For months, Trump indicated that he was strongly considering pardoning NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and considering a pardon for Assange as well. Yet he never did. Why?
Trump would go against his own convictions to protect himself from outside threats. Let’s be real about this. There’s never a situation where Trump would be “too nice” to do something that would otherwise hurt his own agenda. I was shocked that he didn’t pardon both of them. But that was also the exact moment that I truly understood who Trump really was.
For 4 years, he has fought Establishment, hordes of dirty corrupt and very malicious creatures, he and his admin. managed to accomplish a lot... He still has the unfinished business. China, Border. etc etc to put the country on the right track... so at that moment of the blackmail (I remember reading about McConnell went to blackmail Trump on this issue.) he probably thought backing off was the right decision back then otherwise, he would probably never be able to finish the job especially at that point he was 100% sure he was cheated out of his second term. If it were his 2nd term, he probably would have pardoned those two... That's my opinion. Trump is not a perfect human being, but, he is not cowardly. It was a calculated decision... (I watched Epoch Times, Kash's corner. his interview with Grenell. In that Interview, he mentioned something that was related to intel community. If he were allowed to stay in DNI, means if Trump won the second term, he would have cleaned the Russian/ China group. He also said he was well aware DoJ and FBI are fully corrupt and needs the total overhaul. If you have a chance, you should watch. You can see the glimpse of his admin.
Nan...pisst, the man was Pres. and runs 500 companies, while putting together a very nice Family. Just because he wears a flaming red tie," coward " come to mind ?
"Twice impeached". Yes, by a cabal of the most corrupt, disgusting, lying low-lifes the Democrat Party has produced since Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Enjoy your Blue Kool-Aid.
It was undercover FBI agents who perpetrated the Jan 6 violence. GG has written about this as well, All of the departments of the US government are totally corrupt.
I'm still out on that, though the silence of the Pipe Bomber and the dismissal of Ray Epps points in that direction. It seems like a stretch to think it was a false flag, but Glenn reported on the FBI pushing people into doing crimes back into the Bush years. I'll let the outcome of the alleged kidnapping plot in Michigan determine whether or not Jan 6th was a false flag. If it's dismissed in Michigan, then I have no choice but to believe that the FBI was involved on the 6th. If it isn't--and there is convincing evidence that it wasn't (which I doubt more and more with each passing day), then I'll believe Jan 6th was a genuine case of a 'Mostly Peaceful Protest.
Why are some suspects who were on the FBI's Jan 6th wanted list not charged while others are sitting in solitary confinement for almost a year with no trial date?
People who were accused of misdemeanors or no involvement in the actual breach or other sundry actions were likely the uncharged suspects. No idea re trial dates or no trial dates.
Once you look at other videos of that day, its hard to believe that two FBI men could convince hundreds of people to beat up cops, threaten some officials, destroy property, smear shit on walls, and bring tears to the eyes of many American people who watched this horrible event.
I have argued every time the pardons came up on Glenn's forums that it was Trump's second impeachment that held Trump hostage and prevented him from issuing the pardons'.
It is tragic that such heroes as Assange and Snowden are still in danger of prosecuted by the US.
Anatomy of the Deep State
by Mike Lofgren — February 21, 2014
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.
The analyses of why Trump never pardoned either Assange or Snowden confirms what many people had suspected, that the second impeachment and threats from the establishment to convict him were the reason. Greenwald's article also explains why Pelosi was in such a rush to start an impeachment trial when Trump only had two weeks left in office. It's a case of scratch your back and I'll scratch mine between the big government types on both sides of the political isle, as neither wanted the act of their dirty laundry being aired being unpunishable, as that would invite more people to examine it. As a result, I paid for a yearly subscription given Greenwald's consistency and honesty, even though I revile much of the modern day political left, including all whom are infected with 'wokeness,' in short, the CPC types.
I'll admit, I supported Dick Cheney when he was VP and supported the PATRIOT Act with my first vote in 2004 at the age of 19, given the real threat of Jihadists, not only for 9/11, but for previous attempts and other, subsequent attempted attacks like the attempted 'underwear bomber' and Boston Marathon bomber. I suppose that was naive of me, perhaps in part given I was in my late teens/early 20s then and had long looked up to the FBI as the ones whom had the resources to analyze forensic evidence in order to put serial killers behind bars. I did not see the desire for a massive expansion of surveillance, nor did I anticipate the about turn the hard left took when expanding the surveillance under the Obama years, as they had screamed so loudly against it during the Bush years, yet were silent during his successor. I had no idea whatsoever of the politicization of the FBI, or for that matter, the CIA.
Now though, it seems that Trump's election created such a political earthquake that it shook the fake wool off of the authoritarian wolves in politics, revealing them for who they are. People on the right whom I had up until that point respected were revealed to have the same authoritarian tendencies of the massive regulators of the political left. With identity politics and wokeism, it made it even easier to distinguish the wolves from the sheep, especially here in southeast Wisconsin. Love or hate Trump, or be somewhere in between (as I am as I approve of his policies, not his impulsive tweets), I am grateful for his exposing of the statists, and am grateful for Greenwald's tireless efforts to keep them in the spotlight and expose their pasts and dirty laundry.
I can respect your appeal to authority. Does this help?
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
I am a life-long Republican and I have utter contempt for the members of the GOP establishment that threatened Trump over this. I admit that I supported the war against Iraq.
I was mistaken. I believed the erroneous information about Saddam. I assume positive intent. If someone does something I disagree with, I look to see why they could be doing this and I don't assume a corrupt or evil intention.
