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Peter Strzok, the man of a thousand sneers, reacted to the release of the Durham report by screenshotting the report’s footnote of his own book and recommending people buy it.
Despite being fired from the FBI, the disgraced former agent got a book deal, “Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump” as well as co-hosting a podcast with ‘Mueller, She Wrote’s Allison Gill and scoring an adjunct professorship at Georgetown University.
The Russiagate investigation has been discredited, but the Russiagate grift is alive and well. And none of the participants have any regrets or expect there to be any consequences.
Strzok and fellow agent Lisa Page, with whom he had an affair, are suing for wrongful termination from the FBI, and they’ve been fighting to depose former President Trump.
Their former boss, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe secured a settlement for his benefits including back pay from the Biden Justice Department. There’s little doubt that Attorney General Merrick Garland will eventually arrange for a settlement as a reward for Strzok and Page.
McCabe, who received a gig as a CNN analyst, went on his own news network to dismiss the Durham report. Even though the report clearly demonstrated that the FBI had violated its own rules in opening the investigation, the former FBI boss bragged that “I stand by the investigative decisions that we made to open the investigation first on the Trump campaign “ and insisted that, “the Russians did, in fact, influence the campaign”.
The disgraced FBI bigwig shows up all the time on CNN to bash Trump and to claim that this time the walls are closing in. Like Strzok, his former boss also has an academic gig as a distinguished visiting professor at George Mason University.
If Strzok works hard enough, maybe Georgetown will make him a “distinguished” academic too.
Lisa Page appears to have taught a class at Yale on Cybersecurity Law and Policy and was hired by NBC News and MSNBC as a legal analyst, but hasn’t been all that visible otherwise.
Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official whose wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS, left a day before he was fired. The Durham report reveals that Nellie Ohr may have produced some of the key Russiagate material even before Steele. Bruce Ohr aggressively pitched his wife’s Fusion GPS smears and promoted an investigation.
Like McCabe, Ohr is also teaching at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. His class is on “transnational crime and corruption”. Nellie Ohr works as an intelligence analyst dealing with Russia for Accenture: the world’s largest consulting firm.
Strzok, Page, McCabe and Ohr are “academics” now and the consequences are academic.
The parallel career tracks, media contracts, book deals and academic gigs, are no coincidence. Some of the key FBI figures in Russiagate are being rewarded and financed by the same media and academic government establishment that fed this monster. Strzok, Page and McCabe have lucrative careers doing what they were doing at the FBI: attacking political opponents. They’ll just be doing it outside the anonymity and without the power of their government positions.
But there will be plenty of others to take their place. And for any FBI or DOJ personnel worried about breaking the rules to go after Republicans, the book deals, academic gigs, podcasts and general celebrity for Strzok, McCabe and Page reassure them that they don’t have to worry.
Justice will not be served.
Kevin E. Clinesmith, the former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to faking an email used for a FISA warrant, was the only figure in the Durham investigation to face any criminal consequences. He got probation and served no time. His license was only suspended and afterward he can go on practicing law.
Durham’s charges against Michael Sussmann and Igor Danchenko never got past a D.C. jury.
After his acquittal, Sussmann became a partner at Fenwick & West focusing on “privacy and cybersecurity”. Fenwick & West may need some help in that area considering its FTX role.
Sussmann’s new firm has been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing it of covering up Sam Bankman-Fried’s abuses. One lawsuit alleges that, “Fenwick & West created fake entities that Bankman-Fried and FTX employed as fronts through which to launder customer funds and helped FTX to dodge regulatory scrutiny while maintaining a veneer of full compliance.”
Clearly the right place for a former Clinton campaign lawyer.
Igor Danchenko, perhaps not being quite as much of an inside man, hasn’t been as lucky and posted a message, “I am looking for a new role and would appreciate your support. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer.”
He does not seem to have found any takers.
Charles Dolan Jr, Durham’s likely next target, had the Sussman and Danchenko cases succeeded, no longer seems to be listed with any of the firms he was working for, but apparently still sits on the board of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and on the advisory board of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Christopher Steele, of the infamous eponymous dossier, continues to head up Orbis Business Intelligence and another consultancy calling itself Magic Strand. In his interviews, he has expressed no regret over his actions.
