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Monday, February 1, 2021

Briefly: FISA As Deep State Joke; Housekeeping

I'm embedding this excellent and important Maria Bartiromo interview from yesterday. Featured are Devin Nunes and Kash Patel--former federal prosecutor and defender, investigator for Nunes on the HPSCI, NSC official, and most recently a top official at DoD. 

The interview begins with the Clinesmith wrist-slap-a-doodle last Friday. For anyone who was less than appalled by Shipwreckedcrew's ill-informed and frankly absurd gaslighting of that travesty of justice, please listen to this interview. I've made my views known in comments: SWC either doesn't understand or misrepresents the nature of extensions of FISA warrants. Since these extensions authorize the collection of new data 'going forward' they are essentially new warrants--which is why each application for an extension must stand on its own and cannot merely reference the 'original' application. Any mistakes or omissions in the 'original' must be corrected and all new information made known to the FISC. To suggest, as SWC does, that Clinesmith's forgery only affected the final 'extension' but not the 'original' misconceives the nature of the whole process. It also ignores what I've stressed--the nature of Carter Page's probably 10 year long cooperation as an intelligence asset of the US government (both CIA and FBI) was known by all relevant FBI personnel before the 'original' FISA application was submitted. It was not fully disclosed and, in fact, the extent and nature of Page's cooperation was deliberately misrepresented--that was a lie to the FISC.

Now, however, we learn that the FISC--under the direction of John Robert's Obama-judge appointee--is openly in bed with the Russia Hoaxers and the Uniparty Resistance. That's the obvious takeaway from this interview, which gives a frankly dismaying picture of the demise of constitutional order in the United States. Listen and consider what's being said. That FISA has turned out to be a sick Deep State joke perpetrated on the American people and their republic is perhaps the least of what's now known.

One interesting omission from the discussion is the true role played by Bluto Barr and John Durham. It's possible that Maria held back because she's angling to maybe entice Barr to appear on her show. I doubt he'll do it. On that score, I've seen sundance's argument that Barr was an agent of a vast coverup from the beginning. I personally doubt that and believe that he simply blinked when push came to shove. I base that on Barr's public statements going back some years--including before his memo to Rosenstein. It's enough for me to understand that Barr betrayed his own oath of office, and then had the gall to accuse Trump of that offense--on the flimsiest of pretexts. Here's the interview:




On the housekeeping front, I need to make known that I'll be appearing in a documentary on the Hanssen spy case. Whether it's of interest will depend on your views on a number of topics. I was interviewed extensively for the documentary--like, perhaps four hours--but naturally have no clue what use will have been made of all that I had to say. Will it all amount to another hagiographical narrative? I can't tell you. The web site for the documentary is here--A Spy In The FBI--and includes a brief trailer in which I make a cameo appearance uttering the words 'ultimate betrayal' (and a few more if you listen carefully). If you watch the trailer you'll see why I have some reservations about the project (including the dramatization of salacious content). In my very lengthy interview I had absolutely nothing to say about that--I spoke only about work matters.

Here's the information I was provided:


A Spy in the FBI will premiere on the REELZ channel on Sunday, February 14th at 8:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm CT. REELZ is channel 692 HD on Verizon FIOS, channel 238 on DIRECTV, channel 299 on Dish Network, and channel 799 on AT&T U-verse. It's also available in HD on other cable systems nationwide.


I have no cable service so I won't be watching the show.

UPDATE: Read Angelo Codevilla's article today and, if you watch the documentary described above, decide whether you can discern any common elements:


How Our Oligarchy Crushes Terrorism

The FBI’s increasing preference for political action over bona fide investigations is part of its overall decadence—laziness, incompetence, and eagerness to integrate with the ruling class.


Obviously the US government must take some interest in "enemies foreign and domestic". In this American Imperial Age--in which oligarchical Big Money interests supported by the Big Media/Tech complex play such a dominant role--the question of who defines who those enemies are becomes fraught with interest. It also directly affects the health of our constitutional order. What to do about this situation--and, indeed whether anything can be done beyond informing and reforming our lives and those of others near to us--must occupy the thoughts of serious people.