But now I see I was wrong. I wonder how many other people were wrong. Was it Bush 2 who pushed for the war against Iraq or was Bush 2 convinced by a faction in the national security bureaucracy (NSB) to approve the war. I think Bush 2 wanted to do this anyways, but that faction in the NSB told him what he wanted to hear and he did what they wanted. I think the Valerie Plame nonsense was another branch of the NSB taking revenge against Bush 2 and his staff.
I think we have had a dispute between these two branches of the NSB. The irony is that the anti-Bush faction really is not opposed to war; they are just opposed to any war brought by Bush or the GOP. They were quite happy when Obama increased our presence in the Middle East with the Surge.
By now, all those who are keeping up with political stuff, are aware he is a globalist / establishment... and so are many others. probably more than half of GOP... which truly depresses me. :/
Cheney and the other neocons wanted to invade Iraq since the mid nineties. They wrote an open letter - with all the neocon signatories - to Bill Clinton during Clinton's 2nd term, pleading with him to invade Iraq. You can view that letter online from open sources. Actual copies of the letter as printed in the newspaper as full page ad.
GWB's first secretary of the treasury, Paul O'Neil, wrote in his book, that GWB's cabinet was already planning how to invade Iraq in January or February of 2001 - 7 months before 9/11. Paul's quote in the book was something like: '10 days in (to GWB's presidency), and it was already about invading Iraq'.
Hugh 5th of 5: I was a long time Democrat, from a family of Democrats and I have utter contempt for the Democrats and their toxic influence on this country. Glenn's explanation of Trump's behavior is painful to read. Put me in the jail that Assange has been in and I think I would be dead. I don't think I have felt this bad for one person--Assange at this moment, since the day Bobby Kennedy was murdered. I saw hope then.
Trump had a winning hand and blew it. Trump blew it when he didn't appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead a vaccine safety commission. We wouldn't be dealing with the corruption of FDA, CDC, NIH over the vaccines if Kennedy would have been allowed to pursue the evidence of corruption at those institutions. Trump could have fulfilled the populism that was aligned behind him.
To William Whitten's comment above about the visible government. I was an an assistant boy scout leader for several years, the chapter in the Boy Scout Handbook that dealt with our governmental institutions, I could not participate in the indoctrination of the young minds regarding the myth of checks and balances vs the reality. Whitten's reference to the tip of iceberg vs where the real powers reside will be accurate as far as I can see. I wasn't going to lie, and the truth was just too inconvenient and painful.
Mitch and a whole army of D's and R's would have done all they could to undermine a vaccine safety commission. It would be the whole medical industrial complex plus silicon valley against RFK Jr. The last thing the establishment wants is the truth on vaccines, FDA, CDC, NIH, Pharma to come out. It would have played out then, just like it is playing out today.
Bush 2 had an administration full of PNAC members, Dick Cheney being the top dog of that group and of the Bush2 junta. It was these people who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks in a false flag operation, to instate the bogus "war on Terror" and establish the draconian laws of the so-called 'Patriot Act'.
He had those weapons and had used them. So he either willingly got rid of them(out of the goodness of his heart??) or moved them to a safe haven(Syria??). If I had illegal armaments in my house, and the police said they would be coming by in the next few weeks to months I would move my armaments.
He used chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War, provided by the US. He probably had them during Desert Storm but did not use them against the Coalition. By 2000, they were gone and lowly CIA personnel knew it, but George Tenet helped to "fix the facts around the policy" as the Downing Street memo revealed. Scott Ritter tried to blow the whistle and was entrapped into a sexual scandal to discredit him.
Correct He had had them and had used them. Obviously, they were not there at time of the invasion and CIA did NOT know they had been moved or destroyed.
I have spent most of my professional life as a government attorney, generally handling civil cases involving taxes. But in the middle of my career, I spent a year as a criminal prosecutor. It was a big change from civil litigation. My office was in a county just north of Columbus, Ohio and we were the fastest growing county in Ohio.
The county prosecutor at the time, W. Duncan Whitney, was highly ethical. We never leaked any information to the press...ever. Grand jury proceedings were highly confidential and we practiced great care in keeping them that way. There were disputes between the judges and the prosecutor's office but we handled them all honestly.
We had a choice of how to indict people. We could send the case to grand jury (which was secret) or we could send the case to a magistrate (in our county, the Municipal Court judge) for a preliminary hearing. We avoided prelim hearings as much as possible since they gave defense counsel a peek at our case. Since the grand jury only met a few days every other week, it was a challenge avoiding prelim hearings.
But we had a solid rule: if we got a bill of indictment from the grand jury that was not unanimous, we would not take that case to trial. We NEVER threatened criminal prosecutions in our civil cases. We NEVER threatened prosecutions against family members in order to get a plea agreement. I once read a report about how the US DOJ during the Clinton years had been doing this (especially Deval Patrick). I asked Mr. Whitney about this practice to see his opinion about Deval Patrick's actions. Whitney thought that I was asking about doing this in my cases. He was furious and yelled at me that if he ever caught me doing this, he would charge me with extortion! Well, that was good to know. Too bad Patrick never did his practice in Delaware County, Ohio or I would have recommended felony extortion charges against him.
