{"id":32670,"date":"2018-03-22T09:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32670"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:49:18","slug":"if-you-come-to-a-fork-in-the-road-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32670","title":{"rendered":"If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them \u2014 except for a general \u201cshut up, already\u201d motif. For the record, I\u2019m far more interested in the hysteria itself than the Russia-meddled-in the-election case, which I consider to be hardly any case at all beyond 13 Russian Facebook trolls.<\/p>\n

The hysteria, on the other hand, ought to be a matter of grave concern, because it appears more and more to have been engineered by America\u2019s own intel community, its handmaidens in the Dept of Justice, and the twilight\u2019s last gleamings of the Obama White House, and now it has shoved this country in the direction of war at a time when civilian authority over the US military looks sketchy at best. This country faces manifold other problems that are certain to reduce the national standard of living and disrupt the operations of an excessively complex and dishonest economy, and the last thing America needs is a national war-dance over trumped-up grievances with Russia.<\/p>\n

The RussiaRussiaRussia narrative has unspooled since Christmas and is blowing back badly through the FBI, now with the firing (for cause) of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe hours short of his official retirement (and inches from the golden ring of his pension). He was axed on the recommendation of his own colleagues in the FBI\u2019s Office of Professional Responsibility, and they may have been influenced by the as-yet-unreleased report of the FBI Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, due out shortly.<\/p>\n

The record of misbehavior and \u201ccollusion\u201d between the highest ranks of the FBI, the Democratic Party, the Clinton campaign, several top political law firms, and a shady cast of international blackmail peddlars is a six-lane Beltway-scale evidence trail compared to the muddy mule track of Trump \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia. It will be amazing if a big wad of criminal cases are not dealt out of it, even as The New York Times<\/em> sticks its fingers in its ears and goes, \u201cLa-la-la-la-la\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them \u2014 except for a general \u201cshut up, already\u201d motif. For the […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[14964,1493,19391,301,449,1921,694,827,877],"class_list":["post-32670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-trolls","tag-fbi","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-new-york-times","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670","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=32670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32671,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32670\/revisions\/32671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}