible people both voted for Trump and refuse to wear your masks, sit down, shut up, and listen to your superiors.

The agreement was expected to provide $600 stimulus payments to millions of American adults earning up to $75,000. It would revive lapsed supplemental federal unemployment benefits at $300 a week for 11 weeks — setting both at half the amount provided by the original stimulus law. It would also continue and expand benefits for gig workers and freelancers, and it would extend federal payments for people whose regular benefits have expired. The measure would also provide more than $284 billion for businesses and revive the Paycheck Protection Program, a popular federal loan program for small businesses that lapsed over the summer. It would expand eligibility under the program for nonprofits, local newspapers and radio and TV broadcasters and allocate $15 billion for performance venues, independent movie theaters and other cultural institutions devastated by the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Of course, the New York Times reminded us of this:

Climate Change Legislation Included in Coronavirus Relief Deal

by Coral Davenport, 12-21-20

The legislation calls for cutting the use of powerful planet-warming chemicals common in air-conditioners and refrigerators.

In the waning days of the 116th Congress, lawmakers have authorized $35 billion in spending on wind, solar and other clean power sources while curtailing the use of a potent planet-warming chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators.

They amount to a rare party rebuke to Mr. Trump on the issue of global warming, after he spent the past four years mocking and systematically rolling back every major climate change rule. The comity may also signal that while President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is unlikely to secure his full climate plan, he may be able to make some progress in curbing global warming.

Advocates for climate change policy said passage of the climate measures — especially the limits on refrigerants — could signal to the rest of the world that the United States is ready to rejoin the global effort to slow the warming of the planet. The coolant phase-down would be one of the most significant federal policies ever taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to an analysis by the Rhodium Group, a research and consulting firm.

The new legislation would require the nation’s chemical manufacturers to phase down the production and use of coolants called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. They are a small percentage of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, compared with carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels that power vehicles, electric plants and factories, but they have 1,000 times the heat-trapping potency of carbon dioxide.

You know. The things that actually work and keep you cool. Keep technology cool. Keep the massive server rooms of Google, Twitter, Facebook and others cool.

But why is this in a Coronavirus relief package at all? Because Leftists and Demorats realize that “global warming” isn’t resonating any more. You’re more concerned with your stupid little jobs, your stupid little wages, you’re stupid families, your stupid grandparents, your suicides that don’t mean anything except to a small circle of friends, your puny apartments and houses, having jobs, running a business, all the ridiculously immaterial things.

So if YOU won’t pay attention, they’ll just round up your money any way. Fuck you taxpayers.

Everything is upside down in terms of the election as well. Patrick Byrne weighs in on the election and what’s been happening.

Things got stranger and stranger. From WesternJournal.com:

Pentagon Blocks Biden from Meeting with Military Intel Agencies

by Jack Davis, 12-6-20

The Pentagon has so far blocked meetings between the Biden transition team and officials with the intelligence agencies that are part of the Department of Defense, according to two new reports.

However, defense officials and the Biden team differ on the reason why the meetings have not yet taken place.

Presumptive potential President-elect Joe Biden has formed a transition team to facilitate a transfer of power. The General Services Administration has been given a green light to assist the transition team and meetings have been taking place with various agencies.

However, Biden’s transition officials have not yet met with representatives of the military intelligence agencies that are part of the Defense Department such as the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, according to CNN.

On December 10th, this was announced:

Pentagon weighs cutting most of its support to CIA’s counterterrorism missions

by Luiz Martinez, 12-10-20

CIA counterterrorism missions rely on military for logistical support, personnel

In a surprising move, the Pentagon has told the Central Intelligence Agency that it is weighing an end to the majority of the military support it provides to the agency’s counterterrorism missions, according to a former senior administration intelligence official.

It is unclear how the decision would impact the spy agency’s worldwide counterterrorism missions that often rely on the U.S. military for logistical support and personnel.

Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a letter to CIA Director Gina Haspel outlining the possible decision, according to the former official, who characterized the action as both surprising and unprecedented.

Is this because we’re discovering that Gina Haspel is an impediment to freedom when she refused to release documents President Trump had declassified?

Miller’s letter asked that the CIA provide a response by Jan. 5, according to a DOD official.

