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Promoted from the diaries by streiff. Promotion does not imply endorsement.
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Anyone who’s ever worked on a jigsaw puzzle knows that the process is tedious in the beginning. First, we place all the similar colored pieces in small groups, try various configurations and then we see how two groups might fit together and so on. At a certain point, the progress becomes faster until finally, a picture starts to emerge.

Thanks to the painstaking efforts of lawmakers such as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the release of the DOJ Inspector General’s report in June and the tireless pursuit of documents by Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, a picture of unimaginable deception of breathtaking proportions is emerging before the eyes of an astonished electorate.

The once slow headway in the search for the truth has gained momentum. Democratic lawmakers, officials and most of the mainstream media are still in denial and don’t seem to realize yet that too much of the truth has already been revealed for them to go back to their original narrative. The truth has become too big to hide.

A comparison of the carnage at the very highest levels of the FBI and the DOJ to the complete lack of evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump following over two years of investigations should tell Robert Mueller that it’s time to extricate himself, as gracefully as possible, from this fraud. He needs to admit defeat in his attempt to undo the results of a fair election.

Seamus Bruner of The Epoch Times has just put together a list of 25 DOJ and FBI officials who have resigned in the last year. Some of them, Rachel Brand for example, have left to take positions in the private sector. Mike Kortan has said he was planning to retire anyway. But many on this list have been fired, or forced out (largely in disgrace) or demoted, because of the Trump/Russia investigation.

FBI Departures:

1. James Comey, director (fired)
2. Andrew McCabe, deputy director (fired)
3. Peter Strzok, counterintelligence expert (fired)
4. Lisa Page, attorney (demoted; resigned)
5. James Rybicki, chief of staff (resigned)
6. James Baker, general counsel (resigned)
7. Mike Kortan, assistant director for public affairs (resigned)
8. Josh Campbell, special assistant to James Comey (resigned)
9. James Turgal, executive assistant director (resigned)
10. Greg Bower, assistant director for office of congressional affairs (resigned)
11. Michael Steinbach, executive assistant director (resigned)
12. John Giacalone, executive assistant director (resigned)

DOJ Departures:

13. Sally Yates, deputy attorney general (fired)
14. Bruce Ohr, associate deputy attorney general (twice demoted)
15. David Laufman, counterintelligence chief (resigned)
16. Rachel Brand, deputy attorney general (resigned)
17. Trisha Beth Anderson, office of legal counsel for FBI (demoted or reassigned*)
18. John P. Carlin, assistant attorney general (resigned)
19. Peter Kadzik, assistant attorney general, congressional liaison (resigned)
20. Mary McCord, acting assistant attorney general (resigned)
21. Matthew Axelrod, principal assistant to deputy attorney general (resigned)
22. Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney, SDNY (fired along with 45 other U.S. Attorneys)
23. Sharon McGowan, civil rights division (resigned)
24. Diana Flynn, litigation director for LGBTQ civil rights (resigned)
25. Vanita Gupta, civil rights division (resigned)
26. Joel McElvain, assistant branch director of the civil division (resigned)

*Status Unclear

As I look at this list, I know it includes only a fraction of those who have risked their careers and their reputations because they simply couldn’t bear to see Donald Trump in the White House.

Before this is over, others will be added to the list. Perhaps even Rod Rosenstein. And there will likely be former top-level Obama officials caught in the net as well. Perjurers John Brennan and James Clapper come to mind.

In addition to the men and women who have been working against Trump in the DOJ and the FBI, there were/are employees in the State Department and the CIA, holdovers from the Obama administration, who are complicit.

The mainstream media has played a huge role in perpetuating this hoax. They have breathlessly distorted events to influence public opinion. Instead of reporting the news, they have worked overtime to shape it.

For an example of how the mainstream media has aided and abetted the left’s attempt to impeach Trump, we need to look no further than their outrage over the revocation of John Brennan’s security clearance.

We have MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt saying “40% of Americans have surrendered their intellectual sovereignty to Donald Trump.” This from a man who achieved more notoriety by his recent and loud departure from the Republican Party than he ever attained as a political strategist or for  running John McCain’s failed bid for the presidency. As if he matters.