Michael Isikoff, who used Yahoo News to launder the Steele dossier’s smears and whose reports were abused as a basis for FISA warrants, continues in his role as Chief Investigative Correspondent. David Corn, the Washington D.C. bureau chief for Mother Jones, who played a similar role, only briefly got in trouble over reports of rape jokes and inappropriately touching female staffers, before going back to work.
Ben Smith, BuzzFeed News‘ former editor-in-chief, has written pieces titled, “I’m Proud We Published the Trump-Russia Dossier” and “I Would Publish the Steele Dossier Again”. While BuzzFeed News was shut down due to unprofitability, Smith got a job at the New York Times and became the co-founder of a new media site: Semafor.
The New York Times and the Washington Post received Pulitzers for pushing the Russiagate hoax. Last year, the Pulitzers insisted that, “The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
The Pulitzers have also refused to revoke the 1932 award of New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty for serving as a Stalinist propagandist and lying about genocide in the Soviet Union. The leftist organization falsely claimed that “there was not clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception”. If mass murder can’t get the Pultizers to revoke a lefty media liar’s award, the Durham report certainly won’t.
And so they got away with it.
The media made hundreds of millions of dollars pushing Russiagate. Publishers, editors and journalists made names for themselves, won awards and got book contracts for their lies. Lawyers, experts and consultants faced some discomfort, but emerged on the other side. Some FBI and DOJ officials lost their jobs, but are likely to come away with full benefits and are building careers as media analysts and Beltway law school academics. The only Russiagate figure who still doesn’t have a job is Igor Danchenko.
The Durham report’s account of abuses is devastating, but has been brushed aside by the media, former government officials and the rest of the Russiagate network. Unable to get D.C. juries to convict the accused, the investigation stalled and has dissolved into little more than an accounting on the various players but without the connective tissue of the network behind them.
Nobody went to jail, hardly anyone even suffered lasting career consequences and the Washington D.C. network they were part of stepped in to protect and reward the Russiagaters.
The lack of any meaningful consequences means that Russiagate will happen again.
The massive government establishment cannot put the pieces together but one investigative journalist does.
I don’t know if you have a team working with you Daniel but you sure seem to be able to do the work of a team.
Impressive stuff.
“REVENGE OF THE NERDS!”
We all remember the school bullies who beat up the nerds, who never counter. Then a new kid registers for the school. The Bullies have to test him so they push, eventually punch and kick the kid. The kid falls down and when he gets back up, he punches the main bully in the nose breaking it and blooding it. THE TEACHERS RUSH IN and take the bully to the Principal. The new kid is brought in too and he is quickly suspended even though the Bullies attacks kids every day! When the new kid walks out of the school, he is cheered. He misses school but upon return, he is popular so he RUNS FOR PRESIDENT of the school, AND WINS! The administration, staff, and teachers target him and anyone that voted for him by lowering grades, false accusations, racial claims, and no help in learning making it a Hostile Learning Environment. The President is constantly being sent to the Principal who quickly punishes the kid./President.
Great comparison !
There’s no team, but there are plenty of us out there putting the pieces together, formal journalists and informal people on social media.
But we have an interest in getting to the facts and we try to see the forests, not just the trees.
The government tends to be very interested in trees and not as much in the truth.
Yes, this is a good article.
Yes. He is actually that impressive.
Well, trying to come up with something worthwhile to say, it occurred to me that the deep state is similar to the deep state in Germany during the Nazi period. Made up of careerists who knew which side of their bread was buttered. At least in the short run 🙂
My neighbor was a US Army intelligence officer during and after WW2, interviewing German prisoners, recovering hidden art treasures, etc. I got to read some of the letters written by German deep staters during the war, I found them astonishing. They didn’t realize the war was lost, even though it was evident at the time to German front line officers, such as Rommel.
Shortly after Germany attacked Poland in 1939, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of German Intelligence, told other Wehrmacht senior officers that Germany couldn’t win the war. They rejected his opinion, and he gained a reputation as a naysayer.
Spain sent the Blue Division to fight the Red Army in Operation Barbarossa, but Canaris also shared his pessimism with Francisco Franco which is why Spain didn’t supply more troops to fight at the eastern front.
Ideology blinds.
Wishful thinking, magical thinking, unreason, irrationality, faith in the unreal, in what does not exist, will blind you to reality and the facts of reality. Nazism is an irrational, faith-based ideology, faith in the unreal. Nazism is actually an anti-ideology derived from anti-reason. Hitler in his speeches and writings explicitly attacked reason and extolled faith.
