Devin Nunes was put under investigation in 2017 for looking into abuse of foreign intelligence surveillance programs, including by Barack Obama's White House. New documents appear to vindicate him
Matt I cannot stress it enough - thank you for all of your hard work on this. Your efforts are necessary, important, and appreciated. You are doing a great service on behalf of and for the people.
Yes, yes, yes. As much as my eyes glaze over when I read this, please keep digging. I'm hoping in time you will be able to untangle this story and present it to those of us who do not have your encyclopedic mind.
As much as my stomach is turned "when I read this, please keep digging. I'm hoping in time you will be able to intangle this story" and ultimately tell us of these filthy perpetrators' conviction and sentencing to hard time!
No one has fallen on their sword yet. I have a feeling that Comey and Brennan will become the first scapegoats, and in the end all the evidence will point to Obama, and his puppetmaster George Soros, as the real villians.
Like you, I struggle to follow the many threads of this Russiagate matter.
In case it might help, I'll tell how I am sorting it out.
I see two main issues:
1. The abuse of government agencies to attempt to prevent Trump from getting elected president and then, when he was, to hinder his ability to act in that function. Things about the activities of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Obama (?), and their various underlings and other government employees fall into this issue. Maybe the lies spread by members of Congress fall under this, or could be considered a separate main issue.
2. The role of much of the press in spreading lies about Trump's connections to Russia, which furthered the aims of the actors in 1. This includes activities such as spreading the smears of Nunes described in the present article and squawking about Trump trusting Putin more than his own intelligence agencies after their 2018 Helsinki meeting (when 1 now suggests he was right).
Whatever "main issues" we come up with, we might be able to make a tree structure under them to sort all the details as they come out.
Yes, you are right. A tree would be helpful, for sure. But it needs to be a two dimensional tree. There must be a time-axis as well as a space dimension.
I agree. I thought about mentioning the need for a timeline in my original post, but decided not to include it for brevity and focus on my main point. So thank you for adding this important point.
I too struggle. I want the knowledge, but it is hard to track and line out. Maybe all of the documents need to be released and reviewed. Everything at the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. need to be released holding nothing back. There is no trust in the government at this point. Take them all out from the very top to the mail room person. Replace all of government.
At the risk of redundancy, I'll chime in too. Yes, this is insanely important. We cannot allow the voices of "At this point, does it matter?" divert attention.
This is insanely bigger than Watergate. WMD resulted in many deaths so it's difficult to compare Russia-gate to the WMD hoax. But this is huge. This was for all practical purposes a seditious coup attempt. That's insane! First time since the Civil War, correct?
Crisis to crisis no solutions forthcoming. Hide and protect the members of the Star Chamber and make sure the "perps" doing the dirty work walk. Professionally managed knife at your throat --"who knows what the truth is" chaos--while the grift stuffs its pockets. It's a vampire psychology that bleeds an already anemic American psyche of its life and power. I'm amazed at the amazement at the willingness of the criminal DNC/Brussels/CCP Davos club to lie. It's what they do. It's who they are. The MSM gets well paid to pimp it.
Participate in--demand--the truth/fact based solutions oriented national conversation that will create the truth/fact based reality our Republic and her citizens deserve.
It was a coup d’ etat of some sort in that the elected President’s leadership was denied the People for most of his term, only to be followed by the same vacancy by the next “administration”
I urge everyone to start reading the conservative tree house site if you are not already. "Sundance" has been ahead of everyone on this topic and gets into many details. The russiagate investigation needs to start focusing on one truly awful individual - Mary McCord.
Whoa... What an article. Mary McCord reads like Sauron in the tower with his hand on the Palantir in this whole deal, and the punchline... a pre-emptive pardon from the autopen. Un-fu*&^ing believable. And Boasberg resurfaces at multiple points. McCord sits at so many desks along the timeline of this story, she's like a one woman deep state. She had to run from one deep state desk to another in a full on flop-sweat to answer phone calls from herself after she called herself to authorize herself to take actions on behalf of herself, like testifying that Tulsi should recuse herself from investigating what McCord was calling herself about. From a taxpayer perspective, she certainly wasn't a no-show bureaucrat collecting a salary for sittng around. The downside is everything she did was soul deadeningly evil, illegal, and clearly treasonous. Well, wherever you go, there you are.
Sundance exposed all these shenanigans with supporting documents as they happened years ago. Pay attention to the name Mary McCord….a name neck deep in every lawfare action against Trump for the last 10 years.
Joe gave her a pardon. She should be forced to testify and tell all. Maybe she will make a mistake and perjure herself. Charge her, convict her. Hit her with heavy fines and bankrupt her.
Those autopen pardons give prosecutors the best of all worlds. They can subpoena witnesses without having to worry about them taking the Fifth, but keep the threat of prosecution in their hand in case needed.
Matt should review the information in your link, and Mary McCord needs to be served a subpoena to testify in Congressional hearings.
Hopefully, the administration investigators are looking at her role in the coup attempt. Her cozy relationship with Andrew Weissmann produced the "Main Justice" podcasts advocating for lawfare as the new resistance. Did she commit any criminal acts in her role with "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax", the J6 committee, and the 2024 lawfare attacks?
Another underfollowed thread--and I have no idea who it might lead--is the origin of the investigations of Trump.
The standard line is that they begin with an FBI probe based on George Papadopoulos's conversation with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer.
But where did Papadopoulos get the information--whatever it actually was--that he supposedly revealed to Downer? There are three possibilities:
1. He got information from Joseph Mifsud, which is the standard line. If so, then where did Mifsud get his information? Any competent and honest investigation would seek to trace this back to the Kremlin, but there was just a perfunctory FBI interview with Mifsud and that's it. Then he disappeared.
2. Papadopoulos made whatever he said about Russians and the Clinton campaign up. This is one possible implication of the Mifsud FBI interview, in which Mifsud said he didn't tell Papadopoulos nuthin'. I have heard at least one alleged "expert" say Papadopoulos just made up whatever he said to Downer to impress him. But then we're left with this huge investigation predicated on nothing.
3. Papadopoulos had another source. This is another possible implication of the Mifsud's claim, but it's never been alleged, and we know of no investigation into the possibility.
Something is terribly wrong under any of these three possibilities.
(I think the Papadopoulos affair suggests a deeper operation than anything commonly talked about with respect to Russiagate.)
Aren't you forgetting a fourth possibility, that Papadopoulos didn't say anything that would warrant an investigation but that Downer was requested to "bump" Papadopoulos by U.S. intelligence, and either lied or embellished his story to provide the FBI with a "hook" for the investigation?
THIS!!!! She and Norm Eisen are the spiders at the center of the web.
McCord's "Institute" at Georgetown is a listed plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump lawyers in the electors case. The dirty tricks extends to personal lawsuits trying to bankrupt Trump lawyers and discourage any lawyer from representing conservatives.
