Better in their words…

Kash Patel: I would have never dreamed.  Exactly what the FBI needs!  If you need evidence that the US intelligence organizations need complete re-structuring, the fact that none of them can figure out who’s drones are flying over out installations tells me they have LOST FOCUS on what is important, and/or are incompetent.  mrossol

Source: MIRACLES ☙ Sunday, December 1, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS

WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY

🔥🔥🔥 Of all President-Elect Trump’s controversial Cabinet nominations, none has struck fear into Establishment liberals’ hearts like yesterday afternoon’s pick. The widely reported story appeared in Al Jazeera under the headline, “Trump picks anti-‘deep state’ crusader Kash Patel to lead FBI.” Patel’s nomination to the top cop job electrified conservatives, but despite Patel’s groundbreaking ‘diversity,’ Democrats and their media allies appeared to experience something more like sheer terror. “His nomination,” Al Jazeera reported, “is expected to cause shockwaves.” That might be an understatement.

Based on what he’s said over the last few years, Kash Patel is the dream choice for reforming the nation’s misguided law enforcement agency. Patel once pledged that, if he were ever made Director, he would shut down the FBI’s Washington HQ and “reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.” He’s wondered, why does the headquarters office need 7,000 employees? And why aren’t they all in the field chasing bad guys?

Those are good questions.

Most famously, while a staffer in 2018, Patel helped uncover the sordid origins of the RussiaGate hoax and traced the participation of the U.S. intelligence agencies in that scandal. Patel once gave Glenn Beck a laundry list of his recommended “Trump First Day” acts, which included releasing Epstein’s so-called “Black Book.” He’s also described wanting to create a new FBI position called the “24×7 declassification office,” because Kash says the FBI overclassifies way too much, and I agree.

Rarely has a nominee’s thinking been better understood. Patel’s 2023 book Government Gangsters called for a “comprehensive housecleaning” of officials at the DOJ, and firings of the “top ranks” at the FBI. “The FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken,” Patel wrote. On a podcast two months ago, Patel said everyone involved in Russiagate should permanently lose their security clearance, including the “51 senior intelligence officials” who signed the fraudulent Hunter Biden laptop letter.

In November 2020, following the election debacle, Trump tried to appoint Patel as the FBI’s Deputy Director, but then-Attorney General Bob Barr and CIA Director Gina Haspell both threatened to resign —“over my dead body,” Barr said— and Patel’s nomination fell through. Trump had too much on his plate at the time and was behind the curve.

Last night, the talking heads packed the networks, yammering about their dread that Patel will single-handedly destroy democracy. “To me, Kash Patel is the most dangerous nominee we’ve seen yet to our democracy,” said MSNBC’s Political Analyst Tim Miller.

CLIP: You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the F.B.I. (0:09).

“It’s a terrible development,” former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe told CNN. He added that “Kash Patel would be the perfect person” —meaning, the worst— to bring the FBI back to the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. And, maybe making the real point, that overpowering weaponized executive agencies could boomerang back on Democrats if the right person were put in charge, McCabe explained that the “scope of authority” in the Director’s job “is enormous.” Andy McCabe should know.

Apart from those general morbid fears, the specific criticisms about Patel’s nomination were bizarrely limited to complaining about the nominee’s lack of qualifications. For example, several critics complained Patel has never taken FBI training. But Kash’s Washington resume includes working as chief of staff to Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, as the senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, and as Deputy Director of National Intelligence under Rick Grenell. So the “unqualified” argument isn’t likely to grip.

If the Democrats fear Trump’s reverse-weaponization of the government will form a tool for ‘revenge,’ then Kash Patel is like Ghostbuster’s Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man—the horrific instantiation of their worst nightmare. If Kash does half the things he’s suggested he would do, he will become a human wrecking ball smashing into the deep state.

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The Trump Effect continued apace yesterday. The latest to begin falling in line is Iran. The New York Times ran the story yesterday headlined, “With Trump Returning and Hezbollah Weakened, Iran Strikes a Conciliatory Tone.”

The New York Times couldn’t avoid attributing this encouraging development to the President-Elect, since all its sources agreed:

As the foreign policy situation continues to track back toward normality, with Mexico and Canada signaling border assistance, an Israel-Hezbollah peace deal, and this new conciliatory tone from Iran, we are beginning to feel a lot like the younger kids in the family feel when their parents get back from a three-day trip, having left the teenagers in charge. Sanity and normality is surging back.