A rational ideology based on the facts or reality, on what does exist, opens your eyes to reality and leads to success not catastrophe.
What does Hitler and your religion, Objectivism, have to do with this article?
By the way you forgot to mention one of your personal shibboleths….Hitler and the Lutherans.
Thanks Beez, Canaris was fascinating. Too bad he didn’t live to write a book.
Wow! What a privilege to be able to read those letters! I hope they are available to good historians.
Rommel was a very good General and an honorable man. His force was out maned and out powered by the British force, as I’m sure you know. It’s amazing he lasted as long as he did.
(Micah 6:8) “He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”
I came to believe in demon possession when watching Peter Strzok’s testimony to Congress. No, I’m not Catholic.
Demonic possession was much more rare in the United States in years past, but I think it might be increasing. Demonic oppression is different from possession, but I am not sure if the difference is easily discernible.
I had the same thought as yours with Strzok. I watched a fleeting moment when his eyes had an expression and light in them that was not normal or appropriate. I tucked the thought away as “weird evil dude,” but my impression was one that it was just not a regular human kind of expression belonging to mental illness, fear, wrath, etc.
I am very cautious about not seeing the devil under every rock, but I wanted to tell you that you are not alone.
He does look possessed in those videos of him making bizarre smirks He looked insane.
Thanks Jeff. He definitely seems to have a screw loose somewhere. I don’t know how to classify him psychologically.
He reminds me of the prisoner character in the movie “Nefarious”, which is in theatres now. (I highly recommend seeing it.) He can turn on a dime and probably has a lot of people fooled into thinking he’s really a nice guy.
When I saw him before Congress, I thought of Jeopardy. I’ll take “Shit eating grins” for $5,ooo – answer – Who is Peter Strzok.
There’s no doubt. His countenance is so very creepy.. It is unusual to be able to SEE evil psychopathy in a face! He looked so remarkably possessed that I expected his head to spin 360 degrees and the green stuff to start a la The Exorcist movie.
I was reading the M’Cheyne plan this morning and it took me to Isaiah 14. It seems to speak of human globalists as Satanic viceroys. When I read this, I thought of Biden, Hunter and the other globalists:
16 Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will carefully consider you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who caused kingdoms to quake,
17 Who made the world like a wilderness
And pulled down its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own place.
19 But you have been cast out of your grave
Like an abhorred branch,
Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit
Like a trampled corpse.
20 You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have killed your people. [Biden & handlers]
May the seed of evildoers not be called upon forever.
21 Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter
Because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And fill the face of the world with cities.” [Hunter & the sons of other globalists]
Thanks KH. Remarkable how accurate some of those old scriptures are, when applied to the present day. They must have had a good insight into human nature.
This is the rogue’s gallery of the Deep State and their cheerleaders in the legacy media Their credibility on Sny issue is shot everywhere in the chattering classes
You’re right on as usual Daniel. The Deep State found ways to get rich and undermine President Trump and America. HOW LOW CAN THEY GO?
Well, these people have no integrity, they suffer no adverse consequences for their misconduct, and, instead, the Left lavishes rewards on them. So it will continue indefinitely.
You’re looking at the Left and its takeover of the administrative state. The bureaucracy and the careerists are bad enough on their own, but the Left is far, far worse.
Look at the USSR, Communist China, Cuba, etc… and their scope in America is becoming more ambitious.
Lower than a limbo rod. Or a sewer toad.
Can you believe the new fad of licking toads to get a psychedelic high from their neurotoxins? They call it a God trip, and I’m an old fuddy duddy for not wanting to meet God that way. They can’t understand that one can experience God in a peaceful, quiet setting, without needing any wild hallucinogenic stimulation.
The Eternal Judge will extract a price beyond measure from these evil souls. While the rain may fall on the just and the unjust, the lake of fire is reserved for folks like these.
To think it all started with FISA 702 “About” query abuse on a massive scale to do oppo research. Non compliance is probably still sky high. There is a Nellie Ohr checking 16 and 17 boxes right now as we speak on DVE suspects. If you post here, you are probably on the list.