Can we draft a resolution recommending Matt for a Pulitzer Prize for his sustained journalism that informs us and alerts us by providing evidence, not opinions, about years of systemic government abuse that has endangered our freedom of speech and of association?
My dream is that it could be made into a role-playing card game. My wish is that it would rival the weekend RISK tournaments I endured in high school and college before everyone started playing poker!
The sad part is that 90% of the country will never see it, and even if they did will go about their lives the same way because they simply won't believe it or understand it's ramifications.
Admiral Mike Rogers visited Trump Tower on November 17, 2016 ostensibly to discuss the position of Director of National Intelligence. On November 18, 2016 The Trump transition team and all operations of the transition abruptly moved from Trump Tower to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Mike quietly disappeared after his term ended. I've always believed that he tipped off Trump that his Tower was being "wire tapped."
I have been wondering if he will turn out to be the one to break the wall of silence among Clapper, Brennan et al on what really happened, by testifying, which may confirm what these documents imply. And then trigger a tsunami of CYA...
It seems that is the trajectory we are on. He is the "hero" so far in the story to the extent anyone involved can claim that. It seems like NSA did go along with Jim, John, Jim though. I say seems because it is not 100% clear or at least it has not been highlighted that NSA did actually go along with Russia collusion.
"Breaking ranks" in situations like this -- where a directive has been given by the president himself -- must be incredibly difficult.
That 7AM email that Rogers sent might have been a "proactive CYA" in what he might have seen coming.
Rogers might have made an error of omission by not blowing the whistle but his email indicates his reluctance to join in on the group error of commission -- the fabrication of the Russia collusion hoax.
I hope all relevant parties -- parties that can provide first hand knowledge and information -- will be given appropriate immunity from having been "in the vicinity" of what looks more and more to be a seditious plot: undermining the incoming administration by bearing false witness via a fabricated case.
It's looking more-and-more an open-and-shut case. Conclusions had already been made that there was no real evidence of substantive election interference by Russia and those conclusions were buried -- as Clapper put it, per "new direction" from the president -- in order to hamper if not in fact topple the incoming administration.
Other than the Civil War, has there been any other case of overt sedition in the history of this country?
Obama's theme-park-and-temple-to-self is on schedule to open next year. The timing might be insanely anti-perfect (i.e., for his so-called "legacy").
Despite my skepticism, I voted for the dude in 2008 (and I apologize for mentioning it again). But I am genuinely frosted that this self-described "constitutional law professor" (with his hollow academic and professional careers) took what was a fantastic opportunity and revealed that he was nothing but an errand boy. A gutter snipe.
I went to the University of Chicago for college. It was a magical experience for me. That that monstrosity is directly west of the campus is an abomination.
Man. Apologies. I haven't been down to the campus in years. The Obama Temple is immediately due south of the Museum of Science and Industry.
I thought it was in Washington Park but it's in Jackson Park. It's a bigger horror than I thought.
Oh, the timing of its opening is looking potentially highly non-optimal.
The Museum of Science and Industry is one of the few remaining structures from the "World's Columbian Exposition" held in Chicago marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus' trip:
That is my secret hope. He would be an invaluable "tour guide" for investigators. I also hope that Trump lets it be known in the right circles that any and all protections, including pardons, will be available to whistleblowers and witnesses etc., especially if they bring hard evidence.
I have also wondered since the beginning about Mike Rogers. So where the heck is he and why hasn’t he come forward??? His integrity should compel him to come forward now.
This was a long drawn out process of proving allegations. Once Mueller came up with nothing it was over for me. It’s a lesson in knowing when to drop it and trust your gut. This will not be the last time DC acts up like only DC can.
This has been long speculated, but there is nothing in Roger's email exchange with Clapper to suggest he is anything but completely compliant with the obvious goal of fraudulently toppling an incoming president--as long as his ass is institutionally protected.
Couldn’t agree more about “cowardice”. The Kern/Taibbi live discussion on this suggests however that Rogers is basically saying “you’re on your own CIA, we can’t stand by this”. Since he hasn’t come forward to my knowledge, however, then maybe he is captured by some allegiance to an anti-MAGA sentiment. He should grow a pair, and expose the corruption for what it is. Otherwise, you’re right. He is a coward. Disgusting.
Thank you Matt for your continued investigative reporting of this very complex situation. House Rep Nunes is a personal hero of mine who was demonized by members of the Democratic Party and administration. The tentacles of this conspiracy are mired so deep within the US government, it will take many years to get to the bottom of this. Your reporting has provided visibility to just at what length and how vast the conspiracy to undermine a US President became. Nunes is a very good man who was falsely accused. In his new role, he may be just what the American public needs to understand the evil that existed within the Obama and Biden administrations. Thank you again for your clear reporting of this complex situation.
The only appropriate justice for Rep Nunes would be for the perpetrators to be lined up against a wall and shot. It would also be appropriate as they are all traitors to our country and the Constitution to which they all swore oaths to “preserve, protect, and defend.”
However, we will have to make do with public shaming and perhaps some more security clearances being permanently revoked. Oh, well.
I have no idea what’s going through the minds of management in these giant Liberal controlled mainstream media outlets right now.
They have to know the jig is up and yet they still refuse to cover any part of this incredible news that is in the process of proving that massive illegal, unethical and attacks on liberty were being done.
I hope the managing editors are sweating this out now and when the story is proven, will be replaced by new managing editors that are dedicated to straight news and not presenting Liberal opinion as news.
I’m sure many whole organizations will be finished, good riddance
Great question. So as I’ve said, I don’t agree with the legal interpretation that puts journalists in jeopardy for receiving/obtaining/conspiring to obtain “national defense information.” I know that wasn’t the question you asked, but the reality is the Espionage Act is worded so vaguely that it can be applied in any situation — that’s one reason they used it to charge Assange and a reason Obama used it in 8 different media leak cases (including some in which reporters were unindicted co-conspirators). The problem is you can call almost anything “national defense information.” In this case for instance the use of signals intelligence to capture (let’s say hypothetically) conversations between Flynn and Kislyak could easily be construed as revealing national defense information. It’s a very low bar if prosecutors want to be aggressive about it, so reporters now have to worry even about hearing things off the record. In other words, even not publishing isn’t a guarantee of safety.
In any other situation I’d say reporters are free to run whatever they want, even stolen stuff (see Bartnicki v Vopper) , but the Espionage Act scares me and frankly I would think some of the reporters who published the worst Russiagate stuff should probably call lawyers too.
To be fair, history suggests the press is safer without Obama in charge. He had a “Nixon goes to China” style free ticket. Reporters couldn’t comprehend that their Chosen Nobel Prize Winning Lightbringer was an autocrat, even while he was drone-striking citizens, spying on journalists, and labeling his opposition as “the enemy.”
