Bit's and Pieces : Mueller, FBI , Kavanaugh, and NATO Trump.

There is so much I would like to write about , so I have to start some place. On the News its been crazy . Starting with the FBI . I am  really been  having  a laughing out loud moment . While the FBI started to investigate Hillary , they found nothing . Then they started to investigate (1)>>Donald Trump , found nothing . Now they are investigating themselves ! AND HAVE LOTS OF PROBLEMS!! (1.2)>>A hearing starring Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who presided over the start of the Russia probe, degenerated Thursday into a theatrical display of sanctimony, mock outrage, all-out partisan bickeringand character assassination as grandstanding members on both sides of the aisle played to the TV cameras. Here is what is so eye opening , its the Republican party that's investigating Republicans who are part of the FBI that made derogatory statements about Trump . Its nothing but a comedy of errors , its so laughable it should challenge anyone's own intelligence. Peter Strzok, told House lawmakers investigating what Republicans say is evidence of rampant bias at the top levels of the (2)>>F.B.I. Republicans, posing as grave prosecutors of a state crime, sought to paint Strzok's anti-Trump political commentary in texts to a former lover as a symptom of institutionalized bias that should invalidate special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election -- from which Strzok has been removed.And Strzok, who often wore a bemused smirk as lawmakers squabbled and talked over one another, barged into the hearing loaded for bear. He shouted back at his inquisitors as they bellowed at him and drove them to distraction by refusing to answer questions. He also delivered a passionate and angry defense of the FBI from a GOP attack that he said "deeply corrodes" the bureau."I understand we are living in a political era in which insults and insinuation often drown out honesty and integrity," Strzok told members of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees.  This investigation is closely aliened with Mueller's. Mueller removed Strzok from the investigation. Obviously there was an important ethics or honesty issues.. Here we have the FBI going after other FBI agents for showing a anti-Trump bias. At one point, Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy confronted the former investigator over some anti-Trump texts he had sent. In 2016, after FBI lawyer (2.1) >>Lisa Page asked Strzok if Trump would ever become the president, his response was, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.”The entire inspector general’s report, consider the content and tone of the FBI correspondence quoted within it, and ponder the timeline, you will finally get an answer to the key question I,  and millions of Americans, have asked: If key members of the FBI were actually biased against Donald Trump, why did the FBI so dramatically damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the last days before the election? Why did it draft a letter to Congress announcing that it was reopening its email investigation a month after it found Anthony Weiner’s laptop, a letter that detonated like a bomb in the campaign and had a measurable effect on Hillary’s polling?  The whole investigation is a farce with the same smokescreen committees . Each time they [ FBI] end up only convicting themselves of criminal activity . 

Show  me the "evidence" Mueller ! .

Last Time Mueller's investigation somehow revealed 13 Russians ,and now he found 12 more Russians ! . Yet not a single name  , (3)>>but a  Guccifer 2.0, and another unnamed entity.  The timing of the indictment, by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, added a jolt of tension to the already freighted atmosphere surrounding Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. Putin. It is all but certain to feed into the conspiratorial views held by the president and some of his allies that Mr. Mueller’s prosecutors are determined to undermine Mr. Trump’s designs for a rapprochement with Russia. What is also so lame about Mulller's efforts how is he going to prosecute foreign  nationals ? Mueller is under enormous pressure to find collusion between the Trump team and Russia, or to find that the Trump team obstructed justice by trying to hide such collusion. But neither likely happened. Mueller was appointed at a time of national hysteria, brought on by partisan journalism based on a leaked dossier — itself a product of a discredited British agent working with Russian sources while being paid by the Clinton campaign.Worse still, the effort to hide the origins and the use of that dossier to obtain court permission to spy on American citizens may be a classic case of obstruction of justice.Mueller’s existential problem has been with him from the start. Due to the shenanigans of his discredited friend Comey and a rabid media, he was appointed to investigate crimes that did not exist.  The Washington Times cheryl-k-chumley Opinion called the whole Mueller investigation a sham , I agree , its a waste of Government inquiry  . 

 Kavanaugh.

