Thursday, May 30, 2019

The Dog That Didn't Bark in the Night: Mueller corruption edition

In his recent speech Mueller said that he'd been tasked to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But his report shows that that's not what he investigated.

One very large example of potential Russian interference in the 2016 election is a matter of public record but Mueller didn't even look at it; Russia supplying Hillary with fake dirt on Trump that was used to enable Obama to enlist the entire US Intelligence Community(IC) to spy on the Trump campaign.

Thanks to the diligent work of Rep. Nunes we know that Hillary paid Russians for what turned out to be lies about Trump.  Given that the Russians she paid--through a British ex spy--are anonymous we don't know if they were working for Putin and supplying disinformation to attack the Trump campaign and to put Hillary in Putin's debt.

There are however reasons to believe that's the case.  The likelihood that tens of highly places sources in Russia would communicate through third parties with Steele--Steele's cover had been blown and he couldn't safely go to Russia-- without the knowledge of Putins secret police is rather low.  Also the idea that Russians would put their necks on the line by helping Hillary, if in fact Putin's policy was to help Trump, strains credulity.

Given that we now know that the Steele dossier was the only evidence presented to justify a FISA warrant which enabled the Obama administration to spy on the Trump campaign it's clear that if the information in it was Russian disinformation it was the biggest example of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Nixon ended up resigning because some of his operatives, without his approval, broke into a Democrat campaign headquarters trying to find information about the Democrats strategy.  To this day Democrats say that was the most horrible thing ever done by a President.

But we now know that Obama et al did far worse. The bungling bunglers of the Nixon came up empty handed and they weren't government employees.  Obama managed to weaponize the entire IC, the FBI, and the DOJ to do what Nixon's burglars did; spy on the opposition. What's more frightening; a few inept employees of the President breaking into an opposing campaigns office or the entire Federal Government being tasked with breaking into an opposing campaigns conversations?

If the entire abuse of power by Obama was enabled by disinformation from Russia in the form of the Steele dossier it would be far more significant than a few hundred thousand dollars of social media ads purchased by Russia.

If Mueller was really interested in Russian interference, rather than nullifying the 2016 election, why didn't he even look at what Hillary did?

But it gets worse. One of the "might have been" obstruction issues raised by Mueller was that supposedly emails related to a meeting between Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer were concealed.

Which means that while Mueller completely ignored a Hillary employee contacting tens of Russian sources about dirt on Trump he is complaining that concealing emails about one Trump employee meeting with one Russian is a crime.  Even worse it's agreed to by all that Trump Jr left the meeting with no dirt on Hillary while Hillary certainly got her money's worth out of the Steele dossier.

The very fact that Mueller never even looked at the Steele dossiers provenance to see if it was disinformation tells us a lot about the real nature of his "investigation".

Mueller's ignoring the Hillary aspect of collusion is the dog that didn't bark in the night.  It shows that Mueller is friendly with Hillary and hostile towards Trump. That explains why Mueller didn't bark at Hillary's apparent collusion.


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