In 2012, the Obama administration gave access to the NSA’s “702” database to 17 “private contractors” A six month audit of private contractor database queries done at the direction of NSA director Admiral Rogers in 2016 found that tens of thousands of database queries were made and that 85% of them failed to comply with the law. The news media have never covered this even though it was the subject of an April 26, 2017, 99 page opinion, by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer, which is online. As far as I know, there has been no public account of what information was infiltrated from the database, by who, or where it went. I suppose one might, if cynical enough, suppose it went into the largest political database ever created, that Obama commissioned according to a televised March 2013, interview done by Congresswoman Maxine Watters who accidentally spilled the beans. When last I looked the brief interview was still up on YouTube. It is the clip that is about one minute nine seconds long if you are looking for it.
I remember stupid Maxine’s big mouth on that topic. I hope they continue to feed her information because she is unable to stop talking. Here is something you might like very much:
It discusses how our data is being harvested, bought, sold and increasingly used against us and our interests.
If the link does not work, you might search the website for “You are Data.” Enjoy!
“Academic government establishment “????? WTF???
D.C. and NoVa institutions that serve as hubs for career federales.
You dont know that government and academia are intimate partners? That there’s a revolving door between the two? That academia and various institutes (not to mention publishing houses) are used to pay money for past and future favors and secure loyalty? You can’t the this ignorant.
THEY’RE LAUGHING! Trumpers were arrested and jailed for lies about non-lies. Now, NOTHING for this?
The Democrats, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and the MSM DRAGGED TRUMP to the Public Square to stone him with the Scandal of the Week written on the stones! The Russian Collusion stones were flying for over two years and in the end, there was none so the Democrats WALKED AWAY LAUGHING since Trump was still laying there beaten to a bloody pulp! “NEXT STONES! Keep it up till November 2020/2024!”
By constantly coming up with non-stop Scandals, it is then called, “THE ACCUMULATION EFFECT!” The Media will be there to cover every stone thrown!
Alinsky rule 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
Don’t become a drag.
These people are so depressing. But I have to say something positive, which is:
The chemical principle of the conservation of matter and energy, in addition to believing in divine justice, should instill hope that bad people never escape meaningful consequences. Nothing -no deed – is ever lost or erased from existence. The account is always reconciled. We just pray for it to be a lot sooner than later.
Indeed. It’s important to remember that there’s a balance and evil pays a price, even in the absence of anything good by destroying itself, but we do not live in a universe absent of good.
If evil pays in the long run, the problem is that the long run tends to outlive individuals, whether the guilty or their victims. That creates time pressure.
Yes! Recognizing that hard lesson can lead to some sort of acceptance. When you read history, even ugly times in history, you know the ending of the stories. We are stuck within the story, And some of us won’t live to see a resolution or better times. But such times may come. Our lives unfold within history and we are not guaranteed a historical happy ending. Just an individual ending.
Yes. Goodness is real. You practice it when you can. It’s the right thing to do.
And believe me, I’m capable of great evil.
It seems fair to say at this juncture that none of these crooks and rat bastards will ever get the punishment they deserve. Which leads one to wonder if there is any chance the country can overcome the deeper than ever Deep State.
I’m certain Douglas Mackey is wondering the same thing.
The bullshit deep state arranged for him a 10 year sentence in prison only for being an effective Trump supporter in 2016.
(It’s beyond surreal that another innocent Trump supporter has been targeted and successfully imprisoned for merely being a conservative patriot.)
1984 has arrived and is now being implemented.
As long as the FBI and the DOJ are answerable only to the president, we have a problem,
This says more about America in it’s lack of morals and corruption of mainstream media.
What I find most disturbing is how some of these crooks are now standing at the head of a classroom in what some consider prestigious universities. While it is no surprise some of them are now “contributors” to the corrupt MSM, I think it says much more about our institutions of higher learning that have no problem hiring these rat bastards as “educators” and will keep them there even after their crimes have been exposed.
The system worked to perfection. At no time was anyone but the coalition of the connected ever in charge or anything, regardless of what anyone wished or imagined.
Evidence of self governance has retreated to platitudes and attenuated historic anecdotes. In one more generation, and I have a fraction of a decade left myself, it will not have existed full bloom within living memory.
The end of every republic in history coincides with –and is caused by– the republics elite becoming a gang of grifters. Then comes empire, where everyone is really feeding like pigs at a trough, until the empire collapses.
Universities have become the fourth column advancing liberal tyranny. I refer to them often as liberal sinkholes. I personally know people who have to swallow a lot of filth to get through social science programs. Universities are well adept in capitalist greed to teach anti capitalism. Now that they are a business Universities should be held to corporate standards like Disney Land since they want to live in the make believe world..