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Today’s post stays on the POLITICAL sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium and continues yesterdays theme of the coup d’etat that is being implemented by the “deep state” trying to overthrow the legally and legitimately elected President of the United States.
The reason that I am focusing on these developments is that they are the ground zero of the fight not only for maintaining the Republic, but for maintaining whatever is left of Western Civilization, a civilization grounded in Natural Law and whose philosophical foundations are squarely centered based in Catholicism.
Now to the subject at hand…
So my observations from that which was transpiring yesterday were not that far off from what others were sensing. Among the others was the former Democratic congressman from Ohio Dennis Kucinich. I have put up his interview on Fox News from last night as confirmation.
As for the state of play today, I think that the coup d’etat organized by the Establishment has been short-circuited for the time being. This was the effect of both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees subpoenaing ALL of the materials left behind by the former FBI Director James Comey.
Furthermore, another YUGELY positive development was the appointment of the Special Council to investigate the FBI investigation. Below is the post from Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse that lays out the chronology that will have to be part of any independent investigation.
THIS IS OBJECTIVE REALITY!
Aside, in the humble opinion of your even more humble blogger, Sundance is the best analyst of all things political that I have come across to date. But I digress… This is a major development and should negate any extra-governmental and extra-judicial moves that the “deep state” could have enacted to remove a sitting President of the United States of America after only 118 days in office.
Aside, you can just imagine what a threat The President is to the status quo if they are moving this fast….
And finally. What is needed to be stated here is that the importance for why we need to pray for this presidency is that as Catholics, we have no other choice. Furthermore, God has not given us a choice between more better and less better options. Actually, God has not given us a choice what do ever. So we are stuck with what we have.
On a personal note, I like President Donald J. Trump. And I like him a lot…
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Brilliant – Justice Department Appoints Robert Mueller
To Investigate 2016 Russian Election Interference…
Brilliant move.
…”Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it”….
Tremors tonight in the Deep Swamp. The deep cleaning machine just got fired up. Watch how quiet and tenuously supportive the Democrats and their Left-Wing media cohorts are with this announcement.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to justice to oversee the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The appointment of a special counsel is excellent because it means Mueller has wide latitude to look into all of the 2016 Russian Conspiracy narratives the political opposition to Donald Trump has postulated.
Deputy AG Rosenstein did the appointing because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the ‘muh Russia conspiracy’, collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials. The results here will be splendid for the Trump administration because there is no ‘there’ there in the collusion narrative. The White House approved of Rosenstein’s decision.
This opens up an independent investigative path of: ♦The DNC leaking (Seth Rich), and ♦The impetus of the “Russian Dossier“, and ♦The Obama White House “surveillance and leaking” (Susan Rice/Evelyn Farkas), all the way to ♦John Podesta, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and the Obama White House.
Remember, FBI Director James Comey specifically stated (March 20th) that he intentionally withheld notification of congress for the FBI counterintelligence operation that began in July 2016 and was premised on the ‘vast russian conspiracy theory‘.
Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice only needed to confirm one aspect of the intelligence unmasking story for all of the dots to connect. She made that confirmation within two minutes of her interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
From the MSNBC transcript, emphasis mine:
Susan Rice @00:51 – …”Let me explain how this works. I was a National Security Adviser, my job is to protect the American people and the security of our country. That’s the same as the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director.; and every morning, to enable us to do that, we receive – from the intelligence community – a compilation of intelligence reports that the IC, the intelligence community, has selected for us –on a daily basis– to give us the best information as to what’s going on around the world.”
Note, right there. STOP. No need to go any further. There it is – Susan Rice is describing the Presidents’ Daily Briefing, aka the “PDB”. She continues:
“I received those reports, as did other officials, and there were occasions when I would receive a report in which, uh, a ‘U.S Person’ was referred to. Name, uh, not provided, just ‘U.S. Person’.
And sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance in the report – and assess it’s significance, it was necessary to find out or request, who that U.S. official was.”
This is the important detail. Susan Rice was requesting unmasking of U.S. person’s names, which she moments later describes as “U.S. official[s]”, to understand the context and importance for the intelligence being given within the Presidents’ Daily Brief.
Under President Obama’s communication and intelligence directives, the Presidential Daily Briefing was widely shared with dozens of administration persons in various agencies.
From a Washington Post story explaining the PDB and Obama’s use therein. (again, emphasis mine):
(Washington Post) […] It’s the president’s book. And indeed, it is tailored to each president’s individual needs. CIA officers in 1961 designed what was initially known as the President’s Intelligence Checklist specifically for John F. Kennedy’s tastes, using punchy words and phrases while avoiding clunky bureaucratic language and annoying classification markings. That checklist evolved into the President’s Daily Brief in late 1964 , as the agency reformatted and retitled the book of secrets to appeal to Lyndon Johnson’s preferences. While the name has stuck, the content and format have continued to evolve. President Obama receives his in digital form and reads it on a tablet .
