Another Ancient Sexual Assault Allegation

Donald Trump is a human being and therefore fallible.  There are many reasons to criticize him, as is the case with any public figure.  In order to be considered a serious critic criticism must appear convincing.  When a critic attempts to give credibility a ludicrous story they only succeed in making themselves look foolish.  The Deep State media and several Republican Senators have invested what is left of their reputations in what is destined to become a comical situation.  The E. Jean Carroll accusations will not reflect well on those giving her credibility.

Senator Mitt Romney claimed "it's a very serious allegation.  I hope that it is fully evaluated. The president said it didn't happen, and I certainly hope that's the case.” 

Senator Joni Ernst told CNN that both Trump and Carroll should face questions about the alleged rape.  Ernst stated, "I think anybody that makes an accusation like that, they should come forward.” Ernst said. "But obviously, there has to be some additional information. They need to interview her. They need to visit with him.”  Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, called the alleged acts “unacceptable, deplorable behavior.”  He added that because “ the President is denying them, I can’t comment on them because I don’t know what the truth is.”  Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that Carroll's account should be investigated.  "Yeah, I think any allegations made that seem to have merit we should take a look at.  I have not seen the allegation so I can't comment on it specifically.”  These clowns have given Carroll’s charges credibility.

Elizabeth Jean Carroll has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in 1993 or 1995 or maybe 1996.  In her recently published book, What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal, she also accuses former CBS executive Les Moonves of assault.  Decades old allegations of sexual assault appear to plague only Republicans.  Think of Brett Kavanaugh, Roy Moore, and John Tower who famously danced naked on a grand piano with a Russian ballarina.  Yet even some Republicans have not caught on.  Congress has admitted to spending $17 million to settle harassment claims.  This is actually only a fraction of what they spend.

Carroll was interviewed by Lawrence O’donnell and Anderson Cooper and she will make the rounds of the Deep State media.  O’donnell told her, “The writing in both New York Magazine and in your new book is just riveting.”  It came across like a trashy novel aimed at teenage girls.  Carroll will not receive the Paula Jones treatment where the Washington Post buried Michael Isikoff’s story on President Clinton’s behavior.  Chris Hayes has complained, “Call me crazy, but President Accused of Rape By Well Known Writer seems like the very definition of news? It's somewhat odd to me that it is not being covered in many places.”  Perhaps many places are wisely withholding judgment until more information comes in. 

Carroll comes across as a bit to histrionic to be believable.  But what she says probably pushes her over the line.  In the Anderson Cooper interview she claims that Trump accompanied her to the lingerie department of Bergdorf Goodman.  She claims that “there was nobody on the whole floor.”  When she said, “I think most people think of rape as being sexy,” Cooper broke for a commercial.  Before the break she told Cooper, a known homosexual, “You’re fascinating to talk to.” Perhaps the most revealing interview took place in 1995 on the Charlie Rose program in an exchange with Jimmy Breslin:

Carrol: Our whole lives revolve around men.  We live to please men.

Breslin: There are a lot or rules you can’t walk out of the cave with a club and drag a woman back.

Carrol: Women love that.  When was the last time you took a big old club? But I mean figuratively.  Woman love that.  Just come in there with a big old club.  That’s what women love.

Breslin: That’s what the 103rd precinct is there for.  There in there screaming arrest him.  It’s an assault case. 

Carrol: The only reason why you are on earth is because you’re walking around with like a big old clutch purse of lust frenzied sperm.  That’s what guys are.  

E. Jean Carroll has a unique outlook on life.  Hopefully it is an uncommon outlook.  She claims “You can go back and change the past.”  She has a problem with credibility and her supporters are risking theirs.

Not With A Bang But A Whimper

Civilizations are tested in a crisis. Their strengths and weaknesses are revealed in such events as earthquakes, the sinking of ships, and social or political eruptions.   Recent events in Hong Kong have illustrated how an area with strong civilizational characteristics performs.  A massive demonstration was conducted peacefully, without property damage and without leaving behind and area strewn with garbage.  The values that allow advancement in a society are often described as “Western values.”  They are universal values and no more “Western” than 2 + 2 = 4.

