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The beginnings of the first political coup in American history

Obama, the boss behind the scandal, just before his election in 2012
Obama pontificating just before his election in 2012.
The change he brought was to toss the Constitution
in the trash heap.

Doug Ross has created a very readable six-part series, with illustrations, outlining in great detail and in dramatic form the corruption of the FBI and the entire intelligence community in the latter years of the Obama administration, beginning first with an extensive cover-up of Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private server for sending classified emails, followed by the initial stages of the Russian collusion hoax against Trump that was also used to justify spying on his campaign.

The series admits to be being a dramatization, but is also is based entirely on actual facts that are now documented and known. Nothing of substance or importance here has been made up. And by giving the story a slight patina of drama it becomes much more readable and understandable.

Take a short bit of time and read it all. The actions of numerous dishonest and power-hungry individuals in the FBI, the Justice Department, the Obama White House, and other agencies, will leave you appalled. And heading the list is Barack Obama, taking actions that were unquestionable illegal, immoral, and above all treasonous. He conspired with federal workers to not only cover up crimes, but to attempt to overthrow the elected president of the United States.

The key quote that describes quite succinctly the unconstitutional nature of this scandal comes from part 4, by Rick Ledgett, then deputy director of the National Security Agency.

“This is evidence of systematic violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.”

All six parts can be found at the links below. The series presently ends in May 2016, but Ross fully intends to continue it through the 2016 election and beyond, covering the entire Russian collusion hoax created by the intelligence community, under orders of Barack Obama, that worked to undermine and overthrown Donald Trump’s election as president.

Every American should read it all. It gives a good picture of the initial process that allowed utter evil to take over the entire Democratic Party.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

7 comments

  • Mitch S.

    “Every American should read it all”
    I’ll try. But I really dislike “dramatizations” or “based on real events” etc.
    There is no way of knowing what is real, backed up by evidence and what is conjecture crafted to enhance the “drama”.

    “Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy leaned back in his chair, pen still warm from signing the agreement. “We’ll get what we need,” he told his chief counsel. “One way or another.”
    Did Gowdy really say that? Why did signing the agreement make his pen notably warm?
    How do you know Paul Combetta’s office smelled of stale coffee and overheated circuits? Were you there?

    This reads like the author is trying to sell a script to Netflix or Amazon (or given the subject matter, perhaps to Shapiro’s Daily Wire).
    The credibility is too damaged for me to recommend this to anyone.
    I wish he had done like Joe Friday and stuck to “just the facts”. But of course “Dragnet” was also a dramatization “based on true events” – but at least it was entertaining!

  • Ronaldus Magnus

    To Mitch S.

    Completely understand your view of the dramatization.

    As far as “just the facts” – at the top of Part 1, there is a link to the Deep Timeline Spreadsheet. Every date/event of this Deep Timeline has a supporting, referential link with the sources.

    Here is the link:

    https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-timeline-of-treason-how-fbi.html?m=1

  • Deoxy

    “There is no way of knowing what is real, backed up by evidence and what is conjecture crafted to enhance the “drama”.”

    In a well-done dramatization, all the actions are fact, and all the verbiage and personal interactions are “dramatized”.

    In less well-done dramatization, mixing and matching on those things can be a real problem, leaving readers uncertain of which things are fictional and which are factual, as you said. A real mess.

    In the example you gave, a well-done dramatization would be based on that particular individual signing that particular agreement, but all speech would be fictional, preferably without the writer knowing what was actually said. And yes, adding flavor text regarding the smell of the room and such would all be fictional, as well – they are indeed trying to sell it to Netflix or some such, after all.

    The idea is to communicate the known facts in a more enjoyable way using plausible characters. I think it works best in historical fiction, where the broad brushstrokes are knowable, but the individual characters are obviously not (following a peasant through a war 13th century war in Poland, or somesuch) – it works best because there is no possibility of the characters being directly factual, so there should be no deceit (intentional or otherwise).

    Knowing in advance if it’s well-done or not tells you if it’s worth your time… but people often don’t even think about that stuff (I don’t think they even think to attempt to conceal it very often – it just doesn’t make it onto their radar at all), so finding out can be hard.

  • Blackwing1

    Part of the Federal Code, 18 USC 793 (“Gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information”) includes the following under section (f):
    “Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”

    Note that the phrase “gross negligence” was EXACTLY the phrase used by Comey in his first draft “exonerating” Clinton for her use of an unsecured home-brewer bathroom e-mail server holding classified information. It was reviewed by the Feebs Page and Strozk, who pointed this out to him saying it would drop her directly into a federal pen, since her gross negligence led directly to that information being hacked by multiple entities.

    Let me know when Felonia von Pantsuit has been indicted, arrested, perp-walked, jailed, bailed, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to the legal maximum of 10 years and I might pay attention.

    Until then all of this is just talk.

  • Jeff Wright

    Even Slate had to admit the Cook county tally was cooked:
    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2000/10/was-nixon-robbed.html

  • jo blo

    Advantage of the dramatization is to make this story more likely to be read by the “undecideds” who swing most elections. Apparently they decide their votes with very minimal attention to the news, mostly near election time.

    Those of us who have been paying close attention as this unfolded already knew most of this, but it’s a nice review/ summary.

    In either case, we are free to research any or all of what is said.

    Most people dislike learning history( schools test on names, dates, dry facts). What they should be learning is more like: “what the hell were they thinking, how did they get persuaded into atrocities….” The dramatization method might make history more palatable and interesting.

    Ignorance of history is a big part of the problem for democracies. I was never a liberal when younger, I was “ignorant voting is wrong, I should read up on recent U.S. political history before voting”. It didn’t take long for me to decide that Dems were crooks and lunatics who should never be in charge of anything.

    Making recent history interesting to young people seems very important to me.

  • Dave in Denver

    Backing jo that ignorant voting is wrong. I am very much an advocate for liberal democracy, i.e., a constitutional republic with a credo of tolerance. Putin and Xi are quoted as saying liberal democracy is not the future. I say it must be to ensure the pursuit of happiness for the vast majority of We the People. Contrast that with the personal power and happiness of the few bosses at the top, like Xi and Putin would have it.

    This suggestion of corruption done by Team Obama fits well with observed effects and Our loss of confidence in gov’t, the vote, the vax, and more. I’m a believer.

    Was the shaken confidence part of the plan?

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