Hillary sick?

[David Guyatt]

So what is really going on here? Something of substance or more theatre? Both?

http://washingtonbabylon.com/what-the-fu...-a-theory/

It's an extraordinary decision. God knows what's behind it though.

[Dawn Meredith]

So what is really going on here? Something of substance or more theatre? Both?

http://washingtonbabylon.com/what-the-fu...-a-theory/

It's an extraordinary decision. God knows what's behind it though.

This is the best explanation I have read so far. But we shall see.

[Cliff Varnell]

So what is really going on here? Something of substance or more theatre? Both?

http://washingtonbabylon.com/what-the-fu...-a-theory/

It's an extraordinary decision. God knows what's behind it though.

"God" is behind it.

The Dominionist Oligarchy is making a desperate last stand against demographic destiny.

White supremacist bible-thumpers are losing privilege in the US of A so one of their law enforcement puppets is taking action.

[Cliff Varnell]

Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-...din-514918

Hillary Clinton's Emails: The Real Reason the FBI Is Reviewing More of Them

By Kurt Eichenwald On 10/28/16 at 10:19 PM

Updated | The disclosure by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late on Friday, October 28 that it had discovered potential new evidence in its inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of her personal email when she was Secretary of State has virtually nothing to do with any actions taken by the Democratic nominee, according to government records and an official with knowledge of the investigation, who spoke to Newsweek on condition of anonymity.

The revelation that the FBI has discovered additional emails convulsed the political world, and led to widespread (and erroneous) claims and speculation. Many Republicans proclaimed that the discovery suggests Clinton may have broken the law, while Democrats condemned FBI Director James Comey for disclosing this information less than two weeks before the election, claiming he did it for political purposes.

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, said the development showed his opponent had engaged in corruption "on a scale we have never seen before,'' while Clinton called for the FBI to release all of the information it has, saying the American people have a right to know everything.

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, said the development showed his opponent had engaged in corruption "on a scale we have never seen before,'' while Clinton called for the FBI to release all of the information it has, saying the American people have a right to know everything.

The truth is much less explosive. There is no indication the emails in question were withheld by Clinton during the investigation, the law enforcement official told Newsweek, nor does the discovery suggest she did anything illegal. Also, none of the emails were to or from Clinton, the official said. Moreover, despite the widespread claims in the media that this development had prompted the FBI to "reopen" of the case, it did not; such investigations are never actually closed, and it is common for law enforcement to discover new information that needs to be examined.

As of Friday night Comey had only said the bureau is seeking to determine whether these newly discovered emails involved classified material.
The FBI found the new evidence during an unrelated inquiry into former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner regarding an allegation that he sent illicit, sexual text messages to an underage girl in North Carolina. In the course of that investigation, agents seized a laptop computer Weiner shared with his wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide who has already been questioned by the FBI during its investigation. The bureau found the emails now being examined on this shared device, which agents obtained some time ago.

This new evidence relates to how Abedin managed her emails. She maintained four email accountsan unclassified State Department account, another on the clintonemail.com domain and a third on Yahoo. The fourth was linked to her husband's account; she used it to support his activities when he was running for Congress, investigative records show. Abedin, who did not know Clinton used a private server for her emails, told the bureau in an April interview that she used the account on the clintonemail.com domain only for issues related to the Secretary's personal affairs, such as communicating with her friends. For work-related records, Abedin primarily used the email account provided to her by the State Department.

Because Clinton preferred to read documents on paper rather than on a screen, emails and other files were often printed out and provided to her either at her office or home, where they were delivered in a diplomatic pouch by a security agent. Abedin, like many State Department officials, found the government network technology to be cumbersome, and she had great trouble printing documents there, investigative records show. As a result, she sometimes transferred emails from her unclassified State Department account to either her Yahoo account or her account on Clinton's server, and printed the emails from there. It is not clear whether she ever transferred official emails to the account she used for her husband's campaign.

Abedin would use this procedure for printing documents when she received emails she believed Clinton needed to see and when the Secretary forwarded emails to her for printing. Abedin told the FBI she would often print these emails without reading them. Abedin printed a large number of emails this way, in part because, investigative records show, other staff members considered her Clinton's "gatekeeper" and often sent Abedin electronic communications they wanted the Secretary to see.

