Collusion, Meanwhile, Continues.

Look at Ovi and the way he, and two other Russians, implanted to Washington Caps, look at Trump--the collusion is self-evident. Trump handlers are in the White House to demand more from colluded and subverted POTUS.  

If that wasn't bad enough, Russians even penetrated...ahem..not what you think, Ivanka's personal circle. 

It stares right into our faces and Mueller has the audacity to clear Trump. This cannot stand;-) 

Now, without jokes, if US House of Representatives has a confirmed nutjob Rep. Adam Schiff as a Chair of House Intelligence Committee, it must either help Schiff leave office or properly rename itself as House Lack of Intelligence Committee.

WASHINGTON (AP) — "Damning evidence" of collusion with Russia. "More than circumstantial." A scandal of a size "beyond Watergate." For two years, Rep. Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, seemed to be on every talk and late-night show sounding ominous warnings about what special counsel Robert Mueller might find on President Donald Trump. The California Democrat got the president's attention — a fact confirmed when Trump turned the congressman's name into a foul schoolyard taunt. "Wow, Mr. President, that's a good one," Schiff tweeted back. But Mueller found no coordination or conspiracy involving Trump, his campaign and the Russian government, the Justice Department said Sunday. That sparked furious GOP calls for Schiff to resign from the committee or Congress as the Trump administration went on the offensive, recriminations in mind, with the 2020 elections nearing. "There are a lot of people out there that have done some very evil things, very bad things, I would say treasonous things against our country," Trump said Monday in the Oval Office, without elaborating. "Those people will certainly be looked at."

Truth is, lawyers, even those who prosecute matters related to national security and intelligence are just that--lawyers (or prosecutors). To chair anything related to intelligence one must have a serious professional intelligence background. I was vocal on that issue, in my naive attempts to point out that professional competence is a foundation for any military-intelligence related matter, when I wrote about such clown as Malcolm Nance who has zero credentials and experience in actual humint and operations of influence--it is simply way above his rank, billet and educational level. Yet, recall that this scumbag and self-proclaimed student of KGB became, together with a clueless psychopath Schiff, a Go To guy for so called main-stream sewer aka media. All that is reminiscent of auto-mechanic with AA from local community college expressing opinions on the issues of gynecology and neurosurgery. 

I am not a complete idiot--it is clear that many big fish from Russiagate cesspool will not see justice and will escape, nor am I naive about Trump but for me it is the matter of principle--institutional one. I care about US Constitution and political institutions which are supposed to be guided by it. I have a purely selfish interest in all that in addition to a larger ethical and purely geopolitical ones. So, in coming weeks we will see how much push-back, if any, will be generated against treasonous DNC, Democratic Party and its propaganda outlets, but what is clear today is that it will take months to feel a degree to which the United States, completely out of own resources, further weakened itself geopolitically. I think we may be for a whale of a (further) decline. Could it be also Trump's game? Well, I will add to Patrick Armstrong's inconsistencies about Trump he wrote about--it was Trump who ordered by Executive Order 13806 one of the most important documents in the last decade. 

Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States

Update: Just noticed Phil Giraldi's excellent piece at Unz, right on topic.  

An Iranian April Surprise?

There Was Never There There.

I know, some liberals are in agony but. Well, let's Politico talk:

President Donald Trump's critics have spent the past 17 months anticipating what some expect will be among the most thrilling events of their lives: special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on Russian 2016 election interference. They may be in for a disappointment. That’s the word POLITICO got from defense lawyers working on the Russia probe and more than 15 former government officials with investigation experience spanning Watergate to the 2016 election case. The public, they say, shouldn’t expect a comprehensive and presidency-wrecking account of Kremlin meddling and alleged obstruction of justice by Trump — not to mention an explanation of the myriad subplots that have bedeviled lawmakers, journalists and amateur Mueller sleuths. Perhaps most unsatisfying: Mueller’s findings may never even see the light of day.

I can only imagine what a hit the whole "industry" of Russian "experts" in US will take. How about illustrious "career" of people like Malcolm Nance who expressed a truck load of amateur "intelligence" trash, including just making shit up, as he went on-- issues which are (always were) beyond the grasp of some chief petty officer encryption technician in US Navy. He sure capitalized on people's ignorance by pushing sophomoric Bellingcattish imbecility of unimaginable scale. But isn't it an American tradition, same as baseball and apple pie, to have people with zero background to write on the subjects they have no clue about. Nance is just one example of such utter failure. There are many others. Any of them speaks Russian? 

In general, I find things like that (from Wiki on Nance) insulting to intelligence in both meanings:

In 2011,^[4] he received a bachelor of arts degree^[5] from New York's Excelsior College.^[6] Nance began working in the civilian intelligence arena through research into the history of the Soviet Union and its spying agency the KGB.^[7] He subsequently analyzed Middle East terrorism and sovereign nations with ties to the Russian Federation.^[7]

So, as you understand, the guy who gets undergraduate degree from some on-line college AFTER he exits service begins "analyzing" things. At least John Le Carre has two degrees from Bern University and Oxford plus significant service experience in Humint in MI-6, which then, unlike today, had a very good professional reputation among friends and enemies alike. But even renowned spy novelist leaves a lot to be desired in his fiction whenever writing about Soviets. Yet, here we are. It is a zeitgeist--cash register trained "analysts" analyze "intelligence" and "weapons" without  serving a day in uniform, cryptology technicians wax Humint creative, myriad of "bloggers" with "degrees" and backgrounds in... typing express their opinions on things real experts study and train half of their lives for. Why should we be surprised when the whole meaning of real expertise has been long ago hollowed out and left out to dry on a thin fragile line of attention span about to hit negative values. 

So, Politico is admitting that there will be no impeachment because there was no Russian involvement in US elections. Sad, for many. And as they say in the article:

All of this may sound like a buzzkill after two years of intense news coverage depicting a potential conspiracy between the Kremlin and Trump’s campaign, plus the scores of tweets from the White House condemning the Mueller probe as a “witch hunt.”  

Why may? It is a buzzkill and it was witch-hunt from the get go, which was paraded around for the whole world to see and finally arrive to inevitable conclusion that there is no point in dealing with the US in rational manner, especially with the "experts" like Nance or any other talking head in US TV.