Treason
The Constitution says the following about treason, one of the few crimes mentioned:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Here then is the question. If a foreign power is attempting to change election results, is that levying war or not? And, if a foreign power is attempting to change election results, and a citizen aids them, is that "aid and comfort"? I'm not certain on the first part, but the second is not as ambiguous, yes, if a foreign body is changing the results and you help them do it, that's treason.
The suggestion has been made that the new Acting DNI, Richard Grenell, was placed there to continue to block any action on election security. The intelligence services are in uniform agreement that the Russians are gearing to interfere again. Bluntly, Grenell was placed there to ensure the Russians succeed.
This matters. Grenell is far from an experienced diplomat, there are entire parties of the German government who want his standing as ambassador revoked and him sent on the next plane out of Berlin. The rest of them want him gone, but don't want to piss us off showing him the door. He has no intel background at all. In short he comes nowhere near the background or ability the position asks for. So what is he doing there?
Well, the outgoing DNI Joseph Maguire a week ago went to the Hill and gave a committee a briefing in the SCIF room, just like all of these guys are supposed to do from time to time. Think of it like the State of the Union, but in this case, it's State of the Intelligence Community. That's not quite it, but it's close enough. So as part of this meeting, he flat out said, yes the Russians interfered in the 2016 election. They've been saying that for years now.
I think we all know who has an electoral college map with him everywhere he goes, and hearing that about the Russians? He was done with that with Mueller! One pissed off Orange Ogre later, and Maguire is gone to be replaced by Grenell. Except Grenell has no idea what he's doing other than smooching said Ogre's morbidly obese ass.
Result, the election systems continue to be un-upgraded, and Vlad's minions are getting ready to run rampant because Donnie made sure it wouldn't get fixed. If a foreign body, Russia, is changing the results, and Trump and Grenell are ensuring that nothing happens to stop that (they've only had three years), and the bill dealing with it from the House is being used as toilet paper by Mitch Mc🐢.
The level of mendacity from the White House makes this a real question. As Grenell is not stepping down from his Ambassadorship to take DNI, it leaves the entire community without the rudder that was supposed to prevent the next 9-11, and says he's not looking at security at all, he's busy at a revival of Cabaret.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Here then is the question. If a foreign power is attempting to change election results, is that levying war or not? And, if a foreign power is attempting to change election results, and a citizen aids them, is that "aid and comfort"? I'm not certain on the first part, but the second is not as ambiguous, yes, if a foreign body is changing the results and you help them do it, that's treason.
The suggestion has been made that the new Acting DNI, Richard Grenell, was placed there to continue to block any action on election security. The intelligence services are in uniform agreement that the Russians are gearing to interfere again. Bluntly, Grenell was placed there to ensure the Russians succeed.
This matters. Grenell is far from an experienced diplomat, there are entire parties of the German government who want his standing as ambassador revoked and him sent on the next plane out of Berlin. The rest of them want him gone, but don't want to piss us off showing him the door. He has no intel background at all. In short he comes nowhere near the background or ability the position asks for. So what is he doing there?
Well, the outgoing DNI Joseph Maguire a week ago went to the Hill and gave a committee a briefing in the SCIF room, just like all of these guys are supposed to do from time to time. Think of it like the State of the Union, but in this case, it's State of the Intelligence Community. That's not quite it, but it's close enough. So as part of this meeting, he flat out said, yes the Russians interfered in the 2016 election. They've been saying that for years now.
I think we all know who has an electoral college map with him everywhere he goes, and hearing that about the Russians? He was done with that with Mueller! One pissed off Orange Ogre later, and Maguire is gone to be replaced by Grenell. Except Grenell has no idea what he's doing other than smooching said Ogre's morbidly obese ass.
Result, the election systems continue to be un-upgraded, and Vlad's minions are getting ready to run rampant because Donnie made sure it wouldn't get fixed. If a foreign body, Russia, is changing the results, and Trump and Grenell are ensuring that nothing happens to stop that (they've only had three years), and the bill dealing with it from the House is being used as toilet paper by Mitch Mc🐢.
The level of mendacity from the White House makes this a real question. As Grenell is not stepping down from his Ambassadorship to take DNI, it leaves the entire community without the rudder that was supposed to prevent the next 9-11, and says he's not looking at security at all, he's busy at a revival of Cabaret.
posted by Mike N | 7:57 PM
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