“I am Yahweh; that is My Name!  I will not give My glory to anyone else, nor share My praise with carved idols.” (Isaiah 42: 8)

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The Striking Resemblance between the Pentagon Papers and the Now-Famous House Intelligence Committee Memo

See “FBI Warns Of ‘Grave Concerns’ About ‘Accuracy’ Of GOP Snooping Memo”:

The FBI clashed with the White House on Wednesday over the much discussed Republican memo that alleges the bureau abused its surveillance powers. The bureau said it has “grave concerns” about the “accuracy” of the document that the president supports making public.

Meanwhile, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, which voted to release the memo, says Republicans secretly made “material changes” to the document after the decision to make it public.

The FBI issued a rare, two-paragraph statement undercutting the position taken by President Trump and his top aides that the memo should be disclosed to the public soon.

“With regard to the House Intelligence Committee’s memorandum, the FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,” the FBI said. “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

The FBI statement appeared amid a bitter political fight over the memo, which was drawn up by committee Chairman Devin Nunes of California and the panel’s Republican staff. Nunes and other GOP allies of Trump say the memo makes the case about an epic scandal inside federal law enforcement.

The Justice Department has already said that releasing the memo would be “extraordinarily reckless” and could hurt national security or ongoing investigations.

Nunes, a Trump ally who served on the president’s transition team, responded to the FBI with a fiery statement of his own.

“Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies,” he said, referring to the Department of Justice.

Sometimes the Truth is Ugly but it’s Still the Truth

The House Intelligence Committee memo situation bears a striking resemblance to Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.

To refresh your memory, the Pentagon Papers were classified documents that explained the Vietnam fiasco from the mid-1940s to the late-1960s.  At the root of the problem was the desire of French leaders to keep Vietnam as a colony.

In other words, our country was sucked into the French mess.

Beginning with Harry Truman, one president after another tried to get us out of the French quagmire without losing face.

At first, North Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh turned to President Truman for help in ridding his country of the French colonialists, but Truman wouldn’t even respond to his letters.

In time, Hồ Chí Minh turned to China and Russia for support and got it.

Each U.S. president believed that escalation would eventually cause the North Vietnamese to give up, and the U.S. could declare victory.

It didn’t work.  Hồ Chí Minh didn’t quit.

Under President Johnson, Vietnam became a full-scale war.  We weren’t fighting to win the war.  We were fighting so that President Johnson could get us out of Vietnam without negatively affecting his reputation and his place in U.S. history.

It didn’t work.  The Vietnam War kept escalating.  Thousands of U.S. soldiers were dying, and the war was costing our nation billions of dollars.  Johnson decided that he didn’t want to be president any longer and threw in the towel.

The video below is President Johnson’s speech to the nation in which he explained that he would not seek the Democrat Party’s nomination for president in 1968.  It was a self-serving speech that completely ignored the truth.  He couldn’t win the war and he couldn’t bare the thought of losing it, so he decided not to run for president again.

Richard Nixon was elected to end the Vietnam War.  In due course, he did, but it wasn’t a victory.  It was a negotiated peace that was a dismal failure.

Enter Daniel Ellsberg.  He was in possession of the Pentagon Papers.  They were more than 7,000 pages of documents that explained all of this in great detail.  Ellsberg believed that the American people had a right to know what they were being asked to fight and die for and to pay for.

The only problem was that the Pentagon Papers were classified documents.  At great personal risk, Ellsberg turned the Pentagon Papers over to the New York Times.  The NYT published them while Richard Nixon was president.

Nixon tried to prevent the Pentagon Papers from being published for two reasons:

1. He didn’t want to be seen as a president who lost a war.
2. He was concerned about what the Pentagon Papers said about the United States of America.

It wasn’t pretty. More than 50,000 U.S. soldiers died in Vietnam and it cost our nation a fortune, but more than anything else Nixon couldn’t stomach the thought of our nation’s stupidity and immorality being exposed for the world to see.

Interestingly, President Kennedy had just about reached the decision to end the Vietnam War before he was assassinated.  Some conspiracy theorists contend that the military-industrial complex orchestrated his assassination to prevent that from happening.

President Johnson knew what President Kennedy was planning to do, but he wouldn’t tell the American people the truth.  That’s why Robert Kennedy was challenging Johnson for the Democrat Party nomination.

Johnson had too much pride to do the right thing.  Nixon had the same problem.

Our nation would have been better off if Kennedy or Johnson or Nixon had told us the truth.  Telling the truth would have saved the lives of thousands of our fellow citizens and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Although we don’t like to talk about it, as many as 2,000,000 Vietnamese civilians on both sides died during the Vietnam War, and more than 1,000,000 Viet Cong soldiers died.  Like I said, it wasn’t pretty.  No U.S. president wanted the truth to get out.

The So-Called “Republican Memo”

First things first.  It’s not a “Republican memo”.  It’s a House Intelligence Committee memo.

The memo exposes corruption in the FBI and the Democrat Party.  Working together under Barack Obama’s “Justice” Department, they broke the law and surveilled people without cause.  They used that illegally obtained information to derail candidate Trump’s bid for the White House.  When that failed, they used the illegally obtained information to frame President Trump for colluding with the Russians.

Releasing the House Intelligence Committee memo isn’t the end.  It’s the beginning of a process that will end up exposing Democrat Party and Justice Department corruption for 8 years while Barack Obama was president.  Before this thing is over, several high-ranking people are going to be charged with crimes, tried, and sent to prison.

Leaders in the Justice Department and the Democrat Party know that, and that’s why they don’t want the memo released.

That’s the truth.  It’s not pretty.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)

See “His Name is Yahweh”.