So remember January 5th — to see what occurs on this date between the CIA and the Pentagon.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Then we suffered the greatest hack of the century. From CNBC.com:

The U.S. government is under the ‘hack of a decade’ after massive cyberattack grows

12-17-20

Hackers have breached America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, bringing grave risk to the U.S. government. Homeland Security issued a warning today. And a cybersecurity expert says there’s little doubt the hackers were from Russia.

Vox.com wrote:

How the US government hack happened, and what it means, explained by an expert

12-18-20

“This has only started,” Columbia University’s Jason Healey told Vox.

Suspected Russian government hackers breached the computer networks of the US Defense Department. The Commerce Department. The Treasury Department. The State Department. Homeland Security. Even the part of the Energy Department that oversees America’s nuclear arsenal.

And it appears they’ve had access since as far back as March.

It’s one of the largest and most brazen hacks in American history — and it may just be the beginning of a much larger global espionage effort.

What makes it even more troubling is that it’s still unclear precisely what they got access to. Some experts believe it may take years before the hackers are completely out of the US government’s networks and the full extent of their spying efforts are understood.

Some have said our nuclear launch codes were breached.

The FBI, the CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a joint statement on Wednesday night, December 16th, confirming they became aware “over the course of the past several days” of “a significant and ongoing Cybersecurity campaign” targeting US government agencies through SolarWinds software.

Cyberscoop.com wrote:

In the wake of the SolarWinds breach, the National Security Council has activated an emergency cybersecurity process that is intended to help the government plan its response and recovery efforts, according to White House officials and other sources.

The move is a sign of just how seriously the Trump administration is taking the foreign espionage operation, former NSC officials told CyberScoop.

The action is rooted in a presidential directive issued during the Obama administration known as PPD-41, which establishes a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) that is intended to help the U.S. government coordinate multiple agencies’ responses to the significant hacking incident.

So what happened?

The SolarWinds breach — in which suspected Russia-backed hackers concealed malware in software updates by SolarWinds, a company that serves U.S. government and private sector entities — has reportedly compromised targets in the National Institutes of Health and the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Defense, State and Homeland Security.

The breach is still being investigated. But the early signs indicate the reach of the stealthy supply-chain attack will have substantial aftershocks; SolarWinds claims to have 300,000 customers, including the National Security Agency, all five branches of the U.S. military, and entities in the health, technology, telecommunications, media and finance sectors.

Cybersecurity expert Jason Healey from Columbia University said:

The Russians, knowing they would struggle mightily to get into hard targets — the US government and also members of the Fortune 500 — instead found that they all used the same software for network management, made by a company called SolarWinds.

Rather than trying to come in the front door, they hacked SolarWinds and inserted their own code into the software. Then SolarWinds signed it and said, “Yes, this is authentic SolarWinds software.” Then all of those targets, and surely European and other democratic governments, also downloaded and accepted that Trojan horse unknowingly — and it’s been sitting there for months.

Oh. And they hit Microsoft also. Which means you. And me.

Lou Dobbs spoke on the 17th with Morgan Wright, former Senior State Department Security Advisor.

Add to all of this the carrier groups that have been placed off of both American coasts, the rumors of Chinese troops in Canada, the indicator that an F-16 pilot was killed in a Michigan crash on Tuesday, December 8th — and rumblings seem to suggest that he was shot down.

There were also rumors of a nuclear Chinese sub captured off the coast of Nova Scotia. And that the Biden family is somehow linked to the cyber attack. Notions that I wouldn’t kick out of my bed for eating crackers.

And, Attorney General William Barr has indicated he is leaving the Trump administration soon, and that he would not be recommending an independent or Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop. Nor would he be going after any kind of voter fraud investigation.

This story from Forbest.com might shed some light on that.

How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune

by Dan Alexander, 7-19-20

William Barr made his name serving as attorney general for two presidents, George H. W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. But he made his fortune out of office, collecting more than $50 million in compensation as an executive and director for some of America’s largest companies.

Today Barr, who did not comment for this story, has an estimated net worth of $40 million, after accounting for taxes, personal spending and modest investment returns. That figure is more precise than what’s on Barr’s public financial disclosure report, a document that deals only in broad ranges and shows assets worth somewhere between $24 million and $74 million.

Alright. When, where and how?

The money started piling up around 1993, when Bush left the White House and Barr reentered the private sector. The next year, Barr became general counsel at telephone giant GTE Corporation. When GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon in 2000, Barr stayed onboard as executive vice president and general counsel. From 2001 to 2007, he raked in an average of $1.7 million in annual salary and bonuses, according to documents filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Barr also received valuable stock options, some of which he traded while at the company, collecting an estimated $3 million after taxes from 2003 to 2007.