This procedure for printing documents, the government official says, appears to be how the newly discovered emails ended up on the laptop shared by Abedin and her husband. It is unclear whether any of those documents were downloaded onto the laptop off of her personal email accounts or were saved on an external storage device, such as a flash drive, and then transferred to the shared computer. There is also evidence that the laptop was used to send emails from Abedin to Clinton; however, none of those emails are the ones being examined by the FBI. Moreover, unless she was told by Abedin in every instance, Clinton could not have known what device her aide was using to transmit electronic information to her.

If the FBI determines that any of the documents that ended up on the shared device were classified, Abedin could be deemed to have mishandled them. In order to prove that was a criminal offense, however, investigators would have to establish that Abedin had intended to disclose the contents of those classified documents, or that she knew she was mishandling that information.

If the documents were not classified, no crime was committed. But either way, this discovery has embarrassed Clinton, even though there is no evidence at this point suggesting she has been implicated in any potential wrongdoing.

According to a letter Comey sent to the chairs of several Congressional committee on Friday, he learned of these new emails on Thursday, October 27.
His decision to immediately reveal this discovery was not a partisan act, although it was a horribly mishandled one. Arguably, he had to issue his letter because of previous statements he had made to Congress. In September, he testified that the bureau had completed its review of the evidence in the case and found no crimes had been committed. With the discovery of the information on the laptop shared by Weiner and Abedin, that sworn statement was no longer true, and there was new evidence that needed to be examined. As a result, Comey felt he was obligated to inform the committees as quickly as possible that his previous statement was now incorrect.

However, the letter he sent could well damage the reputation of the FBI as an apolitical organization for years to come. Given that Comey also testified that his agents would examine any new evidence that emerged, Democrats will undoubtedly argue that issuing a letter repeating that point was unnecessary.

In a communication to bureau employees, Comey described his letter to Congress as an attempt to thread a needle amend his testimony while not disclosing details of an ongoing investigation. The combination, however, created a circumstance where politicians are filling in the blanks, creating a storyline of corruption that was not justified by the evidence developed by the bureau. Making it worse, the communication to the bureau employees is far more detailed than what Comey issued to Congress.

"There is a significant risk of being misunderstood," Comey told the bureau employees in the communication, explaining why he was so vague in his letter to Congress. "It would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record. At the same time, however, given that we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don't want to create a misleading impression."

Unfortunately, by trying to have things both ways revealing the change in circumstances while remaining vague about what the agents know Comey has created that misleading impression that could change the outcome of a presidential election, an act that, if uncorrected, will undoubtedly go down as one of the darkest moments in the bureau's history.

[Cliff Varnell]

Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016...ce=copyurl

Reports: Emails Had Nothing to Do With Clinton

The emails that Donald Trump has claimed will bring down Hillary Clinton are not quite the bombshell that he thinks, reports said Saturday. The revelation about new emails related to Hillary Clinton came out Friday, after FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on the matter, a move that triggered panic and sent stocks plunging. Trump quickly swept up the story and told supporters the scandal would be "bigger than Watergate." Yet an official told the Los Angeles Times late Friday that the emails in question weren't sent to or from Clinton, nor did they contain any new information. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Comey's letter to Congress was more a formality than anything else. NBC's Pete Williams later reiterated that, saying FBI sources had told him that not only were the emails not from Clinton, but they had nothing to do with her. Williams also noted that the investigation had not been "reopened," since the probe had never been closed to begin with "as a purely technical thing." The content of the emails has not been disclosed.

James Comey has always been a partisan.

He kept Dick Cheney and Karl Rove out of prison for the Valerie Plame treason in 2003 when the Bushies outed an undercover CIA operation in political retribution.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-exposure...rie-plame/

[Paul Rigby]

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Why the Deep State Is Dumping Hillary

Charles Hugh Smith

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2...llary.html

The governed are ready for a period of retrenchment, consolidation and diplomatic solutions to unwinnable conflicts, as imperfect as the peace might be to hawks.

Are you open to a somewhat unconventional perspective on this election? If so, read on. If you're absolutely confident you know all there is know about this election (good vs evil, Democrat vs. Republican, etc.), well then let's compare notes in five years and see which context provided more insight into the future.

In the context presented here, the personalities of the two candidates matter less than their perceived role in the changing of the Imperial Order. Let's start with a quick overview of the relationships between each political party and the Deep State--the unelected power centers of the central government that continue on regardless of which person or party is in elected office.