But while through most of its history the document has been marked “For the President’s Eyes Only,” the PDB has never gone to the president alone. The most restricted dissemination was in the early 1970s, when the book went only to President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who was dual-hatted as national security adviser and secretary of state.
In other administrations, the circle of readers has also included the vice president, the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, along with additional White House staffers. By 2013, Obama’s PDB was making its way to more than 30 recipients, including the president’s top strategic communications aide and speechwriter, and deputy secretaries of national security departments. (link)
The post article was written December 26th 2016, after the election – and was presumably written due to post-election media reports the intelligence community had concerns over sharing information with President-elect Trump; this was the preferred, and false, anti-Trump narrative for a few weeks. I digress.
The important aspect two fold: #1) the PDB is electronic viewable by POTUS Obama on his iPad; and #2) how many people were getting the PDB information 30+, against the backdrop of Rice’s admitted unmasking of names within the raw intelligence for PDB user comprehension.
There you can see that “more than 30 recipients” would be privy to the unmasked information within the PDB as an outcome of the protocols instituted by the White House and President Obama’s National Security Advising team.
From Rice’s MSNBC interview the departments of “State (John Kerry et al) and Defense (Ash Carter et al)”, along with CIA (Director John Brennan), NSA (Director Mike Rogers) and ODNI James Clapper, all participated.
As such, and as outlined by the Washington Post on distribution, deputies within Defense and State, along with “other national security departments” would have access to the unmasked PDB information.
Here’s where you realize within those “more than 30 recipients” you find people like Secretary Hillary Clinton, Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy and various high level officials in the Office of the Secretary and its Executive Secretariat (S/ES) past and present. This is also where the Deputy Secretaries of Defense like Dr. Evelyn Farkas come into play. All of these officials would be accessing, or at least have access to, the President’s Daily Brief, and the unmasked intelligence within it.
When you recognize how widely the Obama administration disseminated the PDB you begin to realize how easy it was for any foreign entity, including the Russians, to have access to the EXACT SAME daily intelligence brief as President Obama and his National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
An additional character within this wide-dissemination construct would be John Podesta. Remember, after Hillary Clinton stepped down from Secretary of State, she inserted, with Obama’s approval, John Podesta within the White House Senior Advisory staff to keep a communications line open with direct information. (As pictured below) Podesta remained in that position throughout 2013, 2014 and into 2015.
Having a known entity like John Podesta with access to the PDB and the unmasked intelligence therein, puts the appropriate highlight on the risk carried by Russian hacking into Podesta’s electronic communications, stored data and email correspondence.
Is it any surprise Russian, or any foreign intelligence group, would then be making attempts to enter the unsecured private email accounts of Secretary Hillary Clinton and her top level staff?
And John Podesta is only one of numerous people who would have access to this PDB information. All of which would potentially be at risk of being read daily by enterprising hackers, or various spies, who would glean a gobsmacking level of information by actually reading the same unmasked intelligence as the President of the United States.
Oh, the angles are almost limitless.
Not only would President Obama and his entire NSC team be gathering operational political intelligence on their political adversaries to include President-Elect Donald Trump and his transition team, but they would also be gathering intelligence and unmasking it on other U.S. Officials…..
…..That same unmasked and widespread surveillance, under the auspices of intelligence gathering, was then shared with dozens of administration officials -beyond the likes of the National Security Council, Asst. Defense Secretary Farkas and politicos like John Podesta- which means it was more than likely reviewed, via hacking etc., by our most critical national enemies.
Follow that trail to where it leads and you’ll likely discover the real story that encompasses the motive to create the ‘vast Russian conspiracy‘.
It only took Susan Rice two minutes on MSNBC to highlight the entire motive.
Another March 2nd MSNBC interview takes a new context:
“I was urging my former colleagues, and, and frankly speaking the people on the Hill [Democrat politicians], it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can – get as much intelligence as you can – before President Obama leaves the administration.”
Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left; so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, um, that the Trump folks – if they found out HOW we knew what we knew about their, the Trump staff, dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods; meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence.
So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia; so then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were also trying to help get information to the Hill. … That’s why you had the leaking”.
“if they found out HOW we knew … that they would try to compromise those sources and methods; meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence “,
Indeed they would Dr. Farkas. Indeed they would.
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To Investigate 2016 Russian Election Interference…
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Halina said:
Here we go again…..ad nausea…..
Obama: To investigate ‘his birth certificate’…….
Hillary: To investigate ‘her emails’……….
Trump: To investigate 2016 Russian election interference…
Ave Maria…….!
