Obama Wiretapping? Trump Colluding? We Are Headed Down a Rabbit Hole

Charles Krauthammer

"When he was Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA’s disavowal of involvement in a mysterious recent bombing in Lebanon. Replied Shultz: “If the CIA denies something, it’s denied.”

"Has there ever been a more dry, more wry, more ironic verdict on the world of espionage? Within it, there is admission and denial, smoke and mirrors, impenetrable fog and deliberate obfuscation. Truth? Ask the next guy.

"Which is why my default view of espionage is to never believe anyone because everyone is trained in deception. This is not a value judgment; it’s a job description.

"We learn, for example, from Tuesday’s spectacular WikiLeaks dump that among the CIA’s various and nefarious cybertools is the capacity to simulate intrusion by a foreign power, the equivalent of planting phony fingerprints on a smoking gun.

"Who are you going to believe now? I can assure you that some enterprising Trumpite will use this revelation to claim that the whole storyline pointing to Russian interference in the U.S. election was a fabrication. And who was behind that? There is no end to this hall of mirrors. My rule, therefore, is: Stay away.

"Hard to do with Washington caught up in one of its periodic conspiracy frenzies. Actually, two. One, anti–Donald Trump, is that he and his campaign colluded with Russian intelligence. The other, anti–Barack Obama–CIA– “deep state,” is that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower to ensnare candidate Trump.

"The odd thing is that, as of today, there is no evidence for either charge. That won’t, of course, stop the launch of multiple all-consuming investigations." . . .

Top 10 Most Obnoxious Hollywood Liberals

Human Events "Hollywood stars invariably get involved in the political debate from the left side of the spectrum.  What better way to draw attention to themselves than to testify before Congress about the latest threat to humanity, even if their cause is laughable.  It was hard to narrow it down to only 10, but here are the Top 10 Most Obnoxious Hollywood Liberals."

Democrat Senator: I Have More Personal Time With Trump In 2 Months Than Obama In 8 Years

Manchin's cooperation with Trump has angered progressive groups. Some groups have begun petitioning for a more progressive candidate to challenge Manchin in the 2018 primary.

Weasel Zippers  "Manchin and his constituents didn’t fit any of Obama’s agendas, so they were ignored.

"Via Free Beacon:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D.,W.Va.) said that he has had more personal time with President Donald Trump than he ever did with former President Barack Obama.
Manchin said that in the first two months of the Trump administration, he has talked with Trump more than he did with Obama in eight years, according to a Politico profile of the senator.
“I’ve had more personal time with Trump in two months than I had with [Barack] Obama in eight years,” Manchin said.
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New Yorkers To Hillary Clinton: No Thanks

Weasel Zippers

Daily Caller  "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t perform well in the latest poll in the New York City mayor’s race, according to a new Rasmussen poll released Tuesday.

"Fifty-eight percent of likely voters in the city don’t want Clinton to run again, compared to just 23 percent of voters who wanted the former presidential candidate to run. Nineteen percent of voters hadn’t yet made up their mind.

"Current Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to run for reelection, but trails Republican challenger Paul Massey, Jr. in terms of fundraising. Massey raised $1.6 million in the race so far, compared to de Blasio’s $1 million.

"Clinton expressed interest in the race, but said she would only consider running if de Blasio didn’t enter the race for some reason." . . .

With campus shout downs, first they came for the Jews and Israel

Legal Insurrection

The anti-free speech “social justice warrior” monster now stalking campuses didn’t start recently.

. . . "And the disruption of former Ambassador Michael Oren, as the SFGate reported in 2011, Muslim students found guilty of disrupting speech:

In an emotional conclusion to a case that generated national debate over free speech rights, a jury on Friday found 10 Muslim students guilty of disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at UC Irvine last year.
Although the students faced up to a year in jail on the misdemeanor charges, they instead were placed on three years of informal probation, and ordered to perform 56 hours of community service.
District Attorney Tony Rackauckas issued a statement afterward in which he called the students’ disruptions “censorship by a few.”
“History requires us to draw a line in the sand against this sort of organized thuggery,” he said.

While You Weren’t Looking, the Democrat–Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed

"That supposed FBI investigation of collusion with the Russians? Never mind . . "

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Andrew C. McCarthy  . . . "For months, the media-Democrat complex has peddled a storyline that the Putin regime in Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election. There is, of course, no evidence that the election was hacked in the sense that the actual voting process was compromised. Rather, there is evidence that e-mail accounts of prominent Democrats were hacked months before the election, and thousands of those e-mails were published by WikiLeaks in the months leading up to the election.

"Into this misleading “Russia hacked the election” narrative, the press and the Dems injected a second explosive allegation — or at least an explosive suspicion that they’ve wanted us to perceive as a credible allegation meriting a serious investigation. The suspicion/allegation is: Not only did Russia hack the election, but there are also enough ties between people in the Trump orbit and operatives of the Putin regime that there are grounds to believe that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russia’s hacking of the election.

"Transparently, the aim is to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s election victory.
Finally, the third prong, without the support of which the stool would collapse: the impression that the FBI has been feverishly investigating what is said to be the Trump campaign’s collusion in what is said to be the Russian hacking of the election. This reporting is designed to get you saying to yourself: “Why would there be such a zealous investigation by FBI agents — in addition to several other intelligence and law-enforcement agents — unless there really were grave reasons to believe the shocking election-hacking conspiracy narrative?' ” . . .

Democrats, Hollywood, Academia and the MSM: the anti-Trump axis

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Channeling Freud: What Do Trump Haters Want?  . . . "A sympathetic friend commented:” I don’t consider him legitimate, he is just a criminal mob leader…. and mid-term elections should decimate pubs in Congress. His unpopularity means little of his agenda will be done.”