A dramatic example of these values was provided in 1852 when HMS Birkenhead sank off the coast of Africa. Its sinking was immortalized by Rudyard Kipling in his poem, "Soldier an' Sailor Too.” There were, as on the Titanic, insufficient lifeboats. The women and children were escorted to the ship's lifeboat. The men were mustered on deck and Captain Seton drew his sword ordering men to “Stand an’ be still”  They stood stiffly at their posts as the ship disappeared beneath the waves. As Kipling wrote:  "We're most of us liars, we're 'arf of us thieves, an' the rest of us rank as can be, But once in a while we can finish in style (which I 'ope it won't 'appen to me)."

The sinking of the Titanic provides another example where 74% of the females survived and only 20% of the males.  One of the richest man in the world, John Jacob Astor, is said to have fought his way to a boat, put his wife in it and stepped back and waved her goodbye. This behavior was what was to be expected.  When a surviving ship's officer was asked whether this "women and children first" policy was the captain's rule or the rule of the sea, he replied that it was the rule of nature.  

Helen Raleigh reported that 2 million people walked through central Hong Kong demanding freedom? People moved to the side in an orderly fashion to let an ambulance pass without anyone directing them.  Young protesters stayed to ensure there was no litter left on the streets.  Not a trash can, car, or building was burned down.  There was no need to pick up feces.

This behavior is an indictment of the values promoted by progressives and must be discredited.  New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof revealed the Western attitude toward  Japanese behavior in his account on the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake in 1995 that killed 5,200 people.  He wrote, “I looked all over for a case of looting, or violent jostling over rescue supplies.  Finally, I was delighted to find a store owner who told me that he'd been robbed by two men.”  Mr. Kristof was disappointed, however upon learning that the looters were Iranians.

When James Cameron made the movie about the Titanic he portrayed First Officer William Murdoch, who went down with the ship, as taking a bribe and murdering a third-class passenger.   Cameron later apologized to the First Officer's hometown in Scotland and offered £5,000 toward a memorial.  The movie’s portraying of cowardly first class passengers represented his view of the capitalist ethic.  But it was total fiction.  

People who see this decline in virtue are described as “nostalgia merchants.”  Hillary Clinton wrote, “The nostalgia merchants sell an appealing Norman Rockwell-like picture of American life half a century ago, one in which every household was made up of stable parents, two kids, a dog, and a cat who all lived in a house with a manicured lawn and a station wagon in the driveway.  I understand that nostalgia.  If feel it myself when the world seems too much to take.  There were many good things about our way of life back then.  But in reality, our past was not so picture-perfect.”  Historian David Halberstam wrote, “One reason that Americans as a people became nostalgic about the fifties more than twenty-fine later was not so much that life was better in the fifties (though in some ways it was), but because at the time it had been portrayed so idyllically on television.”  In other words this nostalgia is an illusion.

However, the decline has become so obvious that it cannot be denied.  William Bennett pointed out that “Over the years teachers have been asked to identify the top problems in America’s public schools.  In 1940, teachers identified talking out of turn; chewing gum; making noise; running in the halls; cutting in line; dress code infractions; and littering.  When asked the same question in 1990, teachers identified drug abuse; alcohol abuse; pregnancy; suicide; rape; robbery; and assault.”  We are operating under a completely new set of values.

In 1991 the cruise ship MTS Oceanos sank.  The crew fled in panic without raising an alarm.  Passengers only realized the ship was in trouble when they witnessed flooding in the lower decks.  Eyewitness claim that many of the crew, including Captain Avranas, were already packed and ready to depart, apparently unconcerned about the safety of the passengers.  Another passenger liner, Costa Concordia provides another example of what might be called the collapse.  Captain Schettino claimed that when the vessel listed suddenly, he fell into a lifeboat and was unable to climb out.  Otherwise I suppose he would have gone down with his ship. When the Coast Guard ordered him to return to his ship he refused.  One female passenger claimed, "There were big men, crew members, pushing their way past us to get into the lifeboat.”  The sinking of the MV Estonia in 1994 resulted in 852 deaths.  Roger Kohen of the International Maritime Organization told Time magazine: "There is no law that says women and children first. That is something from the age of chivalry.”  

The Deep State Smear Machine is Gearing Up For Judge Moore Again

The Deep State Media and their allies in the government are preparing to attack Roy Moore in order to prevent him from running for the Senate.

