Dirty Rats

Back in February The Washington Post unveiled its new slogan “Democracy dies in darkness” when the paper began being referred to as “the fake news media” by President Trump along with The New York Times and CNN.

Democracy dies in darkness all right; the media is trying to strangle it in an unlit alley.

These same media outlets which were quick to report on possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia are now slow to say how The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer’s administration may have legally but unethically spied on Trump’s campaign.

Like a juggler trying to keep three balls in the air, the “Russiagate” scandal has three scenarios the press is desperate to keep aloft:  the question of whether the Russians somehow “hacked our election”, whether any Trump people “colluded” with the Russians and whether anyone in Obama's administration used our intelligence apparatus to spy on political opponents.

The Drudge Report™ headlined its webpage with “Rice Ordered Spy Docs On Trump” with a link to The Daily Caller which published a report at 10:08 PM Monday night exposing Obama’s national security advisor, Susan Rice, for “ordering US spy agencies to produce detailed spreadsheets of legal phone calls” involving candidate Trump and his aides according to former US Attorney Joseph diGenova.  diGenova further notes, “The overheard conversations involved no illegal activity by any of Trump’s associates, or anyone they were speaking with.  In short, the only apparent illegal activity was the unmasking of the people on the calls.”

diGenova tweeted in February, “What’s happening here is a coup d’état…This is designed to create the atmospherics for an impeachment.”

This exploding scandal constitutes a serious abuse of privacy and raises troubling questions about the use of intelligence operations for political purposes.  And for Rice to pull a “Sgt. Schultz” saying, “I know nothing about this” is nothing short of farcical. 

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, has vigorously searched for proof to support the Dem narrative on Russiagate.  At one point, Schiff was convinced he had Trump and the Republicans on the ropes.  Now, not so much.  Why?

On Thursday, March 31, White House counsel Don McGahn invited ol’ Schiffty to see the documents House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes had been shown. 

Viewed docs today at White House invitation. Here are my thoughts: pic.twitter.com/EZ5COuoVVU

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 31, 2017

Kurt Schlicter published a rant at Townhall describing the Democrat Party as “less a political organization than a disorganized crime ring…They’re dumb, but they're not so stupid as not to realize that this Putin nonsense, manufactured as a pathetic excuse for their utter humiliation in November, is falling apart. With the help of their media minions, they hope if they keep shouting “Look, Russians!” we’ll grow so bored we’ll just tune out. It’s their only hope for keeping Obama’s buddies off the chopping block.”

MITCHELL: Did you leak the name of Mike Flynn?

SUSAN RICE: "I leaked nothing to nobody. And never would." —via @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/WTJYwHUs7S

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 4, 2017

will the media take the same position when Obama's people are "incidentally" surveilled and Trump unmasks and disseminates, I wonder...?

— Baby Goat Alliance (@AceofSpadesHQ) April 4, 2017

Silence Is Golden. Duct Tape Is Silver.

Do Democrats think the House and Senate Intelligence Committees can turn Trump’s election into an O.J. Simpson trial rerun?

Juan Williams, an inept and easily flummoxed pundit for Fox News penned a piece today for The Hill entitled “Trump’s Risk of Impeachment Rises”.  In the screed Williams exclaimed, “Liberal Democrats could yet see their dreams come true.”

“It is no fantasy to say the drip-drip-drip of the Trump-Russia investigations is draining this presidency of political capital. The president’s historically high disapproval rating— 51 percent in the latest McClatchy poll—tells the same story.”

Williams purports to know unequivocally “astute Republicans are starting to look out for themselves. The first Republican to begin to run for cover was Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who decided to recuse himself from any role in the investigation. Last week Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, sought immunity in exchange for his testimony to congressional investigators.”

Williams and his league of whiny comrades continue to cling to the notion the “Trump White House continues to pursue a failing strategy of distraction” with “an unsupported claim that President Obama was wiretapping him.  That is now a claim that all but his most stalwart allies have abandoned.”

What Williams failed to take into account was the growing body of evidence revealing that Susan Rice and others as yet unnamed within the Obama Administration did, in fact, spy on individuals connected to the Donald Trump transition and campaign according to US officials familiar with the matter.  Reports said Rice’s requests contained valuable political information such as who the Trump team was meeting, the views of Trump associates on foreign policy matters and plans for the incoming administration.

"That Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice is alleged to have been responsible for this unmasking is troubling given her history of deceit and her close relationship with then-President Obama," Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said. "We need to know whether the material gleaned from the Rice unmasking is the material fed to the media in an attempt to do political damage to the Trump administration and, if so, who was responsible for leaking it."

DeSantis is Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security.

Williams has joined Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) in fantasizing about a Trump resignation or impeachment before 2020.  Kicking over sand castles and handling the Left’s dirty dealing is Trump’s strong suit.