Showing posts with label HUMINT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HUMINT. Show all posts

Friday, March 9, 2018

Time to Restructure the Intelligence Community?

[The link to this story has now been removed from the Internet]

General [ret] Mike Flynn has run up enormous legal bills defending himself against the Democrats' and Media onslaught which accused him of collusion with the Russians, bordering on Treason.

This campaign against him consisted of baseless accusations which alluded to his past international business dealings which were not illegal in his status as a private sector businessman, nor were such discussions illegal in his role as a National Security Advisor since such discussions are, and always have been, de rigueur in a diplomatic/national security scenario; or even in a Presidential Campaign scenario [Mitt Romney met with both UK and Russian Intelligence representatives in his Presidential campaign, and the Media was fully knowledgeable of those meetings -- but said nothing.


I promise to lie through my teeth
I'm protected by Hillary!
Brennan feared Flynn would recommend the dissolution of the CIA's Directorate of Operations [DO] as it had morphed into a covert, rogue "nation changing" tool of the New World Order [i.e., A Global Government], and had downgraded and essentially eliminated its Clandestine Service [NCS].   

The reformulated NCS became a rudderless, unsupervised covert operation, often using Military SpecOps units to carry out CIA missions which were unsanctioned [e.g., Benghazi], leaving many of our soldiers dead in foreign countries; the standard excuse used for these deaths was that they had committed suicide.


DIA's Clandestine Service [DCS] had displaced CIA's Clandestine Service and recruited and deployed officers with superior educations, training, Military background, and sophistication -- while CIA's case officers and Station Chiefs left a great deal, including integrity, to be desired [evidenced by Benghazi].  Brennan, an analyst, was assigned as a Station Chief as a checkmark to becoming Director of the CIA.  He was regarded by field agents as a bumbling idiot, matching his reputation as a an analyst -- but, he served Bush and Obama well as their puppet.


Perjury is in my nature, so screw you, Congressman!
I'm protected by Hillary!
 Clapper is/has been regarded as a sleaze, as we've noted in the past regarding his role as US Pacific Command J2 where he blocked our efforts at identification and recovery of US POWs still held in Vietnam during the 1980s; he nearly destroyed DIA's analysis capability as he reorganized the independent analysis divisions, abused his position as DNI Director and weaponized the DNI into a political tool, using NSA and other IC resources to undermine Flynn and Trump, and Conservative politicians using blackmail and threats against families to achieve their goals. Congress demanded his resignation based on his blatant perjury during his testimony before Congressional Committees [he did not resign until the end of the Obama Administration.  

Clapper continues to manage companies with Intelligence Community agencies which have non-compete contracts, and obscure IDIQ contracts -- all of which need to be investigated, and perhaps terminated.  We highly recommend all these contracts be terminated, and the companies and their officers/employees have their security clearances terminated -- with full disbarment from any contact with any member of the Intelligence Community.

[Following 9/11, we established the DNI [Directorate of National Intelligence] to eliminate and replace the DCI [Directorate of Central Intelligence]  since the DCI was also the Director of CIA and controlled all the IC; too much power in a single seat.] 

Both Clapper and Brennan need to be brought up on a variety of charges, not the least of which would Treason.


Tuesday, March 14, 2017

CIA Interrogations - Enhanced, or Torture


Enhanced Interrogation:  AKA - TORTURE


We've noted the circulation of what purports to be a CIA public service announcement regarding the value of "Enhanced Interrogation" of "Terrorist Prisoners" which allegedly produced extraordinary and actionable Intelligence.
[We've attached an extract of this report at the bottom of this blog post.]

Much of the published information is true, but it was definitely not produced from enhanced interrogation, but rather via different sourcing, much of it from unclassified, open-source newspaper accounts.  So, you may discount the origin of the data.

We are very familiar with all forms of interrogation and have conducted hundreds of interrogations, both tactical and strategic in war zones and  special facilities, as well as CounterIntelligence interrogations to determine espionage threats..  