“The private sector been belly-belly good to me.”

The Verizon job came with other benefits. Barr got a $31,000 flexible spending allowance, $10,000 or so for financial planning, plus use of the company jet for personal purposes. The biggest benefit, however, came upon retirement. Barr stepped down from the company at the end of 2008, receiving a $17.1 million distribution from Verizon’s income deferral plan, according to an SEC filing. On top of that, company documents also detail an additional $10.4 million separation payment for Barr.

One might conclude that William Barr is not hurting for cash.

Retiring did not mean Barr was done working. The year after he left Verizon, he joined the boards of two publicly traded companies, Dominion Resources and Time Warner. From 2009 to 2018, Dominion paid Barr $1.2 million in cash and granted him another $1.1 million in stock awards, according to SEC filings.

Wait. Did you say Dominion? The company that owns voting machines?

Time Warner paid him $970,000 in cash and $1 million in equity awards for serving on its board from 2009 to 2016,  when the company agreed to combine with AT&T. That deal was lucrative for Barr—he disclosed $1.7 million of income related to it on his financial disclosure report. But the merger was troubling to Trump, whose Justice Department tried to block it. During his confirmation hearing, Barr promised to recuse himself from the case as attorney general.

Barr also served on the board of Och-Ziff Capital Management, joining in 2016, the same year a firm subsidiary pled guilty to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Och-Ziff agreed to pay $412 million in penalties. It also paid Barr $190,000 in cash and $530,000 in stock awards from 2016 to 2018. The attorney general no longer serves on the boards of Och-Ziff,  Dominion Resources or Time Warner.

The board. Of Dominion Resources.

Ahem.

Smell test?

As I’ve said numerous time, “you can’t write shit like this.”

BZ

 

 

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FBI reveals: for 10+ years Senator Feinstein had a Chinese spy as a limo driver

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And isn’t that a delicious headline? A dash of schadenfreude, eh wot? Just as the Demorats have been screaming RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA to Trump, perhaps everyone should start screaming CHINA CHINA CHINA to Demorats. Who needs Russian hacking when you have Chinese inserts and stupid Demorats?

From FoxNews.com:

Feinstein was ‘mortified’ by FBI allegation that staffer was spy for China: report

by Lukas Mikelionis

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein fired a staffer a few years back who was allegedly part of an effort to spy and pass on political intelligence to the Chinese government.

The staffer, based in the Democrat’s San Francisco office, was suspected of delivering political intelligence, though nothing top secret, to officials based at the local Chinese Consulate, Politico reported.

The FBI informed Feinstein, the then-chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about five years ago about the staffer and allegations that the staffer was a spy. The source who confirmed the incident to the San Francisco Chronicle said “Dianne was mortified” upon learning about it.

Of course nothing classified was overheard from the front seat during those years. I’m absolutely certain that Demorat Senator Diane Feinstein held top intelligence information in equally high regard as her good friend and cohort Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But let’s ask ourselves a fundamental question. Could it be remotely possible that the Chinese determined to insert an agent directly into Feinstein’s vehicle because she was the Chair of the Senate Committee on Intelligence — a committee upon which she still sits?

The suspected spy served as the lawmaker’s driver in California, but took on other roles as well, including helping out in her San Francisco office and being Feinstein’s liaison to the Asian-American community in the state. He attended Chinese Consulate events on behalf of the senator.

This is worth a chortle:

A former official said that the spy’s handler “probably got an award back in China” for his efforts to penetrate Feinstein’s office and pass on intelligence.

Politico.com wrote:

Political espionage happens here, too. China, for example, is certainly out to steal U.S. technology secrets, noted former intelligence officials, but it also is heavily invested in traditional political intelligence gathering, influence and perception-management operations in California. Former intelligence officials told me that Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics. (A spokesperson for Feinstein said the office doesn’t comment on personnel matters or investigations, but noted that no Feinstein staffer in California has ever had a security clearance.)

Why would they ever need one? They can get all they can hear, copy or steal from the one-time Chair of the entire Senate Committee on Intelligence herself.

But wait, there’s more. KPIX in San Francisco is indicating the Chinese spy was insinuated into Feinstein’s life for 10 years; oh no. It was 20 years.

