RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
How Russiagate Began With Obama’s
Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign
Lee Smith
Kimberly Dozier reporting at The Daily Beast.
Tom Ricks reporting at Foreign Policy.
Ricks provides all but the extempore portions of General Flynn’s address here.
General Flynn is to be thanked for his service to our country and for his assiduous application of great intellectual ability to our country’s needs. His forthrightness is gratefully received by me and I wish him the greatest happiness during the remaining years of his life.
I cannot agree with General Flynn on these points of his:
We must create a single unified & international “chain of command” (probably civilian led)
We must tell the American public this is likely to last for decades
The first point bears globalist assumptions which should not and, in any case, cannot be implemented.
The second point is uninformed in several particulars and the public acceptance wished by it would never occur, although its candor regarding a hard, extended war would be gratefully received and seconded.
Both points bear the blush of the pusillanimous. Or at best, the tint of incomplete analysis. They reflect a manipulator’s touch.
Flynn has not yet thought through an integration of the three tools of statecraft: Diplomacy, Finance, War-Fighting.
In other words, he does not grasp the fundamentals. Far, far more than anyone in the White House and their think tanks and propaganda shops, surely, but not enough to actually be ready to defeat this Caliphist or any other enemy.
America’s domestic economic problems are easily solvable. Practically everyone knows how to do it, including those who are trying to multiply problems and prevent solutions. Ditto domestic social problems: get the politicians, the courts and the bureaucrats off the people’s backs. Domestic policy is a known known.
Foreign policy, however, is at least a known unknown and more probably, after these years of top-side dementia, an unknown unknown. No one — and I mean no one — in the senior leader cadre, civilian or military, has sorted the whole thing out, knows what American international posture should be when *America’s* interests, as an independent nation state, are the wealth sought, the goal of the nation’s religious, cultural and moral enterprising.
I have a suggestion for that very thing. It arose from a conversation our daughter and I had a few days ago: Defeat or Detach, Do Not Manipulate. There is, I believe, the wealth-producing American international posture.
The forthcoming USA national election rides on who has best thought through foreign policy. If none has, the mess continues, the Caliphists rampage.
Restoring and Expanding the Wealth of America is the Goal.
Related 1: From Richard Fernandez, The Desert And The Sown.
Update 1: Paul A. Rahe: … the inexorable growth of the administrative regulatory, welfare state is itself a threat to our capacity to govern ourselves.
Update 2: How about a RICO suit at Tom Steyer?
Update 3: Angelo M. Codevilla: While The Storm Clouds Gather and here
Update 4: Former Obama Intel Chief: Administration’s Iran Policy Is Willful Ignorance
Update 5: The Military Fired Me For Calling Our Enemies Radical Jihadis
Update 6: Turkey is Moslem Brotherhood. Moslem Brotherhood is D-R UniParty/Deep State. Both are Iran. Those are the loyalty lines. General Flynn was careless, perhaps a little venal as well: regarded objectively, he advocated for a force he personally does not approve and should not.
The Big Ugly in MENA is coming between USG under Trump, Al Sisi-aligned Sunnis, Iraq, Russia (yes, Russia!) and India on one side and Turkey, Iran and Moslem Brotherhood (aka Salafi Jihad) on the other. Flynn was careless, he let himself be paid to advocate for the wrong side, not meaning to be wrong, just not careful, untutored regarding the grand canvas.
As DIA Director, he was very good, abrasive with staff, but pointing DIA in the right direction: serving the combatant commanders. He also called out CIA for crap going on there, and his firing was instigated by that pack of scoundrels, who had previously got Petraeus fired for essentially the same reasons: he told them to do their work and make it be for Americans, not foreigners. CIA didn’t like to do or hear that.
Flynn was never a line officer, which gives one necessary grand perspective, but he was a fine intel officer. Intel are not the people to be making strategic decisions. Were I to guess what happened, it would be that when he went civilian and wanted an income he scouted potential clients insufficiently, looking more at what they could pay than at who they really are and what he might pay for representing them.
In other words, I concur with Sundance on this.
Turkey is an ally in name only and then only with a USA Deep State — aka swamp — owned by the Moslem Brotherhood.