I am ok with eliminating the espionage act for credentialed journalists. The issue is, a journalist will self censor if a political power in charge is their favorite political party. They will “leak” if it will damage the political party they are not aligned with. And it will universally paralyze all journalists from acting on information that can be useful for American citizens to know for decision making. I realize there are lives at stake in some cases…same with the revolutionary war…where citizens became powerful and the government was held accountable. Blood spilling is a fact of life and death.
Is it not clear that I am objecting to the notion that "credentialed journalist" is anything but a a bogus concept, and that if the espionage act doesn't apply to someone who happens to work for a media corporation, then it shouldn't be applicable to *anyone else*?
The First Amendment is all the credential anyone should need.
I think management realizes that it's complicity in at best election interference and at worst a coup is laid bare for all the world to see. They can't cover the current news because it is an admission of their complicity. Maybe even a legal admission.
yup… and then there’s the collateral damage to the general public whose psyches got brainwashed and damaged from all the fabricated hate fueling narratives…. a simple example being, if I read a letter signed by 51 Intel experts testifying that such and such is true, shouldn’t I be able to believe them?? But turns out they all willingly lied? Between all the political chicanery and the Covid charade, i’ve got zero trust in our politicians
The recruit knows that if he reverses himself and says that no, in fact he DOES believe in the Virgin Mary, the Drill Instructor will only beat him harder.
They can die with a whimper if they deny deny deny (it’s more like delay delay delay at this point), but they are justifiably certain that if they reverse themselves now after a decade of bullshit, that’s sudden death.
It’s really no more complex than that. Matt and Walter have made this point more than once and I’m in agreement.
Yet the financial bosses are looking at their bottom line and seeing lower revenue and declining profits as readership decreases continue as more people see the bias and lack of coverage of this powerful story ( even if it incriminates them). They will eventually demand that the biased managing editors change course to stop the financial decline.
It’s not just up to the Liberal Editors, their bosses have the ultimate say.
I want to know who specifically was directing the heads of these news outlets to blatantly lie. I’d love to see the likes of Morning Joe start pointing fingers….
I think the MSM has had a failing business model for some time and have been receiving significant cash from the DNC and the Democrat led deep state such as USAID. They not only leaned left, they are paid for by the left. Most likely all real journalists have quit or been fired.
The banning of pharma advertising ~ coming soon! ~ will be the death blow to Mega Media. Today, every nation on Earth bans pharma advertising, except the United States and New Zealand.
Same people pressuring Twitter I think. We owe a huge debt to Elon Musk. He is no saint and he may not have been well-intentioned but he did allow the facade to crack.
I share your sentiments about having news outlets that are dedicated to only news without opinion. Opinion happens on every side of the media coin these days, and not just liberal outlets. One would think that there would be a massive market for news with integrity and we have to remember that these are billion dollar entities that care more about clicks and emotional responses (which lead to more clicks) than they do about reporting actual news. I appreciate that Matt has integrity enough to not be driven by the Almighty dollar, but to pretend this only happens on the liberal side is a gross fiction and carries its own level of careless blindness. Any administration that begins their own social media network should raise red flags immediately. Our news outlets, much like our politics, have become echo chambers and have helped (if not enabled) the erosion of the relationality our democracy depends on to survive.
they are compromised. corprate media is used the same way a corporation uses advertising. the advertising is a cost that doesnt have a direct tracable profit, its just an expense. thats how corporate media is used - an advertising expense for the deep state, except its propaganda not advertising. and they only need to extort or blackmail the owner. theyll keep him afloat and even reward him when he tows the line, but he goes down otherwise.
FISA Section 702 was enacted in 2008, in part, to address the legal concerns surrounding the Bush era surveillance practices. It seems as though once the legal framework of 702 was established there was a pent-up desire to use it against Americans. Through backdoor searches, incidental collection and illegal reverse targeting the FBI and their colluding MSM used the guise of national security and over-classification to bury their malfeasance, violations of the 4th and downright criminality. It barely had time for the ink to dry. It seems as though almost every statement made by the Russiagate era establishment law enforcement and political figures can be traced back to ultimately covering up corruption. Look at the resistance to Trump's 2024-2025 nominations. Almost all of the objections in the Senate hearings and MSM coverage to Kash and Tulsi's confirmations were deemed as due to "inexperience," "loyalty to foreign powers" or over "loyalty to Trump." In reality it was because of fears that the FISA abuses and other illegal practices would be uncovered by the zeal, honesty and loyalty to the United states of America of Kash, Tulsi, Ratcliffe and others in this administration.
I admire Matt so much for being the last true investigative reporter standing, but I'm afraid that this story will just never get any traction.
For one thing, I have an IQ of 148, and it makes my head hurt to read these columns, which I have to do several times before the full details and implications start to become clear, and even then... And, of course, The Legacy Media (e.g., NYT and WaPo) will either refuse to cover these scandals at all (like the Biden laptop revelations about influence peddling, which was deemed not to be a story), or will dismiss them or deliberately attempt to discredit them as conspiracy theories and delusions on the Right. These are not stories that can be squeezed into a five-minute segment on Fox News between commercials for Skyrizi and Wegovy.
And after Dems like Schiff and Swalwell exhaust their denials, they will pull the good old reliable "old news" sneer out of their bag of tricks. So what? That was a decade ago! Time to "move on!"
In just the past four days I've heard The Legacy Media first ignore the lead-up to the Alaska summit, then claim that the flyover was a "tribute" designed to "honor" Putin, that Trump showed weakness by not spitting in Putin's eye or kneeing him in the groin, and that Trump came away from the summit with "nothing" because he didn't get a ceasefire assurance. "Putin 1, Trump 0!" they crow (making you wonder whose side they're on).
Then they floated the idea that European leaders were showing up on Monday just to "protect Zelenskyy from being bullied" by Trump, and that Trump's role was to "represent Putin's interests" to Ukraine and the other European leaders.
And that's just a slice of the Media's misrepresentation of some of the facts over the past four days, much less the past ten years. I fear that we're tilting at windmills. The Media will do their best to ensure that no one hears anything about the content of this column and, if they do hear, that they won't care. %-(
Where is Matt's Pulitzer, we might ask? But I think we already know.
Matt—Please don’t get discouraged. People with high IQs should know the importance of sailing against the wind. The complicit people in the news media have no interest in validating what you’re doing. Please continue seeking the truth rather than their approval.
Oh, don't get me wrong, Eric Wechsler. I advocate sailing, pushing, shouldering against the wind the way Matt and his team do on our behalf. I learned a long time ago that just because you're smaller in number, doesn't mean you're wrong. I've referred to The Racket as our Samizdat more than once, and I'm so grateful for it.
I'm just so disgusted with all the media -- the "free press" enshrined in the First Amendment and on which we depend -- that willfully ignore, suppress, or actively propagandize against perhaps the most important political story in our lifetimes. It's disgraceful, and they should all hang their heads in shame.