USA in Twilight!
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Mark Thomas said:
S. Armaticus said…” I hear that Newt Gingrich will come in as chief of staff. This should help immensely.”
Hello, S.A.
S.A., is your above comment serious? Thank you.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
Yes. Trump will finally have a chief of staff who will not undermine him.
Please recall Newt’s Contract With America. It was responsible for most of the “decade of greed” under Bubba. It was revolutionary in that it was the first time that Congress could not exempt itself from any law that it passed.
That was revolutionary, and the “deep state” establishment has never forgotten nor forgiven.
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Mark Thomas said:
Hello, S.A.. Thank you for your reply.
S.A., I am surprised that you favor Newt Gingrich as chief of staff.
I realize that differences of opinions exists among right-wingers. You favor Newt Gingrich as chief of staff. There are folks on the right who share your confidence in Mr. Gingrich.
However, there are a great many right-wingers who detest Newt Gingrich. They have denounced him for years as a “phony…RINO…Washington-insider…”
There are Catholic right-wingers who denounce him as a “Novus Ordo phony.” (I don’t. But there are more than a few Catholic right-wingers who question Mr. Gingrich’s commitment to the Faith.)
Influential right-wingers such as Michael Savage and Mark Levin have denounced Mr. Gingrich as a RINO fraud.
Michael Savage, 2016 A.D.
Michael Savage declared that he would not vote for Donald Trump should Mr. Trump have selected Newt Gingrich as his V.P. running mate.
Michael Savage declared the following: “Newt Gingrich is as corrupt as the entire Democratic party.”
Mark Levin has denounced Mr. Gingrich as a “pseudo-conservative.”
S.A., a massive outcry against President Trump would erupt amongst right-wingers should Mr. Trump tap Mr. Gingrich to service as Chief of Staff.
If anything, President Trump’s “drain the swamp” promise would be exposed as a lie should Mr. Trump tap Mr. Gingrich, a true Washington insider, as Chief of Staff.
That said, the “drain the swamp” promise/slogan is hollow…total nonsense. Nobody in his right mind believed that Donald Trump (or, for that matter, anybody) could possibly “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C.
Nevertheless, even though the “drain the swamp” promise/slogan is garbage, a great many right-wingers would trash President Trump for having tapped another Washington insider to serve in his administration.
S.A., with the likes of Ann Coulter, as well as additional right-wingers having expressed concerns about President Trump, the last thing Mr. Trump needs is to alienate more and more right-wingers.
That would definitely be the case should President Trump tap Newt Gingrich as Chief of Staff.
“Chief of Staff” Newt Gingrich would be attacked daily by a great many right-wingers.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
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S. Armaticus said:
Hi:
Attacks President Trump can handle, what he is angling for is to identify who is leaking and bringing them to justice.
And the leaking is coming from the #NeverTrumpers and the Obama holdovers.
OMT Newt has been with President Trump from the very beginning. So he has skin in the game.
I also think one can look at the Trump Presidency as the extention of the Gingrich Speakership.
But that is just me…
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TLM said:
ALSO…….After what we witnessed during this campaign, I CANNOT understand for the life of me WHY anyone with an ounce of brainpower would believe much of what was ‘reported’ in the media. I don’t know if most people realize this, but the media is bought and paid for by the globalists.
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S. Armaticus said:
The thing I don’t understand is why the President is letting all his known enemies get close to him. I understand Machiavelli’s old maxim but I just don’t understand what the point is.
But like Sundance, I think The President knows what he is doing. He is much smarter then those around him. Hope his intelligence gives him the edge.
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TLM said:
Yes, I believe you are correct……FOR THE TIME BEING, the deep state has been at least compromised. Oh, they are just going regroup, trust me. No way has he stunted them completely. This kind of attack will continue. I often wonder if Mr. Trump, as of yet, fully realizes WHO he’s up against. If not, he is surely coming around to that full realization.
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Michael Dowd said:
Now, hopefully The Donald can keep himself focused on doing the job he was hired to do and let the investigations proceed in an orderly way.
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S. Armaticus said:
It takes the Russian farce off the table. The leaks will still come. Just say a Reuters piece about emails between “Russians” and the Trump campaign. But right after the sentence, it was qualified as “no crime occurred”.
But I think other fronts will open. Problem is that the President wanted to unite the Party and let in a bunch of subversives into the White House. Now he has a leaking problem. I hear that Newt Gingrich will come in as chief of staff. This should help immensely.
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Michael Dowd said:
Gingrich sound like a good choice as the ultimate insider. He knows how to fight against Donald’s enemies which seems like all the Democrats and half the Republicans. I think Donald should Newt handle the inside game while he spends his time rallying his supporters.
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S. Armaticus said:
Perfect choice.
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