Liberal Democrats have always been uneasy bedfellows with the Deep State.Republican President Eisenhower had the political and military gravitas to put limits on the Military-Industrial wing of the Deep State, so much so that Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy claimed the U.S. had fallen behind the U.S.S.R. militarily in the 1960 presidential election (the infamous "missile gap").

Eisenhower was a cautious Cold War leader, wary of hot wars, wars of conquest, and the inevitable burden of conquest, nation-building. The military was best left sheathed in his view, and careful diplomacy was sufficient to pursue America's interests.

Kennedy entered office as a foreign policy hawk who was going to out-hawk the cautious Republicans. A brush with C.I.A. cowboys (the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba) and a taste of Imperial meddling in distant, poorly understood lands (Vietnam) increased his interest in peace and reduced his enthusiasm for foreign adventurism.

Lyndon Johnson, perhaps the most activist liberal Democrat of the era, was not about to be out-hawked by the Republicans, and so he followed an expansive Imperial agenda into the 10-year quagmire of Vietnam.
Since the immense global enterprise known as World War II had taken less than four years to win, Americans had little patience for low-intensity wars that dragged on inconclusively for years while combat deaths mounted into the tens of thousands.

Liberal Democrats could find no easy political ground between the pressure to out-hawk the Republicans and the demands of an expansive Cold War Deep State. Both liberal Democratic presidents between 1965 and 1980, Johnson and Jimmy Carter, were one-term presidents, undermined by military/foreign entanglements.

The Republicans were given a freer hand; Nixon unleashed the B-52s on Hanoi in late 1972 until the North Vietnamese ran out of Soviet-supplied SAMs (surface to air missiles). Given a choice between a brokered peace or a flattened capital, they chose peace, and Nixon was free to declare victory and pull the majority of remaining American forces out of Southeast Asia.

The disastrous defeat in Vietnam of expansive Imperial ambitions (nation-building, etc.) led to an era of retrenchment and consolidation. Other than "splendid little wars" in Grenada and Panama and supporting proxies such as the Contras, the 1980s were years not of Imperial expansion but of Cold war diplomacy.

Republican President Reagan was also given a free hand to be a peacemaker, overseeing the fatal erosion of the U.S.S.R. and the end of the long, costly Cold War. President Bush Senior was a cautious Cold War leader, careful not to alienate the post-U.S.S.R. Russians and wary of over-reach and quagmires even in the new Unipolar world of unrivaled U.S. power.

The era's one hot war, Desert Storm, restored the sovereignty of Kuwait but left Saddam Hussein in control of Iraq. Bush and his inner circle (and the Deep State they represented) were mindful of the lessons of Vietnam: Imperial over-reach led to costly, drawn-out failures of nation-building in the name of exporting democracy.

Though it was poorly understood by the public, Desert Storm played to American military strengths: a high-intensity conflict with concentrated forces, maneuver warfare with heavy armor protected by absolute air superiority, aided by proximity to allied bases and aircraft carrier groups. If you designed a war optimized to American military strengths, it would look much like Desert Storm. No wonder it was one of the most lopsided victories in history, with most American casualties resulting from random Scud missile strikes and accidents.

The end of the Cold War and victory in Iraq left the Republicans without their hawkish agenda and political raison d'etre, and Ross Perot's third-party movement in 1992 effectively delivered the presidency to Democrat Bill Clinton.

Clinton was blessed with a booming domestic economy and a peace dividend from the end of the Cold war. Though Clinton reportedly hankered for a great crisis he could exploit to burnish his place in the history books, alas none arose, and the 20th century ended with a decided absence of existential threats to the U.S. or even U.S. interests.

The incredible success of Desert Storm and the temptations of Unipolar Power birthed an expansionist, activist Imperial doctrine (neoconservatism) and a Deep State enthusiasm for flexing America's unrivaled power. What better place to put these doctrines into practice than Iraq, a thorn in the Imperial side since Desert Storm in 1991.

Alas, Bush Junior and his clique of doctrinaire neoconservatives had little grasp of the limits and trade-offs of military tactics and strategies, and they confused the optimization of Desert Storm with universal superiority in any and all conflicts.

But as veterans of Vietnam knew, low-intensity war with diffused, irregular combatants is quite a different situation. Add in the shifting politics of Sunni and Shia, tribal allegiances, failed states and a post-colonial pot of simmering resentments and rivalries, and you get Iraq and Afghanistan, two quagmires that have already exceeded the cost and duration of the Vietnam quagmire.

