{"id":10922,"date":"2020-05-11T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2020-05-11T22:17:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T02:17:43","slug":"hey-could-bill-barr-really-be-going-after-these-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/hey-could-bill-barr-really-be-going-after-these-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Could Bill Barr Really be Going After These Rats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know there\u2019s nothing more comforting for someone who\u2019s been burned before than the cynical pose.\u00a0 You can sit back and make fun of all the suckers and mugs who really believe that the game isn\u2019t fixed.\u00a0 Well, as I declared just a week ago or so I don\u2019t think Bill Barr intends to prosecute any of the Deep State Cabalists that attacked the Trump presidency, not even the low-level losers like Strzok and Page.\u00a0 So much time has gone by that I concluded he was just marking time and running out the clock in order to appear to be investigating the offense but really just protecting the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a funny thing.\u00a0 The small progress that has resulted in the charges against General Flynn being tossed out of court has stirred up a hornet\u2019s nest of outrage from all corner of the Swamp.\u00a0 Even the capo di tutti capi of the Swamp, Barry Obama resurfaced to complain that freeing an innocent man was an unheard-of innovation that never could have happened in his day.\u00a0 And his minions rallied more than 2,000 of the swamp creatures to sign off on a letter condemning Barr for daring to recognize an illegal FBI prosecution of Flynn and urging the judge to refuse to dismiss the case.\u00a0 And the media has been flooded with articles about the flurry of activity by the Justice Department:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Declassified Evidence Undercuts Clapper&#8217;s Testimony to Congress<\/li>\n<li>Durham Moving &#8220;Full-Throttle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Trump Implies Obama Link on Flynn, Labels Controversy &#8220;Obamagate&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ex-DOJ, FBI Officials Call on Barr to Resign for Dropping Flynn Charges<\/li>\n<li>Clinton Camp Knew About Plan to Have Steele Brief Media on Dossier<\/li>\n<li>Search for Answers in FBI&#8217;s Mishandling of Flynn Case<\/li>\n<li>13 Unanswered Questions About Dismissal of Flynn Case<\/li>\n<li>Why Did Obama Tell the FBI to Hide Its Activities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Could I be wrong about Barr?\u00a0 Is there still hope he\u2019ll get something done?\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to admit that the prospect of seeing the Cabal languishing in some super-max prison is so exciting that it almost makes me faint but I fear disappointment so much that I would do anything rather than go off that cliff again.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look over the prospects.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that Barr will allow for the investigation to free the wrongly accused and even expose the Obama minions who persecuted them to censure in a report that details the false prosecutions.\u00a0 He could do that without actually indicting a single soul.\u00a0 This would be a kind of \u201ctrial in the papers\u201d exercise.\u00a0 And if done during the election cycle it could have a good effect on President Trump\u2019s numbers.\u00a0 That\u2019s sort of what I was saying last week.\u00a0 This is the weakest of the positive outcomes Barr could be working toward.<\/p>\n<p>The next higher outcome is the scapegoat.\u00a0 That is where DOJ latches onto a stooge like Strzok and blames the whole mess on him.\u00a0 He\u2019s painted as a rogue agent who exceeded his authority and in an excess of zeal committed crimes that no one else recognized.\u00a0 And Strzok will be allowed to cop a plea where he\u2019ll get a slap on the wrist and the whole thing will be buried in some bureaucratic teachable moment exercise.\u00a0 This is also a not unlikely outcome.\u00a0 Strzok probably won\u2019t even lose his pension and he can write a book about what a hero he was for zealously guarding the country against Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this are the really unlikely outcomes.\u00a0 Even the lesser cases involve the indictment of characters like McCabe, Comey, Clapper and Brennan.\u00a0 These men all lied under oath.\u00a0 There are documents attesting to their complicity in illegal activities.\u00a0 Dragging all of this out in public would reveal to the public a partisan and disloyal intelligence community working against a duly elected President of the United States and routinely using tactics that would seem more at home in the soviet KGB.\u00a0 This exercise would have the maximum effect on the public and would reinforce the opinion that the Democrats, the Deep State and the Media conspired to lie to the American public about the whole Russia-gate scam.\u00a0 Potentially such an investigation and the indictments could go up as high as Obama.\u00a0 There is no limit to just how much dirt could be unearthed if rats like Comey think they might be going to prison and needed to turn state\u2019s evidence.<\/p>\n<p>And this latter outcome is the one I find so unlikely at this point.\u00a0 The damage to the FBI and the CIA would be massive.\u00a0 After they see how corrupt these agencies are the public may be willing to see them weakened or even eliminated.\u00a0 But somebody like Barr is almost a father figure to the Department of Justice.\u00a0 Helping to chloroform the FBI might seem like murdering his own kids.\u00a0 And for that reason, I don\u2019t think he\u2019ll ever unleash a full investigation that puts the blame where it really belongs, at the top.\u00a0 At best he\u2019ll target Strzok or possibly McCabe.\u00a0 But no higher.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume I\u2019m right.\u00a0 But if Barr really does decide to expose the crooked prosecution of President Trump\u2019s men it will still be enough justification for a far-reaching purge of the Justice Department and the other intelligence agencies and that will be a very useful change for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>So where does this leave me?\u00a0 Well, really back where we started from.\u00a0 I still don\u2019t know that Barr is going to do much of anything.\u00a0 Could all the noise we\u2019re hearing just be a bunch of nothing?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 For all I know this is just the smokescreen that is supposed to convince us that something will happen.\u00a0 I still think that\u2019s the likeliest outcome.<\/p>\n<p>But I do have to admit that Barr\u2019s lieutenants have unearthed a lot of evidence to show that all of the usual suspects did an awful lot of lying around the time of the incoming administration.\u00a0 That alone is a valuable result.\u00a0 It shows that the Russia-gate scam was just that and the Cabal knew it all along.\u00a0 Surely that makes Barr a little more useful than I gave him credit for last week.\u00a0 Bill Barr, I guess I underestimated you at least a 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