J E Dyer on the sloppy tradecraft at Washington, Hillary’s connection, and the smoking guns that were being passed around for YEARS without any action being taken.

“But here’s where it gets slippery. It turns out the CIA claims it must engage in “routine counterintelligence monitoring of government computers” to make sure certain employees aren’t doing bad things. Poof! Now, all kinds of U.S. citizens and their communications can be swept into the dragnet — and it’s deemed perfectly legal. It’s just an accident or “incidental,” after all, if the CIA happens to pick up whistleblower communications with the legislative branch.”

But they couldn’t find the Awan Espionage Ring, or the Chinese Driver?

Also this:
“Some see the intel community’s alleged abuses during campaign 2016 as its own major scandal. But I see it as a crucial piece of a puzzle.

The evidence points to bad actors targeting candidate Donald Trump and his associates in part to keep them — and us — from learning about and digging into an even bigger scandal: our Intelligence Community increasingly spying on its own citizens, journalists, members of Congress and political enemies for the better part of two decades, if not longer.”

However, this may be like the standard murder mystery plot, where the killer is caught because he keeps bumping off people who might catch on to him, or know something about his evil deeds.
If they had stopped while they were still shrouded in secrecy, instead of poking the Russian bear, we still would not know about the scandalous subversion of our democratic values and even our laws.

Same as it ever was. It has been a slow plunge into totalitarianism since the 1830s. Progressive Teddy, Wilson, briefly interrupted by Calvin, FDR, LBJ, Carter, Slick Willy, and the messiah carried the ball towards the goal line. The bad orange man interrupted the procession, that is why he and the basket of deplorables are so hated by our betters.

Clinging with joy not bitterness.

shows a bunch of (presumably) college-age kids grinning wildly and holding a sign that says Abolish Student Debt.

If these people can still think logically at all, that’s only possible if we abolish student loans. I say, Good! Let’s do! (Taxpayer-funded student loans, anyway.)

If they say No, no, we don’t want to abolish student loans, We just don’t want to have to pay back ours,

then I respond, Oh, you mean take the money and run.

Their mamas need to spank ’em and send ’em to bed without supper.

The link to The Hill again.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/414804-surveillance-state-is-alive-well-and-operating-against-us-all

Who knew he was referring to our own assets? (joke)

I was going to bitch about the failure of the Inspector General described in the Yahoo article, but then I saw this piece by Attkisson in The Hill. Maybe the CIA’s IG was being coerced by some of the spooks.

I said from the first time I heard about Hillary’s private server that China, Russia, Iran, India, Pakistan and North Korea all have her emails.