Dear MAGA: Open Topic 20181208

So I’m just watching Tucker Carlson’s show from last night. I decided to find it on Youtube and give you the link because of some Q-related stuff.
I am recommending two segments, back to back, that are pretty early in the show, maybe 5-10 minutes in.. And actually, the opening segment is with Catherine Herridge covering the legal findings that came today regarding Cohen and Manafort. Pretty straight forward reporting if you are interested. Then he has Allen Dershowitz on to discuss. Dershowitz’s belief is there aren’t crimes, Mueller is just attempting to criminalize politics.
Anyway, the first segment that really caught my attention is with Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch. He discussed the Comey hearing today. Tom provided a pretty good summary. And then, JW won another court decision on Thursday regarding Hillary’s emails. Yes, her emails. It was interesting. Tom says they have never been able to get any traction on the emails with Congress, and the DOJ has been trying to cover it up. Basically, it’s Judicial Watch and the judiciary out there trying to corral the Hillary emails (sez Tom Fitton). Apparently the judge is not amused by the shenanigans of the DOJ and he is determined to get to the bottom of it.
Next up is Clinton Cash author, Peter Schwietzer, to talk about John Solomon’s stories from this week (that Q linked) about the Clinton Foundation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cUqS7uRsHs

Someone Over There brought up Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy (see below).
To me, an example of the first is Jeff Sessions. An example of the second is James Comey.
‘Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be “two kinds of people”:
‘First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
‘Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
‘The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.
‘ https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html ‘

Trump tweets (1 of 2):

This is a really good article from Epoch Times.
I had forgotten some of these facts, especially the timeline. Excerpts follow:

Jeff Carlson begins by saying that CNN wrote an article yesterday (December 7) on the days immediately following Comey’s dismissal. However, he points out that CNN left out pertinent details.
Going back to 2017, Andrew McCabe agreed to notify the Senate Intelligence Committee if he saw any obstruction into the investigation of Trump-Russia links WRT the 2016 election:
‘McCabe also noted that there had been “no effort to impede our investigation to date.” In other words, McCabe testified that he saw no evidence of obstruction from President Trump or his administration.
‘Notably, McCabe failed to inform the committee that he was actively considering opening an obstruction of justice probe into President Trump—a matter he would aggressively push in a meeting with Rosenstein just five days later.’
Two hours in to McCabe’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 11, 2017:
‘The chair and co-chairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-V.A.), abruptly excused themselves from the hearing to attend a meeting with Rosenstein in an adjoining Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF):
‘”Burr: Before I turn to Senator Cotton, can I say for the members, the vice chair and I have to step out for a meeting that we can’t push off.”
‘Present at this meeting were four individuals: Rosenstein, Burr, Warner and then-acting director of the DOJ’s national security division, Dana Boente, who is now the FBI’s general counsel …
‘Worth asking: What was so pressing that it required the chair and co-chair of the Senate committee to suddenly depart from the hearing proceedings. NPR reported that “the meeting had been requested prior to Comey’s dismissal and that it was to ‘set up a process for deconfliction’ between the FBI investigation into Russia and the intelligence committee’s own independent probe.”
‘This explanation appears somewhat inadequate given that the hearing on national security had also been planned prior to Comey’s dismissal. It is not known with any certainty what was discussed, but Rosenstein and Boente felt the meeting was urgent enough to hold it in the midst of McCabe’s testimony.’
On May 16, 2017, Rosenstein made his remark about recording the President:
‘The alleged comments by Rosenstein occurred at a meeting where McCabe was “pushing for the Justice Department to open an investigation into the president.” Note that just five days earlier, McCabe had publicly testified that there was no obstruction, stating “there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date.”’
After that, Trump met with Mueller:
‘We still don’t know what was actually said at the meeting between Mueller, Rosenstein, and Trump.’
The next day, May 17:
‘ … and the day after Rosenstein’s encounter with McCabe—Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel.
‘The conflicting words and actions of McCabe cannot be overlooked. On the one hand McCabe testified there was no obstruction from Trump, yet, just five days later, McCabe was attempting to convince Rosenstein to go along with his efforts to open an obstruction investigation into the president. Events suggest that McCabe’s efforts were met with alarm from Rosenstein, who responded by appointing Mueller as special counsel. Rosenstein may have also informed Trump of McCabe’s intentions.
‘The May 17 appointment of Mueller accomplished one very significant thing. It shifted control of the Russia Investigation from the FBI and McCabe to Mueller.’
Fast forward to the summer of 2017:
‘Several months later, McCabe would lie under oath to DOJ Inspector general Michael Horowitz regarding authorization of FBI leaking to the Wall Street Journal.
‘Five days after McCabe lied to the IG, on Aug. 2, 2017, Rosenstein secretly issued Mueller a revised Scope of Investigation & Definition of Authority memo that remains heavily redacted. The full purpose of this Memo remains unknown and few have seen the unredacted version. On this same day, Christopher Wray was named the new FBI director.’
BUT — now in 2018:
‘One individual who has seen an unredacted version of the Aug. 2 Rosenstein memo is U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who presided over the trial of Paul Manafort. Ellis, who received a copy of the memo on May 17, 2018, later made the following comment in a subsequent ruling:
‘“The record makes clear that the Acting Attorney General [Rosenstein] has required the Special Counsel to consult with the Acting Attorney General before investigating matters that might fall under the May 17 Appointment Order. Specifically, the August 2 Scope Memorandum identifies specific factual matters to be investigated by the Special Counsel.”
‘“Notably, the August 2 Scope Memorandum limits the Special Counsel’s ability to investigate “additional matters that otherwise may have arisen or may arise directly from the Investigation” by requiring the Special Counsel to “consult [the Acting Attorney General] for a determination of whether such matters should be within the scope of [the special counsel’s] authority.
AND:
‘Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who recently assumed authority over the special counsel investigation, has also seen the unredacted memo. Like Judge Ellis, Whitaker has shown no indication he has any issue with the contents of Rosenstein’s memo.’
Carlson concludes by warning us about getting all the facts to a story.
Which is why we are here at the Q Tree!

