Predication Is for Chumps:
The Sorry Lesson Linking
Crossfire Hurricane to Robert Hanssen
American Thinker,
by
Mark Wauck
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
12/15/2019 6:01:47 AM
At approximately 8 PM on Sunday, February 18, 2001, there was a knock on my front door.
At the time I was a Special Agent (SA) with the FBI, so imagine my shock when I opened the door and found the two top officials in the Division on my doorstep. I knew this couldn't possibly be good news, but they quickly sought to reassure me.
"Everything is all right, but Bob Hanssen has been arrested."
All right? Bob Hanssen was my brother in law, and a longtime counterintelligence (CI) official at FBIHQ, privy to a vast range of sensitive intelligence information.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 12/15/2019 7:46:14 AM (No. 262775)
An enlightening article.
One of the questions to ask is, WHAT are the results of the deep state's actions. First, the fact that they are illegal and a subterfuge. Can "good" come from things that are inherently bad in their actions?
Second, every time their actions are exposed, law abiding citizens are repelled at what was done. THIS is why they work in the shadows, like organized crime. What they do is NOT good. They are covert operations to win their points where legal options are doomed to failure. They cannot win their points through debate and open and honest elections so they hide and cheat. They can try to justify themselves as they wish but they are NOT the good guys. They are criminals. They are people playing chess by OTHER than the established rules because they aren't good enough to win by the rules but feel they are ENTITLED to win and that their winning is essential to their goals, which they also feel ENTITLED to achieve.
THEY are the threat to National Security, from the inside.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/15/2019 7:48:48 AM (No. 262777)
When Barack Hussein Obama was president of the United States, he alone presented a credible counterintelligence threat involving one of our greatest adversaries. But the FBI and the CIA sat upon their bureaucratic asses and did nothing to alert their actual bosses (the American electorate). Why should I believe anything they ever say or write again as long as America lives? While Mark Wauck may well have valid points, his article only clears his own conscious. The rest of the deep state people ''don't give a damn.''
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Lazyman 12/15/2019 8:01:51 AM (No. 262790)
When a supervisor blows off a subordinate's suspicion it's because they don't want to create a problem for themselves. That is what careerism looks like. A normal response from a good leader to information that we have Saudi's who want to take flying lessons but are not interested in taking off or landing, sees the big picture and at least checks into it. Mark's brother-in-law was classic dropping the ball after he alerted his boss and Hansen should have been taken down way before he was.
As far as the present FISA abuse that too was careerism because leadership wanted Trump and used all methods at their disposal including the lies to try and get him. The initial complaint could and should have been checked into but after a a brief look should have been dismissed because there was no there, there. If they had found something else maybe that would have warranted a bigger probe but the fact is all they found was exculpatory evidence and it should have been shut down. That would have been prudent. Instead we have obvious bias and a run-a-way FBI.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
walcb 12/15/2019 8:23:21 AM (No. 262817)
This is very well written and explains a lot. I predict Rush will discuss this on Monday, I think it is what he has been leading to. Wray has much to do and it doesn't seem he has the understanding or inclination to do anything. This also underlines my only concern about term limits--it would empower the bureaucrats and lobbyists (deep state) even more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Laotzu 12/15/2019 8:29:32 AM (No. 262823)
Should be a must-read.
Yet more evidence that government can never be competent, effective or efficient. It has been and always will be incompetent, feckless, and wasteful. Now add to that mix -- politicization. I saw it during the Obama Regime, when every training video I saw in my government agency started with a recitation of what President Obama was doing for our constituents. It was so systemic and so removed from what I had experienced in the military, it shocked me the first few times I saw it.
The sole Constitutional branch of the operational government -- the military -- was immune from that because it operated under a coherent, homogeneous culture, with strong firewalls against pecuniary interests (the Warrior Monk culture). That ended with the arrival of the pro-family military, and LGBT pride month at all installations.
