Which is the greatest 'witch hunt'
in American history?
By Charles Hurt |The Washington Times
At the end of all the scandal and
drama, all of the breathlessly reported lies and false accusations, at the end
of all the money wasted on some zany kabuki swamp dance choreographed to the
thrumming of giant bullfrogs and yipping of excited coyotes — at the end of all
of this — it comes down to precisely what we said it was a year and a half ago.
The Obama administration — with or without the
knowledge and direction of President Obama himself — perverted one of the most
powerful, clandestine spying operations in the world and used it at the very
height of a presidential campaign to spy on political opponents, punish them
and, ultimately, silence them through extortion.
If this was orchestrated without the
express knowledge of Mr. Obama, then it reveals just how blatantly he
instructed by example the weaponizing of the entire federal government to carry
out his low, dishonest and unjust ideology. By any means necessary, one might
say. Only instead of being driving by visions of justice, these people were
driven by visions of undying power.
If this conspiracy was carried out
at the express direction of Mr. Obama or other high officials in his
administration, then they belong in jail.
From unmasking of political
opponents, to leaking their names to the press, to killing legitimate
investigations, to launching politically motivated witch hunts, a racket of
this scale could not have been carried out without some major juice and cover
at the top levels of the Department of Justice, FBI and the White House.
The rogue henchmen carrying out the
dirty work, as always, presented as perfect, decent and most honest little Boy
Scouts like former FBI Director James B. Comey.
Most of the FBI today must be
horrified by the degree to which Mr. Comey and his goon squad handed over the
entire mission of the FBI to political hacks inside the Obama administration.
Still, there were far too
many inside the bureau willing to junk their oath in the name of some kind of
higher “justice.” Which is just another way of saying “selling their soul for
partisan gain.”
What the Obama administration did to infiltrate the Trump
campaign, spy on political opponents and then launch a wicked vendetta against
them is worse than anything J. Edgar Hoover ever did — at least that we know
about.
It is worse than any of the domestic
abuses by the CIA during the Cold War.
It is worse even than what the
federal government did to undermine civil rights activists like Martin Luther
King Jr.
As bad and corrupt as it is to
harass innocent citizens under any circumstances, it is so much worse to
weaponize the government to pursue and punish and eliminate domestic political
opponents. That is the sort of thing that destroys a Republic.
And yes, it is even much worse than
Watergate. At the end of the day, Watergate was a bungled break-in by low-level
political hacks. And then it was about the political cover-up and how high it
went.
What happened under Mr. Obama is the
stuff of Third-World dictators.
When Donald Trump was running for
president, establishment Republicans and Democrats alike ran around thumping
their chests feigning outrage that Mr. Trump would not be capable of respecting
the Constitution.
At that time, the Obama administration was spying on Mr. Trump and
his campaign and carrying out the most extensive and brazen undercover
espionage-war campaign against political opponents that we have ever seen.
All the while nary a peep from these
same smarmy swamp creatures as Mr. Obama rolled the constitution into joints so
he and his political Choom Gang could smoke bales of weed.
• Contact Charles Hurt at churt@washingtontimes.com
or on Twitter at @charleshurt.
