by SAM FADDIS
The Praetorian Guard was an elite unit charged with safeguarding the body of the Roman Emperor and guaranteeing national security. Over time the Praetorians lost their way. They went from guarding the Emperor to deciding who would rule – even in one celebrated case auctioning off the throne to the highest bidder.
In 313 A.D. Emperor Constantine decided the time had come to take decisive action. He dissolved the Praetorian Guard and dispersed its members to the far reaches of the empire. The men whose job it had been to safeguard the empire had become a threat to its continued existence.
We may be fast approaching the time when our new Praetorians – the FBI – may have to suffer the same fate.
Special Counsel John Durham has issued its report on the infamous Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the mad Russiagate accusations leveled against Donald Trump by Hillary Clinton and her minions. Durham found no evidence of collusion between Trump and Moscow. He found a boatload of evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the FBI.
“Indeed, based on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly federal investigations of these matters, including the instant investigation, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
“In addition, FBI records prepared by Strzok in February and 2017 show that at the time of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI had no information in its holdings indicating that at any time during the campaign anyone in the Trump campaign had been in contact with any Russian intelligence officials.”
“The speed and manner in which the FBI opened and investigated Crossfire Hurricane during the presidential election season based on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence also reflected a noticeable departure from how it approached prior matters involving possible attempted foreign election interference plans aimed at the Clinton campaign.”
“Strzok and Deputy Director McCabe’s Special Assistant had pronounced hostile feelings toward Trump. As explained later in this report, in text messages before and after the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the two had referred to him as “loathsome,” “an idiot,” someone who should lose to Clinton “100,000,000 – 0,” and a person who Strzok wrote “[w]e’ll stop” from becoming President. Indeed, the day before the Australian information was received at FBI Headquarters, Page sent a text message to Strzok stating, “Have we opened on him yet? [angryfaced emoji]” and referenced an article titled Trump & Putin. Yes, It’s Really a Thing.”
“Our investigation determined that the Crossfire Hurricane investigators did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations contained in the Steele reporting. Nor was Steele able to produce corroboration for any of the reported allegations, even after being offered $1 million or more by the FBI for such corroboration. Further, when interviewed by the FBI in January 2017, Danchenko also was unable to corroborate any of the substantive allegations in the Reports. Rather, Danchenko characterized the information he provided to Steele as “rumor and speculation” and the product of casual conversation.”
Let’s be clear because, after years of lies and distortion, a little clarity is in order.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign cooked up a story about Donald Trump and Russian collusion to divert attention from the heat she was taking for having boatloads of classified material on an unsecured private server. They hired a washed-up British spy to dig up dirt on Trump, and that spy, Christopher Steele, dutifully created his infamous “dossier” filled with rumors, innuendo, and salacious unsubstantiated garbage. Hillary’s campaign then fed that stack of nonsense to the FBI which, instead of rejecting it out of hand, used it to start a massive investigation of Trump and attempt to destroy his campaign.
There was never any substantiation of the junk allegations Steele peddled. There was never anything even close to sufficient evidence to launch Crossfire Hurricane. Steele and his dossier and his Clinton campaign sponsors should have been sent packing on day one.
They were not, and this was not because of FBI incompetence. This was not because the FBI needs to reevaluate its procedures or require new forms to be filled out or send everyone to a refresher course on how to conduct investigations.
This was not a mistake. It was deliberate.
The FBI is a failed institution. It is in need of a complete restructuring or dismantlement.
I like how Tapper says that “to some extent, the report exonerates Trump”. You, you stupid putz; it exonerates Trump totally and 100% to the fullest extent imaginable. It was an attempted coup and they all played a part. By the time the Mueller witch hunt was over, it was already known that no one had any valid evidence against Trump and it was totally political. That failure led to “quid pro quo” and election fraud, which led to January 6th. Failure to effectively exploit that led to “nuclear secrets”, Bragg and the phony accusations in Florida.
Here’s an idea, Democrats: propose policies Americans want and serve the Americans. Then they wouldn’t have to rely on being sorry, seditious, treacherous pieces of shit that cheat in elections to get elected.