We never had a prisoner who couldn't be broken -- and turned, to include NVA Political Officers and hardened guerrilla fighters.  And they were tougher than Taliban. At no time did we ever have to use other than normal interrogation techniques, and at no time, did we ever have to use torture to obtain results.  Essentially, torture routinely gives false results and misleading information -- and bad intelligence.

Successful interrogations come from sophisticated conversations, rather than beating information out of a prisoner.  Most prisoners willingly provide as much information as is requested or demanded, and a professional interrogator is prepared with background and confirmed data to determine how truthful the subject is.  

Essentially, there are three forms of interrogation:

1)  Simple debriefing is for prisoners who have no resistance training.  They'll be happy to chatter away and disclose everything they know, and often, information they were unaware they have/had.  Handled properly, they can be enormously helpful.  In one case, a teenager, illiterate and fairly simple, provided the location of the master logistics center for the Spring Offensive - allowing us to capture it, and essentially ending that war, at least for a while.

2)  Professional interrogations, which require the interrogator to be  trained in psychology and who looks for nuances in the subject's eyes, facial movements, body moisture, voice rhythms, etc., to determine attempts to mislead the interrogator.  The interrogator begins with a number of folders on his/her desk, and accepts the prisoner who, through psychological manipulation, assumes and fears torture.  The folders contain parameters of verified information to answer key questions which can lead to new questions and sophisticated [though non-violent] techniques.  For the most part, the subject is unaware of the true objectives of the interrogation.

3)  Hostile interrogations are used to break down the  subject through disorientation, fear of the unknown, various forms of psychological techniques, and special manipulation techniques, augmented by input from HUMINTIMINT, SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT, etc.  
Again, opening folders with information the subject believes was provided by other prisoners weakens his/her resistance.   Add in fear of being caught lying, and the fear of the unknown becomes far more effective than actual torture.  
[See Room 101 in the Orwell's book, 1984].  This process requires a great deal of sophistication and education on the part of the Interrogator, but, again, includes absolutely NO TORTURE.]

FITD [Forscom Intelligence Training Detachment] - the unit we formed at Ft Bragg [1976] trained all USFORSCOM [Forces Command] tactical units and strategic Reserve units in proper interrogation methods; we created SOPs and manuals, most of which were incorporated years later in TRADOC [Training & Doctrine Command]. 
FITD was later converted to the 111th MI Brigade which took over the mission.

[Notably, Enhanced Interrogation techniques were legalized, and added to the Army's Field Manual, though still regarded as extreme, and unnecessary for the most part]


Unfortunately, as we learned from many years of association with, and assignments to the CIA, their approach to interrogations was unique.  

Since they lacked professional interrogators, they would draw on the Military for both SpecOps and mundane things like interrogations.  Unfortunately, the CIA would secretly coordinate with the Pentagon for untrained Warm Bodies to conduct these ops, and they would frequently end up with unskilled Marines or Army Infantry troops unskilled in interrogation, but who learned their trade by watching TV programs like Jack Bauer's skill sets in 24, in which torture was routinely used -- with very poor results.  Although the Military had trained, linguistically skilled professional interrogators, the CIA would ignore them and frequently depend on local nationals who had knowledge of either psychology or interrogation skills.

The greatest issue we have with the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" technique is that other countries [hostile and friendly] follow our lead.  If the US does it, it must be OK.  Worse, our adversaries/enemies look at us as the penultimate bad guys reflected in their propaganda themes, and use those techniques when interrogating US soldiers.  We were briefly captive of the Pathet Lao in southern Laos near the end of the war and were not amused by these techniques, which included fairly crude attempts at torture, before we found a way to exit the situation.  Later, we were interrogating an NVA captain at one point and asked him why the NVA treated our soldiers so viciously when they were captured.  He was astonished at the question and admonished me, saying, 

"We simply imitate your atrocities. Why, your troops mutilate our troops!  Your newspaper - Stars & Stripes herald such actions of one of your colonels."

