Virgil: The Flynn Case Fully Reveals the Deep State  

Michael Flynn: First Victim

Virgil first wrote about the Deep State in December 2016, and he first wrote about the Michael Flynn case in January 2017—and yet he didn’t know the half of it.

Notably, Virgil singled out the “highly politicized” intelligence agencies, noting that many “liberal apparatchiks” installed by President Barack Obama were still in high places.

Looking ahead, Virgil prophesied, “The anti-Trumpers will systematically defame and degrade the 45th president with an eye toward paralyzing his effectiveness in office and hopefully making him a one-termer—or less.”  We might note that these words were written months before Robert Mueller was hired as an investigating—some would say witch-hunting—special counsel, looking into what the Main Stream Media gleefully dubbed “Russiagate.”

Yet still, in December 2016, Virgil had no way of knowing just how ruthless the Deep State would prove to be in its effort to destroy Trump.

We might note that it was perfectly legal for Flynn to talk to Kislyak; indeed, it would be assumed that a top official in the next administration would be in frequent contact with foreign officials, functioning as part of the normal presidential-transition process.  And yet the Post’s Ignatius treated the leaked conversation as some sort of scandal as part, of course, of the emerging MSM allegation-narrative—that Trump was in cahoots with Vladimir Putin.

Now how did Ignatius know that?  The Post-man won’t say, other than that he got his information from a “senior US government official.”  Once again, such disclosures aren’t legal, but once again, nobody in Washington, DC, seems to care.

Indeed, Virgil added, many Beltwayites were cheering that Flynn had been exposed; as Virgil put it, “Trump administration officials are getting the Deep State treatment.”

There’s a lot more to the story, of course, and we’ll get to that soon.  But first, a bit more on the Deep State.

Deep State Update 

The first time it really comes out in terms of Trump is a

Breitbart story

that appears in December of 2016, after Trump has won.  And that’s when it really gets a broad audience, in a column by someone whose pen name is Virgil.

Rohde was dismissive of the idea that there was any such thing as a Deep State targeting of Trump, although interestingly, he freely observed that many times over the last 50 years, the FBI, CIA, and other agencies have meddled where they shouldn’t have.  And yet still, Rohde wrote off Virgilian concerns about Deep State operations against Trump as merely an instance of  “Americans’ long-standing suspicions of government, particularly among conservatives.”

The Deep State: Deeper Than We Knew

So yes, Virgil was wise to the Deep State early on, and yet even he, old soul that he is, has been surprised to learn of the depths of the Deep State.

Federal Bureau of Investigation documents unsealed on Wednesday showed that FBI agents strategized on January 24, 2017, before speaking with former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Flynn, about getting him to admit to breaking the Logan Act or getting him to lie so that he could be prosecuted or fired.

In other words, the FBI wasn’t working to find justice; it was plotting to get Flynn. Most egregiously, a handwritten note by former FBI man Bill Priestap, composed prior to the bureau’s January 24 interview of Flynn, asked the following: “What is our goal?  Truth/Admission, or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”  So there we have it, in a Deep Statist’s own words: How do we stage a micro-coup against the White House? 

People should look at this for what it is: taxpayers funded this nonsense, and to think that four days into our administration, they’re coming into the White House—not to be helpful to the incoming administration, the national security advisor and by extension helpful to you, the American people and our new presidency—but to try to trip him up, get him ‘fired’ or get him to lie.  And that is a disgrace, and everybody, as the president has said, should be concerned about that regardless of your political affiliation.

Indeed, much of the commentary has been withering.  Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote of the Flynn saga, “The closer one looks, the worse it gets.  We can say that narrowly about the Flynn prosecution, and more generally about the Mueller investigation.”  Meanwhile, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley declared flatly: “Justice demands a dismissal of his prosecution.”

The new documents are in effect the “smoking gun” proving that a cabal at the FBI acted above the law and with extreme political bias, targeting people for prosecution rather than investigating crimes.

Behold: The Deep State.