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Neither is Trump waiting around for BRICS to destroy the dollar, addressing what is potentially one of the biggest economic threats we currently face. CNN ran the story yesterday headlined, “Trump threatens 100% tariff on BRICS countries if they pursue creating new currency.” On Truth Social, of course, President Trump sent BRICS a message:

Call it “direct diplomacy.” Trump doesn’t need the striped-pants crowd at the State Department to speak for him. He just goes on Truth Social and blammo. Message delivered. It is truly remarkable and it must be breaking leftists’ minds. This isn’t how things are done.

Biden and his neocons did everything right, meaning wrong, to stop the BRICS, like fomenting color revolutions and trying to destabilize their governments. In other words, it was all dirty tricks that got people killed and made other countries hate us and pray for our destruction. Trump just announced: that’s over, and we’re going to fight fair, out in the open, mano-a-mano. We won’t try to create a civil war in your country, we’re just going to stop buying your stuff till we can work this out.

You could say Trump’s style of direct diplomacy is historic, innovative, ‘transactional,’ or rule-breaking. But most of all, it’s efficient. Whereas carefully drafted, legally approved discussions by diplomatic cable are measured in days, weeks, and months, the cycle time for a social media message is essentially zero. It’s instantaneous.

President Trump isn’t waiting around. He’s got too much to do.

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Democrats are learning a lot about lawfare. Not only can presidential prosecutions politically backfire, but apparently, they are also unbelievably expensive. Last week, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “Jack Smith spent over $50m prosecuting Trump before cases collapsed.” That’s fifty million dollars, or twenty-five million each (on average).

Newsweek FOIA’d the details on where the money went, trying to figure out how it could be humanly possible to spend so much money on only two cases, but the DOJ has delayed providing documents for nine months now, arguing that since Jack Smith is a contractor and not an employee, the normal timelines on responding to records requests don’t count.

Looking just at broad categories, since Smith’s appointment in November 2022, most of the lost fortune seems to have been spent on paying generous salaries and contractors. Newsweek has not received any details about how many people got paid or who they were exactly.

There’s possibly no better metaphor for government waste and abuse than Jack Smith’s $50 million twin prosecution of President Trump that went nowhere and was a complete waste of money. Presumably, Jack Smith did well.

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What on Earth — or possibly, not on Earth — is going on with all the befuddling “drone sightings” around military bases? The headlines have seen a steady trickle since sometime late last year. This week it happened again, in Great Britain. Two days ago, NBC ran a story headlined, “Drones spotted over military bases in the U.K. that are used by the U.S.”

“Multiple sightings of drones,” Newsweek reported, “have been reported over multiple U.S. military bases in the U.K. and nobody seems to know who is behind the unmanned flights.” It’s a widespread phenomenon that they cannot stop and cannot figure out where it is coming from. None of the “drones” were captured, photographed, or tracked.

I strongly suspect that, were I to fly a drone over a US or British military base, the result would be a destroyed drone and a long series of painful interviews followed by a free vacation in a government institution.

As I said, this wasn’t the first time. In early October, the Wall Street Journal ran a baffling, large-format, multi-media-filled story with an interactive map headlined:

‘Stumped’ means baffled. The Journal reported that Joe Biden was personally briefed on the “swarms” of fast (100 mph) drones flying over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, near Washington, DC, for over two weeks straight. The Journal noted drily that the Langley base holds “one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S.”

At least twice, the military chased the Langley drones around but couldn’t catch them. Here’s the lame description:

The article also reported that a few months earlier, in October 2023, five mysterious and untrackable drones flew over the Energy Department’s Nevada National Security Site outside Las Vegas, which is used for nuclear weapons experiments.

Why radar or electronic countermeasures weren’t used or weren’t effective remains a mystery unmentioned in any of the three accounts. In all three cases, Nevada, Langley, and Britain, officials reportedly remain baffled, completely clueless, not even a scrap of a lead.

I’m not saying it’s aliens. But it would be more reassuring if they were aliens. If it’s Russians or the Chinese, then Houston, we have a big problem. And I’m not saying our woke generals are as useless as regulation pants at a USO Drag Queen performance, but I’ll feel much better once new management takes over at the Pentagon. How about you?

Have a blessed and rewarding Sunday! Thank you, sincerely, for your continuing loyal support. I’ll catch you back here tomorrow, to start the new week off right, with more essential C&C news and commentary.

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