I am proud of the work I did as a criminal prosecutor. My best memory was of the time when I got a person OUT of jail. It was Thanksgiving week and I had an offender who had been locked up on Saturday for a parole violation - moving out of her home county to Delaware County. She had problems with her home county's probation office; there were non-responsive. She moved to Delaware County and immediately registered with them. Her home county put out an order for her to be arrested and she was. Well, she had 2 cases in our county, one in front of Judge Shaw and one in front of Judge Kreager (who was on vacation that week). I had a hearing to review her request for release and the county probation office was there and supported her release. We got it done in the case in front of Judge Shaw, but the matching hearing in front of Judge Kreager was scheduled for the next week. I moved heaven and earth to get that hearing transferred to Judge Shaw and rescheduled for Tuesday. We got it all done and we got that woman out of prison so that she could work over the Thanksgiving holiday and spend the time with her family.
I feel good about my time as a prosecutor. We were an honest, ethical office. Too bad the DOJ is not that way.
I really appreciate hearing how you approached the role of prosecutor. I read a recent Matt Taibbi interview with a hedge fund CEO that describes the chilling tactics used by prosecutors more focused on making names for themselves than serving the public.
This was very helpful. I thought Pompeo was the one who was instrumental in talking Trump out of the pardons. Sadly it appears the most effective method to persuade a politician is by means of blackmail.
I think this pardon or not pardon issue is important because it exposes the split personality of the GOP. This is exactly why they always get steamrolled by the left. Weak, vacillating and cowardly. Notice that The Left hardly ever breaks ranks on important issues and votes as a bloc even when their individual interests are disregarded by the DNC and Party leaders. Republicans should be called out on these positions that are in fact clones of Dem. ideology.
RINO is not an empty insult. Voters must make clear their position on RINO's and their self serving votes against GOP oriented programs and policies.
Trump on this issue was voting for self preservation or to allow him to run in 2024 with the backing of the entire party. Won't happen and he is pretty much done as a candidate and must content himself with being a "King Maker" behind the scenes or a uber-supporter of those he wishes to have elected.
First he is too old. Second he has way too many very powerful enemies who can utilize the "system" to bring him low. His past personal life and business dealings leave him exposed to a corrupt Justice System that is NOT above a frame job to get him out of the way. He knows that and realizes he is NOT an all ;powerful dictator who can just jail his mostly criminally driven, un-balanced haters on the left as well the back stabbers within his own Party. He is in a "no win situation."
Might be time for a reset and to rebuild the Party around a smart and strong leader/leaders who will be able to directly confront the I. C. and place them back in their troll cave by lopping off their leadership and allies in Congress. Tall order that would require a massive plurality in the next few elections. That support can only be assembled if both Parties can come to some type of meeting of the minds on the threats engendered by the Deep State. The catalyst would be a strong independent media that is not compromised by those unelected bureaucrats and war loving neo-cons. Good luck!
Trump did get 6 more votes to convict in the second impeachment attempt, all of whom were Republicans and that was without the pardons. Ten more beyond that would have been needed for a conviction. I wouldn't be surprised if the big government types went after not only Trump but his family as well to block his pardoning.
Operation Chaos: Democrats flood America's streets with violent criminals
We all know that George Soros is funding District Attorney (DA) political campaigns across the country, making a mockery of local election integrity while installing radical left-wing Marxists into positions of power. These DAs now routinely release violent criminals back onto the streets while refusing to prosecute left-wing murderers, rapists, arsonists and other violent criminals.
But why? What's the motivation behind the release of criminals onto the streets?
The answer, of course, is that Soros and radical Leftists need to invoke mass chaos across America in 2022.
The mass chaos will be designed to disrupt or halt elections, cover up Biden's disastrous economic policy failure and even bury vaccine deaths that are accelerating by the day.
Just a tiny bit of feedback: I just realized I've been deleting the emails from you that start with Video Transcript. Because the first word is 'video', I have been skipping them. Kind of dumb, but maybe I'm not the only one? How about Transcript of Video? That I would jump on, as I am one of your devoted subscribers that prefers to read. (BTW, thanks for all the options!!)
Not pardoning Julian Assange and/or Edward Snowden would have exposed the perfidy or current government employees so it makes sense that UniParty Establishment would want the information suppressed but why NOT declassify Kennedy files? Personally, I am convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was a committed Stalinist/Bolshevik and murdered the President because JFK was a committed anti-Bolshevik anti-Russian anti-Communist. I think the Warren Commission was thorough. So what would declassifying Kennedy Assassination files reveal? CIA perfidy? or CIA incompetence? It wasn't the last time a terrorist slipped through their surveillance. 911 Boston Bomber Marjorie Stoneman Douglas massacre and so many more.
I remain an unshakeable supporter of President Trump but I do think he caved. Understandable. I like to indulge my political fantasy that Pres. Trump returns and torches all these people whose dishonesty and incompetence have betrayed us all.
Candace Owens is impressive and asked the question I wanted to ask. I do think Pres. Trump was misled and, in this case, intimidated. It is an explanation that makes sense.
I never considered myself a Leftist. I have heard that Glenn Greenwald is a Leftist. I wonder what that means in practical political sense. He seems like an honest and very competent policeman.
Douglass exposes government DOCUMENTS proving that Oswald was a CIA asset unsuccessfully sent to Russia as a spy. His relationship with the CIA continued after he returned, but unbeknownst to him he had become expendable. Douglass also exposes the failed Chicago plot that was very similar to the Dallas plan, including a sharp right angle turn amongst tall buildings and a designated fall guy.
You seem like a bright enough guy. There's still a lot of speculation as to who was behind the Dallas plot, but some things are certain. The Warren Commission was a "noble lie" to head off both a Constitutional crisis and potential war with the Soviet Union, there's no way a single shooter with that pitiful excuse of a rifle could have gotten off three targeted shots, and there's no way one bullet could have done all that damage to both Kennedy and Connally.