I did not realize Jon Hall’s article was satire until I read “Roy Moore is the White Boy equivalent of Al Sharpton, but without the charisma.”  He describes Judge Moore as “creepy” and claims the charges against him are credible.  His comment, 

“The truth of the allegations should have been irrelevant” sounds a lot like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remark, “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”  Hall claims “any normal man would have taken his lumps and bowed out.”  The problem is that Moore is not the normal spineless man who cannot take criticism.  Hall wants the nomenklatura to select the candidates from among its own ranks. It was so nice of Vanity Fair to warn Republicans about the dangers of a Moore candidacy.  I’m sure they have the best interests of the Republicans in mind. 

Roy Moore was the target of the Deep State Smear Machine.  Their technique is described somewhat inarticulately by Nancy Pelosi: “It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy.  You demonize and then you. It.  We call it the wrap-up smear. if anyone talks politics. . .We call it the wrap-up smear.  You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest and then you merchandise it.  And then you [the press] write it, and they’ll say, see it’s reported in the press that this this this and this.  So they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called the ‘wrap-up smear.’ And now I’m going to merchandize the press’s report on the smear that we made. It’s a tactic. And it’s, it’s self-evident.”

There are dozens of examples of this technique.  Lyndon Johnson reportedly told his campaign manager to start a rumor about his opponent having sex with a pig.  “Christ, we can’t call him a pig-f***er!” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.” “I know,” said Johnson. “But let’s make the sonafab*tch deny it!”  Harry Reid accused Mitt Romney of not filing income tax returns for ten years.  Reid later claimed, "I knew it was not true, but it worked didn't it?”  Leslie Stahl reported on CBS that John Tower danced naked on a grand piano with his mistress, a Russian ballerina.  Recently Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Representative Jim Jordan have come under attack for decades old allegations.  Deep State politicians like Paul Ryan gave these allegations credence.  Ryan’s office released a statement about the charges against Jordan: "These are serious allegations and issues.”  The Deep State believes the people making these charges have the highest credibility, unlike someone like Paula Jones who Newsweek’s Evan Thomas described as "some sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks."

Roy Moore ran against a Democrat, the media, the bureaucracy and the Republican party.  His most formidable opponents were in the Republican Party. Mitch McConnell stated, “If these allegations are true, he must step aside.”  Jeff Flake argued, “If there is any shred of truth to the allegations against Roy Moore, he should step aside immediately.”  Susan Collins said, “If there is any truth at all to these horrific allegations, Roy Moore should immediately step aside as a Senate candidate.”  Lisa Murkowski said, “I’m horrified.”  Rob Portman said, “It was very troubling … if what we read is true and people are on the record so I assume it is.”  John McCain asserted, “The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they can be proud of.”

There is an obvious double standard here.  There is no need to recount Bill Clintons history or Ted Kennedy’s activities that included public sex in 1987 at the La Brasserie restaurant.  It has been reported that federal prosecutors believe Senator Bob Menendez “had sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.”  The Congress has several offices that deal with covering up “indiscretions.”  The Congressional Office of Compliance (COC) reportedly disbursed $17 million over a twenty-year period to cover sex-related incidents.  This is only a fraction of what has been paid out.  Rep. John Conyers paid a former employee $27,111.74 out of his Member's Representational Allowance account.  Rep. Raúl Grijalva gave $48,395 to the female employee.  The settlement was reportedly arranged by lawyers at the House Employment Counsel.  Tracy Manzer, Congresswoman Jackie Speier's spokesperson, told CNN that 80 percent of people who have come to her office to share stories of sexual misconduct never told the COC.

Cokie Roberts, NPR correspondent and ABC News commentator, claimed that "every female in the press corps knew" to avoid being in an elevator with Rep. John Conyers and has apparently known about this "for years.”  She stated, "You know they are so used to it.  I mean, the culture of Capitol Hill for so many decades was men being bad.”  The leadership of the House and Senate are aware of this situation.  They are complicit.  Roy Moore would be a threat to this comfortable arrangement.  A Moore candidacy might be an opportunity to highlight the mendacity of the Deep State Media and their allies in the government.

Harry Dexter White

This segment on the MP deals with Harry Dexter White the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Henry Morgenthau.  White was one of the most influential men in the 20th century.  He was Morgenthau’s most important adviser. Morgenthau gave White responsibility for all of the Treasury's foreign policy activities and appointed him the department's representative to other agencies including the Office of Strategic Services, America's wartime intelligence service and forerunner of the CIA.  As the founder of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank he played a large part in the creation of the modern global economic system.  He also played an important role in the creation of the UN.  He was the author of the Morgenthau Plan and a Soviet agent.  A plan that almost drove Western Europe into the arms of the Soviets.