A decade after the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and 25 years after Vietnam, the Deep State was once again enamored of expansion, hot wars, conquest and nation-building. Fifteen years on, despite endless neocon PR and saber-rattling, the smarter and more adept elements of the Deep State have given up on expansion, hot wars, conquest and nation-building.

Even empires eventually taste the ashes of defeat when expansion and hubris-soaked ambitions lead to over-reach, over-extended military forces, and enemies who are not just undeterred but much stronger than when the over-confident expansion began.

In my view, the current era of U.S. history shares parallels with the Roman era of A.D. 9 and beyond, when a planned expansionist invasion of the Danube region in central Europe led to military defeats and insurgencies that took years of patient warfighting and diplomacy to quell.

Which brings us to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. President Obama, nominally a liberal Democrat, has pursued an extension of the neocon Bush expansionism, with the key difference being Obama has relied more on proxies and drone strikes than on "boots on the ground." But the quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan have not only persisted, they have expanded under Obama's watch into Syria and Libya.

War by drone and proxy is even more tempting than outright invasion, as American casualties are modest and the responsibilities for failure are (it is fervently hoped) easily sidestepped. Alas, fulfilling Imperial ambitions via proxies has its own set of limits and trade-offs; proxy wars only get the desired results in very specific circumstances.

The Democrats have out-hawked the Republicans for eight years, and the Deep State is in disarray. I have been writing about this for several years now:

Is the Deep State Fracturing into Disunity? (March 14, 2014): http://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar14/disu...e3-14.html

When we speak of the Deep State, this ruling Elite is generally assumed to be monolithic: of one mind, so to speak, unified in worldview, strategy and goals.

In my view, this is an over-simplification of a constantly shifting battleground of paradigms and political power between a number of factions and alliances within the Deep State. Disagreements are not publicized, of course, but they become apparent years after the conflict was resolved, usually by one faction winning the hearts and minds of decision-makers or consolidating the Deep State's group-think around their worldview and strategy.

Even the Deep State only rules with the consent of the governed. The wiser elements of the Deep State recall how the Vietnam War split the nation in two and exacerbated social upheaval. These elements recognize America is tired of Imperial expansion, quagmires, proxy wars and doomed nation-building.

This exhaustion with over-reach shares many parallels with 1968 America.

In this long view of Imperial expansion, defeat and retrenchment, Hillary is holding down the status quo fort of failed expansionism and proxy wars. Her ability to out-hawk the Republicans is unquestioned, and that is one of her problems:

Could the Deep State Be Sabotaging Hillary? (August 8, 2016): http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug16/deep...y8-16.html

When the governed get tired of Imperial over-reach and expansion, they are willing to take chances just to get rid of the expansionist status quo. In this point in history, Hillary Clinton embodies the status quo. The differences in policy between her and the Obama administration are paper-thin: she is the status quo.

The governed are ready for a period of retrenchment, consolidation and diplomatic solutions to unwinnable conflicts, as imperfect as the peace might be to hawks.

For these reasons, the more adept elements of the Deep State have no choice but to dump Hillary. Empires fall not just from defeat in war with external enemies, but from the abandonment of expansionist Imperial burdens by the domestic populace.

Put another way: drones and proxies don't pay taxes

The Clinton Collapse - Only The Deep State Is So Precise

Charles Hugh Smith

31 October 2016

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-31...so-precise

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.co.uk/2...paign.html

The Deep State's most prescient elements must derail Hillary's campaign to clear a path to Trump's executive team.

Back in August, I asked Could the Deep State Be Sabotaging Hillary? I think we now have a definitive answer: "These blast points on Hillary's campaign... too accurate for the Mainstream Media. Only the forces of the Imperial Deep State are so precise."

The Mainstream Media is presenting the FBI investigation as a "lose-lose" situation for embattled FBI Director Comey. If Comey remained quiet until after the election, he would be accused of colluding with the Clinton campaign and its allies in the Department of Justice (sic).

But in going public, he stands accused by Democrats of "intervening in an election," i.e. raising doubts about Hillary's judgement and veracity days before Americans go to the polls.