One would expect the CIA to be aware of Oswald but, apparently, not. I think the simple explanation is the most likely. One very committed shooter. Evidence of conspiracy is sketchy. Nevertheless, the main point is that the Kennedy Assassination files should be declassified so we could know what CIA and other agencies knew or did not know. What could be the reason for NOT declassifying Kennedy Assassination documents?
I could have gotten three shots on target with that rifle. I do it fairly often. It was relatively close range, and a slow moving target. Not a big challenge with any rifle with a competent shooter. Deer hunters do it all the time. And rifle bullets often pass through their targets and hit bystanders. The scene in Quigley Down Under where the hero hits three bad guys simultaneously with one bullet is unlikely but certainly possible. Lots of questions remain about JFK, but the ability of the rifle or shooter isn't one of them.
Maybe YOU could have, especially with the Presidential limousine slowing to a near stop for the last shot, instead of speeding away as one might expect a SS driver to be trained to do after the first shot.
That is what I read. I was at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and was impressed that Oswald's wedding ring was made with Russian Gold and imprinted with hammer and cycle. He was "married" to Russian Bolshevism. From the 6th Floor window, there was a straight shot to open car.
I notice that the usual “supporters” of GG are mostly absent, here. Trump, Paul, and Goetz considered pardoning Assange and/or Snowden for one reason only…and that is, their revelations embarrassed the Democrats. That’s it.
On Monday, 9/20/202 in the pathological institute in Reutlingen, the results of the autopsies of eight people who died after COVID19 vaccination will be presented.
The fine tissue analyses were performed by pathologists Prof. Dr. Arne Burkhardt and Prof. Dr. Walter Lang. The findings confirm Prof. Dr. Peter Schirmacher’s finding that among more than 40 corpses he autopsied who had died within two weeks of COVID19 vaccination, approximately one-third of those deaths were caused by the vaccination. Microscopic details of the tissue changes will be shown during the live-streamed press conference. Prof. Dr. Werner Bergholz will report on the current parameters of the statistical recording of vaccination events.
The press conference will also present the results of the analysis of COVID-19 vaccine samples by an Austrian research group, which are in line with the findings of scientists from Japan and the USA. Undeclared metal-containing components were found in the vaccine. Visually, vaccine elements are conspicuous by their unusual shape.
The results of the investigation have led to legal and political demands, for example, for the immediate collection of information by the authorities in order to be able to assess the health risk posed to the population by the COVID-19 vaccines. For example, early signals of impaired fertility in vaccinated individuals can be examined by consulting IVF registries. Through the cancer registry, insights can be gained into the development of cancer due to the genetic modifications of the viral RNA. Suspension of COVID-19 vaccination should be considered.
Trump should have done what he knew was right and pardon them. But his narcissism kicked in again and he was out for himself again. Please do not say Trump may have the opportunity in 2024. I am a staunch anti Democratic Party proponent but we CANNOT have Trump running for President again. He is too self destructive.
"...weak, cucked, and submissive..." These are the main characteristics for all major globalization politicians.
With our duopoly presidential races, the multinationals have hedged their bets with not only both presidential candidates, but also with both Veeps. If a president doesn't behave, then he or she will be replaced and, with a bipartisan duopoly news/entertainment media, probably thrown into jail with no retirement benefits (speaking engagements, offshore bank accounts, library, etc.).
Trump would go against his own convictions to protect himself from outside threats. Let’s be real about this. There’s never a situation where Trump would be “too nice” to do something that would otherwise hurt his own agenda. I was shocked that he didn’t pardon both of them. But that was also the exact moment that I truly understood who Trump really was.
For 4 years, he has fought Establishment, hordes of dirty corrupt and very malicious creatures, he and his admin. managed to accomplish a lot... He still has the unfinished business. China, Border. etc etc to put the country on the right track... so at that moment of the blackmail (I remember reading about McConnell went to blackmail Trump on this issue.) he probably thought backing off was the right decision back then otherwise, he would probably never be able to finish the job especially at that point he was 100% sure he was cheated out of his second term. If it were his 2nd term, he probably would have pardoned those two... That's my opinion. Trump is not a perfect human being, but, he is not cowardly. It was a calculated decision... (I watched Epoch Times, Kash's corner. his interview with Grenell. In that Interview, he mentioned something that was related to intel community. If he were allowed to stay in DNI, means if Trump won the second term, he would have cleaned the Russian/ China group. He also said he was well aware DoJ and FBI are fully corrupt and needs the total overhaul. If you have a chance, you should watch. You can see the glimpse of his admin.
If there is one thing that is certain about Mr Trump, it is 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁 that he's a 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙.
Nan...pisst, the man was Pres. and runs 500 companies, while putting together a very nice Family. Just because he wears a flaming red tie," coward " come to mind ?
Twice impeached. Failed and failing companies. Lovely family? Coward and a bully come to mind.
"Twice impeached". Yes, by a cabal of the most corrupt, disgusting, lying low-lifes the Democrat Party has produced since Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Enjoy your Blue Kool-Aid.
I see we have a disagreement over what are impeachable offenses. Perhaps,
but Trump was the most corrupt POTUS ever.
Nancy...Ok, you got me there. Not sure but Trumty did a file on 4/5 casinos, you would think casinos would be easy prey for the owner, go figure.