I wish I could free the other half of the country from their shackles, but people cannot exercise free minds unless they choose to.
Thanks for that. Once all the dots are connected and the big picture comes into view, the legal process that follows will likely drive some coverage. But you’re right — some people will still refuse to believe their own eyes.
If you claim an IQ of 148, it should be a fairly easy to deduce that you simply need to read Matt's articles a bit more slowly and methodically the first time, such that there would be no need to re-read them to gain understanding. This stuff is not all that complex.
I admire your powers of concentration, Jack Gallagher, but this scandal has more documents than the Library of Congress and more characters than a Russian novel. %-) Those are just two of the reasons I'm afraid this won't capture the attention and imagination of the American people, who are busy with jobs, family, and community obligations. But we live in hope! ;-)
Almost every day there is a new revelation about criminal behavior and yet still no orange suits or perp walks. Oh wait, “alleged” criminal behavior. Funny how progs and Dems never used that term when accusing the Trump circle.
Fantastic investigative research! These intelligence abuses are one of the main reasons Russia-gate should matter to those who wish to ignore it. These types of abuses, which Edward Snowden also warned us about in an earlier time, should be of grave concern to the citizenry, regardless under whose administration they occurred.
Clear reporting with supporting information weaved together by a supremely talented journalist. Nunes is one of the mots honorable people ever to sit in congress and he is from my area, so I had the good fortune of listening to longer interviews with him on our local radio shows. This corrupt bullshit needs to end. The only way it ends is with consequences for the participants.
I am so grateful for Matt’s work. But this stuff was being examined closely by other brave investigative independent journalists when it originally happened. I heard about a lot of it through the Bongino podcast. I knew Devon Nunez was a hero from the beginning who was trying to get to the truth. The keyword here is vindication. Everyone who was really paying attention at the time has always known what went on, including the horrific abuse of “unmasking”, but now perhaps the herd will finally come around to understand the truth as well.
Exactly! We had to suffer through watching good people like Devin Nunes reputation get smeared. We waited 10+ years for the truth to finally come out.
I’m sorry that I resent those who are just realizing what a nightmare our country has endured. We saw it clearly. We’re glad you’re here, but you’re pretty late to the party. We can’t sit here and feign incredulity as all of this info is being revealed.
A mound of books & articles have been written about the deceit that began in earnest with Obama. We had to watch journalists, the public and elected officials fawn all over Obama & his bitchy wife.
It will take us a while to get past it. Now we must go through the nightmare of convincing the same people that J6 was invented by the intelligent agencies under the direction of Brennan, Pelosi & Schiff ……
Don’t resent anyone. Many of us similarly knew what was happening, but the difference now is that compelling evidence is finally becoming public. That’s essential to finally prove the case, as is detailed analysis of the evidence.
The MSM, especially Associated Press, is using the word "retribution," not the word "vindication." I think AP should be given awards for practicing free press, and then have the shit beat out of them.
It was heart wrenching as we watched Pelosi & other dems drag Devin Nunes through the mud. He is a very principled, honorable man. No matter my political affiliation I would have felt the same way about Nunes.
Liberals can watch snakes like Schiff & Norm Eisen grandstand on TV while spouting obvious lies. No hair stands up on the back of their neck.
It confounds me why someone chooses liberalism, but Im absolutely dumbfounded how smart liberals can listen to someone like Cory Booker or
Eric Swalwell and not scream in horror & run away in embarrassment.
It’s vile to express that I witnessed decent lives being ruined by elected officials lying & destroying other’s lives? Vile to be disgusted by the fact that only a few are just now noticing the truth?
The lying & grandstanding for 10 years almost destroyed our country. Yes. My viewpoint is that it is vile.
Oh no! Sorry if I conveyed wrong impression. I meant to use word “vile” in support of your post. Bad enough for people to be targeted because of a job they have, but to involve their families is outrageous. As an example, the FBI visiting the home of the author of this post?
There appear to be no boundries anymore. How did that happen?
Matt I cannot stress it enough - thank you for all of your hard work on this. Your efforts are necessary, important, and appreciated. You are doing a great service on behalf of and for the people.
Yes, yes, yes. As much as my eyes glaze over when I read this, please keep digging. I'm hoping in time you will be able to untangle this story and present it to those of us who do not have your encyclopedic mind.
As much as my stomach is turned "when I read this, please keep digging. I'm hoping in time you will be able to intangle this story" and ultimately tell us of these filthy perpetrators' conviction and sentencing to hard time!
Yes. M.E.G.O 100% but extremely important work by Matt.
They (the Obama White House staff) must have drawn straws to see who would be asked to fall on their sword.
The loser - Susan Rice.
Ten years on and this s*** is still coming out.
How did Rice fall on any sword? She be big time policy advisor to Pres. Joey, operating under the radar. A tactic perfected by Obama and his Wing Man.
Admittedly not much of a sword
She admitted to being involved with the unmasking but there was little or no cost to her at the time
Maybe the chickens are coming home to roost
No one has fallen on their sword yet. I have a feeling that Comey and Brennan will become the first scapegoats, and in the end all the evidence will point to Obama, and his puppetmaster George Soros, as the real villians.
All of them are criminals. They are part of a criminal government.
All the tangential players and layers of corruption and seditious fuckery: it’s like a Thomas Pynchon novel come to life.
Like you, I struggle to follow the many threads of this Russiagate matter.
In case it might help, I'll tell how I am sorting it out.
I see two main issues:
1. The abuse of government agencies to attempt to prevent Trump from getting elected president and then, when he was, to hinder his ability to act in that function. Things about the activities of Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Obama (?), and their various underlings and other government employees fall into this issue. Maybe the lies spread by members of Congress fall under this, or could be considered a separate main issue.
2. The role of much of the press in spreading lies about Trump's connections to Russia, which furthered the aims of the actors in 1. This includes activities such as spreading the smears of Nunes described in the present article and squawking about Trump trusting Putin more than his own intelligence agencies after their 2018 Helsinki meeting (when 1 now suggests he was right).
Whatever "main issues" we come up with, we might be able to make a tree structure under them to sort all the details as they come out.
Literally Mussolini:
Yes, you are right. A tree would be helpful, for sure. But it needs to be a two dimensional tree. There must be a time-axis as well as a space dimension.
Mark Allyn
I agree. I thought about mentioning the need for a timeline in my original post, but decided not to include it for brevity and focus on my main point. So thank you for adding this important point.
I too struggle. I want the knowledge, but it is hard to track and line out. Maybe all of the documents need to be released and reviewed. Everything at the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. need to be released holding nothing back. There is no trust in the government at this point. Take them all out from the very top to the mail room person. Replace all of government.
Problem is, we'd get a new crop of shit.
Don't know why anyone's eyes would glaze over. This is very clear reporting of facts, and not difficult to follow at all.