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – New details emerged Wednesday about how a mole for the government of communist China managed to stay by Senator Dianne Feinstein’s side for nearly 20 years.

On Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle uncovered additional details in a column written by reporters Phil Matier and Andy Ross.

The column revealed that the Chinese spy was Feinstein’s driver who also served as a gofer in her Bay Area office and was a liaison to the Asian-American community.

He even attended Chinese consulate functions for the senator.

This observation, then.

Former FBI agent and KPIX 5 security analyst Jeff Harp said he was not surprised.

“Think about Diane Feinstein and what she had access to,” said Harp. “One, she had access to the Chinese community here in San Francisco; great amount of political influence. Two, correct me if I’m wrong, Dianne Feinstein still has very close ties to the intelligence committees there in Washington, D.C.”

However, after all we know about the FBI and its former and current directors, can we assume we’re getting the full story? Of course not. I’m surprised even this information escaped.

This from the GatewayPundit.com:

Dianne Feinstein Was Warned About Chinese Bribes and Infiltration in 1990s — When She Hired Her Chinese Driver Spy

by Cristina Laila

The San Francisco Chronicle claims none of her staff ever knew what was going on and just kept the story quiet.

Feinstein reportedly ‘found out’ that her staffer was a Chinese spy in 2013–while she was the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

That’s right–the CHAIRMAN of the Senate Intel Committee had a Chinese spy working for her for 20 years and she supposedly didn’t know.

Another strange coincidence? Feinstein’s 3rd husband whom she married in 1980, Richard Blum is DEEPLY and PERSONALLY connected to China as a prominent investor.

Now isn’t that an odd bit of connective tissue?

Since 1995, Feinstein has made three visits to confer with senior government officials in Beijing. Blum has accompanied her each time at his own expense and has attended many of her meetings with President Jiang Zemin and other top Chinese leaders–an unusual degree of access for a private businessman.

On their trip to China in January of last year, Blum accompanied Feinstein to dinner with Jiang in the exclusive leaders’ enclave, Zhongnanhai.

Then this:

The Chinese spy mysteriously appeared on the scene in 1993 just ONE YEAR after Feinstein was elected to the Senate in 1992. Coincidence? We think not.

And this:

On Capitol Hill, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has emerged as one of the staunchest proponents of closer U.S. relations with China, fighting for permanent most-favored-nation trading status for Beijing.

At the same time, far from the spotlight, Feinstein’s husband, Richard C. Blum, has expanded his private business interests in China–to the point that his firm is now a prominent investor inside the communist nation.

For years, Feinstein and Blum have insisted that they maintained a solid “firewall” between her role as an influential foreign policy player and his career as a private investor overseas.

With this:

Richard Blum’s investments in China ballooned after his wife Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, was elected to the Senate in 1992.

Feinstein hired a Chinese spy in 1993 only to see her husband’s businesses flourish.

Total co-inky-dink.

Let’s break this down for even the most addled Leftists amongst us. With a few questions.

Taxpayer money paid this Chinese mole or spy. Yours and mine. First question: did he get a pension? How would we know? Wouldn’t it behoove the Demorats to keep such a cock-up quiet? Of course it would. What a great job. Steal secrets, spy on the gweilo, then take a cushy retirement.

Then let’s break this down as well:

The suspected spy served as the lawmaker’s driver in California, but took on other roles as well, including helping out in her San Francisco office and being Feinstein’s liaison to the Asian-American community in the state. He attended Chinese Consulate events on behalf of the senator.

He was a driver and, apparently, much more. Let’s be serious. After her husband’s close associations with China and her comfort factor in dealing with same, would it not be logical that the amount of time spent with her day after day, week after week, year after year, a bit of a confidant, would result in her guard letting down? Of course.

Russell Lowe registering Democrat voters in San Francisco. Democrats.

It turns out that Russell Lowe wasn’t just her driver — he was her office manager as well. Read this post.

It was his job to acquire her trust which he did by dint of sheer service in terms of time itself. Tell me and assure me that he was never let alone with even one scintilla of classified information as her briefcase lay on a desk. As a computer screen lay open. As papers were left exposed. As he walked by. As she was in the bathroom. As she was in another room. When she left the vehicle for an hour to make a speech, with a tablet or a phone or a briefcase or a folder left behind. With perhaps even her cell phone left behind.