Another narrative has Comey's hand forced by the threat of disgusted FBI agents leaking information that would show the FBI caved into political pressure from the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign to keep relevant material out of the public eye until after the election.

I submit another much more powerful dynamic is in play: the upper ranks of the Deep State now view Hillary as an unacceptable liability. The word came down to Comey to act whether he wanted to or not, i.e. take one for the good of the nation/Deep State/Imperial Project.

As a refresher: the Deep State is the unelected government (also called the invisible or shadow government) that is not as monolithic as generally assumed.

The neo-conservative globalists who want Hillary to continue pushing their agenda are the more visible camp, but another less visible but highly motivated camp realizes Hillary and her neo-con agenda would severely damage the nation's security and its global influence. It is this camp that is arranging for Hillary to lose.

The consensus view seems to be that the Establishment and the Deep State see Trump as a loose cannon who might upset the neo-con apple cart by refusing to toe the neo-con line.

This view overlooks the reality that significant segments of the Deep State view the neo-con strategy as an irredeemable failure. To these elements of the Deep State, Hillary is a threat precisely because she embraces the failed neo-con strategy and those who cling to it. From this point of view, Hillary as president would be an unmitigated disaster for the Deep State and the nation/Imperial Project it governs.

Whatever else emerges from the emails being leaked or officially released, one conclusion is inescapable: Hillary's judgement is hopelessly flawed. Combine her lack of judgement with her 24 years of accumulated baggage and her potential to push the neo-con agenda to the point of global disaster, and you get a potent need for the Deep State's most prescient elements to derail her campaign and clear a path to Trump's executive team.

Once this path is clear, the management of Trump's executive team can begin in earnest, a management process aimed at disengaging the nation and its global Empire from neo-con overreach.
If you think this scenario is "impossible," let's see how the election plays out before deciding what's "impossible" and what's inevitable.

[Paul Rigby]

HILLARY AND THE FBI: THE "DEEP STATE" REVOLTS

31.10.2016

Andrew Korybko

http://katehon.com/article/hillary-and-f...te-revolts

The Scandal That Shook America

Every American is shocked that FBI Director James Comey revealed to Congress late last week that the Bureau has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Democrats and their ilk are enraged at what they say is political interference' so close to Election Day, while Republicans can't believe that the same man who declined to press charges against the former Secretary of State last summer is now finally doing the right thing after shamefully selling out to The Establishment. The Democrats' claims about political interference' are totally groundless, since the American People have a right to know if the illegal behavior of one of the leading presidential candidates is still being scrutinized by the authorities in light of new information. In fact, Comey wouldn't have done such a dramatic move had his team not uncovered a real bombshell during their investigation into Huma Abedin's estranged husband's sexual perversions and suspected possession of child pornography.

At the very least, Huma is guilty of perjury for lying under oath and saying that she surrendered all work-related devices on which any of Hillary's potentially classified emails could have been handled. This discovery raises obvious questions about the integrity of the woman who Hillary would likely make her Chief of Staff if she wins the election, and it worryingly shows millions of Americans that Clinton does not have the capacity to make good judgement calls. This further compounds all of the existing evidence that she's corrupt and might proverbially be the drop that overspills the glass and convinces on-the-fence voters that she's definitely not worthy of their vote. The Clintons' corruption is legendary and has already been explored at length by Peter Schweizer and many others affiliated with the Breitbart alternative-conservative news platform so there's no need for the present article to discuss that in depth, though it's worthy to keep in mind this entire time.

The "Deep State"

Rather, this piece aims to analyze what motivated Comey to do what he did, as well as relatedly apply the author's interpretive framework of the "deep state" in extrapolating the rebellious state of affairs at the FBI and the significance that this holds for The Establishment. To start off, the "deep state" isn't some sort of conspiratorial' concept like reactionary critics might allege, but is just another way of talking about any given country's permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies. The author broadly discussed the relationship that both presidential candidates have to this pivotal arm of The Establishment in the mid-summer article about "National Leadership Styles And The Deep State': Trump And Hillary", during which it was posited that Hillary has favorable high-level support within the State Department and FBI (due to her existing tenure as Secretary of State and Obama's close relationship with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, respectively) while Trump has pragmatic sympathizers in the CIA and Pentagon (such as former Defense Intelligence Agency head Michael Flynn) who properly understand what a dangerous train wreck Hillary Clinton's foreign policy would be for the rest of the world.