CNN Political Commentator Symone Sander’s chimed in on the subject. “Trump sent Sarah Sanders to poop on the people from the Press Secretary Podium.” She’s a real class act. There were other similar and predictable reactions from the left. (Reaction from the left can be heard in first 1:10 on the video below.)

Fox anchor Mark Levin spoke to Sean Hannity and offered a fierce defense of the move:

Hannity: We have never had a former communist who literally we now know spread Russian lies to misinform, propagandize the American people to impact a presidential election either. These are unprecedented times.

Levin: First of all, apparently the fact that Brennan voted for a Stalinist who was funded by the Soviets, a communist party USA was very attractive to Barack Obama who made him CIA director. Think about that.

So how did this man ever get a security clearance? I’m curious about this.

Now, a couple of things. The president is, looking at Brennan, he revokes his security privilege. Professor Dershowitz needs to know that’s a privilege. That’s not a right to security privilege.

The fact to the matter is, nobody is stopping Brennan from speaking. In fact, nobody could stop. He has a big mouth, he will never shut up, he’ll go on TV and be the kook that he is.

The idea that he has a right to access to information because he served in the Obama administration at the CIA is a preposterous argument, but of course the ACLU will take it up the case because they take up a lot of stupid cases. That’s number one.

Number two, who else is the president looking at? Comey and people who are keeping score, Comey is a Republican. How many times have people told the media, Mueller is a Republican, Comey is a Republican, and even they question the president! OK, you got a Republican.

And by the way, for the media, most of these people the president are looking at are white. I know that’s very important to you.

Now Comey was fired at the recommendation of Rosenstein. Comey was a leaker and he absconded with government documents when he left. His security clearance should be pulled. McCabe is under criminal investigation, the number two from the FBI.

Never before in history, media, his security clearance should be pulled! Peter Strzok was just fired. The guy in charge of counterintelligence investigations for misconduct, his security should be pulled!

James Clapper committed perjury. He lied to the American people and Senator Wyden and that committee a long time ago, his security clearance should have been pulled.

Bruce Ohr, another one. Pulled! Yates, another one, not because the president has a problem with Democrats or liberals, he has a problem with these people. And we haven’t even got to the unmasking issue yet. So this is not a First Amendment issue.

Meanwhile — meanwhile! When these people have security clearances, what the hell did they do with them? Well, let’s take a look. The Russians interfered in our election, right? Well, who was president, who was head of the CIA, who was national security advisor, who was the head of the FBI? All of these people with their security clearances in position to power did nothing effective to stop the Russians from interfering in our election.

They did nothing to stop China from stealing our technology. They did nothing to stop North Korea’s nuclear program. And even worse, they awarded the terrorist regime in Tehran with $150 billion, right? With $150 billion and provided them with a pathway to nuclear weapons.

Good job, boys and girl in the Obama administration with your security clearances. The fact that Obama appointed these people and gave them security clearances, it’s not the obligation of this president to let them retain their security clearances. There is no constitutional issue. That’s just nonsense. And again, one of them is a Republican. So that makes this all OK.

Hannity: Mark, I would take away all of their clearances.

Levin: I would take away all of their clearances too. But the fact of the matter is we really need to focus in on the conduct of these individuals. Look at the phony media and the arguments they are making.

This is like a dictatorship. This is — this is — and we’ve never seen anything like this before. All these blabbermouths who know nothing, you are going to see Clapper on TV until you throw up on your loafers.

You are going to see Comey he had his book thing, you are going to see Brennan all over the place, all these phony victims and so forth and so on.

Meanwhile, when they were in office, when they had their security clearances, when they had power, they didn’t stop the Russians, they didn’t stop the red Chinese, they didn’t stop the North Koreans, they funded the Iranians, and, in fact, they are responsible for the greatest scandal in American history by interfering with our election and trying to undermine the Trump campaign.

Hannity: And the Trump presidency. I think we got to remember, hold on, Mark and throw off all my loafers. But more importantly, that’s what we call you the great one. Great commentary, Mark Levin. Thank you.

From the moment candidate Donald Trump won the Republican nomination, the deck was stacked against him. He was a chicken, surrounded by wolves, and they were just waiting for the right moment to consume him. But they all underestimated him. Crazy as people believe Trump to be, he has prevailed in the face of overwhelming opposition.