Cut the commercialism folks.

 Bongino discussed on his show the Clinesmith plea, and how the court and DOJ is letting him slide out of it.  He used the National Review as a source for his discussion.  So, with Bongino's show notes, I checked out the story for myself.  The only trouble is, National Review has so many ads that the piece is unreadable.

Maybe it really is readable if you have the patience of Job.  I do not.  I didn't bother to read it.  For one thing, I was spending my bandwidth and time to read the piece.  I don't expect to be frustrated in the attempt.  If you got something important to say, then say it.  If you have something important for people to read, then by God, let them read the thing.

Here's what I got from Bongino.  Clinesmith is trying to minimize what he did, and the institutions are letting him get away with.  What he did was enough to have him thrown in jail and to throw away the key.  Instead, he is getting a wrist-slap, and worse than that, the Democrats can now say that he really didn't mean it.

Don't be fooled.  Anyway, for yours truly, I don't need the government's seal of approval of anything.  The government is where the problem is.  They aren't about to admit it.  The Democrats are the party of government.  Until we get a party that truly intends to take back power from the government and give it back to the people, we are in danger of losing all of our liberties.  The GOP is only interested in appearing to be the party supporting liberty and limited government.  Otherwise, there would be no controversy whatsoever within the GOP about what the deal is here.  But the GOP is like the institutions that they supposedly want to trim, they aren't about to admit their reluctance to do anything at all about it.

That is the message that the National Review might have written in the past.  But they are more interested in the buck now than in getting out the truth.  The same might well be true all around.  The truth must be a given.  If a buck is more important than the truth, then it might as well be a lie.

Update:

There's another mention of Clinesmith on SaraCarter dot com.    It seems  that the Woods File, which was supposed to police FISA applications for extraordinary powers granted in a FISA warrant, went MISSING.  That's right MISSING.

They're trying to figure out if the Mob is running things or just plain imcompetent Keystone Cops.

I think it is the Mob.