by Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
Even before Rep. Tulsi Gabbard threatened to boycott the upcoming Dem<\/span><\/a> debate as the DNC usurps the role of voters in the Democratic primacy 2020 election and with an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on the table, the Swamp was stirred and its slimy muck may be about to come to the surface as never before.\u00a0 <\/span>If so, those revelations are long overdue. <\/span><\/p>\n It is no secret to the observant that since the 2016 election, the Democratic Party has been in a state of near-collapse, the victim of its own hubris, having lost their moral compass with unsubstantiated Russisgate allegations; those accusations continue as a futile exercise of domestic regime change. \u00a0 <\/span>Today\u2019s Dems are less than a bona fide opposition party offering zero policy solutions, unrecognizable from past glories and not the same political party many of us signed up for many years ago.\u00a0 <\/span>Instead, the American public is witnessing a frenzied, unscrupulous strategy. desperate in the denial of its demise, confronting its own shadow of corruption as the Dems have morphed into a branch of the CIA\u00a0 <\/span>\u2013 not unlike origins of the East German Stasi<\/span><\/a> government. <\/span><\/p>\n It should not be necessary to say but in today\u2019s hyper volatile political climate it is: No American should be labelled as anything other than a loyal American to be deeply disturbed by the Democrat\/CIA collusion that is currently operating an unprecedented Kangaroo Court<\/span><\/a> in secret, behind closed doors; thus posing an ominous provocation to what remains of our Constitutional Republic. <\/span><\/p>\n As any politically savvy, independent thinking American might grasp, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and their entire coterie of sycophants always knew that Russiagate was a crock of lies.\u00a0 <\/span>They lied to their willing Democratic rank n file, they lied to American public and they continue to lie about their bogus Impeachment campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It may be that whistleblower Ed Snowden\u2019s<\/span><\/a> revelations about the NSA surveillance state was the first inkling for many Americans that there is a Big Problem with an out-of-control intelligence community until Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Trump was being \u2018really dumb<\/span><\/a>\u201d in daring to question Intel\u2019s faulty conclusion that Russia hacked the 2016 election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLet me tell you.<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>You take on the intelligence community = they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Inescapably, Schumer was suggesting\u00a0 <\/span>that the Congress has no oversight, that there is no accountability and that the US has lost its democratic roots when a newly elected President does not have the authority to question or publicly disagree with any of the Intel agencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since the 2016 election, there has been a steady drumbeat of the US Intel\u2019s unabashed efforts to undermine and otherwise prevent a newly elected President from governing \u2013 which sounds like a clear case of insubordination or some might call it treasonous.\u00a0 <\/span>The Intel antipathy does not appear to be rooted in cuts to a favorite social services program but rather protecting a power, financial and influence agenda that goes<\/span><\/a> far deeper and more profound than most Americans care to contemplate.<\/span><\/p>\n Among a plethora of egregious corporate media reactions, no doubt stirred by their Intel masters, was to a July, 2018 summit meeting<\/span><\/a> between Russian President Putin and Trump in Helsinki emblematic of illegitimate censures from Intel veterans and its cronies:\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cTrump sides with Putin over US Intelligence<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u201d CNN<\/i>,\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cDid Trump Commit Treason at Putin Meeting<\/i>?<\/span><\/a>\u201d Newsweek<\/i>, and \u201c<\/span>Trump Slammed Over Disgrace, Disgusting Press Conference with Putin<\/i>\u201d<\/span> Newsweek<\/i> .\u00a0 <\/span>Not one praised Trump for pursuing peace with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n And yet, fellow Americans, it is curious to consider that there was no outrage after the 911 attacks in 2001 from any member of Congress, President Bush or the Corporate Media that the <\/span>US intelligence community had utterly failed in its mission to keep the American public safe<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>There was <\/span>no reckoning, not one person in authority was held accountable, not one person who had the responsibility to \u2018know\u2019 was fired from any of the Intel agencies.<\/span> \u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Why is that?