The new USMCA could give a green light to censorship. This can be remedied by Congress before the other countries ratify it. Once all countries have ratified the agreement, if Congress hasn’t already reworded the problematic provision, Mexico and Canada would need to consent to rewording:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/12/03/usmca-entrenches-tech-companies-right-censor/
‘President Trump hailed the trade agreement he signed with Mexico and Canada last week as “great for all our countries.” Perhaps he doesn’t know that the NAFTA-replacing trade agreement, USMCA, gives tech giants in Silicon Valley a special legal privilege to censor his own supporters — and anyone else they find “objectionable.”
‘Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube all engaged in pre-election censorship against Republicans and Trump supporters. Yet they’ve managed to sneak a liability protection into President Trump’s trade bill that would make it even easier for them to censor their own users …
‘ … Article 19.17 of the trade agreement gives tech companies immunity from any lawsuits arising from actions taken to “restrict material it considers to be harmful or objectionable.”
‘Section 230 has a similarly problematic provision, which needs to be amended by the next Congress if the censorship of the internet is to be stopped. But the new, even broader censorship provision, will make it nearly impossible for the tech giants’ privilege of legal immunity from any lawsuit that arises out of their censorship practices to be taken away.
‘Whereas Section 230 can be amended by the U.S. congress, USMCA is a trade agreement – once ratified by all three nations (the U.S., Canada, and Mexico), it will take further agreement from the three nations to amend it. And only one of those countries has a First Amendment. Canada, with its wide-ranging hate speech laws and far-left Prime Minister, would see little reason to make it harder for tech companies to censor “objectionable” content.’

Pompeo needs Stephen Miller to write his speeches. Whilst this is well written, it does not really live up to the title: