2016 Postmortem

...you gotta figure something significant is occurring behind the scenes. I happened to read an article by U.S. military brass (or ex-brass, as they do things) in The Atlantic back in 2006, and they were going on about how impossible it was to use nukes on Iran. As you may recall, Cheney-Rumsfeld's big plan that year was nuking Iran. It was all the talk. But then Rumsfeld resigned late in that year and all talk of nuking Iran suddenly went away.

When I saw the article about the OIG report in The Atlantic, all my tinfoil hat tentacles began vibrating and receiving messages. Hillary. Is. In. Big. Trouble.

And the Psst outrage tells us that the intelligence community's hair is on fire.

I know it's like reading entrails--but these publications do NOT print straightforward news and opinion. They only reveal the intestines of the animal they have sacrificed, and it's up to us to figure out what the omens are.

After reading up on Hillary's private server--here at DU and elsewhere after Paul Thompson got shunned--it seems to me--just a feeling, you understand--that our intelligence agencies and our generals DO NOT WANT TO HAVE THIS PERSON as commander-in-chief. Hillary's trustworthy ratings are in the toilet among us ordinary people. I suspect that that's where they are among these powers-that-be as well.

Someone here theorized (some weeks ago--can't recall who it was) that our spy agencies were monitoring her email server throughout its existence, and that this might mean that these dark players now have lots and lots of blackmail material with which to control President Hillary. I thought that was an interesting theory but probably too Byzantine--re a definite plan to let her get elected but then "handle" her. But the part about the spy agencies monitoring that server makes sense. According to a lot of techies, almost anybody could have been hacking that unprotected, wide open server. Why not our own spies as well?

What this may mean in the current, visible situation--the damning OIG report and the pending FBI report--I don't know and can't guess. What it says to me is that the chorus of disapproval in the Corrupt Media has been seconded by significant insider entrenched powers in the government.

We CAN guess, though, that there is probably a political shit-storm occurring behind the scenes--among all parties with an interest in the investigation, and all parties that are actors in the investigation, including many agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, HS, DoJ, OIG, Pentagon, etc.), John Kerry and others at State, Obama and the White House, many important political players (like Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Warren, et al) and probably big corporate players who have invested so heavily in Hillary, and expect TPP and other juicy rewards, and maybe some foreign entities--both in countries that could be implicated in illegal Hillary-brokered deals (the Saudis, for instance) and in our western and other allies who may be wondering what the hell is going on in our country.

Surely most of the potentially interested parties don't want Mr. Big Mouth Unpredictable as U.S. commander-in-chief! Could some of these interested parties and/or actors want Bernie Sanders as the safest president in these circumstances? He's certainly the one to demolish Trump, according to all polls on this matter since January. And he's not said he would dismantle the CIA or anything like that. (Harry Truman said that--did you know?) (Um, so did JFK, alas.) He really is NOT a radical at all. Just a nicer, more grandfatherly version of FDR. (Bernie wouldn't welcome anybody's hatred, even "organized money"'s.)

I don't know. Perhaps I'm spinning too far. But I do feel the rumble. And there are a whole lot of things that Clinton did--with regard to the server, in relation to the server and by use of the server--that would seem to be very offensive to major sectors of the government, in varied ways and for varied reasons. One I haven't mentioned is her use of Robert Kagan as an adviser. This is Mr. Chief Neo-Con of Bush-Cheney & Rumsfeld. The CIA wouldn't likely want to see that crowd back in the White House!