Election Russiagate Takeaways
With another nightmare election still in process, we might be a little early with this one. It does seem that the Republicans will takeover the House with a slim majority. The Senate seems out of reach, unless Senator Manchin decides to switch parties.
Without the Senate, I don’t see much legislation getting passed. That probably sets up for 2 years of investigations. So far, it looks like much of the efforts will focus on Hunter Biden.
That’s a shame.
Yes, there is probably influence peddling, money laundering, and maybe some tax evasion. I’d like to see the Suspicious Activity Reports myself. But a public weary of investigations and controversy will grow tired of an investigation that won’t lead to much. Biden won’t be removed from office. They’ll view it as a political smear and with Biden unlikely to run again or win, those efforts could be placed elsewhere.
Russiagate remains in the background, although with interest declining I see people [who haven’t followed this as closely as me] suggest it’s time to move on. It’s not. There has to be accountability, or the 2024 election is likely to feature Fusion GPS again.
Mere exposure doesn’t seem to be enough. We have to keep in mind that exposing Igor Danchenko [at least as the primary subsource] as IG Horowitz did, did not stop him from continuing to be employed as a paid CHS for the FBI. It’s a massive black eye for our country.
So far, I have not heard Kevin McCarthy mention doing a Russiagate investigation.
We could get a report from John Durham pretty soon, which will be incredibly valuable but there will still be a mountain of questions. For the past few years I have spoke every day to the best sleuths in the country, guys that ID’d Igor Danchenko, Eric Ciaramella, Rodney Joffe, and made connections that nobody in the media did. The consensus from all of us who have spent so much time on this is that there is MUCH more to the story and there has to be a serious Congressional investigation to get all the answers.
There needs to be an investigation put together that looks at the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD/DARPA/AFOSI and the Obama White House. Senator Mark Warner and Adam Schiff need to catch a few questions as well. We need the communications from any operatives sent to them or their staffers.
There are excellent investigators on Capitol Hill, but I would be really happy to see at least a few of the sleuths called in. It would certainly be an indication that a GOP Congress is serious about a Russiagate investigation and isn’t just doing some lip service to get some time in front of the cameras.
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That’s 10 people. I can’t say for sure how many of them would agree but it would add a lot to any investigation. Half of those guys are lawyers. You’d never have to worry about getting a full day of work, Russiagate is just about the only reason any of us have checked our phones during the work day over the last few years.
Why is DARPA involved in criminal investigations?
Why is Manos Antonakakis involved in criminal investigations (Tree of Life Synagogue shooting)?
Why wasn’t Danchenko shut down as a paid CHS after the Horowitz report was released?
How many investigations at the FBI relied on the same subsources that Danchenko falsely attributed Russiagate stuff to?
What is the nature of public-private partnerships with the US Intelligence community?
I could go on for hours and hours. There are legitimate questions that go well beyond what they did to President Trump. I fear that in the wake of
that nothing changed for the better. This is just my speculation, but I suspect they outsourced much of it to private entities that relied on federal contracts, and continued a massive campaign of spying against Americans. I believe we see some of that with the Measurement Systems LLC and TrustCor stories. Packet Forensics has massive capabilities as well, and they even sell surveillance equipment to the US intelligence community. Whatever our government couldn’t outsource, they may have buried in the Department of Defense.We need an investigation that is willing to go toe-to-toe with anyone. We’ve seen frivolous privilege claims and side-stepping of questions. They need to be thrown in jail on a contempt charge when that happens. Don’t let them succeed in their obfuscation. Don’t let the FBI hide behind “sources and methods" because we know that they are abusing it to hide their embarrassment, not for national security.
We also need reforms, massive reforms, to the FOIA system. There must be transparency and a centralized processing system that shows a tracking history and gives visibility to the requester or members of Congress or other interested parties. There needs to be a mandatory declassification review [as outlined in EO 13526] integrated into the FOIA system, and requesters should be allowed to hire a representative with a security clearance who can review the documents in a SCIF and then go argue why they need to be declassified.
We need to end the counterintelligence mission of the FBI. It’s become a cesspool, rife with abuses against Americans.
We need data privacy laws. The foundations of which should be:
That nobody should be required to agree to release their data as a precondition of any transaction. No consent boxes should be pre-checked to agree to such a release and the opt-out button should be as conspicuous as the button to agree.
That no persons data, to include DNS (which is not well regulated), shall be sold or distributed without the parties consent. [Would be nice for those who donated to the GOP over the last few years, ha]
That all holders of data shall scrub their systems of the data no later than 1 year after the last transaction with the party. This should apply retroactively, and “people-search” websites and “big-tech” companies should have to destroy all the information they hold.
A persons address, name, social security number, birthday, email address, DNS activity, phone number, transaction history, and social media posts should all be subject to this standard.
Data, specifically DNS, played a significant role in their spying against President Trump and his associates. Part of the issue for Durham is the lack of clarity in current laws guarding against misuse of DNS for those who have lawful access under a separate agreement but then go abuse it for political purposes. We need to get this fixed.
One day, I’d prefer to share some ideas on education spending and the STAR study, privatizing social security, hardening military bases against trespassing and potential terror attacks, healthcare spending, and more.
Until then and until Russiagate is solved, I will continue our work here.
