Two enduring aphorisms emerged from the Watergate affair, both directed at then-president Richard Nixon. The one at the outset of the investigation was delivered in the form of a question: “What did he know and when did he know it?” The second came at the end in the form of a warning to future presidents: “The cover-up is worse than the crime.”
Thanks to the Durham report, we know the date that then-president Barack Obama learned about what John Durham calls the “Clinton Intelligence plan.” If CIA Director John Brennan’s notes are to be believed, that date was August 3, 2016.
This was the day Brennan briefed Obama and other key players about the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July of a proposal from one of her [campaign] advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”
To be fair, Barack Obama likely had no more role in the orchestration of the Clinton Intelligence plan than Richard Nixon did in the 1972 bugging of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate. Obama did, however, play the critical role in the cover-up of the Clinton Intelligence plan. It could not have happened without him.
This past Sunday, former congressman Devin Nunes raised the cover-up issue on Maria Bartiromo’s show. Said Nunes, “We now know from Durham that Obama knew and his team knew that in August 2016 this was a dirty trick from the Clinton campaign.”
So what did Obama do with this information? Right after the November election, said Nunes, “He got all the intelligence agencies involved and they leaked out to the fake news media that, ‘Oh, the Russians must have done something and they were trying to help Trump.’
Had Nixon blamed Watergate on Cuba — several Cubans were, in fact, arrested — he would have been laughed out of office. Unlike Obama, however, Nixon did not have an obsequious media eager to ignore his mischief nor to explain away that which could not be ignored. With the FBI and the intelligence community in his pocket, Obama executed the most elaborate — and destructive — political cover-up in American political history.
Peter Strzok, the FBI agent heading “Crossfire Hurricane,” the FBI investigation into Trump’s apocryphal collusion with Russia, confirmed Obama’s role on August 5, two days after the August 3 meeting. Texting with his FBI lover Lisa Page, Strzok quoted an unnamed bigwig, likely Brennan, as saying, “The White House is running this.”
Strzok wasn’t happy. He believed the White House was intruding on FBI turf. On August 15, Strzok memorably signaled the shared motive of all the conspirators. “There’s no way [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk,” he texted Page. “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.” On September 2, Page confirmed Obama’s involvement. “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing,” she texted Strzok.
The insurance policy proved insufficient. Shocked and understandably frightened by Trump’s victory, the conspirators got more methodical in their plotting. As part of the plot, Obama was to keep his hands clean — or at least appear to. In his 2018 memoir, The World As It Is, intimate Obama adviser Ben Rhodes makes a claim so deep in exculpatory BS it needs to be read in full:
Of course, we had no idea — Obama had no idea — at the time that there was an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia; that information was walled off from the White House, and I wouldn’t even learn about it until long after I left government, in the press.
The “time” in question was two weeks before Election Day 2016, nearly three months after the initial August meeting. In Rhodes, Obama had found just the right person to move this hogwash forward, but then again Obama had a gift for choosing the unscrupulous. In nominating John Brennan first as deputy national security advisor and later as director of the CIA, Obama picked the rare American intel chief openly fond of Marxism.
From the beginning, Brennan served as Obama’s fixer. He came to the job well prepared, having written in his graduate thesis, “The democratic process may involve, at some point, the violation of personal liberties and procedural justice.”
Brennan met at least one potential fellow traveler in Obama’s inner intelligence circle. In 2013, the same year Brennan was named director of the CIA, Obama chose the seemingly apolitical James Comey to head the FBI. Like Brennan, however, Comey had a past. In 2003, he acknowledged his leftist roots in a New York magazine interview, telling reporter Chris Smith, “I’d moved from Communist to whatever I am now.”
A globalist and a cradle progressive, National Security Advisor Susan Rice shared with Brennan and Comey a penchant for situational ethics. She proved her mettle in 2012 telling the same Benghazi lie on five different shows one Sunday morning. She upped her game following a meeting that took place in the White House on January 5, 2017.
In conference with Obama was his national security team including all the usual suspects: Comey, Brennan, Biden, Rice, James Clapper, and acting attorney general Sally Yates. After the meeting, Obama asked Yates and Comey to stick around along with Rice, his trusted scribe and factotum.
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Watergate was a Sunday School choir boy prank compared to the flagrant corruption, criminality, and outright treason of both the Obama and Biden administrations.
I agree that Obama’s cover up is worse than the crime, but this article doesn’t cover the enormity of Obama’s crimes which amount to treason.
Cashill wrote:” To be fair, Barack Obama likely had no more role in the orchestration of the Clinton Intelligence plan than Richard Nixon did in the 1972 bugging of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate.”
Actually we do not know that Obama had no more role in the
orchestration of the Clinton intelligence plan than Nixon did….
Sundance in a series of posts, has detailed that following Trump’s election, before taking office, Obama, through a series of executive orders, turned our federal surveillance institutions, which were meant to protect Americans from Foreign criminals and terrorists, to targeting Americans who just happened to be political rivals of Obama and Clinton. I believe the word for this is treason.
In addition, the national security professionals at this website:
https://theamericanreport.org/
detail the history of Obama’s membership in an Indonesian Islamic fundamentalist cult (SUBUD) and his involvement in the global Communist movement. When he announced his candidacy for the President of the US, he did so from the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, leaders of the “Weather Underground,” an extremist Communist movement. Obama’s relationship with both radical Islamists and Communists led to a number of traitorous decisions that were made during his administration including handing over Port Canaveral’s cargo container terminal to UAE based container and ports management company Gulftainer. Gulftainer is linked to Saddam Hussein’s WMD program and to Russia. Gulftainer is in a joint-venture with Rostec, exporter of Russia’s Club K Container missile system. These are missiles hidden and transported in a cargo container that can be launched directly at the US from Port Canaveral! This is treason.
Clinton’s sale of Uranium to Russia is another form of treason, as is her use of a home server from which higher than top secret documents found their way to the CCP and from which she deleted 30,000 emails. These are acts of treason.
Obama and Clinton both have many acts of treason to hide, and have found the perfect way to do it: to politically “assassinate” Donald Trump or anyone else who is determined to get to the truth about them.
From the Durham report we have proof of the way the “investigations” and “surveillance” was used against Trump, and from the fact that no charges were filed we can conclude that Obama, Clinton, Comey, Brennan, Sztrok, Paige, etc. will all go scot free for their high crimes and misdemeanors.
When the Constitution is so breached and nullified by government officials as to be no longer operative, when elections are rigged, and when government agents are free to commit any crime and get away with it, we don’t have a representative republic, we have a totalitarian tyranny.