In their opinion piece today on MSNBC, former Ambassador and White House ethics chief Norm Eisen and former U.S prosecutor Andrew Warren, sound a wake up call regarding the FBI's search last Friday of the home and office of former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton, ostensibly to look for mishandled classified documents (like the ones found in Mar a Lago's bathrooms?). In Bolton's case, he'd been a thorn in the vindictive Malignant Fascist's side for several years, pointing out the MF's failures in foreign policy. From their opinion piece:
"Early Friday morning, FBI agents searched the home of John Bolton, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump who previously served as his national security adviser. The early-morning knock on Bolton’s door should be a wake-up call to every American. This escalation in the Trump administration’s use of law enforcement to target political opposition marks a dangerous new front for American authoritarianism. [snip]
Search warrants require judicial approval, but because they often remain sealed for months, the allegations and evidence supporting Bolton’s warrant are opaque. Initial reports described the search as part of an investigation into whether Bolton leaked sensitive national security information to the news in order to damage Trump. Subsequent reporting added that the search was based on intelligence collected abroad by the CIA — now headed by sharp Trump partisans." (our emphasis)
They go on to explain why Bolton is a threat to the MF's nonsensical, grievance-driven and anti-democratic positions on foreign policy, which are influenced by who can best flatter the vain malignant narcissist. So far, Russian thug and war criminal Vladimir Putin seems to be winning on the international scene. Their opinion concludes:
"We have seen these tactics throughout history: from the Stasi police in East Germany and the DINA in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and many other darker examples to current regimes in Russia, China and Iran. In many of those countries, there was a time when people never thought they would be subject to that kind of oppression, or the deterioration that followed. They believed it could never happen there. We know what happened next. And we must all be clear-eyed about the danger confronting us, whether you currently disagree with the president or not. After all, there was a time when John Bolton would not have dreamed that FBI agents would be entering his home one August morning. Friday’s search was a message not just to Bolton, but to all of Trump’s adversaries and indeed to every American paying attention." (our emphasis)
The point is to terrorize everyone into submission while stealing everything that's not nailed down.
ReplyDeleteIf they had found anything at all it would have been all over the media. We're at the point where they send out the smear merchants (e.g., Odd Blob) to try to convince themselves and the gullible that they "won"---so much winning.
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