White was a also a prodigious recruiter.  He hired more than 200 individuals for positions in his Division of Monetary Research and managed to place his “agents” into other agencies where they in turn hired fellow “progressives.”  When most of the Communists were removed from government, many of the people described as progressives remained.  They were able to staff their organizations with likeminded individuals, many of whom are with us today.  These offspring of Harry Dexter White number in the tens of thousands.  Every department of the U.S. government has a significant number of these individuals.  In the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau they jokingly refer to themselves as Dumbledore’s Army.

White recommended Colonel Bernard Bernstein for financial adviser at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Germany where Bernstein oversaw the implementation of provisions of the Morgenthau Plan.   General Clay claimed Bernstein was (quote) “very smart and energetic but is somewhat warped in his judgment of the problem as a whole."  General Clay was highly critical of the Civil Affairs Branch. “We certainly went in there with a great number of people (Civil Affairs Branch) who were either members of the Communist party or tended in that direction.  Many of these men had come to us on Treasury teams.” (https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/clayl.htm) White induced the Chinese Nationalists to hire Che Chow-ting, a secret Communist, to a senior position in their Ministry of Finance.

Like all Communist agents in the U.S. government White had his defenders.  Edward Peterson claimed (quote) “simple-minded observers” believed the Morgenthau Plan was part of the Communist conspiracy.  Professor Jeffrey K. Olick of the University of Virginia is teaching his students and the readers of his book, In the House of the Hangman, that, "Harry Dexter White, was accused in 1948 by Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Affairs Committee [HUAC] of being a Soviet agent."  This absurd allegation has received wide circulation, repeated by news commentator Bill O’Reilly.  Fortunately, he was corrected by his guest.  She pointed out that Joseph McCarthy was elected to the United States Senate and Senators do not control committees in the House of Representative.  White volunteered to testify before the before the House Un-American Affairs Committee and gave a rousing soliliquy on American patriotism.

Rather than going through all the evidence like the Venona transcripts, demonstrating that White worked for the Soviets I will give just one example.  In 1952, Henry Morgenthau went to the FBI and requested their information on White.  After seeing White’s file, Morgenthau said he was "very upset" because there seemed "no question but that White was working for the Russians." 

White was responsible for many pro-Soviet policies.  His role in the creation of  the Morgenthau plan will be described in detail later.

In May 1941White was approached by Soviet agent Vitali Pavlov and given instructions to recommend the U.S. take a firm stand in their negotiations with Japan. This is referred to as Operation Snow.  It was designed to remove the Japanese threat to the Soviet’s eastern front by instigating a war between the U.S. and Japan.  One of the demands in Pavlov’s note was for Japan to evacuate Manchuria, a part of China where they had made large investments.  It was obvious that Japan would never accept this demand.  White sent a memo to Morgenthau containing the Soviet recommendations.  John Morton Blum claimed that Secretary of State Cordell Hull made the White memo the basis among others for fashioning his answer to Japan.  Herbert Romerstein contended, "Hull used most of the harsh, demanding language in his ultimatum to the Japanese on November 26, 1941." Certainly White did not single handedly provoke the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  But he made a significant contribution.  On January 21, 2000, in the Independent Military Review, published in Moscow, Vladimir Karpov stated that, "Stalin was the real initiator of the ultimatum to Japan" that provoked the Pacific war.  It should be noted that White’s memo was written while the Nazi-Soviet Pact was still in force.

White was instrumental in providing the Soviets with a duplicate set of plates to produce occupation currency for Germany.  R. Bruce Craig wrote "Neither White nor anyone else in a position of authority in the Treasury or State departments could have anticipated the serious economic repercussions that developed in the ensuring months as a result of the War Department's failure to address occupation-currency redemption policies and practices."  Vladimir Petrov related that the three Western allies put into circulation a total of about 10.5 billion AM Marks.  The Soviets issued on "a very conservative estimate" 78 billion.  This amounted to a loss of more than $300,000,000 for the U.S. taxpayers.  Benn Steil called White’s trust in the Russians as, “inexcusably naïve, at best” and estimated the cost at 46.5 billion dollars in current dollars.  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZM0r5rrrZA]  Many of White’s defenders claim that his policies failed because he was naïve.  White was not naïve.  He was an knowledgeable economist.  His policies worked exactly as planned.

