Many of you (and I include myself) have remained cautiously dubious about the White House Insider series posted by “Ulsterman.” And yet much of what the “Insider” — be he real or a composite or just the prescient and convincing invention of a gifted fabulist — has predicted has come to pass, albeit in sometimes quite oblique ways (leaving one to wonder if what we’re dealing with is nothing more than a kind of mapping of our own biases being sold back to us in the way, say, a horoscope or a palm reading might be).
Either way, the series has made for some rather gripping reading, no time more so so than in the latest 3 installments, which hint at the kind of conspiracies and power arrangements that I’m not sure even Fox Mulder would believe. Go read the 3-part interview (part 1, part 2, part 3), then come back, and we’ll look at the time line and the names that seem to map perfectly onto the events described by the White House Insider.
Finished? Good. Then let’s lay out the Insider’s story with specifics attached.
The unnamed operative at the center of the White House Insider’s story sees (and hears) some strange goings on in Denver in 2008. He tells a few people, and over time his concerns allegedly grow. Consider how he describes Obama before and after time spent being managed by handlers in the lead-up to his convention speech.
The dead Democratic operative is, based on the information given, Kam Kuwata, who died, supposedly, of natural causes. No autopsy was performed. No investigation was held. The cause of death was listed as a heart attack. The body remained undiscovered for two weeks — though that time line seems oddly fluid. [with thanks to geoffB]
Hank Morris, who worked with Kuwata and is a former Feinstein advisor, is charged in 2009 in a “pay to play scheme on 123 counts including enterprise corruption, Martin Act securities fraud, grand larceny, bribery, money laundering, and related offenses.” Morris was accused of stealing from unions, and his is just now heading off to jail. The indictment was handled by Andrew Cuomo, then NY AG, now Governor, and rumored to be a potential Obama running mate.
In November 2010, Kuwata, who helped bring Obama to power — or “capture the nation,” as Obama would put it when commenting on Kuwata’s death — works against Obama’s choice of California AG., Kamala Harris, backing instead Rocky Delgadillo. Delgadillo lost. (Interestingly, Harris, who stumped for Obama against Hillary Clinton, is now at odds with the President publicly over “mortgage fraud,” taking a stance that positions her to the left of Obama).
Kam Kuwata’s death made public. Within days, a new ethics complaint is laid down against Senator Dianne Feinstein.
At the Kam Kuwata memorial service, held the same day as the announcement of bin Laden’s death, Feinstein breaks the bin Laden news an hour before the President makes his public statement. The LA Times reports on the memorial service, referencing Senator Feinstein’s oddly phrased reminder:
“No one knows how. No one knows when. No one knows why,” Feinstein said, suggesting that if people had paid closer attention, there may have been some warning sign before Kuwata was stricken.
Feinstein’s war chest is stolen. Per the Daily Caller,
Kinde Durkee, who heads Durkee & Associates in Burbank, Calif., was arrested Friday on suspicion of mail fraud by the FBI. Durkee has served as a bookkeeper for scores of candidates — her company website says five presidential campaigns. Democrats were scouring records to determine if they might have been victimized.
Another interesting tidbit about Durkee? In 2007, she chaired a Californians for Obama committee.
What does all this mean? Well, map it onto the WHI’s story and it’s all rather chilling, and recalls the Vince Foster suicide controversy: it could simply be that the dots being connected here are random points being arbitrarily drawn into a narrative that conveniently brackets other considerations that redound against it; or it could be that there is more here than meets the eye, and that we’ve been conditioned to feel easily shamed when we broach such topics, not wanting to be seen as wild-eyed conspiracy bugs, not wanting to draw connections between, eg., Reverend Wright, Donald Young, Larry Bland, Nate Spencer; or dig into events surrounding the death of Lt. Quarles Harris Jr. and Obama’s “natural born” status.
What are your thoughts?
…or it could be that there is more here than meets the eye, and that we’ve been conditioned to feel easily shamed when we broach such topics, not wanting to be seen as wild-eyed conspiracy bugs…
“I’m not asking you to believe that Obama is part of a Marxist conspiracy to bring down the West. I’m just asking you to consider that if he were, what would he do differently?”
As part of an update at Ulsterman is this from a comment.
Not sure I’m seeing the line that’s supposedly hinted at.
Obama involved in criminal activity in order to gain/hold onto power? Sure — he’s a Chicago pol.
Kuwata found out something and was hoping to enlist the help of the CA AG, possibly for protection.