Mr. Trump’s choice for the court, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, has expressed strong support for executive power, hostility to administrative agencies and support for gun rights and religious freedom. Those are all conventional positions among conservative lawyers and judges. But there is one stance that sets Judge Kavanaugh apart, and it could not be more timely: his deep skepticism of the wisdom of forcing a sitting president to answer questions in criminal cases . Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, gave a speech last year in which he seemed to applaud former Chief Justice William Rehnquist for dissenting in (4)>>Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that legalized abortion nationwide.The comments, first reported by The Los Angeles Times, may be among one of the few times Kavanaugh has publicly commented on abortion rights, one of the most contentious issues surrounding his confirmation to the high court. Now, the right to an abortion is guaranteed to be central to the fight by congressional Democrats over the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh. While we might be jumping up and down over the abortion issue . The real issue is that Kavanaugh is Trump's chess piece to avoid prosecution, a 2009 article Kavanaugh wrote for the Minnesota Law Review that argued for Congress to pass a law exempting sitting presidents from “criminal prosecution and investigation.” As many observers have acknowledged, this position could have major implications on the outcome of the Russia investigation.   To fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, a vitriolic battle to keep the Senate from confirming Kavanaugh has began to take shape , but the Democrats just don't have enough gusto to prevent Kavanaugh from his seat .

and NATO Trump.

Trump's popularity
 is soaring !
The Trump Baby balloon , UK London
protests .

Trump's visit to NATO is a bit hilarious . (5)>>Trump wants NATO to pay its fair share  of  Military operations . While I am a bit aghast here. For one the President of the United States is the Commander and Chief and Head of all NATO alliance  . Allies emerged confused and shaken from a two-day NATO summit in which Trump harangued them over perceived under- spending on defense, accused Germany of being a prisoner to Russian energy and prompted an emergency meeting of leaders trying to contain the fallout from the unexpected tirade at one session. NATO diplomats complained that the drama around Trump’s forthright comments had overshadowed big decisions that the allies took in areas from defense spending to new weapons and strategies to address Russia’s efforts to destabilize the West through cyber and covert attacks.What NATO is  in fact a Cold War remnant . Its a huge colossus of a Million or so American Army personnel that are in fact occupying Europe since the end of WWII , the so called end of the Cold War . What I gather here is that Most members of NATO want out , they are part of the EU of States , most of the (6)>>European states want to have better relations with Russia . Russia is a big trading partner with most of Europe .Trump threatened to derail because he publicly upbraided America’s allies for supposedly not spending enough on their militaries. (After first berating America’s allies for not spending 2 percent of GDP on defense, Trump on Wednesday demanded they spend 4 percent.)President Trump, adding to the list of allies he has clashed with this past week, said in an interview released on Sunday that he considered the European Union a trade “foe,” days after a contentious NATO summit meeting and on the eve of closely watched talks with (7)>>President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The CBS interview was conducted during a week that saw Mr. Trump publicly lashing out at several news outlets for publishing what he described as “fake news” — including his own on-the-record and recorded quotes in The Sun, a British tabloid. He also targeted individual journalists for trying to ask him questions about his strategy with Russia. At one point, he disparaged an NBC journalist for asking him whether he was giving Mr. Putin the upper hand after a week spent bashing the United States’ closest allies. (7)>>On the eve of a face-to-face meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman downplayed expectations, saying there is not a firm set of goals the president is hoping to achieve.“You don’t know what’s going to come out of this meeting,” Huntsman said on “Meet the Press” from Helsinki Sunday, where the two leaders will sit down together, insisting that the one-on-one is not a summit but a "meeting" where for the first time the two leaders will "have a conversation.”"I hope it's a detailed conversation about where we might be able to find some overlapping and shared interests," Huntsman said.