Hatchet Hank Emerson
We were astonished, but placed a secure call to Saigon to a trusted friend at MACSOG who verified the torture and mutilation, and even shipped a copy of the Stars & Stripes which headlined this local hero, Lt Col Henry Emerson, thus affirming that we were, in fact, bad guys, leading to the torture of our own soldiers.  Such incidents continue today where we have fought.

We have enough enemies around the world now; we don't need more but we create enemies with the concept of torture.

In short, we do not support "enhanced" interrogation, a technique of negative value falsely touted by the CIA as a productive tool. We guarantee Enhanced Interrogation techniques will be/has been used against US PWs as a retaliatory measure.  

Ultimately, we are not labeling the US as the BAD GUY; but, we very much wish to see the CIA removed from such operations, particularly from controlling our Special Operations forces and Military Intelligence operations -- the actual trained Professionals in Military Operations and Human Intelligence programs!  


Below is an extract of the CIA's claim to intelligence production gained through, and which they claim justifies "Enhanced Interrogation".  
Keep in mind that virtually all of this information was 
published in the US News Media or on the Internet.


Saturday, March 4, 2017

Trump's Growing Cabinet of Powerful Congressmen





With the variety of Cabinet and Agency appointments, President Trump can now partially reshape the Congressional Conservative complexion.
Interior Secretary Zinke
1)  Ryan K Zinke leaves his slot as Congressman from Montana to serve as Secretary of the Interior, bringing new lifeblood and considerable experience to the office.

    a)  An outdoorsman and career US Navy SEAL, he will likely reorganize his department and depoliticize it.  For one, he gains the immediate respect of the national Park Police, who were mortified facing off with angry Veterans who found their Military monuments closed or cordoned off by Obama.

   b)  Zinke will likely reshape the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a cesspool of political appointees who have gouged the Indian tribes and violated countless US government treaties.
   
LaVoy Finicum


c)  The Bureau of Land Management will likely go through a major overhaul, with that swamp drained of faceless bureaucrats tormenting and destroying private property rights of land-owners in the West.  We expect an internal investigation of the execution of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, a rancher, foster parent, and spokesman for a property rights group in Oregon.



     b)  His replacement will be appointed by Governor Bullock [D], a Conservative Democrat who will likely appoint a Conservative to replace Zinke.

OMB Director Mulvaney
2)   Mick Mulvaney, formerly Congressman from South Carolina, has been appointed Director of the OMB [Office of Management of the Budget, a position critical to President Trump in managing funds for the Administration's operations.  

      a)  He has monitored crypto currencies [e.g., Bitcoin] and block chain technologies which will become increasingly important in financial operations of the future; notably, President Obama fought the emergence of BitCoin as he could not control this alternate currency.

      b) Mulvaney's replacement will now be appointed by SC's Governor Henry McMaster [R], who will likely appoint a staunch Pro-Trump Conservative to Congress to replace Mulvaney.

c)  Trump apparently appointed Left leaning Nikki Haley to the United Nations, perhaps to remove her from any semblance of power in the South; she had become an embarrassment in pandering to the Political Correct crowd, to include acquiescing to demands to remove the Confederate Flag.  Without the basis of the Governor's position, her political career may be over.

HHS Director Tom Price
3)  Tom Price, formerly Congressman [R]  from Georgia, a physician appointed as the Secretary of Health and Human Services [HHS], which houses 80,000 employees with a budget of over $1 Trillion.

      a), will be responsible for reforming and replacing ObamaCare, and has the full support of Speaker Ryan.

       b)  Equally important, Price will likely pull together the disparate elements of HHS which are known for their infighting and inefficiencies, not to speak of their vast oversight and mismanagement of the Welfare system.

      c)  Also important is Price's oversight of the Food & Drug Administration [FDA] which reportedly sold out long ago to the Pharmaceuticals [Big Pharma]

           (1) It has blocked research and development of countless cures for cancers and other diseases.  Oncology has become one of the most profitable ventures in the medical industry, and Big Pharma earns hundreds of billions of dollars each year by charging huge amounts for oncology medications.   
          (2)  It has also blocked identification of country of origin for food and health products entering the US.  Price will be expected to reverse this p olicy and once again demand "country of origin" labels on these products.

