February 3, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
The REAL Issue Lurking Behind the “Nunes Memo” and the Christopher Steele
Dossier
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Friends,
It’s
1861 (maybe 1862) all over again, and Abraham Lincoln just called for the
invasion of Middle America (AKA, the South), violated the right of habeas corpus, attempted to subvert
national elections, and is shredding the Constitution and its guaranteed protections.
Sound
familiar? Does that not remind us of what has been occurring in the United
States not only during this past year, but, as we know now, for decades?
Of
course, the Lincoln attempts brought on and produced open armed conflict: his
attempts to override and shred the Constitution compelled our ancestors to
military resistance and four years of bitter war.
Today,
as I have written previously, we are, as pundit Dan Bongino put it this morning
on the “Fox & Friends” program, in the midst of a “cold civil war,” a real conflict but without—at least not
yet—battles like Manassas or Chancellorsville.
No
doubt, by now, you have been able to catch and digest some of the news about
the House Intelligence Committee memo, the “Nunes Memo,” a summary of the misdeeds,
illegalities and subversion committed by our weaponized Deep State-controlled intelligence community,
specifically the FBI, paid for by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National
Committee, with the goal, first, of destroying the Trump campaign, and, second,
then unseating the president when he became the president (this was the
“insurance policy” mentioned in those infamous texts from senior FBI official
Peter Strzok).
The
hysteria along the Potomac is palpable: the Mainstream Media, while downplaying
the confirmation of what we knew was
happening as a “nothing-burger,” is also employing various other attacks on the
devastating chronology of facts that have been released. Incredibly, in their
utter madness the frenzied fanatics of the Deep State actually suggest that the
main author of the memo, Representative Devin Nunes and those defending its
conclusions, are themselves “working for Vladimir Putin and the Russians” (Case
in point: California Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell on last night’s
Tucker Carlson program declaring that Carlson’s defense of the memo was a case
of him “working for Putin.”)
Such
a “defense” reminds me of the Englishman who when he went to France, sternly proclaimed:
“When I travel to France, I speak English. If they don’t understand me at
first, I speak louder!” The Russian canard has unraveled; the basis for the
Mueller Special Counsel has been blasted all to hell; the Congressional
investigations of the Trump campaign are nothing more than expensive political
theatre; an attempted coup d’etat has been revealed. Yet, the Dems, Obamaites and
Clintonistas, our intelligence agencies, academia, the bureaucrats of the Deep State
just speak louder.
Yet,
there is one point that I think deserves and merits—demands—closer examination
and some severe questioning.
The
narrative we hear from the zealous Neocon pundits on Fox and which is implied
(although not explicitly explained) in the Nunes Memo is that, somehow, “the
Russians” are still responsible; that
is, some Russian “agents” (putatively of Putin’s government?) supplied the raw
(and fake) data to Christopher Steele, the violently anti-Trump rogue former
British intel agent, contracted by the Democrats and Clinton via FusionGPS, to
produce the infamous dossier.
Now
let me get this narrative straight: Putin’s intel folks worked with an agent of
the Democrats and Hillary (Christopher Steele) to prepare a fake dossier which
was to be used to: (1) destroy Trump’s campaign, maligning it as “pro-Russian”
and “working with Russia” [!!] and then, if he were elected, (2) demonstrate
that a President Trump had colluded with those very same Russians, thus deserving
to be impeached.
Let
me repeat: Vladimir Putin was providing information to friendly Dems and the
FBI leadership via Steele so that they could attack the Trump campaign as being
in cahoots with…the Russians, and then, intimate that President Trump had
“colluded” with the Russians to win the election! Plus, all the resulting anti-Russian sanctions
that have come directed at Russia and the very real tensions and potential
military confrontations that have resulted?
Something
doesn’t make sense here? A lot doesn’t
make sense here. We are being told that Vladimir Putin worked with one
American political group to produce dirt on the other political group and its
candidate, so that the first political group could then come out and then raise
bloody hell against Russia and suggest real war against the Russians? We are
being told that Vladimir Putin—whom the Democrats and media now frenetically
charge wanted Trump to win in 2016—actually was working with and assisting the
Democrats to defeat candidate Trump and then President Trump in 2016?
As
they say down in eastern Carolina, “that dog don’t hunt.”
The
most credible explanation—and one that has some significant evidence to support
it—is that very likely Christopher Steele created the fake dossier himself, and
whatever assistance he received from “the Russians,” came specifically from a
shadowy group of vocal anti-Putin Russians who have had an inordinate influence
on American and British intelligence since the 1990s.
Just
yesterday, investigative journalist Philip Giraldi, pointed out the role of
those anti-Putin propagandists (in league with anti-Russian Neoconservative
globalists) in shaping American foreign policy. I strongly recommend Giraldi’s
essay, especially on the critical role of William Browder (see: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/01/meet-corrupt-billionaire-who-has-brought-about-new-cold-war.html),
grandson of the former head of the Communist Party USA, Earl Browder, in
influencing American policy towards Russia.
