During the Senate Watergate hearings that eventually brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon, Republican Sen. Howard Baker (Tenn.) asked a question that would live in infamy: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” Now, nearly 50 years later, the question again begs to be asked.
The story is about a new president. Barack ObamaKnow, when was he able to know?
As RedState reported late last week, Special Counsel for the Justice Department John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko, the principal source for the bogus Steele dossier used by the FBI as a basis for the Trump-Russia “collusion” investigation, further illustrates that Durham has his sights set on the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Although it is not surprising, the irony of this story is quite striking.
Hillary conspired with Russia to try and frame Donald Trump.
What about Obama?
While “What did Obama know,What year was he born? know it?” is a good question, here’s an even better one: What did Obama do, and when did he do it? Let’s take a quick trip in the Wayback Machine.
Retired U.S. Army Intelligence Officer Tony Shaffer shared his thoughts about the alleged involvement of Obama during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” in March of 2017, as reported by PJ Media. Shaffer suggested that Donald Trump’s accusations that prior to the 2016 election the Obama administration was wiretapping Trump Tower were not only true but “very likely” approved by Obama, himself.
“This is completely insidious. This is an order of magnitude worse than Watergate — where you’ve actually used the mechanisms of the state — the power of the state to go after a candidate [for the] presidency.”
Shaffer added: “This is Soviet behavior. This is the very thing the Soviet Union would have engaged in during the Cold War.” In a tweet last week — five years to the day since his appearance on “Fox and Friends” — Shaffer fired off an “I told you so.”
Reminder – I went on the record — on live TV and said on 5 March 2017 that Obamagate was a setup – and that all roads would lead to Barack Obama — some of us were never fooled by the Russian Collusion Narrative Hoax.
Was Shaffer right?
Reminder – I went on the record – on live TV and said on 5 March 2017 that Obamagate was a setup – and that all roads would lead to @BarackObama – some of us were never fooled by the Russian Collusion Narrative Hoax…https://t.co/sLoleDlCit
— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) November 5, 2021
Let me repeat: Obama knew what, when, and where did it all happen?
Obama: What did he know and when? https://t.co/FgkEmkja5T
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) November 11, 2021
The American Spectator also had the same question asked Wednesday by Jack Cashill. As Cashill sees it, “it is becoming increasingly clear that then-President Obama was very much in on the effort to smear Donald Trump as Collaboration with Russia.”
Cashill referenced his 2020 book, “Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency,” in which he blistered not only Obama but the liberal media for colludingLikewise, with the Obama administration. (Emphasis, mine.)
In the Obama years Asymmetrical media warfare was wagedTo control the crucial first draft of American History. It is impossible to accurately record this history without acknowledging the war. These are the details of how the battlefield looked:
You can find the link on the right, the alternative conservative media and the “responsible” right, occasionally working together, often working at odds.
To the leftThe mainstream media, social media giants and Hollywood stars, Broadway, federal bureaucracies. [and]The National Security Apparatus.
“Rarely at odds,” Cashill observed, “these forces routinely worked together to amplify what Obama adviser Ben Rhodes famously called the White House’s “messaging campaign.” Money, resources, and power overwhelmingly favored the left, but the right had the equalizer on its side — the truth.”
Cashill claimed in the Spectator Report that he remained focused on one issue while researching for his book. Barack Obama knew about the Russian plot to connect Donald Trump with Russia. And when did it happen?Cashill noted that unlike the Watergate period, where all insiders of government and media ran to find out what Nixon knew about Nixon, the Watergate era was a time when only outsiders dared ask questions about Obama.
The information contained in Durham’s recent indictment of Russian national Igor Danchenko, when coupled with the CIA notes declassified in October 2020 by Ratcliffe, Directly to the White House. These revelations received a lot of attention in the last week. They are deserving it.
However, Obama’s and his friends have kept the fictitious counter-narrative under wraps for five years.
How to deconstruct this counter-narrative may not put Obama’s Praetorian guard in prison, but it should provide Watergate-level amusement for those of us who believe prison is where Obama’s people belong
Cashill went on to describe a 2017 Washington Post article that reported on an early August 2016 “intelligence bombshell” sent by the CIA to then-President Obama with “eyes only” instructions. “To guard against leaks,” the Post continued, “subsequent meetings in the Situation Room followed the same protocols as planning sessions for the Osama bin Laden raid.”
The Post identified John Brennan, CIA Director, as the one who sounded an alarm. In August 2016, Brennan alerted Obama White House that Russian President Vladimir Putin was planning an attack on Hillary Clinton to derail her or damage her. Cashill also reported the incident.
As you read this, are you asking yourself, “How much clearer could it be?” How many dots must be connected to figure this whole thing out? Do you think it is three? Do you think it’s possible to get four?
Obama and Brennan knew by early August 2016, said Cashill, that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign’s alleged involvement in the collusion plot.
It was also important to note that they knew the investigation was founded on a Clinton dirty tactic. This was the turning point. [Former FBI Director James]Comey might not have known. If Durham can get someone to talk about these meetings — a big “if” — CNN may even pay attention.
Of Comey’s involvement, Cashill wrote:
Comey, by September 7, 2016, would have been aware of Clinton involvement. That date was the A memo was sent by the CIA to the FBI — attention Peter Strzok — relating “US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers as means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Although Obama has been largely quiet about how “he and his team transformed a Hillary-approved plot to kneecap Trump into a massive, multi-year government-run plot to do the same,” Cashill observed, “his colleagues have been more forthcoming.”
“The story they told did not have to be true,” said Cashill.
“As with all cover-ups, it merely had to be plausible.”
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