Go ahead. Assure me. Convince me it never happened or the opportunities never existed.

What I just said, confirmed:

Harp pointed out politicians with access to classified information are generally trained on what not to say and when not to say it. But he also noted when you have a driver behind the wheel day in and day out for 20 years, there are more opportunities to slip up.

From TheFederalist.com:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy

by Ben Weingarten

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s warm relationship with and advocacy for Communist China go back decades and involve millions, if not billions, of dollars.

As media, intelligence agency, and political scrutiny of foreign meddling is seemingly at its apex, a story with big national security implications involving a high-ranking senator with access to America’s most sensitive intelligence information has been hiding in plain sight.

The story involves China and the senior U.S. senator from California, and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Dianne Feinstein. It was buried eight paragraphs into a recent Politico exposé on foreign efforts to infiltrate Silicon Valley, as a passing example of political espionage.

Did the senator expose herself to potential blackmail, or the public to danger through leakage of sensitive, highly classified information? Is firing really the proper punishment for providing political intelligence to a foreign power?

Excellent questions that need to be asked and answered. Were they?

In May 1993, Feinstein expressed her strong support on the Senate floor for continued trading with China. Contemporaneously, her husband was seeking to raise up to $150 million from investors, including himself, for a variety of Chinese enterprises.

In August 1993, Feinstein and her husband visited Beijing for extensive meetings with Chinese leaders at President Jiang’s invitation. As the Los Angeles Times reported in a 1994 exposé on Feinstein’s husband’s business ties and the potential conflict of interests they presented: “Such encounters are fondly remembered when deals are clinched back in China, according to American experts in Chinese business practices. They said that Feinstein’s consistent support for China’s interests cannot help but benefit her husband’s efforts to earn profits there.”

The historical record suggests these American experts were right. Blum successfully raised $160 million for the aforementioned Asia fund under his Newbridge Capital investment company, including investing $1-2 million himself. The fund invested in several state-owned and Chinese government-linked businesses.

A lot more exists, and you should read the complete story. But you get my point.

I transition next to this, BZ’s Reversal Axiom:

If we found out in 2023 that a guy on Devin Nunes’ staff in CA was a Russian spy but they kept this quiet for 5 years after Nunes forced the guy to retire, who would buy it was OK because all the guy ever had access to was local CA political info?

So take your pick. Russia or China. Both are threats to the US. I would submit, however, that the most credible and immediately existential threat to the US is China. There is no proven “collusion” between Trump and Russia. But there is certainly credible linkage between Feinstein and China.

Then there is my final thought. The FBI decided to do Senator Feinstein a solid by notifying her and her staff of the potential threat from within due to this individual. They told her something similar to “we think you have a Chinese spy problem.”

That is precisely what the FBI did not do for the Donald Trump campaign. They could have taken the staff and then-candidate/nominee Donald Trump aside and said something similar to “eh, just thought you should know, we think you have something of a Russia problem,” as with Feinstein.

But no.

Gosh. I wonder what the difference was?

BZ

 

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Rats, meet ship

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Shake hands, then come out sinking.

And let the bodies hit the floor.

Isn’t it odd how, when faced with their own mortality or perhaps something even more devious, various DSRs (Deep State Rats) and HRRs (High Ranking Rats) are leaving what they perceive to be the foundering ship/building they used to inhabit?

Please allow me to present a few cases in point. Because, after all, each one of these individuals and many more can hear what is termed “footsteps.”

First to fall: Andew McCabe, from CNN.com:

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe steps down abruptly

by Mary Kay Mallonnee, Laura Jarrett, Shimon Prokupecz and Dan Merica, 1-30-2018

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has told FBI staff he is stepping down effective Monday — a move that surprised even those expecting his March retirement, sources tell CNN.

McCabe was a central target of President Donald Trump’s ire toward the FBI over its involvement in the investigation into potential collusion between his campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

He was eligible to retire in March, but with his accumulated leave, he was able to step down earlier.

I should care to point out how CNN — though it knows full well — purposefully failed to mention a certain massive conflict of interest McCabe had involving the Demorats, Hillary Clinton, McCabe’s wife, the Demorat governor of Virginia and a particular investigation involving all the aforementioned elements save one.

