Impeach. Remove. Bar from Office.
Thus sayeth the title of a post from the mists of Ricochet time and with full credit to the eminent author of those words when they originally appeared mere hours after the most dangerous “armed” “insurrection” in the history of man, I found them most appropriate in view of the astonishing, and I use that word knowing that these times test its meaning, scandal concerning the creation of the infamous letter signed by 51 intelligence “professionals” which, at a minimum, substantially contribued to the election of the worst President in American history. Ordinarily, like most Americans who have watched the tragic dismantling of every tradition, institution and custom built up over more than two centuries to make our Nation the greatest experiment in self-governance, if anyone would suggest, with even a modicum of seriousness, that some of these lawless hoodlums who constitute our current National “leadership”, could ever be held accountable for their crimes I would have just laughed it off.
However, and I say the following with a base of reality which still causes me to know deep down there is no way any of this could ever happen, when an observer as astute as the classical scholar and author and publisher Roger Kimball publishes an essay suggesting there is even a possible chance something like this might happen, I listen and read, very, very carefully. While I do not claim to be as widely read as some of our colleagues here on Ricochet, of the current writers discussing our managed decline under this “administration”, Mr. Kimball is always in the top tier. Here are a few highlights of his article this morning in American Greatness entitled The Garland, Blinken, and Morell Morass, starting with his analysis of the possible future in store for the most blatantly corrupt and dishonest Attorney General in our history (yes, I know that’s saying a lot) a man Kimball refers to as a “horrible man and a dangerous partisan hack”:
But again, look on the bright side. Garland will soon be gone. And remember, he almost made it to the Supreme Court. Obama nominated him in the waning days of his administration. But Donald Trump had other ideas and—let’s give credit where credit is due—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made sure that Garland’s nomination got lost when Republicans held the majority. I am no fan of McConnell’s, but I try to remember to say a little prayer for him whenever I list my intentions. By scotching Garland’s ascension to the Court, McConnell did the country a huge favor.
I say Garland will “soon” be gone. Most of my readers will assume I mean on or about January 20, 2025, when the next Republican president assumes office.
It might take that long. But recent developments have me wondering whether he might make his congé even earlier.
A few days ago, it was reported that an unnamed, senior IRS special agent was seeking whistle-blower status in connection with the ongoing investigation of First Son Hunter Biden, who has serious tax problems.
According to a letter from the agent’s lawyer to several House and Senate committees, the agent laid out multiple examples of “preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject [i.e., Hunter Biden] were not politically connected.” The agent’s allegations also “contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee” and “involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case” against Hunter Biden.
An “unnamed senior political appointee,” eh? Well, that unnamed status didn’t last long. On Thursday, the New York Post reported that the international man of mystery was none other than Merrick Garland himself.
Back in March, Garland had insisted to Congress that the investigation into Hunter Biden’s extracurricular activities was free from political interference. David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney investigating the case, had full autonomy, Garland said. Quoth Garland, “The U.S. attorney has been advised that he has full authority to make kind of those referrals you’re talking about or to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels it is necessary, and I will assure that if he does, then he will be able to do that.”
It was not reported whether that claim was greeted with titters. I assume that the echoing claim from the White House, that the investigation would be “free from any political interference by the White House,” was greeted by at least restrained and incredulous laughter.
At this point I will unabashedly show my age by noting that I had always understood that lying under oath in a formal setting such as a trial, deposition or, most emphatically, a hearing before Congress, constituted the crime of perjury. Sadly, we know from the example of James Clapper, a disgrace to every General Officer of the United States Air Force, the branch in which I proudly served as a member of Strategic Air Command, that such a crime may or may not be, as in the case of Clapper, actually prosecuted.
Here are some of his thoughts about Blinken, a man who is the walking, living, breathing personification of the word pusallanimity:
What does it all portend? Probably about the same thing that the revelation last week regarding Secretary of State Antony Blinken portends. Blinken, it transpired, was the origin of the campaign against the story, first reported by the New York Post, about Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.” Forget about the salacious bits—the drugs, the guns, the whores. More damaging were the emails detailing some of the Biden family’s corrupt business dealings with various foreign entities, dealings that clearly implicated the “Big Guy,” Joe Biden.
