Is Clinton finished? FBI doubles down, says no evidence of Trump-Putin collusion

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:33 UTC

Let us not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories

While the general public might be under the illusion that Russia is nothing more than a "regional power", the terrifying truth has now been revealed: Russia is a global hegemon with the unequaled power to decide who gets to be the President of the USA. Yes, that's right, the entire exceptional USA, its population and political and economic institutions, are nothing more than pawns of the Russian government, mere putty in the hands of the tyrant Putin.

This shocking claim has been repeatedly made over the past few months by the Clinton campaign and many Democrat politicians, not to mention the leading media organs on both sides of the Atlantic. Their evidence, as incontrovertible as the claim itself, is made up of repeated statements by Hillary and her minions that Putin and Trump are best buddies and that Putin has been hacking DNC emails and releasing them to the public, just to make Hillary look bad. And just when you thought that the situation couldn't get any worse, now we are told that the FBI might be compromised too. Yes, you heard that right, there are not only Reds under the FBI's bed, but FBI Director Comey might be sleeping with one.

In truth, our very way of life is in peril from this revanchist Red Menace. We must take action, and now. Elect Hillary or you'll be speaking Russian by Christmas.

Coming back to reality...

Last week the FBI made the bombshell announcement that they were (sort of) reopening the case into a possible indictment of Hillary Clinton for abusing her position as Secretary of State. The wording of the letter sent to Congress was vague and immediately provoked accusations that the FBI was attempting to 'smear' Clinton and influence voters. This was followed up with an accusation from leading Democrats that the Bureau was hiding "explosive" information about Donald Trump's alleged ties with Putin.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid led the political backlash when he lambasted the FBI director James Comey, saying, "It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers, and the Russian government — a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information."

Notice that Reid charges Comey personally with 'politicking'. Today the FBI answered the accusation by calmly quashing it, announcing - through the New York Times - that it has found no evidence of any "direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government." Its anonymous officials further stated that they believed "hacking into Democratic [Party] emails was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump."

This "non-partisan" confirmation that there is no Trump-Putin link effectively ends Clinton's strategy of deflecting from the revelations in the DNC leaks and the Democratic Campaign (Podesta) leaks by casting them as Russian hacks, and that anyone who makes reference to their contents is engaging in "un-American activities." Clinton's gamble amounted to: "I may be a criminal, but Trump's a traitor." The FBI says otherwise.

The Putin-Trump "bromance" allegation was Clinton's last card to play. Any doubts following Comey's announcement last Friday that "the gods" of Wall Street and the Military-industrial Complex now favor Trump over Clinton are laid to rest by today's nuking of the "vast Trump-Putin right-wing conspiracy." 'Official' polls are now starting to reflect that.

I doubt that Comey's motivation is merely to save his hide in the event that future revelations, after Clinton was to become president, would incriminate him along with her. Comey has now, not just once, but twice, fired torpedoes at Clinton's ship. He would not be doing that if he did not know someone has his back.

I suspect that a critical mass among the US Establishment (Comey's bosses) have been persuaded that Hillary has gotten a little too big for her britches (or pant suit) and that the Clinton empire is a little too entrenched in the US and around the world to allow it to consolidate its power by handing her the Presidency. They can abide her revealing national security secrets to allies like Saudi Arabia because "we're all hermanos", but in her pathological exuberance to defeat Trump's populist support she is leading the US into a trap in which Russia (or anyone else for that matter) can expose that the constitutional crisis currently eating the US is entirely a homegrown affair.

They also likely know the full extent of her illness (dementia). They also know that these leaks are not "hacks" - they're LEAKS, likely made by a Clinton insider, possibly by a conspiracy of Clinton insiders. As such, Hillary in the White House would be a liability across the board. Trump, on the other hand, has no Washington connections, he's a newbie to the political game and he'll be so happy just to be the 'decider-in-chief' that he'll be much more easily controlled. They hope anyway.

Such is the predicament of all empires: the inevitability of corruption piling upon corruption, until - implosion. With Russia and China breaking out of containment, the owners of the US are going to lose their "indispensable" status anyway, with or without Clinton in the White House, but they can perhaps earn a stay of execution by retaining a "mask of normalcy" for a little longer, even in the heretofore implausible, and frankly repulsive, figure of President baby-man Trump.

Niall Bradley

A contributing writer at SOTT.net, Niall Bradley's articles are cross-posted on his personal blog, NiallBradley.net. Niall is co-host with Joe Quinn of NewsReal, and co-author of Manufactured Terror: The Boston Marathon Bombings, Sandy Hook, Aurora Shooting and Other False-Flag Terror Attacks.