<\/span><\/p>\n As a result of\u00a0 <\/span>the corrupt foundation of the Russiagate allegations, Attorney General Bob Barr and Special Investigator John Durham appear hot on the trail<\/span><\/a> with law enforcement in Italy as they have apparently scared the bejesus out of what little common sense remains among the Democratic hierarchy as if Barr\/Durham might be headed for Obama\u2019s Oval Office.\u00a0 <\/span>Barr\u2019s earlier comment before the Senate that \u201cspying did occur\u2019<\/i> and that \u2018it\u2019s a big deal\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/a> when an incumbent administration (ie the Obama Administration) authorizes a counter-Intelligence operation on an opposing candidate (ie Donald Trump) has the Dems in panic-stricken overdrive \u2013 and that is what is driving the current Impeachment Inquiry.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n With the stark realization that none of the DNC\u2019s favored top-tier candidates has the mojo to go the distance, the Democrats have now focused on a July 25th phone call<\/span><\/a> between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which Trump allegedly \u2018pressured<\/i>\u2019 Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden\u2019s relationship with Burisma, the country\u2019s largest natural gas provider.\u00a0 <\/span>\\<\/span><\/p>\n At issue is any hanky panky<\/span><\/a> involving Burisma payments to Rosemont Seneca Partners<\/span><\/a>, an equity firm owned by Joe\u2019s errant son, Hunter, who served on Burisma\u2019s Board for a modest $50,000 a month. \u00a0 <\/span>Zelenskyy, who defeated the US-endorsed incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in a landslide victory, speaks Russian , was elected to clean up corruption and end the conflict in eastern Ukraine.\u00a0 <\/span>The war in the Donbass began as a result of the US State Department\u2019s role in the\u00a0 <\/span>overthrow of democratically elected<\/span><\/a> Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s first priority on July 25<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> was Crowd Strike<\/span><\/a>, a cybersecurity firm with links to the HRC campaign which was hired by the DNC to investigate Russian hacking of its server.\u00a0 <\/span>The Dems have reason to be concerned since it is <\/span>worth contemplating why the FBI did not legally mandate that the DNC turn its server over to them for an official Federal forensic inspection<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>One can only speculate\u2026those chickens may be coming home to roost. <\/span><\/p>\n Days after an anonymous whistleblower (not to be confused with a real whistleblower like Edward Snowden) later identified as a CIA analyst with a <\/span>professional history<\/span> linked to Joe Biden, publicly released a Complaint<\/span><\/a> against Trump.\u00a0 <\/span>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced<\/span><\/a> the initiation of an ambiguous Impeachment Inquiry campaign with little specificity about the process.\u00a0 <\/span>The Complaint is suspect since it reads more like a professionally prepared Affidavit and the Dems consider Pelosi\u2019s statement as sufficient to initiate a formal process that fails to follow the time-honored path of a full House vote predicating a legitimate impeachment inquiry on to the Judiciary Committee.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Of special interest is how the process to date is playing out with the <\/span>House Intelligence Committee in a key role <\/span>conducting what amounts to clandestine meetings<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/span> taking depositions and witness statements behind closed doors with a still secret unidentified whistleblower\u2019s identity and voice obscured from Republican members of the Intel Committee and a witness testifying without being formally sworn in <\/span>\u2013 all too<\/span> eerily similar to East Germany. <\/span><\/p>\n The pretense of shielding the thinly veiled CIA operative as a whistleblower from public exposure can only be seen as an overly-dramatic transparent performance as the Dems have never exhibited any concern about protecting real whistleblowers like Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Bill Binney, Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou, Julian Assange, Jeffrey Sterling and others who were left to fend for themselves as the Obama Administration prosecuted more true, authentic whistleblowers than any other administration since the Espionage Act of 1917<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n As the paradigm shift takes its toll on the prevailing framework of reality and our decayed political institutions, (the FBI and DOJ come to mind as the Inspector General\u2019s report is due at\u00a0 <\/span>week\u2019s end), how much longer does the Democratic Party, which no longer serves a useful public purpose, deserve to exist?<\/span><\/p>\n Renee Parsons<\/b> has been a member of the ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. 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