And...Clinton, the BO, and Biden, combined for Zero Bankruptcy.
Clinton, from what he said, did owe $16 total debt, from when he left office but gees...look at him go, he's a million air now.
So...from Trump's 500 companies, not sure if he lost on them, but he did file.
Not sure if the peaches were all that serious, but if you say -so.
This Joe Biden guy is too smart for the nay guys. While he addresses K Harris
as "the President", he's ready for the quick Exit...No BR, just run.
It was undercover FBI agents who perpetrated the Jan 6 violence. GG has written about this as well, All of the departments of the US government are totally corrupt.
See the following link:
https://thedissedent.page/2021/07/01/fbi-role-in-1-6-2021/
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Good reporting on Jan 6th from Revolver News
https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/
https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
I'm still out on that, though the silence of the Pipe Bomber and the dismissal of Ray Epps points in that direction. It seems like a stretch to think it was a false flag, but Glenn reported on the FBI pushing people into doing crimes back into the Bush years. I'll let the outcome of the alleged kidnapping plot in Michigan determine whether or not Jan 6th was a false flag. If it's dismissed in Michigan, then I have no choice but to believe that the FBI was involved on the 6th. If it isn't--and there is convincing evidence that it wasn't (which I doubt more and more with each passing day), then I'll believe Jan 6th was a genuine case of a 'Mostly Peaceful Protest.
Why are some suspects who were on the FBI's Jan 6th wanted list not charged while others are sitting in solitary confinement for almost a year with no trial date?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/january-6-prosecution-one-year?s=mobile_app
People who were accused of misdemeanors or no involvement in the actual breach or other sundry actions were likely the uncharged suspects. No idea re trial dates or no trial dates.
What's that old saying about better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt?
Did you watch the videos?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-committee-knocks-down-bonkers-conspiracy-pushed-by-tucker-carlson-and-ted-cruz?ref=scroll
I did, yesterday, I think. Fascinating.
Once you look at other videos of that day, its hard to believe that two FBI men could convince hundreds of people to beat up cops, threaten some officials, destroy property, smear shit on walls, and bring tears to the eyes of many American people who watched this horrible event.
I have argued every time the pardons came up on Glenn's forums that it was Trump's second impeachment that held Trump hostage and prevented him from issuing the pardons'.
It is tragic that such heroes as Assange and Snowden are still in danger of prosecuted by the US.
Anatomy of the Deep State
by Mike Lofgren — February 21, 2014
There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power.
Entire article:
https://thedissedent.page/2021/10/19/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
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The analyses of why Trump never pardoned either Assange or Snowden confirms what many people had suspected, that the second impeachment and threats from the establishment to convict him were the reason. Greenwald's article also explains why Pelosi was in such a rush to start an impeachment trial when Trump only had two weeks left in office. It's a case of scratch your back and I'll scratch mine between the big government types on both sides of the political isle, as neither wanted the act of their dirty laundry being aired being unpunishable, as that would invite more people to examine it. As a result, I paid for a yearly subscription given Greenwald's consistency and honesty, even though I revile much of the modern day political left, including all whom are infected with 'wokeness,' in short, the CPC types.
I'll admit, I supported Dick Cheney when he was VP and supported the PATRIOT Act with my first vote in 2004 at the age of 19, given the real threat of Jihadists, not only for 9/11, but for previous attempts and other, subsequent attempted attacks like the attempted 'underwear bomber' and Boston Marathon bomber. I suppose that was naive of me, perhaps in part given I was in my late teens/early 20s then and had long looked up to the FBI as the ones whom had the resources to analyze forensic evidence in order to put serial killers behind bars. I did not see the desire for a massive expansion of surveillance, nor did I anticipate the about turn the hard left took when expanding the surveillance under the Obama years, as they had screamed so loudly against it during the Bush years, yet were silent during his successor. I had no idea whatsoever of the politicization of the FBI, or for that matter, the CIA.
Now though, it seems that Trump's election created such a political earthquake that it shook the fake wool off of the authoritarian wolves in politics, revealing them for who they are. People on the right whom I had up until that point respected were revealed to have the same authoritarian tendencies of the massive regulators of the political left. With identity politics and wokeism, it made it even easier to distinguish the wolves from the sheep, especially here in southeast Wisconsin. Love or hate Trump, or be somewhere in between (as I am as I approve of his policies, not his impulsive tweets), I am grateful for his exposing of the statists, and am grateful for Greenwald's tireless efforts to keep them in the spotlight and expose their pasts and dirty laundry.
“We’re all part of the same hypocrisy.”
—Michael Corleone, The Godfather part II
Oh, yes…SUCH an authority! The droolings of Mario Puzo, the mob’s Ayn Rand.
I can respect your appeal to authority. Does this help?
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
—Romans 3:10-12
Now droolings from the bible.
Sooo…Trump’s off the hook for his failure to pardon? They “made him do it”?
Trump’s “policy” was to pardon right wing thugs.
I am a life-long Republican and I have utter contempt for the members of the GOP establishment that threatened Trump over this. I admit that I supported the war against Iraq.
I was mistaken. I believed the erroneous information about Saddam. I assume positive intent. If someone does something I disagree with, I look to see why they could be doing this and I don't assume a corrupt or evil intention.
But now I see I was wrong. I wonder how many other people were wrong. Was it Bush 2 who pushed for the war against Iraq or was Bush 2 convinced by a faction in the national security bureaucracy (NSB) to approve the war. I think Bush 2 wanted to do this anyways, but that faction in the NSB told him what he wanted to hear and he did what they wanted. I think the Valerie Plame nonsense was another branch of the NSB taking revenge against Bush 2 and his staff.