"By her reasoning, Trump’s presidency is illegitimate because she considers him illegitimate and mid-term elections will decimate Republicans in Congress. Fanciful thinking, considering that Republicans decimated Democrats in Congress in 2012 and 2016." . . . Read more.

Thomas Lifson: Are the Democrats scrambling for a fall guy on the wiretap of Trump campaign?  . . . "All skillful criminals (the ones that stay out of jail for the big crimes) understand the need for a fall guy.

"Which brings me to something truly extraordinary: an attorney general, just weeks out of office, posted a video calling for “marching”, “blood” and “death.' ”

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. . "Clarice Feldman suggested that the denials of any knowledge of wiretapping by James Comey and James Clapper leave lovely Loretta Lynch exposed. Somebody gave the nod. And met secretly with Bill Clinton in her priavte jet at Phoenix Airport.

"So what does the barely-former AG do?  She plays the race card." . . .

Snopes Caught Playing Defense For Democrats Who Sat During Navy SEAL Tribute

Daily Caller

"Mythbusting website Snopes got caught pushing a misleading fact-check that offered cover for Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who remained seated during the second standing ovation for Carryn Owens, the widow of deceased Navy SEAL Ryan Owens.

"First, the facts.

"Carryn Owens received two standing ovations during President Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night. It was during the second, longer ovation (which lasted for a full two minutes) that Ellison and Wasserman Schultz remained seated." . . .
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"Snopes, which is staffed with a solid lineup of leftists, used the fact that Ellison and Wasserman Schultz stood and clapped during the first standing ovation as reason to declare it “false” that they remained seated during the second standing ovation, which they clearly did. (As John Sexton at HotAir points out, Snopes significantly revised their “fact-check” without any sort of editor’s note, contrary to journalistic standards.)"

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Tucker Carlson

From Hot Air: Snopes revises misleading fact check on the standing ovation for Carryn Owens

OY VEY! Iconic BRAWNY Paper Towel Guy Now a CHICK?!

Debbie Schlussel
Brawny Goes From This . . .

"Now that up is down, right is left, mentally ill (transgendered) men are allowed to compete as women in beauty pageants and use chick’s bathrooms, anything goes. So, we knew idiocy like this was coming. Yes, the iconic Brawny paper towel man is now a woman.

. . . "To This . . ."

File this under American Silliness.

CIA, DOJ Sued Over Leaks of Classified Info About Former NSA Flynn

Free Beacon 

"The CIA and Departments of Justice and Treasury are being sued by a prominent legal organization for their role in leaking highly classified material as part of an effort to undermine the credibility of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to an announcement.

"Judicial Watch, known for its role in exposing former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, announced on Monday that it has sued several federal agencies for information related to Flynn's discussions with Russian officials before he officially entered the White House.
Flynn was forced to resign from the White House for apparently misleading President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the substance of these conversations.

"However, the Washington Free Beacon and multiple other news outlets have reported on a campaign by former Obama administration officials and loyalists to spread highly classified information in a bid to handicap the Trump administration." . . .

What Trump Supporters Can Do to Help

Rush Limbaugh

. . . "RUSH: Okay. You need to let these members of Congress know, I don’t care if it’s McCaskill, if it’s Emanuel Meat Cleaver, I don’t care who it is, you need to tell them and you need to get all your friends to tell them that there’s nothing they can do, that you are with Trump to the end. Because all they’ve got is trying to separate you who voted for Trump and support Trump, separate you from him. ‘Cause he’s got no other support base, as you’ve correctly identified. The Republicans in Congress just do not seem to be carrying around the glow of victory. Does it appear like they are to you?

"CALLER: No.

"RUSH: No. It doesn’t. And I think that one of the desires is, on the part of establishment Washingtonians, is that after so much time goes by, that you Trump supporters are just gonna get tired and abandon him or just give up and not care because nothing’s changing even after this election. And I think the one thing you all can do is demonstrate however you do it that you are with Trump, that you’re not wavering, that this is not causing you to weaken or lose resolve in any way, shape, manner, or form. You’re never gonna be able to change the media, if that was gonna be your next question. I’m just assuming it was." . . .

Those peace-loving, tolerant Obama/ Hillary supporters

Today the lynch mobs are organized by Obama and Michelle, who have been joined by Valerie Jarrett, living in their home to be at the very center of things. Today's lynch mobs have been picked and trained by George Soros front groups. The mobs are mostly ignorant adolescents, led by today's agitators. This is all standard operating procedure on the totalitarian left. 

James Lewis  "Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. The interests of the whole revolution demand such actions ... You must make an example of these people. 

(1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. 
(2) Publish their names. 
(3) Seize all their grain. 
(4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. 

Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so. 
Reply saying you have received and carried out these instructions. 
Yours, Lenin." 

"Thus did V.I. Lenin command leftist mobs in 1918 to be whipped up by his Bolshevik organizers. Mob agitation and propaganda (agit-prop) became a major attack strategy of the radical Left in Russia, picking innocent targets to hang and destroy by propaganda. This is also what George Soros witnessed in in Budapest, when Nazi-incited mobs killed Jews and put them on cattle cars for the death camps. Soros sold the furniture of deported Jews to begin building his fortune. He has said "it was the happiest time of my life."
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"You will never understand today's rage on the left, or its real effort to overthrow American constitutional government, if you do not understand lynch mobs -- KKK, Leninist, Soros-sponsored, and Obama-controlled. 

"Do your homework and you may save your country. Ignore it and try to find a better place to live."