Browder’s cachet with the bitterly anti-Russian, anti-Putin
Neoconservative internationalists, is significant. [Additional research by
Giraldi can be seen here: http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-magnitsky-hoax and here: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-new-know-nothings-in-congress/; and
additional investigatory information by Robert Parry can be read here: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/02/a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war/]
Those
anti-Putin Russians very likely did, in fact, work with the Democrats and also
with the GOP and Neocon NeverTrumpers and the globalist foreign policy
establishment—and very probably with the Progressivist-dominated intelligence community.
And with Christopher Steele. Their unrelenting goal was not just to defeat (or
maybe even impeach) a Donald Trump, supposedly “weak on Putin,” but to continue
to push for hostilities between America and Russia, up to and including
potential military clashes in Ukraine and in Syria. And their eventual aim is
to unseat the hated Putin and establish one more outpost of the New World Order
in Moscow.
This, then, I would suggest is the
scenario, the template, we should be viewing as we discuss the Nunes Memo. All
those Neocon pundits on Fox, at The
Weekly Standard and National Review,
will admit the illegality and attacks on the Constitution by the “farther
Left,” but they cannot leave behind their overriding New World Order narrative
and their fierce opposition to the one international power that has refused to
accept their tutelage…and the succeeding bondage of the EU and a George Soros...and
that power is present-day Russia.
Here follows Philip
Giraldi’s latest investigation; please read his earlier work, as well.
Meet the Corrupt Billionaire Who Has Brought About a New Cold War
One has to ask why there is a crisis in US-Russia relations
since Washington and Moscow have much more in common than not, to include
confronting international terrorism, stabilizing Syria and other parts of the
world that are in turmoil, and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
In spite of all that, the US and Russia are currently locked in a tit-for-tat unfriendly
relationship somewhat reminiscent of the Cold War.
Apart from search for a scapegoat to explain the Hillary Clinton
defeat, how did it happen? Israel Shamir, a keen observer of the American-Russian relationship, and celebrated
American journalist Robert Parry both think that one man deserves much of the credit for the new Cold
War and that man is William Browder, a hedge fund operator who made his fortune
in the corrupt 1990s world of Russian commodities trading.
Browder is also symptomatic of why the United States government
is so poorly informed about international developments as he is the source of
much of the Congressional “expert testimony” contributing to the current
impasse. He has somehow emerged as a trusted source in spite of the fact that
he has self-interest in cultivating a certain outcome. Also ignored is his
renunciation of American citizenship in 1998, reportedly to avoid taxes. He is
now a British citizen.
Browder is notoriously the man behind the 2012 Magnitsky Act,
which exploited Congressional willingness to demonize Russia and has done so
much to poison relations between Washington and Moscow. The Act sanctioned
individual Russian officials, which Moscow has rightly seen as unwarranted
interference in the operation of its judicial system.
Browder, a media favorite who self-promotes as “Putin’s enemy
#1,” portrays himself as a selfless human rights advocate, but is he? He has
used his fortune to threaten lawsuits for anyone who challenges his version of
events, effectively silencing many critics. He claims that his accountant
Sergei Magnitsky was a crusading "lawyer" who discovered a $230
million tax-fraud scheme that involved the Browder business interest Hermitage
Capital but was, in fact, engineered by corrupt Russian police officers who
arrested Magnitsky and enabled his death in a Russian jail.
Many have been skeptical of the Browder narrative, suspecting
that the fraud was in fact concocted by Browder and his accountant Magnitsky. A
Russian court recently supported that alternative narrative, ruling in late December that
Browder had deliberately bankrupted his company and engaged in tax evasion. He
was sentenced to nine years prison in absentia.
William Browder is again in the news recently in connection with
testimony related to Russiagate. On December 16th Senator Diane Feinstein
of the Senate Judiciary Committee released the transcript of the testimony provided by Glenn Simpson, founder of
Fusion GPS. According to James Carden, Browder was mentioned 50 times, but the repeated citations
apparently did not merit inclusion in media coverage of the story by the New
York Times, Washington Post and Politico.
Fusion GPS, which was involved in the research producing the
Steele Dossier used to discredit Donald Trump, was also retained to provide
investigative services relating to a lawsuit in New York City involving a
Russian company called Prevezon. As information provided by Browder was the
basis of the lawsuit, his company and business practices while in Russia became
part of the investigation. Simmons maintained that Browder proved to be
somewhat evasive and his accounts of his activities were inconsistent. He
claimed never to visit the United States and not own property or do business
there, all of which were untrue, to include his ownership through a shell
company of a $10 million house in Aspen Colorado. He repeatedly ran away, literally, from attempts to subpoena him so he would have to
testify under oath.
Per Simmons, in Russia, Browder used shell companies locally and
also worldwide to avoid taxes and conceal ownership, suggesting that he was
likely one of many corrupt businessmen operating in what was a wild west
business environment. My question is, “Why was such a man granted credibility
and allowed a free run to poison the vitally important US-Russia relationship?”
The answer might be follow the money. Israel Shamir reports that Browder was a major contributor to Senator Ben Cardin of
Maryland, who was the major force behind the Magnitsky Act.
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