It takes six paragraphs before CNN writes this:

Various sources described McCabe’s departure as a mutual decision, while others said it was the result of pressure to step down. One source briefed on the matter said McCabe announced his decision to senior executives and portrayed it as his choice. The source disputed the characterization that McCabe was removed.
But a source familiar with the matter said FBI Director Christopher Wray told McCabe he is bringing in his own team, which he would not be a part of, and that it was McCabe’s decision whether to stay at the FBI or leave.

I wrote this about the situation back on October 31st of 2016:

Let us not forget the rancid involvement of Assistant Director Andrew McCabe, the number two man in the FBI, whose job it was to directly supervise and monitor the Hillary Clinton email investigation. From the WSJ.com:

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Mr. McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, received $467,500 in campaign funds in late 2015 from the political-action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime ally of the Clintons and, until he was elected governor in November 2013, a Clinton Foundation board member.

In February of this year, Mr. McCabe ascended from the No. 3 position at the FBI to the deputy director post. When he assumed that role, officials say, he started overseeing the probe into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server for government work when she was secretary of state.

FBI officials have said Mr. McCabe had no role in the Clinton email probe until he became deputy director, and by then his wife’s campaign was over.

But other Clinton-related investigations were under way within the FBI, and they have been the subject of internal debate for months, according to people familiar with the matter.

Does the federal government purposely hire people, pay them large salaries and install them into positions of massive power, who are not only blind to ethics but tone deaf as well?

Others further down the FBI chain of command, however, said agents were given a much starker instruction on the case: “Stand down.” When agents questioned why they weren’t allowed to take more aggressive steps, they said they were told the order had come from the deputy director—Mr. McCabe.

From the microsecond McCabe had any linkage to an investigation with Clinton, Democrats or the Foundation, via his wife, he should have immediately recused himself and assigned supervision to others, making the conflict of interest apparent to the director himself verbally and on paper.

Neither thing occurred.

Further, James Comey should have insisted on it. To my way of thinking that told me everything I needed to know about both Andrew McCabe and James Comey. I submit that you have forgotten your oaths. And why I know mine and keep mine.

I [name] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

McCabe and Comey might want to read this, from their own FBI pages.

Let me bring this down to terms most will understand. Not as a law enforcement officer (though I was a Sergeant at the time) but simply as a county employee requesting a “sole source” purchase (as opposed to a bid process), I had to fill out five pages of questions designed to identify or unearth any sort of relationship I may possibly have with the source I requested due to scarcity or rareness of product. The county wanted to know if I was attempting to favor a provider in terms of a conflict of interest.

The FBI should be miles above that. They weren’t.

Tucker Carlson weighs in.

Then there was this input from liberal Alan Dershowitz.

Then came something of a “two-fer,” from Politico.com:

Two more officials cited in FBI texts step down

by Josh Gerstein

The FBI’s media chief and the head of the Justice Department’s anti-espionage section are both departing.

Two more senior government officials who were prominently discussed in text messages exchanged by FBI personnel formerly assigned to the Trump-Russia investigation are leaving their positions.

Mike Kortan, FBI assistant director for public affairs, is set to retire next week, an FBI spokeswoman confirmed. In addition, the chief of the Justice Department’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, David Laufman, resigned this week, a department spokesman said.

Curious perhaps, but what’s the linkage?

Both men are discussed in text messages sent by senior FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page. President Donald Trump and many Republican lawmakers have argued that the texts are evidence of anti-Trump bias at senior levels of the Justice Department and FBI.

Much is made of the “nothingness” of these two persons. But there are some important and purposeful omissions made specifically regarding David Laufman.

With a bit of digging, it turns out Laufman is Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. Laufman would have been the direct supervisor over counter-intelligence work for that division.

More importantly and little-realized is that David Laufman would have had his fingerprints on the approval for the FISA affadavit sought for Carter Page. By the FBI. Where, yes, the “dossier” was utilized as part justification thereof.

Additionally, leaks of classified information would have come through his DOJ office. Think: the Hillary Clinton email “investigation” such as it was.

Further, remember this. The FBI offered immunity to persons in that investigation. The FBI can offer immunity — but it must first be requested of and then granted by the DOJ. The FBI lacks the power to grant immunity. The FBI investigates. It does not prosecute. (Conveniently, both James Comey and Loretta Lynch forgot this very salient point.)

Immunity to Huma Abedin? Cheryl Mills? Paul Combetta? Brian Pagliano?

The FBI can’t do that. The DOJ can. Under whose office would that be? David Laufman.

