Mueller's Report Looks Bad for Obama
CNN is doing its best to keep the Russian interference story going and they are saying that the reason why Russia got away with interfering with the election is because Obama let them.
CNN Op-Ed Admits "Mueller's Report Looks Bad For Obama"
With Congressional Democrats tantruming over redactions, presidential candidates out-virtue-signalling one another in denigration of Trump (for what it is unclear) calling for impeachment (again, for what is unclear) and the liberal media desperate for a distraction from the embarrassment of their two-year harassment in lieu of the main headline - "no collusion, no obstruction;" few if any among the mainstream have noticed (or mentioned) one tiny little detail in the Mueller Report... the 'confirmed' interference by Russia in the 2016 US Election took place - knowingly - under President Obama's watch.
The partisan warfare over the Mueller report will rage, but one thing cannot be denied: Former President Barack Obama looks just plain bad. On his watch, the Russians meddled in our democracy while his administration did nothing about it.
The Mueller report flatly states that Russia began interfering in American democracy in 2014. Over the next couple of years, the effort blossomed into a robust attempt to interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration knew this was going on and yet did nothing. In 2016, Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice told her staff to "stand down" and "knock it off" as they drew up plans to "strike back" against the Russians, according to an account from Michael Isikoff and David Corn in their book "Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump".
Is this some kind of penance on this holy weekend for CNN's past sins of omission? Perhaps. But Jennings then asked the hard question: Why did Obama go soft on Russia?
My opinion is that it was because he was singularly focused on the nuclear deal with Iran. Obama wanted Putin in the deal, and to stand up to him on election interference would have, in Obama's estimation, upset that negotiation. This turned out to be a disastrous policy decision.
Obama's supporters claim he did stand up to Russia by deploying sanctions after the election to punish them for their actions. But, Obama, according to the Washington Post, "approved a modest package... with economic sanctions so narrowly targeted that even those who helped design them describe their impact as largely symbolic." In other words, a toothless response to a serious incursion.
But don't just take my word for it that Obama failed. Congressman Adam Schiff, who disgraced himself in this process by claiming collusion when Mueller found that none exists, once said that "the Obama administration should have done a lot more." The Washington Post reported that a senior Obama administration official said they "sort of choked" in failing to stop the Russian government's brazen activities. And Obama's ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, said, "The punishment did not fit the crime" about the weak sanctions rolled out after the 2016 election.
A legitimate question Republicans are asking is whether the potential "collusion" narrative was invented to cover up the Obama administration's failures. Two years have been spent fomenting the idea that Russia only interfered because it had a willing, colluding partner: Trump. Now that Mueller has popped that balloon, we must ask why this collusion narrative was invented in the first place.
Given Obama's record on Russia, one operating theory is that his people needed a smokescreen to obscure just how wrong they were.
I suggest reading the Susan Rice article to see how well setup the Russian collusion story was made and how much ink has been invested in it.

Comments
If cnn say's it's so
we must believe it.
Supersnark.
/S/S
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Here are some really good articles
Robert Mueller Is A Coward And A Liar
From the same author:
Ilargi Meijer: "They Were All Lying!"
Both are worth reading in full.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
One more
Bill Binney States that the NSA Has 32 Pages of Communications Between Seth Rich and Julian Assange, As Revealed by a FOIA Request
Uno mas
Moon of Alabama's take on the Mueller report
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
FOI laws are simply a sop
when an executive order is all it takes to completely neuter it.
Let’s face it, in our failing capitalist world, the last thing we should expect is easy access to is the TRUTH. Almost everything we see, hear or read will be designed to create a “reality” which serves the interests of Power and Money. When a small corner of the truth does manage to attract some attention it will be mercilessly stomped into the ground and covered with a tsunami of MSM bulshit. Count on it.
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
That means that this morning’s mainstream German newspaper
in Saxony, the Sächsische Zeitung, is flat out lying, or at least repeating lies the writer Thomas Spang would have to be very naïve to not know are lies.
This is a newspaper 40% owned by the German Social Democratic party.
https://www.saechsische.de/bericht-zur-russland-affaere-veroeffentlicht-...
Take political lies in America and amplify them through German mainstream media’s servility to U.S. deep-state elites — the scale of the dishonesty becomes truly stupendous. Breathtaking.
Money takes care of money.
Global propaganda by and for the protection of global elites.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Boy does MoA nail it.
The whole Russia thing is a lie. The govt knows and sees everything. If there was an ounce of evidence against Russia, it would not be classified. Maddow would be broadcasting it 24/7.
As much as I hate Obama, blaming him for the 12 trolls phishing is just more clowns.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
For what it's worth, being from the WaPo
Here's an article discussing Obama's problems dealing with the Kremlin, published by the Washington Post in 2017:
" 'It is the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend,' said a former senior Obama administration official involved in White House deliberations on Russia. 'I feel like we sort of choked.' "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/oba...