4)  Xavier Becerra [D], son of Mexican immigrants, resigned from the House to accept his appointment as Attorney General of California.  He had been Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.

CIA Director Pompeio
5)  Mike Pompeo,  a  Tea Party Republican from Kansas and West Point graduate, served on the House Intelligence Committee [HPSCI] which is now headed by Devin Nunes [who declined to investigate Trump's ties to Russia labeling the charges "nonsense"].  Governor Brownback [R] of Kansas, with the support of Bob Dole, will replace Pompeo with a worth Conservative. 
[Brownback turned down an HHS ObamaCare grant of $31 million]

    a) Pompeo also served on the Energy and Commerce Committees where he gained considerable insight into two of the primary issues involving Intelligence gathering [in previous administrations] which have led to international confrontations.  

    b) He also served on the Benghazi Committee where he slammed Hillary during her testimony.  His close cooperation with Trey Gowdy on that Committee will likely open new levels of investigation into Benghazi and Hillary's connection to illicit activities leading to the deaths of Americans coming to the rescue of the Consulate there.

c)  He has stated that he will not resume the use of torture as a method of interrogation and we suspect he will come to terms with President Trump on this issue.  Common sense will prevail.
[NOTE: During the Vietnam War, we conducted hundreds of successful interrogations, receiving the highest recognition from CIA and DIA for the reports.  None of these interrogations involved torture]

d)  Expect the CIA hierarchy to attack Pompeo in the same ad hominem methods which forced the removal of his W-appointed predecessor, Porter Goss, who attempted to reform the CIA.  This will be an exceptionally difficult task for Pompeo and we wish him well.
[NOTE:  Given the history of CIA, particularly under Obama, we would recommend that the Covert Mission be turned over to DOD, returning CIA to solely Clandestine missions, or, perhaps, eliminating  CIA operations altogether - leaving Clandestine Operations to the Defense Clandestine Service and making the CIA an analysis organization.]


These are critical changes in the House.

The results mean that, in addition to Cabinet Members who have made their personal fortunes based on hard work and enterprise and who have considerable levels of expertise in their new positions, the Congressmen appointed all have superb backgrounds and can be expected to perform effectively and reduce the size of their Departments and Agencies, trimming them to workable organizations rather then massive, faceless bureaucracies.  Think of HHS with 80,000 employees and a budget of over a trillion dollars; there's plenty of room for reform there.

Each of these Congressmen left critical positions in Congress and each will be replaced by Conservative governors.  The replacements will likely not be neophytes, but will challenge the incumbent GOP leadership under President Trump.

It's a new dawn in Congress, and The [corrupt] Establishment is losing its grip.  









Sunday, November 20, 2016

Trump to Close ODNI?

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Sunday, October 30, 2016

HillaryGate Redux!


Former Prosecutor Giuliani advises he could convict Hillary on at least eight counts


Back in our Spook days in the 1980s, we ran some highly productive operations for which we received kudos from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and, privately from Senators Goldwater and Helms -- and also from former Director of Central Intelligence Vernon Walters.

However, we [in the newly formed (1983)] Defense Clandestine Service (DCS) continued to fend off attempts by CIA executives to undermine our operations, and to seize our newly recruited access agents.

This competition was long standing, and CIA had always been the bullyish [though incompetent] "older brother" to Military Intelligence over the years, seizing "operational control" (OpCon) of our best recruited assets.  Since the Director of CIA was also the Director of Central Intelligence, we routinely lost administrative battles for "OpCon"; which led to all the Military Clandestine Services joining together in 1983 to form the DCS with the power, unlimited resources, and budget of the Department of Defense providing and guarding our independence.

Still, the CIA was engaged in numerous Black Operations which managed illegal drug and arms operations which included the Iran-Contra fiasco and alliances with drug cartels (see Tom Clancy's "Clear And Present Danger").

