It's Put Up Or Shut Up Time

We are reaching that point for the new Republican Congress.

They’ve created a new sub-committee that they compared to the Church Committee, and now there doesn’t seem to be a clear direction or plan. There is still some time before I give up on them, but they really have to get things in motion within the next week.

Mounting a Russiagate investigation is one hurdle, doing it well is a much higher bar to clear. If they have my FOIA documents, last week might’ve been a good time to lay some of those out and pose the questions they want to answer. Are they going to do a Russiagate investigation? Are they going to hire a third party to run it or try to do it themselves?

I’m a harsh critic, much of that is born of the efforts that I have put in over the last few years. I hate having the sense that some of the Committee members don’t know what I know, or worse, that they see it purely as a political calculation and so long as the public isn’t talking about it, they don’t have to do anything.

There was a point I reached where instead of pushing out analysis, I began to start receiving information. People would reach out. Most of the time, it’s just stuff they heard on Twitter or some old article they found. Every now and then, it’s a former co-worker of Rodney Joffe or some other individual subject to the investigation wanting to discreetly share their thoughts or some piece of information. Sometimes they went to other sleuths, and I was able to get a look behind the curtain.

I don’t want to pretend I have the keys to the metaphorical kingdom, but I do know a few pieces that make Russiagate even worse than is publicly known.

Where is this Weaponization Committee? Do any of them have the drive to see this through? If not, why aren’t they moving on bringing in an outside party to run their investigation?

It has been 5 months since John Durham was reportedly done and just writing a report. I suspect if a report had been submitted, the existence of it would’ve been leaked and reported on. Is he hanging on to talk to McGonigal? Perhaps.

It’s easily forseeable that his report won’t be out next year by this time (and I hope he does continue, if he thinks he can collect more evidence).

This is the worst moment in American history, where we have no journalists. The New York Times, the best paper in the country, probably has more reporters who were confidential human sources for the FBI or were otherwise working with Fusion GPS than any other outlet. Nobody is even remotely entertaining the counter-narrative to this whole saga. All the millions of dollars in politics and news media, and I, along with Walkafyre, FOIAFan and Techno_Fog, might be the only people still pursuing documents on Russiagate.

Leave it to our elected officials who have done little-to-no work on this, to ignore those of us who have been looking at this and who strongly believe there is much more to find.

Thrown around recently was a New York Times piece touting the “Durham fails to find conspiracy” type of line. The Democrats threaten an investigation into John Durham and Bill Barr, and the insanity continues because there are no journalists on the Republican side in broadcast media. Nobody is telling the country what we know.

That’s not my role, as much as I’ve tried over the years. Trying to explain it to 20-30 people at a time has been a source of immense frustration for me with many people on the right just as confused and uninformed as those on the left.

It’s harder still to distinguish ourselves from any number of well-meaning but off-base people. To the observer, it may sound the same. They’re offering conspiracy theories and essentially so are we, so it’s all the same to them. The difference is the level of work we have put in, the sources we have developed, and some of the documents we’ve gotten.

The Durham report could drop tomorrow and nobody is going to be able to jump on FoxNews and explain it. Those early hours will be the most important, the hours when narratives and conclusions are formed and nobody will get it right.

The Republican committee can investigate this, get testimony, and help the country understand what actually happened and what is still happening inside the DOD. John Durham won’t have all the answers.

But if they don’t know what we know, they need to hire Walkafyre or someone to run this thing or explain it to them. Devin Nunes is probably sick of his life of ease and happiness, drag him back in to run it - he would be great.

If they want to be seen as serious, they need to move on this within days.

Are they serious or is this all for show?