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Snoop.
I like the articles you posted in comments better than the one you diaried. That one can be reduced to Round 2: GOP and media turn the lies back on the Dems. What are they going to do now? Deny Russian interference or let Obama take the fall since he already got his.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
A $65 million book deal, hundreds more millions from Netflix …
Yes, I’d say the Obamas have done rather well — as media and entertainment celebrities.
https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/barack-michelle-obama-netflix-deal...
For one book?
$65 million for one book? If that's the case, everyone needs to shut up about Bernie's measly $1-$2 million for one book.
I knew about the Netflix deal. Makes me think Netflix needs to put disclaimers on everything touched by them. That way I'll know what not to watch.
$65 mill
Netflix: As I understand, they are one of the 60 or so major co's which didn't pay a dime in fed income tax last year. Doubt if the Obamas will have any comment on that.
And who out there is interested in centrist, incrementally and marginally engaging tv entertainment?
Give me the energy
I don't have the energy (or the money) to do things I really want to do. So, for entertainment, it's either watch tv, play pc games, or twiddle my thumbs.
Right at this moment, I would love to go for a walk in the woods behind my house. I also need to go to the store for some things. But I just don't have the energy to do those things.
I don't even have to energy to go out and take pictures anymore. And that sucks because that is something I love to do.
I'm proud of myself for actually being able to get some flowers planted. I try to go out everyday and pull weeds that have sprouted.
So, I don't know who likes "centrist, incrementally and marginally engaging tv entertainment". I'm very picky about what I do watch and if it can't hold my attention past the first 30 minutes, it's not worth any more of my time.
I don't like it that Netflix paid nothing in taxes. I actually think 70% tax on them would be too low. But I have zero control over that. I'm not even paying for the account, my son is.
Please don't judge me. Thank you.
Forgive me for going off-topic.
But don't ever forget that Bernie's the millionaire with
his paltry 1.5 million. Things are relative, which is why I support middle class up to 250K a year family income with kids. Two professionals earning 6 figures and paying for kids, college, elderly parents, their own old age, and a bit of enjoyment in life doesn't equal Bezos, Kochs, Gates or Obama. If 250K is the top of middle class for a famiy, I think 50K family income with kids is poor.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I do too
my point though is if we are still going to be stuck with the idea that Russia meddled in the election then let's look at who allowed it to happen and get people to start questioning why Obama thought that wasn't and important issue to address?
The main point is if Trump wasn't involved in any way then who the hell started trying to put the blame on him? As others have asked when will we start seeing the investigations into all the illegal activity that his admin did? Probably never, but don't you think it's kinda funny that one of the main media mouthpieces are asking the question?
And I already had the essay up for awhile and then saw the other articles which I thought would be better in the comments than added to the essay and make it TL/dr
Glad you read the MoA essay. I sure hope that one day those so invested in this farce will wake up and see that they have been taken for a ride. Or that future generations would one day quit believing what our government tells them. Mueller has a long history of lying and yet people overlooked that and called him their White Knight.... ugh, just typing that.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Heh....
Is it starting?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
The CNN Oped has it ass backwards. The greatest
Harm of Russiagate was/is the overreaction and politicization. It turned into an effort by the Ds and the CIA to overturn the results of the election. As usual, the gang that can't shoot straight has created their enemy and is trying to force the rest of us to fight it, even though they already lost by starting a war over piddling crap that would have best been dealt with quietly. On this one, Obama got it pretty much right.
Still their is only one person being protected
by this russiagate BS...that would be her heinous
and why do they Assange so badly, he thankfully
screwed her heinous from being prez
For those that haven't seen this
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=1efOs0BsE0g]
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
I would throw in some money to get that to run
during prime time. Bitches for America to help cover up its war crimes.
Yeah baby!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
America's Bitches -- oh my -- perfect!
That video is excellent! Sharing with my kids and brother. Thank you!
Where is the discussion about the probability that Obama
ordered the surveillance of the Trump campaign on his way out the door?
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Just look at Susan Rice's final CYA email
Grassley, Graham Uncover ‘Unusual Email’ Sent by Susan Rice to Herself on President Trump’s Inauguration Day
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Does anyone know, or have a link?
So, all the liars (msm) who lied about "Russian interference" during the election, are still saying that it happened, even after the Mueller report was released.
Has anyone actually seen where Mueller states, and proves it actually happened? Do the liars ever actually quote it? Disclaimer: I generally try to stay away from links to NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc. because, like dkos, I try not to give them clicks. It's my tiny little protest boycott against misinformation.
Is there a link to the god awful report itself? If it's been posted already, sorry. I'm not always online anymore.