Spy v. Spy - ‘Dime Store Kompromat’
McGonigal - ‘Stupid, greedy, arrogant’
For my latest Spy v. Spy McGonigal missives, I reached out to retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil, who said:
“Charles McGonigal in my opinion is equal parts stupid, greedy, and arrogant to think he could get away with this dime store Kompromat.”
Marty’s hot take dovetails with observations in my previous reporting…
‘McGonigal’s Eyes’
The night before RadPod’s interview with American Kompromat Craig Unger, I sent my cohosts Jim and HiFi a close up photo of McGonigal’s eyes, and behind those eyes I saw something I recognized. It’s the look I see when people have hit bottom - a lifetime of too much of whatever their isms are catches up with them. He looked like a man in a helluva lot trouble.
When people have untreated isms, they can become easy marks for those trained to spot weakness. As Keir Giles noted on our show:
“There are some deep-seated fundamental personality flaws that actually predispose people to being available to be made use of by Russia. And if you look back at the KGB handbooks for recruiting agents of influence, agents of subversion, or indeed propagandists, then you can see very clearly that Russia understood the misfits make the good targets.”
“McGonigal is an embarrassment to all Federal law enforcement,” said Sheil. “I hope they throw the book at him.”
I have not yet seen CNN walk back its FBI parasitizing piece, quoting unknown FBI sources saying “the bureau does not view McGonigal as a case of espionage… Sources briefed on the matter tell CNN that, at least for now, FBI officials view McGonigal not as a spy, but more as a corrupt former official…”
As Mattathias Schwartz smartly noted today in Business Insider: “To write McGonigal off as a case of greed and not espionage is to misunderstand how foreign influence works. It doesn't have to be greed or espionage. It can be both.”
The questions I want answered are: why did the FBI throw the election to Trump - wittingly or unwittingly? Did McGonigal - who was in charge of the cyber section of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in 2016 when James Comey was told there was no there there regarding the Russian influence operation - working for the Russians have anything to do with it?
If, as I have been positing for nearly seven years, the 2016 election was a Russian operation, I think America, and the world, deserves answers.
I do not share the bloodlust for traitors that others have expressed. I would be satisfied with truth and reconciliation - providing it included some high-level incarcerations.
I have alway believed Merrick Garland when he said:
“This is the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into… We have to get this right.”
I just wish they could get it right a little faster.
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Other links to my Spy v. Spy series and the indictments of Charles McGonigal:
Spy v. Spy - Part Duh - A sidebar of Russian spies to cut through the jabberwocky of institutionalists
Spy v. Spy - FBI Shoegazing and the Obfuscation of Christopher Wray - we need the truth about 2016, and corporate media appears engaged in the cover up
A Question of Treason - ‘The FBI Failed Miserably’ - RadPod’s interview with Craig Unger on McGonigal and the myths of monsters
Where is the Law? On the Bratva’s Payroll - ‘The misery that is upon us is but the passing of greed’ - a list of opportunists and traitors
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