But wait. Not only did FBI Director refuse to recommend either an indictment or even a Grand Jury for Hillary Clinton back in July of 2016, the FBI destroyed evidence (the FBI agreement to destroy the laptops of Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson), the Clinton campaign destroyed evidence (the cell phones smashed by staffers with hammers as well as wiping of Hillary’s private servers with BleachBit), and the interview of Hillary Rodham Clinton was a sham: there were no subpoenas, no evidence collected.

Please recall that notes released from the FBI (pages can be viewed here) indicate Hillary Clinton could not recall much information and provided little detail in the 3.5 hours she was interviewed. Agents asked few direct and pointed questions and few follow-up questions (for example, regarding her health claims, documentation, doctors’ notes, etc). The takeaway was a weak interview consisting of softballs and puffy clouds. Even then, Hillary Clinton revealed her ignorance.

Angelina Jolie was interviewed for four hours regarding child abuse claims against Brad Pitt. The former Secretary of State and presidential candidate is taken less seriously than an actress in Hollywood.

The FBI and the DOJ would have had to be working hand-in-hand with each other during the Hillary Clinton investigation. Obama demanded to be kept in the loop. “Obama wants to know everything.” The Strzok-Page texts indicate so.

[As an aside for now — has anyone given some serious thought to FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s supervisor, Bill Preistap? Trust me. You will soon come to know his name and his involvement. Would it be something akin to “singing” and “canary“?]

Most recently this occurred, from NYMag.com:

Rachel Brand, No. 3 at Justice Department, Steps Down After Only Nine Months

by Benjamin Hart

The New York Times reported that Rachel Brand, who is third in line at the Justice Department behind Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein, announced on Friday afternoon that she would be resigning her post after only nine months to become the global governance director at Walmart.

Southern women with saggy teats and missing teeth suddenly look much more attractive to ol’ Rachel, given the current climate at DOJ. Wait. Isn’t it Walmart that’s closing stores now? Contracting, not expanding? Yeppers. Hell yeah that’s attractive.

Remember: if these people leave/resign/retire, they cannot be compelled to testify under their government contracts/agreements.

Unless they want to.

They don’t want to.

You need to know.

Perhaps the ultimate point is this. How odd that, when in the beginning the Demorats, the Clinton campaign, Leftists and the American Media Maggots all nodded in unison that it was all about Trump/Russia collusion, Trump/Russia collusion?

When in fact, a wee bit over a year, precisely the opposite is proving to be true?

Schadenfreude, meet said Demorats, DNC, Clinton campaign, Leftists and the American Media Maggots.

Shake hands and come out dissembling.

Are we truly a Constitutional Republic?

And can we keep it?

BZ

P.S.
I so enjoy sitting on the banks of the river and watching the bodies of my enemy float serenely by.

 

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What Mueller and Leftists will ignore

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Because it serves their clear agenda.

Leaking grand jury information is a felony.

From TheGatewayPundit.com:

Trey Gowdy: Mueller Team ‘Violated the Law’ Leaking Charges in Trump-Russia Investigation

by Joshua Caplan

Congressman and House Oversight Committee chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC) told “Fox News Sunday,” that Mueller’s team broke the law by leaking news of upcoming charges to CNN. Gowdy warned Mueller about leaking details of the investigation to the press.

Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the leader of the House’s top investigative committee, slammed special counsel Robert Mueller  on Sunday for allowing the news media to learn that he and his legal team now have charges in their Russia investigation.

“In the only conversation I’ve had with Robert Mueller, I stressed to him the importance of cutting out the leaks,” Gowdy, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s kind of ironic that the people charged with investigating the law and the violations of the law would violate the law.”

On Friday night, CNN reported that Mueller’s team has filed the first charges in the case with a federal grand jury.

“Make no mistake, disclosing grand jury material is a violation of the law. Somebody violated their oath of secrecy,” Gowdy, a South Carolina lawmaker and former federal prosecutor, also told Fox News on Sunday.

A concept to be completely ignored.

Let us not forget that Mueller sat on the CFIUS committee that approved the sale of 20% of US uranium reserves to Russia despite knowing Russia had bribed the Clintons for the illicit sale.

Simple as that. In both cases. And yet.  .  .

Will anyone be investigated? The situation? Indictments handed down?

Of course not. Don’t be silly.

Republicans don’t have the balls to object.

BZ

 

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