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The stuff about Cross Fire Hurricane are disturbing enough, but the FBI was alerted in 1990 about Hanssen and it took another 11 years before they caught him. And we are supposed to believe that the FBI is a premier investigative agency with impeccable integrity!?!?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/15/2019 8:47:12 AM (No. 262837)
FTA: What in the FBI's organizational culture had changed from 2001 to 2016? The Guidelines remained essentially the same, so what led to the different results? Was it random human incompetence, or was it -- as many believe -- political bias?
It was Barack Hussein Obama.
The writer lays out a detailed legal position of ideal FBI conduct but the procedure only works if the conduct is unbiased, legal and fair. Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity was scrubbed from the top layer of management and abused by the people who illegally spied upon Donald Trump. Only somebody with higher authority, i.e. Barry, Hillary, Lynch could have orchestrated such lawlessness and also contaminated the other intel services run by Clapper and Brennan. Most of the bad actors are still walking around free.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/15/2019 9:06:27 AM (No. 262859)
'Tell Putin after the election I'll be more flexible."
Giving our enemies 150Billion in cash.
And these two acts weren't enough to start an investigation into the marxist muslim Barack Obama but idle talk in a bar brings a three year long investigation into candidate and then President Donald Trump?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mobyclik 12/15/2019 9:24:26 AM (No. 262879)
In case you're wondering what happened to Bob Hanssen, the traitor, he's doing 15 life terms in a Super Max in Colorado. Some of these Deep Staters and media types should join him.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/15/2019 9:33:10 AM (No. 262890)
Mark Wauck has an excellent blog - Meaning In History - which has been posted here (with permission) several times.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/15/2019 10:29:22 AM (No. 262946)
FTA: "The truth is that the deep state, which is a real phenomenon, has long been both a threat to democratic politics and a savior of it. The problem is that it is hard to maintain its savior role without also accepting its threatening role."
The "Deep State" is just fine when it's on YOUR side and led by responsible, uncorruptible patriots. When it's run by THEIR side and led by hacks...It's the Chicago Way...the UNIPARTY Way.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 12/15/2019 12:18:24 PM (No. 263041)
Very interesting. Actually one of the more introspective commentaries that I have read on this topic. And, all the more reason to seriously consider just firing the top 50% of the CIA, the FBI and the DoJ. This should cut out those with this "we actually run things, those politicians are just figureheads" kind of folks. The problem is that the people sitting in these positions of power have become the Communist threat (Brennan, and probably Comey) THEMSELVES.
And self-important petty bureaucrats like Vindman need to be gone and all that think like him.
In reality, we once had a Vice President who was in thrall to the Kremlin during WW2 and before. VP Wallace was more loyal to Communism and Stalin than he was to the Roosevelt and the USA. In that case, history reports that FBI director Hoover had damning proof of this, and when Roosevelt was pretty clearly not going to live through the next four years, reports are that Hoover put pressure to prevent Wallace from being nominated VP for the one election final which actually counted for something for Wallace. This is the "mysterious" reason that an unknown Senator from Missouri was made VP, and then President. So, the Deep State could argue that it saved the country at that time.
But, in reality, the information that Hoover had should have been used to arrest Wallace and convict him of his crimes, not to pressure the political process behind the scenes. THAT is where Hoover went wrong, and perhaps set in motion the behind the scenes view of the top FBI folks that THEY are really in charge, that it is right for them to put their finger on the scale of politics "for the good of the nation". This is ultra dangerous.
And I do not believe that the Obama folks actually thought that Flynn or Trump were connected to the Russians, and that Comey, et al, were just patriots, saving the nation. THAT is a post mortem CYA lie. They were purely political (extreme leftists) actors abusing their power in a fraudulent effort to prevent their leftist power structure from being replaced BY A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/15/2019 12:29:28 PM (No. 263056)
Chumps you say. I suppose in a few months we will see if Barr and Durham are chumps. I suspect not.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/15/2019 11:16:10 PM (No. 263474)
Only those who read the article will understand the meaning behind the headline.
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