The whistleblower is Christopher Steele 2.0
John Hinderaker at Powerline writes:
…I am starting to think the Ukraine matter may have been orchestrated just as fully as the Steele dossier/Russia collusion hoax…
We now know that the “whistleblower” had nothing, just as Christopher Steele had nothing. His complaint consists of rumor and hearsay that turned out to be wrong. But, just as it didn’t matter that Steele’s dossier was nonsense, it hasn’t mattered that the “whistleblower’s” complaint was inaccurate, and perhaps fabricated out of whole cloth. It nevertheless serves the Democrats’ purposes.
It seems obvious that the Democrats have been planning for a while to proceed with impeachment against President Trump. I infer this from the fact that almost immediately after Nancy Pelosi announced publicly that House committees would proceed with impeachment inquiries, Democratic politicians of all kinds were sending out emails that recited nearly identical talking points and concluded with the assertion that President Trump must be impeached–not investigated, but impeached. This was not just a Nancy Pelosi operation, it was coordinated by the Democratic Party more broadly….
The Democrats pretend to believe the whistleblower just as they pretended to believe Steele, even though in both cases, there is clear evidence that the claims against Trump are false.
No matter: the Steele dossier was used as the pretext to fraudulently obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump presidential campaign and the Trump team post-election, while the already-refuted Ukraine complaint is nevertheless the pretext for beginning impeachment proceedings.
I think this is absolutely correct. It explains, for example, the speed of Pelosi’s actions re impeachment. It also explains the nearly-monolithic refusal of the MSM to cover the story properly.
I may have missed it, but did a single Democrat criticize Schiff’s little performance yesterday in which he falsely “paraphrased” Trump’s call and then, when criticized by Republicans, stated that it was a parody? I have never seen such behavior in a hearing of that type, and it is part and parcel of the same disinformation campaign.
Yes, the speed and synchronized reaction is a big tell. What was it like five days from this hitting the news to ‘we must impeach’ being the official party line. It fits with the point made by many that they learned not to wait for pesky facts like they did with their precious Mueller.
Really is scary to think if they had better numbers in senate. We could have a case where an election could be undone in, what, a couple weeks?
Speaking of synchrony, see Sean Davis’ new article on the sudden, secret change last Aug. of the whistleblower criteria in the Intel community: https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/
Secondhand knowledge is suddenly ok! Ain’t that a funny coinkydink?
sdferr:
Wow. Thanks for that link.
Even if the Ukraine phone call “whistleblower” thing hadn’t happened, that would still be a disturbing development. It elevates gossip to whistleblower status.
Element upon element, I see evidence of abject panic. The Democrats are losing their minds. They’ll try anything at this point.
sdferr:
Cornered rats are panicked. But they can bite very hard.
I mentioned several years ago about a prof at my college who was to appear on a radio show. He bragged in a meeting how he called the DNC office to make sure he coordinated his comments. They are nothing if not organized, and more like demand party obidience. A sad statement on their mentality.
That’s true, they can. We’re best off not reaching out our hands toward them, but clubbing or shooting the little buggers instead.
Oof, that begins to sound as though America is on the verge of what the Greeks called “stasis”, the worst of all possible human conditions. It builds and builds unseen and then explodes in horrors all of a sudden.
Not good. Not good at all.
hard to figure out where to post this..
While Devin Nunes cannot describe the specifics of what I just outlined, he explains the process in the bigger picture.
WATCH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIOquHZ1XWA
Insurance policy approach. https://www.lawfareblog.com/coalition-all-democratic-forces-part-iii-what-if-trump-wins
a lot more here..
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/27/whistle-blower-complaint-is-the-schiff-dossier-devin-nunes-discusses-the-creation-of-the-schiff-dossier/
We should never have been afraid of Kaos, or Smersh (which was real)… but instead CADF…
The Coalition of All Democratic Forces
My idiot Dem Rep. to the House, who was formerly a uniformed DIA intelligence guy, said today in the newspaper, “The case for impeachment appears to be solid.”
“Cornered rats are panicked. But they can bite very hard.” — Neo
Breitbart quotes Christopher Ruddy who claims that the Trump team is unprepared for the impeachment inquiry: