Writing at American Greatness, Lee Smith, who is extremely close to House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, lays out what must happen now to neutralize a significant chunk of the coup against the President if the Barr/Durham investigation produces nothing ahead of Nov. 3rd. Like others, he believes the President himself must declassify critical documents and stop relying on weak-kneed and institutionally addicted Republicans to save the nation. “Americans deserve to know beforehand if they are choosing to move one step closer to despotism.”
Illustrative of his impatience, Smith highlights a meme retweeted by the President which features a photoshopped Chris Farley from Saturday Night Live yelling at Attorney General Barr, “For the Love of God, ARREST SOMEBODY!” He moves on to provide a fascinating analysis of the landscape. Here are his key points:
The John Brennan Notes, declassified this week by DNI Ratcliffe, are misdated to imply that President Barack Obama was only read into the operation against Trump in July of 2016. Deliberately so, as misdirection by Brennan, Smith emphasizes. (Parenthetically, Smith calls Brennan’s recent TV appearances those of the leader of a “cult of morose bureaucrats,” while noting that one of the main people stalling Barr and John Durham, CIA Director Gina Haspel, is extremely close to both Brennan and to the British.)