This observation needs to be adjusted in order to account for Comey reopening the case into Hillary and notifying Congress that the investigation is once more ongoing. Like it was earlier written, he wouldn't have done this if there was any conceivable way that he could avoid it, which strengthens the case that whatever evidence was retrieved is worthy of this unparalleled move. Reports have been circulating in the press that morale is at an all-time low in the FBI among employees who fervently feel that their Director permanently blighted the Bureau's reputation and undermined the general public's trust in this branch of the "deep state". Many agents have even submitted letters of resignation in protest of what they are convinced is incurable corruption within the institution, and The New York Post even headlined an article in early October proclaiming that "FBI agents are ready to revolt over the cozy Clinton probe". None of these factors by themselves would have been enough to get Comey to change his mind and come clean about what at this point inarguably looks to have been his own political interference into the election by refusing to charge Hillary, but they certainly contributed to the tense intra-organizational environment on the eve that agents first found Clinton's emails on Huma and her separated husband Anthony Weiner's computer.

The Revolt From Below

At this point it's necessary to draw a distinction between the rank and file associates of the FBI and other "deep state" organizations and the institutional elites that rule over this class. It's impossible to ever know without a grain of doubt just how dedicated each and every employee of the "deep state" is to upholding The Establishment, but it can be surmised that just like in any hierarchy, the bottom of the pyramid doesn't always happily support the pinnacle of power. In this case, regular FBI agents really do seem to be revolting against Comey's leadership as strongly as they legally can within their professional bounds, knowing full well that it's almost impossible (and certifiably suicidal) to attempt a stereotypical "coup" against him but well aware enough of their importance that they understand what a blow it would be to his presidentially appointed rule if they continually leak their frustrations to the press and do everything they can to make him feel like a disowned outcast. The simple reality is that the FBI's reputation is already ruined in the eyes of the American public, who now see the domestic intelligence and law enforcement body as a paramilitary extension of the Democratic Party. The only glimmer of hope that its employees have to correct this perception is to show the country that they are opposed to their Director turning them all into unwitting partisan hacks.

FBI employees join the Bureau out of a sense of duty in protecting their homeland from domestic threats and doing their part to clean up the rampant crime that has taken hold of the nation, not to behave as the corrupt apparatus of one political party or another. Comey's betrayal this summer in refusing to indict Hillary Clinton despite the overwhelming evidence that she (and it later turns out, also President Obama himself) had broken the law hit the organization so hard because it flew in the face of every non-partisan principle that most of the employees truly believe in and joined the Bureau to protect, so when agents fortuitously discovered new evidence related to the case while they were investigating Weiner's child sexting scandal, there was no way that they were going to sit on it without saying anything. One can only speculate on the sort of conversations and intrigue that went on at the FBI headquarters in the weeks since Hilary's emails were discovered on Huma and Weiner's computer, but it's very likely that a suspenseful Game of Thrones'-like drama unfolded whereby patriotic rank and file employees confronted their in-the-pocket Establishment leaders and demanded that the Clinton case be reopened and the announcement be made public so that all of their fellow Americans can know about it, otherwise they'd leak it to the press themselves.

The Path Of No Return

Comey already sold the FBI out by declining to charge Clinton in the first place, so it can't really be argued that he suddenly had an about-face in order to save the institutional reputation of the Bureau, although it also can't be completely ruled out either. Rather, it's much more logical that Comey is interested first and foremost in his own personal wellbeing, not buying into the Democratic-controlled Mainstream Media's reports that Hillary is far ahead of Trump and slated to beat him by a landslide and instead hedging his bets against what he would do if a future Trump Administration decides to investigate him for political impropriety after the inauguration. The author did in fact predict that Trump would undertake legal action against the Clinton and Soros Foundations if he's elected President, so it's only natural that he would expand this process to include their "deep state" collaborators if he was indeed serious about cleansing'/'purging' them from power. The only way that Comey could attempt to save himself in such a situation was to make the move that he did in unprecedentedly announcing that the FBI had reopened their investigation into one of the country's two leading presidential candidates just a little over one week before the election. Comey must really believe that there's a distinct possibility that Trump will win and carry through on his promise to "drain the swamp" of Washington corruption otherwise he wouldn't have thrown the entire political process into chaos like he just did.