At the risk of redundancy, I'll chime in too. Yes, this is insanely important. We cannot allow the voices of "At this point, does it matter?" divert attention.
This is insanely bigger than Watergate. WMD resulted in many deaths so it's difficult to compare Russia-gate to the WMD hoax. But this is huge. This was for all practical purposes a seditious coup attempt. That's insane! First time since the Civil War, correct?
Crisis to crisis no solutions forthcoming. Hide and protect the members of the Star Chamber and make sure the "perps" doing the dirty work walk. Professionally managed knife at your throat --"who knows what the truth is" chaos--while the grift stuffs its pockets. It's a vampire psychology that bleeds an already anemic American psyche of its life and power. I'm amazed at the amazement at the willingness of the criminal DNC/Brussels/CCP Davos club to lie. It's what they do. It's who they are. The MSM gets well paid to pimp it.
Participate in--demand--the truth/fact based solutions oriented national conversation that will create the truth/fact based reality our Republic and her citizens deserve.
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It was a coup d’ etat of some sort in that the elected President’s leadership was denied the People for most of his term, only to be followed by the same vacancy by the next “administration”
I urge everyone to start reading the conservative tree house site if you are not already. "Sundance" has been ahead of everyone on this topic and gets into many details. The russiagate investigation needs to start focusing on one truly awful individual - Mary McCord.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/18/outline-4-key-criminal-conduct-in-the-russiagate-operation-and-beyond-mary-mccord/
Samantha Power also always seems to turn up being involved in this mischief.
And Susan Rice is the Queen of Creepiness....though I've read that Valerie Jarrett might give her a run for her money for that title.
…it was a video. …obama did everything By The Book.
Whoa... What an article. Mary McCord reads like Sauron in the tower with his hand on the Palantir in this whole deal, and the punchline... a pre-emptive pardon from the autopen. Un-fu*&^ing believable. And Boasberg resurfaces at multiple points. McCord sits at so many desks along the timeline of this story, she's like a one woman deep state. She had to run from one deep state desk to another in a full on flop-sweat to answer phone calls from herself after she called herself to authorize herself to take actions on behalf of herself, like testifying that Tulsi should recuse herself from investigating what McCord was calling herself about. From a taxpayer perspective, she certainly wasn't a no-show bureaucrat collecting a salary for sittng around. The downside is everything she did was soul deadeningly evil, illegal, and clearly treasonous. Well, wherever you go, there you are.
Sundance exposed all these shenanigans with supporting documents as they happened years ago. Pay attention to the name Mary McCord….a name neck deep in every lawfare action against Trump for the last 10 years.
theconservativetreehouse.com
Joe gave her a pardon. She should be forced to testify and tell all. Maybe she will make a mistake and perjure herself. Charge her, convict her. Hit her with heavy fines and bankrupt her.
Joe didn't pardon anyone. They pardoned themselves.
Those autopen pardons give prosecutors the best of all worlds. They can subpoena witnesses without having to worry about them taking the Fifth, but keep the threat of prosecution in their hand in case needed.
Matt should review the information in your link, and Mary McCord needs to be served a subpoena to testify in Congressional hearings.
Hopefully, the administration investigators are looking at her role in the coup attempt. Her cozy relationship with Andrew Weissmann produced the "Main Justice" podcasts advocating for lawfare as the new resistance. Did she commit any criminal acts in her role with "Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax", the J6 committee, and the 2024 lawfare attacks?
Another underfollowed thread--and I have no idea who it might lead--is the origin of the investigations of Trump.
The standard line is that they begin with an FBI probe based on George Papadopoulos's conversation with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer.
But where did Papadopoulos get the information--whatever it actually was--that he supposedly revealed to Downer? There are three possibilities:
1. He got information from Joseph Mifsud, which is the standard line. If so, then where did Mifsud get his information? Any competent and honest investigation would seek to trace this back to the Kremlin, but there was just a perfunctory FBI interview with Mifsud and that's it. Then he disappeared.
2. Papadopoulos made whatever he said about Russians and the Clinton campaign up. This is one possible implication of the Mifsud FBI interview, in which Mifsud said he didn't tell Papadopoulos nuthin'. I have heard at least one alleged "expert" say Papadopoulos just made up whatever he said to Downer to impress him. But then we're left with this huge investigation predicated on nothing.
3. Papadopoulos had another source. This is another possible implication of the Mifsud's claim, but it's never been alleged, and we know of no investigation into the possibility.
Something is terribly wrong under any of these three possibilities.
(I think the Papadopoulos affair suggests a deeper operation than anything commonly talked about with respect to Russiagate.)
Aren't you forgetting a fourth possibility, that Papadopoulos didn't say anything that would warrant an investigation but that Downer was requested to "bump" Papadopoulos by U.S. intelligence, and either lied or embellished his story to provide the FBI with a "hook" for the investigation?
That's right! Make this number four.
(And Papadopoulos himself says he didn't say anything to Downer--to the best of his recollection.)
THIS!!!! She and Norm Eisen are the spiders at the center of the web.
McCord's "Institute" at Georgetown is a listed plaintiff in a lawsuit against Trump lawyers in the electors case. The dirty tricks extends to personal lawsuits trying to bankrupt Trump lawyers and discourage any lawyer from representing conservatives.
Can we draft a resolution recommending Matt for a Pulitzer Prize for his sustained journalism that informs us and alerts us by providing evidence, not opinions, about years of systemic government abuse that has endangered our freedom of speech and of association?
If I had time would review all Pulitzer Prizes starting with Durante’s coverage of Ukraine and suggest Alt-Pulitzers.
This needs to be put together as a script for a book, followed by a movie (for those who don't have the time to read the book).
There needs to be a catchy title. "December's Coup", "Political Treason", "The Great Lie", "Assault Against the Republic", etc.
My dream is that it could be made into a role-playing card game. My wish is that it would rival the weekend RISK tournaments I endured in high school and college before everyone started playing poker!
Sounds like a job for Walter!
The sad part is that 90% of the country will never see it, and even if they did will go about their lives the same way because they simply won't believe it or understand it's ramifications.
Perhaps that would mean there is a need for visible accountability. No skating.
Yes!!
08/19/25: Hear, Hear! For, He's A Jolly Good Fellow!
Another example of the Racket News terrific investigative journalism.
Kudos to Matt and his team for their efforts to protect democracy in America.
Racket is one of the few outlets doing ANY investigation.
Admiral Mike Rogers visited Trump Tower on November 17, 2016 ostensibly to discuss the position of Director of National Intelligence. On November 18, 2016 The Trump transition team and all operations of the transition abruptly moved from Trump Tower to the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Mike quietly disappeared after his term ended. I've always believed that he tipped off Trump that his Tower was being "wire tapped."
Ah hah! I, too, believe Adm Rogers is the hidden hero. See my work I linked to below.
I have been wondering if he will turn out to be the one to break the wall of silence among Clapper, Brennan et al on what really happened, by testifying, which may confirm what these documents imply. And then trigger a tsunami of CYA...
