1) Our story, #PardonFlynnNow supporters, about the amazing Dreyfus Affair and its extraordinary similarities to @GenFlynn's case, and to where we are in America today, continues. I can't forecast how many days this will take, as my learning is daily.
2) Additionally, as I have shared, the story is equally if not more complex than Gen Flynn's. Its actual timeline runs from about 1870 all the way through WWII and the rise of Charles de Gaulle afterwards. That makes it one of the most pivotal events during an entire 100 years.
3) My honest guess, just from these early studies, is that even just focusing on Captain Dreyfus himself alone, we'd have to have 20 - 30 pieces to the puzzle, at least. Possibly greatly more. Simplifying, we'll try to keep to just one or two items each day.
4) Let's return to 1894. The first thing we must do is learn about something called "the bordereau." I'd describe it to you, but it's best to get in context, so I'll give you the full quote. All quotations come from here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_a…
5) "The staff of the Military Intelligence Service (SR) worked around the clock to spy on the German Embassy in Paris. They had managed to hire a French housekeeper who worked in the building to help in this effort and in September 1894 she found a torn-up note...
6) "...which she handed over to her employers at the Military Intelligence Service. This note later became known as "the bordereau". This piece of paper, torn into six large pieces, unsigned and undated, was addressed to the German military attaché...
7) "...stationed at the German Embassy, Max von Schwartzkoppen. It stated that confidential French military documents regarding the newly developed 120 calibre artillery piece were about to be sent to a foreign power."
8) One of the most absolute rules I employ when studying history - or any topic - is that every single term MUST be fully defined, for easy comprehension and recollection. A "bordereau" is just a note, even a mere slip of paper. In today's world...information.
9) We don't have to study the history of Embassy's to know that espionage is ALWAYS going on in every single one of them. Do NOT let me get started back in on Benghazi, but do you see the connection? Always espionage. Intelligence.
10) Poor, innocent Captain Dreyfus' nightmare commences with a torn-up note - the bordereau - that a housekeeper/spy retrieves and turns over to her Intelligence Community bosses. Let's apply just this much to Gen Flynn. Warning, I'm about to get angry again.
11) In December of 2016, Gen Flynn performs a great service to America. The evil Obama administration set a trap that no other outgoing administration had ever perpetrated. They changed our relationship to Russia in the last minutes of their term. They knew they did so.
12) They knew that Flynn was the one and only guy qualified to defuse the situation they created, and sure enough, that's exactly what happened. By the way, be clear, his work was more than just honorable, it was extraordinary. No matter to the Obama team, no matter at all.
13) Their surveillance on Flynn's call with Kislyak is just about a perfect analog for the bordereau from the Dreyfus affair. A hired maid equals the wrongful surveillance the Obama team employed. Myself, I think of our own IC as evolving into place in WWII, the OSS.
14) Of course, I know of the Pinkertons dating back to the 1870s, but I don't know the story forward from there, at all. I'll obviously have to study that. Alas. But here we are in 1894 and the French IC is up the exact same shenanigans as our IC in 2016.
15) Let's pause and really try to take that in. There's an important story going back much earlier, Washington's Spies during the Revolution. I did not watch the TV show of that name, only for lack of time. What has been our Intelligence Practice as a people, these centuries?
16) Confession. I just looked up the Pinkertons, and sure enough, they were hired by the brand spanking new DOJ who couldn't afford to build its own Intelligence Operation on the rising labor movement and strike busting function. Wow. I'm sure it's more complex than that.
17) My point is that the DOJ and intelligence on American citizens goes way, way back, all the way to its very inception. After Americans rejected the Pinkertons, it wasn't long before the brand-new FBI took over its functions. Hey...isn't there an FBI element to Flynn's story?
18) we must grow deadly serious now, friends. As the Dreyfus Affair demonstrates, the government can use all its power to destroy an innocent man for its own political reasons. I know, we're not that far in the story, but you can feel it, can't you?
19) Here's what I've learned today. As we follow the Dreyfus Affair, we'll be following our own history, too. Its worst parts. The very nature of every Intelligence Agency - it would appear - is to be tempted to overuse, abuse of its power, its apparently limitless power.
20) We'll pick up with our bordereau tomorrow and follow the next step. Between now and then, as I always do, I request you join my petition and request: Please Mr. @POTUS, #PardonFlynnNow by a #PardonOfInnocence
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