John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PHILIP GIRALDI IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Jared Kushner, Not Maria Butina, Is America’s Real Foreign Agent”
Yes, indeed, Philip Giraldi.
Maria Butina's treatment at the hands of American officials has been scandalous.
But, recall that a very great deal of what American officials do today, in every part of the world, is scandalous.
Americans no longer seem to have any shame about abuse and reckless acts.
Butina has done nothing any thinking person would call a crime, yet she has been kept in jail and is threatened by more jail after conviction under an obscure law.
Jared Kushner, under the protection of the unbalanced Donald Trump, has joined a parade of American officials who deal in their country's intimate long-term interests with a foreign state, a demonstrably malevolent state, too, as seen in its actions towards others.
Kushner, a close friend of Israel’s Prime Minister, has been given the highest security clearance by his father-in-law, against the expert recommendation of the people who administer such matters.
No one appears to seriously complain about it, and he is under no threat or shadow whatsoever, while Ms Butina, a person of no influence and no secret attachments, a Russian who was studying at an American university, faces more time in jail for doing nothing more than being Russian.
You perhaps could not find a better parallel pair of examples illustrating the extremes into which America has fallen.
A grotesque absence of respect for the rule of law.
Accompanied by equally grotesque, and dangerous, attitudes towards two other national states.
Hate anything Russian, no matter how unreasonable, no matter how trivial and unimportant.
Embrace Israel even more tightly despite its being covered in blood and gore and displaying absolutely no reason or fairness in any of its acts.
