Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Mr. Michael Caputo to the U.S. Senate Select Committee On Intelligence, 01 May 2018:
In 2009, my wife and I moved to my hometown of East Aurora, New York to have a family. Making far less money back home, we had a far better quality of life. That is, until the Trump-Russia narrative took off. Today, I can’t possibly pay the attendant legal costs and live near my aging father, raising my kids where I grew up.
Your investigation and others into the allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia are costing my family a great deal of money – more than $125,000 – and making a visceral impact on my children.
Now I must to move back to Washington, New York City, Miami or elsewhere, just so I can make enough money to pay off these legal bills. And I know I have you to thank for that.
Here’s how I know: how many of you know Daniel Jones, former Senate Intelligence staffer for Senator Dianne Feinstein? Great guy, right? Most of you worked with him. One of you probably just talked to him this morning.
Of course, very few of us in flyover country knew Daniel until recently. Now we know that he quit his job with your Senate committee not long ago to raise $50 million from ten rich Democrats to finance more work on the FusionGPS Russian dossier. The one the FBI used to get a FISA warrant and intimidate President Donald Trump, without anyone admitting — until months after it was deployed — that it was paid for by Hillary Clinton.
In fact, good old Dan has been raising and spending millions to confirm the unconfirmable – and, of course, to keep all his old intel colleagues up-to-speed on what FusionGPS and British and Russian spies have found. Got to keep that Russia story in the news.
Of course Dan’s in touch with you guys. We know from the news that he’s been briefing Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of this committee. Which one of you works for Senator Warner? Please give Danny my best.
I saw some of his handiwork just last month. Remember this lede paragraph, from McClatchy on April 13?
“The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
That’s your pal Dan, isn’t it? He came up with some kind of hollow proof that Michael Cohen was in Prague meeting with Russians when he wasn’t. He tried to sell that to reporters, and they didn’t buy it because it doesn’t check out. So, to get a reporter to write up his line of bull, he gave the documents to the Office of Special Counsel.
We know that’s likely, because he’s told people he’s briefing investigators.
So, technically, the special counsel’s office has evidence. Your pal Dan gave them more of the Democrats’ dossier, funded by more Democrats, provided again by Russian and British spies. Information no reporter would write up, but now there’s an angle: the Special Counsel has it. Now it’s a story.
It’s a clever but effective ruse. That’s a story, just like when reporter Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News wrote this gem on September 16, 2016: “…U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate … a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News. That meeting, if confirmed, is viewed as especially problematic by U.S. officials…”
Dozens of stories were written from the Isikoff piece, doing real damage to the Trump campaign. Of course, now we know Isikoff’s reference to “intelligence reports” was just him renaming a dossier funded by Democrats and dug up by his longtime pal Glenn Simpson and some foreign spies. Once Simpson gave his Clinton campaign opposition research to the feds, it was news.
This was especially true after Isikoff intentionally labeled the campaign materials as intelligence – just like McClatchy called Dan’s information “evidence.”
But who is McClatchy’s second source? It couldn’t be Dan; he was the first source. It couldn’t be Simpson; he works for Dan. It can’t be the Mueller investigation; they kicked the McClatchy story to the curb with aplomb. So who could it be – perhaps one of his former Senate Intelligence colleagues? I mean, you’re all in this together. You’re the swamp.
What America needs is an investigation of the investigators. I want to know who is paying for the spies’ work and coordinating this attack on President Donald Trump? I want to know who Dan Jones is talking to across the investigations – from the FBI, to the Southern District of New York, to the OSC, to the Department of Justice, to Congress.
Forget about all the death threats against my family. I want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed our kids, who forced us out of our home, all because you lost an election.
I want to know because God Damn you to Hell.
The Kauravas tried to disrobe Draupadi in public. Krishna kept adding material to her sari, so, she remained covered, maintained her modesty.
In support of recognizing the Brennan-Hussein-Jarrett-Rice-Mueller-Comey-McCabe-etc. operation to manufacture inculpatory evidence framing Donald J. Trump and his Presidential Campaign and Administration with the prosecutable crime of endangering United States national security, I offer the following anthology of works by other observers:
John Kass: Obama’s silky lie and FBI bias in the Clinton investigation
VDH: Elites Value Mellifluous Illegality over Crass Lawfulness
Related from Ann Althouse
VDH: The Scandal on the Other Foot
Scott Johnson: To And From Russia, With Emails
Lee Smith: Tying Hillary’s Emails to the Russian ‘Collusion’ Probe
James Wesley Rawls: The Mathematics of Countering Tyranny
Bayou Renaissance Man: The “Russia! Russia!” court case is getting entertaining
Mark Wauck: A Guide To Spygate
John Hinderaker: Did The FBI Frame Flynn?