Update 7: Michael Kennedy: The Russia Hoax was originally aimed at Flynn, not Trump
Update 8: Andrew C. McCarthy: Trump Was Always the Target of the Russia Investigation
Update 9: Byron York: New report details Comey plan to ambush Trump with Moscow sex allegation
Update 10: Sharyl Attkisson: What would the intelligence community’s ‘insurance policy’ against Trump look like?
Update 11: Sharyl Attkisson: A Citizen Suing the Department of Justice Needs More than Just a Winning Legal Argument
Update 12: Roger L. Simon: Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon But Entrapped
Update 13: Andrew C. McCarthy: Mueller’s Politicized Indictment of Twelve Russian Intelligence Officers
We got a special counsel not because of Russia’s espionage or any evidence indicating actual Trump-campaign complicity in it; we got a special counsel because Rosenstein was deeply involved in Comey’s ouster and wanted to fend off Democratic attacks on him over it.
Update 14: Andrew C. McCarthy: Hillary Ruins The Plan
Update 15: George Parry: Comey Tickles The Wire
Update 16: George Parry: Michael Flynn Graymails the Government
Update 17: Julie Kelly: Unequal Fates: A Real Obama Era Whistleblower vs. the Trump ‘Whistleblower’
Update 18: Michael Flynn lawyer says client was prepared to ‘audit’ Obama spy officials before getting ‘set up’
Update 19: Glenn Reynolds:
A D.C. FRIEND WHO REQUESTS ANONYMITY SENDS THIS:
These are the top 10 items that have not been released to Gen Flynn and his lawyer. These documents would exonerate him. It is a disgrace that DOJ, the DC prosecutor, the FBI have not complied with the Flynn request for the Brady material. And yet, the prosecutor recommended a jail sentence for him. It is enough to make one very cynical about the Rule of Law. I hope you will do whatever you can to make sure people realize this is going on in America and do everything you can to get these documents released.
1. The original 302
2. The internal DOJ document dated January 30, 2017, that exonerates Flynn of being “an agent of Russia.”
3. Notes and documents of any kind dealing with any briefings that Mr. Flynn provided to DIA after he left the government.
4. Unredacted notes and 302s of both agents who interviewed Flynn on January 24.
5. The EC of SSA 1 interview of Flynn during the sample PDB where he went in to spy on Trump and Flynn.
6. The EC that started the whole investigation and drafts including anything written by Strzok that went into it.
7. The 1-A file—the whole audit trail of the Flynn 302 process.
8. The unredacted Strzok-Page text messages in their entirety–other than purely personal.
9. Unredacted McCabe memo.
10. Unredacted 302s of interviews of Strzok and SSA1 and raw notes.
These are all crucial.
None of this sounds unreasonable to me.
I commented: Why is the friend hiding their name? Any hint of cowardice?
Update 20: Sundance: Flynn Defense Files Supplement For Motion to Dismiss – New Evidence of Mueller Blackmail Using Threat Against Flynn Jr.
Update 21: Sundance: Flynn Case Update – Reviewing Missouri U.S. Attorney Provides Exculpatory Evidence Under Seal
Update 22: Scott Johnson runs a series of posts on LTG (R) Michael Flynn. On #5 of the series I commented as follows:
Mike Flynn is a brusque, abrasive fellow who is also a superb intel officer, always wanting intel products to fundamentally foster the missions of line commanders, COCOMS especially, the third most asset-rich persons in the USG, after POTUS and SecDef, and the second most executive authority-rich persons in the USG after POTUS.
While Director of DIA, Mike saw directly what he suspected when he had lesser authority/clearance: that US Intelligence Community and Foreign Policy Establishment (IC/FPE), which are virtually co-terminus and core of the US wing of the now-illuminated Deep State, operate for their own interests rather than those of their statutory clients — POTUS, COCOMs, and the electorate — or those of their originating authority — the US Constitution.
He mentioned this around the playground and also his intention to do what he can to bring the IC/FPE into line with their mission. He was and is not one who goes along to get along. POTUS (Obama) fired him for those announcements and his IC/FPE peers ever since seek his ruin and silence. Some of their own number have sung. Mike is fortunate to be not in the heavenly choir, yet.