14 comments:

  1. "The FBI is very good at finding people--scary good"

    I would add, "When they want to." I look forward to seeing the film.

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    1. "The FBI is very good at finding people--scary good"

      Except Antifa, who seem to be invisible. After hearing that the head of the Proud Boys was an FBI informant, and other situations where the FBI has been eager to be "helpful" (remember Garland, Tx), one wonders if Antifa is a DS creation, the organization/leadership/funding, not the idiot grunts.
      Tom S.

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    2. Not to put too fine a point on it, but: All summer, in city after city, ricks of brick and rafts of 2x4's were showing up, in locations utterly devoid of construction projects, in progress or proposed, 8-24 hrs before a riotous mob fortuitously storms past enroute to a targeted building or precinct and, despite dozens of traffic and security cameras in the area, not a single picture of a truck (which would have been required for transport), the unloading (which would have required a forklift), an order, or bill-of-ladening ever came to light. And this goes on night after night, for months. Yet, half a half-dozen old guys in Rubesville kick around a dumb idea over some beers and, lo and behold, within a couple of days an FBI informant is introducing them to an agent that claims to have just the explosives they need, ready made.

      Some things just do not compute.
      Tom S.

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  2. Good article - terrifying.

    And the gop Congress aided and abetted this...
    > FBI infiltrated dozens of local Tea Party groups

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  3. No, he protected the institution / power of the DOJ, including the FBI. He did the same thing with Ruby Ridge.

    > he simply blinked when push came to shove

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  4. Yeah, after uttering the words 'ultimate betrayal', the trailer has you referring to him having “had a plan all along”.

    Too bad that Codevilla shows no link to document his major charge, that the FBI “arrested Sullivan quietly, only under *pressure*”.
    "Follow the correct profile and... you can never be wrong."
    Should I guess that this trend there was well-established, by the time they teed off vs. Jewell?

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  5. OK. This calls for a fan letter. What fun to see you. I always try to envision the person writing. You don’t disappoint in any area. Now I’ll see and hear you as I read. Tried to record the documentary, but DirecTV stopped named programming at just the point where it will be aired on Valentine’s Day. Will keep trying...

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    1. Be sure to do a review--especially since I won't be seeing what they've done until they send me a dvd--and frankly, for several reasons, I'm not sure I'll ever watch it. There are things that aren't widely known. I spoke non-stop for something like four hours, covering a lot of ground.

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    2. I envision the Hollywood version Mark will be played by Mark Walberg, but bulked up a bit, and a Jack Reacher kinda persona. ;-).
      Tom S.

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    3. Funny how differently people “see characters” - in books, etc. Mark Wahlberg would be way down the list. To use my late Mother’s word, “too common”.

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  6. Well, I thought Val Kilmer too pretty and didn't want to go full Lee Marvin/Charles Bronson tough.
    Tom S.

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  7. I'm not going to condone SWCs poor showing on Clinesmith but I would say I expect many dozens of writers with editors to be tightening up on the "deep state" bashing.

    The GOP or GOPe as some are calling it has the purse strings of many publications.

    It may sound like a far fetched theory but I'm betting you will see a narrative control trend where many right based sites will be moving on quickly from anything related to the corrupted institutions.

    Gotta get people back to believing in the, GOP good, and DNC bad, game. Sprinkled with voter amnesia and mixed with the, voting for the lesser evil, jargon.

    I don't think many here will fall for it but a large percentage will.

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  8. Paul Sperry:

    TOP SECRET: FBI Director Christopher Wray is covering up, er, classifying at top levels, all documents referring to the "Crossfire Hurricane Fusion Center." He won't let Congress know what it was, where it was based or who was assigned to it

    https://mobile.twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1356429383968436230

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