By going to Congress and contradicting the will of the Justice Department and President Obama, Comey is signaling to the American People as strongly as he can that something is very, very wrong, and he's also publicly and irreversibly setting into motion an investigative process that could far outlive him in the event that he falls victim to a "mysterious suicide" just like the scores of individuals that have dared to cross the Clintons. Comey probably did all of this out of the self-interested motivation of looking after his own personal and professional interests, but regardless of what sparked him into action, the outcome is that this has helped to repair some of the previous damage that he did to the organization's morale and its reputation among the people. The ordinary employees of this "deep state" institution, no matter how offended they are at Comey's cowardice this summer, are now filled with a sense of purpose in going through the hundreds of thousands of emails on Huma and Weiner's seized computer and extracting the evidence that they know is in there in order to reverse the injustice that their Director is responsible for. As for the private citizenry with any common sense left in their skulls, they should by now realize that the "deep state" revolt that took place among agents of the FBI is serious enough to have forced the Director into dramatically initiating corrective action less than two weeks before the election.

Circling The Wagons

The late-October reopening of the Clinton email case and the public notification that Congress received about this is indicative of a complete about-face by FBI Director James Comey, which could only have come about due to a "deep state" revolt by the rank and file agents within the Bureau who were spurred into action after fortuitously finding new evidence on Huma and Weiner's computer. There was no way that Comey could continue to cover up for Clinton, and it's very likely that patriotic employees threatened to go public with the Bureau's findings if he didn't take a principled move in the right direction and notify the country about what was happening (regardless if this was motivated more so by his own self-interests as opposed to his civic duty). This first-ever episode of such a high-ranking "deep state" representative "defecting" from The Establishment is significant in that it proves that the American "deep state" is not solidly behind Hillary Clinton like some have assumed, and that even within those institutions which are affiliated with her, there is a growing revolt among the regular employees against their politically co-opted superiors.

This is especially significant as the US nears the most historic presidential election in its history. Never before has a complete outsider like Donald Trump come so close to the Presidency and been in a position to clean out the corrupted "deep state" elements of the modern-day Establishment. In contrary, this is the first time that both the Democratic and Republican Party elite have united behind a single candidate (Hillary Clinton) and dispelled the enduring myth of America's political system being characterized by a "free and fair choice" between two assumedly different candidates. In truth, Trump and Hillary couldn't be more different than one another in almost all ways, but it's the fact that both parties have come together to fight against the outsider and protect their own entrenched interests that American Democracy is revealed as the rigged institutional fraud that its critics have always alleged it to be. As further proof of this, The Establishment and its "deep state"-connected public affiliates of the Mainstream Media and "Academia" have waged an unparalleled psychological war against their own American People, even deploying Hybrid War technology in having the Soros-linked "Black Lives Matter" extremist group instigate divide-and-rule race riots all throughout the country.

"Deep State" Saviors'

The reason why they're going to such extremes with their efforts is because they need to convince Americans not to vote for Donald Trump on 8 November, since the election is ultimately just that an election and the candidate with the most votes wins. For as rigged and manipulated as the system is, it still boils down to a simple poll between the two frontrunners, one which can only be directly interfered with through fraudulent activities such as dead people voting and the outright tampering of electronic ballots. The latter option is especially threatening because of the large-scale and decisive impact that it could have in throwing this neck-and-neck election to Hillary Clinton's favor, and as uncomfortable as it is to acknowledge, there's absolutely nothing that the average American can do about it if such a scheme is already planned to take place. The only people who can stop, expose, and deal with this plot are the ones working with the "deep state", particularly the elements in the FBI and NSA who may come across evidence of this occurring and be inspired to leak it to the press and/or compel their superiors to take action.

Up until Comey's stunning announcement, there was no way of gauging just how divided and mutinous the FBI really was, so the thought of patriotic agents in the Bureau or any other "deep state" institution leaking or acting on evidence of pro-Clinton electronic voter fraud sounded to many like wishful thinking'. In fact, the only related scenario which the Mainstream Media was willing to countenance was the outlandish one of "Russian hackers" rigging the election for Trump, a psy-op claim so egregiously insulting to the intelligence of average Americans that even CNN and Time felt it necessary to publicly walk back and refute. Now, however, there's hope that patriots in the FBI, NSA, and others might not accept the election results if they come across evidence that Hillary won' by fraud. Such "deep state" saviors' could gather their supportive coworkers together and pressure their bosses to act just like the Bureau did with Comey over this past month, or even go rogue' by leaking the smoking gun' to the media and watching as all hell breaks loose while Americans stage their own Color Revolution' against The Establishment.