White’s defenders often claim that he was sympathetic toward the Soviet Union because his parents had emigrated from there.  White’s parents hailed from Lithuania.  Lithuania was an independent country until it came under Soviet control as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.  Soviet occupation was accompanied by the routine atrocities that always followed their conquest.  Informed people knew about these atrocities.  If White had any love for his parents’ homeland he would have been strongly anti-communist.

White’s monetary policies led to extensive black marketing.  A cheap PX wristwatch, costing $15 or $20, would sell for as high as 5,000 Russian-printed occupation marks, which could be redeemed for a $500 postal money order.  Russians paid the equivalent of $1,000 for a Mickey Mouse watch.

The corruption reached the highest levels.  Edward Peterson reported that the chief U.S. Prosecutor at Nuremberg and Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson demanded that the military property officer acquire two grand pianos for him.  Col. Stanley Andrews commented on a group of U.S. Congressmen that came to Germany for an inspection.  “They were given Post Exchange cards which allowed them to buy anything at they wanted at the local Post Exchange. They would load up their suitcases with cigarettes, and, on at least one occasion, a very prominent congressman asked me: ‘Tell me where this black market village is?’ and he headed straight for it.” 

Diana West in her book American Betrayal received a great deal of criticism for demonstrating how extensive Soviet influence was during the Roosevelt administration.  Hundreds of Soviet agents were working for Joseph Stalin during the period: collecting information and influencing policy.  Yet highly respected historians have denied Soviet agents influenced U.S. policy.

Harvey Klehr wrote "In our more than twenty years of archivally based research on Soviet espionage in America, we have uncovered ample documentation of Soviet intelligence obtaining American technical, military, and diplomatic information but very little indicating successful policy manipulation." 

John Hayes wrote “Soviet manipulation of American policy - which by the way Soviet intelligence agencies didn’t do that.  They were into intelligence, not policy manipulation. And there are sensible reasons for that—but that’s another question.”

It is a mystery why highly respected historians would jeopardize their credibility by claiming the Soviet agents did not manipulate policy.  There are many mysteries in the account of the Morgenthau Plan.  Once it is recognized that Soviet agents played an important role in determining U.S. policy many of these mysteries are solved.

Homosexual Community vs. The Catholic Church

A Catholic Bishop, Thomas Tobin, in Rhode Island recently tweeted “A reminder that Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ ‘Pride Month’ events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful for children.”  This is Catholic doctrine and common sense.  For this he was severely attacked.  Martina Navratilova claimed “Catholic clergy has been a lot more dangerous to kids than LGBT.” He has been described as a “hate-filled hypocrite,” spreading “poisonous thinking.”  Mia Farrow tweeted, “This is pure ignorance & bigotry.”  British comic Julian Clary said, “May God strike you down Bishop, at His earliest convenience.”  The Boston Globe proclaimed in a headline that Tobin was guilty of sending out a “homophobic tweet.”  Joe Lazzerini, the president of Rhode Island Pride, said “He is like the Donald Trump of the Catholic Church, he goes on Twitter and spews out hate.”  Lazzerini further said he, “calls on Bishop Tobin to do some self-reflection as the majority of Catholic Rhode Islanders in this state reject the idea that to be Catholic is to be complicit to intolerance, bigotry and fear.” 

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was asked if they would make a statement of support for Bishop Tobin but they chose not to comment.  Their silence in effect supports Tobin’s critics.  The church has been silent on this issue with the exception of Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, TX.  Strickland tweeted, “Please stop labeling bishops who speak the truth of the Gospel as homophobic.  Stating this truth is not homophobia, it is simply reality.” 

The homosexual mafia knows that a massive reaction to any criticism will result in their critics backing down.  In all, the bishop’s tweet has so far received more than 65,000 responses.  This induced to Bishop Tobin offer something of an apology.  He wrote, “I regret that my comments yesterday about Pride Month have turned out to be so controversial in our community, and offensive to some, especially the gay community. That certainly was not my intention, but I understand why a good number of individuals have taken offense.  The Catholic Church has respect and love for members of the gay community, as do I. Individuals with same-sex attraction are beloved children of God and our brothers and sisters.”  

