theburningplatform | What’s becoming clear now is Fusion GPS, the political dirty tricks
operation, functioned as a cutout for the FBI and the Clinton campaign.
The FBI shared secret intel with Fusion, who then sold it to the Clinton
campaign or distributed to the media at the direction of the campaign.
There’s a word for all of this and it is called treason. It’s one
thing for a career intelligence officer to go bad and start selling
intelligence to a foreign government. That just a part of the life of a
nation state. It is an entirely different thing when senior members of
the political class are working to undermine the fundamentals of the
political system. It is the sort of thing that results in hangings or
civil wars. It’s why the infamous memo has not been released, despite the fact it could be leaked or declassified by the White House.
That’s what brings us back to Dick Nixon. The mere hint of abuse of
the FBI and CIA by the political side of the White House was considered
enough of a threat to warrant impeachment. What we have here is worse
than anything Nixon was accused of doing, even by his fiercest critics.
Stuff that is orders of magnitude worse went on in the Obama White
House. Imagine senior FBI men, faced with federal prison, agreeing to
rat out major political actors. Imagine them pointing the finger at
Obama or his top aides.
Again, this is fundamentally a political problem, but it cannot be
ignored. That’s probably why no one is in a hurry to release that memo.
It’s not just about partisan politics. Imagine how blacks would react if
we have a full blown political crisis that paints Obama as worse than
Nixon. That is looking increasingly possible. People have forgotten
about the systematic abuse of the IRS, using it against conservative
activists in the run-up to the 2012 election. There’s only so much that
can be swept under the rug to protect Obama.
This will not end well.