Sundance, quoting himself in the following excerpt in a post, identifies the subject of the fuss: freedom. His full statement, containing this self-quote and its remarkable context and other points, is here.
When we see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion; when we see that in order to invoke our fourth or sixth amendment right to privacy and due process, we need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution; when we see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics; when we see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and our representatives don’t protect us against them, but protect them against us; when we see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified; we may well know that our freedom is soon to perish.
Scott Johnson: On Mueller’s Appointment
Sharyl Attkisson: 8 Signs Pointing To A Counterintelligence Operation Deployed Against Trump’s Campaign
Her timeline collusion against POTUS Trump.
Her The FBI’s Fractured Fairytale
Her 50 Media Mistakes In The Trump Era: The Definitive List
Clarice Feldman: The Great Unmasking
Conrad Black: The Collapse Of The Collusion Narrative
Margot Cleveland: 3 Reasons Rod Rosenstein’s Special Counsel Appointment Was Illegal
Malcolm Davis: China’s Strategic Strait In The South China Sea, Part One, Part Two
Thomas J. Farnan: How Then FBI And CIA Restarted The Cold War Top Protect Themselves
Karin McQuillan: Outside The Defensible Perimeter
Angelo M. Codevilla: The Tipping Point
Norman Borlaug, agronomist, Father of the Green Revolution
William A. Jacobson: Bernard Lewis RIP – “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people”
Rod Dreher: Benedictine Agrarians
Βασιλεία του Θεού
Kingdom of God
Update 1: A priest’s comment about yearning (i.e., for the sublime, the transcendent) came to mind when, updating items, I happened across this post on my blog from 15 November 2017: Theological Ground Of National Sovereignty.
The phenomenon of yearning figures prominently in Vedic existential phenomenology and of course, albeit with fewer terms of art but to the same import, in Christian theology and liturgics. The Rev. Dr. Paul Tillich tracks the phenomenon of yearning as source of Christian Trinitarian Theology, and I believe Vedas arrive at their counterpart Trinitarian formulations by the same tracking, albeit with more elaboration of the existential phenomenology and articulation thereof.
The phenomenology of yearning for the sublime and transcendent impinges rapidly and closely upon the phenomenology of national sovereignty … and its deprecators. In other words, theology and political philosophy are joined at the hip, so to speak, because ineluctably they share an existential base.
Case in point: witness Michael Caputo yesterday throwing an imprecation, as above, on members of both parties in the Senate Select Committee On Intelligence: “God Damn you to Hell.”
This is Draupadi’s Imprecation in modern dress.
Update 2: Scott Johnson: Caputo Debriefed
Update 3: Sharyl Attkisson: What Did Peter Strzok Do?
Update 4: Adam Mill: The DOJ Has Turned The Russia Investigation Into A Puzzle Designed Never To Be Solved
Update 5: Sharyl Attkisson: What would the intelligence community’s ‘insurance policy’ against Trump look like?
Update 6: Senator Dianne Feinstein (even before her moves against POTUS Trump via Nominee Kavanaugh in September 2018):
Michael Yon: Driving Mrs. Feinstein: Crucial, unpublished information about Feinstein’s 20-year spy
Ben Weingarten: Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy
Marc A. Thiessen: Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Feinstein
Update 7: Sharyl Attkisson: CIA secretly intercepted Congressional communications about whistleblowers
Update 8: Sharyl Attkisson: A Citizen Suing the Department of Justice Needs More than Just a Winning Legal Argument
Update 9: Michael Kennedy: The Russia Hoax was originally aimed at Flynn, not Trump
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
Notre Père qui es aux cieux,
que ton Nom soit sanctifié,
que ton règne vienne,
que ta volonté soit faite
sur la terre comme au ciel.
Donne-nous aujourd’hui notre pain de ce jour.
Pardonne-nous nos offenses,
comme nous pardonnons aussi à ceux qui nous ont offensés.
Et ne nous soumets pas à la tentation,
mais délivre-nous du mal.
[Car c’est à Toi qu’appartiennent
le règne, la puissance et la gloire,
pour les siècles des siècles.]
Amen.