Tuesday, April 4, 2017

My Take On Russia-Gate, Susan Rice, Surveillance Of Trump Officials, And The Media

Barack Obama's former US National Security Adviser Susan Rice is the latest target for Donald Trump's embattled defenders. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

WNU Editor: What a difference a month makes. President Trump makes a tweet that he is being "wire-tapped" and was under surveillance by the former Obama administration .... and the media and political narrative overwhelming condemns and ridicules him. House Intel Chairman Nunes says the same thing a few weeks later after viewing classified documents at the White House .... and he too is condemned and ridiculed. And now .... after Rep. Adam Schiff (Dem.) sees the same files and documents in person .... coupled with his subdued reaction to the media on what he had saw (i.e. no more claims of proof of Trump - Russian collusion as he did a week before .... Schiff: New evidence shows possible Trump-Russia collusion (CNN)) .... the "dam has burst" on this story, and we are now entering a different phase.

To begin .... it looks like what former Obama intelligence official Evelyn Farkas said a few weeks ago is true .... Did A Former Obama Intelligence Official Admit That President Trump`s Staff Was Under Surveillance? (March 30, 2017).  That there was surveillance (and it had nothing to do with Russia), that there was unmasking of Trump officials, and in the waning days of the Obama administration a concerted effort to gather as much intel as possible and to disseminate it throughout the bureaucracy was made .... even (apparently) producing detailed spreadsheets .... Former US Attorney: Susan Rice Ordered Spy Agencies To Produce ‘Detailed Spreadsheets’ Involving Trump (Daily Caller).

If this is not an attempt to disrupt an incoming administration .... I then do not know what is.

But what takes the cake is how the main stream media has reacted to this story .... a complete meltdown that I have never seen before .... with CNN even refusing to first cover the story .... Why Is CNN Refuting The Susan Rice Story It Refuses To Cover? (The Federalist). More here ... CNN Goes On Rampage Against Susan Rice Bombshell, Instructs Viewers To Ignore The Story (Grabrien). And when CNN has finally decided to cover the story, they have someone who formerly worked with in the Obama administration saying that the entire story is a distraction .... Cillizza: Trump just keeps creating smokescreens to mask his Russia problem (CNN). Sighhh .... this is not how you cover a news story. But .... on the bright side .... at least no one in CNN is calling this story "fake news"

And as for the rest of the main stream media .... we now know that they actually sat on this story for a few days, and it only became known when (of all people) alt-right activist Mike Cernovich made it public after his sources in these news agencies gave it to him .... Cernovich Explains How He Learned About Susan Rice (Zero Hedge). I am still sceptical on Michael Cernovich .... but I give credit where credit is due .... he was the first to publicly break the story.

Now .... the media line is that Susan Rice was legally doing her job overseeing intelligence and that she was/is not responsible for the leaks of this intel to the media. But unlike the past where the media narrative was always unified on the entire Trump/Russia -collusion/wire-tapping story .... it is telling to me that they are now all over the place .... with some like CNN and the Washington Post first refusing to cover the Susan Rice story, to others saying that it is a "right-wing" attack on Susan Rice to divert attention away from Russia-gate, and to others who are now becoming more and more concerned that .... horrors of horrors .... it may be true.

As to what is my final take .... for the Trump-Russian collusion story to continue .... all of the anonymous sources that have been quoted for months by the main stream media that there is a Trump - Russian conspiracy/collusion story better step-up with their evidence .... and fast. And the reason why is simple .... the other story involving surveillance of Trump officials that had nothing to do with Russia appears to have evidence to back it up .... and my gut is telling me that it is about to blow-up in a big way for former Obama administration officials. My prediction .... if there was evidence of Trump - Russian collusion .... it would have been presented a long time ago (before the election) .... and Donald Trump would definitely not be the President today. And while I do believe the Russia-Gate story will be around for a long time, the Obama administration's role in conducting some level of surveillance of Trump officials is going to pick up speed .... and in the end it is going to shift the story away from President Trump ..... to President Obama and his role in this entire story.

11 comments:

jimbrown said...

Obama and his team did their level best to find a real Russia connection but they could not. They would have released it by now given their intense surveillance of Trump. Someone needs to pay the price for this by going to jail. Rice acted on Obama s behalf for this mess.

Bobs a dopey commenter said...

It's a failing democracy

Jac said...

WNU: I agree 100% with you and this could be worse for Obama than at first sight. When bad things like that are unveiled, investigation could find other kind of problem we are not thinking of it now. Time will tell.

Anonymous said...

Hope for long prison time for Obama and Sudan Rice and all others involved.

Jay Farquharson said...

Circulating around social media…:

“I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any U.S. ties to Russia…
except for the Flynn thing,
and the Manafort thing …
and the Tillerson thing
and the Sessions thing
and the Kushner thing
and the Carter Page thing
and the Roger Stone thing
and the Felix Sater thing
and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
and the Rosneft thing
and the Gazprom thing
and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
and the Azerbajain thing
and the “I love Putin” thing
and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
and the Sergey Kislyak thing
and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
and the Russian Business Interests thing
and the Emoluments Clause thing
and the Alex Schnaider thing
and the hack of the DNC thing
and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing
and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
and the Cyprus bank thing
and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
and the election hacking thing
and the GOP platform change on the Ukraine thing
and the Steele Dossier thing
and the Leninist Bannon thing
and Sally Yates prevented from testifying thing
and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
and Trump’s reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing …
and Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing …

LMFAO

War News Updates Editor said...

LOL
Welcome to politics Jay .... and international politics and business at that. Politicians/governments/big money/etc... everyone in bed together.

The conflicts of interest from Trump's business interests is a very real story People hate corruption .... and the optics of President Trump's many business interests intertwined with statecraft are terrible. As for the Russia angle .... aside from Felix Sater and real estate deals with Russian individuals and groups that I have talked about before .... I sadly realised a long time ago this story is going nowhere .... and I have not changed my mind since.

Jay Farquharson said...

WNU Editor,

There is "going somewhere"= criminal charges and impeachment.

There wil be some Hair Furour's Minion's facing charges, mostly about various levels of corruption, most will just get fined or face administrative censure.

Hair Furour won't be impeached, unless there is a Republican Revolt. After all, Pence is waiting in the wings.

Then there is "going somewhere"= politics.

We have already seen some of the political fallout, eg. The Russian Reset, and as the drip, drip, drip continues, and domestic policy piles on, the Russia Affair will wind up incurring cost after cost on the Trump Administration and the Republican Party.

War News Updates Editor said...

This is where you and I respectively disagree. The Russian reset is dead .... yes. The other stuff .... no. To impeach/remove a President you need bipartisanship, and that does not exist in Washington today. And besides .... President Trumps' opponents need far more than what they have now. A hell of a lot more. But we shall see.

War News Updates Editor said...

As for the Republican Party suffering .... they should be more worried about their base than anyone else.

Jay Farquharson said...

The Dem's won't push for impeachment, period. Pence is waiting in the wings and a Pence Presidency would be worse in many regards than Agent Orange, because he isn't scandal ridden and can legislate.

The only way Agent Orange will be impeached is if the Republican's revolt due to "brand damage".

Jay Farquharson said...

Which "base".

As Trumpcare showed, any R that voted for it would win their Primary due to the "Liberty R's", also known as the Teabaggers.

But would lose in the general because many R voters and Independent's Health Insurance would be worse, or lost.

Any R that voted agaist Trumpcare, would be "primaried" by the Teabaggers, and would lose to a Challenger.

Republican's mess with the Koch Bro's at their own peril.