Critics of Bishop Tobin have commented on the extensive abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church as if he was responsible for this.  Martina Navratilova claimed, “Catholic clergy has been a lot more dangerous to kids than LGBT.”  Tobin obviously opposes this behavior.  The church has been infiltrated by homosexuals.  Any organization that has access to young children is attractive to these individuals.  The Boy Scouts and the Big Brother organization have been compelled by the courts to accept homosexual leaders.  Abusers of children are not Catholics or Christian.  They are more likely Satanists.  

To repeat Tobin’s original tweet: “A reminder that Catholics should not support or attend LGBTQ ‘Pride Month’ events held in June. They promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful for children.”  In many circles these three sentences are considered “hate speech,” “poisonous thinking,”  “ignorant and bigoted,” and “homophobic.”  These formerly unremarkable sentences are grounds for being ostracized, fired from your job, and even sentenced to prison in some locations.

Children are the primary target of the homosexual movement.  One of their tactics is named some variation of Drag Queen Story Time.  This is an international program where libraries and bookstores hold programs in which men in drag read stories to children. The stated purpose of this program is to “instill a sense of love and acceptance in our children while encouraging them to be true to themselves.”  Drag Queen Story Time organizer Matthew Humphrey has said previously that the event aims to let children know that it's OK to be different and it's OK for other kids to be different. However, drag queen Dylan Pontiff admitted drag queens at these story hours "are trying to groom the next generation."

Drag Queen Story time has had a problem with the number of drag queens convicted of sexually assaulting children.  Two drag queens from Houston represent only those known to have been convicted.  “William Travis Dees was convicted in 2004 of sex crimes against four young children (ages 4, 5, 6, and 8), was jailed, and is listed as a ‘high risk sex offender.’  Alberto Garza was convicted of assaulting an 8-year-old boy in 2008.  Protecting children from such people is not hateful.

Corruption Within The Intel Community

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff has demanded that the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel keep him informed if Attorney General William Barr declassifies any documents pertaining to the Russia investigation over their objections.  Schiff is concerned that President Trump is "perniciously" seeking to "politicize the [intelligence community] and law enforcement, to delegitimize the well-founded investigation into the President, and to attack the President's political enemies."

Schiff wrote, “if it gets to a point they are asked to do things that are unlawful or jeopardize the men and women that work within the [intelligence community], they should speak out.”

The leadership of the FBI has been thoroughly politicized and is to a great extent corrupt. It is unnecessary to recount the times that John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Peter Strozk and numerous other have called the President a liar and even a traitor.  Yet the President is condemned for not having faith in his intelligence agencies. Senator Schumer warned the President, “let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

Pre dawn SWAT team raids on Roger Stone and Paul Manafort were meant to intimidate and were reminiscent of KGB tactics.  People considering a post in the Trump Administration or a role in his reelection campaign should think seriously about these abuses of power.  Another favorite KGB tactic was the use of the “honey trap.”  George Papadopoulos’ experience with the well endowed “research assistant,” Azra Turk, was probably not an isolated incident of the FBI providing female companionship.

One tactic used to damage the President is the leaking of classified information.   Truepundit asserts that “Wray and Horowitz are protecting the agents who took bribes, as well as their media enablers.”  No other conclusion can be drawn.  In spite of James Comey’s claim,  “I hope people watching know how seriously we take leaks of classified information,” leaking is endemic in the FBI.  The Inspector Generals report tells of 50 FBI agents in Washington D.C. alone who “improperly received benefits from reporters.”  Horowitz mentions “tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks  and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events.”  However, they may have received other benefits.  Horowitz may have been too polite to mention any more sensitive issues than tickets to sporting events.  57-year-old James Wolfe was not a member of the FBI.  He was the Senate Intelligence Committee Security Director but his case is illustrative.  Wolfe, a married man, was caring on a relationship with 26-year-old Ali Watkins.  Watkins was an extremely talented individual.  She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize at age 23.   

Widespread corruption makes an organization vulnerable to compromise.  If an agent of a foreign power were to approach an individual like James Wolfe and threaten to expose him, he would likely be willing to reveal classified information.  The alternative would be a loss of his career and a possible jail sentence.  A thorough investigation would and should jeopardize the men and women in the intelligence community who have violated their trust.