Basically, the CIA in that era was filled with former ATF/DEA agents, highway patrol and street cops, who filled the Agency's Directorate of Operations stations around the world after the Agency's career case officers were purged by Stansfield Turner under Carter; these inexperienced operatives still thought and acted like cops managing low level snitches.  Some had brief military and spook training at The Farm, but many had no Military experience or Intelligence background, leading to many a headline grabbing SNAFU.

In one operation, we had recruited a fellow who was positioned in the inner circle of a foreign leader whom the US had tagged as a major threat to the United States.  We were quite pleased with this operation, particularly since it would open doors to not only information on sponsored terrorist operations worldwide, but, it tied directly to international arms and narcotic deals supporting "narcotics-traffickers" support for guerrilla groups trying to overthrow legitimate governments in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

But, on this particular asset, we hadn't counted on CIA opposition, which sought OpCon of this asset.  We had debriefed this asset outside the US since he had a US criminal record, and also because the Department of Justice maintained an open warrant for his arrest.

You may ask why we are giving you this history lesson here?  Why now?
Be patient, it will become more clear below.

To our surprise, our asset had been  [illegally] contacted and lured into the US with a promise of immunity by the CIA; and, upon his arrival, was arrested and turned over to a US Attorney for prosecution, trial, conviction, and incarceration in a federal prison where only the CIA had access.

[We learned later he had the goods on CIA involvement with drug cartels, and, mysteriously, he had been murdered in prison.]

We met with the Assistant Attorney General, who routinely reviewed -- and blessed- our operations conducted on US soil.  Our pleas to intercede and release this asset with the recalcitrant US Attorney were met with a sigh and  resignation since the Assistant Attorney General of the US advised that neither he nor the Attorney General himself could override, or even influence a US Attorney's prosecution according to the rules within DOJ.

In short, he could not interfere with a case brought by any US Attorney -- a measure to prevent political interference or intervention in a federal criminal case - an issue which bewildered us as we could not imagine such high level corruption in US politics.

Here's the grist of the story:
We were outraged that even the Attorney General himself could not override a lowly federal prosecutor -- and until this moment, with the HillaryGate, we could not appreciate the value of this restriction.  But, we'll pursue this issue below.

Now, all this is background information for the point we'll make today regarding the DOJ/FBI scandal involving the "investigation" of Hillary Clinton's Money Laundering operations and national security violations.

Former Bridgwater General Counsel -
serving the Clinton Foundation
Recently, [28OCT2016] FBI Director Comey announced to the House Oversight Committee that the investigation into Hillary's illegal activities was being reopened

-- after he had earlier testified to Congress that, in spite of a plethora of evidence indicating that Hillary had violated a number of national security regulations,
and that she had perjured herself,
and that she had clearly obstructed justice,

he advised Congressman Gowdy that he lacked sufficient evidence to proceed with the investigation.


Comey's change of heart to reopen the Hillary investigation, of course, raised the pucker factor among Hillary's immediate staff,  Hillary's State Department aides, and particularly Anthony Weiner, whose computer magically had all of Huma's emails on it, even those containing highly classified Intelligence information, to include eight classified at Top Secret or above [i.e., compartmented].

We presume that Huma, a bright young lady whose family currently plays a major role in the Muslim Brotherhood and Sisterhood, anticipated that such terrorist linkage might eventually bring her under prosecution by the Feds -- particularly if Trump were to win, so she moved her files onto her hubby's computer for safekeeping and a possible "Get-Out-of-Jail-Free"  card for turning "States' Evidence" should Hillary throw her under the bus [an event which we gauge as imminent].

Comey's faux FBI investigation of Hillary succeeded in neutering the investigation.

His strategy included using hand-picked, non-career appointed "agents", and was sufficient to derail the legitimate investigation with the official [albeit illegal] destruction of evidence, and granting of blanket immunity to potential witnesses -- even though these aides/witnesses were clearly guilty of major criminal/felony offenses; their grants of immunity included no valuable testimony, but merely protected them from further investigation -- or prosecution.