I think we have had a dispute between these two branches of the NSB. The irony is that the anti-Bush faction really is not opposed to war; they are just opposed to any war brought by Bush or the GOP. They were quite happy when Obama increased our presence in the Middle East with the Surge.
This should finish any chance Rubio might have for the Presidency.
By now, all those who are keeping up with political stuff, are aware he is a globalist / establishment... and so are many others. probably more than half of GOP... which truly depresses me. :/
Cheney and the other neocons wanted to invade Iraq since the mid nineties. They wrote an open letter - with all the neocon signatories - to Bill Clinton during Clinton's 2nd term, pleading with him to invade Iraq. You can view that letter online from open sources. Actual copies of the letter as printed in the newspaper as full page ad.
GWB's first secretary of the treasury, Paul O'Neil, wrote in his book, that GWB's cabinet was already planning how to invade Iraq in January or February of 2001 - 7 months before 9/11. Paul's quote in the book was something like: '10 days in (to GWB's presidency), and it was already about invading Iraq'.
An integral part of the cabal that engineered 911
Hugh 5th of 5: I was a long time Democrat, from a family of Democrats and I have utter contempt for the Democrats and their toxic influence on this country. Glenn's explanation of Trump's behavior is painful to read. Put me in the jail that Assange has been in and I think I would be dead. I don't think I have felt this bad for one person--Assange at this moment, since the day Bobby Kennedy was murdered. I saw hope then.
Trump had a winning hand and blew it. Trump blew it when he didn't appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead a vaccine safety commission. We wouldn't be dealing with the corruption of FDA, CDC, NIH over the vaccines if Kennedy would have been allowed to pursue the evidence of corruption at those institutions. Trump could have fulfilled the populism that was aligned behind him.
To William Whitten's comment above about the visible government. I was an an assistant boy scout leader for several years, the chapter in the Boy Scout Handbook that dealt with our governmental institutions, I could not participate in the indoctrination of the young minds regarding the myth of checks and balances vs the reality. Whitten's reference to the tip of iceberg vs where the real powers reside will be accurate as far as I can see. I wasn't going to lie, and the truth was just too inconvenient and painful.
Could Mitch etc. have blocked $$ for such a vaccine safety commission?
Mitch and a whole army of D's and R's would have done all they could to undermine a vaccine safety commission. It would be the whole medical industrial complex plus silicon valley against RFK Jr. The last thing the establishment wants is the truth on vaccines, FDA, CDC, NIH, Pharma to come out. It would have played out then, just like it is playing out today.
Bush 2 had an administration full of PNAC members, Dick Cheney being the top dog of that group and of the Bush2 junta. It was these people who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks in a false flag operation, to instate the bogus "war on Terror" and establish the draconian laws of the so-called 'Patriot Act'.
https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/17/9-11-false-flag-psyop/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/18/9-11-images/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/21/the-construction-of-the-wtc-towers-1-2/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/24/a-structural-reevaluation-of-the-collapse-of-world-trade-center-7/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/23/fema-403-appendix-c/
https://thedissedent.page/2021/08/23/controlled-demolition-and-the-demise-of-wtc-on-9-11/
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I was convinced that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The CIA was adamant. The CIA was either grossly incompetent or lying. Or both..
He had those weapons and had used them. So he either willingly got rid of them(out of the goodness of his heart??) or moved them to a safe haven(Syria??). If I had illegal armaments in my house, and the police said they would be coming by in the next few weeks to months I would move my armaments.
He used chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War, provided by the US. He probably had them during Desert Storm but did not use them against the Coalition. By 2000, they were gone and lowly CIA personnel knew it, but George Tenet helped to "fix the facts around the policy" as the Downing Street memo revealed. Scott Ritter tried to blow the whistle and was entrapped into a sexual scandal to discredit him.
Correct He had had them and had used them. Obviously, they were not there at time of the invasion and CIA did NOT know they had been moved or destroyed.
I have spent most of my professional life as a government attorney, generally handling civil cases involving taxes. But in the middle of my career, I spent a year as a criminal prosecutor. It was a big change from civil litigation. My office was in a county just north of Columbus, Ohio and we were the fastest growing county in Ohio.
The county prosecutor at the time, W. Duncan Whitney, was highly ethical. We never leaked any information to the press...ever. Grand jury proceedings were highly confidential and we practiced great care in keeping them that way. There were disputes between the judges and the prosecutor's office but we handled them all honestly.
We had a choice of how to indict people. We could send the case to grand jury (which was secret) or we could send the case to a magistrate (in our county, the Municipal Court judge) for a preliminary hearing. We avoided prelim hearings as much as possible since they gave defense counsel a peek at our case. Since the grand jury only met a few days every other week, it was a challenge avoiding prelim hearings.
But we had a solid rule: if we got a bill of indictment from the grand jury that was not unanimous, we would not take that case to trial. We NEVER threatened criminal prosecutions in our civil cases. We NEVER threatened prosecutions against family members in order to get a plea agreement. I once read a report about how the US DOJ during the Clinton years had been doing this (especially Deval Patrick). I asked Mr. Whitney about this practice to see his opinion about Deval Patrick's actions. Whitney thought that I was asking about doing this in my cases. He was furious and yelled at me that if he ever caught me doing this, he would charge me with extortion! Well, that was good to know. Too bad Patrick never did his practice in Delaware County, Ohio or I would have recommended felony extortion charges against him.
