Yesterday, Shaun Hannity spewed a diatribe that the whole Russia investigation was an FBI witch hunt. I’d like to explore that notion for a bit.
Did you know that keeping secrets is hard? No really, it’s amazingly hard to do. There are two components to that, the first is the psychological weight of keeping the secret, an individual thing, then there’s the numbers game. I’m not gonna delve into the psychological aspect of this, other than to say that keeping something secret is hard on your brain and it is much easier to spill than to keep it in. The Atlantic Magazine has done several articles on the topic.
I’m much more interested in the numbers game and specifically how that relates to the Russia investigation. I’m not gonna start there so please be patient.
Immediately after 9/11 a number of conspiracy theories came out. Two of my favorites were that Bush knew about the attacks and let them go because he wanted a pretext for war. And that it was an inside job where the CIA hid charges, floor to floor, and that’s why the buildings collapsed so neatly when they fell. Folks really believed these and other equally unrealistic theories. There’s a problem though. In order for these two specific examples to be true, you’d need to involve hundreds of people. In the first instance, the military, air traffic control, members of the cabinet, and national security personnel. The second scenario eliminates the FCC, but adds in the CIA and a lot of security guards and workers in the tower (they’d have to be blind not to see the charges being planted).
To pull off these crimes, you’d have to convince all of those folks to betray their duties, their country and their morals. And you’d have to keep them to their betrayal… forever. Such things just don’t happen. I refer back up to the stuff on the psychological damage such a thing would cause, and induce you to consider the fame, infamy if you will, that would go with exposing such a thing.
In August of 2002, George Bush met with Albert Gonzalez in the White House to discuss the torture of prisoners of war. It was a pretty select meeting. It wasn’t long until until we knew fully, what happened in that meeting.
The truth will come out. A notion ascribed to Shakespear, but that is likely as old as the hills. Keeping even the biggest secrets is hard short term, and impossible long term.
If you can’t keep a secret meeting in the White House secret, then how could you keep an FBI vendetta against Donald Trump a secret? Some of the players include: Rod Rosenstein, Comey, Mueller, Jeff Sessions, dozens of agents, and staff in the Justice Department, just to name a few. All of those folks have to know, have had to keep their mouths shut about a huge lie, and have had to consistently not talked in their sleep, for two years now. Then you have to wonder, how deep does it go? Remember, every one of our security agencies said that the Russians interfered. It beggars the mind to imagine so many folks keeping such a secret.
Literally, such a thing is impossible. Some person, who might even hate Trump, but who has the moral courage to find that framing any person, even one as repugnant as Trump, would have spoken up. It speaks volumes that none has. None has, because as we all know, there is no secret vendetta, no grand conspiracy, no evil plot, no Voldemort pulling the reigns of power.