A
bit more information has emerged from the John Durham investigation into Russiagate (or “Spygate,”as it is known
hereabouts).
This is due to what is likely a leak
from one or more of the targets to their loyal propagandists at CNN.
(In the article, the reporters do their best to
downgrade the scandal they fanned for years as no more than a trivial “dirty
trick” that all campaigns do. There’s a well-known word for that
adapted into the English language.)
The import of these leaks is usually to soften the impact on the
target(s), but it also gives us another indication Durham is still active.
In this instance, more subpoenas have
been issued, including some to Perkins Coie. That’s the Democratic National
Committee’s and Hillary Clinton’s law firm that only a few weeks ago
defenestrated—for reasons unspecified, but we can guess— one of Hillary’s
principal lawyers, Mark Elias.
The other Clinton campaign lawyer,
Michael Sussman, has already been charged with lying to the FBI on the matter
of alleged Trump links to the Russian Alpha Bank, ties that turned out to be
non-existent.
This time, however, we learned that “Tech Executive-1” in the Sussman
indictment is Rodney Joffe, a
rather distinguished cybersecurity expert, but not in this case because he was
apparently involved with the same attempted deception.
Mr. Joffe was evidently no fan of
Donald Trump. How far he took his enmity we shall see as this plays out.
Or we won’t. Therein lies the problem.
Many are worried that Durham will only take the investigation so far and then
peter out.
A real Russiagate investigation has myriad possible targets with very
famous names, some of the most famous, in
fact. Yet negativism about the results is everywhere in conservative circles
with some justification.
When then AG William Barr gave Durham
his brief, he was quoted in The Hill (March
2020) as follows:
“Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he does not
expect a criminal investigation of former President Obama or former Vice
President Joe Biden to result from the
probe undertaken by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
“Based on the information I have today,
I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of
either man,” Barr told reporters at the Justice Department. ‘Our concern over
potential criminality is focused on others.’”
Sounds pretty weak, doesn’t it, with some people, too big to be
investigated, surrounded by a cordon sanitaire.
Yet rumor has it already that Jake
Sullivan is under suspicion in the Alpha Bank matter, at the least. That’s
remarkably close to Biden as Sullivan is his National Security Advisor, one of
the most powerful positions in the country (cf. Henry Kissinger), as we have
seen, to our national misfortune, during the Afghanistan debacle.
How justified is that suspicion of
Sullivan? Paul Sperry wrote in Real Clear Investigations:
“The indictment states that Sussmann,
as well as the cyber experts recruited for the operation, ‘coordinated with
representatives and agents of the Clinton campaign with regard to the data and
written materials that Sussmann gave to the FBI and the media.’ One of those
campaign agents was Sullivan, according to emails Durham obtained.”
Biden himself was said to have recommended the ancient and hardly-used
Logan Act—how he would even have known about it is worth finding out, but
anyway…—in an attempt to punish Gen. Michael Flynn during an oft-discussed, but
never fully revealed, Oval Office meeting at the tail end (Jan. 5, 2017) of the
Obama administration.
That meeting itself, emailed about by Susan
Rice weeks after it took place seemingly to provide Obama
presidential deniability, is even more worthy of exploration—or is it off
limits as per William Barr? We don’t know.
Yes, there is plenty of reason to be
skeptical. The Sullivan matter has barely been discussed in
the mainstream media, even though the possible miscreant is the National
Security Advisor.
Is everything being sent down the
memory hole? Who exactly is to blame in all this? We don’t know that either,
though we have guesses about that too.
But it is imperative we must ultimately know. Durham must carry his
investigation through to the end, because Russiagate quite clearly marked the
beginning of the end of our democratic republic as we knew it.
All the malfeasances that have occurred
since from the endless COVID lockdowns to Afghanistan to the open border to the
violence in our streets and the relentless propaganda and bizarre arrests
surrounding Jan. 6, not to mention the 2020 election itself, point back to it,
relate to it, in one way or another.
None of these events would have
happened the way they did without it. Some would not have happened at all.
Russiagate was a crime whose extent and import dwarfed Watergate and
made that supposed scandal, subject of a Hollywood movie though it is, barely
as important, by comparison, as shoplifting at a 7-11.
Yet Nixon and the others paid, badly.
Hardly anyone has been punished here so far beyond what has amounted to slaps
on the wrists.
So what do we do? Do we sit back
passively, maybe adding a few snipes here and there, and let Durham do his job,
hoping for the best?
I say no. We all have a role to play.
Durham is a man like the rest of us. Consciously or unconsciously, if he knows
we’re watching, he’s going to behave in a different manner than if he thinks
we’re lulled to sleep.
Be as active as possible in talking and
lobbying about this. You don’t have to be a so-called “elite” to do this or be
an anchorman on ABC. You just have to be a concerned citizen, an honest man or
woman. Keep talking about it to friend and foe. Show up with a sign at an
inconvenient (for them) place. Put it on the internet, text to everyone you
know or can think of. Discuss it on Signal and Telegraph. Never let Russiagate
be forgotten. Put it out there in the zeitgeist and keep it there.
The mainstream/legacy media isn’t going to do it. They will obfuscate
as much as possible. We have to do it. It’s up to us. If we don’t, we have no
grounds for complaint when it goes down the memory hole—and with it our
country.
Two things are of paramount importance
to us going forward if we want to save our republic, this full explication of
what happened during the Trump-Russia affair, including everyone responsible
being properly punished, so we are sure as we can be it will never happen
again, and genuine integrity for our broken elections.
Work on that too. Many already are. The
two go hand in hand.