I am proud of the work I did as a criminal prosecutor. My best memory was of the time when I got a person OUT of jail. It was Thanksgiving week and I had an offender who had been locked up on Saturday for a parole violation - moving out of her home county to Delaware County. She had problems with her home county's probation office; there were non-responsive. She moved to Delaware County and immediately registered with them. Her home county put out an order for her to be arrested and she was. Well, she had 2 cases in our county, one in front of Judge Shaw and one in front of Judge Kreager (who was on vacation that week). I had a hearing to review her request for release and the county probation office was there and supported her release. We got it done in the case in front of Judge Shaw, but the matching hearing in front of Judge Kreager was scheduled for the next week. I moved heaven and earth to get that hearing transferred to Judge Shaw and rescheduled for Tuesday. We got it all done and we got that woman out of prison so that she could work over the Thanksgiving holiday and spend the time with her family.
I feel good about my time as a prosecutor. We were an honest, ethical office. Too bad the DOJ is not that way.
I really appreciate hearing how you approached the role of prosecutor. I read a recent Matt Taibbi interview with a hedge fund CEO that describes the chilling tactics used by prosecutors more focused on making names for themselves than serving the public.
Yes. Too bad
This was very helpful. I thought Pompeo was the one who was instrumental in talking Trump out of the pardons. Sadly it appears the most effective method to persuade a politician is by means of blackmail.
I think this pardon or not pardon issue is important because it exposes the split personality of the GOP. This is exactly why they always get steamrolled by the left. Weak, vacillating and cowardly. Notice that The Left hardly ever breaks ranks on important issues and votes as a bloc even when their individual interests are disregarded by the DNC and Party leaders. Republicans should be called out on these positions that are in fact clones of Dem. ideology.
RINO is not an empty insult. Voters must make clear their position on RINO's and their self serving votes against GOP oriented programs and policies.
Trump on this issue was voting for self preservation or to allow him to run in 2024 with the backing of the entire party. Won't happen and he is pretty much done as a candidate and must content himself with being a "King Maker" behind the scenes or a uber-supporter of those he wishes to have elected.
First he is too old. Second he has way too many very powerful enemies who can utilize the "system" to bring him low. His past personal life and business dealings leave him exposed to a corrupt Justice System that is NOT above a frame job to get him out of the way. He knows that and realizes he is NOT an all ;powerful dictator who can just jail his mostly criminally driven, un-balanced haters on the left as well the back stabbers within his own Party. He is in a "no win situation."
Might be time for a reset and to rebuild the Party around a smart and strong leader/leaders who will be able to directly confront the I. C. and place them back in their troll cave by lopping off their leadership and allies in Congress. Tall order that would require a massive plurality in the next few elections. That support can only be assembled if both Parties can come to some type of meeting of the minds on the threats engendered by the Deep State. The catalyst would be a strong independent media that is not compromised by those unelected bureaucrats and war loving neo-cons. Good luck!
Doesn't it take a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict an impeached president?
Did Trump really believe they could get - not just Graham and McConnell - but a third of Republicans to go along with conviction?
Maybe.
Or, maybe Trump was threatened with release of other damaging information?
Or maybe just intimidated on a personal level by the ferociousness of the various threats?
Easily 1/3 of senate Republicans are deep staters.
Trump did get 6 more votes to convict in the second impeachment attempt, all of whom were Republicans and that was without the pardons. Ten more beyond that would have been needed for a conviction. I wouldn't be surprised if the big government types went after not only Trump but his family as well to block his pardoning.
Operation Chaos: Democrats flood America's streets with violent criminals
We all know that George Soros is funding District Attorney (DA) political campaigns across the country, making a mockery of local election integrity while installing radical left-wing Marxists into positions of power. These DAs now routinely release violent criminals back onto the streets while refusing to prosecute left-wing murderers, rapists, arsonists and other violent criminals.
But why? What's the motivation behind the release of criminals onto the streets?
The answer, of course, is that Soros and radical Leftists need to invoke mass chaos across America in 2022.
The mass chaos will be designed to disrupt or halt elections, cover up Biden's disastrous economic policy failure and even bury vaccine deaths that are accelerating by the day.
Get full details in today's feature podcast here.
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Just a tiny bit of feedback: I just realized I've been deleting the emails from you that start with Video Transcript. Because the first word is 'video', I have been skipping them. Kind of dumb, but maybe I'm not the only one? How about Transcript of Video? That I would jump on, as I am one of your devoted subscribers that prefers to read. (BTW, thanks for all the options!!)
Not pardoning Julian Assange and/or Edward Snowden would have exposed the perfidy or current government employees so it makes sense that UniParty Establishment would want the information suppressed but why NOT declassify Kennedy files? Personally, I am convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was a committed Stalinist/Bolshevik and murdered the President because JFK was a committed anti-Bolshevik anti-Russian anti-Communist. I think the Warren Commission was thorough. So what would declassifying Kennedy Assassination files reveal? CIA perfidy? or CIA incompetence? It wasn't the last time a terrorist slipped through their surveillance. 911 Boston Bomber Marjorie Stoneman Douglas massacre and so many more.
I remain an unshakeable supporter of President Trump but I do think he caved. Understandable. I like to indulge my political fantasy that Pres. Trump returns and torches all these people whose dishonesty and incompetence have betrayed us all.
Candace Owens is impressive and asked the question I wanted to ask. I do think Pres. Trump was misled and, in this case, intimidated. It is an explanation that makes sense.