Comey, of course, has been in Hillary's pocket for years through his employment as General Counsel for Bridgewater, the most powerful international financial management firms you've never heard of, but, which has interesting ties to the Clinton Foundation and processing/managing billions of dollars in foreign "donations", Sovereign Wealth, Pension AND Central Bank Funds.

Comey's Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe, is unclean as well since his wife, Jill, was the recipient of Clinton Foundation largesse of nearly three quarters of a million dollars to fund her "instant candidacy" for Congress - displacing the existing Democrat candidate -- a retired Military officer of considerable accomplishment, and dare we say it - integrity, who had made it through the Primary selection/vetting process by actual voters.

But wait, the plot thickens, as we note Deputy FBI Director McCabe headed up the investigation into Hillary's national security violations
[i.e., illegal handling of extremely sensitive Intelligence information and, most egregious, operational data on Top Secret "Sources and Methods" which endangered hundreds of operational assets, support networks, and US case officers/Agent Handlers -- and ultimately cost the life of an Iranian engineer whom the CIA recruited to report on the Iranian nuclear weapons program.]

We can't be sure of how many other recruited assets were outed by Hillary's negligence, but we can reasonably assume there were many.

Now, no one in DOJ or the FBI hierarchy felt it necessary to force McCabe to recuse himself from this investigation into Hillary's criminal activities in view of the Clinton donation of nearly $1 Million to McCabe's wife's illegal political campaign.

And, Comey and McCabe clearly thought they had adequately derailed the Hillary investigation and were certain they themselves would never be charged with or prosecuted for obstruction of justice or destruction of evidence, or conspiracy for all their misdeeds.

But, then neither had counted on a rebellion within the ranks of career FBI agents and analysts -- which then led to leaks to a federal attorney whose ethics [and perhaps political ambitions] were/are unrestrained.

The FBI agents continued their investigation into the criminal activities of Anthony Weiner, Huma Abadin's derelict husband whose penchant for photographing and distributing photos of his private parts via social media to a variety of audiences, including non-adult girls had promoted him to celebrity -- and criminal status a while back.

And PRESTO, the agents "discovered" Weiner's computer on which resided Huma's entire stock of emails, many of which were between her and Hillary, or Obama, or Jarrett, or foreign agents, or Hillary's "donors".

We surmise the NYPD had earlier searched Weiner's computer, discovered these records, and passed them over to their friends at the FBI for subsequent investigation, knowing that the De Blasio Administration would not allow prosecution of a Democrat "sacred cow".

The FBI agents, witnessing the destruction of other evidence [e.g., computers and servers belonging to Hillary, her aides, Huma, and Hillary's inner circle], apparently decided to hold on to Weiner's computer as evidence "unrelated" to the Hillary investigation.

We assume that the contents have been downloaded and "star-fished" [i.e., providing evidence to many disclosure outlets in the event of the whistle-blower's 'death'] to guard against another evidence destruction binge by Comey.

But, the FBI agents couldn't mount a prosecution of Huma or Hillary on their own, so, it appears they contacted one of the few remaining federal attorneys with any degree of integrity in the Department of Justice.

US Attorney Preet Bharara 
Preet Bharara is the US Attorney in the Southern District of New York and has great success in investigating and prosecuting Wall Street/Hedge Fund executives for financial fraud.  To date, Bharara's Sikh heritage of duty and honor has kept him apart from internal DOJ corruption, making him one of the most respected, and effective federal attorneys in the US Justice system.

So, here's the twist.

As we noted above in our rather lengthy [but hopefully not boring] background discussion of the DOJ's administrative structure, we identified the restrictions in the Department of Justice in which a US Attorney cannot be manipulated or over-ruled by either the Director of DOJ or the Director of FBI.

In fact, this particular US Attorney has the legal power to extend his investigation into the illegal activities of the executives of the DOJ and the FBI [and the Oval Office] since they are linked to the money laundering operations (RICO Violations) of the Clinton Foundation.  We can assume that FBI agents, as well as NSA operatives will provide  [or perhaps already have] piles of precise evidence they have gathered while waiting for a prosecutor they can trust.

