Important headlines for December 7th:
Bottom Line: These are the stories you don't want to miss (but probably would if I didn't find them for you)...
How Peter Strzok Corrupted Mueller, Comey Investigations Gregg Jarrett, FOX News
Excerpt: How is it possible that Hillary Clinton escaped criminal indictment for mishandling classified documents despite incriminating evidence that she violated the Espionage Act? Why did Donald Trump become the target of a criminal investigation for allegedly conspiring with Russia to influence the presidential election despite no evidence that he ever did so? The answer, it seems, comes down to one person who played a vital role in both cases: Peter Strzok, deputy director of counterintelligence at the FBI. Strzok was exchanging politically charged texts with an FBI lawyer that denigrated Trump and lauded Clinton at the same time he was leading the bureau’s criminal investigation of Clinton. He is also the one who changed the critical wording of then-FBI Director James Comey’s description of Clinton’s handling of classified material that resulted in no charges being brought against her. Then, Strzok reportedly signed the document launching the 2016 investigation into Russia’s meddling in the election and whether the Trump campaign played any role. After leading the FBI’s probe into Trump, he then joined Robert Mueller’s special counsel team as an integral investigator.
Thus, it appears that one man with a strident political agenda accomplished his twin goals of clearing Clinton and accusing Trump, evidence be damned. And then he was caught.
The Department of Justice inspector general, Michael Horowitz, discovered the electronic texts Strzok exchanged with his lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. The messages were so politically incendiary and so threatened the integrity of Mueller’s investigation that Strzok was quietly canned over the summer from the special counsel team, where he was a pivotal participant. The Trump-Russia investigation is now awash in illegitimacy.
I'll amend one note. It was always awash in illegitimacy. Some of it'S honest observers were cognizant of in advance. The bogus Trump dossier which served as the basis of the investigation for example. Others were a bit more hidden, like Robert Muller's complicit actions with the Uranium One scandal. Here's the irony. President Trump ran on draining the swamp right? The swamp revealed itself while attempting to take him down. It's terribly unfortunate how incredibly corrupt institutions like the FBI are and have been but now you know. One more thing to be thankful to President Trump for...
The Republican Party's Smart Bet on the Economy Noah Millman, The Week
Excerpt: If the GOP can run in 2018 on the economy while the Democrats run on Russia, that's about as favorable terrain as Republicans are likely to get.
There's a lot in this article that's built on a series of slightly uneven facts, as I'd expect in an article written by The Week, but the over-arching point remains. What matters most to you? The economy or that latest Trump-Russia collusion attempt by the GSS media in-conjunction with their partners in politics. Pretty basic right? Pretty straight-forward. Ironically enough we still have far more evidence of Clinton-Obama-Holder-Muller-Russia collusion (Uranium One deal), than anything on Trump anyway. Oh, and the economy is good for the first time in 12 years. And the average person making the average income stands to benefit by paying aprox. $1,500 less per year in taxes.
Of Course Jerusalem Is Israel's Capital Shmuel Rosner, New York Times
Amen, it's been Israel's rightful capital all along. There's good and evil in this world. Jerusalem has been the epicenter of much of it historically. Israel didn't need us to tell them that it's their capital. It already was. We just finally have a President with the courage to acknowledge it.
Until tomorrow...