Bondi, Patel, Bongino, and the new guy the AG from Missouri, need the full support of the American people, NOW!
See my other posts in this thread.
It seems that is the trajectory we are on. He is the "hero" so far in the story to the extent anyone involved can claim that. It seems like NSA did go along with Jim, John, Jim though. I say seems because it is not 100% clear or at least it has not been highlighted that NSA did actually go along with Russia collusion.
"Breaking ranks" in situations like this -- where a directive has been given by the president himself -- must be incredibly difficult.
That 7AM email that Rogers sent might have been a "proactive CYA" in what he might have seen coming.
Rogers might have made an error of omission by not blowing the whistle but his email indicates his reluctance to join in on the group error of commission -- the fabrication of the Russia collusion hoax.
I hope all relevant parties -- parties that can provide first hand knowledge and information -- will be given appropriate immunity from having been "in the vicinity" of what looks more and more to be a seditious plot: undermining the incoming administration by bearing false witness via a fabricated case.
It's looking more-and-more an open-and-shut case. Conclusions had already been made that there was no real evidence of substantive election interference by Russia and those conclusions were buried -- as Clapper put it, per "new direction" from the president -- in order to hamper if not in fact topple the incoming administration.
Other than the Civil War, has there been any other case of overt sedition in the history of this country?
Obama's theme-park-and-temple-to-self is on schedule to open next year. The timing might be insanely anti-perfect (i.e., for his so-called "legacy").
Despite my skepticism, I voted for the dude in 2008 (and I apologize for mentioning it again). But I am genuinely frosted that this self-described "constitutional law professor" (with his hollow academic and professional careers) took what was a fantastic opportunity and revealed that he was nothing but an errand boy. A gutter snipe.
I went to the University of Chicago for college. It was a magical experience for me. That that monstrosity is directly west of the campus is an abomination.
Regenstein library!
Sadly, when it came to Obama and for that matter, McCain who was trafficking in the Steele dossier before that, the South Park skit "rang true..." if I can be forgiven for invoking a Brennanism. https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/1qbz5j/south-park-the-greatest-thief-club-in-the-world
Man. Apologies. I haven't been down to the campus in years. The Obama Temple is immediately due south of the Museum of Science and Industry.
I thought it was in Washington Park but it's in Jackson Park. It's a bigger horror than I thought.
Oh, the timing of its opening is looking potentially highly non-optimal.
The Museum of Science and Industry is one of the few remaining structures from the "World's Columbian Exposition" held in Chicago marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus' trip:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition
And this abomination is right smack on the lagoon. Right off Lake Shore Drive. Sheesh.
Trump learned from that and accepted no office space in DC during the transition for his second term, instead conducting his work in Mar-a-Lago.
Yes! I KNEW Mike Rogers was/is a good man! I think he's also a whistleblower now that there are honest people in the intelligence community.
> he's also a whistleblower now
That is my secret hope. He would be an invaluable "tour guide" for investigators. I also hope that Trump lets it be known in the right circles that any and all protections, including pardons, will be available to whistleblowers and witnesses etc., especially if they bring hard evidence.
He was the one who shut down the casual access to NSA captured communications between US citizens. 85% were considered out of the ordinary.
I have also wondered since the beginning about Mike Rogers. So where the heck is he and why hasn’t he come forward??? His integrity should compel him to come forward now.
Hope he's not gone the dementia route, like everyone else...
According to Wikipedia, in May 2022, Rogers was appointed to the Board of Advisors at Talon Cyber Security.
Sounds like the usual graft and corruption. Doesn’t preclude him from being senile, either.
This was a long drawn out process of proving allegations. Once Mueller came up with nothing it was over for me. It’s a lesson in knowing when to drop it and trust your gut. This will not be the last time DC acts up like only DC can.
So, Rogers tipped Trump off in the place that was wire tapped that the place they were having the discussion in was wire tapped? 🙄
This has been long speculated, but there is nothing in Roger's email exchange with Clapper to suggest he is anything but completely compliant with the obvious goal of fraudulently toppling an incoming president--as long as his ass is institutionally protected.
Cowardice and ass covering is not heroic.
https://www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/DIG/DIG-Declassified-Top-Secret-DNI-Clapper-Email-Politicized-Jan-2017-ICA-Aug2025.pdf
Couldn’t agree more about “cowardice”. The Kern/Taibbi live discussion on this suggests however that Rogers is basically saying “you’re on your own CIA, we can’t stand by this”. Since he hasn’t come forward to my knowledge, however, then maybe he is captured by some allegiance to an anti-MAGA sentiment. He should grow a pair, and expose the corruption for what it is. Otherwise, you’re right. He is a coward. Disgusting.
Or, he's been threatened to not come forward, as is the standard M.O. in DC.
Thank you Matt for your continued investigative reporting of this very complex situation. House Rep Nunes is a personal hero of mine who was demonized by members of the Democratic Party and administration. The tentacles of this conspiracy are mired so deep within the US government, it will take many years to get to the bottom of this. Your reporting has provided visibility to just at what length and how vast the conspiracy to undermine a US President became. Nunes is a very good man who was falsely accused. In his new role, he may be just what the American public needs to understand the evil that existed within the Obama and Biden administrations. Thank you again for your clear reporting of this complex situation.
The only appropriate justice for Rep Nunes would be for the perpetrators to be lined up against a wall and shot. It would also be appropriate as they are all traitors to our country and the Constitution to which they all swore oaths to “preserve, protect, and defend.”
However, we will have to make do with public shaming and perhaps some more security clearances being permanently revoked. Oh, well.
We need to line up the journalists who lied & hid the truth from the American people.
Not sure a firing squad is the appropriate justice for traitors, but they should all definitely be subjected to whatever that appropriate justice is.
I have no idea what’s going through the minds of management in these giant Liberal controlled mainstream media outlets right now.
They have to know the jig is up and yet they still refuse to cover any part of this incredible news that is in the process of proving that massive illegal, unethical and attacks on liberty were being done.
I hope the managing editors are sweating this out now and when the story is proven, will be replaced by new managing editors that are dedicated to straight news and not presenting Liberal opinion as news.
I’m sure many whole organizations will be finished, good riddance
Great question. So as I’ve said, I don’t agree with the legal interpretation that puts journalists in jeopardy for receiving/obtaining/conspiring to obtain “national defense information.” I know that wasn’t the question you asked, but the reality is the Espionage Act is worded so vaguely that it can be applied in any situation — that’s one reason they used it to charge Assange and a reason Obama used it in 8 different media leak cases (including some in which reporters were unindicted co-conspirators). The problem is you can call almost anything “national defense information.” In this case for instance the use of signals intelligence to capture (let’s say hypothetically) conversations between Flynn and Kislyak could easily be construed as revealing national defense information. It’s a very low bar if prosecutors want to be aggressive about it, so reporters now have to worry even about hearing things off the record. In other words, even not publishing isn’t a guarantee of safety.
