{"id":60283,"date":"2018-06-12T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=60283"},"modified":"2018-06-12T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:07:37","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-monday-june-11th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=60283","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Monday, June 11th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday, June 11th, 2018…but before we begin, as Beth Baumann reports at Townhall.com<\/em>, a…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Law Enforcement Think Tank Gives 9 Key Recommendations On How To Prevent ‘Gun Violence<\/span><\/span><\/a>‘<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Inquiring minds wondering where\u00a0this<\/em><\/span> group’s headed need only consider their sixth recommendation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

6. Reducing the carnage: Limit the availability of high-powered firearms<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Limit<\/span> the capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 rounds<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ban the sale and importation of bump stocks.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ban the future sale and importation of military-style<\/span> weapons that have no purpose except to kill large numbers of people as quickly as possible<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who heads up this “think” tank…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…Scott Israel?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even at a glance, this report is noteworthy not<\/span><\/em> for what it mentions<\/em><\/span>, but for that about which it says absolutely<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>NOTHING<\/em><\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

(1).\u00a0<\/strong>The cultural corruption and moral decay behind the unrelenting, unreasoned violence in America’s ethnic enclaves which has turned urban cores into shooting galleries…handgun bans and firearm restrictions notwithstanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(2). The failure of both government and private individuals to correctly identify and deal with the danger posed by those with serious mental illnesses, let alone keep them from accessing firearms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(3). The unalienable right to bear arms granted law-abiding citizens of the United States by that pesky 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Absent effective action on the first two and affirmative recognition of the third, everything else is just so much hot air.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, here’s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up, Victor Davis Hanson offers an accurate assessment an awful human being, as he provides…<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Reply to Ronald Radosh\u2019s Smear<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

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“In a strange attack on my criticism of former CIA director John Brennan\u2019s lack of veracity, Ron Radosh\u00a0alleges<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that I have engaged in a sort of conspiracy theory about the deep state. He quotes me in an article largely devoted to Jerome Corsi\u2019s new book, which I have not read and whom I have never met, under the\u00a0Daily Beast<\/em>\u00a0scare title, \u201cPro-Trump Author Says CIA Has Plan to Kill the President.\u201d<\/p>\n

Radosh apparently puts me in conspiratorial company for believing the following:<\/p>\n

The distinguished historian Victor Davis Hanson,\u00a0writes<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0that \u201cIf there is such a thing as a dangerous \u2018deep state\u2019 of elite but unelected federal officials who feel that they are untouchable and unaccountable, then John Brennan is the poster boy.\u201d He adds that \u201cBrennan is typical of the careerist deep state.\u201d They operate [sic] \u201cthe psychological tactic known as \u2018projection.\u2019 To square their own circles of lying, our so-called best and brightest loudly accuse others of precisely the sins that they themselves commit as a matter of habit.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In truth, what I wrote about John Brennan\u2019s lying was\u00a0not<\/em><\/span>\u00a0predicated on any Trump tweet or conspiracy theory, or the theories of Jerome Corsi, but simply based on the factual record<\/em><\/span>, which Radosh is apparently completely unaware of<\/span>, or uninterested in<\/span><\/em>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1) In 2011, Brennan, then the country\u2019s chief counterterrorism adviser, had sworn to Congress<\/span> that scores of drones strikes abroad had\u00a0not\u00a0killed a single noncombatant<\/span><\/em> \u2014 at a time when both the president and the CIA were both receiving numerous reports of civilian collateral deaths<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2) In 2014, John Brennan, now as CIA director<\/em>, lied emphatically<\/span> that the CIA had not illegally accessed the computers of U.S. Senate staffers who were then exploring a CIA role in torturing detainees<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Or as he told Andrea Mitchell: \u201cAs far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth…We wouldn\u2019t do that. I mean, that\u2019s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.\u201d Brennan\u2019s chronic deceptions drew the ire of a number of liberal senators, some of whom echoed the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s call for his immediate resignation. After <\/em>months<\/em><\/span> of prevarications<\/em>, but only upon release of the CIA inspector general\u2019s report<\/span>, Brennan apologized<\/span> to the senators he had deceived<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

3) Brennan, in May 2017, as an ex-CIA director, again almost certainly did not tell the truth to Congress<\/em><\/span> when he testified in answer to Representative Trey Gowdy\u2019s questions that he neither knew who had commissioned the Steele dossier nor had the CIA relied on its contents for any action.<\/span> Yet both<\/em><\/span> the retired National Security Agency director, Michael Rogers, and the former director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, have conceded that the Steele dossier \u2014 along with the knowledge that it was a Clinton-campaign-funded product \u2014 most certainly\u00a0did<\/em><\/span>\u00a0help shape the Obama\u2019s intelligence communality interagency assessments and actions, often under the urging of Brennan himself<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span>The list of Brennan\u2019s unprofessional and bizarre behavior could be expanded, such as his weird tweet in reaction to the Trump firing of compromised FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe (who would shortly be recommended for criminal referrals for misleading federal investigators by the nonpartisan inspector general): \u201cWhen the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will triumph over you.\u201d Andy McCabe was not \u201cscapegoated\u201d but found to be likely mendacious enough by the inspector general to warrant a DOJ investigation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Brennan in 2009 falsely claimed<\/em><\/span> that intelligence agencies had not missed evidence suggesting that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a.k.a. the \u201cunderwear bomber,\u201d might blow up a U.S. airliner. In 2010, he offered a surreal redefinition of jihad (e.g., \u201cNor do we describe our enemy as \u201cjihadists\u201d or \u201cIslamists\u201d because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one\u2019s community\u201d)<\/span><\/strong>…<\/span>In 2011, his official statements<\/em><\/span> about the Osama bin Laden raid were contradictory<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I stand by<\/em><\/span> my characterization that \u201cIf there is such a thing as a dangerous \u2018deep state\u2019 of elite but unelected federal officials who feel that they are untouchable and unaccountable, then John Brennan is the poster boy<\/span><\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

To borrow a line from Babu, John Brennan is…<\/strong><\/p>\n