Guessing at truths

Revelations and releases of information have been gathering steam over the past 18 months.   There have been a slew of releases in the past couple of weeks documenting that the collusion to use Federal government security services as part of a political campaign which included illegal surveillance of American citizens and political opponents went higher than previously known and occurred much earlier.

It now appears that then President Obama knew early in 2016 that his former Secretary of State was coordinating with British and Russian former intelligence agents to create a false charge of Russian Collusion against individuals in the Trump campaign and were using the resulting document, the Steele Dossier, to warrant Executive Branch intervention by the CIA, FBI, and NSA against the Trump campaign on behalf of the Clinton campaign.  

And hardly any of these releases are being covered in the mainstream media.   Right leaning news platforms are trumpeting the documentation as proof of what for so long seemed ridiculous, even delusional, claims.  No matter how tin-hatted the early claims seemed, we now know they were true.

Jonathan Turley, a legal academic and man of the establishment left is also principled and willing to take independent positions.  I find him an interesting source for information the mainstream media will not cover.  I discount to some extent the right leaning news sources about an issue.  If I see Turley lending the issue credence, then I begin to suspect that the issue is more real than just politically expedient.  

All the releases confirming the Obama administration spying on its political opponents which have been trumpeted by the right leaning news sources have been in marked contrast to the studied silence of the mainstream media despite the appearance that these revelations were the real deal.  

Now I see that they indeed might be.  From “A Means Of Distracting The Public”: Brennan Briefed Obama On Clinton “Plan” To Tie Trump To Russia by Jonathan Turley.  

Once again, my initial interest is in the utter blackout on the story.  This would seem a major story regardless of the ultimate findings. If these notes have been fabricated or misrepresented, it would show a breathtaking effort to lie to the voters before the election. If these notes are genuine, it would indicate that the FBI was aware of an effort by the Democratic presidential candidate to tag Trump with a Russian collusion scandal.  We know that Clinton’s campaign funded the Steele dossier and that Steele shopped the dossier with the media to try to generate coverage to influence the election.

Turley has additional details in the article.  But for me, if Turley is seeing the same thing that I am, an establishment effort by the DNC and mainstream media to suppress real news which is both consequential and potentially highly relevant to the campaign (we know Biden was in at least one of the briefings) then I am much more comfortable that the conclusions I am drawing are legitimate.   

But what a pickle we are in where critical information important to the citizenry is being shadow-banned by establishment interests.