In any other situation I’d say reporters are free to run whatever they want, even stolen stuff (see Bartnicki v Vopper) , but the Espionage Act scares me and frankly I would think some of the reporters who published the worst Russiagate stuff should probably call lawyers too.
To be fair, history suggests the press is safer without Obama in charge. He had a “Nixon goes to China” style free ticket. Reporters couldn’t comprehend that their Chosen Nobel Prize Winning Lightbringer was an autocrat, even while he was drone-striking citizens, spying on journalists, and labeling his opposition as “the enemy.”
Yes, so much safer with the guy kicking the press out of meetings, firing people for bad news, and filing lawsuits against publications, LOL.
I am ok with eliminating the espionage act for credentialed journalists. The issue is, a journalist will self censor if a political power in charge is their favorite political party. They will “leak” if it will damage the political party they are not aligned with. And it will universally paralyze all journalists from acting on information that can be useful for American citizens to know for decision making. I realize there are lives at stake in some cases…same with the revolutionary war…where citizens became powerful and the government was held accountable. Blood spilling is a fact of life and death.
Not just no, but a thousand times hell no!
No never never to some kind of superior "journalist" class who has greater rights than the least of us.
Is it not clear that I am objecting to the notion that "credentialed journalist" is anything but a a bogus concept, and that if the espionage act doesn't apply to someone who happens to work for a media corporation, then it shouldn't be applicable to *anyone else*?
The First Amendment is all the credential anyone should need.
Well, as it sits now…who should be our superior class? (Seems to me it is the deep state banks, media, cia, fbi)
I think a journalist can write whatever they want…it’s up to the reader to process it as valid and useful or invalid and not useful.
I think management realizes that it's complicity in at best election interference and at worst a coup is laid bare for all the world to see. They can't cover the current news because it is an admission of their complicity. Maybe even a legal admission.
yup… and then there’s the collateral damage to the general public whose psyches got brainwashed and damaged from all the fabricated hate fueling narratives…. a simple example being, if I read a letter signed by 51 Intel experts testifying that such and such is true, shouldn’t I be able to believe them?? But turns out they all willingly lied? Between all the political chicanery and the Covid charade, i’ve got zero trust in our politicians
The recruit knows that if he reverses himself and says that no, in fact he DOES believe in the Virgin Mary, the Drill Instructor will only beat him harder.
They can die with a whimper if they deny deny deny (it’s more like delay delay delay at this point), but they are justifiably certain that if they reverse themselves now after a decade of bullshit, that’s sudden death.
It’s really no more complex than that. Matt and Walter have made this point more than once and I’m in agreement.
Yet the financial bosses are looking at their bottom line and seeing lower revenue and declining profits as readership decreases continue as more people see the bias and lack of coverage of this powerful story ( even if it incriminates them). They will eventually demand that the biased managing editors change course to stop the financial decline.
It’s not just up to the Liberal Editors, their bosses have the ultimate say.
I want to know who specifically was directing the heads of these news outlets to blatantly lie. I’d love to see the likes of Morning Joe start pointing fingers….
I think the MSM has had a failing business model for some time and have been receiving significant cash from the DNC and the Democrat led deep state such as USAID. They not only leaned left, they are paid for by the left. Most likely all real journalists have quit or been fired.
The banning of pharma advertising ~ coming soon! ~ will be the death blow to Mega Media. Today, every nation on Earth bans pharma advertising, except the United States and New Zealand.
Same people pressuring Twitter I think. We owe a huge debt to Elon Musk. He is no saint and he may not have been well-intentioned but he did allow the facade to crack.
I share your sentiments about having news outlets that are dedicated to only news without opinion. Opinion happens on every side of the media coin these days, and not just liberal outlets. One would think that there would be a massive market for news with integrity and we have to remember that these are billion dollar entities that care more about clicks and emotional responses (which lead to more clicks) than they do about reporting actual news. I appreciate that Matt has integrity enough to not be driven by the Almighty dollar, but to pretend this only happens on the liberal side is a gross fiction and carries its own level of careless blindness. Any administration that begins their own social media network should raise red flags immediately. Our news outlets, much like our politics, have become echo chambers and have helped (if not enabled) the erosion of the relationality our democracy depends on to survive.
they are compromised. corprate media is used the same way a corporation uses advertising. the advertising is a cost that doesnt have a direct tracable profit, its just an expense. thats how corporate media is used - an advertising expense for the deep state, except its propaganda not advertising. and they only need to extort or blackmail the owner. theyll keep him afloat and even reward him when he tows the line, but he goes down otherwise.
"The future is certain. It's the past that keeps changing."- old Soviet joke
Old Soviet jokes hit a lot closer to home these days.
Stealing that one
Love it
That's excellent. Thank you.
FISA Section 702 was enacted in 2008, in part, to address the legal concerns surrounding the Bush era surveillance practices. It seems as though once the legal framework of 702 was established there was a pent-up desire to use it against Americans. Through backdoor searches, incidental collection and illegal reverse targeting the FBI and their colluding MSM used the guise of national security and over-classification to bury their malfeasance, violations of the 4th and downright criminality. It barely had time for the ink to dry. It seems as though almost every statement made by the Russiagate era establishment law enforcement and political figures can be traced back to ultimately covering up corruption. Look at the resistance to Trump's 2024-2025 nominations. Almost all of the objections in the Senate hearings and MSM coverage to Kash and Tulsi's confirmations were deemed as due to "inexperience," "loyalty to foreign powers" or over "loyalty to Trump." In reality it was because of fears that the FISA abuses and other illegal practices would be uncovered by the zeal, honesty and loyalty to the United states of America of Kash, Tulsi, Ratcliffe and others in this administration.
Right. "Inexperience" and "loyalty to foreign powers" are code words for not part of the team. The elite team.
I admire Matt so much for being the last true investigative reporter standing, but I'm afraid that this story will just never get any traction.
For one thing, I have an IQ of 148, and it makes my head hurt to read these columns, which I have to do several times before the full details and implications start to become clear, and even then... And, of course, The Legacy Media (e.g., NYT and WaPo) will either refuse to cover these scandals at all (like the Biden laptop revelations about influence peddling, which was deemed not to be a story), or will dismiss them or deliberately attempt to discredit them as conspiracy theories and delusions on the Right. These are not stories that can be squeezed into a five-minute segment on Fox News between commercials for Skyrizi and Wegovy.
And after Dems like Schiff and Swalwell exhaust their denials, they will pull the good old reliable "old news" sneer out of their bag of tricks. So what? That was a decade ago! Time to "move on!"