Squid, that is exactly how I feel sometimes about Putin and
the USSRRussia.Perhaps in the conversational chain Chant..Gregorian was heard, but what was said was Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin.
Wow. This is part of that “we don’t want to be seen as cuckoo” examples, isn’t it? This thread and the relative silence it’s engendered?
A couple other things. The news reports always mentioned the campaigns he’d worked on but stopped at the 2008 Obama one never mentioning the 2010 California AG one. And:
Strange that someone that plugged in and in constant touch with people could have his communications go dark for even a day without someone checking up on him much less “several days” or “almost two weeks”.
I haven’t said anything because I don’t know what to say. Either this Ulstermann guy is keyed in, or he’s a fabulist. That advances the discussion how?
This is clearly not a person who is what he is presented as. That person would not still be blabbing about inside information, as he would have been dealt with by now.
As for this story, it is presented as speculation, but it’s damned plausible. One problem I’m seeing here, though, is how Hank Morris fits in. The timeline seems off. Morris was indicted in March ’09, pled guilty in Nov ’10 and was sentenced and jailed in Feb ’11.
If this is a fabulist, it’s a damned good one.
WaPo: Former CIA Officer charged in alleged leaks
Drudge: Senate Democratic staffer arrested for disclosing identities of CIA operatives to al Qaeda Gitmo inmates…
Two stories? Or one actual journalist?
This thread and the relative silence it’s engendered?
On the one hand, he’s right and we’re all fucked. On the other, he’s making shit up and we’re crazy to believe him. On the gripping hand, he’s making shit up but the current regime is so casually corrupt that it isn’t crazy to believe it.
None of these options is good for my digestion.
I’m generally disinclined to look favorably towards conspiratorial conjectures. Too easy to take a few disparate data points and connect the dots for the choir. Even if it sounds plausible, I sort of prefer the classic District Attorney’s approach of there’s what you know and there’s what you can prove in court. Short of the latter, well, these kind of conspiracies are almost always not even remotely true, unless your willing to suspend disbelief and enter Oliver Stone territory. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This doesn’t meet the requirements.
I’m so cuckoo I still think Vince Foster was wacked.
Also, I wonder why these kinda mysteries aren’t in the lineup on the ID channel.
Jeff, once in a while I’ll head over to Ulsterman’s site to see the latest from the White House Insider. A lot rings true, but it sounds so conspiratorial that it’s hard to believe. That we have those kinds of people in politics is a given, yet to think that it would happen out in the open is a lot to swallow.
That said, this is the Chicago that put Kennedy over the top against Nixon. And gave us a sitting President who, if one created him as a character in a novel, one would be told that it was a caricature.
Well, the “now going to jail” part could mean a couple years after the indictment. I’m not sure we should take everything literally, in terms of discussions of time.
Right but if this is his punishment for talking about an Aug ’08 incident, it seems an awfully quick turnaround to get a 123 count indictment through a grand jury. Also, it wasn’t just him that went down.
related?
John Kerry Breaks Nose Playing Hockey
Not if they have all they need on you up front.
See, that’s what I like about Cheney. If he feels the need to shoot a stray lawyer, he does it out in the open.
Transparency!!
I think Foster committed suicide, but I don’t see how his dead body drove itself to Fort Marcy Park.
yo zombie vince
#21, I agree.
On the gripping hand, we definitely have to have a drink some day Squid.
Fabulous, Squid, nothing like having the best case scenario involve nets and odd jackets with sleeves that buckle across the chest.
Anyway, fine distillation of the three disturbing yet possible explanations.
Speaking of distillations, I think I need to start hitting the Jameson again.
This administration is really wearing me out.
Jeff G. posted on 1/23 @ 3:02 pm
Wow. This is part of that “we don’t want to be seen as cuckoo” examples, isn’t it? This thread and the relative silence it’s engendered?
Well. My first thought was that he-the interviewee- was taking stuff that was already out there and weaving it into his own narrative.
If indeed it is true, hell, even half true, we are truly the suckers that politicians believe us to be.
All the more reason to vote ourselves back to basics.
There is a way of looking at this that is heartening. The fact that this is considered as a “conspiracy” whether anything like this happened or not means we have not yet succumbed to a tyranny. Tyrants don’t feel the need or think that they need to “conspire” to hide actions like these. In fact they wave them in everyone’s face as a means to terrorize any possible opposition to their rule.
John Locke looks at tyranny (2nd Treatise, Chapter XVIII):
Feeling better today sdferr?
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