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Been thinking about this article: HRC poisoned?
Eight months ago I would have dismissed it as a little off the wall. No longer, I don't. Not after seeing Diane Feinstein's face after she came out of the intelligence briefing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/09/12/the-man-who-discovered-cte-thinks-hillary-clinton-may-have-been-poisoned/?utm_term=.e1a952b43f43
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I'm contemplating the possibility that the poisoning of Hillary is wrapped up with why Comey released the letter.
At this point I'm just pushing some jigsaw pieces around the board, trying to figure out what would turn them into a picture. Don't take what follows too seriously, it's just a bit of speculation using a few known facts.
My CT goes something like this:
On or just before 9/11 (nice symbolism!) someone gives Hillary a mild dose of whatever toxin it was, enough to cause severe symptoms, but not enough to kill her.
A number of weeks later somebody from the compromised NYC FBI Field Office meets with Comey. They tell him that the opposition they represent was behind Hillary's "pneumonia", which is how he finds out it was a poisoning. They give him an ultimatum: either release the letter about the emails, or else this will happen: Hillary may have survived the first "demonstration" dose, but she will die from a second larger dose. To close the trap on Comey they add the threat to frame him for obstruction of justice, for trying to block the investigation of the emails.
Comey knows a number of things: that Trump's crew is dirty; that a FISA warrant application is in progress (or has already been granted if it's in October); that he faces too many opposition forces to defeat in the time available, even with his resources; and that if he stands up to the blackmail Hillary will die, and he will no longer be able to defend the Trump/Russia investigation.
His calculus goes like this: on one side is Hillary's loss of the election and his own loss of reputation, but the retention of the investigation that is crucial to the country's continued survival; on the other side is Hillary's death, his own legal destruction, and the probable loss of the nation.
His decision is that even the horrid damage Trump could do as a temporary president isn't enough to offset the downside. If he agrees to the blackmail Hillary will be alive, and he'll still be in command of the investigation - an investigation that he knows by now is the only chance of defeating Trump/Russia over the long haul and possibly saving the nation.
So he makes the choice: he trades his own reputation and certain short-term damage to the nation, for Hillary's life and a chance to save the nation from destruction at the hands of Russia and its minions. He sends the letter, and we all know the result.
Then last week, with the investigation now maturing and Sessions recused, he meets Grassley, Feinstein, and (most of) the rest of the Senate committee in the SCIF. There he lays out the story of Hillary's poisoning and the related blackmail.
A number of weeks later somebody from the compromised NYC FBI Field Office meets with Comey. They tell him that the opposition they represent was behind Hillary's "pneumonia", which is how he finds out it was a poisoning. They give him an ultimatum: either release the letter about the emails, or else this will happen: Hillary may have survived the first "demonstration" dose, but she will die from a second larger dose. To close the trap on Comey they add the threat to frame him for obstruction of justice, for trying to block the investigation of the emails.
Comey knows a number of things: that Trump's crew is dirty; that a FISA warrant application is in progress (or has already been granted if it's in October); that he faces too many opposition forces to defeat in the time available, even with his resources; and that if he stands up to the blackmail Hillary will die, and he will no longer be able to defend the Trump/Russia investigation.
His calculus goes like this: on one side is Hillary's loss of the election and his own loss of reputation, but the retention of the investigation that is crucial to the country's continued survival; on the other side is Hillary's death, his own legal destruction, and the probable loss of the nation.
His decision is that even the horrid damage Trump could do as a temporary president isn't enough to offset the downside. If he agrees to the blackmail Hillary will be alive, and he'll still be in command of the investigation - an investigation that he knows by now is the only chance of defeating Trump/Russia over the long haul and possibly saving the nation.
So he makes the choice: he trades his own reputation and certain short-term damage to the nation, for Hillary's life and a chance to save the nation from destruction at the hands of Russia and its minions. He sends the letter, and we all know the result.
Then last week, with the investigation now maturing and Sessions recused, he meets Grassley, Feinstein, and (most of) the rest of the Senate committee in the SCIF. There he lays out the story of Hillary's poisoning and the related blackmail.
Do you think a story like that would make Grassley and Feinstein look they'd seen a ghost?
Remember, this is only a story, and I'm not Alex Jones (I promise
) But it does point out that there are probably significant things we don't know about the backstory of Comey and the letter.
