Power corrupts.
And before it corrupts, it commits incest.

Fusion GPS paid wife of top DOJ official to obtain information for fake Trump dossier that was used to order FISA wiretaps on Trump political campaign.

Cui Bono.

Democrat first principles at this time stand around two propositions:

1.The Russian "hacking" of the DNC website threatens the integrity of our election!!!

2. Illegal voting by non-citizens, dead people and felons does NOT threaten the integrity of our elections, racists!

It is hard to credit the first in light of the second.

Democrats oppose voter ID laws and, now, oppose even investigating whether there is voter fraud.

But, to be fair, it wouldn't have been politically expedient at a time when President Obama was making "being flexible after the election" with Russia the centerpiece of his foreign policy....

Obama speechwriter admits that Democrats were "a little off" in criticizing Romney's comments about Russia.


//Former Barack Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau admitted Democrats were wrong to criticize Mitt Romney's 2012 assessment of Russia as "our No. 1 geopolitical foe" during an episode of the liberal podcast "Pod Save America" Thursday.

As Russia has dominated headlines with its interference in the 20`6 election and the investigation into whether members of Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Kremlin, Democrats are being reminded of Romney's mocked statement in 2012 that Russia was the top geopolitical foe of the United States, citing its support of some of the world's worst actors.

Former Jeb Bush spokesman Tim Miller, a critic of Trump, appeared Thursday on "Pod Save America," which is hosted by a revolving group of former Obama aides. They discussed the recently reported meeting taken by Donald Trump Jr. with a Russian attorney last year, where he expected useful information on Hillary Clinton.

"That was one of our top complaints about ya'll's old boss, that he wasn't standing up to Russia where it was trying to undermine our influence everywhere in the world," Miller said. "The idea that you would take help from these guys is just mind-boggling."

"Look, I'm willing to say that in 2012 when we all scoffed at Mitt for saying that, gee, Russia was our No. 1 geopolitical foe, think we were a little off there," Favreau said, laughing.//

It's nice to laugh.

It almost seems that if these people didn't have double standards, they would have no standards.

Fake News.

CNN has aired 16,000 stories on Trump's alleged connection with Russia.

CNN producer admits that the story is "bullshit."



Think of them as Democrat operatives with press credentials.

It hasn't been a good week for CNN:

CNN fires three staffers for fake news stories about Trump.

For 60 years, Leftists were complacent while Russians conquered and enslaved Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and Poland and Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria and ran slave labor camps and engaged in political murders and committed genocide against Ukrainians, etc., etc.

We had to be realists and they we had to understand that they had good intentions, we were told by Leftists.

But hack into one unsecured DNC email system and it is time to go to war.

//ONE DAY AFTER her network joined the rest of corporate media in cheering for President Trump’s missile attack on Syria, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was back to regular business: seeing Russian collaboration with Trump at work.

It’s “impossible,” fellow anchor Lawrence O’Donnell told Maddow on April 7, to rule out that “Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week – so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he’s picked up over the past 24 hours.”

Maddow concurred, suggesting that only the FBI’s ongoing probe into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russian electoral interference will determine the truth. “Maybe eventually we’ll get an answer to that from [FBI Director] Jim Comey,” Maddow said.

The Washington Post noted that the “conspiracy theory” drew “derision from across the political spectrum.” But it was not out of place.

MSNBC, the country’s most prominent liberal media outlet, has played a key role in stoking the frenzy over Trump’s alleged involvement with Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential race — in lock step with the Democratic Party’s most avid partisans.//

Nice to know the priorities.

Connecting some dots.

Weaponizing the media.

//Regardless of how the government collected on Flynn, the leak was a felony and a violation of his civil rights.  But it was also a severe breach of the public trust. When I worked as an NSC staffer in the White House, 2005-2007, I read dozens of NSA surveillance reports every day. On the basis of my familiarity with this system, I strongly suspect that someone in the Obama White House blew a hole in the thin wall that prevents the government from using information collected from surveillance to destroy the lives of the citizens whose privacy it is pledged to protect.

The leaking of Flynn’s name was part of what can only be described as a White House campaign to hype the Russian threat and, at the same time, to depict Trump as Vladimir Putin’s Manchurian candidate.  On Dec. 29, Obama announced sanctions against Russia as retribution for its hacking activities.  From that date until Trump’s inauguration, the White House aggressively pumped into the media two streams of information: one about Russian hacking; the other about Trump’s Russia connection. In the hands of sympathetic reporters, the two streams blended into one.

A report that appeared the day after Obama announced the sanctions shows how.  On Dec. 30, the Washington Post reported on a Russian effort to penetrate the electricity grid by hacking into a Vermont utility, Burlington Electric Department.  After noting the breach, the reporters offered a senior administration official to speculate on the Russians’ motives.  Did they seek to crash the system, or just to probe it?

This infrastructure hack, the story continued, was part of a broader hacking campaign that included intervention in the election.  The story then moved to Trump: “He…has spoken highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite President Obama’s suggestion that the approval for hacking came from the highest levels of the Kremlin.”

The national media mimicked the Post’s reporting.  But there was a problem: the hack never happened.  It was a false alarm — triggered, it eventually became clear, by Obama’s hype.//

So, basically, Trump was right...

...again.

Maybe he wasn't "wiretapped" but his team was subjected to "electronic surveillance" and the product of that "electronic surveillance", which has NO INTELLIGENCE VALUE AND NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA, was WIDELY DISSEMINATED AMONG THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.

Why?

If there was no intelligence value, why?

It is a mystery, I guess.

It undoubtedly has nothing at all to do with the reason why the IRS audited conservatives.

But, hey, everybody!!!

Russians!!! Let's go to war!!!