What might be coming down the road are multiple indictments for Hillary's and Obama's staffs, and for Hillary and Obama themselves.

In these cases, there will be no immunity granted, since the witnesses themselves will be indicted -- and prosecuted.

Weiner will be on top of the heap, providing as much insider information as he possibly can, to not only stay out of jail, but to protect himself from Hillary's Hit Squad, which has eliminated at least five witnesses against Hillary since May.

Huma: has evidence to convict Hillary of Treason
Next up is Huma, whom we can assume will be rolled under the bus by Hillary since she has the goods on Hillary for all the "Pay to Play" donations to Hillary while she was Secretary of State.

Huma will turn State's Evidence against Hillary in a heartbeat recognizing she could be prosecuted and sentenced to death for Treason.
[Huma's lawyers are currently in discussions with FBI agents.]

A $20 million dollar bribe from the Clinton Foundation would not a good substitute for execution for Treason by firing squad.


Mills will look nice in orange
And, we have Cheryl Mills, who has maintained a low profile, but is ripe for prosecution for Collusion, Conspiracy, Obstruction of Justice, and Destruction of Evidence, among other charges.

We figure she's already spilling her guts to a bona fide FBI agent as we speak since she doesn't want to chance a post-Trump win with consequent prosecution.

Then we have Hillary and Obama themselves, who are wide open for criminal charges, up to and including Treason.
[Both now have purchased properties in countries with which the US has no extradition treaties.]

Obama laughed off Impeachment threats a while back after he sent his thugs around to threaten the families of senators and Congresspersons -- and of senior Military officers.  And the threats of Impeachment disappeared, as did the group of Military officers who went to the Navy Yard in Washington, DC, a while back to present him with charges of Treason -- offering him the opportunity to resign.
[They presumed Obama would act with the dignity of Richard Nixon, but were unfamiliar with Chicago political thuggery.]

Oddly, the meeting date coincided with an assault on the Navy Yard by a "crazed DOD contractor" who smuggled past a gauntlet of security guards a bag containing pistols, automatic weapons, and shotguns.  Interestingly, this shooter was a religious bus-boy in a Texas roadside cafe -- converted to a crazed Defense contractor with a Top Secret security clearance conning his way into one of the most secure Intelligence facilities in the country.  Imagine that!

And, even more oddly, this crazed busboy morphed into multiple shooters of varying ages [early 20s to mid-40s], heights [5'6" - 6'4"] and builds [muscular skinny to plump], complexions [light skinned to very dark] and attire [military uniforms (dark blue or khaki), or casual civilian clothes], firing shotguns, pistols, and automatic weapons]; and miraculously, all the shooters ended up in a single corpse -- that of the "crazed contractor/bus boy".  The body bags containing the corpses of the Military officers were removed after the news crews departed.

So, ridding the country of a corrupt and treasonous President in a discreet and honorable manner met with disaster, serving as a warning to others more faint of heart.

And after years of criticism and suspicion  of this Administration and of Hillary by Conservatives, the Intelligence, and the Military Communities [but protected by the Press], it appears that a very minor cog in this wheel of corruption, Anthony Weiner, will bring down this House of Cards.

[Hillary's cabal (including the George W Bush camp) is attempting to block this process by saying there was no warrant.  However,
1.  The NYPD already determined probable cause, based on Weiner's use of the internet to solicit an under age girl;
2. The FBI, in turn, investigated on the basis that Weiner's criminal activity crossed state lines, giving them jurisdiction over an "interstate criminal offense";
3. Which, in turn, led to their investigation and "discovery" of "national security violations" which provided "probable cause" to review the entire computer file.
4. Bill Clinton's old defense of "It depends on what the meaning of IS is" won't fly here.
5. And, unfortunately, Hillary demanded before a national TV audience that Comey present his evidence to the nation.

As the old warning goes
"Be careful what you ask for; you might get it!"