Spy Name Games By Andrew C. McCarthy May 26, 2018 The Obama administration blatantly politicized the government’s intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus. ‘Isn’t it a fact that you’re a scumbag?” Our contretemps over the nomenclature of government informants has me unable to shake this arresting moment from my memory. In Manhattan, about 30 years ago, I was among the spectators basking in the majesty of Foley Square’s federal courthouse when we were suddenly jarred by this, shall we say, rhetorical question. The sniper was a mob lawyer in a big RICO case; the target was the prosecution’s main witness, the informant. Until this week, I’d always thought the most noteworthy thing about this obnoxious bit of theater was the reaction of the judge, a very fine, very wry trial lawyer in his own right. The prosecutors, of course, screamed, “Objection!” The judge calmly shrugged his shoulders and ruled: “He can answer if he knows.” Did he know? I don’t remember. I was laughing too hard to hear any response. The court’s deadpan was not just hilarious. In its way, it was trenchant. The judge was not insouciant. He was a realist. The witness had done what covert informants do: He pretended to be someone he wasn’t, he wheedled his way into the trust — in some instances, into the affections — of people suspected of wrongdoing. And then he betrayed them. But that’s the job: to pry away secrets — get the bad actors to admit what they did, how they did it, and with whom they did it, until the agents and prosecutors decide there is enough evidence to convict the lot of them. The judge understood that. For all the melodrama, whether the informant was a hero or a villain hinged on how one felt not about him but about the worthiness of the investigation. ~Snip~ In the end, it is not about who the spies are. It is about why they were spying. In our democratic republic, there is an important norm against an incumbent administration’s use of government’s enormous intelligence-gathering capabilities to — if we may borrow a phrase — interfere in an election. To justify disregarding that norm would require strong evidence of egregious wrongdoing. Enough bobbing and weaving, and enough dueling tweets. Let’s see the evidence. Source: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018...cized-intelligence-law-enforcement-apparatus/ ~~~~ A very interesting, perceptive, discussion of "informants". It has expanded my view of what spies, scumbags, informants, prosecutors and deep state are. Along with accepting the huge leaps of technology has made things possible that never were before, but how do you bridle this wild beast turned loose in the hands of technocrats. (amplified bureaucrats, even more out of touch with humanity and reality) The Progressive Left used the same tactics when Trump tweeted a year ago that Obama had wiretapped his campaign. All of a sudden we were debating and parsing the meaning of wiretapping and then that became anyone who suggested wiretapping was crazy, and then it all went away. Now we are finding that it was true and the Left has begun parsing the meaning of Spy versus informant. Has anyone noticed that none the crack investigative LSM journ0lists have tried to interview Stephan Harper, the Cambridge Spy. Then there's that good ole Texan Democrat former president Lyndon Baines Johnson. For Johnson, extremism in the pursuit of victory was no vice. On the president’s orders, the bureau wiretapped Barry Goldwater’s plane and headquarters. CIA Director William Colby confirmed the White House’s role in the illegal surveillance while addressing a congressional hearing in 1975. That the CIA is prohibited by law from operating within the U.S. didn’t matter to the Johnson campaign. The Goldwater people never suspected that one of them was a spy for the Democrats. Obviously Barack Obama and Brennan held the same view and used the same scenario but in this case it failed and Hillary and the Democrats lost --- Badly!
This abusive use and weaponization of Presidential power over government agencies for Political purposes has not been seen since LBJ’s administration... This must be investigated and those within government who authorized and carried out these criminal activities must be held accountable for their crimes. Despite the mainstream media’s retorts, the populace they preach to are not buying it and serious news organizations are demanding action. Notice how the biased Lame Stream media hasn’t even bothered polling American’s about their opinion lately? They would need to admit that they are wrong and Trump is right when they produce a poll showing most American’s believe that Trump was spied on.