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Donald Trump , found nothing .  I might be wrong . In substance they "did" , but in spirit they have been going around in circles . There  is REALLY is so much on Trump and Russia that has been missed because so MUCH OF THE INVESTIGATION has been focused on the 2016 election , which I think its a  cloud of smoke blinding the whole investigation  .  WE still have no proof that Russia helped Trump by making him win . Let us stretch our imagination here . The Media is trying to brainwash Americans into thinking that Donald Trump won because of Russian propaganda filtering the American airwaves .  ON This hype I wrote on so many times that its not factual  , yet a vast majority of the Democrats believe it . Now what about just sifting through some facts first . Hillary Lost because the right wing was planning a take over of the US government for 8 years , they did it buy sizing upon the gullibility of the average voter . Obama was going out of popularity , his but sad attempt to "change" America was sold out , it did not work . The Republican party knew that they could rig their own party by putting a kind of "superman" in the limelight that would voice their scripted agendas . Name Donald J Trump . This for me is the simplest explanation that fits well . You have to LOOK at the DEVIL in the DETAILS , second I am not gutting out Russia in this speculation entirely  .  Trump has had  a lot of business connections in Russia , he held beauty pageants there , he was a influential mogul whose business connects were known in Russia , sure Trump's collusions in the business side of the spectrum are factual . When the Kremlin heard that Trump was running back in 2015 for the Russians , who had been under sanctions , perhaps the Kremlin saw Trump as much to them as Ronald Reagen was to Mikhail Gorbachev . Here was a man who was respected in the Russian media because of American cultural influences , but none the less the Trump may not be perfect , may be a little corrupt , not exactly the cleanest morally  American ever to have been sworn in .  I think too the Republican party nomination of Trump may have been staged by the Party . So far they deserve him .   IF the FBI "ACTUALLY" REALLY did a REAL INVESTIGATION , they would find so much "evidence" that it would BLOW that department into the shibboleth . Next Trump incriminates himself vary well , he opened his mouth calling on Russia . “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said, looking directly into TV cameras, at a press conference in Florida that day . OMG is that not a coincidence ? This the best kind of Treason I have seen , thats how far the Russian "help" may have started , but as I speculated before , this was not the first time Russia helped a American President before relations turned sour . The Hacking of the DNC for instance was not connected to Russia since the FBI was involved , if you remember at that time they were looking into the Hillary servers trying to link Hillary with Benghazi fiasco trying to go after  Barack Obama . Yet the 30,000 emails vanished ! Question did they really exist ? Thirdly many of the "leaks" to Wiki-leaks were coming directly from the FBI via a third party[ ↓ Guccifer 2.0] . So the simple fact here as I present it , it was our own government that created the whole hacking of the DNC [ FBI] , so in the process that government agency created that ongoing myth of Russian interference , meddling which we are now  getting  real glimpse on TV,  a real look how messed up the FBI really is , this whole squabble is in fact endangering the United Sates of America to the real enemy . (1.2)>>A hearing starring Peter Strzok.  Strzok holding such a high position in the FBI is an embarrassment that such a shady individual is at the top of the pyramid along side another shady character called Comey.(2)>>F.B.I. Republicans.  When the FBI was after Hillary , many FBI notables , Comey , Trey Gowdy for instance seen even by some Republicans as an effort to hurt Hillary Clinton's election chances, is now demanding that three FBI officials testify before his Oversight Committee to discuss the bureau's decision to not charge the former Secretary of State for mishandling classified information and use of a private email server.Specifically, Gowdy and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions on  to make available FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI Chief of Staff Jim Rybicki and FBI counsel Lisa Page—all of whom figure prominently in Republican complaints that the FBI was biased in favor of Clinton during the 2016 campaign.(2.1) >>Lisa Page. Page and Strzok came to lawmakers’ attention because of ­anti-Trump text messages they exchanged while having a romantic affair, material uncovered by the Justice Department’s inspector general during an internal probe of the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation. Both briefly served on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigative team, which is focused on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign aided those efforts.Page’s answers “heightened my concern that the processes at the FBI were contrived to fit the desired outcomes of people who were biased in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said, emerging from Friday’s meeting.