Marco Rubio and the Carter Page FISA

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Sen. Marco Rubio has complained that a Fox News contributor Sara Carter tweeted a Rubio quote that made it appear that he was defending the FBI in the wake of the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report.  In a July 2018 interview with Deep State media shill Jake Tapper Rubio responded to a question about the FISA warrant on Carter Page, “I don’t think they [the FBI] did anything wrong. I think they went to the court, they got the judges to approve it, they laid out all the information, and there was a lot [of] reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at Carter Page.”  Sara Carter should have pointed out that Rubio made the remarks prior to the release of the IG report.  However, this does not excuse his remarks in support of the FBI.

Sen. Marco Rubio is a member of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence.  He is privy to information that the general public was not. The IG found that members of the Crossfire Hurricane team failed to meet the basic obligation to ensure that the Carter Page FISA applications were “scrupulously accurate.”  The report detailed 17 errors and omissions.  The IG was "deeply concerned that so many basic and fundamental errors were made by three separate, hand-picked investigative teams, on one of the most sensitive FBI investigations, after the matter had been briefed to the highest levels within the FBI.”   Yet Rubio did not suspect any of this and was not at all skeptical.

The DOJ Inspector General found that the investigation of Carter Page was factually and legally justified and did not find that there was a political conspiracy at the FBI to take down Donald Trump.  This is what could be expected from a Deep State investigation of the Deep State.  In order to retain some credibility Horowitz found  and exposed numerous FBI errors and omissions in the FISA application process. None of these "errors" and "omissions" benefitted Page.  Was this due to carelessness or was it intentional.  A review of senior FBI agents behavior would suggest it was intentional. Yet the IG report claims "that the FBI’s actions were not motivated by partisan bias."

If the IG could not find evidence of bias at the upper levels of the FBI they are totally incompetent.  They are career officials of above average intelligence.  There is only one explanation for their inability to recognize bias.  They are all members of the Deep State. Yet incredibly progressives are still claiming there is no political bias.  Senator Dianne Feinstein said: “I believe strongly that it’s time to move on from the false claims of political bias.”  Are we to believe that John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Liza Page were all objective officials?

Senator Schumer explained, "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”  Yet, like the Deep State media, they were the one to initiate the attack.

Do I Dare To Eat A Peach? Impeachment Indecision

Apparently the establishment has decided to have a brief Senate trial without witnesses. 

Nancy Pelosi has been withholding the impeachment articles from the Senate since December 18.  The frantic rush to impeach President Trump has hit a roadblock erected by the very people who were in a hurry to impeach the President. Perhaps she was waiting for word from Mitch McConnell with the assurance that their would be no witnesses called.  Now it appears the President agrees.  While McConnell and the Senate GOP have determined there will be no witnesses called Chuck Schumer and Jerry Nadler are supposedly pushing for a trial with witnesses.

The House Judiciary Committee called four law professors to testify.  None of them voted for Donald Trump.  Noah Feldman, Michael Gerhardt, Jonathan Turley and Pamela Karlan are all Ivy League graduates.  Karlan is a known activist who miscalculated during her testimony with an attack on Trump's choice of Barron for his son's name.  Jonathan Truly appeared the most objective but stressed that he did not vote the President. He apparently paid a high price for his objectivity.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said his goal is “to have as short a trial as possible.”  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said, “I think the articles are a joke.”  He stated, “It’s time for him [the President] to have his day in court.  The president deserves to have due process.”  How does one get his day in court when you can’t call witnesses?  A thorough investigation would result in the exposure of both Republicans and Democrats.  Members of both parties have enriched themselves with kickbacks to their relatives.  If a member is exposed he would immediately implicate others.  Congress members know this and therefore there is little incentive to fight corruption.

Chuck Schumer wants to call former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.  There are undoubtedly thousands of Deep State bureaucrats willing to testify against the President.  Some will even be willing to perjure themselves.  They will be able to depend on the Deep State media to support them.  They only have one major problem.  They are attacking President Trump.  Their record is not very good while his is "perfect."

Republican witnesses would include Hunter Biden, Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, her son, the "whistleblower" and others. Before the President had a change of heart he tweeted, "We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is. I was elected to “Clean the Swamp,” and that’s what I am doing!"  These people have a lot to conceal.  They may be powerful enough to prevent the President's cleaning.

People are arguing that a Senate trial is not the place to expose the corruption.  They claim it takes time to gather the evidence for a conviction.  The DOJ is working on this. They have been working on it for three years.  Be patient.  People need to be going to jail.  Oh, that’s right people have: Roger Stone and Paul Manafort.  How much time did it take to convict them?  When progressives are the target it's "Softly, Softly, catchy monkey."  When it's conservatives the cry is "Release the Kraken."

Mitch McConnell claimed, “If we go down in the witness path, we’re going to want the whistleblower. We’re going to want Hunter Biden.  You can see here that this is the kind of mutual assured destruction episode that will go on for a long time.”  Swamp creatures need to be destroyed.  Representative Nadler claimed. "The American people deserve transparency."  The American deserve it and a large number of people demand it.  Where are their representatives? 

The Rehabilitation of Alan Dershowitz

President Trump is reportedly considering Alan Dershowitz to be a member of his impeachment defense team.  Dershowitz has cleverly come out in defense of president Trump and this has muted much of the criticism about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.  His contradictory accounts of this relationship make his denial of being a pedophile questionable.  Dershowitz claims, "I have a long history of credibility."  However, his various accounts of what took place do not support that claim.

