Show Us the Money
De heathen back dey, on de wall
I don’t usually recommend reading the NYT, but there’s a good piece about the Security State in the Age of Nixon, though despite Bob Dole’s tear-filled requiem, there never really was an Age of Nixon.
The piece concerns Mistah Nixon’s fall and the Congressional hearings disclosing the “cocksucking", a favorite adjective of the 37th President’s, but the cocksucking FBI, CIA, NSA, go down the list, were all deep in US domestic politics.
Specifically, the piece talks about previously redacted testimony regarding one US Navy Yeoman First Class Charles Chandler, who in the early 70s spied on the presidency for the Joint Chiefs. At his 1975 grand jury deposition, a year after he had resigned and been pardoned, the former president questioned about the Chandler affair replied, “I would strongly urge the special prosecutor: Don’t open that can of worms.” The NYT reports, “More extraordinary still, the prosecutors agreed.”
Of course nothing extraordinary about it. The Chandler affair was only one small part of a mountain of traitorous criminal activity. Probing Chandler's actions only raised Nixon's caution because it offended the previously spy-happy president as a personal affront to him. Ames wrote a very fine piece few years back about much of the revealed degenerate sordidness of the Security State’s domestic meddling. Few were held accountable. Nothing changed. It only got worse.
I remember talking to Caddell a few years back. As McGovern’s pollster he had been under it all. “The youngest person on Nixon’s enemies list,” he’d proudly say. He had changed his mind in regards to Nixon. At the time, he thought Ford's pardon was good for the country, but as years had past, Pat came to understand it was a mistake. To address and fix the problems uncovered, it had been essential Nixon be held account.
The Good Dr. Thompson opined, “I’m not into guilt. I'm into justice." Justice, there’s a word far, far from any power in America today. Nothing today more nakedly exposes America’s power-elite's criminality than l’affaire Epstein. The one question I have is where are the bank records, an account of the in and out transactions so to speak. What a tale they must tell. Long forgotten, the Nixon era DC parking garage advise of the FBI’s Mark Felt, “Follow the money.”
Max Blumenthal points to a two hour interview of Epstein by Steve Bannon – Yo, MAGA, where’s a little righteous indignation? Bannon was helping Epstein with PR to fight allegations right before he was again arrested.
Of course, l’affaire Epstein is no partisan venture. Yesterday, and this might be best yet, Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathryn Reummler, let’s not forget she was also former White House Counsel to Barack Obama, resigned for her Epstein ties.
Check-out this elite government/business nexus resume, the darkness, borrowing the satirical masthead of Bezos' Post, where democracy dies. Best, at Goldman she was “Chair of the Firmwide Conduct Committee, Co-Vice Chair of the Firmwide Reputational Risk Committee.” I mean what reputational risk does Goldman have? How much lower could it possibly sink?
Showered with gifts for whatever intrigues she facilitated, she also gave advise to “Uncle Jeffery” on his known criminal offenses. Despite recently claiming she knew nothing about “the monster” Uncle Jeffery truly was, the WSJ reports she was one of three people he called the night he was arrested in 2019. Ya think she was Captain Renault shocked when he told her why he was jailed?
In a 2015 email, remember that’s 7 years after Uncle Jeffrey’s conviction and her being fresh out of the White House, she writes Epstein, “John Brennan gave me the CIA Agency Medal (the CIA's hig=est award) this morning. How cool is that?” Maybe she spied on Barry or Old Joe?
Any talk of justice in all this is, well, I haven’t paid much attention, but there’s no talk of justice. But come on, this is DC, New York, London, Tech, Wall Street, Hollywood, and the National Security State – Show us the money.