In just the past four days I've heard The Legacy Media first ignore the lead-up to the Alaska summit, then claim that the flyover was a "tribute" designed to "honor" Putin, that Trump showed weakness by not spitting in Putin's eye or kneeing him in the groin, and that Trump came away from the summit with "nothing" because he didn't get a ceasefire assurance. "Putin 1, Trump 0!" they crow (making you wonder whose side they're on).
Then they floated the idea that European leaders were showing up on Monday just to "protect Zelenskyy from being bullied" by Trump, and that Trump's role was to "represent Putin's interests" to Ukraine and the other European leaders.
And that's just a slice of the Media's misrepresentation of some of the facts over the past four days, much less the past ten years. I fear that we're tilting at windmills. The Media will do their best to ensure that no one hears anything about the content of this column and, if they do hear, that they won't care. %-(
Where is Matt's Pulitzer, we might ask? But I think we already know.
Matt—Please don’t get discouraged. People with high IQs should know the importance of sailing against the wind. The complicit people in the news media have no interest in validating what you’re doing. Please continue seeking the truth rather than their approval.
Oh, don't get me wrong, Eric Wechsler. I advocate sailing, pushing, shouldering against the wind the way Matt and his team do on our behalf. I learned a long time ago that just because you're smaller in number, doesn't mean you're wrong. I've referred to The Racket as our Samizdat more than once, and I'm so grateful for it.
I'm just so disgusted with all the media -- the "free press" enshrined in the First Amendment and on which we depend -- that willfully ignore, suppress, or actively propagandize against perhaps the most important political story in our lifetimes. It's disgraceful, and they should all hang their heads in shame.
I wish I could free the other half of the country from their shackles, but people cannot exercise free minds unless they choose to.
Thanks for that. Once all the dots are connected and the big picture comes into view, the legal process that follows will likely drive some coverage. But you’re right — some people will still refuse to believe their own eyes.
And John Solomon's.
If you claim an IQ of 148, it should be a fairly easy to deduce that you simply need to read Matt's articles a bit more slowly and methodically the first time, such that there would be no need to re-read them to gain understanding. This stuff is not all that complex.
I admire your powers of concentration, Jack Gallagher, but this scandal has more documents than the Library of Congress and more characters than a Russian novel. %-) Those are just two of the reasons I'm afraid this won't capture the attention and imagination of the American people, who are busy with jobs, family, and community obligations. But we live in hope! ;-)
Depart the psyop and live!!
Matt,
I'm in total agreement. You're preaching to the choir.
See my investigative reporting at the American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/author/ron_wright/
The tentacles of the Cabal go much deeper and at least as far back to Benghazi.
One thing I didn't see as I quickly scanned your piece is the death of Seth Rich in DC before the 2016 election.
Please read my last two articles on Rich. One of which is:
Seth Rich - DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
I believe the Rich death is the Achille's heel of the Deep State.
I would greatly appreciate it if you can bat the Rich story up into the top tier for discussion
Almost every day there is a new revelation about criminal behavior and yet still no orange suits or perp walks. Oh wait, “alleged” criminal behavior. Funny how progs and Dems never used that term when accusing the Trump circle.
You might be pissing into the wind, yelling in a thunderstorm, still rooting for ya!🤠
Now there's a mental image! Might as well be yelling AT the thunderstorm!
Hilarious. Thank you, I needed that. Saving that "image".
Fantastic investigative research! These intelligence abuses are one of the main reasons Russia-gate should matter to those who wish to ignore it. These types of abuses, which Edward Snowden also warned us about in an earlier time, should be of grave concern to the citizenry, regardless under whose administration they occurred.
We can't hate 'em enough.
Clear reporting with supporting information weaved together by a supremely talented journalist. Nunes is one of the mots honorable people ever to sit in congress and he is from my area, so I had the good fortune of listening to longer interviews with him on our local radio shows. This corrupt bullshit needs to end. The only way it ends is with consequences for the participants.
I am so grateful for Matt’s work. But this stuff was being examined closely by other brave investigative independent journalists when it originally happened. I heard about a lot of it through the Bongino podcast. I knew Devon Nunez was a hero from the beginning who was trying to get to the truth. The keyword here is vindication. Everyone who was really paying attention at the time has always known what went on, including the horrific abuse of “unmasking”, but now perhaps the herd will finally come around to understand the truth as well.
Exactly! We had to suffer through watching good people like Devin Nunes reputation get smeared. We waited 10+ years for the truth to finally come out.
I’m sorry that I resent those who are just realizing what a nightmare our country has endured. We saw it clearly. We’re glad you’re here, but you’re pretty late to the party. We can’t sit here and feign incredulity as all of this info is being revealed.
A mound of books & articles have been written about the deceit that began in earnest with Obama. We had to watch journalists, the public and elected officials fawn all over Obama & his bitchy wife.
It will take us a while to get past it. Now we must go through the nightmare of convincing the same people that J6 was invented by the intelligent agencies under the direction of Brennan, Pelosi & Schiff ……
Don’t resent anyone. Many of us similarly knew what was happening, but the difference now is that compelling evidence is finally becoming public. That’s essential to finally prove the case, as is detailed analysis of the evidence.
I know & I agree. I’ll get over it. I must realize that there aren’t many who follow this so closely.
I need to relax & enjoy the show.
Thanks for your kind words
The MSM, especially Associated Press, is using the word "retribution," not the word "vindication." I think AP should be given awards for practicing free press, and then have the shit beat out of them.
Haha!!!
It was heart wrenching as we watched Pelosi & other dems drag Devin Nunes through the mud. He is a very principled, honorable man. No matter my political affiliation I would have felt the same way about Nunes.
Liberals can watch snakes like Schiff & Norm Eisen grandstand on TV while spouting obvious lies. No hair stands up on the back of their neck.
It confounds me why someone chooses liberalism, but Im absolutely dumbfounded how smart liberals can listen to someone like Cory Booker or
Eric Swalwell and not scream in horror & run away in embarrassment.
Well, you can't be embarrassed if you have no shame because you have no morals.
Very true!
When you are willing to make this more than viewpoints, but now it is your family . . . where did that come from. It is vile.
It’s vile to express that I witnessed decent lives being ruined by elected officials lying & destroying other’s lives? Vile to be disgusted by the fact that only a few are just now noticing the truth?
The lying & grandstanding for 10 years almost destroyed our country. Yes. My viewpoint is that it is vile.
Sorry I kinda read into your comments.
A lot of people who follow Matt can’t seem to understand the gravity of what’s been done to our country.
What bothers me is how liberal people believe everything democrats & their buddies in the media report.
I am suspicious of every Republican. I watch their body language & their words. Some are honest, but many are not.
On the other hand, I never believe one word a Democrat utters.
Oh no! Sorry if I conveyed wrong impression. I meant to use word “vile” in support of your post. Bad enough for people to be targeted because of a job they have, but to involve their families is outrageous. As an example, the FBI visiting the home of the author of this post?
There appear to be no boundries anymore. How did that happen?