Dershowitz was asked by FOX News if he ever traveled to Epstein's St. James Island.  His response was, “With my wife when the island first opened.  There were no young women or anybody on the island except a woman in her 30s and somebody who was taking care of the house.  That was the only time I was ever there.  I never flew on his plane there.  I never participated in any eh eh any activities on the island or anywhere else with Jeffrey.  Never, never, never, under any circumstances.”  However, flight logs of Epstein’s private jet show Dershowitz flew on it at least four times.

Dershowitz told the New York Daily News, “I never got a massage from anybody. It’s made up out of whole cloth.” Later he told the Palm Beach Daily News, he received one massage at Epstein’s house “from a woman in her 40s. I think her name was Olga.  I called my wife after getting the massage. It was an unpleasant experience.  I kept my underwear on during the massage.”    He claims, "I’ve always acknowledged I had one massage. I said that from day one.”  He also claims “I was . . . with my wife and daughter . . . we were never separated from for the entire 24 hours I was there.”  Why was it necessary for him to call his wife if he was never separated from her?

The full extent of the Epstein scandal will never be revealed.  Dershowitz claims he has emails:

"There are emails so far that are secret, but that prove, not only that I was framed, but who framed me.  It names names. These people are going to go to jail once these e-mails come out because this was a total frame up for financial reasons, and I can prove it, and will prove it. It will be so interesting because there will be prominent people in handcuffs. Prominent people in handcuffs once these e-mails come out."

Christine Pelosi, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter remarked, "It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may — whether on Republicans or Democrats."  Virginia Roberts Giuffre claims she was forced to have sex with "numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known Prime Minister, and other world leaders."  Among them she mentioned George Mitchell, the former Democratic leader of the Senate.  There are no flight logs for Epstein's New York City townhouse to expose his guest lists.  This townhouse is only 230 from Washington,D.C.:  Washington D.C. where 535 powerful men and women disburse over 4 trillion dollars a year.  It would be unrealistic to believe this was not a target of Jeffrey Epstein's blackmail operation.

Alan Dershowitz has done his best to prevent information about this affair going public.  ABC reportedly was about to broadcast its investigation of the Epstein affair when it was dropped.  A Project Veritas video revealed anchor Amy Robach’s frustration.  Alan Dershowitz revealed in an NPR interview that he was the one who pressured ABC not to publish the interview.  This was not the first example of Dershowitz's efforts to conceal information about the case.  Fellow Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe was highly critical of Dershowitz's attempt to block the press from covering the child trafficking court proceedings.

John Dietrich is a freelance writer and the author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy (Algora Publishing).  He has a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from St. Mary’s University.  He is retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

Mendacity

What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity... You can smell it. It smells like death. - Big Daddy

Pamela S. Karlan

Pamela S. Karlan

Pamela Susan Karlan is an American professor of law at Stanford Law School and a snappy dresser.  

Karlan testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the constitutional grounds for presidential impeachment in the Impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.  She describes herself as an example of a "snarky, bisexual, Jewish women".  

There is obviously nothing wrong with this woman and it isnreassuring that she is educating our future Supreme Court justices.

The IG Report Will Not Meet Expectations

The New York Times is reporting the DOJ IG "found no evidence that the F.B.I. attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald J. Trump’s campaign."  Business Insider's headline reads, "In a huge blow to Trump, the DOJ watchdog found no evidence to support the claim that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign."  It described Trump's accusations as "baseless."  The LA Times claims the report is "expected to reject or dismiss the most explosive allegations from President Trump and his allies."   Former federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg claims, Trump supporters “don’t deal in reality or in facts.  They deal in conspiracy." 

An operation so complex and involving so many people is impossible to maintain consistency.  In order to maintain his credibility Horowitz had to find fault with some of the FBI's actions.  Agents made mistakes:  "FBI agents and lawyers [were] acting in careless and unprofessional ways."  Of course all of these mistakes were to the detriment of the President and never in his favor.  It is a defense that the defendants at Nuremberg neglected to use.  Much of this is based on the fraudulent "dossier."  The fraud is revealed on its front page.  A former counter-intelligence official would never classify a report containing a “sensitive source” Confidential.  Even Joe Biden recognized it as a fraud.  

Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper used the word spy while discussing the Trump campaign scandal.  He claimed that Trump should have been pleased with this because Russians were the target and not him.  Law professor Jonathan Turley also contends that Trump was spied upon.  However, F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray has said he would not use the term spying to describe F.B.I. activities.  Denizens of the Deep State are masters of semantics.  Terms like "grossly negligent" can result it entirely different outcomes than "extremely careless."

The New York Times cites several examples of the FBI spying on people associated with the Trump campaign.  "The F.B.I. had not deployed those people to gather information on the Trump campaign itself."  What President Trump and his supporters considered spying were actually "typical law enforcement activities."  In other words "spying."  The article mentions operations against George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.  The FBI had academic Stefan Halper meet the them.  The Times neglects to mention that Halper had an assistant,  Azra Turk, an attractive young lady.  Apparently the U.S. Government is not a averse to using "honeypots."

Several people believe that this report will be devastating.  This is unlikely.  It is being produced by members of the Deep State.  People associated with the Trump campaign have spent time in jail like George Papadopoulos and Paul Manafort.  Others are facing the prospect of jail time like Roger Stone and General Michael Flynn.  Known perjurers like Andrew McCabe and John Brennan are hired as consultants by the Deep State media.   

These attacks on President Trump are having a serious impact on our relations with foreign governments.  Foreign intelligence agencies are not foolish enough to base their conclusions on reporting by the Deep State.  However, these attacks do indicate some weakness.  They may advise their governments that if they hold off on making agreements until after the next election they may face a more malleable negotiator.