Ruins, Ancient and Modern

Country Over Perfidy

Sir John Sinclair,  following the British surrender at Saratoga: "If we go on at this rate, the nation must be ruined."  
Adam Smith: "Be assured young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation."

Andy McCarthy: "I have long experience with how scrupulously the FBI and Justice Department work in the often controversial foreign-intelligence realm. They care deeply about their honorable reputation with the FISA court, just as the judges of that secret tribunal care deeply about not being perceived as a “rubber-stamp” for the government. I have thus given our agencies the benefit of the doubt here.

While urging that we have disclosure (with all due care to protect intelligence methods and sources), I have presumed that the FBI and DOJ would never fraudulently present the FISA court with fanciful claims attributed to anonymous Russian sources as if they were a refined product of U.S. intelligence collection and analysis.".......

Don't presume, Andy.

Zerohedge:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has once again balked at questions over the need for a second special counsel to investigate the Justice Department, telling reporters at a Friday press conference that while he’s concerned about recent allegations of bias within the FBI, “sometimes things that might appear to be bad in the press have more innocent explanations, so fairness and justice should also be provided to our personnel.”

McCarthy has excellent insights, but he still gives the Deep-State bureaucrats way too much benefit of the doubt. He and Sessions both have a "my esteemed colleague"-problem. Because they both are fundamentally decent and professional themselves, they wildly underestimate the depth of the corruption inflicted on our institutions during the Obama regime.

Sessions in particular seems more concerned with Strozk's rights than the fact that the guy was working overtime to criminally ensure that Jeff Sessions would never become his boss in the first place.

We cannot have the FBI picking our presidents, courts rubber-stamping the wiretapping of candidates, a weaponized and partisan NatSec apparatus or even cabinet secretaries selling policy. And certainly not an executive who would do literally ANYTHING to give his Ayatollah nuclear weapons.

'There is a lot of ruin in a nation'--but there is a limit reached when you've got more ruin than country.

We've reached that limit.

"Big time."

Dirty Cop Mueller's Above the Law-UPDATE:
The illegal search and seizure of Trump transition emails from the GSA is like the cops searching your landlord's house for a key to yours and searching your lawyer's office for your papers, instead of getting a warrant for your home and papers as required by law.

By going through the GSA, this simply amounts to even more illegal spying on the Trumps, something this out-of-control shadow government cannot seem to get enough of.