The Second American Revolution'?

The ruling "deep state" elite is scared like never before because they no longer have the same amount of confidence in the power that they assumed they wielded over their underlings. The FBI Revolt of October 2016 was an even greater shock for them than it was for the average American because it means that any forthcoming plans to defraud the election in favor of Hillary could conceivably be opposed and exposed by the same shadowy apparatuses that were supposed to carry it out and sweep it under the rug. The FBI's patriots sent a strong signal to their "deep state" counterparts in other institutions when they succeeded in pressuring Comey to publicly notify Congress about the reopening of Clinton's email case, since their peers now know that there is a very real revolt going on in the "deep state" and that they have more support than they might have otherwise thought. This unmistakable message is designed to encourage other patriots to rise up within their own ranks and oppose the electronic voter fraud that Hillary and her backers in the "deep state" elite are plotting.

If one thinks about it, what transpired in the last week of October is the closest that the US has ever come to a Second American Revolution' and it's proof that there are indeed friendly' and patriotic elements in the "deep state" that are willing to stand with the people in opposing the corrupt machinations of their ruling elite superiors in The Establishment. Americans can't help but take note that something totally unusual is happening and that all is not right in the corridors of power. Never before has a branch of the "deep state" so openly rebelled against the ruling government, and the average citizen is waking up to the frightening prospect that their own "deep state" might be just as divided and on the brink of war with itself as are those in the undemocratic dictatorships' (or so the weaponized Mainstream Media makes them out to be) that the US routinely destabilizes and tries to overthrow. The parallels are remarkable and the foreboding sense of fear that they instill isn't lost on many.

If the upcoming vote isn't conducted in the free and fair' manner that Americans expect it to be, then the "deep state" saviors' will attempt to peacefully carry out their Second American Revolution' behind the scenes in dealing with this crisis, but faced with insurmountable institutional resistance from their elite Clinton-co-opted superiors, they might go for the nuclear option' and leak all of the evidence that they have about this plot to the media and thus prompt the American People to take the Second American Revolution' from the shadows to the streets. This could predictably result in a scale of violence and far-reaching turmoil that sets into motion a chain reaction that's utterly impossible to accurately forecast. The Second American Revolution' could either be pulled off peacefully at the polls and behind the scenes by the facilitative "deep state" saviors', or riotously in the streets with unpredictable bedlam. Nevertheless, it's a certainty that the Second American Revolution' will play out in one way or another, but it's just a question of which of the two will ultimately be victorious, and whether that will be Trump's form of the people conquering The Establishment or Hillary's one of The Establishment conquering the people.

[David Guyatt]

So what is really going on here? Something of substance or more theatre? Both?

http://washingtonbabylon.com/what-the-fu...-a-theory/

It's an extraordinary decision. God knows what's behind it though.

"God" is behind it.

The Dominionist Oligarchy is making a desperate last stand against demographic destiny.

White supremacist bible-thumpers are losing privilege in the US of A so one of their law enforcement puppets is taking action.

Are you trolling me, Cliff? If I see the words "dominionist oligarchy" again I'm going to have to wrap a cold tower around my forehead. ::

[Paul Rigby]

I am grateful to Mr Dwayne Mullet of the Rebelyell website for drawing my attention to the following vital intelligence:

WIKILEAKS: Hillary's Aide, She's Acting Like A RETARD She Smells Like Boiled Cabbage, Urine And FARTS'

October 31, 2016

http://observatorial.com/2016/10/31/wiki...ine-farts/

People tell me that Hillary is acting like a retard' since her head injury. Frankly, considering her normal behavior, I'm surprised anyone noticed! (this is a joke!) Have someone talk to her doctor and see if there's anything he can give her.

Also, I've noticed she's had an odor' lately. It reminds me of a combination of boiled cabbage, urine and farts. I'm guessing it's either connected to her fall or simply the fact that she rarely bathes. Outside of encouraging her to take a shower once in a while, I don't know what to do about this. any suggestions would be appreciated.

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john.podesta@gmail.com

[R.K. Locke]

Seems like some people in the deep state really don't want the Clintons back in the White House again. I doubt that they want Trump either. So maybe Pence is the one to watch?