"The D.C. Leak Culture—as I call it—is specifically formulated and designed to protect the swamp that is Washington. It has defeated every single challenger to this point because anyone attempting reforms can’t get anywhere, when every move they attempt gets leaked in advance."

"This allows the forces of The Swamp inside Washington to marshal their resources and create an active resistance."

"When Trump and his strategy team sat down to discuss how they were going to root out the massive corruption across the breadth of federal government agencies they were about to assume control of, that was an incredibly daunting task."

Also a very still-active coup attempt.

"The DOJ, FBI, CIA, and State Department were all chock-full of Democratic National Committee and Clinton Machine partisans who were eagerly looking for any opportunity to sabotage the incoming administration."

"The No. 1 weapon these corrupt political partisans inside these agencies planned to use to both protect themselves and attack the Trump White House were strategic leaks to the news media."

"In fact, use of a strategic leak against Trump’s national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn led to his firing and subsequent prosecution by the Mueller special counsel’s office."

"What we’ve gotten from media on the right side of the spectrum is people insisting that since their usual Washington sources aren’t hearing anything, nothing is happening."

"Sometimes to fool your enemies, you have to fool your friends, too.

A lot of Trump’s “friends” in right leaning media would—in an effort to advance their own interests & ambitions— have had no problem in blowing Spygate investigations sky-high if it got them a major scoop."

"They might have felt bad afterward about the bad guys getting away, but the damage would have been done and it would have been irreparable."

"But because during the past two years, the “sources” these bloggers, journalists, and commentators rely on have been telling them nothing, it’s been interpreted to mean that nothing is happening."

"In fact, it’s far more likely that the reporters tied to the D.C. Leak Culture aren’t getting any hot tips from their usual sources, because none of those sources are inside or around the U.S. Attorney’s office in Utah or the Office of the Inspector General in Washington."

"The OIG’s office investigates government corruption, especially those who leak classified information. So I’m pretty sure none of these reporters relying on D.C. Leak Culture scuttlebutt have been hearing anything from leakers inside the OIG."

And how many of these reporters and media commentators just happen to have sources already in place and leaking to them from inside the U.S. Attorney’s office in Utah? I’d be willing to bet none of them."

Missouri & several other state's US Attorney's offices can now be added.

"Special counsel Ken Starr made a huge tactical mistake from the very beginning of his Clinton Whitewater probe in the 1990s. He insisted on complete transparency for his investigation."

"The Clinton Media Machine then proceeded to turn his entire investigation into a years-long circus, in which Starr and his investigative team were turned into national pariahs."

And people can't figure out why Sessions & Rosenstein & Barr opted for a different strategy.

"Trump and his team decided there was no way they were going to hang targets on the backs of dedicated public servants they were about to task with investigating Spygate..."

"That would’ve allowed the D.C. Leak Culture and the Clinton Media Machine to take point-blank aim at them while they were still trying to build their cases."

Smarter people were in charge time.

Cry me a river about it.

"Going the clandestine route with these Spygate investigations was probably the easiest decision that Trump had to make once he assumed office."

"Nothing is going to be made public by DOJ until it’s time to unseal indictments. While that leaves whining media commentators blind, it also leaves the DC Leak Culture & the Clinton Media Machine blind, as well.

And that’s been the entire point. Too bad if you don’t like it."

All quotes from: https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-the-dc-leak-culture-was-made-powerless-to-thwart-spygate-investigations_2834666.html

Trump did this his way.

For going on 3 1/2 years he ignored the advice of the pundit gallery.

And it's going to start paying off. You're already watching all the pieces moving around on the board.

Special prosecutors inside the DC US Attorney's office.

Imagine that.

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Whoops! Forgot a point.

A **leak** did not reveal to you that AG William Barr had appointed outside US Attorney's from Missouri - and elsewhere - to serve as Special Prosecutors inside the DC USA's office.

Barr **announced this** himself.

It did not LEAK.

Understand?

When Barr was **ready**, after Liu had been coaxed into leaving that DC USA's office to be replaced by Shea, THEN Barr publicly announced he'd tapped US Attorney Jeffrey Jensen to be a Special Prosecutor to review the Flynn case.

All the Conservative media people who rely on and constantly brag about their exclusive inside access to key anonymous sources were once again caught with their pants down, not even hearing a RUMBLE about this until The Silent Professionals were ready to announce it.

I wrote this column about how DC Leak Culture was rendered absolutely impotent in the face Sessions/Barr/Rosenstein's handling of the SpyGate investigations over a YEAR ago.

It's just as true now as it was when I wrote it.

As recent developments demonstrate.

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