{"id":30352,"date":"2018-01-30T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30352"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:00:33","slug":"will-congress-face-down-the-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30352","title":{"rendered":"Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/01\/30\/will-congress-face-down-the-deep-state\/\">Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The House Intelligence Committee\u2019s vote on Monday to release a memorandum describing alleged malfeasance at the DOJ and the FBI could test constitutional principles, writes Ray McGovern.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fbiseal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1392\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fbiseal-291x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fbiseal-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/fbiseal.jpg 350w\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a>With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by top Justice Department and FBI leaders, the die is cast. Russia-gate and FBI-gate are now joined at the hip.<\/p>\n<p>The coming weeks will show whether the U.S. intelligence establishment (the FBI\/CIA\/NSA, AKA the \u201cDeep State\u201d) will be able to prevent its leaders from being held to account. Past precedent suggests that the cabal that conjured up Russia-gate will not have to pick up a \u201cgo-to-jail\u201d card. This, despite the widespread guilt suggested by the abrupt way that several senior-echelon DOJ and FBI rats have already jumped ship. Not to mention the manner in which FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, was unceremoniously pushed overboard yesterday, after Director Christopher Wray was given a look at the extra-legal capers described in the House Intelligence Committee memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, at first glance Deep State\u2019s efforts to undercut candidate Donald Trump at first seem so risky and audacious as to be unbelievable. By now, though, Americans should be able to wrap their heads around, one, the dire threat that outsider Trump was seen to be posing to the Deep State and to the ease with which it held sway under President Barack Obama; and, two, expected immunity from prosecution if Deep State crimes were eventually discovered after the election, since \u201ceverybody knew\u201d Hillary Clinton was going to win. Oops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accountability This Time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Congress Face Down the Deep State? The House Intelligence Committee\u2019s vote on Monday to release a memorandum describing alleged malfeasance at the DOJ and the FBI could test constitutional principles, writes Ray McGovern. With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6963,199,7844,5291,7000,694,15282,827,1796,5906],"class_list":["post-30352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-intelligence-committee","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-russia","tag-russiagate","tag-united-states","tag-us-congress","tag-us-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30353,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions\/30353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}