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Respond to Nunes goes Trump on the deep state Don Surber donsurber.blogspot.ca rather than Barack Obama using the power of the state like a Stalinist to spy on a political opponent. As the new year began, he began his campaign against the deep state. Working with inspectors general that Obama ignored and even put down, Nunes has assembled a case against the deep state. w.From Byron York on Thursday :One of the most vexing problems of the Trump dossier probe has been that much of the evidence involved is classified and thus hidden from public view. House and Senate investigators are tightly constrained from revealing key aspects of the dossier affair. There is, for example, the question of whether the FBI and Justice Department used the unverified allegations in the dossier as evidence to win a secret court warrant to spy on Americans. Members and staff in both House and Senate know the answer. But it is classified, and they can't talk.Now, the House Intelligence Committee has taken a first step toward what might become public disclosure of key facts in the dossier investigation. It is a halfway step, and will not immediately reveal anything to the public, but it is a beginning. Thus began a campaign among conservatives (the real ones who support Trump, not the fake ones on TV) to Release The Memo. Secrets about secrets make those secrets seem true. The enhanced value of the memo in turn makes Nunes a powerful guy. He is the guardian of a truth who guards with his life the memo everyone wants to read. The Democratic/Stalinists response appeared in Mother Jones :Devin Nunes Won’t Even Show His Infamous Memo to the Justice Department Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, last week called the memo “a profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI and its handling of the investigation.”“This may help carry White House water,” he added, “but it is a deep disservice to our law enforcement professionals.” the law enforcement people Democrats support are the ones who were doing Obama's dirty work. From Salon :Trump vs. the Deep State: This death match of American political power will forever change history strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics,” Kristol tweeted Tuesday. “But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.” Glenn Greenwald is more even-handed: “Trump presidency is dangerous,” the Intercept columnist tweeted Wednesday. “CIA/Deep State abuse of spy powers to subvert elected Govt is dangerous.” And the conflict is deepening. The New York Times reported Thursday that Trump wants to bring in Wall Street billionaire Stephen Feinberg “to lead a broad review of American intelligence agencies. The idea is reportedly provoking “fierce resistance” from intelligence officials who fear it “could curtail their independence and reduce the flow of information that contradicts the president’s worldview.” This is a reminder that for all its tools and its nearly unlimited budget, the deep state is run by incompetents. as FBI director he went after the wrong man in the post-9/11 anthrax murder case -- for seven years. Mueller hounded the man so severely that taxpayers had to pay the man $5.8 million to settle the harassment lawsuit. But despite their incompetence they are still powerful. They still control most of the press -- and all of their agencies. They are little Kim Jong Uns. He could not do this under a President Bush or Romney or even Cruz. The battle is epic and inevitable, when you give people like Mueller so much power without being answerable to the people through an elected official.