The Post bombshell was detonated a scant two weeks before the 2020 presidential election. It promised disaster for the Biden campaign. What to do? Remember the 51 former intelligence specialists, including such senior figures as former CIA director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who signed a letter testifying that the laptop bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”?
According to the sworn testimony of Michael Morell—a senior Democratic operative—it was he, working hand-in-glove with Blinken, then a Biden campaign official, who organized the letter and helped shut down the story. Why did he do this? Two reasons. He wanted to help Joe Biden in his debates with Donald Trump, so he wanted the story buried. Beyond that, he said, he wanted Biden “to win the election.” What better way to help than to use the power of the state to censor the media and thereby suppress an unflattering story, one that would probably have altered the outcome of the election?
It is possible that both Garland and Blinken will have to answer for their alleged malfeasance. Both might easily be impeached and forced from office. If they are, it will be a signal that the Regime is about to expel Joe Biden and find another candidate for 2024. I don’t really expect that to happen, though anything is possible in this increasingly yeasty situation. More likely, I think, is that our deeply ensconced two-tier system of “justice” will prevail, just as it is, for the benefit of Hunter Biden. More’s the pity, but the longer such outrages continue, the more definitive the reverse peristalsis of swampy denizens in Washington, D.C. will be in November 2024.
To the question “Why, now?”, there are some interesting observations in a blog post at Meaning in History by Mark Wauck entitleed Emerging Consensus on the Blinken Hoax?:
And so the question is, Why now? There was no reason for Morrell to blab to the GOP House—he could’ve said that he forgets who prompted him, that it was just a spontaneous groupthink idea of 51 ex-intel people, anything like that. Instead he answered very directly. That’s not how the Deep State operates, not how Dems operate. Morrell would not be doing this on his own, say, because Zhou [Note: this is Wauck’s name for Biden] didn’t put him at the head of the CIA. He was instructed to conduct this as a political hit, or part of a political hit campaign.
What’s behind this? Specifically, why has the Deep State been unable to make these revelations of gross Zhou family corruption—perhaps the most in US history—stick?
Here’s a theory. I would posit an internal struggle within the Left, prompted by the realization that the Zhou team is leading the US into a national security and foreign policy disaster of catastrophic proportions. The intel pros realize that Zhou and his inner FP circle—Nuland, Sullivan, Blinken—are an existential threat to the American Empire, and so they’re the ones prompting the drip, drip, drip of leaks. They need this march into oblivion to stop ASAP. Most of them couldn’t care less about the Woke part of the Zhou agenda. They care about their Class continuing to control a worldwide Empire, and for that to continue the Empire has to continue to exist.
What’s preventing the Deep State faction from gaining the traction they need in the MSM—so far—is the Woke faction, which includes most of the MSM. The Woke faction believes that the Aberro-sexual agenda takes precedence over all else, including national security and the continuation of the King Dollar regime. This is the hard core political Left that populates the MSM and legislative/executive/local government positions. They’re super well funded but know that their agenda will fall if Zhou falls, so they support him at all costs, hoping against hope that what they put in place will not be able to be rolled back.
Loath though I am to peddle speculation, this kind of analysis and observation is all we have to go on at the present time and may well be, if the current practices of “our betters” continues, all we will ever have. However, while non-entities like Romney spend their time clutching their pearls about inane questions like whether Justice Thomas was unethical because he made the mistake of having an ultra-rich friend (we should all be so lucky!), this has all the ingredients of one of the major political scandals in American history. I will be the first to admit error if someone can point me to the falsity of the following two statements:
Garland committed perjury in sworn testimony before Congress.
Blinken substituted his judgment as to who should be the President of the United States for mine.
If those statements are provable, they should be, as Kimball and many others are now saying, impeached, removed and barred from office.
And, while I know I am now entering the land of fantasy, they should be indicted and held without bail in the DC Gulag, for approximately (let’s see-how long has it been now for the Jan 6 “criminals”?) 2-3 years and they should spend most of that time in solitary confinement.
The stench emanating from this administration truly raises the question of just how much corruption can a government withstand and still function?
Adam Smith famously said: “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” I would argue that with each passing day the street thugs who deem themselves “The Elite” are pushing our beloved Nation to test just how much ruin a nation can fend off before it implodes.