Reader Comments

Rowan Cocoan · 2016-11-01T21:56:25Z

MSM as 'Organs' of the State

MSM as 'Organs' of the State

Good, and dead on point bigger picture. Perfectly descriptive yet sadly appropriately language.

Both Solzhenitsyn and Orwell described the MSM (as now effectively coopted/morphed into the state) in those terms:

Solzhenitsyn, in ‘Gulag Archipelago’, where he - throughout that epic work - repeatedly uses those terms, in his cynical, yet thoroughly true and inimitable darkest-humor ‘asides’ and commentary, - wherein he shows how the ‘Organs’ of the Soviet State - and particularly Stalin - revealed more than they realized by insistently referring to themselves as such;* and,

Orwell, in ‘1984's’ dystopian** 'future' (which, of course, is now - we're just more informed than your average 'prole'), save that in our world, (at least for now), anyone who cares to know and who is both ‘in the know’ and ‘in the now’, does know, that truth.

Niall, your writings clearly show that I’m not speaking of anything you’re not well familiar with; rather, I write this to strongly advise that any SOTT folk who’ve not read those works since high school, (or ever), to do so again/now to realize just how scarily accurate their concerns were. {And, as Hannibal Lecter would say, ‘LOVE the (pant)suit’ quote.}

R.C.

* Similar to his discussions about traitors ‘of’ - rather than ‘to’ - the Motherland.

** We need more words like that one, which has become overused. (I bet Orwell would agree.)

RC

tapatio · 2016-11-03T13:30:12Z

The MSM hasn't been morphed into the state, over the last 50 years, as it has been bought out by the Rothschild-Bilderberg predatory capitalist cartel, which has also bought the state.

What once belonged to and served the American people (more or less) now belongs to and ONLY serves the oligarchy.

Joan · 2016-11-01T22:00:36Z

What a choice the electorate in US has to make at this time, probably a pivotal point in US history and also the world.

The choice between a really evil woman that has blood on her hands, is a contributor of millions of deaths in the ME, corruption beyond belief and who wouldn't know or doe's not understand the word truth, in essence a pathological liar.

Then there is the Donald, some have described him as a pathological narcissist, a misogynist and if the US media is to be believed a pawn of Putin to subvert the electoral process in the US.

What a conundrum for the population, if they vote for Killary it will be more of the same, just a continuation of the same policies as Obama, except this will be amplified. Forget infrastructure or anything that will benefit the US population, it's all about the MIC and corporate interests.

Trump is an unknown when it comes to the political arena will he be a leader or a follower, does he have it within him stand up the all the factions within the US at this time Or will he become another role player, he certainly has the experience of playing a role but will this role be as the "Apprentice"

I guess that remains to be seen should he become POTUS.

As an aside, Peter Lavalle posed a question in an op ed piece for Sputnik
a couple of days ago (sorry can't find the article at this time). He posed the question will Obama pardon Killary when he leaves the White House

Then there is this where Trump asks

Mr. President, will you pledge not to issue a pardon for Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators for their many crimes against our country?" Trump said on Friday. "Will you make that pledge?"

Read more: [Link]

prehistoric · 2016-11-01T22:18:32Z

"They also likely know the full extent of her illness (dementia). They also know that these leaks are not "hacks" - they're LEAKS, likely made by a Clinton insider"

Chelsea is my guess.

She potentially tried to clean up the Clinton Foundation by appointing Braverman in turn pissing off the regular sloths that ran it previously who called her a 'spoilt brat'.

She has also clashed with both Hil and Bil over runnings of the Clinton Foundation.

She could potentially be seen as the poor soul who revealed the inner workings of her parents' foundation for the better good of the nation to which sets her up for a WH run in 2024, 2020 is too soon.

To add, if true, she could line her pockets with many honest dealings with Putin and Trump, if they deem her to have a moral line well above her parents.

Jack Trades · 2016-11-01T22:47:35Z

Can't believe I am saying this

I think both candidates are totally unfit to run the USA, but unless Killary resigns soon and Bernie takes over (oh what a blessing that would be) we are stuck between a bad choice and a worse choice. Forced to choose between those two evil options, I would choose Trump over Clinton. Not because I like him or think that he is capable of doing the job right. No, this article says it well; He will be easier to manipulate than the loose cannon Clinton who I perceive as a much bigger threat to the rest of the world than Trump. He might be a disaster for ordinary Americans, but on the world stage I believe he would do less damage then the unguided missile that Clinton is in my humble opinion. As I said: Can't believe I just wrote this!

