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What Nunes achieved – and what’s next

Monday, 5 February 2018, 8:00 MJA Uncategorized 27

AMERICAN THINKER: House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes achieved something unprecedented:

Because the memo he wrote, summing up the results of his congressional investigation, pretty well pries the lid off Big Government and Deep State, revealing for all of us how these tyrannical, opposite-of-justice, operations work.

The angry tweets of  President Trump didn’t do it. The efforts of  Republicans in past administrations didn’t do this. The change point was Nunes.

The Nunes memo proved the politicization of the FBI at its top levels, and now opens the question of whether we citizens should want it that way, or maybe we need new laws.

But just to get a whiff of the ‘wow’ factor here, recall how hard, impossible, actually, it was to get any justice for Tea Partiers after the Internal Revenue Service illegally targeted them for special enforcement. The man running the IRS when much of that was going on, including the destruction of emails from the hyper-partisan officials involved in it, Commissioner John Koskinen, retired last year with his full pension. The IRS official who did the dirty work, Lois Lerner, head of the tax-exempt division, took the Fifth in congressional testimony to protect herself from self-incrimination, which is something only crooks do. Then she retired with her full multi-million-dollar pension out in the tony Washington suburbs, getting off scot-free.

Reforming government is always hard.  MORE

27 Comments on What Nunes achieved – and what’s next

  3. “Reforming government is hard.” Yes, it is and it isn’t. In our society today, it’s difficult because some of our most corrupt and incompetent politicians – Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama come to mind – are also cultural icons to many people and it is difficult to crack that fascade. Reforming the government is hard because these people pack lower offices and the bureaucracy with loyal and well-paid minions. It is hard because our media has to a large extent become statist lapdogs instead of reporters.

    But on the other hand, reforming the government isn’t so difficult as to be impossible. Government by corruption always fails, and the signs of that failure are showing up now. The media and entertainment lapdogs are rightfully losing the trust of their audiences. And it only takes a few people to widen the crack that will bring down the dam.

    Laft wing policies will always ultimately fail and the corrupt officials at the top will eventually be exposed for the vermin they are. The true test of our republic will be if Americans can resist the attempts of the left to hold on to power by force and return America to the people.

  4. My wife the legal immigrant, lofo, world’s biggest Trump supporter, asked me last night, bless her heart, who this “Noons” guy is. I said, “I’m guessing he’s the most evil man in the world, according to what you just read.” She said, “Yes! How did you know?” I said, “Because he’s honest and right. And he’s gotten into your lofotainment bubble. Read the comments, like you did when Trump was campaigning. They’ll be closer to the truth than the articles you read. Or they will be closed, because the authors can’t handle the truth.”

  5. Maybe a little off point but has anyone else wondered why we haven’t heard a peep from the FISA judges? You’d think they’d be outraged and calling people to account.

  7. POTUS Trump’s “angry tweets” may not be the reason these things have been exposed but it did signal to Nunes and his colleagues that at least the President had their backs. POTUS couldn’t have gone directly after the FBI without the Intelligence committee’s actions, taken in a deliberate, lawful manner.

    As for the IRS/Tea Party injustice, I blame all those blathering R’s on all those committees who didn’t take the cause of justice all the way. What good is all this oversight if it doesn’t actually change anything? Why now, for example, is another oversight committee fixing to “investigate” more FBI/DoJ criminality when it seems there is enough already to call a special prosecutor or counsel, or whatever they call it?!

    Always sticking up for my president.

  9. It’s difficult to discern the depths of the Universe from a kneeling position in the bottom of a (shittily full) septic tank.
    The powers of Darkness are arrayed, in full armor, surrounding us; and President Trump and Representative Nunes stride manfully before the throng of righteousness.
    Do we follow? Do we wait? Do we set up tables and attempt to pacify the Demons with trinkets and gewgaws?
    Our indecision is debilitating. The fact that we stand, mouths agape, morally relativising, no longer believing in Good, certainly not believing in Evil, a hundred years of mal-education sickening our minds, provides the very real edge for the triumph of Evil.

    ” Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

    izlamo delenda est …

  12. ThirdTwin, somehow in this Eagles fans/Philadelphia way, the opposite is happening.

    I’ve been reading that “Nunes and the whole Trump administration actually, are trying to undermine the FBI and the justice system of our country.”
    “Putin won!” was their final breath, as they drown into the swamp.

  13. @Wyatt:

    “Reforming government is hard.” Yes, it is and it isn’t. In our society today, it’s difficult because some of our most corrupt and incompetent politicians – Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama come to mind – are also cultural icons to many people and it is difficult to crack that fascade.

    If “fascade” was conscious/deliberate, you’re brilliant!
    If not deliberate, it is one of the best Freudian typos I’ve ever run across.

  15. Grassley memo: “heavily redacted, the memo states Steele said he received information that came from “a foreign sub-source who ‘is in touch with (redacted), a contact of (redacted), a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to (redacted).”

  20. “Government Reform” would be a helluva lot easier if the perpetrators of evil feared the consequences of their actions.

    Forfeiture of assets, imprisonment, and/or death.
    They are violating the public trust – which is a nice way of saying “committing Treason.”

    That which you refuse to tolerate; you will not have.

    izlamo delenda est …

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