An under-reported story came to my attention this week: Chris Murphy (D-CT) wants to investigate the agencies that are complying with congressional probes of Hunter Biden. Simply translated, Murphy accuses Republicans of self-serving partisanship for investigating a self-serving partisan matter from the Obama era. This is more of the Resistance and explains why 65% of Americans don’t like congressional Democrats (source: Gallup).
Murphy alleges, “the National Archives and the Departments of State, Treasury and Homeland Security [are] choosing to comply with the requests that are designed to damage the president’s political opponents, but refusing to comply with requests into the activities of the president.” He is either woefully ignorant or trying to intimidate another branch of government. The guess here is that it’s the latter.
The Judiciary has upheld executive privilege, denying Congress time and again access to presidential records. Murphy knows this – and that no such “privilege” extends to the Bidens. The courts protect “executive privilege” because presidents are commanders in chief and top diplomats; privy to military plans and the words of other heads of state, which must not be disclosed outside the executive branch.
In August 1980, Jimmy Carter’s defense secretary, Harold Brown, disclosed the existence of America’s stealth aircraft (B-1 bomber and F-17 fighter jet) to the entire world. In May 2017, Donald Trump revealed to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Russia Ambassador Kislyak classified information from Israel regarding an ISIS operation.
In two careless moments, the White House put self before national interest. Brown was defending his boss from Ronald Reagan’s attacks that Carter had given Russia the upper military hand. Trump just made a rookie mistake. Both presidents got rightly clobbered by the press and politicians, because discipline is paramount to protect America’s national security. This is my beef with the resistance: putting party before national interest.
The resistance began in secrecy, when Obama-era apparatchiks bent the rules to secure Clinton the presidency and prevent Trump from taking office. An FBI agent texted his lover about a secret “insurance policy” that violated the rights of a private citizen, Carter Page. Later, a Senate Democrat (Feinstein) kept evidence secret from a Republican judicial nominee (Kavanaugh). Today, Murphy is trying to keep all things Biden-Burisma cloaked in secrecy. The ill will is frightening.
Imagine what the resistance will do with Joe Biden in the Oval Office: a feeble puppet whose strings are pulled by the likes of Colonel Vindman. We know resistance leakers and liars populate the administrative state, and we’ve seen the politics of personal destruction (Flynn). We’ve heard Robert De Niro’s tirades, and Chuck Schumer threatened Supreme Court justices by name. The concern here is, given full control of the federal government, the resistance will turn to revenge.