As Summer Begins – Uncovering the Deep State that Exists in Washington, D.C.
This afternoon, Wednesday June 20th, with the occurrence of the semi-annual solstice, Summer officially begins for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere of this good Earth, while Winter begins for much of South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and all of the other locales “down under.”
With the change of seasons, emerges an uncovering of a Deep State that does, in fact, exist in Washington, D.C.
Oh, we have suspected for years and perhaps even decades, that a shadow government- deeply entrenched, unelected, and all together unaccountable- wields an enormous amount of un-constitutional rule over our federal government. A “Deep State,” which transcends the administrative, legislative and judiciary balance of powers outlined in the United States Constitution, has long been on the whispered lips of fair-minded observers, otherwise fearful of the retribution that would attend to such revelation being made public.
Nevertheless, the “Deep State” exists and its uncovering was cemented in the release of the Inspector General’s Report on the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation and how that investigation was handled by the FBI and Justice Department, in late 2015 and throughout much of 2016.
Appearing before oversight committees in both the House and the Senate this week, Inspector General Michael Horowitz- the man heading the probe into how the FBI and Justice Department handled this investigation answered questions on the details and substance of his report, and the conclusions he arrived upon in summarizing the report.
Essentially, the 560-page report was replete with instance upon instance of procedural and personal bias expressed by Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and other top-ranking FBI and Justice Department employees who were in charge of both the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation and the subsequent investigation into allegations of Trump/Russia Collusion, during the 2016 campaign. The report’s findings, though in summation fell short of determining an absolute politically-motivated reason for James Comey’s decision to exonerate Mrs. Clinton, nevertheless details multiple instances of bias on the part of investigators, calling into question their base motives in how they handled the investigation.
The many texts appearing on government-issued phones and other smart devices reveals a hatred and scorn for then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, that borders on the psychotic. Yet, these are the people who not only were appointed to take charge of an investigation into documented crimes committed by Hillary Clinton and her associates, but then were appointed to launch an investigation into alleged Russian/Trump collusion and were subsequently appointed by Robert Mueller to be part of his own investigation into same.
What also became clear in the IG report, and in the Horowitz hearings on Capitol Hill, is that corruption in the FBI and Justice Department goes well beyond these miscreants, with references to concert and sporting event tickets, vacation packages, golf outings and dinner invitations routinely being extended to FBI agents by major media outlets and news organizations, in exchange for leaking information on these and other FBI investigations.
Even more disconcerting is the fact that the Justice Department, effectively being headed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the wake of Attorney General Jeff Session’ recusal from these investigations, and the FBI under Director Christopher Wray, have wantonly and repeatedly refused to produce subpoenaed documents to appropriate Congressional oversight committees, all in a bogus attempt to justify their non-compliance under dubious and ridiculous claims of protecting national security. In fact, there are no national security concerns in hiding from the public the extent to which the “Deep State” is entrenched, other than the fact that it blows the lid off of a shadow government which believes itself to be above the law and exempt from Constitutional restraints on how they use their offices to control, surveil and subvert political and legal processes in a country founded on quite the opposite.
Case in point:
On August 8th, 2016, FBI Attorney and Mueller Investigation Team Member Lisa Page sent a text to her extra-marital lover FBI Agent Peter Strzok, saying, “(Trump is) not ever going to become president, right? Right ?!?” This particular text message was not revealed to Congress until May of this year…disturbing enough. Yet, as incredulous as it sounds, Strzok’s reply to this text message was not revealed until this week, with the issuance of the IG report, where he answered, “No. No, he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
This is perhaps the most egregious example of personal bias expressed between these two, but it is the actions of Mr. Strzok and Mrs. Page before, during and after the Clinton e-mail investigation which places the above exchange between himself and Page in context of criminal collaboration with Hillary Clinton, prior to that investigation’s conclusion, as well as criminal bias against Donald Trump even before the investigation into Russian collusion began.
This was revealed when in late September, 2016, Strzok and his boss, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, sat on revelations that top-secret documents appeared on Anthony Weiner’s laptop proving what constitutes criminal espionage on the part of Hillary Clinton, while driving headfirst into the Trump/Russian allegations both before and after the election. Ironically, their efforts to delay revelation of this discovery resulted in James Comey’s October 28th 2016 letter to Congress, saying that the investigation into Clinton’s illegal use of a private e-mail server had been re-opened, due to new revelations coming to light.
Following the election of Donald Trump, the effort to prevent his election by Strzok, Page and others transcended into an effort to sabotage Trump’s presidency, and their efforts to do so led to James Comey’s illegal leaking of classified conversations with Trump and other such documents, and whose firing subsequently resulted in the intentional appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May of 2017, launching his own investigation into Trump/Russia collusion. Among Mueller’s first appointments to his own team were none other than Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
So, the entire sordid Mueller investigation was inherently corrupt, both at its very inception and for several months following, as it was only several months later when Mueller fired both Strzok and Page from his investigative team- a team entirely comprised of Clinton donors and supporters of her candidacy.
No politically-motivated reasons for James Comey to exonerate Hillary Clinton (something he had no authority to do in the first place)?
Yeah, right.
If all of this was merely a matter (as Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch prefers to refer) of covering up for crimes committed by Hillary Clinton, or an attempt to prevent Donald Trump’s election and effect his impeachment through fraudulent means, that would be bad enough.
Worse, we now know of an undeniable and irrefutable “Deep State” operating at the highest levels of our federal government, comprised of deeply entrenched, unelected, and all together unaccountable career officials who place themselves above and beyond our laws and our Constitution…
…and it will take a strong and incorruptible President, namely one Donald J. Trump, to drain the swamp as he has oft-promised, fire the lot of them and let the chips fall where they will.
This must end, or else the United States of America, as a sovereign, independent and free country will see its end.
-Drew Nickell, 20 June 2018
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