I never considered myself a Leftist. I have heard that Glenn Greenwald is a Leftist. I wonder what that means in practical political sense. He seems like an honest and very competent policeman.
Read "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters" by James W. Douglass: https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886.
Douglass exposes government DOCUMENTS proving that Oswald was a CIA asset unsuccessfully sent to Russia as a spy. His relationship with the CIA continued after he returned, but unbeknownst to him he had become expendable. Douglass also exposes the failed Chicago plot that was very similar to the Dallas plan, including a sharp right angle turn amongst tall buildings and a designated fall guy.
You seem like a bright enough guy. There's still a lot of speculation as to who was behind the Dallas plot, but some things are certain. The Warren Commission was a "noble lie" to head off both a Constitutional crisis and potential war with the Soviet Union, there's no way a single shooter with that pitiful excuse of a rifle could have gotten off three targeted shots, and there's no way one bullet could have done all that damage to both Kennedy and Connally.
One would expect the CIA to be aware of Oswald but, apparently, not. I think the simple explanation is the most likely. One very committed shooter. Evidence of conspiracy is sketchy. Nevertheless, the main point is that the Kennedy Assassination files should be declassified so we could know what CIA and other agencies knew or did not know. What could be the reason for NOT declassifying Kennedy Assassination documents?
Wow, you read that book in under an hour! Fantastic!
I could have gotten three shots on target with that rifle. I do it fairly often. It was relatively close range, and a slow moving target. Not a big challenge with any rifle with a competent shooter. Deer hunters do it all the time. And rifle bullets often pass through their targets and hit bystanders. The scene in Quigley Down Under where the hero hits three bad guys simultaneously with one bullet is unlikely but certainly possible. Lots of questions remain about JFK, but the ability of the rifle or shooter isn't one of them.
Maybe YOU could have, especially with the Presidential limousine slowing to a near stop for the last shot, instead of speeding away as one might expect a SS driver to be trained to do after the first shot.
And, no SS guys were close enough to jump on/ cover JFK, so that the shooter would've had no target left, and would've decided to call it a day.
Good point. That was contrary to prior practice.
Yeah, you can see a slew of pix of JFK's limo being surrounded by SS guys with sunglasses, see esp. the pages of Vince Palamara.
That is what I read. I was at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and was impressed that Oswald's wedding ring was made with Russian Gold and imprinted with hammer and cycle. He was "married" to Russian Bolshevism. From the 6th Floor window, there was a straight shot to open car.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-election-is-like-choosing-between-cholera-or-gonorrhea/amp/
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/assange-confirms-firm-working-for-trump-campaign-contacted-wikileaks-over-clinton-emails/story-hXQzSVViUTLiiI40KKABgJ.html
I notice that the usual “supporters” of GG are mostly absent, here. Trump, Paul, and Goetz considered pardoning Assange and/or Snowden for one reason only…and that is, their revelations embarrassed the Democrats. That’s it.
I notice that Needham still considers his personal opinions to be as valid as empirical facts.
It is very cool that substack has added an edit function to the comments section.
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I notice that you have no original ideas whatsoever, Mr. copy-and-paste.
Referencing knowledgeable sources is far better than using ones own personal opinions as a foundation.
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/remember-when-implantable-tracking-microchips-were-just-a-conspiracy-theory-thanks-to-covid-theyre-now-a-reality/
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UNDECLARED COMPONENTS OF THE COVID-19 VACCINES
20.09.2021 16:00 |
On Monday, 9/20/202 in the pathological institute in Reutlingen, the results of the autopsies of eight people who died after COVID19 vaccination will be presented.
The fine tissue analyses were performed by pathologists Prof. Dr. Arne Burkhardt and Prof. Dr. Walter Lang. The findings confirm Prof. Dr. Peter Schirmacher’s finding that among more than 40 corpses he autopsied who had died within two weeks of COVID19 vaccination, approximately one-third of those deaths were caused by the vaccination. Microscopic details of the tissue changes will be shown during the live-streamed press conference. Prof. Dr. Werner Bergholz will report on the current parameters of the statistical recording of vaccination events.
The press conference will also present the results of the analysis of COVID-19 vaccine samples by an Austrian research group, which are in line with the findings of scientists from Japan and the USA. Undeclared metal-containing components were found in the vaccine. Visually, vaccine elements are conspicuous by their unusual shape.
The results of the investigation have led to legal and political demands, for example, for the immediate collection of information by the authorities in order to be able to assess the health risk posed to the population by the COVID-19 vaccines. For example, early signals of impaired fertility in vaccinated individuals can be examined by consulting IVF registries. Through the cancer registry, insights can be gained into the development of cancer due to the genetic modifications of the viral RNA. Suspension of COVID-19 vaccination should be considered.
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Trump should have done what he knew was right and pardon them. But his narcissism kicked in again and he was out for himself again. Please do not say Trump may have the opportunity in 2024. I am a staunch anti Democratic Party proponent but we CANNOT have Trump running for President again. He is too self destructive.
"...weak, cucked, and submissive..." These are the main characteristics for all major globalization politicians.
With our duopoly presidential races, the multinationals have hedged their bets with not only both presidential candidates, but also with both Veeps. If a president doesn't behave, then he or she will be replaced and, with a bipartisan duopoly news/entertainment media, probably thrown into jail with no retirement benefits (speaking engagements, offshore bank accounts, library, etc.).
I suppose one of the most patriotic things a person could do would be to help Assange escape prison and give him a microphone for 24 hours.