Update 23: Roger L. Simon: Why Michael Flynn Was Set Up
Update 24: Glenn Reynolds: Rotten Indeed
I commented:
We blew up in the 1960s over abuse of the draft, not over the draft per se. We all watched Jack Webb’s The D.I. and took its point to heart: be worthy of trust by legitimate higher authority. We also got that there are noble and ennobling loyalties more important than to our selves, country being one of them and God another. We valued the established order, we could see its benefits and reason for being. Governmental power we knew was needed and appropriate and should be justly and intelligently deployed and administered. We knew our country’s and communities’ affairs were not clean as a whistle, that neither we nor our fellow citizens, young or old, were moral paragons nor were expected to be, or could be, and we were confident soot regularly would be scrubbed from our institutions and that we would do the same to our own lives and persons.
We got all that, we who blew up in the 60s.
We accepted the use of power in national affairs. But we knew the 50s and Korea. By the early 60s (Mario Savio) and, far more widely, the late 60s (David Harris), we saw that the establishment, who had legitimate authority to use power, were misusing power. We figured that misuse of power is abuse of power and of us. We were right about that.
We tried telling them. As we said after, they did not listen. Meaning, they refused to stop misusing power and thereby abusing us, much as an unjust father and mother refuse to stop beat their children. Korea was a gigantic misuse of power. Vietnam was coming clearer and clearer as more of the same. We blew up. We were not against defeating Communism. We were against not defeating Communism, which Korea became after GA MacArthur was relieved of command and which Vietnam was pretty much from the start. We never were unpatriotic. Quite the opposite. We blew up because our patriotism was being misused and thereby we were being abused, and we knew enough history to have had enough of that.
The children of some of us did not get the message because their parents never taught it to them. They went for power and thought it does not matter if they misuse power, that power is their inalienable possession. The rest of us and our children are giving those children and their parents — to include Bill Ayres — a compelling lesson in statecraft.
Update 25: Scott Johnson: What Gives In The Flynn Case #7
I commented:
I dunno. Andy’s lengthy reconstruction has plenty of indisputable fact and at least some of an answer to the question, Why did they do it? The indisputable region includes the fact that they did it. That certainty — beyond a reasonable doubt — already convicts them of sedition if not treason. I just think there is more and far simpler answering to the Why? question than Andy elucidates in his exposition, perhaps more than he wishes to mention. I dunno.
His reconstruction reminds me of a line Lee’s mother composed once at the conclusion of a letter to her sister, paraphrasing: I apologize for writing at such length, I have not time to be brief. Facts are brief and simple. Not infrequently they are hilarious.
FWIW, my 2c: they did it to prevent Mike Flynn from exposing the CIA’s and FBI’s decades-long extra-proper operations, which include being bent by the Moslem Brotherhood and the Ayatollahs. I think that is hilarious.
To a commenter I commented:
Try not to get lost in the weeds, as Andy does, but, yes, you’re right about what Andy is doing and that he avoids the fact that FBI already knew the Russia investigation was a hoax and some there (Priestap?) wanted it stopped.
If FBI seniors feared Flynn in regard to Russia investigation, it would be that he would expose the hoaxing investigators, not that he would stop the investigation.
Andy misses this point, which is clear in the record, and I wonder if he did so deliberately to protect the institution, or, another favorite dodge of theirs, for the sake of national security.
Update 26: Thaddeus G. McCotter: Who Broke General Flynn Upon a Wheel?
Update 27: Sean Davis: Explosive New Flynn Documents Show FBI Goal Was To ‘Get Him Fired’
Update 28: Margot Cleveland: Your Guide To The Obama Administration’s Hit On Michael Flynn
Update 29: Neo: The bigger picture on Obamagate
Update 30: Thomas Lifson: The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US history
Update 31: J. E. Dyer: Beyond Biden, Brennan, and Clapper: How Grenell’s satchel tells us this is on the right track
Update 32: DOJ Alumni Statement on Flynn Case
Update 33: Andrea Widburg: Judge Sullivan ripped the judicial mask off, and what’s behind it is ugly
Update 34: Sundance: Obama-Era Political Surveillance – Were Black Files Created?
Update 35: Susan Katz: Retired generals who denounced Trump could be recalled to active duty and prosecuted, experts say
Roger Kimball: Trump does the right thing by pardoning Gen. Flynn
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