Mac · 2016-11-01T23:15:09Z

Optimistic

Just because it is her last card doesn't mean she will stop trying to play it.

Joan · 2016-11-02T00:54:56Z

She is like the Eveready Bunny she will keep going until her batteries fail, after all what does she have to lose in the quest for Empire.

She is already losing her mind, she will go the same way as Ronnie (Ronald Reagan and If the stories are true, about LBJ in his latter years before death finally took him, ranting like and idiot).

anartist · 2016-11-02T02:39:15Z

not sure it is her last card. she seems to be rolling out the "Trump as misogynist" card by pulling these women out of the hat (look, nothing up my sleeve) which is a bit of a joke considering Mr Bill's record. this is a pretty desperate move on their part

locust · 2016-11-02T03:54:05Z

The day nears

The day rapidly nears when we can sing loudly, happily.

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Ruth · 2016-11-02T05:32:28Z

The difference between the 'wicked witch' and the 'wizard of oz'? They're both pretty dreadful, really. Is one just more overtly evil than the other?

baron · 2016-11-02T08:40:20Z

The Clown Show proves that the political system is a puppet of the corporate pac money, that the players are insane, dangerous, and that we need to end the charade one way or the other before these insane Kooks that are fronting for the .01% do something even crazier than they already have.

This just proves that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We need to remove the wealth from all the global elites, and send the marines to deal with those who won't submit.

Niall · 2016-11-02T12:45:40Z

And now

a third torpedo:

'FBI drops more bombs on Clinton campaign, releases 15yo pardon docs'

[Link]

What's really rich about it is that among Comey's first tasks as Deputy Attorney General in 2003 was to take over the investigation into Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich!

Ruth · 2016-11-02T13:27:49Z

Looks like the Clinton campaign doesn't know what to make of their puppet (Comey) suddenly cutting some of his strings and dancing to his own (or maybe someone else's) tune.

Amazed by the Lunacy · 2016-11-02T18:58:39Z

Truth has finally inflicted irreversible damage to Team Clinton and it's going to bring about an end to their out of control corruption. You're right that it was inevitable, Niall. Having an unquenchable desire for more will always, and I mean always, lead to self destruction.

We are witnessing historic events unfold in the US- the mainstream media has been exposed and rendered irrelevant, intelligence insiders are in the midst of a silent coup, computer hackers are now saviors, NATO is disintegrating before our very eyes, China and Russia are ending the petro dollar, and we're running annual deficits of well over a trillion a year. Oh, did I mention that a four time bankrupted reality TV star is about to become President?

D A M N - I need to pop some more popcorn.

Iosif · 2016-11-02T20:24:25Z

I think

that the shy FBI announcement could serves more to make people believe that she too is attacked unfairly, for most misinformed persons that subject had passed.

Another feeling I have is that all this freaky show serves to give and image that all politicians are corrupt, and anyone who has so many accusations can be good... It serves to generate hopelessness and more division and after any win we will continue with the same but worse

Iosif · 2016-11-02T20:36:04Z

everything that the empire should do to clean up its exceptional image is sent to jail these two clowns, or at least give them a pleasant retreat from political life. To "inspire" and continue chasing "tyrants" around the world. But perhaps this is too creative for psychopaths

Niall · 2016-11-02T22:33:48Z

Another way of looking at it is that they have to 'attack' Clinton with 'such weak sauce' because if they pulled out 'heavier guns', they would take down more than just Clinton. No doubt the FBI has 'the real dirt' on Clinton (and everyone else). But I don't think they can use that publicly because Clinton has some real dirt on them too!

Everyone is compromised. The only thing that could make Clinton go away, as quietly as possible, is someone more powerful than her in the hierarchy letting everyone else below them know that she's fallen out of favor with them.

Assuming that what I've suggested above is the goal here - to favor Trump over Clinton as the next president - then they must do so in a way that retains at least the veneer of public faith in the government, the overall US agenda, and the American Way of Life.

gdpetti · 2016-11-02T21:45:28Z

[Link]
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Former British Ambassador Claims Source Of Podesta Leaks "Comes From Within Washington"

With the media gripped by accusatory speculation regarding the identity of the source behind the Wikileaks leak of hacked Podesta and DNC emails, much of it focused on Russia, a new theory has emerged from Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who tells Sputnik (a Russian media outlet) that the source of the leaks are not Russian hackers but a Washington insider.

"The source of these emails and leaks has nothing to do with Russia at all. I discovered what the source was when I attended the Sam Adam's whistleblower award in Washington. The source of these emails comes from within official circles in Washington DC. You should look to Washington not to Moscow."