{"id":177170,"date":"2019-12-04T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/04\/they-dont-make-minions-like-they-used-to\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:37:00","slug":"they-dont-make-minions-like-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/04\/they-dont-make-minions-like-they-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"They Don’t Make Minions Like They Used To"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>It looks like the Connecticut prosecutor that William Barr chose to trump (pun not intended) up charges against the US State Security Apparatus has been able to find evidence that the investigations of Russian election meddling were evidence of a deep state conspiracy<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Let me be clear, there is evidence that the Russians were involved in the 2016 Presidential election on a level not seen since Winston Churchill and British intelligence meddled in the 1940 election.<\/p>\n

That being said, the election wasn’t won the the Russians, or even by Trump, it was lost<\/b> by Hillary Clinton, her egregiously incompetent campaign, and the stunningly inept Democrat Party establishment.<\/p>\n

Still, in the fever dreams of the right wing, there is still a vast conspiracy of the deep state that is implacably opposed to the modern Jesus that is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Bullsh%$:
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The prosecutor handpicked by Attorney General William P. Barr to scrutinize how U.S. agencies investigated President Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign said he could not offer evidence to the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general to support the suspicions of some conservatives that the case was a setup by American intelligence, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s office contacted U.S. Attorney John Durham, the prosecutor Barr personally tapped to lead a separate review of the 2016 probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, the people said. The inspector general also contacted several U.S. intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n

Among Horowitz\u2019s questions: whether a Maltese professor who interacted with a Trump campaign adviser was actually a U.S. intelligence asset deployed to ensnare the campaign, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the inspector general\u2019s findings have not been made public.<\/p>\n

But the intelligence agencies said the professor was not among their assets, the people said. And Durham informed Horowitz\u2019s office that his investigation had not produced any evidence that might contradict the inspector general\u2019s findings on that point.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

Trump and his allies have relentlessly criticized the FBI probe, which was taken over by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, as a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and pushed for investigations of those who launched it. They have been eagerly anticipating the release of Horowitz\u2019s report in hopes the watchdog with a nonpartisan reputation might validate their attacks. <\/p>\n

Barr told CBS News in May that some of the facts he had learned about the Russia case \u201cdon\u2019t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.\u201d He declined to be more specific. In response to recent reports about Barr\u2019s skepticism about the forthcoming inspector general report, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement that the watchdog\u2019s investigation \u201cis a credit to the Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Horowitz\u2019s draft report concludes that political bias did not taint how top FBI officials running the investigation handled the case, people familiar with the matter said. But it details troubling misconduct that Trump and his allies are likely to emphasize as they criticize the bureau. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t think that this will prevent Barr from lying about this.<\/p>\n

Lying about the results of investigations in order to protect the President, whether it be Trump or GHW Bush, is kind of his secret super power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like the Connecticut prosecutor that William Barr chose to trump (pun not intended) up charges against the US State Security Apparatus has been able to find evidence that the investigations of Russian election meddling were evidence of a deep state conspiracy. Let me be clear, there is evidence that the Russians were involved …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,387,407,526,374,405],"class_list":["post-177170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}