(3)>>but a  Guccifer 2.0. I think Guccifer rhymes with Lucifer -  Though “Guccifer 2.0” maintained that he was a lone “hacktivist” committed to “fight all those illuminati,” a U.S. intelligence assessment concluded with “high confidence” that the G.R.U., Russia’s military intelligence service, was operating the “Guccifer 2.0” persona, which communicated through Twitter- [HIS ACCOUNT WAS SUSPENDED BY TWITTER AS OF THIS WRITING ], a WordPress blog, and a series of burner e-mail accounts.In his inaugural blog post, Guccifer 2.0 disputed Russia’s involvement and claimed credit personally for the DNC breach, positioning himself as a one-time hacking operation working to expose “the Illuminati.” The post included the world’s first glimpse of the enormous cache of documents siphoned from the DNC’s network, including the Democrats’ opposition research report on Trump. Presaging the leaks that would roil the election, Guccifer 2.0 declared that he’d already sent the bulk of the stolen material to WikiLeaks—which has spent the time since obfuscating whether Guccifer was its source. While it’s unclear what Mueller plans to do with Guccifer, his last round of indictments if they are TRUE .        (4)>>Roe v. Wade       AS I suspected that Trump administration is trying to get leverage over Roe V Wade . While this subject is touchy . I am going to be honest to my women friends out there . I am against abortion , but I am for women having adequate  healthcare . I agree with "gender equality "and so on ,  but I don't understand maybe because  I am a male as to why the abortion issue was wrapped up with women's rights ? The history of Roe V Wade sadly was pushed by the 60s feminists who were bouncing around with the 60s Sexual Revolution and Free Love as it was called . It gave the right for women whose sexual experimentation was open to multiple partners to abort their children in order to continue their lifestyle by by passing up existing medical contraceptives that would have stopped pregnancies  .  Another factor is that Abortion liberated the Men who should be held accountable to their offspring. Abortion was not just a woman' so right , but it gave free license for men to become deadbeats who did not want to raise up their unborn by pushing the women they impregnated to have a abortion rather than bringing up children . So  many Women have been mislead , Abortion was not as much a woman's right to choose , but it's how men got away from being held responsible as fathers .  If Kavanaugh  goes after Wade the Supreme Court has to weigh out a Moral ground to either uphold it , or change some part of the law to which abortion might be limited to rape / incest , but fighting the Supreme Court on what ever Kavanaugh gets a confirmation and passes the stupid hearings  has to be seen .(5)>>Trump wants NATO to pay its fair share. Although the foreign policy community inside the Beltway freaked out at Trump’s statements, he was simply echoing the perennial U.S. calls for Europeans to increase their military spending and share the burden. The challenge, however, is that most European governments don’t have a lot of wiggle room to increase their NATO contributions unless they want to incur the wrath of their electorates by cutting social spending. All EU members have to keep their government budget within certain fiscal limits. Not that long ago NATO seemed to have lost its Cold War mojo. Hard on the heels of the Soviet Union’s collapse, however, came the wars in Yugoslavia, a ghastly reminder that Europe could be a very dangerous place, and in 1999 NATO engaged in its very first combat mission against Slobodan Milosevic and Serbia. The alliance expanded dramatically in the 1990s with the incorporation of the Eastern European and Baltic states, initiating a great bustle of hardware upgrades and military exercises. During that time, too, NATO began to conceive of “out-of-area” operations that went beyond defending its members. The war in Afghanistan that began in 2001 significantly expanded NATO’s self-definition. (6)>>European states want to have better relations with Russia . The European Union, the world’s main trader, also saw its trade increase with all its main partners, with a surge of exchanges with Russia despite economic sanctions on Moscow. The European Union statistics office Eurostat said on Friday the 19-country currency area in May exported goods worth 189.6 billion euros ($216.3 billion) to the rest of the world, an increase by 12.9 percent on the year.   Among the most vocal supporters of Russian membership of the EU has been former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In an article published to Italian media on 26 May 2002, he said that the next step in Russia's growing integration with the West should be EU membership. On 17 November 2005, he commented in regards to the prospect of such a membership that he is "convinced that even if it is a dream ... it is not too distant a dream and I think it will happen one day."Berlusconi has made similar comments on other occasions as well. Later, in October 2008, he said: "I consider Russia to be a Western country and my plan is for the Russian Federation to be able to become a member of the European Union in the coming years" and stated that he had this vision for years.(7)>>President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said, America had “become hostage to the internal political situation in the U.S.,” but that his country had “many friends” in the United States who can help improve relations between the two nations when the political tensions in America settle down. “Certain forces use the Russian-American ties to solve internal political problems in the U.S.,” Mr. Putin said at a high-profile energy development forum in Moscow. “We are patiently waiting until this process in the internal political life in America will end.”  (7)>>On the eve of a face-to-face meeting. Many in Russia had hoped that Mr. Trump would lift the sanctions imposed by the United States over Moscow’s decision to annex Crimea and destabilize Ukraine, and that he would give Russia a free hand to act in the former Soviet republics.The meeting comes just days after the Justice Department announced charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers for interference in the 2016 election, bringing the total of Russians charged to 25. Trump has said he would “absolutely, firmly ask the question” about meddling in the election, but Huntsman said he’s unsure if Trump will ask Putin to extradite those charged.